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Chants comparing Michigans governor to Hitler were among those heard at a protest of the states 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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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it will be hell of a fight in November.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)underpants
(182,274 posts)just like last time.
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)musclecar6
(1,680 posts)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)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)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)Its not like anyone is coming for their precious guns. Theyre just being told to stay home.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,276 posts)they'd be willing to sacrifice for their greed and impatience.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)Initech
(99,914 posts)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.