Once again, Donald Trump has reminded us how much of a crush he has on Vladimir Putin. This time, Trump praised Putin as “a stronger leader” than Obama with great poll numbers.
Trump also appeared on RT, an English-language Russian propaganda outlet, to tell Larry King that he thought it was “unlikely” that the Russians would try to influence the U.S. election. Of course, in July Trump all but invited the Russians to do just that by releasing emails it would presumably hack from Hillary Clinton‘s private server, the classic definition of treason.
Trump loves to be outrageous because he knows it will get him media attention, but his love affair with Russia and Putin in particular is a very bad sign indeed.
Praising Putin is bad enough. Trump has strongly signaled that he will let Putin do pretty much what he wants, including invading NATO members. And that bodes really badly for LGBT rights in Russia.
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Trump would have you believe, based on one comment at the GOP convention, that he’s a great defender of LGBTQ despite his promise to overturn marriage equality. It should go without saying that anyone who is a friend of Putin’s is no friend of ours. Under Putin’s leadership, Russia has become a state of perpetual siege for the LGBT community, a fact that Putin simply dismisses. Violence is common, as are arrests and harassment.
In short, the very type of terrorism that Trump purports to save us from is commonplace in Russia. But you won’t hear Trump speaking up about that. If he is elected President, Trump will likely use the same “we’re not innocent either” rhetoric that he’s employed in talking about Russian aggression.
6 Reasons For Donald Trump’s Insane Man-Crush On Vladimir Putin
Worse still, Trump is normalizing this outrageous belief among fellow Republicans. The number of Republicans who think of Putin “very unfavorably” dropped from 51% in 2014 to 22% in 2016. That will have a ripple effect among Republican elected officials, who will be even less inclined to condemn Putin for fear of angering their conservative base.
Thinking about your peers half the world away isn’t always easy. But keep this in mind: Trump would accept homophobic violence as the sign of a “strong leader.” In doing so, he’d let homophobes in other countries know that he’s not going to lecture them on LGBT rights the way the Obama administration did.
So ask yourself this question: With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Kieran
An attempt by a gay website to put down Trump by insinuating he has a gay “crush” on Vladimir Putin.
Can you say “Pathetic”?
Kieran
Hillary PR Team @OnMessageForHer:
Trump simply will not commit to a war with Russia. The most BASIC test of foreign policy expertise, and he flunks it every single time!
Brian
Russia has a very open attitude to male homosexuality so long as it isn’t in the form of gay identity politics. Putin has also basically said that male homosexuality is OK so long as it isn’t promoted as something it isn’t.
Did you know that Lenin de-criminalized male homosexuality about 100 years ago? Yep, that long. The West was decades catching up. Russia set the standard. Of course, Stalin re-criminalized it but he was a thug of the first order.
By the way, Russian men with their ski-slope noses are just the hottest, don’t you think?
Mo Bro
I know the truth hurts, but Putin is absolutely a much stronger leader than Obama, regardless of positions on gay rights. It’s not an untrue statement. Much as Bill Clinton has been dubbed “the first black president,” Obama will undoubtedly go down in history as our first female one.
Alistair Wiseman
@Mo Bro:
Ouch! (So true.)
Bauhaus
^^^ Sewer rats for Trump ^^^
ChrisK
@Mo Bro: Yeah, because 8 years of peace and an a much recovered economy is such a horrible thing to you people.
Mo Bro
@ChrisK: By “you people,” you’re referring to the fact that I’m biracial? My good man, such intolerance shall not be tolerated in this tolerable haven of tolerance, so please choose your words more carefully so as not to offend, lest I and others like me are forced to retreat to our safe spaces.
Alistair Wiseman
@ChrisK:
The recession ended in June 2009, five months after President Obama took office. What exactly did Obama do during those five months to end the recession? I’ll give you a hint…nothing!
In fact, President Obama will be the first president in U.S. history to ever leave office without achieving at least one year of 3% GDP growth. Every other president in American history, even the really bad ones, had at least one year when the GDP grew by at least three percent.
But this has not happened under Obama even though he has two terms in the White House and the recession officially ended five months into his FIRST term.
Bauhaus
@Mo Bro:
You and others like you find refuge in the closet – too chicken shit to demand equality and too weak to confront your oppressors.
ChrisK
@Alistair Wiseman: Yes and your last guy had the worst economic record of any president since Hoover. He holds the worst performance for GDP growth, stock market performance and job creation of any president of at least the most recent 11 presidents, and is near the bottom of the lists for all of the other measures below. http://politicsthatwork.com/economic-record-president/bush43
Obama basically digged us out of the worst recession this country has had since the Depression. This in spite of the Republicans blocking him at every twist and turn. Your party has has proven over and over they’re bad for the economy.
Alistair Wiseman
@ChrisK:
And as for your comment about peace, President Obama has kept us at war in Afghanistan, which is now America’s longest war in our history.
Also, unlike his predecessor, America has now averaged one serious Islamic terrorist attack a year on President Obama’s watch.
The only thing you got right about your post is that you spelled all your words correctly. You’re a good Hillary voter.
Mo Bro
@Alistair Wiseman: Not to mention all that “peace” he brought to the planet by allowing ISIS to thrive and expand with impunity. But, facts have a tendency to intrude on ideology, so the progs busy themselves trying to convince the simple-minded that Trump is going to blow up the world.
ChrisK
@Bauhaus: ..but they’re so brave on their keyboards. Keyboard warriors deep in the closet.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
@Mo Bro:
“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”
– John Wayne
Alistair Wiseman
@ChrisK:
If President Obama “basically digged us out of the worst recession”, please tell me what he did those first five months before the recession officially ended. What laws did he sign, what actions did he take, etc.?
And as for you comment about “Republicans blocking him at every twist and turn”, do I need to remind you that the House and Senate were both controlled by Democrats for the first two years of his presidency? That was how your wonderful Savior Obama passed his signature domestic achievement, the disaster known as Obamacare. Which not a single Republican voted for its passing.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bauhaus:
So true. As a former Democrat, I know exactly what you are talking about.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
Chancroid with a keyboard, spreading your pus.
GayEGO
I suppose if you think being a bully is strong then you think Putin and Trump are strong. I think being more intelligent to gain the leadership is ultimately stronger because peaceful settlements are better than the old time tit for tat battles. You don’t hear about the IRA because they sat down at the table with the UK and settled their differences. Israel should do the same with Palestine as their tit for tat is solving nothing.
Mo Bro
@Bauhaus:
“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”
– Winston Churchill
(or Paul Addison, depending on your source)
How old are YOU, Bauhaus?
Alistair Wiseman
@Mo Bro:
By his last juvenile comment to me, I’d say he is still living momma’s basement. 🙂
Bauhaus
@Mo Bro:
Old enough and smart enough to know my enemy.
@Alistair Wiseman:
You still live in momma’s closet.
Kieran
Hillary PR Team @OnMessageForHer:
Sometimes it’s like Hillary is all alone, fighting society’s sexism, with only the media, DC, and scores of filthy rich donors to back her.
Alistair Wiseman
@GayEGO:
Please don’t bring up the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as you really do not know what you are talking about.
Kangol
@Alistair Wiseman: Have you ever been to Israel, or Palestine? Have you seen the monstrousness of those endlessly spreading Israeli settlements, how they seized Palestinian land, how they are starving the Palestinians out of house and home? Do you know about the young Israeli settlers who have said that they wouldn’t stop at the borders of Jordan but take over that country too? Have you see up close how Israeli’s military has transformed Gaza into rubble after it followed George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice’s suggestion of democratically voting for a government that the Gazans wanted? Do you have any clue about the vicious racism not only against Muslim Israelis but against Black Jewish Israelis or Black non-Jewish residents there? NO!
Kangol
@Mo Bro: A stronger leader? What a farce! One President, Obama, was democratically elected twice in free elections. The GOP lost. Twice. Four years before, a Republican won in free elections. Putin, however, is a horribly repressive leader whose opponents have repeatedly ended up shot dead, poisoned to death, imprisoned and stripped of their wealth, you name it. He refuses to leave office. He has switched between President and Prime Minister (with his puppet Dimitri Medvedev flipflopping with him), and rules by iron fist. You can criticize Obama openly all you want on here and even stand in the street and call him every name you can think of, and then go right back home and do whatever you want, but I DARE YOU to go to Russia and 1) criticize Putin openly or 2) hold a gay rights march. You will have your head smashed in. More than a few Russian activists have written about the repression there. Count your blessings you live in the country with the allegedly “weaker” leader, because you can rant all you want about him. Try it with Putin and you just might be disappeared.
Bauhaus
@Kangol:
Putin is an aphrodisiac to bootlicking traitors “Mo Bro” and his sidekick, Alistair.
DCguy
Oh look, the anti-lgbt Log Cabiners are now anti-American too!
You shield and defend any anti-lgbt action of bigoted GOP politicians. And now you support Putin as a strong leadership. So was Pol Potter, so was Mao, so was Franco.
Your sad, self hating baggage is an embarrassment, but now, your desperation to gain approval from your bigoted friends and family have you praising the rabidly anti-lgbt president of a country that has already moved to reclaim Ukraine and you are defending the Anti-lgbt Trump, who in a gift to his money lender Putin says he would weaken NATO.
Log Cabin has gone from an advocacy group, to an anti-lgbt hate group, and now to an anti-American group offering support to anti-lgbt foreign dictators. See a therapist, get your shit together.
Deviant
agh Americans your obsession with Russia and hysteria you manifest are ridiculous. And you constantly argue about facts you do not know anything about except ones given to you by Soros and similar world famous crooks.
Mo Bro
@DCguy: Cracks me up when white male liberals accuse ME of being a self-hater, when liberals have made no beef about the fact that white males are their enemy. The irony is simply too rich.
ChrisK
@Mo Bro: Calling anyone who disagrees with you a ra*ist? Really? That’s the best you can do. Lol
Mo Bro
@ChrisK: Try as you might, you shall not disparage me from being proud of my black heritage or my conservative roots.
NateOcean
@Mo Bro: Sadly, you are confusing leadership “strength” with Putin’s ruthlessness.
Two very different things.
Mo Bro
@NateOcean: Neither confusing nor equating the two, just making the observation that Obama has always been a non-leader.
Neonegro
PUTIN THE GREAT
Neonegro
@Mo Bro: I know the truth hurts, but Putin is absolutely a much stronger leader than Obama, regardless of positions on gay rights. It’s not an untrue statement. Much as Bill Clinton has been dubbed “the first black president,” Obama will undoubtedly go down in history as our first female one.
lol..lol good one Mo Bro