Hillary was right.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.” – Hillary Clinton. September 9th 2016. New York City.
April 15th. Lansing Michigan Statehouse. Trumpsters, some with assault rifles.[foto AFP]
Two fotos, Denver near Statehouse by Alyson McClaran on Sunday the 19th.
Two nurses on the frontline against the disease
Trump wanted America opened by Easter (April 12th). Officially, reluctantly, he had to take that back. The country, and the world have been taken aback by this corona virus plague. He has made it covfefe-19. It is not safe to go on as if it is gone; it is not. Trump spent weeks minimising the possible outcome. He likened it to a “hoax”. Now, he is foisting near daily propaganda rallies disguised as information briefings. He tells countless and ridiculous lies, insults people, attacks the press, expects to be praised, takes no responsibility, and now encourages his deplorables to feign attacking state governments to countermand his federal guidelines.
Who is this fascist rabble? The left over teabagger idiots with yellow, rattlesnake flags and trumpsters with extra large Trump flags. States with (mostly Democratic) governors that are taken things prudentially, and seriously have had co-ordinated motley mobs walk about and scream by statehouses and stop traffic [operation gridlock]. Some of these groups are being paid by ultra-conservative billionaires, and their surviving foundations (Koch Brothers, DeVoses, Coorses) [that's right, dead fascists are having their wills enacted]. They are egged on by radio mouthfoamers and charlatans, Fox network and the alt-right media, Facebook users, and Orange Caligula himself, who said on Friday, “These are people expressing their views … they seem to be very responsible people to me”. This compares to how well he referred to similar fascists in Charlottesville in August of 2017.
Other deplorables are racist neo-nazi street fighters (Proud Boys), gun nuts, anti-vaxers, so called “fundamentalist” religious extremists, militia groups, and other assorted racists and fascists–e.g. the anti-semite with this pre-printed sign that combines the Israeli flag, with a rat with the slogan, “the real plague”.
Columbus Ohio by the Statehouse. April 18th, foto by Laura Hancock.
Zombie trumpsters. foto taken by Josh Bickel from inside the Ohio Statehouse, April 13th.
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postscriptum: 9.17 p.m. 20 April 2020. On proof reading, i noticed, that the top quote had some other text attached to it. I type on this template while drafting, and sometimes the page resets, and skips while i am typing, which leads in garbled sentences with text from other places of the draft.
The very last picture looks just like the one taken during Bush v Gore, when you saw a mob of snarling republicans storming the office counting the ballots. My god such hate-filled white people. I weep. I also hope...Wonderful article by the way. Thank you!
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