{"id":178135,"date":"2019-02-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/25\/this-sh-is-getting-really-old\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T01:00:00","slug":"this-sh-is-getting-really-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/25\/this-sh-is-getting-really-old\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sh%$ Is Getting REALLY Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Volodymyr Zelensky is currently leading the polls to be the next President of the Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Some guy with an unpronounceable name running for President in a former Soviet Republic would normally not be worth of a comment, except for the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-presidential-race-polls-2019-2\">he is a comedian who plays the Ukrainian President on TV<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A comedian who plays Ukraine&#8217;s president on TV is running for president in the country and led in two polls conducted earlier this month.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Volodymyr Zelensky, 41, stars in &#8220;Servant of the People,&#8221; a TV show where he plays a history teacher who is elected president of Ukraine after his anti-corruption rant goes viral, NBC News reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Zelensky, who has no political experience, had the largest share of support among respondents in a poll conducted earlier this month by Ukraine&#8217;s Razumkov Center, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency said. The country&#8217;s presidential election is set for March 31.<br \/>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky, also a lawyer and businessman, has a unique approach to campaigning. NBC News said he doesn&#8217;t hold rallies but sells tickets to comedy gigs in which he parodies his competition and shares &#8220;behind-the-scenes campaign videos&#8221; on Facebook and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>If he is elected president, Zelensky will face ongoing tensions with Russia, which annexed Crimea in 2014, as well as a crumbling economy and widespread corruption, NBC News reported. Zelensky has also said he would speak directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in eastern Ukraine. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough already.<\/p>\n<p>At the rate this is going, I expect an animated TV character to become the President of Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Volodymyr Zelensky is currently leading the polls to be the next President of the Ukraine. Some guy with an unpronounceable name running for President in a former Soviet Republic would normally not be worth of a comment, except for the fact that he is a comedian who plays the Ukrainian President on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,415,441,385,374,421],"class_list":["post-178135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-entertainment","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}