{"id":7099,"date":"2019-12-28T22:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2019-12-28T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:58:44","slug":"slap-shootin-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7099","title":{"rendered":"Slap Shootin&#8217; Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an amusing story to end out the year here at the Bucket, Russian President and object of America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump&#8217;s man crush, recently <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"beat a team of influential Russian ministers, business and musicians in a friendly hockey game in Red Square by the score of 8-5, scoring half the team's points (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7827737\/Vladimir-Putin-leads-ice-hockey-team-8-5-victory-Christmas-Day.html\" target=\"_blank\">beat a team of influential Russian ministers, business and musicians in a friendly hockey game in Red Square by the score of 8-5, scoring half his team&#8217;s points<\/a>.  All we have to say is &#8211; <strong>of course, his team&#8217;s going to win and of course he&#8217;s going to score half the points<\/strong>. Russia&#8217;s authoritarian propaganda machine constantly promotes Putin&#8217;s athleticism and virility. The bare chested Putin riding a horse braving the elements has become cliche.  So yeah. . .<em><strong>we&#8217;re totally sure that game was played fairly<\/strong><\/em>.  That hockey game was kind of like letting your boss win at company picnics or get-togethers.  Can you imagine if someone came along and checked Putin into the boards or blocked his shots? That person would soon have a new address in Siberia or maybe get treated to an extra special polonium-210 cocktail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re sure Trump completely loves the Russian propaganda spiel. We&#8217;re also sure that this is how Trump wants Americans to view him; as a virile, unbeatable man who should be worshipped and treated as a god, as evidence by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"his recent tweeting an obviously Photoshopped picture of his head on Sylvester Stallone's body (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-tweets-photo-himself-rocky-balboa-photoshop-2019-11\" target=\"_blank\">his recent tweeting an obviously Photoshopped picture of his head on Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s body<\/a>. As Charlie Brown would say, &#8220;Good Grief!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/putinhockey.jpg\" alt=\"Authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals his secret for mastering his opponents in hockey - his customized AK-47 hockey stick.\" class=\"wp-image-7104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/putinhockey.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/putinhockey-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Authoritarian Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals his secret for mastering his opponents in hockey &#8211; his customized AK-47 hockey stick.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an amusing story to end out the year here at the Bucket, Russian President and object of America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump&#8217;s man crush, recently beat a team of influential Russian ministers, business and musicians in a friendly hockey game in Red Square by the score of 8-5, scoring half his team&#8217;s points. All we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slap Shootin&#8217; Putin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,500],"tags":[624,1575,118,2055,98,596,296,1257,871,41,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7106,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}