The President Of Turkmenistan Is Stunting On The Haters Who Say He Died By Doing Doughnuts Around A Giant Flaming Crater

(source)–Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is a mainstay of state television in the gas-rich Central Asian state which has no free media and few sources of information that are not controlled by the Government he dominates.

This was his first appearance on TV since July 15, when he was shown writing a book, playing with cats and reviewing footage of himself and his grandson performing a song together.

Prior to that, his most recent appearance on state television had been on July 5, when he oversaw a session of government.

The rumour Mr Berdymukhamedov had died appeared to begin with a small foreign-based media outlet run by Turkmen regime opponents.

It subsequently spread across Russian-language websites after a little-known Russian analyst cited businessmen in Turkmenistan “who have acquaintances in the security services” as confirming the information during a Sunday interview with Moscow radio.

Mr Berdymukhamedov came to power in tightly controlled Turkmenistan in 2006 after eccentric predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov died — officially from a heart attack.

Arguably the biggest power move we have seen on the world stage in sometime. “Oh so you think I am dead? Well would a dead guy rip sweet doughnuts around a smoldering crater like a bad ass? Next”. And you can’t argue with that. Officially, NOT dead in my book. Not the actions of a dead guy.

Last summer, in a previous life in a previous job, a guy from Turkmenistan was trying to buy out my old company. I did the standard, thorough due dilligence also known as “google” and literally nothing came up. It’s almost as if there is no record of this country at all. Which I mean…is kind of true. Do you know where it is? I am guessing not which is kind of surprising because of its’ neighbors

We have probably seen it on maps once a week for the last 18 years minimum and nobody even knows it exists and that’s the way Turkmenistan’s government likes it. No media in, no media out. The U.N. can visit, but…they can’t look at things like “prisons” or comment about things like “human rights”. That is strictly forbidden.

The one thing that I did find was that their President is like a Central Asia Mac from Always Sunny. The only thing he cares about is looking like a bad ass and his record of being a bad ass is LONG and storied.

He makes Rambo style propaganda videos where he dresses like a GI Joe and lights up targets on the range

Showing off his WETTTTT jumper

Getting fucking SWOLL by shoulder pressing a golden weight set

Or almost winning a horserace as a jockey by completely legitimate terms until his horse sabotaged him

That horse was euthanized along with the person who leaked this footage.

So yeah, President Gurbanguly Birdogmenenchov knows a thing or two about how to respond to the haters saying he’s dead. Whether it’s racing a car around a car or releasing a BANGER of a single that is sure to go double platinum in Turkmenistan…or else