Gennady Zyuganov

And the question is, though, what to do about it.

And here, and this is going to be a recurring leitmotif, Gennady Zyuganov, the dinosaurian, thoroughly pickled.

I don't mean this in the sense of he's an alcoholic, but in the sense of he just seems preserved in some kind of aspic.

Anyway, he is in a difficult position.

Making the Communist Party look like a credible party is part of the job description, but also making sure that they actually don't get to, if I can use the word, bolshie.

So how does it respond after a clearly rigged election? Now, actually, the party actively challenged the results.

But again, Zyuganov was trying to sort of basically walk a very fine line.

In mid-October, he said that the Communist Party is going to pursue legal reviews over voter anomalies and fight for every vote.

OK, October 29th.

Today, Russia's Duma, Zyuganov, admits that half of the 43 trillion ruble budget burns on Putin's war.

Okay, his solution, tap 130 trillion rubles in Russian bank deposits, people plus companies.

That's three budgets worth of rubles.

He's really not.

You know, and, like, I think he's partly funded by the same kinds of elements that fund, like, Zyuganov's, like, reconstituted Communist Party.

I'm not saying it's sinister.

I shouted out about this on social media.

But for the fact that, um, you know, they, uh, they were very much, uh, socialists in their, in their orientation.

You know, they believed in state socialism, both as, like, an ethical postulate, as well as, uh, a kind of inevitability if, if, uh, if the modern state was to survive, you know, with any kind of, um, with any kind of legitimacy.

Um, so, yeah, how, how long have you gone to, like, Tory communists? Uh, not a red Tory, but, uh, And again, that seems paradoxical to people, but again, I refer to, you know, Zyuganov's Communist Party, you know, to Jackson and Hinkle.

But even, you know, in historical capacities, this resonated with people who had a developed understanding of political theory.

As much as they can.

Trevor, really quickly, you were asking a couple of weeks ago about Zyuganov, the head of the Russian Communist Party, and he came out with a quote the other day, and I'll just put it out there.

He says, Russia is on the brink of a big war.

Europe is preparing for an offensive against the Russian Federation.