Wait, what's this about Putin resigning?

[conuly]

What the hell did I miss?

Comments

[nicki]

It's a tabloid rumor so far.

[alexseanchai]

yeah, the source is The Sun, the only news orgs taking it seriously seem to be the NY Post and Daily Mail

it's additional epic hilarity though

[shadowkat]

And it was later debunked by the Kremlin. Apparently someone felt it was time for the Russians to get hit with the fake news fairy.

[sabotabby]

Turnabout is fair play.

[gwydion]

It's a rumor that he has Parkinson's and is resigning, but that comes from the post, which is a tabloid. It may or not be true, but again: No facts. They are making legislation to protect him from prosecution if he does resign, which likely started the rumor.

[thewayne]

Nothing on BBC or France24.com. As others noted, I think it's a tabloid prank.

[ioplokon]

Yep, the funniest part is that that one SPN fan outed themselves as reading The Sun.

[conuly]

Damn.

[conuly]

Ah well.

Also, that legislation is bullshit. Like, obviously.

[thewayne]

Would'a been nice.  But Putin, resign?  He'll be dragged feet-first if he leaves.

[nicki]

So true.

[greghousesgf]

yeah, this.

[bibliofile]

As an October surprise, it's a miserable failure. :D

[bubblesbrnaid]

One of the questionable tabloid-esque papers broke a story about it Thursday night, in between Destiel and Georgia flipping. (I'm still surprised Twitter didn't actually break.) I'm not sure there's been any actual verification of it, and I think Russia may be denying it.

[conuly]

Sigh. I hoped so much.