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.

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

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But who’s gonna sell me silver???

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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

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What other use would Putin have for them?

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More specifically, Kursk

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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.

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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.

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

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

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This sentence…its awesumm

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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.

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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.

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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.

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“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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Is there a GoFuckThem that I can contribute to?

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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.

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