The Putin Fangirl Who Could Screw Us All

[dalton99a]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/frances-marine-le-pen-is-the-putin-fan-who-could-screw-us-all

The Putin Fangirl Who Could Screw Us All
Beware the Putin apologists who weasel their way to the top.
A. Craig Copetas
Updated Apr. 07, 2022 11:47AM ET / Published Apr. 07, 2022 4:48AM ET

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ghoulish massacre in Bucha has broken conventional wisdom that a tyrant must have a toothbrush mustache to be branded a fascist.

And nowhere outside Ukraine are Putin’s barbarous crimes oozing more than in France, where polls this week indicate 2022 fascist presidential candidate and Putin fangirl Marine Le Pen might capture nearly 49 percent of the vote in a likely runoff against incumbent Emmanuel Macron on April 24. “This is the first time two finalists are tested so close,” according to a Harris Interactive poll.

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. 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.

Putin’s United Russia Party spews the same disinformation to its pliant public, but can Le Pen — whose extreme-right National Front Party in 2014 borrowed 11 million euros from Kremlin-controlled banks — convince the French that she’s anything more than just another narcissistic grifter making her third stumble at the presidency as Putin’s war poodle?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Le Pen is a nutcase

[pwb]

2. Putin is a small guy

in so many ways.

[KPN]

3. " whose extreme-right National Front Party in 2014 borrowed

11 million euros from Kremlin-controlled banks”.

Putin is buying control of the western world. He did so with the US via TFG, possibly the UK via BoJo, and here — France — via Le Pen.

Putin needs eradicated along with his acquisitions.

[Bev54]

4. I can not even believe she could win, while Russia is invading Ukraine and

his evil has been shown to the world up close. That would absolutely be disastrous.

[Mr. Evil]

5. The French can't possibly be that stupid.

I just cannot fathom that they would have as much of a significant percentage of brain-dead zombies as we and Russia do.

[SoonerPride]

6. The world said that about the US electing trump

Yes.

We should be very worried.

[Bucky]

7. Fear is more powerful than reason, more powerful than hope

Don't think that smart, enlightened, liberal thinkers can't be panicked into a stampede.

[JoanofArgh]

10. I think some of them are just assholes who like violent rhetoric and bullying.

And none of them really care about policy. This has always been typical of supporters of fascist tyrants according to Arendt. I'm reading her book on totalitarianism right now and am impressed with how all her observations have held up. It's also scary.

[JoanofArgh]

9. Hannah Arendt wrote a long time ago that about 30% of the populations of all western democracies

are pro- fascist.

[JoanofArgh]

8. She's also an anti-semite, isn't she?

[Celerity]

12. More Islamophobic. Her father was and is a Jew baiter much more than she is.

Many RW Zionists are big fanboys/fangirls of MLP because she shares their hatred of Palestinians, etc, and Islam.

[leftstreet]

11. How dumb is Macron, floating raising the retirement age?

People are DONE with neoliberal austerity

wtf was he thinking?

[Celerity]

13. Yep. So many Americans have no idea how hated the centre right Macron is.

My French m8's from uni and elsewhere detest him, they just hate MLP more.

[BlueWavePsych]

14. Kick