Other than a couple of popular tweets over the past month, my tweet statistics have been in a prolonged slump. I don't publish for the sake of publishing. A lot has to do with trends. I could spend all day rebuking clueless leftists and Trumpkins, but that's not a good use of my time. It does seem like a plurality of hot trends deal with predictable partisan trends, the majority of them Dem-initiated but several of them Trumpkin (Hunter Biden et. al.) A ;lot of them, if not most, are personal insults, trite accusations, mostly predictable. A lot of them are aimed at conservative jurists; Clarence Thomas and Brett Kanavaugh's accusers (Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford) are constantly reasserted, as is Thomas' politically active wife, we hear 1001 complaints about Merrick Garland's "stolen" SCOTUS nomination, but yet another 1001 complaints on AG Garland not indicting Trump yet. Don't get me started on Trump Derangement Syndrome; I must see the clip of Trump mocking disabled reporter Serge F. Kovaleski almost daily, the sniping at Trump or Biden's wives or kids. All of this negative garbage is predictable and boring; make no mistake: I don't have high expectations for political whores.
Am I being hypocritical? After all, I've written my fair share of anti-Trump, Comrade Bernie, and Cherokee Lizzie tweets. No. Quite often the tweets are a response to something they've said or done I find outrageous or wrong, a clueless minion has annoyed me, or I'm mocking them in context. A classic example is that some Dems were pissed that Putin's response restrictions named Dems, not Republicans. So my inner humorist quipped back, "I guess Comrade Bernie won't be able to enjoy a second honeymoon." (He famously honeymooned in the USSR.) I didn't know or care if Sanders was on the list. I used Sanders, the 2016 Dem nominee runner-up, as a proxy for Dems, and I was amused that Dems were upset for being banned from visiting Russia, the last place they wanted to be.)
One hot trend over the weekend involved a controversial tweet from right-wing Trumpkin Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. I have zero interest in her rubbish. It was basically a pox on both houses of the Ukrainian conflict and an assertion an America First foreign policy. I don't have an issue with her condemnation of Putin and the third point; what made the tweet controversial with her linkage of Ukraine forces with neo-Nazis. This was particularly controversial for 2 reasons: Ukraine President is Jewish, and Greene seems to accept Putin's justification of invading for denazification of Ukraine.
"Russian state TV anchors have worked around the clock to portray Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — who is Jewish — as a leader of a neo-Nazi-leaning government infiltrated by the Azov group." They are really exaggerating the influence of the Azov Battalion, a militia led by nationalist/right-wing forces which proved an alternative to ineffective Ukrainian armed forces in 2014 against Russian separatists. The battalion was not exclusively neo-Nazi, had some prominent Ukrainian Jewish and other backers, but has never been incorporated into the Ukrainian armed forces (more like a regiment in their National Guard). For a while, the movement's leader Biletsky served as an independent member in the Ukrainian parliament but never held power
The United Nations human rights commissioner's office documented a litany of human rights violations by both sides in the [8-year] fight, including allegations of the "extensive use of civilian buildings and locations… and looting of civilian property, leading to displacement" by Azov Battalion forces.
Zelensky is apparently a non-practicing Jew who married a Christian and their children have been baptized. The Jewish backers of Azov did not support their ideology but backed them as a resistance force. Much has been made of Zelensky's granduncles dying in the Holocaust.
So the situation is complex and a pithy tweet seems impossible. This righteous indignation of a country led by a Jewish president needing to be denazified seems overdone; the Azov relationship is clearly troublesome given its human rights record, so are the Russian separatists, and the Ukraine government and military are not right-wing ultra-nationalist. This is all disingenuous over-hyped Putin propaganda.
