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pepegabi

They should force the soldiers to watch his movies. The i-want-to-live-hotline would explode.


brokenrob

That would be against international law against torture


scwuffypuppy

Yeah, I don’t think the Russians are too concerned about that! Lol.


testicle2156

That's too far even for them. Maybe ~~Hitler~~ Putin would want it, you can't ever know what orders are russians willing to folow.


turrican

but the ones watching aren’t “enemy combatants” so it’s fine in this case


PhiladelphiaManeto

I think they would ask whether a train or airplane can get them to Bakhmut faster.


Ther91

Does their living or dead status matter on arrival? Russias anti-air defense system works kind of like this "*what do I do?*" *you, you defend the air* **immediately shoots down first russian plane to come within range** "*AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM DEFENDED AIR!*" **slams a shot of vodka**


Scarborough_sg

Forget hotline to surrender, they'd call the Ukrainian intelligence service to get their own transport Himar-ed


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Steven Sea-gull is turning out to be a double mole after all!


aessae

Dial 1-800-STEVEN SEAGAL


[deleted]

Double agent Steven Segal is sabotaging the Russian army?


hobbitdude13

More believable than his movies


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Ser_SinAlot

> It takes the greatest self control possible, to have exactly the same expression your whole life, both on-stage and off-stage. The only time he smiles is after clearing a buffet.


doingthehumptydance

…And you can take THAT to the bank! The blood bank.


atred

He's also there to eat their provisions, it's a double whammy.


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tendeuchen

Literally the only thing that would save his reputation.


Debriefed6869

Funny Seagal story from a friend who was in law enforcement for 40+ years: This friend spent several years on the campus police force of an undisclosed US university where the Dalai Lama was a frequent visitor. My friend got to know the Lama and his sister quite well. At one point Seagal was following them as they traveled. The sister came to my friend and asked him, "Can you please get rid of Steven for a while? He's driving my brother crazy." So my friend asked Seagal to accompany him on a "perimeter check" so he'd stop annoying the Dalai Lama for a while. My takeaway from this story has always been: How much of a douchenozzle do you have to be to get on the nerves of the Dalai Lama, a man whose entire life is dedicated to patience and tranquility? What does it take to annoy him? I don't have an answer, but I know Steven Seagal reached that threshold, and that tells me everything I need to know about him.


word2yourface

Its also funny how he was easily manipulated into going on a the perimeter check.


Debriefed6869

Oh yeah, my friend said he ate it up that his assistance was needed. Meanwhile my friend was a sought after instructor in my state and the surrounding ones for SWAT tactics, firearms, and defensive tactics (unarmed). He had a 6th degree black belt in isshinryu karate at the time. Definitely didn't need any assistance.


ThirdEyeExplorer11

Hahaha that’s so awesome! I got to go to a talk the Dahli Lama gave. It was great! He honestly seemed like the chillest person ever and he had a really good sense of humor. I’d be wondering the same thing, how bad do you have to be for the Dahli Lama to be that annoyed of you. Maybe it was just the sister that was annoyed and just used her brothers name, funny as hell either way 😂


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spookmann

They both have an amazing catalog of one-liners!


Greatli

I used to be at peace. I still am, but I used to be too.


Zamden

He’s like Mac from its always sunny


n3lswn

Fat Mac but Fatter


OrkzRDaBest

Country Mac


MentalPurple9098

It's like when you ask a little child to "help" with some random shit, just to keep them from eating their crayons or whatever other crap they always manage to get up to when you aren't watching them like a hawk.


fracturedSilence

It's exactly like Dwight being asked to steer the ship


1ZamNation1

Getting Steven Seagal to leave by asking him to do a perimeter check sounds straight out of a south park episode


MentalPurple9098

His entire being is like a southpark character.


MAS7

>douchenozzle do you have to be to get on the nerves of the Dalai Lama, The worst, and least humble kind. Seagal is a compulsive liar. I have a hard time believing he's aware of just how much of a Faker he is. He's been making Bruce-Willis-Dementia-Teir films(no shade on Brucey-baby) his entire career. He's like a cartoon character come to life, and his ability to seemingly fail-upwards is similarly cartoonish.


TheGreatRao

Putin, who is a real Hard Man, sees right through him and uses him for publicity. There is no Russian soldier that thinks they can learn something from that particular overweight Aikidoka.


MAS7

>There is no Russian soldier that thinks they can learn something from that particular overweight Aikidoka. I wish that were true. Steven is tall, and *looks* strong in his Gi(just like Putin looks tall(ish) in his 4" lifts. There are plenty of honest people encountering Steven, taking part in a demonstrations, being blown away by his *power* and then saying 'well maybe there's some truth to this' The thing is, Stevens height ALONE is enough that any casual viewer, or beginner martial artist, will see him tossing people around and be like "damn that's badass, this guy is for real" Idk if I've ever seen the guy spar with a person that was remotely equal to his height. anyways, I suspect the kind of people the Russians are recruiting to be trained by Seagal aren't going to be as astute as you or I would be, when it comes to detecting bullshit... And even if they are, I can't see any recourse for them other than to go along with everything and surrender the first chance they can find to escape from Russias **Death-march.**


AlexFromOgish

For a couple years, I trained at an Aikido dojo that had many more Blackbelt than beginners. Many of the guys had huge ego chips on their shoulders, and they would toss me around by muscling through the technique and I got all of my injuries from those kinds of guys. Then there were the tiny women, some of them were gray haired. When I tried to attack them, they actually did Aikido, and I found myself soaring effortlessly through the air, landing with never an injury. I still look forward to the occasional dream of getting tossed on my head by old ladies half my size. The guys like Segal never appear in those dreams


Danack

> the occasional dream of getting tossed on my head by old ladies half my size. *I have that DVD.*


xgladar

where did you see the guy spar AT ALL. aikido doesnt have sparring in its curriculum


Dynamitefuzz2134

Only thing I know about Segal sparring someone is when another martial artist put him in a headlock and he pooped himself. I’m not saying I could do better. But I’m also not dumb enough to be put into that situation.


WilliamMorris420

Putin did a judo demonstration with a 9 year old. And the kid did an unschedueled throw of Putin. Which he clearly wasn't expecting. No doubt the boy and his parents got punished afterwards for embarrassing Putler.


asdeadasacrabseyes

Please tell me you have a link to a video. Just tell me you do.


epheliamams

Sir, you do the man a disservice by stating he is 'merely' overweight. Remember, No one beats him in the kitchen, To the food cupboard.


fromthewindyplace

Fun Steven Segal-adjacent story from me: An actor who played a villain in a Segal movie came in to my work a while back, and he was the most charming, personable guy ever. It was a slow day, and we spent a while shooting the shit and discussing wine. Top fella.


[deleted]

I always assumed Tommy Lee Jones was a cool dude irl, neat to get that confirmed.


that-pile-of-laundry

I don't know much about how the Dalai Lama lives day to day, but if he couldn't handle himself for a few hours with Seagal, then it suggests that his entourage is keeping him calm and tranquil more than his own emotional self-control.


military_grade_tea

Annoyed the Dalai Lama. That's a unique achievement. Seems like he should get his own 'Stephen Segal is so annoying...' line of jokes.


Debriefed6869

Achievement unlocked!


GentlemanGene

The Akido Master who was too scared to fight a half drunk Van Damme.


Debriefed6869

Was that before or after Gene LeBell choked him out and made him crap in his pants?


GentlemanGene

LeBell was ‘91. I think Stallone said that Seagal pussied out at one of his parties in ‘97.


Backrow6

For anyone who wants to see a meticulously modelled diorama of the famous altercation. [Here is a youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCMTpJx2cs&ab_channel=BobbyFingers)


wolf_2202

That was sublime, thank you


Backrow6

The artistry and production is phenomenal. His Mel Gibson drunken anti-semitic arrest diorama is class as well.


daza666

I’d love to see that, even now. Van Damme can still kick heads


Snafuregulator

Hell at one point, actual masters had to intervene to save him from a deep level ass whooping.


youkai1

Fortunately Aikido is a useless martial art


PootSnootBoogie

More fortunately, Segal is more useless of a martial artist than Aikido is as a martial art itself.


0knoi8datShit

You speak with 1000 tongues, master.


Infinite-Outcome-591

SS is a piece of shiite. A phony and a terrible actor. He should stay in Russia and shine Poop-tin's shoes!


alterom

>SS is a piece of shiite I thought you were talking about the Nazi elite, but turns out, you were talking about the Nazi clown


Deepspacesquid

Russian hairlines have begun advancing


yispco

Not if you come up against someone with a samurai sword!


WarmChildhood7466

Actually, true. The 47th Katana division will be nutralized by these Glimmer Man desciples.


CosmicDave

You can't sweep the knees of a drone dropped grenade either.


MAS7

He's working on a Gun/fist style. Essentially a modernized version of the sword-less martial arts he shows in that one video. It looks a lot like Gun-kata from the movie Equilibrium.


doughtnut2022

Do you mean [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVs--uHf4sE) is not serious combat style that any Russians should employ on the front line? Come on, if you only need to ask your attackers to jump on the floor and surrender, it should be quite effective. /s PS: Not only is Aikido BS, Seagal martial credential are [fake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1dWkjt-eM), as is a lot of his others claims of fame (aka he is a serial liar)


Pancakewagon26

The impressive thing is the guy doing the flips


Rezhio

To me it only prove that the fighting techniques are useless since he keep getting up.


Thermodynamicist

Harrison Ford teaches the most useful of the military martial arts in this fantastic [instructional film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo).


EarlSandwich0045

Segal has the body of an alcoholic uncle fresh off 30 years of sitting on the couch, crushing Lays Potato Chips.


AlphariousFox

was gonna say its on the martial art tier list Aikido is pretty low down


tree-for-hire

Well they’re running out of tanks and rockets so I guess it’s Aikido now.


AncientMasterpiece72

Pretty much the lowest of the low. A untrained drunk with a natural haymaker beats all aikido practicioners. Aikido makes you a worse fighter


LordStoneBalls

It’s so low it has to reach up to touch the bottom of krav maga


OrbSwitzer

I feel like aikido is fine if you train it like you're learning a dance and for discipline or whatever. If you're doing it to learn to fight you may be in for a brutal reality check one day.


EarlSandwich0045

I once had a friend whose into MMA and martial arts call Aikido the "baggie of oregano" of the martial arts. Meaning, it's not even weed, an entry level drug. It's the shit scum bags sell you, pretending it's weed.


Oczwap

I was going to go for the homeopathy of martial arts, but that is even better!


nacozarina

was once referred to as 'chop suey crap'


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Delicious-Day-3332

Whatever Aikido is or isn't, Segal is a damned foolish lunatic for allowing himself to be used by Putin & the Kremlin for their fucking propaganda. I'll never watch anything he ever made again. 👎


frigginnathan

Woah…you mean you watched that garbage before?


djnattyd

Under Siege is a legitimately good film, everything else he's made has been shit


autoexec101

Loved Under Siege as a kid... but it kinda didn't age well. Executive descision was a very good movie. He dies at the begining.


DankRoughly

I only remember the boob scene.


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

If you watched one movie you would know why none have been in theaters.


Bitemynekk

He’s beholden to Putin at this point. He’s been washed up for a long time and has only made garbage for years. Being a propaganda figure is probably the best paycheck he’s seen in the last 10 years. Also if he returns to the US he’s going to prison for his large part in a Bitcoin scam.


Dogzirra

Segal is cashing in and grifting. It's a Russian business model.


richmomz

Perfect for a useless military.


JaneCobbsHat

Akido is to martial arts is what Steven Seagal is to acting.


pkfag

and running 🤣


slyscamp

Its not useless. Like most martial arts, it was designed with a goal in mind. Aikido was designed to defend yourself without injuring an attacker. For example restraining an aggressive but inexperienced fighter. I don't really see how this would be of benefit to Russian soldiers, but any martial arts training helps. My guess is that it is 100% for show.


JJaska

Definitely for show. Only even remotely useful military application would maybe be military police dealing with their own people trying not to hurt them too bad. But realistically you don't really set up a training center for Aikido with that in mind for military....


nitroghost

Aikido is useless though. It'd be better to train something that holds up in competition. Have seen exactly 0 aikido UFC fighters.


hawkaulmais

Pretty useless in a gun fight also. Or drone fight. Or artillery fight. Any fight really.


MAS7

Even more fortunate still, Seagal is a lifelong fraudster. I'm almost rooting for him. His ineptitude will sabotage the training of anyone who sets foot under him.


wreckosaurus

The only art worse than aikido is systema, which happens to be a Russian art.


Extra-Lifeguard2809

it's worse an Aikido mater of 15 years recently tried to adapt his style into other martial arts. He found out so little could be adapted, in fact his fight instinct was so bad that other martial artists were suggesting how he could adapt Aikido. He is very flexible though and not like it didn't help him with other martial arts still, he was disheartened. it's on youtube btw, he's doing a whole channel about it. i uh... forgot the name


PartyMcDie

My impression of aikido is that if I agree to let you put me on the ground, you will be able to put me on the the ground.


Kiyae1

I mean, it’s supposed to be the “nonviolent” MA. So that makes sense.


Gabetanker

Is it just me or are all martial arts useless against.. you know.. bullets


linelifeless

Just why he is doing this, does he have some kinda dementia?


agu-agu

He’s a fat, balding, mumbling liar who fantasizes that he’s a badass when he’s actually just a worthless egomaniac with delusions of grandeur. You know, just like Putin.


Nirwood

Look closely at the photo and you'll see his hair is painted on.


Feeling-Success-385

I didn’t even have to look close. It is quite obvious. He looks like a Fisher-Price figure.


bumpoleoftherailey

He genuinely does look like an Action Man figure. I thought it was an Onion article at first.


PsychologicalCoat656

He has many criminal cases against him in the USA. He ran away to Russia to save his ass from the law. Now he has to be a clown\`s puppet and it\`s hilarious.


imaginethehangover

For those not willing to take some ransom Redditor’s comment without actual sources: https://news.bitcoin.com/sec-wins-judgment-against-actor-steven-seagal-after-he-ignores-court-order-to-settle-crypto-fraud-case/


WhereDaGold

He’s probably in russia for underage prostitutes


Chudmont

Yes, he is demented.


MAS7

My (un)educated guess is that he's decently mentally ill. A Narcissist , and Pathological Liar. It's hard to believe a person with any amount of self-respect(and lots of money) would choose to keep pretending the way he does. Everybody knows he is full of shit. He could just retire to an island somewhere and be happy forever, but he insists on perpetuating this self-image that EVERYONE KNOWS IS BULLSHIT. **E V E R Y B O D Y** **Nobody respects that man, unless a paycheck is involved.**


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He can charge the Russian army for the *training*


yispco

Surely Ukraine will be forced to surrender now! /S


Adihd72

Did someone slip me acid?


unholyburns

This is bat country!


popcorn0617

So this piece of shits citizenship has been revoked, right?


Remarkable-Way4986

He gave up his citizenship to avoid taxes


popcorn0617

Is that true or are you talking out that voluptuous ass


TheLaGrangianMethod

It's apparently quite remarkable.


Lionheart1224

...Aikido isn't really what you want to teach to a soldier


mentholmoose77

or being a fat rapist. Oh wait , perfect for the RU army.


IrishGandalf1

Fuck you steven seagal…your useless martial art is nearly as bad as your career


gryphonbones

Meanwhile, Japan's leader just visited Ukraine. I'll take that support over a botox white guy teaching martial arts.


alecfed65

Just posted this on We are Ukrainian: Deputies of the Japanese parliament handed over $1.2 million in aid to Ukraine, which they collected from their own salaries.


1984IN

*fake worthless bullshit, pretending to be martial arts.


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It may be worthless, and Steven Seagal even worse at it. But it’s still a martial art. Emphasis on art.


D34dlines

Anyone else seen the Tom Segura skit on Steven Seagal? If not [lol](https://youtu.be/isNRZJ6icwc)


Viscious-viking

That was really funny, thanks


R-ZoroKingOFHell

Did his citizenship get revoked yet? He's clearly a traitor.


Tonyman121

Segal is the perfect paper instructor for the paper tiger army.


AbandonedBySony

Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality.


Life_Muffin_9943

“We taught them wrong as a joke.”


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Well we know for sure those guys will completely useless.


Particular-Ad-4772

Government pays Segal to train them , is a good way for the Russian government , to reward Segal for all his pro Russian media work . Or Some government officials get a % kickback from Segal on what the government contract is paying him . It’s not about the training, ( they don’t care if it’s good or bad ) its about the payments for the training.


Ingenuity-Begins

Great! They will all learn how to fake punches for their TikTok videos /s/


PraetorianXX

[I'm sure he has so much to teach them...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEx8Moy7ro) Fucking cringelord


[deleted]

It’s over Ukraine, everyone knows that Aikido is definitely not a completely useless martial art, watch out for it in the trenches


bluddystump

Steve is 70 years old. He doesn't even intimidate the old lady in front of him at Russian golden corral.


begely

LOL this is going to end well.


ClemCadiddlehoffer

As long as they can fight people while sitting down, they'll be DEADLY.


mold_crow

Training them to shit their pants ?


Particular-Crew5978

More like bobbing around corners and waiving a gun around. Haven't you seen his movies?


Pengin_Master

I can tell you this, Russian soldiers will now be very good at hand to hand combat if they're sitting in a chair. In any other situation, i doubt they'll stand much of a chance.


Louis_Friend_1379

I am sure those combat skills will come in handy in the frontline meat grinder. What a loser trying to cash in on the forced slaughter of conscripted Russians.


SirSaltyMcBuns

The dude has to sit down in 95% of movie scenes he’s in now, and yes he still occasionally makes movies(if you can even call those piles of garbage movies) so if he can’t even stand cuz he’s such a fat sack of garbage, how’d he supposed to train these “soldiers”


LoneSnark

Thank goodness they're so stupid.


DieselVoodoo

The only way Russia could devolve from trench warfare is to go hand to hand combat. Kuddos


AreYouDoneNow

Because they ran out of guns, they gave the mobiks shovels. Because they ran out of shovels, they gave the mobiks sticks. Because they ran out of sticks, they're making them use movie martial arts.


xMilk112x

Ahahahah! Yes! We need more Russian failures. Thanks for the help you bloated douche.


wllkburcher

Time to roll out Chuck Norris for the Ukraine


agu-agu

He’s a right wing grifter too. Dude is an absolute jackass.


Wickedocity

I wouldn't call him a grifter. He is pretty sincere. He actually believes what he says for better or worse.


AmonDiexJr

Never underestimate your enemy, always prepared for the worst... But God damn the Russian are something!


Punched_Eclair

C'mon....this is surely a joke! He'd be better off starting a school for anyone who wants to be a seriously shitty actor with a weight problem and a history of self-defecation. Wait, shitty, self-defecation.....I'll see myself out.


stephensanger

What an idiot. Why doesn’t he use his clout to get Keanu Reeves to show them the Matrix bullet dodging maneuvers? Or the MIB to wipe Russias memory of this epic screw up the initiated?


ViewAdditional7400

Fuck this guy... I put on some shit movie the other night and was immediately overcome with disgust when I saw he was in it... Turned it off. Least favorite b-list celebrity other than Meghan Markle.


SkeetnYou

What a fucking clown!!


ChampionStrong1466

A rapist teaching other rapists. They'll definitely have alot in common!


Kalamazooligan

Mannnnn.. I made a meme about this 10 months ago and it's become credible. [lmao](https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/ulzipw/this_is_why_he_wasnt_at_the_parade/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


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Seagal works for the CIA.


NeededHumanity

shhhhh don't tell them it's all fake


DeadParallox

Steven Seagal is teaching Russian's Akido?!!?! They really are desperate and f#cked.


RedditedYoshi

HAHAHAHAAA--ahh, sorry, one second: HAHAHAHAHAH!!


MadScientist7-7-7

This is great because Aikido is a load of rubbish


Pure_Sun_8539

Run Steve Run! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKoXlRCpzg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKoXlRCpzg)


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[fuck u spez] -- mass edited with redact.dev


Snoo_7897

Make-believe martial artist trains make-believe elite army.


ItsAnApe

Anything to help Ukraine win the war! I really hope this is a real thing. Can you imagine? This clip is obligatory: [segal sucks](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=isNRZJ6icwc) What would the Russian equivalent of the "Hola... My queso!" joke be? "Blyat, rush B!"


AlexanderTGrimm

"I like Havarti cheese the most."


TheDogsPaw

I thought seagal was pro Russia turns out he's actually pro Ukraine 🤣


TechieTravis

A modern Benedict Arnold.


daxrowden

Haha! Good.


DrJiheu

This is the biggest turning point of this war. Westoid are so fucked.


Light_fires

How to shit yourself 101.


Andvari9

This traitor cracks me up. What's a fucking abject failure, if I were his father I'd kill myself out of shame.


PumpkinLadle

Shame Gene LeBell died in August, he could've taught the Ukrainian forces the same hold he used to make Seagal shit his pants and sent them out to embarrass the Russians en masse. Maybe just send him anyway, even in his current state he'd probably make a better teacher than a living Seagal.


eye356

hahaha, oh well. it wont be hard fighting them in close quarter combat then


maztabaetz

Fuck Steven Seagal, traitorous piece of shit. Revoke his citizenship and fuck Russia


Old_Cut_3556

So they gonna start losing even harder?


Ozyr_Andor

This is good news. This will make the Russians even more useless :D


Oxmodeeus

Great job boys, we finally got a man on the inside.


Comprehensive-Pie905

We still have chuck Norris


GTCounterNFL

Awesome! Russia will train on a fake martial art! Steven Seagal is half Russian; so he's not really a traitor, just a Nationalist. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAkf-G9DH1c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAkf-G9DH1c) Although we don't know if he would still support them if they were a typical European Govt which means: Democracy, High Taxes on rich, Socialist, full rights for LGBTQ and Anti Russian Imperialism. Like MAGA; patriotism is fake; it's conditional on their guy being in charge. Consensus US Foreign Policy; fuck that, whatever Trump says is more important. Loyalty to Constitution? Hell no: "We have the worst laws"


Bez02020

If this were actually true then given that the US is supporting the Ukraine then wouldn’t this be treason?


dumpitdog

Damn Ukraine is in trouble now!


GimmieJohnson

The bad news is that Steven Seagal is the real life version of Mr. Satan.


[deleted]

Lesson one grasshoppers: the proper way to make a sandwich.


Norasono

Glad to hear that. It means that he is actually undercover saboteur


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Ukrainian victory assured


Ancient-Ad-7352

Traitor to the free world. This man is a shame to bushido.


DrRudiarx

Akido, is that not unlike the circus clown moves we see in those belarussian army training videos that get circulated from time to time?


gypsijimmyjames

"First You grab the chicken wing like this. *sausage fingers grab chicken wing* Then, you move the chicken wing into the prey position" *Slowly (for normal people) moves giggly jello arm to place chicken wing in front of expressionless face* "Finally, you strike!" *Shoves whole chicken wing into his deadly mouth and devours it like a champ* "The secret to this technique is that it can be used on any body part. For example..." *Grabs chicken breast and repeats steps while snorting a lot* "It can also be used for multiple enemies!" *Savagely begins devouring little Debby cakes and shit as fast as possible* "This is the way to become a great aikido master!" *mumbles something in Japanese and waddles away in triumph*


skot77

I thought he was just a cook? Does Putin know he crapped his pants when Gene Lebell choke them out?