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Initech

(99,914 posts)
Thu May 31, 2018, 10:45 AM May 2018

Lance Wallnau: 'I Fear More Liberals In America Than I Fear Putin In Russia'

While appearing yesterday on Jim Bakker’s television program, right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau offered a rather stunning defense of Russian president Vladimir Putin by admitting that while he probably kills journalists and runs his country like a criminal enterprise, he’s been friendly to Christians and represents less of a danger to the world than American liberals.

“I’m suspicious when the establishment right and the entire left all hate one nation,” Wallnau said. “You know what? I’m beginning to wonder what’s right with Russia that they’re so vilified by the left.”

Wallnau said that “Putin is trying to be a friend to the West,” but LGBTQ activists will not allow that to happen because public policy in Russia “has been shaped by Christians.”

“Don’t ever underestimate the hostility that America’s system has toward anyone who won’t bow the knee to the orthodoxy of the homosexual agenda,” Wallnau said. “That is the unpardonable sin to the liberals.”

“I’m not saying that Putin is a good guy. He’s like a mafia chief over there,” Wallnau continued. “I will say that he is not nearly—as a Christian, if you are faithful to Russia and you are not a danger to his government, you are probably not going to find him an adversary in your own nation. I fear more liberals in America than I fear Putin in Russia.”

“Does he kill journalists? Probably. It is run like a mafia state with the oligarchs? Probably,” he admitted, dismissively.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-i-fear-more-liberals-in-america-than-i-fear-putin-in-russia/


Go live in Russia, then, asshole!
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Lance Wallnau: 'I Fear More Liberals In America Than I Fear Putin In Russia' (Original Post) Initech May 2018 OP
Fuck you you unpatriotic asshole !!!!!!!!!!! SamKnause May 2018 #1
Hmmmm? Makes one wonder if he's on Putin's payroll too? brush May 2018 #7
Boy, there's gotta be few things worse Turbineguy May 2018 #2
35+ years of hate radio did this & the dems continue to ignore it. CrispyQ May 2018 #3
Bingo maxsolomon May 2018 #11
People think this will die out with old people. CrispyQ May 2018 #14
If he thinks public policy in Russia PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #4
Truly sick and depraved people Cosmocat May 2018 #5
That's been the RW goal, AIDED by Putin CakeGrrl May 2018 #6
Time was when I gave radio preachers the benefit of the doubt for being patriotic Vogon_Glory May 2018 #8
:) He should. Give us the power and we won't just turn off the Hortensis May 2018 #9
He's the American taliban, ISIS in America, you know? workinclasszero May 2018 #10
Lance, baby, you have Putin brown on your nose. apnu May 2018 #12
Its times like these... Xolodno May 2018 #13

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
1. Fuck you you unpatriotic asshole !!!!!!!!!!!
Thu May 31, 2018, 10:46 AM
May 2018

Shove your Theocracy up your unpatriotic ass !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CrispyQ

(36,226 posts)
3. 35+ years of hate radio did this & the dems continue to ignore it.
Thu May 31, 2018, 11:02 AM
May 2018

In the Jones/Moore race, white women in AL were lamenting that they had to choose between a child predator & a democrat. This is what we're up against, 35+ years of brainwashing that the dems are worse than Satan.

maxsolomon

(32,987 posts)
11. Bingo
Thu May 31, 2018, 01:29 PM
May 2018

My wife, who never listens to talk radio, and has no social media presence, just can't understand that PROPAGANDA WORKS.

CrispyQ

(36,226 posts)
14. People think this will die out with old people.
Thu May 31, 2018, 02:57 PM
May 2018

Bigotry is taught. Besides being prevalent in red states, hate radio is broadcast on many of our publicly funded universities. Git 'em while they're young!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
4. If he thinks public policy in Russia
Thu May 31, 2018, 11:02 AM
May 2018

has been shaped by Christians, he is totally ignorant of the history of that country.

But then he probably thinks this country was founded as a Christian nation, which is likewise completely wrong.

The sad thing is, most people, no matter where they are on the political spectrum, know very little history. It tends to be badly taught in high school, most people never read another book after that, and they think that what they see in movies or on TV is actually accurate.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
5. Truly sick and depraved people
Thu May 31, 2018, 11:05 AM
May 2018

How they contort things in their own minds to justify their hatred and biases.

At least be upfront - "he shares our obsession over gay people and gets to do even more horrible things to them than we can here, so he is aces with me."

BUT, America being America - "liberals this, liberals that ..." and 1/3 of this country laps it up.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
6. That's been the RW goal, AIDED by Putin
Thu May 31, 2018, 11:14 AM
May 2018

RWers on a steady diet of hate radio, RW evangelism and Fox news have been sufficiently programmed to hate an entire bloc of fellow American citizens in favor of our "friends", who of course are anything but.

Thanks to psyops and data analytics, the RW propagandists knew exactly what kind of emotional buttons to push to amp up the anti-Left/Liberal sentiment.

Vogon_Glory

(9,085 posts)
8. Time was when I gave radio preachers the benefit of the doubt for being patriotic
Thu May 31, 2018, 12:42 PM
May 2018

Not any more. Lance Wallnau’s tirade reminds me of our home-grown apologists’ screeds in favor of ISIL and al Qaeda.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. :) He should. Give us the power and we won't just turn off the
Thu May 31, 2018, 12:59 PM
May 2018

tax dollars spigot, we'll make his church pay its proper taxes.

All the rest is noise, though I suspect he's very good at believing his own opportunistic lies.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
10. He's the American taliban, ISIS in America, you know?
Thu May 31, 2018, 01:21 PM
May 2018

They want the power of life and death over the people in this country just like Putin has in his.

They will not rest till they get it.

The GOP is their vehicle and Trump is their anti Christ savior.

Xolodno

(6,330 posts)
13. Its times like these...
Thu May 31, 2018, 01:48 PM
May 2018

...that make me wonder, when did Einstein decide, "fuck it, I'm out of here".

Trump still has unwavering support, from Evangelicals, the right, etc. And they are trying to push the idea that it's more treasonous to be a liberal than it is to support Putin.

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