signed a document acknowledging that the ussr, the union of soviet socialist republics was coming to an end. the baltic states had been first to bale out of the soviet union but by the end of 1991, 30 years ago, all the constituent parts of the ussr had been fighting for or declaring their status as independent nations and it was a landmark moment 30 years ago this week when russia, itself, acknowledged the game was up. the leader of the ussr mikhail gorbachev realized basically he would have to agree. and before the end of that month, on christmas night, december 25th, 1991, mikhail gorbachev stepped down as head of the soviet union. the hammer and sickle flag of the ussr was brought down at the kremlin. the three color flag of the russian federation was raised in its place. and on christmas 30 years ago christmas, 1991, boris yeltsin became president of the russian federation. he served as president for eight years almost exactly from christmas 1991 until new year s eve, 19
acknowledged the game was up. the leader of the ussr mikhail gorbachev realized basically he would have to agree. and before the end of that month, on christmas night, kn december 25th, 1991, mikhail gorbachev stepped down as head of the soviet union. the hammer and sickle flag of the ussr was brought down at the kremlin. the three-color flag of the russian federation was raised in its place. and on christmas 30 years ago, christmas 1991, boris yeltsin became president of the russian federation. he served as president for eight years almost exactly from christmas 1991 until new year s eve, 1999.re he served as president until dee y2k, december 31st, 1999. that night yeltsin was gone and vladimir putin surprise, who s he became president of the russian federation. and putin has been running that country with an increasingly authoritarian hand ever since. since 22 years is clearly not long enough in power for him, putin has just given himself the authority to stay in power
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter named barton gellman wrote a piece for the atlantic about this seemingly far fetched scheme.rtfo the article is called the election that could break america. the sub head says if the vote is close donald trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. who will stop him? this was in advance of the election, september of last year. he wrote about the scheme by which trump and his supporters would try to still the election or at least make it seem like r the election had no clear result.e gellman broke the news that republican officials in at least one swing state in pennsylvania had been in touch already ahead of the election with the trump campaign about a plot to have the republican-led state legislature in that state and others override the results from the voters. the state legislators would instead declare that the voters intent couldn t be clearly discerned. there were big problems in the vote. so instead the legislature
Said there were very fine people on both sides. both sides being the neo-nazis and the protesters against them. this weekend in dallas the trump supporting, cultish conspiracy theory qanon had one of its offshoots show up at the dallas christmas parade. this is trump supporters, qanon offshoot, a trump supporters qanon offshoot that believes trump is going to be king of the world or maybe he already is and the reason they have pictures of john f. kennedy with maga hats on here is because they say president john f. kennedy is coming back from the dead and so is his son john f. kennedy jr. i ll show you a video here shot by an online reporter who goes by the name hot tub twin on twitter. she has been covering these folks and their doings in dallas as concern grows that this mass this trump supporter mass delusion might be turning into something that seems more
Biden, then what remedy would not be allowed to you? is that why you believe, bart, that the feeling among trump supporters, especially the hard edge trump supporters is hardening both the militancy around the election issue, which has gotten steadily worse over the course of the year, but also the openness to violence as a potential solution here, that s gotten worse over the course of this year, too. is it simply a result of the type of rhetoric you are describing or is there some other dynamic at work? i think there is a strong, ongoing message that is amplified thousands of times by the whole ecosystem on the right that is a propaganda ecosystem. and it is telling people that someone stole the election from