Putin admirer Donald Trump attacks the Lügenpresse

What do Donald Trump and Sahra Wagenknecht have in common?  Both are huge fans of Vladimir Putin and both hate the free press in their respective countries.  Deep down, they admire Putin for the way he has silenced all dissent in Russia, even going so far as having his thugs murder journalists.  Trump- rather reluctantly - admits that he would not kill reporters.  Much as he would like to:

While addressing Russian president Vladimir Putin’s endorsement of him as a candidate for president at a rally in Michigan on Monday, Trump was asked whether he approved of Putin’s governing strategy, which allegedly involves silencing journalists with death. Trump, ever the gentle breeze, said that he “would never” kill a journalist—a sign that perhaps Trump is not the great and terrible tyrant we had all feared he’d be.

“I would never kill them, I would never do that... but I do hate them, and some of them are such lying, disgusting people.

"By the way, I hate some of these people - but I'd never kill them ..." @realDonaldTrump tells crowd RE reporters https://t.co/yjAKKxjVB3

— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) December 22, 2015

Wikipedia has a complete list of Russian journalists murdered for investigating the total corruption of Putin's Kleptocracy.

October 2006

Anna Politkovskaya (pictured, right), author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow. In her book Putin’s Russia, Politkovskaya had written: “I have wondered a great deal why I have so got it in for Putin. What is it that makes me dislike him so much as to feel moved to write a book about him? I am not one of his political opponents or rivals, just a woman living in Russia. Quite simply, I am a 45-year-old Muscovite who observed the Soviet Union at its most disgraceful in the 1970s and ’80s. I really don’t want to find myself back there again.” Analysts begin to talk openly of Kremlin complicity in the ongoing string of attacks. Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum writes: “Local businessmen had no motivation to kill her — but officials of the army, the police and even the Kremlin did. Whereas local thieves might have tried to cover their tracks, Politkovskaya’s assassin, like so many Russian assassins, did not seem to fear the law. There are jitters already: A few hours after news of Politkovskaya’s death became public, a worried friend sent me a link to an eerie Russian Web site that displays photographs of ‘enemies of the people’ — all Russian journalists and human rights activists, some quite well known. Above the pictures is each person’s birth date and a blank space where, it is implied, the dates of their deaths will soon be marked. That sort of thing will make many, and probably most, Russians think twice before criticizing the Kremlin about anything.”

Comments

[koogleschreiber]

Never forget this:
http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/

Obama lied he will...
...protect whistleblowers, but then Obama has sentenced whistleblowers to 31 times the jail time of all prior U.S. presidents COMBINED.

... restore the American people's trust in their government by making government more open and transparent, but then he backed mass surveillance on the American people. Obama idea of transparent government also includes secret courts, gag oders for those receiving "National Security Letters" (which do not require prior approval from a judge).

I really don't understand why one should be afraid of that clown Donald Trump. Could he be worse than Obama? If that was true, I can't help but say you deserve it. You willingly give up all of your privacy, you willingly accept a superstasi that has selector lists for every citizen and that collects and analyses every information of every citizen. So what? Are you afraid that someone may come and take advantage of these conditions usually reserved for dictatorships? Too funny, too late.

Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht:
https://youtu.be/SlEOlwt3XbE

Happy New Year.

[David]

"I really don't understand why one should be afraid of that clown Donald Trump. Could he be worse than Obama?"

Yes

[James]

"I really don't understand why one should be afraid of that clown Donald Trump. Could he be worse than Obama?"

Yes

That would be pretty bad.

[Zyme]

But him winning isnt likely anyway is it. How could he win in a country with a populace undermined by the very immigrants he is seeking to take a tougher stance on?

Let's just enjoy the show in case he is nominated. It sure won't be boring.

For a time his effect might be similar to the AfD in Germany: Not likely to win, but prone to wake up the political class to the requirements of the original populace.

[David]

@Zyme,

I can't enjoy the show anymore. At first, I admit, Trump was entertaining. But now he has unleashed an ugly force in America - driven by fear,resentment and racism. Not sure how we can put that genie back in the bottle.

Not unlike what Pegida has done in Saxony.

[Zyme]

I can see people like him winning more and more countries in Europe (which as you know does not bother me the least).

However there is no need for you to get hysterical concerning the USA, given its heterogeneous population, I would say. If you think differently I would love to read why!