"Lock her up" means "Heil Trump"

[Kid Berwyn]

"Obamagate" and "Lock her up": Pointing the way toward "Heil Trump"

It’s not just a chant at Trump's rallies or lame wordplay in his tweets. It’s his call to fascist rule

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Salon, May 16, 2020

Except...

There is a perfect symmetry to the involvement of Michael Flynn in Trump's latest attempt to deflect attention from his inept handling of the coronavirus crisis, which has caused the infections of more than 1.4 million Americans and the deaths of more than 87,000 nationwide. Flynn enjoyed a singular distinction during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations, besides his coziness with Russian bankers and ambassadors. Obama gave Trump only one piece of personal advice during their private meeting in the White House after Trump was elected: Whatever you do, don't hire Michael Flynn. For anything. Ever.

But Trump loved Flynn. It had been Flynn who led the delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention in chanting "lock her up" after mentioning the alleged criminal behavior of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. As with Trump's use of "Obamagate" as a shorthand for Obama's alleged corruption while in office, Flynn's allegations against Clinton were equally vague and shorn of specificity. Trump had already been encouraging his crowds to chant "lock her up" at his campaign rallies in 2016, and has continued the practice ever since. I don't know of a single rally Trump has held since he's been in office when the crowd didn't break into the "lock her up" chant, with Trump allowing the fascist bellowing to wash over him as he stands at the podium, smiling with approval at the crowd.

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https://www.salon.com/2020/05/16/obamagate-and-lock-her-up-pointing-the-way-toward-heil-trump/

[sop]

1. This Fall it'll be "Lock him up!" at every one of Trump's Nuremberg Rallies.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Absolutely! Weird how so much of the "Free Press" is missing this.

From Truscott:

I use the words "fascist bellowing" on purpose, because that's what it is: Trump supporters at public events and rallies loudly endorsing official lawlessness. It's not a funny joke or clever verbiage. Trump and his followers have been routinely advocating the jailing of Trump's political opponents without an investigation, criminal charges, trial or conviction by a jury of their peers. This is the way fascist dictators dispose of their political opposition. Putin has jailed opponents of his regime. He has also arrested wealthy businessmen whose enterprises he wanted to seize, and of course he has ordered the murder of Russian citizens who he felt betrayed him.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. I agree Mr. Truscott, but why are you just figure that out now...

[Kid Berwyn]

6. He's been on Trump's gangster ass for a looong time.

Village Voice, January 5, 2016...



Excerpt...

The so-called pundit class is having a problem with Trump for a very simple reason. He corresponds to no one they’ve ever known in politics. His campaign corresponds to none they’ve ever covered. His voters aren’t supporters. They are followers. Fans. They don’t respond to him politically. They don’t listen expecting to hear positions or policies. What they expect to hear is the orchestral swoon of political arena rock — the power-chord promise and vibrato-vectored big sound of greatness! I’m the biggest! I’m the best! I’m the wealthiest! I’m the American Idol! The pundits get nowhere when they try to convey the hollow empty soullessness of it all, because you can’t tell the truth about John Mayer. You can’t make an argument against a fan’s taste. All you can do is stand back and gape in abject amazement as they line up to buy the T-shirts and the lapel buttons and Trump Red Ties, as they sit for Frank Luntz–led focus groups and expound on how nothing matters but Trump. Not politics. Not policy. Not truth. Not logic. Not the guy pulling the strings behind the screen of the reality show they’re watching. Just the guy who’s winning. Just Trump. The busiest guys at the big Trump rallies have to be the guys at the door shaking everyone down for Confederate flags. It’s OK to pound on the occasional Black Guy. It’s OK to scream like banshees when the word Muslim is flung from the stage like a lightning bolt. Racism is OK when it’s thinly veiled. But the Trump people must live in total fear of the night all the networks show a few Confederate flags flying out there in fan-land. It’s the big no-no, because it would give the pundits a window they could actually see through. No Confederate flags…but keep watching. Trump’s toy fascism is only a whisker away from the real thing.

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https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/01/05/donald-trump-and-the-joys-of-toy-fascism/

I’ll try to find the column where Truscott was invited to attend a Trump event filled with supermodels or beauty contestants...

[Thomas Hurt]

8. Thanks, I will make sure to read both these.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. The night I chased Miss Universe with Donald Trump

Hey, it was the 70's. What can I say?

LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Salon, MARCH 1, 2018

In order for me to tell this story, I’m going to have to introduce you to the Lion’s Head bar in Greenwich Village, and in order to introduce you to the Lion’s Head, I’m going to have to introduce you to Archie Mulligan, one of its legendary bartenders, and in order to introduce you to Archie Mulligan, I’m going to have to tell a fairly long story about one of Archie’stall tales, which makes this a perfect introduction to a story about Donald Trump.

It was the late 60’s, and I discovered the Lion’s Head on Christopher Street because it was next door to the Village Voice, where I was contributing freelance articles. Located a few steps below street level, the Head was narrow and dark and wood-paneled — in short, everything you would imagine a Greenwich Village bar to be. It was known as a writer’s bar, a place where you came if you were a writer with a drinking problem, or a drinker with a writing problem. It was sometimes hard to distinguish between the two, even among the fairly well-known writers who were frequently in residence. There was Pete Hamill, the newspaper columnist; Ted Hoagland, the nature writer; Joel Oppenheimer, the poet; David Markson, a novelist whose manuscript for “Wittgenstein’s Mistress” was rejected by publishers 54 times; Fred Exley, the author “A Fan’s Notes;” Joe Flaherty, the former longshoreman turned Village Voice columnist who managed Norman Mailer’s campaign for mayor of New York City in 1969; Lanford Wilson, the playwright who wrote “Hot l Baltimore;” the literary critic Wilfrid Sheed; and songwriters from Liam Clancy to Jerry Jeff Walker to Dave Van Ronk to Bob Dylan.

Presiding over all of this on the day shift was Archie Mulligan, with his wavy red hair and hawkish nose and impish grin and grandly expansive catalog of tall tales. To hear Archie tell it, he was the brother of jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, who being conveniently located on the West Coast, was unavailable to confirm this assertion of Archie’s. Archie contended that in his day he had dated some of the biggest stars — Kim Novak was one, and, Archie said, Peggy Lee and he had had such a memorable night together, she still always gave him a call when she was in town.

Archie was full of tall tales, but none taller than the tale of his three Purple Papal Papers. Archie insisted that he had died three times, had been administered last rites by priests, and had somehow risen from the dead to live again. I can’t remember the cause of his first two deaths, but the third had happened at O’Henry’s Steakhouse, over on Sixth Avenue. While working there one day, he somehow fell down the basement stairs and struck his head and died. Conveniently enough, there was a Catholic priest on the premises — priests were always nearby when Archie died — and when they couldn’t get a pulse from Archie, he administered last rites. Archie was brought back to life in an ambulance, and later the priest made a report to the Vatican about the miracle of the resurrection of Archie Mulligan. The Vatican, according to Archie, issued his third Purple Papal Paper commemorating the new miracle as they had the other two times he died.

Well, Archie of the Purple Papal Papers was bartending one afternoon around 5 p.m. when a call came in on the house phone for me. “Lucian, are you here?” he called out, covering the receiver and looking down the bar straight at me, checking to see if I was receiving calls that evening. I took the call. It was Mary Nichols, the city editor of the Village Voice. It seemed that one of Mary’s best friends owned a PR firm uptown that had been hired by real estate developer Donald Trump to promote a party he was giving that very evening for the contestants in the Miss Universe Pageant. It was to be a big, New York style shindig, and he wanted the party crowded with New York’s movers and shakers — opinion makers and businessmen and political figures and people from the media. He’d probably told her he wanted “the best people,” because Trump wanted to be surrounded by only “the best people,” as we have come to learn.

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https://www.salon.com/2018/02/28/the-night-i-chased-miss-universe-with-donald-trump/

[Celerity]

4. A man shouted 'Heil Hitler' and 'Heil Trump' during 'Fiddler on the Roof' -- and people fled

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/15/man-shouted-heil-hitler-heil-trump-during-fiddler-roof-people-ran/

'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President-Elect

Video of an alt-right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Art Laffer of Trickle Down fame calls for the working poor to sacrifice...

...their lives.

Excerpt from In These Times:

Yet, in public discourse, the language of “reopening” is being largely conceded to the right. Art Laffer, the economist behind Reagan-era tax cuts, has received considerable media coverage calling for wages to be slashed and workers to be sent back to their jobs at risk to their lives. So has the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation, which has publicly flaunted its reopening “wish list” which excludes robust testing. We are not seeing similar air time given to any vision of a safe, public-health-focused reopening. Democrats have, by and large, failed to make this framing central to their strategy, much less go on the offense against the cynical and deadly GOP strategy.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/22527/trump-reopening-covid-coronavirus-republicans-contact-tracing-testing

The Greatest Generation beat these bastards once. BFEE brought them back. So we keep up the good fight, Celerity!

[Ilsa]

5. Several "plants" need to start "Heil Trump" salutes at his

more well-covered rallies for the MSM to cover. Let the world see how deranged his followers are. Of course, any patriotic news organization or citizens should decry such totalitarian behavior to make certain it doesn't catch on. But I'd like the fascists to be documented on video.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Absolutely No Good People on One Side of the Both Sides Story

The media need to show the Nazi bastards for what they are. The press is the only business crucial to democracy. These offensive Drumpf slugs have no use for truth or the Constitution.

President Donald Trump reposted a video of a journalist being hounded by anti-lockdown protesters in Long Island, New York, calling them "great people."

The video, posted by News 12 Long Island reporter Kevin Vesey, shows protestors angrily confronting him, asking him to leave and shouting: "You are the virus."

Vesey followed up on Twitter, saying he will "never forget what happened today" and that he felt was "insulted" and "berated."

The pro-Trump group who organized the rally later apologized for the incident on Facebook, saying that the angry protesters that confronted the journalist "are not members or affiliated" with them.

In recent weeks, Trump has been seen throwing his support behind anti-lockdown protesters and has continued to express anti-press sentiments.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-reporter-hounded-at-anti-lockdown-protest-reposted-by-trump-2020-5