Russian Foreign Ministry's "official April Fools joke" makes Trump a global laughing stock.

[Miles Archer]

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.

[blogslut]

1. Irony is now the undead.

It died and came back to eat our brains.

[MyOwnPeace]

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]

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]

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!