Pussy Riot Member Warns Trump Ignorers: “Everybody Was Joking About” Putin, Too

[KamaAina]

http://flavorwire.com/552905/pussy-riot-member-warns-trump-ignorers-everybody-was-joking-about-putin-too

For many on the left wing, Donald J. Trump has been the gift that has kept on giving, providing the media with headline after headline of absurd gaffes that, in years’ past, would’ve knocked any potential candidate from the field. Instead, this year has found that the more ridiculous Trump gets, the more responsive his voter base grows. And that’s dangerous — and it always has been. Most recently, it’s lead to the election of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as Pussy Riot’s Maria Alekhina told the Huffington Post.

Specifically, when informed that Putin had called Trump “brilliant,” Alekhina had this to say:
"“When Putin came to his first term or second term, nobody [in Russia] actually thought that this is serious. Everybody was joking about it. And nobody could imagine that after five, six years, we would have a war in Ukraine, annexation of Crimea, and these problems in Syria.”"

Alekhina also smartly suggested the media second-guess covering the minutiae of Trump’s life, as it only encourages continued bad behavior — and also normalizes it. “It’s a very short way from joke to sad reality when you have a really crazy president speaking about breaking every moral and logic norm.”

These are words that Americans should heed, especially seeing as Trump has stated that he is “honored” to have been called brilliant by Putin, and also defends Putin against allegations that he’s clamped down on critical members of the media. The election is 11 months away, so there’s still time for America to come to its senses. But we were hoping that’d happen by now, more than six months into this race.

Not to mention Hitler.

[PatrickforO]

1. Thanks for this post. I've been saying this all along.

Just one election away from a fascist regime, and maybe a few short years from the utter ruin of this nation.

[H2O Man]

2. Recommended.

Thank you for this.

[Politicalboi]

3. My dumb ass gay brother supports Dump

We are both gay, he's a gay male, me a lesbian, and I told him how Putin locks up gay people and if Dump were to be elected, it could happen here. I told him I would rat him out in a second if he helped bring this shit here. Misery loves company, and others who knew he was gay and didn't tell would be in trouble also.

[Wounded Bear]

5. For me, the thing about this is...

while I don't think Trump really gives a rat's ass about LGBTQ rights, I also don't think he cares enough to actually push back at the inevitable RW attacks on your and others' rights. Not to mention what kind of corporate, religious, RW judges would he appoint to the SC?

Not gay myself, but IMHO, "gay" rights are human rights. I'm for human rights. I feel the same about women's rights.

Trump is not as openly anti-gay as some other assholes on the Repub ticket, but I suspect he is far from pro-LGBTQ.

[Mnemosyne]

4. We joked when Ronnie Raygun ran. nt

[Matariki]

6. The media created this monster.

And they could stop it.