Putin Laments ‘Cancellation’ Of Russian Federation With J.K. Rowling Comparison | Talking Points Memo

“they’re trying to cancel an entire, thousand-year old country”
–Putin, 2022

First, what the hell does it mean “canceling a country”?

Second, you call that a country?

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That was just Oprah’s Club. What an idiot.

He’s a bit fuzzy on this whole “public vs private” thing. It’s a common enough problem in certain circles.

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I guess his Mini-Me had to stay home cause he didn’t want to buy him his own Loro Piana coat?

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That was exactly my reaction. It would be incredibly pathetic coming from any leader in the world stage, but coming from Putin it’s all just whiny and humiliating. Maybe stop bombing and murdering innocent people who have never done a damn thing to you.

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What a fucking weirdo. As long as those tables are, it doesn’t come close to the isolating Kremlin brainworms.

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“Somebody throw me a bone.”

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What sports did Putin play in his youth? any involve repetitive blows to the head?
… did any job assignment require getting whacked in the noggin on a regular basis?
… or was there a prolonged period when he was ingesting large quantities of lead?

seems like there is a good chance that if they did one of those comprehensive analysis of the brain exams , they would find… the whole damn thing has gong bad … is way beyond its sell-by date …

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The good thing is that this shows weakness
The bad thing is what that can do in certain people

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At least we know where “cancel culture” is going to end up in the USA…”I’m being cancelled for murdering that black boy, the laws must be changed so black boys can be murdered consequence free!”

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Rowling was unavailable for comment.

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Judo and sambo, per Wikipedia.

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There’s the finish line Vlad.
You can see it.
You will not cross it.

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Unless you’re replying to some other context that escapes me, you might have missed the last bit of the article:

Rowling herself replied to Putin on Friday.

“Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics,” Rowling said in a tweet.

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(It’s a cancel culture joke.)

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Actually, Russians and all the peoples of the world should be much more concerned about all the tens of thousands of men, women, and children as well as Russian soldiers that Putin is “cancelling” by killing them. Genocide anyone?

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Apparently that is the

other context that escapes me

then. Never mind, as you were.

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OT (sorta):

Hubby mentioned over dinner tonight that in just four weeks, Germany has managed to reduce its reliance on Russia quite significantly. Natural gas imports from Russia reduced from 55% to 40% of all imports and oil from 35% to 25%. Downward trend expected to continue.

Pootie just shot a tremendous own goal for the Russian people.

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Ooooh, don’t fight with @discobot. That guy never, EVER lets anybody else have the last word.

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Can’t you just see him flying shirtless on a broomstick.

I guess he would still need to wear Slytherin colors, somewhere.

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