On Thursday, writing for The Daily Beast, A. Craig Copetas criticized Front National leader and far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for her ongoing affinity for Vladimir Putin, as he lays waste to Ukraine and commits increasingly brutal war crimes.
“Le Pen styles herself a populist and bristles at being called a fascist. But all the perfume in France can’t marinate Le Pen’s stench,” wrote Copetas. “Neither can the French justice system, which eight years ago ruled that it’s legal to describe her as a fascist. ‘If the term ‘fascist’ can have insulting connotations when used outside of any political context or if accompanied by other demeaning terms, it has, on the other hand, no insulting character when employed between political opponents on a political subject,’ the judge declared. The classical fascism of the 1930s nowadays arrives in many shapes, sizes, colors, and countries, all of which Le Pen continues to camouflage with worthless guarantees that her party of hobgoblins in designer suits are against racism and forcible suppression of the opposition.”
Le Pen, who has previously been charged under French hate speech laws, has made clear she wants to pull France out of the European Union and NATO — and has made it clear she would rather the country be in Putin’s orbit.
“Le Pen repeated her support for Putin’s assault on Crimea and her opposition to EU sanctions in response to the annexation. If elected, Le Pen pledged in 2017, ‘I would envisage lifting the sanctions quite quickly,'” wrote Copetas. “She became a full-time cast member of the Kremlin’s horror show 38 days after Putin invaded Ukraine, telling a French primetime TV news broadcast on March 31 that Putin ‘could become an ally of France again’ if the war ends. ‘Russia’s not going anywhere,’ she explained to the French public broadcaster France 2. ‘I’ve always said that a great power can be an ally in a number of situations.'”
“The central horror of the Putin-Le Pen combo is the risk of a toxic cascade effect on the world’s democracies and the future of Ukraine’s hard-fought battle to survive,” Copetas concluded. “Had Hemingway been around to chronicle Putin’s fiesta of fascism, the book most certainly would have been titled The Scum Also Rises.”
“Had Hemingway been around to chronicle Putin’s fiesta of fascism, the book most certainly would have been titled The Scum Also Rises.”
Scum is a perfect description of this nazi lover, hopes she rots in hell with Orban.
Is it just far right idiots that like Putin? Does the fat left say stupid shit like this? Or is stupidity the domain of idiots regardless of political leanings ?
Biden and Stoltenberg are lefties, they abandoned Ukraine. No NFZ, no planes, no missiles, no Patriots. I prefer Le Pen over Orban and Merkle anytime. Macron still keeps sending 3rd world trash rapists to the UK. These fuckers don’t belong in Europe as much as the ruSSian invaders do not belong in Ukraine.
The left have scum in the US and Europe that love putler. In the states : Gabbard and Sanders (to a lesser extent).
Europe has Melenchon, George Galloway, Alex Salmond, Seumas Milne, Jeremy Corbyn etc.
But it’s the far right where the problems lie, because there are so many of the arseholes. Le Pen is a truly poisonous nightmare nazi skank who is desperate to lick putler’s tiny gonads. She makes Orban seem almost acceptable.
In America, thanks to chief putler jackboot licker Trumpkov, there are fucking loads of them: the Pauls, Alex Jones, Carlson, Ingraham, Savage, Candace Owens and the truly evil Marjorie Taylor Greene.
When did Trump lick Putin’s jackboot? When he sent javelins to Ukraine? In Helsinki when he said he might believe Putin over the Obama Justice department? When he sanctioned Nord Stream 2? Maybe when he dispelled dozens of Russians from the embassies? When he elbowed Putin out of gas and oil contracts?
When Putin invaded during the Trump years? No wait, he invaded twice, both under Left administrations but “the problems lie” on the Right. Got it…
I already pointed out to you the disgusting words of flattery and praise he uttered when putler launched his genocide. He’s an evil motherfucker. Every single putler groveler, liar and conspiracy theorist on the right is a Trumpkov lover. Including the worst ever ones Carlson, Owens and Taylor Greene.
I am more worried about actions from politicians than what they say and that’s why I’m more worried about the Left.
The left who support putler are puny and insignificant. The rightists are large, well-funded and hugely popular in the US, again thanks to Trump, a vile pig who glories in genocide, as do Carlson, Owens et al.
So which is more puny and insignificant:
Removing sanctions as Biden has done
or
Saying something nice about Putin
???
Biden as I have stated many times, is worse for Ukraine than Trump. Because of his treachery and incompetence.
However, he is not a pro-Russia or pro-putler politician, just an idiot and an arsehole.
As far as I know, only one Dem is an active putlerite : Gabbard. The Trump wing of the GOP like her.
Sanders is also pro-Russia but refrains from propagandising.
Carlson and Owens are the worst because of their enormous popularity.
Pro-Russia is as Pro-Russia does. Doing does not include words, it includes actions.