{"id":50649,"date":"2022-02-22T01:32:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50649"},"modified":"2022-02-22T01:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:32:19","slug":"who-is-vlad-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50649","title":{"rendered":"Who is Vlad Putin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just as I vowed when he got elected U.S. president that I wouldn\u2019t link the words \u201cPresident\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d consecutively, I am having similar pangs to resist using the term \u201cpresident\u201d to refer to Vladimir Putin, the goon and deep-cover spy who runs Russia.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin is a thug. He is a killer. He once ran the KGB, the Soviet Union\u2019s spy agency. He\u2019s a bad dude. As in really, really bad, man.<\/p>\n

Yeah, he has been elected president. Do you believe those elections were as free and fair as those we conduct in this country? Hell, no! Putin has rewritten the rules to in effect make himself a lifetime leader.<\/p>\n

His \u201crigging\u201d of elections in Russia makes me wonder something about his best American pal, Donald J. Trump. Why hasn\u2019t Trump bellowed and blustered about how the Russians rig their elections, rather than denigrating the U.S. electoral system? If the ex-Liar in Chief wants an example of corrupt elections, he needs to focus his fire on how the Russians keep electing Putin. Oh, wait. Trump wanted to become friends with Putin, and he cannot be Vlad\u2019s BFF by criticizing the system that keeps returning him to power in the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

I believe I\u2019ll keep resisting using the term \u201cpresident\u201d to refer to the Russian leader. \u201cPresident\u201d is a title I reserve for legitimately elected leaders or leaders who don\u2019t bring shame and disgust to their high office. Donald Trump fits the latter description to a \u201ct\u201d and there\u2019s nothing legit about how Vladimir Putin attained the office he now occupies.<\/p>\n

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Just as I vowed when he got elected U.S. president that I wouldn\u2019t link the words \u201cPresident\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d consecutively, I am having similar pangs to resist using the term \u201cpresident\u201d to refer to Vladimir Putin, the goon and deep-cover spy who runs Russia. Vladimir Putin is a thug. He is a killer. He once … Continue reading Who is Vlad Putin?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2675,7018],"class_list":["post-50649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kgb","tag-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50650,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50649\/revisions\/50650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}