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Nevilledog

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Tue Feb 7, 2023, 12:56 AM Feb 2023

I'm sorry....what???



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This is Scott McKay. He speaks at “ReAwaken America” events with Eric Trump. Scott believes the Nazis won World War 2 and are currently living on Mars. Great job, @EricTrump!


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5:52 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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I'm sorry....what??? (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2023 OP
Excellent! Preach it! Laffy Kat Feb 2023 #1
Welcome to Gums' Country Blue Owl Feb 2023 #2
I want to laugh at this guy but ... people follow this guy and his violent rants progressoid Feb 2023 #3
Republican terrorism will get worse before it gets better. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2023 #4
WTF is wrong with people? TrogL Feb 2023 #5

progressoid

(49,999 posts)
3. I want to laugh at this guy but ... people follow this guy and his violent rants
Tue Feb 7, 2023, 03:06 AM
Feb 2023


Scott McKay has marshaled his fan base to engage in sometimes hostile activism at school board meetings against mask mandates

he audience at a meeting last month of the Ankeny, Iowa, school board exploded over the prospect of the board reinstating a mask mandate, with parents shouting at board members who supported the mask rule.

“We know where you live!” one parent yelled at the school board members. “We’re going to stalk you!”

The scene, which ended with the board voting to reimpose the mask rule, looked like so many other school board meetings across the country this year over coronavirus restrictions. But the Ankeny school board has become a larger flashpoint in the fight over mask mandates in schools, thanks in large part to a leather-clad, tomahawk-toting QAnon personality named Scott McKay.

McKay, a middle-aged former bodybuilder whose followers call him “Patriot Streetfighter,” has used his sizable online platform and frequent use of violent rhetoric to turn the Ankeny mask debate into a national event among followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, urging his followers to bombard specific school board members with complaints.

Despite his bizarre demeanor and online presence, McKay has marshaled his fan base to engage in sometimes hostile activism at school board meetings against mask mandates—despite his own recent experience with a COVID outbreak at one of his rallies....

...https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-tomahawk-toting-qanoner-terrorizing-school-boards
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