Crazy Things Politicians Say: International Edition

[Rex Kwon Do]

About 90% of political discussion in the War Room is about the US. We all hear about it every time some Congressman from Podunk says something even mildly insensitive. In this thread, I'd like to hear some crazy things politicians from other countries say that would make "the female body has ways of shutting that down" look like much ado about nothing (if you don't already think it was).

Let's also avoid infamous dictators and their cronies, otherwise we'll end up with a thread filled with Hitler, Goebbels, Kim Jong-Il, Pol Pot, et. al. quotes.

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I'll start off with these three. First, Shintaro Ishihara, prize-winning author and former Governor of Tokyo. Per Wikipedia:

"In a 2001 interview [...] Ishihara said that he believed 'old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin.'"

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Next up is Ján Slota, a Slovak chauvinist who is no great fan of the Hungarian minority living mostly in southern Slovakia.

"Slota said that the country's ethnic Hungarian minority 'is a tumour in the body of the Slovak nation.'"

"He also said about Hungarians that 'Even in 1248 a Frankish bishop was amazed [...] that God could have given such a beautiful country to such ugly people. He was referring to the old Hungarians, who were Mongoloid types with crooked legs and even more disgusting horses. Somehow these people have vanished. Who civilized them? Probably us, the Slovaks'."

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I'd like to stick to living, relevant politicians, but I have to ignore my own guidelines to post some quotes from Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the now dead first President of independent Georgia. About Ossetians, an ethnic minority in Georgia, he said:

"the Ossetian people [are] 'trash that has to be swept out through a tunnel'."

He also said about non-Georgians in the Kakheti region, that "[Communists and ethnic minority traitors] should be chopped up, they should be burned out with a red-hot iron from the Georgian nation.... We will deal with all the traitors, hold all of them to proper account, and drive [out] all the evil enemies and non-Georgians...!"

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So, what do you guys have?

 

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[punky brewster]

Hank Johnson, U.S. Representative for Georgia's fourth congressional district:

In a discussion regarding a planned military buildup on the Pacific island of Guam, Johnson expressed some concerns about the plans to Adm. Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet.

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize"

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

Hank Johnson, U.S. Representative for Georgia's fourth congressional district:

In a discussion regarding a planned military buildup on the Pacific island of Guam, Johnson expressed some concerns about the plans to Adm. Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet.

"My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize"

Come on, son...

" In this thread, I'd like to hear some crazy things politicians from other countries"

I'm bored of US politicians. Their gaffes aren't as good as the calls for ethnic cleansing and implications that old ladies should kill themselves.

 

[punky brewster]

“Just because India achieved freedom at midnight does not mean that women can venture out after dark. They should ensure that they do not board buses with few passengers. The woman should have thought twice before boarding the suspicious private bus that night. Though the incident was condemnable, she should also have behaved keeping in mind the situation."

Indian politician Botsa Satyanarayana on the Delhi rape case, 201

 

[IDL]

"We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades"

Muammar Gaddafi

 

[punky brewster]

“A good wife doesn't disagree with her master in public and a good little girl doesn't lie about why she quit politics."

Labour MP Austin Mitchell, 2012

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

Oh this will be a good thread. You will find gold if you start looking at Africa, or Asia. And you will find gold among many in Eastern Europe and all over South America.

The funniest/nuttiest ones are by far those said by religious ideological extremists and those with ethno-supremacist/racial views. You have less racial extremists in the South America given the fact that its basically half white, half mestizo. Less deep ties to land etc.

 

[IDL]

"Nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single global authority... All countries are basically social arrangements... No matter how permanent or even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary... Perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all... But it has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible century to clinch the case for world government.”

Strobe Talbott, Rhodes Scholar, roommate of Bill Clinton at Oxford University, CFR Director and Trilateralist (and appointed Deputy Secretary of State by President Clinton)

Published in TIME magazine July 20, 1992

 

[goldennirvana]

all states will recognize a single global authority...

I wonder which authority that will be.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

"Smells like fish, tastes like chicken, hold your nose and keep on licking" - Mikhail Gorbachev

 

[Thames]

Well I can start in my own country. Politicians from our second biggest party- The Danish Peoples Party (nationalist right wing) - has produced plenty of gems throughout the years.

Mogens Glistrup:
"Of course I'm a racist - every good dane is. You're either a racist, or you're a traitor"

On the subject of muslim immigrants (he called them "muhammed-danes"):

"They get 3 months to leave our country. And if they have not left, then they have to be caught and placed in camps, like we had for refugees back in the day, and then simply place them in competitive bidding, with those who wants to pay the most for them. For example Uruguay says: " We want 6.000 "Muhammed-danish" girls in the age 12 to 20 years, and we would pay 5 million for it", yes, then those 5 million goes down in the danish treasury, right? "

"I'm for outsourcing of the "muhammed-danes". Like with trash to the third world".

Mogens Camre:
"The german soldiers in our streets behaved better than the muslim boys. Far better. The soldiers were disciplined, young, german boys"

"Muslims continue where Hitler stopped. Only the treatment Hitler received, will change the situation"

Søren Espersen:
On the subject of Denmark needing to apologise to the descendants of slaves from the Danish West Indies:

"They are in the advantageous position, that they have grown up in the USA with an american passport, in a free and rich society. The alternative had been to grow up in Ghana in some kind of decrepit hut"

Now, the Danish Peoples party have gone more PC in the later years, and they have moved the crazies more to the backstage. But the current leadership was nutured and raised by Mogens Glistrup.

 

[PrinceOfPain]

South Africa's president trying to say a big number:


South Africa's president singing about gunning down a white minority with machine guns:


South Africa's president explaining how all the other continent's put together could fit into Africa because Africa is the biggest continent:


If I sometimes come across as grouchy, try and remember what I have to put up with as a president.

 

[Rusk]

well fuck Gamsakhurdia, ossetians are no longer in Georgia now, he must be happy in his hell

 

[IDL]

I wonder which authority that will be.

Surely it will be a group of humanitarians

 

[IDL]

"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas."


- Brock Chisholm

Director General of the WHO from 1948 to 1953
President of the World Federation of Mental Health (1957–58)
Made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967
Marxist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Chisholm

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

Mogens Glistrup:
"Of course I'm a racist - every good dane is. You're either a racist, or you're a traitor"

"I'm for outsourcing of the "muhammed-danes". Like with trash to the third world".

Was pretty shocked to hear this coming from a wealthy Western European country until I read he was born in 1928. Then it all made sense.

"[H]e praised tax frauds as the freedom fighters of our time" - lol!

"[he made a] suggestion to replace the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an answering machine saying in Russian that Denmark surrenders."

South Africa's president singing about gunning down a white minority with machine guns:

LOL holy shit. Makes Obama's pandering to a hate group like BLM look extremely tame by comparison.

South Africa's president explaining how all the other continent's put together could fit into Africa because Africa is the biggest continent:

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

well fuck Gamsakhurdia, ossetians are no longer in Georgia now, he must be happy in his hell

 

[Bald1]

I just had to look up Slota and that guy is awesome. Lol. Typical central European nationalist.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

I just had to look up Slota and that guy is awesome. Lol. Typical central European nationalist.

Lol did not expect the War Room's resident Hungarian to describe him as awesome...

"Slovaks are probably genetically stupid."

- Ján Slota, leader of the far-right Real Slovak National Party (PSNS), after his party failed to gain enough votes to enter parliament, while the ethnic Hungarian SMK party won a record 11.16 per cent result and will be part of the next government.