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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArmed Protesters Show Up to Protest Safety Precautions.
They show up with signs and stand right next to each other, armed to the teeth. Armed? For what reason. Nobody seems to care that they're there. Nobody's threatening to arrest them. Most people are staying home and trying not to catch COVID-19. Dumbwad J. Trump is Tweeting "Liberate" this state and that state, but only states with Democratic Governors. He likes those armed folks, I guess.
Personally, I think they look pretty silly. There they stand on the State House steps in Michigan, armed against who the Hell knows what. Nobody else is there. Nobody else cares. Maybe their protest against social distancing and hygiene will work against them in some way. Ain't none of 'em look very clean to me.
malaise
(268,968 posts)The word is sedition
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)Trump's own cabinet Secretary might have been paying for 'em.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/conservative-grouplinked-to-devos-familyorganizes-protest-of-coronavirus-restrictions-in-michigan/
Could they do 2 8 minute miles which they would have to do to be in the army?
https://www.military.com/military-fitness/running/prepare-for-2-mile-army-run
Siwsan
(26,260 posts)And what's with the masks? If they think that it's safe to be out in a crowd, they should also be brave enough to show their faces.
Personally, I think they should all have been rounded up and isolated somewhere, en masse.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)My thoughts... Exactly.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Tiny, tiny suits them!
Hugin
(33,135 posts)Are they gonna shoot them liddle viri?
WVreaper
(620 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)2nd amendment.
Hey, I dont take any pleasure in saying TEN YEARS ago that republicans want us dead and gone, but now that they are going ahead with it, I am frustrated at limited options to defend myself.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)in front of the governor's residence in St. Paul today. I wonder if they'll bring their guns, too?
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Sweet Christ does THAT have to be an exhausting life...constantly hating everything that you secretly KNOW to be true, but lacking the ability to not go along with the gun-totin' idiot brigade?
I have no use for any of them....may they all infect each other alone...that is one herd that needs culling, not immunity...
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)There they all are with their guns. But, nobody is there threatening them, so who were they planning to shoot?
Yes, the ones with masks are strange. They're engaged in what they're protesting about. A contradiction in terms, it seems to me.
DENVERPOPS
(8,817 posts)told the police to stand down. These RepubliCONS wanted a confrontation and to be the ones to be noted for
the second: "shot heard round the world" so they all could become Martyrs.......
Walleye
(31,017 posts)And their beer guts.
Jeebo
(2,023 posts)Capital S, capital T, capital U, capital PID. As Mike Malloy would say, they are dumber than a sackful of doorknobs.
-- Ron
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)What complete and utter morons.
Skraxx
(2,971 posts)All roads lead to Putin. I'd bet dollars to donuts the organizations behind this are tied back to Russian troll farms.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)was "Damn, I'd hate to be one of that woman's relatives. She is going to be infamous!!!" And then my brain went to zombies. The picture is creepy AF.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)first picture. I suspect that a lot of these jokers are going to be coming down sick before too long. Can't say I'm sorry, being that despite medical warnings to stay isolated and / or stay home, they ignored the warnings still.
I just hope that the hospital beds aren't too full when someone more closer to me, heaven forbid, come down sick despite the safeguards we all are following, versa these ignorant assh**es. Maybe the doctors will choose and pick who lives, those that are responsible and caring, vs. those that are recklessly putting themselves and others in harms' way.
KayF
(1,345 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)My gray roots are starting to show; whatever shall I do??? My FREEDOM is being taken away!
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Then I opened this post.
I had seen one of the protesters a day or so ago with a gun hanging out the window and cringed. When they get fired up, no telling what will ensue.
Why do they hate Whitmer so much? Because Trump does?
Someone needs to crack an egg and take half the shell around to collect the brains in that group. I don't think they'd need the whole shell. Just sayin'.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)that rump uses all of the time, in order to dup his followers). That's okay, they are literally killing themselves.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)To hire protesters... A very rodger stone thing to do... I can see the ad now..
"Show your 2nd amendment rights and look oh so cool on the capitol steps.." oh shit, right this is about the virus....... never mind...
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SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)volunteers for these rallies). There usually is something on DU about these ads/etc. popping up.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)Different Drummer
(7,614 posts)And...we have a winner!
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Different Drummer
(7,614 posts)DD
Celerity
(43,340 posts)with far more firepower and taken down HARD as domestic terrorists.
It is madness they can walk around fully armed in public (let alone near a Statehouse) with utter impunity.
The US is a tinderbox, just waiting for a swan vesta to light it afire.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Celerity
(43,340 posts)Sorta like Kleenex for tissues
Walleye
(31,017 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump and his fanboiz aren't used to that whole "majority rules" concept. Trump didn't get the most votes, but won the presidency, just like George W. Bush. They're selfish spoiled children who just want their way, all other considerations be damned.
Walleye
(31,017 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Beer guts, facial hair, baseball caps (covering balding heads), etc etc. I wonder why that is.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Hmm...
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)Below the waist & above the neck.
Different Drummer
(7,614 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)They're all acting so tough and such, but expecting one of the others to make the first move. About like the days of picture day in grade school and a group of kids saying "let's make rabbit ears" or whatever, and none of them following through except for the one kid that did so, only because he wanted to feel by doing so, he'd fit in with the others.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)That's interesting, too.
Maybe they're the 1st Incel Brigade or something.
underpants
(182,788 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)of a young Che Guevara. I wonder if he knows who that is, or did he just see a poster somewhere?
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Somebody failed history ...
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)But, the posters are still around, so he thought it looked cool and, you know, "dangerous."
I suspect that particular member of the group fancies himself an anarchist. The two guys with the white masks appear to be young incels, engaging in male bonding with their elders or something. It's interesting to look at individuals in that group photo.
Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)Dont like no librul wimmins tellin em what to do!
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)Not welcome, I guess, or unwilling to be seen with the morons.
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Especially the ones with masks.
They also look like every other quasi biker gun group with white supremacist leanings. Seriously they all look alike. Fucking beanies and caps. Fucking Goateed wearing swag bellied assholes. Theres a skinny ass subset that look like they can barely hold up their damn AK dash whatever the fuck number up.
Anywhere you go. They look just like this. They also look kind of...unwashed and stinky.
(Ok, disclaimer, My husband is bearded and bellied, although hes a bit taller than those..persons..appear to be. He thinks they look like morons)
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)That style of beard is de rigueur with that group it seems. Any time I see a pot-bellied guy with that particular beard, I give him a wide berth. Usually an asshole of the first order.
But, check out "Che Guevara" to the right of the guy with the Whitmer sign. He seems to have his causes mixed up, somehow. Apparently he wasn't born when that look was all the rage with the "revolutionaries." But, he saw a poster somewhere, I guess.
pamdb
(1,332 posts)What are they going to do, shoot the virus?
Personally, I don't care if they infect each other (culling the herd) but the problem is they will infect other, sane, people.
MineralMan
(146,288 posts)My impulse when I see a group like that is to want to stand off to the side, light a firecracker, and flick it towards the group to see how they react. Most of them would "duck and cover," I'm sure.
Different Drummer
(7,614 posts)"By golly, that virus better not come anywhere near me! I got a high-powered rifle and I know how to use it!"
eShirl
(18,490 posts)MineralMan
(146,288 posts)doc03
(35,328 posts)things yet I see some of them with masks. I hope they infect each other
Trump found out he can't dictate to the states so his cult
Is trying to intimidate the governor's.
Talitha
(6,584 posts)TrunKated
(210 posts)Freedom from life.
Different Drummer
(7,614 posts)DD
PWPippinesq
(195 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)the rest of us are home because we understand science. These people are just trying to be a bully like Trump.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)But if this continues, the riot act ought to be read, and these critters put to the choice of firing on police or submitting to arrest, like so many 'Black Lives Matter' protesters, or 'Anti-Fa' irregulars....
"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."
Iamaartist
(3,300 posts)Caliman73
(11,736 posts)It is a show for them. A symbol of their "freedom".
A car backfire would have sent them all running, and needing to change their pants.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)fucking gun humping COWARDS
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)Most of these guys are section 8 worthy. Even Max Klinger was not as crazy a these motherfucke4s are.