{"id":8132,"date":"2022-02-28T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:19:12","slug":"tping-the-world-2022-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8132","title":{"rendered":"TPing The World: 2022 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve been enjoying the wonderfully mild weather here in Arizona (hence, fewer posts), doing things outdoors to try and boost our morale a bit with all the insanity going on right now, not just in this country, but in the world. We thought we were getting better but then Russia&#8217;s dicktator (misspelling intended) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Vladimir Putin had to go and invade Ukraine (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/live-updates\/russia-invades-ukraine-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin had to go and invade Ukraine<\/a>. We would have thought that Russia had enough land but apparently not. The rest of Europe learned its lessons well from World War II and the Cold War, but apparently Russia wants to relive those glory days of old. Fortunately, most of the world has condemned Putin&#8217;s brazen attack, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"even his allies in Czech Republic and Hungary (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/international-politics\/2022\/02\/even-russias-european-allies-have-condemned-the-invasion-of-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\">even his allies in Czech Republic and Hungary<\/a>.  But the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ukrainians are fighting hard (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/ukraine-live-latest-russia-attack-b984883.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainians are fighting hard<\/a> because they absolutely want democracy, not to be a puppet state of Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Predictably, the only person who seems to be supporting Putin is his fan boy, TFG. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The twice impeached, megalomaniac man child couldn't stop praising his man crush about the invasion at CPAC (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-praised-smart-putin-us-stupid-country-2022-2\" target=\"_blank\">The twice impeached, megalomaniac man child couldn&#8217;t stop praising his man crush about the invasion at CPAC<\/a>. Up until the actual invasion, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"most right wing conservative Republicans were supporting Putin more than Biden, serving as useful idiots for Putin's authoritarian propaganda (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/02\/russia-ukraine-war-republican-response\/622919\/\" target=\"_blank\">most right wing conservative Republicans were supporting Putin more than Biden, serving as useful idiots for Putin&#8217;s authoritarian propaganda<\/a>. How&#8217;s that for being a patriotic American. They almost universally praise Putin as being stronger than Biden.  Apparently, being an authoritarian asshole who bullies everyone else is the GOP&#8217;s definition of strong. Of course, the Republicans are blatantly pursuing a course of anti-democratic, authoritarian rule with their mostly unapologetic support of Trump and the January 6th attempted fascist coup. No wonder they&#8217;re in love with Putin. Maybe TFG could move to Russia and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"become a citizen like tough guy actor Steven Seagall (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/hollywood-actor-seagal-joins-pro-kremlin-party-proposes-tougher-laws-2021-05-30\/\" target=\"_blank\">become a citizen like tough guy actor Steven Seagall<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>We&#8217;re reposting a photo-toon from <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"December 21, 2016 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5152\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>December 21, 2016<\/strong><\/a> because T**** and Putin are still TPing the world; Putin in Europe and Asia and TFG with his insipid rallies and stupid speeches here in America. Sorry, folks &#8212; the planet is still royally screwed until we figure out a way to rid ourselves of these authoritarian, right wing, fascist assholes. Maybe we can interest T &amp; P to take a ship to Mars with other greedy, corporatist jackasses Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Then each of these manly men could all praise each other with their hot air until they run out of oxygen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Support Ukraine!!! Support Democracy!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinworldscrewed.jpg\" alt=\"Bend over world, here come Trump and Putin.\" class=\"wp-image-5160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinworldscrewed.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinworldscrewed-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>With the new Trump-Putin new world order, the denizens of planet Earth look to be royally screwed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ukraineflag.jpg\" alt=\"Support Ukraine!!! Support Democracy!!!\" class=\"wp-image-8137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ukraineflag.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ukraineflag-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Support Ukraine!!! Support Democracy!!!<\/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>We&#8217;ve been enjoying the wonderfully mild weather here in Arizona (hence, fewer posts), doing things outdoors to try and boost our morale a bit with all the insanity going on right now, not just in this country, but in the world. We thought we were getting better but then Russia&#8217;s dicktator (misspelling intended) Vladimir Putin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TPing The World: 2022 Edition&#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":[61,60,8,85,963,3,198,500],"tags":[690,1575,789,1948,22,20,27,2305,1576,507,1354,1351,914,915,9,851,573,98,296,1257,19,661,871,2332,694,872,455,491,1333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132"}],"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=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}