T-shirts seen at the Ohio rally: "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat"

[highplainsdem]

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Then move to Russia! nt

[sandensea]

82. Hear, hear.

The first thing they'll do, no doubt, is beg Putin for social benefits.

"Don't y'all have all that soshulist cradle-to-grave shit?"

"Da. But only for Russians."

[AmandaRuth]

95. i don't see what the problem is

I'd rather they be Russians than Democrats as well. Don't want you, don't need you

[Bengus81]

122. Here's who they are......

https://www.cleveland.com/expo/news/erry-2018/08/e178a851af7984/heres-who-we-saw-at-donald-tru.html

[Frances]

2. AMERICA: LOVE IT OR MOVE TO RUSSIA

How about this as a slogan? (I was inspired by the America: Love it or Leave it slogan used against Viet Nam war protestors)

[blueseas]

101. Yes traitors

Move to Russia!

[TeamPooka]

113. New word I just thought of: RussPublicans

to sum up GOP Putin lovers.

[MineralMan]

3. Aw....besties all dressed alike. Too cute!

[Different Drummer]

80. That got a laugh from me! n/t

[marylandblue]

4. Whatever happened to "better dead than red?"

[LoveMyCali]

23. These are not young men either

I think sometimes that the apathetic response to the Russian interference is because they don't remember drills where you hid under your desk waiting for a potential Russian attack when they were kids. The men in this picture blow that theory, they look older than me.

[BigmanPigman]

67. I guess there are no age restrictions when

you join his cult.

[shanny]

77. fwiw Russia hasn't been "red" for decades. nt

[Hekate]

98. And your point is? I laughed at Mitt Romney when he identified Russia as our greatest enemy...

He misspoke and called it the USSR. Hahaha.

I thought Russia lost its power and its enmity toward the USA when the USSR broke apart, so I joined in the laughter. I have lived to regret it -- the ignorance was mine, not Mitt's.

[shanny]

108. My point was exactly what I said.

Russia is not red, i.e. communist.

An oligarchic, criminal state with a total asshole for a leader? Da.

[LuvNewcastle]

115. Same as it ever was.

Russia has always had rule of the few over the serfs/proles. They’ve never had democracy and maybe they never will.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

127. Right on.

Its red to me. AND Soviet.

[Chemisse]

126. I laughed at Romney too.

Romney is not quite the 'Ken Doll' that I thought he was.

[Hekate]

128. Trump dangled Sec of State in front of him and made him crawl on his belly to Trump Tower...

...multiple times before the inauguration. By that time I realized Romney would not have put up with that exercise in humiliation if he didn't believe the stakes for the country were high.

Trump is disgusting.

[LiberalLovinLug]

123. Their President worked for the Communist KGB

as a high ranking foreign intelligence officer for 16 years during the end of the cold war.

All that time gathering intell and grooming greedy dotards in the West.

Is it a bit hyperbolic to connect the two? Putin's Russia then and Putin's Russia now? Maybe. But why not use whatever we can to embarrass these morans. Putin is just as evil. Just as hell bent on destroying Western democracy as he was working for the commies.

Do you not think the Trumpublicans would ever shy away from pouncing on that if things were reversed?

[Hekate]

129. This

[hibbing]

5. Ahhhh... The forgotten American white male

I'm sure they are pissed about all the things that the Democratic Party fought for and won for the average American and do not use or benefit from any of them.

Reminds me of my idiot brother in law who would rage about unions not realizing all the benefits he had at work were a direct result of Democratic legislation and unions.


Peace

[Garrett78]

13. And their economic anxiety.

[stopbush]

50. Bingo!

[appalachiablue]

94. A suggestion. No a plea!! "Use Brain"

https://theresistance.store/collections/make-america-think-again

[empedocles]

6. Future Democratic campaign ad stars?

Hmmmmmmmm

[keithbvadu2]

88. Fat lady in the tweet

Way more parking available than necessary.

Check with subject matter expert Little Marco.

[democratisphere]

7. drumpf's ICE will be more than happy to deport you

to your new homeland.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. I think Bill Maher nailed it Friday night

This warm embrace of the Russians is because they're WHITE. That's just how bad their racism is.

[deurbano]

63. White, plus: Christian, homophobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, patriarchal, etc..

They are basically completely intolerant of and threatened by social progress, diversity, multiculturalism, inclusiveness, science, compassion, knowledge, facts, truth... and so on. That's why the evangelicals love Putin now.

[smirkymonkey]

73. +1000

This. They see nothing wrong with an oppressive, autocratic society as long as white men are at the top of that miserable mass of oppressed human beings.

[bettyellen]

90. Actually they do love science and technology/ engineering. But yeah on everything else!

[deurbano]

97. I'm thinking about the science of climate change... and the science that implicates cigarettes in

cancer... and the science that says Jesus and dinosaurs were not contemporaries...and the science that finds kids of gay parents do at least as well as other kids... etc.. (Of course, they do embrace the "scientific" research results that come to the conclusions they've paid for.)

[bettyellen]

125. As a culture they are still big in science, engineering and technology. Shit they'd LOVE global

warming and selling more oil- that’s great business for them. But yeah, they’ve also got a deeply hetero-normative culture as well. It felt like the 50’s in a lot of ways when I was there.

I do think that has a lot to do with being socially cut off for so many years from the rest of the world, they’re backward socially ... but it’s not so much about denying science for the people as it is in what they get exposed to.

[BigmanPigman]

70. Ann Coulter is their spokesperson.

[uponit7771]

130. +1, KKKlanners feel Russia is the last nearly "pure" white bastion on Earth

[dalton99a]

9. I rest my case.

[Solly Mack]

10. And they thought that clever.

[Eliwieselshouse]

11. Just showing us....

How low they can go.

[Leghorn21]

12. Oh nice, "Proud Sweaty Russian Boys"!

ewwww!

[CrispyQ]

14. Be careful what you wish for.

I'll bet these two morons don't have a clue what the average Russian's life is like. Guess what guys, it's not as good as the average Democrat's life.

Russia Quality Of Life Indicators Worse Than China's
March 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/03/19/russia-quality-of-life-indicators-worse-than-chinas/#34286fa8571e

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Sure it has the Bolshoi and pristine Red Square with its luxury shopping at the Tsum. And yes, unlike New York and Sao Paulo and Mumbai, no one is asking you for food and spare change on every street corner. But when it comes to overall quality of life, Russia ranks lower than all of the big emerging markets. Even Mexico with its corruption and drug lords does better.

According to the big data cost of living number crunchers at Numbeo, Russia's biggest problems are weather; Moscow traffic that makes the 405 in Los Angeles and the Marginal in Sao Paulo seem tame; outrageous real estate prices in city centers, and pollution. Russia may be known for great culture, world-class great museums and home to one of the world's most charming cities in St. Petersburg, but its overall quality of life score is 86.27, putting it on par with its cultural rivals in Ukraine.

[ornotna]

15. Then they should give up their Social Security

That would show us.

[highplainsdem]

16. Chris Murphy: Good to know Trump now allows the Kremlin to be a vendor at his rallies.

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[highplainsdem]

17. Tom Nichols tweets about those t-shirts:

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[kimbutgar]

18. It's amazing the ugliness of them inside has oozed outside in their cretinous appearances

[Nay]

96. It is, isn't it? That's the first thing I thought. nt

[Vinca]

19. What fucking idiots.

[BSdetect]

20. We'd rather you were in Russia. All that blubber would keep you warm in winter.

[Sneederbunk]

21. Dumb and Dumber.

[edbermac]

22. Identified in this article.

https://www.cleveland.com/expo/news/erry-2018/08/e178a851af7984/heres-who-we-saw-at-donald-tru.html

[highplainsdem]

28. Thanks! They're identified as James Alicie and Richard M. Birchfield. More about them

from that article:

https://www.cleveland.com/expo/news/erry-2018/08/e178a851af7984/heres-who-we-saw-at-donald-tru.html

The two friends from the city of Delaware said they came out to the rally because they've never seen a president in person before. Asked about their shirts, Alicie (left) said he didn't understand why Trump is getting so much criticism about Russia when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama weren't similarly scrutinized. Asked what he would tell Democrats, Alicie said, "To jump on board this train and give him a chance."

Not only are they stupid enough to think the shirts make them look clever, they're stupid enough to think that sort of thing will convince Dems to "jump on board" the Trump train and give Trump "a chance."

[Different Drummer]

86. Won't convince me to give Gespott Despot a chance. n/t

[Quixote1818]

33. They all have that look of people in a Southern Baptist church, Amway convention or

some other multi level marketing type scam. I don't want to sound condescending but if I saw them on the street I would probably guess they weren't too sharp.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. The GOP has gone from "Rather be dead then Red" to this.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

25. There were French in '40 that said "Better Hitler than Blum"

They were later called "collaborators."

[DinahMoeHum]

79. . . .and they were dealt with rather severely. . .

. . .once de Gaulle, the Free French, and the Americans marched through Paris in the summer of 1944.

[Lifelong Protester]

26. So they don't use their Social Security? Medicare?

They didn't hide under their desks, fearing a soviet attack? They didn't spend time in a bomb shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

[moondust]

27. Halp! Commies!

I wonder if they know that their hero's hero would likely still be a Soviet spy chief or maybe even Soviet President/General Secretary of the Communist Party if his system hadn't collapsed.

[Different Drummer]

91. ...

[Elwood P Dowd]

29. So they prefer living in poverty to living in prosperity.

It's a proven fact that the economy is much better for the middle class and poor when Democrats are running the show. Just look at all the economic disasters the past 90 years, and every one of them happened under repuke leadership, including The Great Depression. Of course, these idiots are probably some of the 50+ percent of Trump voters that actually believe Obama caused the 2007-2008 economic crash and the terrible government response to Katrina in 2005.

[blueinredohio]

30. Hope someone posts who they are and where they live.

The rest will take care of itself.

[Polly Hennessey]

31. Okay, you get to be Russian

and I get to be a Democrat. Now, you need to know that no one cares about your problems, your plight, or your future.

[oasis]

32. Looking at that photo, I wonder what causes them to think that way.

It just came to me in a flash.

R-A-C-I-S-M

[3catwoman3]

34. Do they know they would have to give up...

...their precious guns?

I find all this Russia love completely puzzling.

[Takket]

35. I SO want to challenege these two dopes to a game of Jeopardy

Me vs both of them. They can pool their totals against mine alone. I will whoop their asses lol

[Different Drummer]

92. Their scores would be comparable to those of the contestants on SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy." n/t

[sheshe2]

36. Great!

Now go join Stephen Stegall in Russia. You two can become citizens as well. And don't let the door hit you in your ample asses on the way out.

[Boomerproud]

37. Sad! It just goes to show how damaged the Democratic brand has become because of the lies

perpetrated for the last 30 years. Just pathetic!

[Raven123]

38. Maybe they are. Need to alert the FBI

[CatMor]

39. They should feel free to go to Russia ......

and I'm thankful they're not Democrats.

[Mr. Ected]

40. And this is why Trump thinks appealing to his base is a winning strategy

His base doesn't understand the treasonous ramifications of what he's done, and even if they did, they have literally demonized liberals and Democrats so much and for so long that these fools have cosigned his treason.

[heaven05]

41. now this a prime example

of trumpdumb and yes I know they are racist. How? They voted for a racist. Even the one issue trumpdumb voters are racist. They knew he's racist and they voted for him anyway. No parsing, no exemption, no convoluted pretzel bending rationals, ALL voters for trump are racist and dumb. 30% of the Amerikan population is racist and dumb for sure. Don't like it, don't care.

[eShirl]

42. I'd rather be an American than a Republican!

[workinclasszero]

43. Fucking traitors!

This is the republican party folks, dirty damn traitors!

[Initech]

44. You spelled it wrong, guys. It's spelled "democratic".

And if you want to move to Russia, the door is that way. We won't stop you!

[Donkees]

45. The pursuit of happiness...

Published on Jul 2, 2010
The Declaration of Independence scene from Moscow on the Hudson.

[TEB]

46. Trump Mensa members

[malaise]

47. Then migrate to Russia

Fuck them

[NCjack]

52. I'll contribute to travel tickets to relocate Trumpsters to Russia. nt

[milestogo]

48. They will be.

[workinclasszero]

49. Wow look at all that economic insecurity

I'm supposed to be civil to fucking republican traitors like these shit stains???????????

[highplainsdem]

51. Jeet Heer thread on what those shirts say about the GOP

starting with this tweet:

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[bluestarone]

53. Good-fucking-bye!!!!

You two are PERFECT RUSSIANS in my book

[dawg]

54. They'd better watch what they say, that donkey looks majorly pumped-up!

He might be a blue Democrat, but he's taking 'em straight to the gun show on that shirt.

[Ilsa]

55. They should purchase from this link:

https://www.rosettastone.com/lp/ppc/sale/?lang=rus&cid=se-br-gg-sale&iv_=__iv_p_1_a_15481_g_36919911576_c_220174959962_k_rosetta stone russian_m_e_w_kwd-94032536_n_g_d_t_v__l__t__r_1t1_x__y__f__o__z__i__j__s__e__h_9010769_ii__vi__&gclid=CjwKCAjwwJrbBRAoEiwAGA1B_SuJhHG_ZupPELVSJfqdfpyniDorKdmo4S4CxApUEheVIhV5IGF2ERoCnQwQAvD_BwE

[leftyladyfrommo]

56. They need to go to Russia and live for a couple of

months. I don't think they would like it very much. A lot of the housing conditions are really poor, everything is more than anyone can afford and the winters are awful.

[eShirl]

57. Then stop standing around like a bunch of idiots and go.

[lame54]

58. Better Dem than Red

[lame54]

59. You gotta be Putin me on

[GusBob]

60. Trump ain't the problem y'all

He just the symptom

These folks are the disease

We need to stop spreading their virus

[Cha]

61. Then Get your MFselves to Russia.. this is OUR

Country. WE ARE THE PATRIOTS, STUPID.

[Honeycombe8]

62. That explains a lot. They even look Russian. They aren't Americans, any more. nt

[Mc Mike]

64. I'll bet. You treasonous turds.

[Botany]

65. Real Patriots

Russia is the same country that is making the weapons that al Qaeda is using to kill Americans in Afghanistan and made the weapons to killed Americans in Korea and Vietnam too. Russia has also hacked into our banks and power grid too.

[WinstonSmith4740]

66. Actually, that Democratic Donkey looks pretty buff.

He's totally ready for a fight. And who wants to bet neither of these Viet Nam era folks ever served?

[Hekate]

68. Whatever happened to "Better dead than Red"? Kee-riste these people are stupid. nt

[stevenleser]

69. None dare call it... well, heck with that, I'm calling it supporting treason. Or at least sedition.

Trump committed at least sedition and perhaps treason and these two guys are definitively indicating their support for that.

[OldManTarHeel]

71. Amazing How Stoopid Some Folks Can Be . .

Just so sad what right wing America has become . .

[C Moon]

72. I would bet they are racists on top of everything else.

[shanny]

74. Hand 'em some plane tickets...

after we tell 'em they have to surrender their gunz.

[DinahMoeHum]

84. Preferably one-way boarding passes.

n/t

[Butterflylady]

75. Maybe they are russians.

That shirt days it all. I think their names should be printed in their local paper so their mail can be addressed to: Comrade whatever instead of Mr. Whatever. Also send them a schedule for the next flight to Russia.

[GWC58]

76. Wow!

I have no words, none!

[keithbvadu2]

78. Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag - "Russia is our friend" - newer republican meme.

Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag

"Russia is our friend" - newer republican meme.

"... retired Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis said in May 2015 that among world threats “in the near term, I think the most dangerous might be Russia.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/6/donald-trump-james-mattis-differ-on-vladimir-putin/

[dlk]

81. Let's Start a Caravan & Give Them Rides to the Airport

Life in Russia would be the comeuppance they deserve.

[DinahMoeHum]

83. How fuckingly PATHETIC is that ???

From "Better Dead Than Red" to "I'd Rather Be a Russian Than A Democrat"

Wow.

I know a few refugees from old Communist regimes who would like a word with these folks.

[struggle4progress]

85. It's Benedict Donald's gang!

[BHDem53]

87. Two more stable geniuses.

Hop on the first Aeroflot for Moscow. You won't be missed.

[cp]

89. That can be arranged

Guessing they probably don't know what life in Russia is like for most Russians.

[erlewyne]

93. May your wishes come true!

I don't want you in my party!

[Hekate]

99. Poor old Barry Goldwater must be spinning in his grave

[area51]

117. As is

Joe McCarthy

[Hekate]

118. Meh. In his case, he deserves his spot in Hell, tho this may add to his torment. nt

[Bengus81]

121. Saint Ronnie must be spinning in his grave................

"President Ronald Reagan makes a joking but controversial off-the-cuff remark about bombing Russia while testing a microphone before a scheduled radio address. While warming up for the speech, Reagan said “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”

That was 1984..........

[JI7]

119. Barry Goldwater was already turned off by the Republican Party in his Later Years

i don't think he would be surprised at all .

[Turbineguy]

100. Love it or leave it!

Some nice stats for them:

https://blogs.elenasmodels.com/en/average-monthly-income-russia-wages-

[greatauntoftriplets]

102. I bet they've never been out of the country.

Eejits.

[pstokely]

116. maybe not even Ohio

maybe not even very far from their birthplace

[PuraVidaDreamin]

103. Get a brain

[Scurrilous]

104. LOL

Like Russia would want them.

[JDC]

105. Trash. I look forward to buying their assets when they go broke

I'm not heartless, I'll throw in bus fare to the airport so they can catch their 1-way to Moscow.

[matt819]

106. And it wasn't all that many years ago

That these same idiots would be claiming “better dead than red”.

And I’ll respond to them now the way they yelled at liberals/Commies in the 1960s. If you love communism so much, go to Russia.

[Luciferous]

107. Traitors!

[Grasswire2]

109. Hey kids....this thread got a mention over on Seth Abramson's twitter feed.

It's linked in an article he tweeted about. https://www.inquisitr.com/5016966/twitter-responds-donald-trump-fans-rather-be-russian-than-democrats/

[highplainsdem]

131. Great! Thanks for letting us know!

[Brother Buzz]

111. One Hell of a market research department you got there, Bubba

[TeamPooka]

112. Ronald Reagan himself would slap the shit out of those wanna-be traitors.

[dalton99a]

114. +1

[Number9Dream]

120. General Patton would tear off those shirts with his bare hands

... and make them eat them. These two a-holes probably think that Gen. Patton was awesome, but couldn't imagine Gen. Patton tearing off those shirts with his bare hands.

[irisblue]

124. These fools are going to vote. We have to overwhelm them with GOTV for Danny O'Connor

Gabriel Mann (@OhioGabe) Tweeted:
Come on, Ohio. We're better than these guys. #OH12 #FlipThe12th https://t.co/2Nh6EnfIHU

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