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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRussian Foreign Ministry's "official April Fools joke" makes Trump a global laughing stock.
Russian government posts April Fools' Day prank offering "election interference"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-government-posts-april-fools-day-prank-offering-election-interference/
MOSCOW -- Need some election interference? The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to help -- or so it says on April Fools Day.
On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies.
To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1, the recording begins, in Russian and English. Press 2 to use the services of Russian hackers, and 3 to request election interference. The English portion of the recording begins 26 seconds into the video, with the title translated as Answering machine for Russian diplomatic missions.
A ministry duty officer, who did not give his name in line with official practice, confirmed to The Associated Press that the post was an official joke.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-government-posts-april-fools-day-prank-offering-election-interference/
MOSCOW -- Need some election interference? The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to help -- or so it says on April Fools Day.
On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies.
To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1, the recording begins, in Russian and English. Press 2 to use the services of Russian hackers, and 3 to request election interference. The English portion of the recording begins 26 seconds into the video, with the title translated as Answering machine for Russian diplomatic missions.
A ministry duty officer, who did not give his name in line with official practice, confirmed to The Associated Press that the post was an official joke.
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Russian Foreign Ministry's "official April Fools joke" makes Trump a global laughing stock. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Apr 2017
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blogslut
(38,021 posts)1. Irony is now the undead.
It died and came back to eat our brains.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)2. Sorry,
the title "makes Trump a global laughing stock" is incorrect.
WE did that in the elections last November (but it seems we DID have some help from Russia!).
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)3. Yeah, I kind of knew that when I wrote the subject line, but...
...the creative juices just aren't flowing at peak capacity this evening.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)4. Or perhaps..........
the "juices" WERE flowing when you wrote it!
I get it - sometimes that's what we need to work our way through this fuster-cluck!