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  1. More blatant disinformation from Michael. He never rests. There is a patriotic feeling for this unwelcome war in Russia. They understand the significance of nukes on a Ukraine border with Bandera Nazis as proxies of NATO.

    Others should fight this misinformation by Michael. It is not without harm.

    The key moment was April 2022. Place was Turkey. Player to watch was Mr Boris Johnson. Britain again. Cost 1 million lives.

    Not rocket science to understand.

  2. Hi, Edgar.

    …Behind them were Commissars who would drive them forward into the grinding mill.
    If thy needed more bullets they were to search the bodies and/or rifles of whatever dead soldiers that they were surrounded by.

    That was their “training” for non-stop war.

    I never studied Stalingrad, to the depth that you have. Your account lines up very well with current Russian tactics, in places like Bakhmut and Avdiyvka.

  3. @Felix

    “Only Marxism which is what I am based on can survive because it is scientific.

    Marxism only interprets past events. Name an event Marxists successfully predicted.

  4. Edgar

    Behind them were Commissars who would drive them forward into the grinding mill

    All of that may be true but most likely partially true

    My take…Stalin was the gravedigger of the 1917 revolution

    Just prior to 1941 was the Moscow Trials so a total brute

    And he left Russia nearly without defence when the Nazis struck.

    But you must realise there was very much more to this story because Russia did win.

    We have been robbed of knowledge of this history just as has happened concerning this war in Ukraine

  5. I meant something like this…no theoretical foundation. A closeness to Bakunin type anarchism so that you tore Russia out of history and pronounced it Fascism same as Hitler.

    Out of such things will grow really false characterisation

    See my comment on the interview where I wrote about how the establishment will try to bury the interview.

    In general there is massive pressure on Zionism by the ruling class because they know Zionism is a very important influential thing.

    Only Marxism which is what I am based on can survive because it is scientific.

    I believe that Israel is facing Nazi or Fascist movements in Hamas/Fatah

    This is an issue for all.

    You mention hobbies. For me no. I truly wish there was no need for this stuff but the opposite is the case.

    We are now caught in a vice… necessity

    Of global warming if no answer then 2 degrees will be messy

    First year last year to pass 1.5 degrees…….Chile much loss of life…the evidence too many things to mention here.

  6. @Felix

    “People also ask
    What did Scallywag mean?
    In United States history, the pejorative scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › S…
    Scalawag – Wikipedia”

    OK, I can live with that. Had to look it up. You’re not an “old Commie”” as Laura suggested, you’re an antiquarian Commie. But we already knew that. Tres cool. We each have our hobbies. 😀

  7. The first thing to say about the interview was that it was a lesson in communication. Tucker representing the western media method all about you must be INTERESTING.

    Immediately Putin put that to bed saying do you want a show or a relaxed discussion?

    Tucker was not at all able to carry an informed discussion. Not strictly his fault. Trained in a faulty method. He realised his situation and listened.

    Then followed a masterclass in clarity which will make our media forever seeking vengeance.

    I would like Michael to learn that words and actions on any forum have relevance. Michael consider this…

    Highlight was Putin patience in explaining how in Turkey April 2022 there was a peaceful outcome almost certain until Johnson’s lies and MICHAEL’S LIES ALSO intervened with the scalliwag confusionist Zorn confusing everything he touches…happened HERE

    The bitter result up to a million dead people. THAT is yours to own Michael. IMHO.

    So it does come home to Israpundit thanks especially to those two.

  8. I recall reading several accounts by Russian survivors of the battle for Stalingrad.
    They were generally the same in saying that they were scooped up by “press gangs” of Soviets led by Commissars, shoved into worn out uniforms often with bullet holes and blood on them, then brought straight to the Battle, lined up and as the line advanced it was seen that they would be climbing over dead bodies of Soviet “soldiers” like themselves, given a rifle and 5 bullets, and told to shoot in front of them. Behind them were Commissars who would drive them forward into the grinding mill.
    If thy needed more bullets they were to search the bodies and/or rifles of whatever dead soldiers that they were surrounded by.

    That was their “training” for non-stop war.

  9. @Michael S.

    “Ketzel was right — they are trying to bore us to death. This is Sun Tzu unrestricted warfare.”

    Actually, that’s Lenin. It’s the strategy he called, “Boring from within” 😀

  10. Ketzel was right — they are trying to bore us to death. This is Sun Tzu unrestricted warfare.

    I lasted through 75%. That’s it — time for dinner.

  11. The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust.[4] Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive.[5]

    At least 40 ethnic Poles carried out the killing; their ringleaders decided on it beforehand with Germany’s Gestapo, SS security police or SS intelligence, and they cooperated with German military police.[

    https://www.israpundit.org/chit-chat/comment-page-122/#comment-63356000272561

  12. @ketzel2 Both true. So what? The irony of events as they are unfolding is that for most of the last few hundred years, Western Ukraine (Ukrainian Ukraine) was part of Poland and Eastern Ukraine (Russian Ukraine) was part of Russia and then the Soviet Union. I just had an idea for a Broadway musical based on this. It could be called, “West Side Story.” What do you think?

    “The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union … Wikipedia

    And everybody massacred the Jews so why have sympathy for any of these bastards?

    “For Poles, Katyn became a symbol of the many victims of Stalinism. Although a 1952 U.S. congressional inquiry concluded that the Soviet Union had been responsible for the massacre, Soviet leaders insisted for decades that the Polish officers found at Katyn had been killed by the invading Germans in 1941.”

    https://www.britannica.com/event/Katyn-Massacre

    “Poland says the 1943-44 massacre of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists was genocide. Entire villages were burned down and all their inhabitants killed by nationalists and their helpers who sought to establish an independent Ukraine state.”

    https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-poland-volhynia-massacre-reconciliation-0a44c28c5ae5aa6c9e8afa020f27d72e

  13. Hi, Ketzel

    I see you are still threading your way through the video — which, by the way, I have been watching at

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1755734526678925682

    I’m about 35% through. My opinion, so far, is that Tucker has scored big here: I have heard more from Putin here, than in the previous 372 years of my life (counting back, of course, to 1652 🙂 )

    I need a break. Time for tea.

  14. “Felix, The next thing you know, you’ll say I’ve been giving cover to Richard III and Mary, Queen of Scots!”

    Michael, how could you? 😀

  15. Putin is accusing Ukrainian neonazis of exterminating Poles. Excuse me, did you forget who did the Katyn Massacre? Hypocrite, but his fans won’t notice.

  16. Felix,

    The next thing you know, you’ll say I’ve been giving cover to Richard III and Mary, Queen of Scots! I’m quite certain that you’ve gone stark, raving mad. Don’t expect me to try to reason with you.

    BTW, I just came across the posting, where I told Sebastien that Laura made you seem like a moderate (Note that I did not explicitly call you an extremist; but if the shoe fits, wear it.). Since you’ve been calling me a murderer, that doesn’t seem like a matter even worth taking up.

  17. @Edgar
    I completely concur with your assessment about the lost princes. Henry led a successful but bloody reign with those two being the first of his many purges.

    I also have a great appreciation for Costain’s books, thought it has been a bit since I read them.

  18. SEB

    Interesting that you got around to THAT.

    Yes Richard 3rd was framed. But the Josephine Tey book’s Alan Grant was just spending time in hospital with his broken leg and looked into the Richard 3rd mystery out of ennui. A brilliant idea for a book plot.

    The “19th cent”. you mention to is actually the 18th cent, because I’m sure you are referring to the Doubts of Horace Walpole who died in the mid 1790s. He changed his mind after. Don’t know why.

    And the “evidence’ which Shakespeare did a manful job with, must be that of The “saint” Thomas More who grew up in Archbishop Morton’s house. Morton, of course was the inventor of “Morton’s Fork”. to raise large taxes for greedy Henry 7th whose Chancellor he became.

    My recollection is that More didn’t finish his “history” which has enough holes in it that a whale could swim through. And that Morton travelled through the Fens in his way to the Continent, running from a feared Richard arrest. And that the remarks in the “Croyland Chronicles” were thought to have been “information” from Morton. when he rested there for a few days.
    Richard was defeated by the betrayal of the Stanley Brothers, ostensibly Richard’s friends and allies, who held back their forces until they saw their opportunity. Their redoubtable mother was “married” to Owen Tudor,.what a coincidence……??? Richard made a huge error here. A huge ERROR.

    That it was Henry 7th who murdered the Little Princes is strengthened by the fact that the purported murderers. lived as usual for many years after until a few years before Henry’s own passing, he had them executed on trumped up charges.

    “Clearing the books”

    According to De Commines, whose books I have, the rumour was already spread even when the Little Princes were actually seen playing in the gardens at the Tower. Records show expenses for clothing bought for them ,AFTER they were supposed to be dead. Also their mother trusted Richard enough to come out of sanctuary along with her daughters, and lived comfortably at Richard’s expense with her lands and titles restored. I refer of course to the wife of Richard’s defunct brother whom he loved, Edward 4th.

    By the way, I have “Daughter of Time” Tey’s last book before death, and have read it about -5 times.

    I find this period a most fascinating time in English history. The ruthlessness of the kings and nobility are beyond belief. The Mary Queen of Scots period runs a close second. She reminds me of Marie Antoinette.

    Thomas Costain wrote a few great books, one was “The Last Plantagenets”. Absorbing, every single word.

  19. As they said back in the old country “You’re away with the fairies”meaning you’re living in a different world to me. But also I resent being talked to without any respect to me. Are you so confused you do not know Trotskyism was born in struggle against Stalinism. Stalinism represented a usurping bureaucracy but anyone who equates that with Fascism, and thereby would refuse to defend Russia against Fascism in 1941, in spite of the betrayals by Stalin, well end of the road. To furthermore not acknowledge the great struggles against Hitler and great sacrifices of the Russian youth and women soldiers , time to draw very hard conclusions.

    Above all to see all this as a gigantic joke…then I know for sure you will not be a fighter for the Jewish people, and you ZORN are an insult to the suffering hostages of a present Hamas/Fatah Fascist ideology, which I am not making jokes about.

    In the interests of the Jewish people someone needs to rein you in.

  20. @Felix I can see how one might be offended at my comparing German fascism with Soviet fascism. Ok, let me re-phrase that. It’s because the German National Socialist state invaded the Soviet Socialist Great Patriotic State so there was a Great Patriotic War (which is what they called WWII over there) 😀

    In logic, they call that “a distinction without a difference.”

  21. This was truly great dark satire of Stalin’s Soviet Union. It can be rented for 4 dollars on Amazon Prime Video or free with a subscription to AMC on the same site with a seven day free trial.

    “The Death of Stalin”

    The Boston Globe said:

    ‘The Death of Stalin’ (2018 movie) is brilliant satire”

    “Set in Moscow in March of 1953, “The Death of Stalin” is about that particular title event, but it has been cast and is played as if it were British music-hall comedy or Hollywood screwball — it’s equal parts Monty Python and Preston Sturges.Mar 14, 2018”

  22. @Felix You know Trotsky was incorrect about the Soviet Union being a “deformed workers’ state” because the rumors of Stalin having a hump were wrong; he just had one shoulder a little higher than the other like Richard the Third.

    What was it Stalin said again from one of his many dachas after Germany attacked an unprepared Soviet Union, unprepared because Stalin had purged the armed forces, especially of Jews [1], and ignored the reports of all of his spies, preferring wishful thinking?

    Oh, Yes.

    “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” [2] 😀

    [1] Vaksberg, Arkady. “Stalin Against the Jews.” Translated by Antonina W Bouis. Alfred A.. Knopf, inc . New York. 1994.

    [2] Actually Richard was framed* but Stalin turned out to be even worse than his rep.

    But Shakespeare’s account which he got from an author who had grown up in the house of one of the chief conspirators makes a better story. [3]

    Now, where have we heard that before? Hmmmm?

    “So many questions. so many reports.”

    – last line of Brecht’s poem, “Questions from a worker who reads.” ( from back when I was still a commis, I mean Commie 😀 , still a great poem.)

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm


    [3] See mystery novel, “Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey (1951) which had was based on actual 19th century research nobody had bothered to read. A society to vindicate him was revived after its publication and a few years ago, his bones were re-interred with honors in recognition of the injustice and because they found them.]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_and_reburial_of_Richard_III_of_England
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardian_(Richard_III)#Richard_III_Society

  23. @sebastien

    And if I take your drift the Red Army appeared at the gates of Auschwitz as if my magic, but it was not magic, it was because Fascism I’d the enemy of Fascism and the Red Army was founded in 1918, and Hitler showed in his writing his hatred for Jews and his hatred for Marxism.

    But thanks for the long lecture anyway. I have been fighting for a Jewish state for coming up to 40 years so really no need to send me lectures.

  24. With Jewish vote up for grabs, NY congressional candidates Suozzi, Pilip hold sole debate ahead of special election”
    By Luke Tress February 7, 2024 6:08 pm

    https://www.jta.org/2024/02/07/ny/with-jewish-vote-up-for-grabs-ny-congressional-candidates-suozzi-pilip-hold-sole-debate-ahead-of-special-election

    (New York Jewish Week) — One candidate is an Israeli-American Orthodox Jew born in Ethiopia. The other has highlighted his support for Israel — and accused his opponent of endangering it.

    On Tuesday, Feb. 13, they will vie for the support of New York’s third congressional district — one of the most Jewish areas of the country — in a highly anticipated special election.

    The race between Democrat Tom Suozzi and Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip kicked off when Rep. George Santos, who represented the district, was expelled from Congress last year after allegedly lying about large portions of his biography. The two candidates will face off Thursday in their only debate.

    The vote — in a swing district spanning Queens and Long Island that flipped Republican in 2022 after a decade in Democratic hands — is drawing national attention for its implications ahead of the November election. A Democratic victory would also narrow Republicans’ already slim majority in the House. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the candidates’ support for Israel has emerged as a major focus of the campaign.

    Pilip, a legislator in Long Island’s Nassau County who was elected in 2021, entered the race with a compelling backstory: She was born in Ethiopia and evacuated to Israel at age 12 during Operation Solomon, Israel’s 1991 mass airlift of Ethiopian Jews. She later served in a non-combat role in the Israeli military’s paratroopers brigade before moving to New York. Pilip married a Ukrainian-born Jewish American and gained U.S. citizenship in 2009. She is Orthodox and a mother of seven.

    Pilip ran for her seat on the Nassau County legislature in part because of the antisemitism she said her son faced in middle school, ousting a Democrat to win her seat.

    After Long Island Republicans selected Pilip as their candidate for the special election, questions surfaced about her voting record in the county legislature, history as a registered Democrat and support for former President Donald Trump.

    In an interview with CNN this week, Pilip defended her past voter registration, saying many immigrants had registered as Democrats, but that the party had “left me and many others.”

    She said she would back Trump in the likely event that he wins the presidential nomination. But she refused to say whether she would support him if he were convicted of a crime, offering only that prosecutions of the former president were “politically motivated.”

    “I know that he didn’t commit any crime,” she said.

    She also refused to say if she had voted for Trump in 2016 or 2020. “He was a great president, he did great things,” she said.

    Suozzi is more of a known quantity. He represented the district for three terms before leaving office to launch an unsuccessful run for governor in 2021.

    Despite Pilip’s Israel bonafides, Suozzi has pitched himself as the more reliable defender of Israel in the race. He visited Israel in a show of solidarity in December, and has repeatedly stressed his support for Israel in recent campaign emails: He called for the chief of UNRWA, the aid agency for Palestinians, to resign due to some staffers’ alleged links to Hamas and participation in the Oct. 7 attack. And he spotlighted his support for a bipartisan Senate deal that coupled aid for Israel and Ukraine with a clampdown on illegal border crossings. The bill failed the Senate on Wednesday.

    During a virtual press conference on Wednesday, Suozzi talked up his support for Israel while joined by some of the most staunchly pro-Israel Democrats in Congress: Reps. Ritchie Torres of New York, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Brad Schneider of Illinois.

    “The bottom line is I’m unequivocally supportive of Israel and always have been,” Suozzi said.

    Torres, who is known for his unstinting support of Israel, said, “We’re supporting Tom because he is one of us, because he’s going to fight for the Jewish community and the Jewish state.”

    During the briefing, Suozzi repeatedly attacked Pilip and the Republican party for holding up the Israel aid package, pitching himself as a more experienced politician capable of passing legislation to help Israel. He also decried Pilip and her fellow Republicans for “extremist” positions.

    “My opponent is taking the position, ‘It’s my way or the highway,’” he said. “It’s not only a bad game, it’s endangering Israel.”

    Suozzi added, “She’s unvetted, she’s unprepared and she’ll make things worse.”

    Pilip has attacked Suozzi over the other component of the bill, immigration, dubbing her opponent “Sanctuary Suozzi” on social media. She decried the bipartisan aid package, alleging that it “basically legalizes the invasion of our country at the southern border” — an echo of Trump’s opposition to the bill. That post was accompanied by a photo of Suozzi and Biden.

    As it happens, while they may disagree on immigration, both candidates hold similar policy positions toward Israel: Both are against an immediate ceasefire or placing conditions on aid to Israel, and both have stressed their support for freeing hostages held by the Hamas terror group. The two candidates appeared together at a rally last month with the family of Omer Neutra, a Long Island native taken captive by Hamas in its Oct. 7 attack. Both Suozzi and Pilip wore dog tags in support of the hostages, part of a broader advocacy campaign, while standing alongside the Neutra family.

    Suozzi has sought to lean away from Biden, who won the district in 2020 but is polling poorly with voters there this year. The president is visiting New York on Wednesday, but will not make any appearances in support of Suozzi’s campaign.

    Suozzi told CNN, “I don’t think it would be helpful, just as I don’t think Donald Trump would be helpful to my opponent.”

    The area has drifted Republican in recent years, as evidenced by Santos’ 2022 victory. Suozzi defeated Santos in the 2020 election, when the Republican, like Pilip, was also a lesser-known challenger of color.

    During the Wednesday briefing, Suozzi acknowledged that “the Democratic brand has been decimated over the past three years,” citing crime in New York City, bail reform policies and the surge of migrants.

    The candidates will face off at a debate hosted by News 12 on Long Island on Thursday. Early voting started on Saturday in the district — so far, more Democrats than Republicans have turned out, according to Politico.

    As the election nears, Suozzi has campaigned more aggressively — his campaign said he held nine rallies over last weekend, while Pilip did not appear to have held any public events. Pilip observes Shabbat, limiting her activities on Fridays and Saturdays. Her campaign did not make her available for an interview with the New York Jewish Week.

    Suozzi’s campaign has amassed far more funds than Pilip, with more than $4.5 million raised through Jan. 24, compared to Pilip’s $1.3 million, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.”

    My comment: Article doesn’t mention their positions on Ukraine. It also doesn’t mention that her husband is also Israeli. She was born in Ethiopia and he was born in Ukraine but they both made aliya and then they both emigrated to the U.S. The article is wrong on that point, when it refers to him as a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American. I’m curious what her position is on Ukraine. Elsewhere, I have read that though she is pro-life, personally, she has seven children, she is opposed to a national ban on abortion. She was, until recently, a Democrat, herself.

    It will be fantastic if she is elected, not only for her defence of Trump and securing the border but because she is black, Israeli, and pro-Israel, she will completely upend the Squad’s narrative.

  25. @Felix
    @Michael

    Oh, lighten up. Nobody here has blood on their hands for expressing an opinion, and Felix, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union liberated death camps because they happened to be on their route to Berlin and the British army – with the indispensable assistance of the embedded Jewish legion based in the Yishuv stopped Rommel’s army before it could get to Palestine but nobody, nobody, nobody would bomb the tracks to the death camps or the gas chamber or the crematoria or the Nazi officer’s quarters or anything even though their planes were flying over head and so low that survivors said that the windows had rattled.

    For me, one of the most profound pieces of evidence that the Jewish state is absolutely crucial for the survival of the Jewish people world wide was this:

    FDR notified Nazi Germany that if it used chemical weapons on the battlefield against the U.S. or any of its allies, the U.S. would carpet bomb German towns and cities with same.

    An offshoot Zionist lobbying group of the Bergson Group in the U.S., the Hebrew Army of Liberation, petitioned FDR to extend the same threat on behalf of the Jews being murdered by chemical weapons in death camps and before that in mobile trucks.

    The reply, which came from the General staff was an unqualified no because:

    a) they would probably have to follow through.

    and

    b) Not having a state, Jews weren’t an ally.

    Let me repeat that:

    Not having a state, Jews weren’t an ally.

    And, Felix, for nearly all of its history, Zionism in the Soviet Union was a punishable crime and Jews were oppressed, genuinely oppressed but not allowed to leave. At least in the Russian Empire, they were allowed to leave and most left for the U.S. Most American Jews are the descendants of Jews who fled Russia at the end of the 19th century. And over a million Soviet Jews fled the Soviet Union for Israel at the end of the 20th. Egyptian terrorist, Yassir Arafat, became a Soviet Agent, as his uncle, the Grand Poobah, had been for Nazi Germany. Except for a brief moment in 1948-9, it was the Soviet Union who weaponized the UN against Israel in alliance with the Arab bloc and the non-aligned states. And today, Russia is allied with Israel’s nemesis, Iran, though, it is a limited alliance, so far. I hope Trump is able to take office next year and work out some compromise that will defang Russia as an enemy. Russia doesn’t have to be an enemy. But, its not a friend.

    The Soviets, enemies of Israel, designed and promulgated the “Zionism is Racism” blood libel in the U.N.

    But, it was Israel’s frenemy, U.S. President George H.W. Bush who spoke, and spoke passionately, before the U.N. and got it repealed. It’s a great speech.

    “President George H.W. Bush Calls for Repeal of UN ‘Zionism is Racism’ Resolution” – UN Watch

    https://youtu.be/7chKW7H6s8M?si=slq2xkvTTp79OB6T

    So, lets not get all dewy eyed here.

  26. Michael

    Don’t even suggest it or infer it jokingly.

    You are a person who has a lot of blood on your hands as you have given cover to Banderaists who went on to cause a war that left 500,000 Ukrainian youth DEAD

  27. I watched all of the interview to which Laura responds

    Believe me, Trump will throw Israel under the bus at the behest of isolationist kooks like that disgusting pig Steve Bannon. Mark my words

    I noticed that Bannon was impatient with Caroline and he needed to have a kind of surrender of Caroline to the concept of MAGA

    Which I think she gave

    But this is a problem because this Fascism represented by Hamas/Fatah was created by British and American power in the world

    Caroline should not have been treated thusly by Bannon

    The other thing I will add about this MAGA concept is it contains an attack on the planet in its saying of Donald Trump “Drill baby drill”. As centre of Africa is burning up.

    Biden in practice is similarly destroying the climate of earth.

  28. @Laura

    why did he previously praise her and keep her on up until the point where his nomination is all but assured?

    Trump didn’t have the support in the party to defeat her, specifically because of the funding coming into the party. That however has changed which is why she is resigning.

    Believe me, Trump will throw Israel under the bus at the behest of isolationist kooks like that disgusting pig Steve Bannon.

    Yes, well I don’t believe you, which is the problem. While you certainly do have the conviction of your beliefs, but your beliefs are based on a false characterization of the greatest friend Israel has ever had, bar none.

    The guy is a sleeze and you know it.

    And once again, I know just the opposite is true. I have no need to convince you that you are wrong, just as I have no need to convince the majority of voters, who also disagree with you, that they are right. As you say time will tell the truth, but I am gripped with anticipation of living out your perceived nightmare of having Trump safely back in the White House again.

    As to Trump being an isolationist, you are once again quite misguided. Trump has never been an isolationist, which is why he kept the oil in Syria and did not pull out of NATO, to the consternation of many. This is also why Trump envisioned a strong and independent Israel to support America in the region – again the Trump doctrine is about having strong allies who will support America’s interests around the world, which is a decidedly internationalist perspective for anyone being labeled as an isolationist. His banner is Make America Great Again, not Make America Isolated Again. This is just another Neocon narrative which again I guess you support. Such things can be a nasty habit to break.

  29. Michael

    You call me an “extremist’ and you are far more so because you have misled about the Fascists in Ukraine

    Always my aim was to get to the truth.

    My politics are separate from Putin but I do not overlook Russia did fight the Fascists. The Red Army did liberate Auschwitz.

    But you joined with Fascists.

    Your taunt of extremist was quite empty.

  30. Believe me, Trump will throw Israel under the bus at the behest of isolationist kooks like that disgusting pig Steve Bannon. Mark my words.

  31. The thing is, party chairs don’t normally endorse a primary candidate, but Rona endorsed Trump. Now he’s throwing her under the bus. She’s not the only one who humiliated herself in fealty to Trump but still got screwed over. That Trump is a backstabbing slime is undeniable. When will these fools who fall all over themselves to get in Trump’s good graces ever learn?

  32. Peloni, once the SOB got McDaniel’s endorsement and now that the primaries are all but over since his anointment, he turned against her. Whether or not she’s the right leader is beside the point. He used her and then threw her under the bus. This coming from a guy who demands loyalty but gives none. If she was so terrible, why did he previously praise her and keep her on up until the point where his nomination is all but assured? The guy is a sleeze and you know it.

    Trump’s latest comments represent a sharp change in rhetoric when it comes to McDaniel’s position at the RNC: Last year, he said she’d done a “fantastic job” running the organization and opted against endorsing Harmeet Dhillon, one of his allies who ran against her for the position. After his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, McDaniel urged Republicans to “unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump,” an unusual direct endorsement from a sitting party chair that came despite Trump shunning the RNC-organized debates.

  33. @Michael

    “I don’t give Tucker much credit, for what is (to me) obviously a publicity stunt.”

    “Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.”

    – Abbie Hoffman