Sunday, December 13, 2020

The Brownshirts Go To Washington.

AndThenTheyCameForWe
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And we're not just talking about an apparently unauthorized wink, wink, nudge, nudgeian trips to the White House:

The leader of far-right group, the Proud Boys, visited the White House on Saturday, the same day that thousands of the president’s supporters rallied in DC to protest the Supreme Court’s decision to toss out Republicans’ latest election challenge.

“Last minute invite to an undisclosed location,” Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio posted on Parler, the conservative alternative to Twitter. “Wow… I’m in awe. #Trump2020.”...



Why?

Because the brownshirts also did their (real) thing on the streets of Washington yesterday. 

The following is a transcript from Hannah Allam's report on NPR this morning:

"...Later the same day (after Tarrio's visit to the White House) I saw his supporters corner and beat two young black men..."


Which, of course, is a very different thing, indeed, from painting obscenities on their butts  and flashing them for the click-bait-driven cameras (no link - on purpose).

But all still part of the same game.

OK?


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7 comments:

Lew said...

It will get worse. The country has been doused in gasoline and Donny is playing with matches.

The matches people like Cruz, Paul, and Jordan keep handing him.

RossK said...

I truly fear that you are right about that Lew.


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Graham said...

Treasonous. Last cigarette, blindfold and goodbye.

Graham said...

I’ve now read a couple other articles and it’s looking likely that the No Pride person was not invited to the White House but actually just on a tour. Seems he may have exaggerated somewhat the reason he was there.
Nevertheless no good can come from those types being the background .

RossK said...

Graham - yup see 'apparently unauthorized' in the descriptor.

Keith said...

And the right wing “media” on it’s various platforms will be pushing this as long as they can bring in the dough with ads, subscriptions, click bait, appearances of GOP dead enders and thus ratings.

In the background, the usual white evangelical suspects notable for their collective hypocritical absence in this election, maybe this is why

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jerry-falwell-jr-miami-beach-pool-boy-evangelical-explained-850380/

are keeping a low profile waiting for what shakes out, where and when to cash in without getting their hands dirty. Relying on the collective low attention span of the hoi poloi..

NVG said...

OT

From the BlogCrawl


https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/an-internal-medicine-doctor-and-his-peers-read-the-pfizer-vaccine-study-and-see-red-flags.html

Snip starts here

In the UK on day 1 of the rollout, two nurses with severe allergies experienced anaphylaxis, a life-threatening reaction to this vaccine. Only after world-wide coverage did Pfizer admit that there was an exclusion criterion for severe allergies in their study.

Ummm, Pfizer, since we are now getting ready to give this to possibly millions of people in the next few weeks – ARE THERE ANY OTHER EXCLUSION CRITERIA? Should I, as a physician, specifically not be giving this to patients with conditions that you have excluded?

Furthermore, NEJM, since you published this trial, have you bothered to at least put a correction on this trial on your website that it should NOT be given to people with severe allergies? I certainly see nothing like this.

Snip