'Ex-NFL punter arrested after calling MAGA a 'Nazi movement' at a City Council meeting in California'

[sop]

"Earlier this month, the Huntington Beach Community and Library Services Commission approved plans to install a commemorative plaque to mark the library’s 50th anniversary. The plaque’s design, which needed final approval from the Huntington Beach City Council, included two American flags, the names of current council members and other city leaders and an acrostic reading: 'Magical. Alluring. Galvanizing. Adventurous.'"

Kluwe: "MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children … MAGA stands for hate, and fear, and the idea that we should have a king instead of co-equal branches of government."

"Kluwe also called MAGA 'profoundly corrupt' and 'unmistakably anti-democracy,' before labeling it a 'Nazi movement.' As some in the crowd applauded, he added, 'You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.'...Kluwe ended his remarks by announcing he would 'engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience' and made his way toward the council members seated on the dais. He was quickly stopped by multiple police officers, handcuffed and physically carried out of the room. The 43-year-old said later on social media that he had been arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly and released from custody four hours later."

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/chris-kluwe-arrested-maga-trump-huntington-beach-rcna193025

MAGA stands for "Magical. Alluring. Galvanizing. Adventurous." Who knew?

[justhanginon]

1. I guess if it walks like a duck and talks a duck, probably guess what????

[NameAlreadyTaken]

2. Huntington Beach is a right-wing shithole

It's like a little piece of right-wing Florida scooped up and dumped on the otherwise liberal California coast.

[sarisataka]

3. WTG Warhammer!

Kluwe has never been afraid to speak his mind

[sop]

4. Kluwe:

(From the LA Times) "What you’re seeing in Huntington Beach is a microcosm of what’s happening nationally. This is what happens when MAGA gets power.” (Kluwe said he) "has the responsibility to step up and do something...I can help protect the oppressed...Because it shouldn’t be on the people who are being oppressed to fight by themselves.”

[aocommunalpunch]

5. Would Dem representatives be willing to get arrested?

I imagine it would capture the news and a few hearts and minds.

I imagine someone will want to ask me if I’m willing to do that, too. Since I’m not an elected rep and unlikely to garner attention, I’ll lean toward no. If the heat is too great for those in the kitchen, however, they should make room for those with a greater tolerance.

[LymphocyteLover]

6. that was a fantastic speech!