That's an understatement when conservatives as prominent as Sarah Palin, Pat Buchanan, and Rush Limbaugh have lauded Putin with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Before you dismiss the potency and relevancy of such acclamation, we must, for instance, remember that Limbaugh et.al influence the U.S's conservative base enough for the Republican presidential candidates to conduct the party's primaries with their appeasement in sight. The latest Republican debate hosted an apt expression of that reality when Trump -- notorious for his intransigent insolence -- quickly placated conservative commentators who lashed out against his attacks on their darling Cruz who proved popular among the conservative base and its leaders.

Admiring a foreign leader of a supposed foe isn't necessarily treasonous (the conservative base in the U.S and elsewhere is treasonous but for other reasons). Whether such admiration is commendable or detestable is debatable. Putin's popularity among conservatives stems from their antipathy for Obama and the LGBT movement in the U.S and the victory it scored with the latest SCOTUS's ruling. They see Putin as a religious, traditionalist nationalist and a valiant defender of traditional marriage and values. It is in that context that one judges their admiration of Putin.

As for Trump's divisiveness, it mostly relates to the Republican Establishment and not to the base itself, as the polls continue to increasingly underscore.

So what's your point exactly?

He's quite popular among the conservative base.

Oh God no.

No; I was only expressing my nausea from such a smoothie.

So that you may get off your console and spend more time with family in this festive time of the year. They're all about the Christmas spirit those jovial delinquents.

Pancakes are just another excuse to blow up your sugar intake right at the beginning of the day. You might as well just gulp the high fructose corn syrup straight-up.

You can't be serious about the hotdog part, even Americans think they're gross.

As for the fish pie part, I religiously love seafood, but mixing seafood and starch is a taboo I'm not willing to violate, whether it involves pasta or pastries. I don't know what it is about starch that amplifies the absolute worst in seafood.

I'm always jelly of Asian cuisine, Japanese in particular, and I try to copy it as much as I can. Needless to say, the result isn't always satisfactory; the cuisine is way too exotic to find the proper ingredients and equipments for here in Gaza.