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Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 01:00 PM Apr 2020

Protest against Michigan stay-at-home order compares Democratic governor to Hitler

Chants comparing Michigan’s governor to Hitler were among those heard at a protest of the state’s stay-at-home order by thousands of demonstrators.

The protesters, who had planned a major traffic jam around the capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, left their cars and ignored social-distancing rules.

The governor, Gretchen Whitmer, said later in interviews that it would likely spread the COVID-19 virus.

“They waved American flags, Trump flags and Confederate flags,” Mlive reported about the protesters. “They held up signs comparing Whitmer to Adolf Hitler. Chants included ‘recall Whitmer’ and ‘lock her up.’”



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Protest against Michigan stay-at-home order compares Democratic governor to Hitler (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2020 OP
There aren't that many of them, but that these assholes get any mention at all means... TreasonousBastard Apr 2020 #1
the teabag freaks are back eShirl Apr 2020 #2
and all the rage on TV underpants Apr 2020 #7
The body baggers. Crunchy Frog Apr 2020 #14
It's kind of funny musclecar6 Apr 2020 #3
Let me get this right Chainfire Apr 2020 #4
"Am I missing something?" Yes, you are. Caliman73 Apr 2020 #11
Idiot couldn't even spell the name right. Mz Pip Apr 2020 #5
Semi-literates can't even search to get the name right. Or maybe it's not Gretchen they hate. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #6
Maybe someone should ask these assholes to list the family members and friends The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #8
And they have nazi flags . . .. Iliyah Apr 2020 #9
It looks like the tRUMP-o-virus is just as infective as COVID-19... abqtommy Apr 2020 #10
Poster child for population reduction. roamer65 Apr 2020 #12
These morons wouldn't know a tyrannical government if it jumped up and bit them. Initech Apr 2020 #13

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. There aren't that many of them, but that these assholes get any mention at all means...
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 01:02 PM
Apr 2020

it will be hell of a fight in November.

musclecar6

(1,680 posts)
3. It's kind of funny
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 01:08 PM
Apr 2020

That the MAGA Morons are comparing Witmer to Hitler, when the Orange Child is a Hitler wannabe if there ever was one.

Chainfire

(17,305 posts)
4. Let me get this right
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 01:09 PM
Apr 2020

People carrying Nazi flags and chanting Nazi chants are calling the legitimate elected government of Mi. Nazis?

Am I missing something?

I swear if I was going to carry a Swastika, I would at least try having the arms pointing in the correct direction.....

We have to figure out a way to legally squash these Nazi bastards before they take root. The Germans dismissed them as a bunch of kooks for too long and look at what it cost them. (and the rest of the world)

Caliman73

(11,693 posts)
11. "Am I missing something?" Yes, you are.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:26 PM
Apr 2020

You are missing the reality that these protesters are ignorant of history, mostly because history in school, is perceived as something "boring" that students have to get through. We are all missing the point that Hitler was a real man, with a real ideology (a very specific one) that was used to commit horrific acts, but that now the name is synonymous with "things we do not like". We are missing the connections between Nazi Germany and the US in history. The fact that the Nazis took a lot of guidance from the racial laws of the US South and applied it to their own legal system and ideology, except instead of Black people specifically, they applied it to Jews, "Gypsies", LGBT people, and disabled people labelled as "undesirables". We are all missing that because the US has NEVER reconciled its own racist, sexist, and xenophobic past, these elements still exist and are having a moment of rebirth because we elected a president sympathetic to their ideologies.

The individuals that are duped into taking to the streets are kooks, but the people behind them, the wealthy ones and powerful ones funding this "grass roots" movement are dangerous. They are the ones we need to expose and make into pariahs.

Mz Pip

(27,404 posts)
5. Idiot couldn't even spell the name right.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 01:10 PM
Apr 2020

It’s not like anyone is coming for their precious guns. They’re just being told to stay home.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,276 posts)
8. Maybe someone should ask these assholes to list the family members and friends
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 01:15 PM
Apr 2020

they'd be willing to sacrifice for their greed and impatience.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
13. These morons wouldn't know a tyrannical government if it jumped up and bit them.
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 04:47 PM
Apr 2020

Try living in the Philippines where they have people with giant shotguns patrolling the streets, or India where they subject people leaving their homes to public humiliation. That's tyranny.

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