Editing - The swastika photo on Twitter is from 2016, NOT today's rally

[highplainsdem]

Thanks to the people who pointed that out here. I'd skimmed a lot of the replies on Twitter but hadn't seen any about this being an old photo.

I'm editing rather than self-deleting to warn others about this.

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Two tweets with photos from Duty To Warn:

Link to tweet

[Ocelot II]

1. They aren't even trying to hide it any more.

Sorry, Joe, there's nothing "semi" about these fascists.

[Ferryboat]

15. Joe was trying to give those who aren't truly all in,a way to save face.

He offered pleanty of off ramps to find their way back to sanity.

[tinrobot]

2. "Semi" fascist?

How about fascist fascist.

[applegrove]

3. Spread it loud and wide! Ask MAGAs what their feelings are on NAZIs.

Trump, De Santis, all of them.

[liberal N proud]

4. Hillary was right! Biden is correct

These people are fascist

[vercetti2021]

5. Only good nazi is a dead one

Just leaving it out there if these scrawny shits wanna try something. We destroyed fascism before and we will do it again

[Joinfortmill]

13. 👍

[budkin]

6. Those photos are not from tonight's rally

They are from 2016 at least. Point taken, but no point in spreading falsehoods.

[budkin]

9. Here's where it's from

https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/contests/photo-of-vendors-nazi-trump-flags-at-pennsylvania-fair-sparks-controversy/521-0e5bdea6-eb20-418e-864b-e03cdbf4e23a

[highplainsdem]

10. Thanks - just did some checking myself and found a story before seeing yours.

[TigressDem]

12. Published: 5:02 PM EDT September 26, 2016

[keithbvadu2]

20. His fellow Trumpsters can whine about his 1st Amendment rights to support him.

Fair officials said Monday afternoon that the vendor had been removed from the fair after they discovered he was a registered sex offender.

[Solly Mack]

7. Piss poor excuses for humans who whine about being called piss poor excuses for humans.

[johnp3907]

8. That's an old picture.

https://www.wesa.fm/national-international-news/2016-09-27/sex-offender-selling-nazi-flag-is-booted-from-county-fair

[TigressDem]

11. OK -- FAKE NEWS, but would it surprise us if it happened? No. nt

[Ocelot II]

16. It's not fake news, just old news.

[TigressDem]

18. Old news AND not a tRump rally.

From the link

https://www.wesa.fm/national-international-news/2016-09-27/sex-offender-selling-nazi-flag-is-booted-from-county-fair

A Pennsylvania fair vendor, who turned out to be a registered sex offender, was booted from the event after visitors complained that he was selling Nazi flags.

Visitors to the Bloomsburg Fair, which started Saturday, posted photos of the vendor's flags on the fair's Facebook page. The photos showed a red-and-white flag with a black swastika draped from one side of a booth and a flag endorsing Donald Trump and declaring "Make America Great Again" on the other side.

The fair's president, Paul Reichart, said he became aware of the issue Monday morning. Officials removed theNazi flags for sale and initially let the vendor, Lawrence Betsinger, continue to operate.

[highplainsdem]

14. I've edited the OP to make it clear it's an old photo.

[TigressDem]

19. Thanks.

They ARE like this and bad enough, but that kind of item being passed out as current is more their tactics than ours.

We don't have to make shit up about them.

They are burying themselves in it daily.

[Ocelot II]

17. I'm sure they're still out there, and more up-to-date photos will surface.

Just out of curiosity, since the MAGAts often call Democrats and Biden in particular Communists. Has anyone ever seen Communist iconography at a Biden rally, or a rally for other Democrats? Flags with the hammer and sickle, for example?