Alex Jones and his fans are intrigued by Putin offer of sanctuary to conservatives

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has seemingly invited conservatives chafing under "neoliberal ideals" in their home countries to move to Russia, where he claimed "traditional values reign supreme," and Alex Jones suggested he might take him up on the offer.

The Russian president signed a decree offering assistance to foreigners seeking temporary residence in his country and expanding the quota approved by the nation's government and setting aside a requirement for knowing the Russian language, history and basic laws, and Jones urged his followers to consider sanctuary there.

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Please take them. Please, please, please take them all.

What they don't know is that they'll immediately be sent to Ukraine. One-way ticket probably.

Sunflowers are much prettier and far more useful than whatever crap Jones and his cronies spew.

But who's gonna sell me silver???

He makes most of his money shilling his pills, I think the gold sellers just pay him for air time

Don't start splitting inconsequential hairs with me, buddy! Episode 765 of Knowledge Fight reviews Tim Fruge's deposition in which he discusses the silver coins they had stored in the wearhouse (if I remember correctly. It's been over a year since I heard this episode). Just because he makes most of his money from pills doesn't mean he can't also have silver coins.

Lol I'm not worthy!

Was just listening to the new KF today!

I haven't tuned in much lately, mostly because so little changed about AJ in the aftermath of the lawsuit. Also, my commute went from 30-45 minutes down to 10-15

How's the new content? Should I start tuning in again or stick with Behind the Bastards?

Eh nothing super important. Alex is laundering money through his dad very transparently and Alex already started sandy hook denying.

There was one episode a few weeks ago where it seemed like some bankruptcy thing was progressing and Alex had a real spicy episode.

All in all it is kinda a slow period yeah.

Oh no, absolutely they shouldn’t go! That would be so terrible for all of us progressives. Once they leave and take all their useful skills with them we absolutely will fail as a country and will cry tears of shame that we ever questioned them. That would show us so hard. We would be so owned!

My bet is that more likely some of them will suddenly be caught with drugs, accused of spying and other made up crimes and sentences to 15 years in prison.

Then they will get exchanged with the US for war criminals.

Anyone who moves there for "sanctuary" should automatically be left out of prisoner exchanges. Though I suspect they're more useful as propaganda tools to talk about how much better Russia is than the US.

My guess is they'll get sent off to war & then killed by American weapons. How ironic!

A lot of the far-right chuds that would take Putin up on this offer are well above combat age. Now, using these people to make up the labor shortfall caused by the Ukraine war? I can absolutely see that one.

Either that, or he'd just pamper them in exchange for utilizing them as propaganda mouthpieces for his regime.

The russians are sending undesirables to die, regardless of age. They have been luring people from abroad for some time now. Promises of jobs and on arrival you get put on a truck to Ukraine.

This is spot on. lol, my first thought was Putin is going to put them on the front line in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, in hell, Satan has cured Ronald Reagan of his dementia so he can watch his party gargle Putins balls.

Growing up (I was a kid during Reagan's Presidency), I heard more than one conservative pundit saying "better dead than Red!" I guess Russia is technically not the USSR; but, it strikes me as funny to see conservative pundits now seemingly open to becoming Russian.

Yeah, I grew up in the same era. A lot of Kill a Commie for Mommy shit left over from the '60s too. Remember Red Dawn?

Reagans non-policy on aids is a major reason I'm where I am politically now. I watched a few neighbors and family friends suffer and die in silence because of him. The worship that guy got from the gop was always a mystery to me but even just a few years ago I've been told he was the Greatest Ever President. But these same people are all over putins dick. It makes no sense.

Yeah I was raised anti Reagan because he took my grandma’s widow money while she was raising two kids on a hairdresser’s pay. Then I grew up a bit and saw the devastation aids did to my community as a result of his refusal to respond as well as his attacks on our country’s inner cities. Then I grew up further and saw how he hollowed out my country’s economy for short term profits and even the things people praised him for were bad.

"This new decree blows the lid off the establishment's agenda, letting freedom-loving folks bypass the usual bureaucratic nonsense like language tests or history exams," Jones

Alex Jones, pro-immigration and a strong advocate of removing any process to naturalize citizens in a new country.

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Apparently Republicans are tired of democracy and almost every single traditional American value. Like supporting the middle class and human rights.
Russia will probably be perfect for them, until they figure out their dream is actually a nightmare.

I am also intrigued by Putin’s plan to take all our country’s conservatives.

The only problem is that they are most likely the assholes that have no problems ripping everyone else off, and doing so might mean taking the wealth they've misappropriated with things like their hate content away from us and any legal accountability. Meaning that a priority should be to make sure their accounts are frozen when they attempt to go over there.

Fucking do it. We should be publicly funding this shit. You don't want to be here and another country will take you? Awesome, we'll help get you there.

Oh man I would feel so owned if conservatives moved to Russia. Oh no, please don’t. Please.

As long as it’s a one way ticket. No coming back!

And if they try to come back here later we can tell them our borders are closed!

Or throw Alex Jones into a deep, dark hole for skipping out on paying the sandy hook families what he owes them.

I say we send him to Russia, revoke his citizenship, use tax dollars to pay the victims, and call it breaking even.

I'm for all weird right-wingers moving to Russia.

Once they get their Russian citizenship any of the Americans that do this should remember to find a US embassy/consulate and renounce their citizenship so they don't get taxed by Uncle Sam.

... setting aside a requirement for knowing the Russian language, history and basic laws, and Jones urged his followers to consider sanctuary there.

Makes sense. After all you won't need to know any of that stuff out on the front lines in Ukraine.

Please, move there! Enjoy it and take your Republican friends. I hear Winter there is amazing and Tucker says they have tremendous grocery stores 😂

Wasn't there an ad a few months back, put out by the Russians, claiming the same thing - a sanctuary for westerners who want to keep traditional values? I remember it because it had some supposedly well-known Russian porn actress in it, acting as a pure smiling maiden or something like that...

Are you thinking of the Bill O’Reilly infomercial?

I really don't know, it's just something that I scrolled past on social media, perhaps it was just a joke/troll post. I'm kind of sorry I even brought it up here.

EDIT: I think I'm remembering this https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-conservative-village/, and the porn actress thing must have been some joke someone on the internet came up with to mock it.

Welcome Comrade! Advance behind this man. When he is shot, pick up his rifle and continue!

Was about to comment, you remember that Canadian YouTuber that moved his family to Russia, couldn't get a permanent visa because they don't know Russian, and presumably moved back?

They have not left, and are indeed building a house there and posting endless pro Russia videos.

Nevermind the initial articles and the poor wife's tearful video that was deleted after they were "requested" to do so. Which of course they then denied and said of course they edited it themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/@countrysideacreshomestead2008/videos

We got a few crazy people in other countries as well, come on Putin. You can take’em all.

I hear Grigory Potemkin already has a village built for them in the Crimea.

They want a criminally immune haven for their hate speech, of course they are.

Let these douchebags go. Chances are they'll be bitching about their situation in no time and looking to come back.

Don't give them asylum.