>> “Putin seems to want to pretend to be butch...” <<
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Doing push-ups with 3 sacks of cement mix on your shoulders isn’t exactly effeminate.
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Think about that for a minute, you don’t know that the bags were not as fake as his other stuff, but why would you, or the world know such a thing anyway?
Have you ever seen a more pretend horseman than this guy for example?