"Christian" family moves to Russia to escape LGBTQ, and now can't wait to leave their living hell

[RandySF]

The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of eight had just about enough of the gay people existing in his country. “We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore. There's a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans, just a lot of things that we don't agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children.”

Yeah, if there’s one place that’s just not safe for kids, it’s Canada. Russia would be sooo much safer.

So mom and dad sold everything they had to move to sunny Russia to raise their kids in “orthodox” values. They also gladly took donations on their social media platform from fellow right-wingers so they could live in Putin’s wonderland. They did all of this just three weeks ago, and Russian officials assured them that they would work with them to get them established, and even help them get a farm. Long story short, they lived happily ever after.

Except they didn’t.

First off, the Russian bank where they moved their funds immediately froze their assets. The amount of money seemed suspicious, as I guess it would since most Russians outside of Putin’s circle are dirt poor. As a result, the family doesn’t have money to live on, and those nice Russian officials disappeared.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224293/--Christian-family-moves-to-Russia-to-escape-LGBTQ-and-now-can-t-get-out-of-their-living-hell

[vercetti2021]

1. Imagine being so afraid of the gays

That you throw away your entire livelihood and money away to run to a fucking authoritarian country. They should like it!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

25. crazy!! and i bet they have never been harmed by a gay person EVER.

[viva la]

71. They should realize that if they have 8 kids...

Odds are at least one is gay.

[dai13sy]

111. For Sure

And you can bet that kid lives in the middle of hell every day. If you're a bigot, Karma will own you. Unfortunately, the people you drag along for the ride, like your children, pay too. Cruel beyond words.

[dai13sy]

114. They say they're Christians

They don't know the meaning of that word. That word should never touch their lips. That makes them hypocrites.

[Mariana]

175. Of course they can't possibly be Christians.

Only non-Christians would ever act like that. Right?

[quakerboy]

121. Why do you think they went to russia

[Maraya1969]

156. Because Trump loves Russia and they love Trump.

[tom_kelly]

89. I believe he's running away from his homosexuality instead of Canada

[Katcat]

105. Probably

Seems to be what is usually happening with these rabid anti-gay fools.

[ShazzieB]

145. That, and a few other things.

As the sp-called patriarch said: “We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore. There's a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans, just a lot of things that we don't agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children.”

Because evidently "left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans," and other things that they don't agree with are very, very dangerous! 😱 /s

[leftyladyfrommo]

129. Imagine being that stupid! Had they not

read anything about Life in Russia. It's not a secret. There are even tours of Russian apartments on Youtube.

[usaf-vet]

134. It's wonderful according to Tucker Carlson. Formally of Faux news. Where every report is tainted with lies.

Tucker went shopping in "a wonderful supermarket." He spent $107 dollars for meals for a week. Raved about the cost, EXCEPT the average Russian makes $200 per week. Note: the report didn't make clear if the money was American or Russian.

But if you lie, who cares? Maybe it was all the false reporting that was responsible for convincing the family of eight to jump in both feet.

[Escurumbele]

151. No one has told them that THERE ARE GAYS IN RUSSIA TOO?

A guy I knew was as racists as anyone can be...well ok, like trump and the republicans, and all he did was talk crap about black people all day. His two daughters married black guys...Is that Karma or what?

[SergeStorms]

159. Not according to Putin.

They're not allowed. 🙄

They're not tolerated in Russia. Oh, they exist, but they're so hidden in their closets they don't dare utter a syllable in their defense. Russia is like that. Dissent will not be tolerated.

I hope he doesn't have any complaints about anything because complaints aren't tolerated either. They don't tolerate much in Russia, except following the prescribed dictatorial orders, that is.

I hope this small-minded bigot likes all of the alcoholics which will be such a fine example for his children to follow. Alcoholism is rampant in Russia, because everything is so bleak and hopeless for the vast majority in Russia.

I'm sure they'll have a wonderful life in their newfound utopia. 💩

[Prairie Gates]

2. Oswaldesque

Put him on the no-mail-order-rifles list.

[dalton99a]

3. Idiots

[Pas-de-Calais]

22. That baby's expression says it all

Can you believe these 2?

[flashman13]

90. Before I read this reply I thought to myself that even the baby looks sad.

[hlthe2b]

36. I feel for the kids. Those two parents don't look like they have an IQ point between them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. Kid on left looks malnourished: puffy face but matchstick arms; lot of white bread probably. . . nt

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

73. They pass it back and forth when the other needs it

[XanaDUer2]

55. He's young enough to be drafted.

[Rebl2]

66. Maybe oldest

child too.

[XanaDUer2]

69. He's signed his death warrant

He has no clue what he's done, though maybe he's finding out quickly. His wife better shut up before she falls out a window. The kids will be sent to orphanages, unless one is lucky enough to be adopted by a wealthy Russian family.

This story is very disturbing.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

79. You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West

You know. Morons.

[Lochloosa]

91. Gene Wilder would be proud of you.

[sdfernando]

119. LOL! I just watched Blazing Saddles

for the umpteenth time on Sunday night.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

122. Is that a cheap shot at farmers or at magas? Farmers are "simple"?

[Kali]

161. ...

[Abolishinist]

171. That scene always cracks me up,

almost as much as it did Cleavon Little.

He was not warned of the "you know, morons" line, and you really get this sense of Gene Wilder knowing that he's going to get to him with this ad lib, you can see it in is eyes, which of course he did. Priceless!

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

184. You have to replay it over and over and focus on Cleavon and then Gene

Watch only one actors face the whole time. It like doubles the fun of it when you rewatch normally after. Do the same with Peter Bull vainly trying to not react to Peter Seller's antics in Dr Strangelove. Those are nice easter eggs to perk up a movie you've grown tired of watching. Look elsewhere than the focus at the moment.

[Pepsidog]

83. Send his ass to the frontlines of the war.

[skypilot]

148. The son in the brown t-shirt...

...looks as though this is the absolute worst day of his life.

[LonePirate]

4. I know I should not laugh at their misfortune because children are impacted but the parents deserve such a fate.

I only wish this was receiving more coverage from the mainstream media so right wingers in this country can see what life is really like in Russia for western immigrants.

[TheKentuckian]

51. No, let them go

Let them all go.

We are better off without them and Russia is weaker with them.

Promote Russia as the right wing heaven on Earth.

[LonePirate]

60. I suspect many of them and maybe even this Canadian father will be drafted into Russia's war against Ukraine.

The Canadian and many of those former Americans would want not part of that. Oh well.

[MustLoveBeagles]

92. I'm saving my pity for the children

They had no say in this.

[Initech]

5. Well they're the ones that chose to consume the propaganda.

[Blue Owl]

6. Who ya gonna believe -- them or Tucker Carlson?

[Cha]

8. Tough Choice but I'm gonna Go

with the ones who are Not Putin's little paid puppet Stooges.

[Blue Owl]

9. As always, Cha has chosen wisely......

[Cha]

11. LOL... gotta go

with my gut.

Blue Owl

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

74. I'd go with my gut but I'm lactose intolerant

So that strong feeling just might be lunch's grilled cheese and tomato soup.

[keithbvadu2]

101. Tucker can take them to the grocery store.

[Cha]

7. GD the Stupid BURNS.

[Think. Again.]

10. From the original article...

Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: “I’ll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don’t know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don’t get everything they want.”

[tulipsandroses]

12. Lol, I'm willing to make that bet

I laughed. Sorry for the kids, but their parents are bigoted idiots

[PurgedVoter]

13. We are not sending Russia our best,

At least they haven't put the children in cages yet.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Did they expect to ind a "Christian" community there?

Back in the '80s when I visited the USSR with my grandmother and her peace group, the only ones who actually attended churches were the WWII generation. The churches we visited were treated mostly as museums and tourist attractions and they contained a lot of the riches that inspired the Russian Revolution.

[meadowlander]

136. The church is actively suppressed in communist countries

as belief in religion is contrary to the doctrine of glorious revolution where the workers throw off the bonds of repressive institutions including the church (religion is the opiate of the masses, etc). So he's moved to a country with a 90 year history of actively suppressing religion hoping to find a Christian paradise. D'oh.

And yes, Russia isn't a communist country any more but culturally it is still working through the repercussions of church attendance being effectively banned for generations.

As a side note, when I taught in China our school threw a Halloween party where all the teachers had to dress up and lead activities. I went as a fortune teller and was later told off by the school because fortune telling is illegal in China as something that promotes superstition.

So yeah, wake up and taste the freedom!

[Rhiannon12866]

146. When I was in the USSR, one of our favorite guides admitted she had been brought up in the Church as if she was ashamed

And, as I said, there were so many churches, furnished with so much gold, but they mainly served as museums and tourist venues - including St. Basil's (which we couldn't visit since there was work being done on it at the time), but we saw it at the foot of The Kremlin.

And we were there in September, the first day of school, and we saw young students and their parents visiting there since it was a tradition for children to have their pictures taken next to St. Basil's to mark the start of the school year, at least that's what we were told.

And when I saw all that gold, both in churches and museums (the Armory in the Kremlin), I began to understand what sparked te Russian Revolution.

[hunter]

178. Putin has cynically embraced the Russian Orthodox Church...

... similar to the way our Republicans have embraced our own "conservative" Christians.

In exchange for a few crumbs these religious fools will support leaders like Putin or Trump and claim they were chosen by god.

[Rhiannon12866]

179. That's certainly a turnaround since I was there, but it's another sign that TFG is "following" Putin's example

Actually, Stephanie Ruhle's panel is discussing it right now - "Wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross"

[William769]

15. This is Gods way of showing her ill-informed flock the error of thier ways.

[edisdead]

47. I believe

I believe this is horrible people doing horrible things to horrible parents that were stupid enough to believe in a god (could stop here) that wanted them to hate gay people.

I think if my spouse ever said to me “Life could be better in Russia”, it might be time to start talking to mental health professionals or divorce attorneys.

[Bev54]

116. Well Tucker Carlson did his little tour here in Canada recently and there were certainly enough stupids to attend.

[Demobrat]

16. I don't feel sorry for the kids.

They are receiving an education that’s worth its weight in gold. Assuming nobody is imprisoned and the family makes it out alive, of course.

[Silent3]

19. Only the older kids will understand what they've lost

Those parents were, of course, going to be working hard on fucking up the minds of their kids no matter where they were living.

The kids probably have had a better chance to escape their parents' indoctrination in Canada, although maybe, just maybe, the older kids will see what fuck-ups their parents are and learn something from that.

[Roy Rolling]

17. Yeah, but...

As Pee Wee Herman famously said in “PeeWee’s Big Adventure”, there’s always a big butt.

The family is no longer pestered by LGBQT Americans.

The lengths some people will go to make them and their families miserable fucks like them.

[Demobrat]

18. I would love to see a follow-up to this story.

Once they’re back they’ll be whining about how good the immigrants have it in Canada.

[RainCaster]

20. in five years

They need to let this story age properly first. This patriarch needs to really learn about what he walked away from. That comes with lots of time.

[Demobrat]

21. He was free to leave Canada.

He’s not free to leave Russia.
He was free to criticize the Canadian government.
He’s not free to criticize the Russian government.
He’s learned that much already.
What an idiot.

[NJCher]

29. On the interview posted above

He slips up. He says “the government is interested—or tells us—they’re interested in working with farmers.”

[Demobrat]

34. Oopsie

Not sure why, but I have a funny feeling this will not end well for them. If they leave it’s like saying Russia was not all it was cracked up to be. Will the Russians allow that? Hmmmm

And then there’s the small matter of Putin’s need for cannon fodder.

How long will it take before they are begging Trudeau for help? There should be a pool.

[Hugin]

46. I see a new TLC series forming out of this. n/t

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

78. Got a theme song already!

Canadian Idiot by Weird Al

I'd post a link to a vid but apparently that doesn't work here even when using the link button. All I get it 'link:'

[Abolishinist]

163. Here you go...

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

183. thanks!

It would be awesome to see Green Day sing that! They dance in bunny costumes on stage, they'd be fine with self-parody.

[ShazzieB]

149. Would it make any difference (from a PR standpoint, at least)...

... that these people are foreign nationals/citizens of Canada (a NATO country, incidentally)?

I would think Putin might take that into account when deciding how to dispose of deal with them. Appearances and all that.

[Attilatheblond]

75. Possibly also learned Canadian banks are regulated

where as rules don't apply to rich Russians who own banks and got rich from stealing from regular Russians.

[Bev54]

118. Oh yes and I will guarantee he bad mouthed Trudeau endlessly, that is what they all do.

They do not understand that is our freedom that allows him to do so.

[Pas-de-Calais]

23. Fools

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

24. tiny violin

[Wonder Why]

106. playing "My Heart Bleeds For Thee" page 642 of the Funamentalist Hymnal.

[Aussie105]

26. Sometimes people focus on what they are running away from.

And don't see what they are running towards.

The idyllic Russia they created in their imagination wasn't the Russia they found once they got there.

[SWBTATTReg]

32. How true. Wise words, indeed.

[Marthe48]

70. None of the international students I met

from russia wanted to go home. And their parents were okay with that. I only met a few, but their negative opinion was 100%.

[malaise]

27. Effin idiots

That is all

[claudette]

28. This may sound

harsh, but I say "Good!" For any sane person to think living under Putin's Russia would be better than Canada is absolutely insane.

[Sky Jewels]

94. Buh, buh, they hadta escape Teh Gays!!!

Teh Gays are a huge menace!!! No one is safe from them!!! Run away, run away!!!

[claudette]

97. LOL

[NJCher]

30. He brought all those little farmhands 'n everything

Now he just needs a farm. 😭

[GoodRaisin]

31. "To escape LGBTQ"?

What, were they hiding in his bushes? What a stupid fucking reason to move to Russia. If they were really that damned frightened of “LGBTQ” they didn’t need to travel any further than South Dakota.

[betsuni]

33. Move in with Edward Snowden or Tara Reade.

[Raine]

35. Christians who think they will be a good fit in a Communist Atheist

country is totally crazy.

[Captain Zero]

37. what do they think of their new doctor in Russia ?hope they get asked

nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Get real. Russia is neither communist nor atheist

Russia is right wing authoritarian: A dictator rules with oligarchs over an oppressed people who are encouraged to be Russian Orthodox "christian" as almost a state religion, promulgated by Putin's showy appearances at churches and very public alliance with the head of the Russian Orthodox church.

Your post is totally ... something.

[Eugene]

52. Communism is long gone in Russia. The American right sees Putin as a White Christian king.

These people are learning the hard way the post-Soviet Russia
is a mafia state and a kleptocracy.

[Takket]

38. I feel bad for these kids. This is abuse.

Their lives are upended. They have lost all their friends. They are being taught things that will make them unable to function as adults.

Poetic justice would be for the dad to be conscripted and sent to fight in Ukraine. That’s what he deserves. You want the life of a Russian man? Into Putin’s meat grinder with you. THAT is the life of a Russian man in this regime.

And stop whining about losing your money. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

[ecstatic]

44. Not to mention, what if one of the kids is gay?

That could be the real reason behind the move. What a cruel and heartless decision by those parents.

[Takket]

48. I hate to say it but it is the honest truth

If one of the kids is gay either the parents will kill them or they will so deeply Shame them that the kid will eventually commit suicide. And in Russia there is nowhere to run.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

80. I would reject God before I'd reject one of my children

Fuck that guy

[meadowlander]

135. With 9 of them it's a strong statistical probability.

[XanaDUer2]

57. He'll be going into the military

He's young. Big big mistake.

[Conjuay]

41. So they're so afraid of homosexuality

They move their kids to one of the most alcohol obsessed countries in the world.
Kids... Out of place...no friends...guess what? Do you know what I see in their future?

[tanyev]

42. They just did this three weeks ago?

After seeing the hell Russia has inflicted on Ukraine? Did they even consider how all the sanctions on Russia has made life more difficult for ordinary Russians? Goodgawdinbutter, they're stupid.

[Attilatheblond]

76. Pretty sure Connect the Dots worksheets are WAY over their heads

[Seinan Sensei]

99. LOL ... that's funny. (But not funny.)

Knuckleheaded guy.
Sorry, not sorry.

[Justice matters.]

96. I am guessing these christofascist parents never saw the hell fuckinputin inflicted on Ukraine.

That's what ignoring "the real world news, facts, and reality" does to these idiots.

I bet they are Poilievre's supporters... or Eloon's followers...

They made their own kids victims of their abject ignorant stupidity.

[central scrutinizer]

107. They did their research

Probably the same sites they used to research covid vaccines

[ecstatic]

43. Aww. 🥺 🎻 And LOL @ the poll.

Which paradise country would you like to live that bans LGBTQ people?
North Korea
Uganda
Russia
Iran
Syria
Somalia
5170 Votes

Sending thoughts and prayers! 🤞🏽

It sounds like something from a horror movie. Conservative propaganda is really dangerous.

[yardwork]

64. I couldn't help but notice that those are the same countries complaining about Israel.

[Renew Deal]

45. And how that they went public, they will be locked up

Permanently

[MrsCheaplaugh]

49. I don't even think I need to say this,

but there's no fixing stupid.

[sinkingfeeling]

50. My guess is that they read this story in The New Republic:

https://newrepublic.com/post/172710/russia-build-safe-space-conservative-americans-move

Russia Wants to Build a Safe Space for Conservative Americans to Move To
The village would also be open to Canadian conservatives upset by the politics in their country.

State outlet RIA Novosti reported the news Thursday. Timur Beslangurov, a Russian immigration lawyer, said the village would harbor the likes of some “200 families [who] want to emigrate for ideological reasons.”

[Attilatheblond]

77. Next up: To Serve Man {Russian language edition}

but it's still a cookbook

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

152. LOL. Simpsons has hilarious parody of that Twilight Zone ep.

[Hotler]

53. Here's their chance to to be real missionary's, istead of the grocery store checkout line. nt

[Martin68]

54. Stupid idiots.

[sakabatou]

56. *sad trombone sound*

[Xavier Breath]

61. Or "annoyed grunt" for those Simpsons fans.

[PatSeg]

58. Whoa, that's a special kind of stupid

[Rebl2]

59. Will the older

kids be drafted into the military to fight Ukraine? What foolish people. Should have just moved to Floridah.

[LiberalFighter]

62. Make them stay there.

[yardwork]

63. I enjoyed reading this.

I wish more bigots would move to Russia.

[bdamomma]

164. Or Hungary

I'm sure Tucker will give Orban high marks. Tucker loves dictators.

[rurallib]

65. When will Tucker interview them?

[senseandsensibility]

124. Yeah, I'd settle for one story

even from a "leftwing" platform like MSNBC. It's certainly newsworthy.

[patphil]

67. The sad part is that they took their 9 children there.

I doubt their children will ever be acknowledged as anything but foreigners.
For the sake of their kids, I hope they're able to get back out.
Otherwise the parents will grow old watching their children live in poverty under a dictator, with far less freedom than from whence they came.
I can't believe they left Canada for Russia.
Classic stupidity!

[calimary]

100. NINE children...

OMG.

That poor mom! I remember this family we were friends with - before we moved to California. Six kids. And by the time #6 arrived, the mom was so thin and sickly that you never saw her dressed in anything but her bathrobe. I was really young then, but her frail condition actually bothered me, and made me wonder about the wear ‘n’ tear of all those pregnancies.

And I’d look at her husband who was fit as a fiddle and even back then I felt pissed off at him - hey dude, have you even bothered to notice that you’re literally fucking your poor wife to death?

[bdamomma]

166. The husband

just viewed his wife as a "baby maker".

[calimary]

170. Evidently.

Lots of signals that theirs was an old-fashioned household. Dad went off to work at his nice downtown office every day. Mom stayed home with a small army, and the housekeeping and carpool and meals and laundry and clean diapers and after-school snacks and other kids from the neighborhood and ...

No wonder her body started to rebel. I think I was 7 or 8, and that bothered me even back then. I couldn't help noticing.

[Demobrat]

186. He probably demanded

that he come home to a clean, quiet house and dinner on the table every night. Because, you know, he worked so hard.

I knew a family like that growing up. The dad was a cop. The mom rarely came out, and when she did she looked like a ghost. The kids used to brag about how tough they were because they got hit with belts and shoes.

[flying rabbit]

68. Dipshits. nt

[republianmushroom]

72. Leave them there.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

81. Does Canada have to take them back?

[progressoid]

82. I actually LOLed at this.

[we can do it]

88. Me too and I'm not sorry.😹

[Bluethroughu]

84. Christian values. Enjoy.

Poor kids have awful parents.

[Goodheart]

85. What bothers me most about this story is that stupid people tend to reproduce at a much higher rate

than the rational.

The children are cute. May they escape their dumbass parents.

[TheKentuckian]

172. That is part of why my hands don't get wrung much about the kids

Odds are very high they will also be jackass devils.

Not necessarily so of course.

Probably at least a couple will be really good people but the odds still swing in the favor of the rational and decent if the baby gets tossed with the bathwater.

[we can do it]

86. Still laughing at these idiots.

[tom_kelly]

87. He's doing a great job of making Jesus proud!

[Goodheart]

93. The story says those parents moved 8 of their 9 children to Russia.

Did they leave one behind because he/she is gay? Are they trying to "protect" their eight other children from the gayness that "infected" their oldest child?

[Demobrat]

140. Maybe the kid ran away.

If they did they are way smarter than their parents.

[jmowreader]

95. The strange part is...

…that they moved away from a relatively safe country because they didn’t want to be around people whose lifestyle they didn’t approve of even though they’d never have more than casual interaction with them…

to a country that is not only extremely dangerous, but one in which they’re completely helpless. Imagine they’d moved to Poland, which is as anti-gay as Russia is. Since the Polish language uses basically the same alphabet as English does - there are extra letters in it and a Polish Scrabble set has A LOT of Z’s in it, but the base 26 letters are the same - they could have at least read street signs and food labels. But Russia uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different. They can’t even buy a can of beans for dinner if there isn’t a picture of beans on the label.

[Ray Bruns]

98. "We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore "

They didn’t feel like their children would be safe in Canada. In Canada.

[ret5hd]

102. Well, there's also that "not-enough-guns" thing going on up there too...

Just imagine for yourself: You are surrounded by a gang of predatory child-grooming gays, maybe a drag queen or two among them, maybe even a trans...you can't tell, it's night!

One of them tells you your hair or skirt or shirt looks nice...you reach for your AR-15 AND IT'S NOT THERE!!!

What then? What exactly do you do then?

I don't know either...I just don't know. These are the things that keep me up at night.

[Ray Bruns]

115. Oh, the horror. The horror.

https://m.

[Mad_Machine76]

103. Well

they REALLY owned us!!!

[dai13sy]

104. Stupid Crazy

Why would anyone move to Russia on purpose or do you not listen to the news. And the fact that LGBTQ people scare you more than Putin is crazy, crazy, crazy. Pure and simple you people are BIGOTS. I'm glad you're not in the United States or Canada. Canada deserves so much better than you.

[keithbvadu2]

108. I'm sending them some republican thoughts and prayers.

[DFW]

109. We had two expressions in the South when I was growing up

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One was: "You made your bed, now sleep in it."

The other was: "oops."

They are probably now learning another expression: Чёрт возми! (CHORT voz-MEE). Literally, "the devil take it," but also colloquially translatable as, "oh shit!"

Assuming they have IQs that are higher than in single digits, HOW could they have so brainwashed as to do what they did? It's a good thing they weren't at Jonestown, or every one of them, children included, would have been dead by now.

[GenThePerservering]

110. The mom looks glassy-eyed

and the dad has resting asshole face.

But I don't really see any intelligence except for the baby, who looks exasperated.

[keithbvadu2]

112. Now that republicans love Mother Russia. New republican meme - "Russia is our friend".

Thanks to Comrades Trump and Mitch McConnell.

[Bev54]

113. I knew some Feenstra family who were dairy farmers when I was in Agriculture Banking.

So I thought maybe these were offspring, being from such a liberal province as BC. It turns out they are not but were dairy farmers in Saskatchewan, which is one of the most conservative provinces. So bad, so sad but I hope they don't come back.

[Bluejeans]

117. So a "Christian family" moves to an authoritarian and primarily atheistic country...

...and they're surprised things didn't turn out the way they planned?

As my Dad used to say, "you can help stupid people!"

[relayerbob]

120. Best hope Dad isn't rented out to the Army

They don’t give Ladas to foreigners

[Ferrets are Cool]

123. I love being able to laugh heartily at idiots.

[pfitz59]

125. I would be happy if all the Xian nutsacks

would follow their lead. Just remember our 'Pilgrims' were kicked out of Europe for religious extremism. I say send them all back!

[brush]

126. Russia? Russia? They picked Putin's Russia to move to?

Of all the countries in the world, Putin's Russia IMO would not be the place to go for a family from a liberal democracy like Canada.

First of all there's Putin and his dictatorship.

Secondly, Russia is waging an unjust war against another nation, meaning all sorts of negative things can happen at any time (like their money being frozen/stolen probably).

Thirdly, sanctions are already in play and more are to come because of Navalny's death.

There's the language thing, and a myriad of hundreds of other reasons to look elsewhere.

Not a smart move. What were they thinking.

[Kennah]

127. The gays orchestrated this

They pulled strings leading this family to move to Putinlandia. The horror, the horror.

[amuse bouche]

128. If only all the MAGAs would join them

[AllaN01Bear]

130. good riddance . dont let the door hit u in the rear end . if u get into trouble dont come

crawling to us .

[IcyPeas]

131. Dad says they dont have a TV. (In the video)

Also says he's been studying/ thinking about this for 10 years.

Mother and daughter sitting next to her are both wearing brown hats and drab clothes. Are they some branch of Christianity?

Mother didn't speak in the video.

Where would the kids go to school?

[JoseBalow]

132. Russia is a conservative utopia

I urge all conservatives to pack up and move to Russia to join their like-minded brethren!

[mn9driver]

133. Perhaps they were unclear about the definition of "Kleptocracy".

They are unlikely to see any of their money again. Aww.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

137. Wish all the republicans would move

To russia. Good riddance.they cant vote in our country anymore. They'll vote as they are told to over there.
Over there, outta our hair.

You republican bigot trash people have a sad
You made your choice comrade.live. with it.

[bdamomma]

169. Good idea

for all those who love Putin go ahead, be my guest. Neo Nazi's can go too. All Putin patriots in Congress can go too.

We don't need this, WE ARE THE MAJORITY!!!!!

[3auld6phart]

138. I've said

It before. We have our share of dim wits here. Dissatisfied creeps.it’s a shame the kids have to put up with that crap. Hopefully they will not inherit that mind set.

[dchill]

139. You don't say! Do tell!

[dawn5651]

141. all i am going to say to this is if the trudeau government helps these idiots leave russia

i for one will be reevaluating how i vote and support.

[mcar]

142. Wonder how many pro-Hamas types on the

Far left will also FAFO in this way.

[blueknight73]

143. I know I'm terrible

But I hope they are stuck there forever and have to toil at manual labor jobs the rest of their life.

[Demobrat]

144. And eat a lot of beet soup.

Me, I hope the wife and kids are able to leave and he gets conscripted into Putin’s army.

[turbinetree]

147. So when does the first kid become frontline war dog meat

[Demobrat]

150. They'll take the dad too.

He’s ambulatory. What else matters?

[turbinetree]

155. Hell they can donate the entire family......

nothing else will matter......

[Cha]

153. "Christian" family moves to Hell so they can get away from

GLBT and Meets Karman head ON.

[Johonny]

154. I feel like they moved to the right place

I'm sure it will all work out for them.

[twodogsbarking]

157. Sure a lot of heartwarming comments. Thanks folks.

[SergeStorms]

158. HAHA! 🤣

Do you mean to say they're not being supported by their new host country and their millions of christian church goers? I'm flabbergasted. No, no I'm not. Their "utopia" is still a hell-hole. I hope they enjoy not being able to get the basic necessities of life. I'm sure they will, as long as they don't have to put up with all of those gays and such. 🤨

Assholes.

[Upthevibe]

160. RandySF.............

Good Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard about this

[Pinback]

162. But Tucker sez the bread there is amazing!

And have you seen the opulent subway stations?

[soldierant]

165. On the off chance that they ever get into heaven,

they'll find it houses a significant percentage of LGBTQIA sols. I can only think of one place for them to want to move to then.

[Cne99999]

167. "Stupid is as stupid does"

Probably home schooled with no awareness of the real, current world.

Only my second post. Sorry, I had to respond to this no matter how negative my post is.

I'm just tired of this kind of ignorant inhabitant of this world. “Stupid is as stupid does”.

[3catwoman3]

168. This combination of stupidity and naivete defies description.

If people this inept had to think about breathing, they'd die before they could figure out what to do.

They should have taken these two assholes with them:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/404017-trump-supporters-whose-pro-russia-shirts-went-viral-were-not/

[Mr. Ected]

173. Sure wish Putin would make a generous offer to MAGA to take them in, give them religious freedom

Treat them well until enough of them had arrived, and then slam the door behind them, never to be heard from again.

This is what some Americans say they want: better to live under Putin than in America with Biden as our president. I would love for them to experience their dreams.

The lunacy can only be stemmed from within. They need to fuck around. They need to find out.

[UCmeNdc]

174. Idiots! But listen to the FOX News, Donald Trump voters. They are just as mis-informed and gullible.

Try to talk to a MAGA Republican. The dumb, idiotic things that they truly believe is unimaginable. It is like trying to reason with a rock.

[SunSeeker]

176. Their poor kids. This was child endangerement.

Who fucking takes their kids voluntarily to a dictatorship at war?

[Skittles]

177. it pains me to think of people like this raising kids

but it happens all the time

[JenniferJuniper]

180. I think this is a great idea,

I hope they convince many Magas and fundies to join them.

[Hassler]

181. I guess America's not the only country with Free-dummies

[Grown2Hate]

182. Someone more talented than I could

turn this into an Anti-Trump/Anti-Putin/Anti-Totalitarian commercial for democracy in November.

"You'd rather be Russian than a Democrat, huh?" type of thing? Just spitballing here.

[keithbvadu2]

185. Rather be Russian