I can't believe I live in a world where THIS NEWS feels like an hilarious distraction

[blogslut]

https://nypost.com/2020/11/05/vladimir-putin-planning-to-step-down-next-year-report/

I ain't posting no text. The URL sez everything. Click it if you want.

[OneBlueSky]

1. aaah . . . Vlad the Impaler, hoisted on his own petard . . . n/t

[PatSeg]

2. Gee

Funny how no one else is reporting that story. Would be great if it was true though.

[blogslut]

5. I know it's bullshit but it's making me grin.

And I don't feel guilty about it.

[PatSeg]

9. Yeah

Made me smile as well. We can always hope!

[Yavin4]

3. Bullshit political theater.

He announces that he's stepping down, and then the "people" beg him to stay. Then, he stays.

Stalin use to do this shit.

[Hugin]

7. Usually he swaps titles, though.

I think High Grand Vizier is next on the list. He claims it's a lower position until whoever takes his place falls out of a window or drinks some bad tea.

Basically, anything excluding Czar.

[crickets]

8. Exactamundo. New York Post?

It reads like something from the Enquirer. Murdoch is having way too much fun at everyone's expense today.

[Whiskeytide]

4. Maybe Тяцмр could run? n/t

[coti]

6. Pre-emptive surrender to Biden

He don't want none of that....