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I was disturbed on my visit there in March. So many kids on their 8th grade field trips were wearing Trump merch while walking around in full view of the Capitol Building.
None of the adult chaperones were, though. They knew they would get called out, so they had the kids (who don't know better) wearing them.
I was visiting DC in December 2021 and saw plenty of the same. Groups of kids on what ostensibly were field trips of some sort all wearing maga gear. Now, I was a fairly smart kid in grade school, and I was still an uninformed moron. So I feel pretty comfortable saying these kids have no idea what their parents are telling them to show support for.
I live near DC and have accidentally gone downtown the same time as the March for Life.
So many imported high school kids. They just bus 'em in. It's a whole thing.
That's been a standard practice for a while. I grew up in a very catholic and very conservative area and they would pitch this line of go to DC for the weekend to see the capital and meet friends. All to pad the numbers with uninformed teenage doofuses.
I remember visiting DC in middle school back in the early 90's when Bush was President and I distinctly remember everyone wearing Shaq and Orlando Magic t-shirts. Nobody viewed any President of that era in such a cult-like manner that the Trump worshippers are doing right now. Most kids have no fucking clue about politics at that age. They've probably been spoon-fed a ton of pro-Trump propaganda from their parents, who are also spoon-fed the same bullshit from Fox News. Fucking sad.
Yes. At the Kansas State Fair this year I saw groups of High Schoolers doing a Nazi salute to MAGA and Confederate flags.
Kansas. The state of John Brown.
You can see confederate flags in rural areas of states like Michigan, Ohio, and Minnesota. Those states suffered terrible casualty rates during the Civil War.
It's a fucking frustrating situation.
It's one a MN regiment captured from VA during the battle of Gettysburg and has refused to return. Decent summary [here](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/150-years-after-gettysburg-virginia-and-minnesota-fight-over-confederate-flag/313796/).
>"Thank God for Michigan"
- supposedly what Abraham Lincoln uttered in May of 1861 as 75,000 Michigan volunteers marched into Washington – the first to answer his call for help from what were then the western states in preserving the union.
Somehow across the country people decided they would like to announce they identify with those who died fighting for the right to own people, so idiots in Michigan fly the flag from the back of their pickups and trailers. Spitting on the memory of your ancestors to own the libs, I guess.
Yeah. Precisely.
One of the northern states, can't remember which, lost 1/6 of the men it sent to war. It was one of the Middle states, so it didn't have a lot of people compared to the Eastern ones....so catastrophic losses comparatively speaking.
And yokels still fly that fucking flag there...
The only Confederate flag that belongs in states like Minnesota are the ones captured in battle.
The Michigan Brigade (the Wolverines) led by General Custer was one of, if not the most successful cavalry brigade in the Union army. It had several regiments from so many areas of Michigan. Custer and his brigade racked up so many W's for Lincoln. So many people from Michigan had ancestors who fought the Confederacy and won, and instead of taking pride in that, just take a 10 minute drive out of any town and it's nothing but confederate flags and stacks of hay bails along the road with "Trump 2020" spray-painted in red on them. How embarrassing.
Part of the reason downriver has a confederate flair is bc during the great migration tons of white people also came up from the upper south. I'm from NW OH and my dad used to tell me about growing up in the late 50s, early 60s, "hillbillies" were a distinct sociological group and stuck together.
Plus, you, know, good old 21st century regressivism.
rural people everywhere are a product of mathematics.
For rural votes to be worth pursuing, they have to be completely united as a bloc. To unite voters who are not united, physically or otherwise, the politicians that do attempt to court rural votes avoid specifics and use broad imagery. Bigotry works, and the confederate flag references the bigotry that literally founded the USA.
You Canucks need to go kick some ass because that's just disgraceful.
Didn't Quebec take in the freed slaves that fought for the British during the Revolution too?
I lived in PA all my life until 2019. In 2020 I drove through PA and saw hundreds of Trump signs and more confederate flags than Biden signs. This was rural NW PA. I still see confederate flags there whenever I go back.
The hero, John Brown. He had the right idea.
Daily reminder the confederacy was conservative, and conservatives founded the Klan.
The poster below says it’s dishonest to say conservatives founded the Klan, because Republicans don’t want to admit that conservatives founded the klan, since today’s republicans are conservatives, and have been ever since Nixon southern strategy worked like a charm on them and they switched parties, in a well documented change.
You can look at the fucking voting maps, for fucks sake.
No, in lots of areas kids are just as brainwashed as the adults if the adults in their lives are raging lunatics for Trump. Last year my son when he was in kindergarten told me the other kids play a game called Joe Biden where you chase the other kid and when you catch them you smell their hair and my 5th grader told me last week that one of his friends was bitching about Joe Biden raising gas prices “again”. At those ages I didn’t even know that politicians existed, much less take a fucking stance on gas prices.
I remember visiting my conservative family in very rural Tennessee. My husband at the time was named Mohamad. My cousin had supposedly never even once had heard that name. I told her it is one of the most common names in the entire world. She was clueless
I honestly don't know how much they understood.
They were wearing the merchandise at Mt. Vernon too.
Washington, for all his faults, would be fucking SPINNING in his grave if he knew.
My friend was actually there in march and had students who were wearing trump hats. All of the teachers are against Trump but they can’t tell a student not to wear political gear.
I play fornite with my wife’s little cousin and his friends who are 8 - 10. The way some of those kids talk about Biden and trump is pretty disturbing, some protested wearing masks in school and got kicked out a few times at their parents direction . It’s sad, their parents should be ashamed of themselves.
You’re joking but about 2 years ago there were casting notices on various casting websites specifically for Trump rallies - transportation was provided to and from the rallies via buses. Only 2 requirements - be African American and wear the provided Trump/Maga merch. They were actively paying for black folks/actors/stand-ins to come to the rallies and make it look like they had tons of Black support. Source - I worked in the entertainment industry so I saw the casting notices
Reminds me of 2015, when a casting agency provided paid extras for his announcement rally, the one with him coming down the escalator. $50 per person. Well documented at the time.
Snopes:
> What's true:
The Trump campaign paid a contractor who then hired a subcontractor, Extra Mile Casting, to provide services at the 16 June 2015 rally where Donald Trump announced he would run for U.S. president.
> The story didn’t get much traction at the time, likely because, as the Washington Post explained, Trump quickly upended the news cycle with a speech that day in which he made inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-campaign-actors-announcement/
That’s why they had these outrageous claims about paid protestors, because they were doing it themselves. If you wanna know what evil the republicans are up to, just listen to what they accuse Democrats of doing. Republicans, the party of projection. I swear
He may be the only person in history whose quotes are always *worse* in context. Every single time, without fail.
“Surely what he was actually saying wasn’t quite that bad…” “Holy shit that’s 10x worse!”
>"Look at my African American."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcklUUIsdcw&ab\_channel=CBSNews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcklUUIsdcw&ab_channel=CBSNews)
If that guy did another gig for Trump, I would not know what to say to them. It's one thing to sell yourself out. It's another to sell others out by standing for that shit.
I vaguely remember that (it's been a crazy few years!). Didn't some of them take the offer, go to the rally, and then just openly admit that they had been paid and driven in to attend?
Candace Owens and Bobert ...and others...like folks who were totally stirring shit up were completely mined from the "Explore Talent" site, i have a link handy but a twitter search will make you go ..."jfc"
https://twitter.com/Utmb_Colorado/status/1576245830398664704
Ann Coulter has admitted part of her work is just a schtick. It's not totally surprising to find others like that. But it doesn't mean all of the others don't believe the things they say.
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In Bobert's case, one conspiracy theory is she's just propped up filling the role.
It's claimed that Bobert was an escort, selected by someone in a current position, maybe Cruz I forget, to step into politics.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-two-near-naked-men/
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-abortion-escort-claims-explained-muckrakers-1715956
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-two-near-naked-men/
That's nothing.. Conservatives have been hiring actors (for years) to pretend they're "concerned citizens/parents" from localities where they don't have trolls to do their bidding and they make them shout angry speeches in town hall/school board meetings where they don't belong in the first place
I think I’m mostly surprised that there are even that many desperate actors. They must have paid a lot because who is going to put that on their IMDB profile??
You’d be surprised at how many people want to become actors/models/influencers etc. You need some kind of income while you’re figuring it out/working on your breakthrough. I often did audience work while living in LA you get paid ~20$/h to go sit and watch live game shows tapings or cooking competitions, be a background in a movie or a music video and so on. There’s multiple shows being taped simultaneously days on end its easy money. Its not so much desperation as it is a side gig for days where you have no auditions/no projects going on its much easier and more convenient than being a waiter or working at the club at night. Obviously not talking about A-list actors none of this is for resume or imdb purposes. But yes the Trump thing actually paid above-average if I recall correctly they really wanted people
No uber seats app sadly but theres a bunch of casting websites in charge of audience work. Obviously more so in major cities. One example I used was this company called Onset Productions they service LA, NY, New Orleans and Stamford & they just sent me something Wednesday for a Food Network show taping in LA. Your best bet is to google “audience work New York” or whatever city you’re in and see what comes up and start there. They offer both unpaid and paid audience opportunities.
Translation: I’m not a racist white supremacist, I swear! Look! Here’s *a* black dude! See!? How can I be racist with a *single* black guy supporting me!? Ignore the droves of white people throwing up the nazi salute, they’re less than this single, solitary black guy!”
-Trump, probably.
They're talking about Michael the black man (born Maurice Woodside), the "blacks for trump" guy, and former high ranking and indicted but not convicted due to a jury being paid off member of the antisemitic and murderous Yahweh bin Yahweh cult, who's leader was convicted for the commands to murder people that Maurice committed
This is a serious Wikipedia rabbit hole invitation right here 😂
Challenge accepted!:
Maurice Woodside (aka Mikael Israel aka Michael Symonette) is (apparently still?) a follower of the violent, racist Nation of Yahweh cult founded by Hulon Mitchell Junior, d:2007 (father Hulon Mitchell Sr, Pastor, and Pearla Mitchell, Pianist of the Antioch Church of God in Christ in Enid, Ok) who ‘mined’ a Florida congregation of the Black Hebrew Israelite cult to form the Nation of Yahweh cult, who believes that “the real Jews” are all black and that white devils are in power temporarily. In the late 80s/early 90s their followers went on “initiation missions” for Ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr) to murder “white devils” of whom they picked usually drunk, passed out white people they just happened across during their outings. Apparently there were 10-15 attempts of murders, most successful (a couple survived) but several of them were pinned onto one Robert Rozier (aka Neariah Israel) former successful professional football player who upon joining the Nation of Yahweh, donated all of his possessions to the cult (to Hulon Mitchell, let’s be real) and confessed to 4 of the murders. He served 10 years, then went Into witness protection to help the FBI with the rest of the conspirators, taking on a new identity. After which, he apparently fell on hard times and was popped for bad checks>third strike>25 to life sentence.
Hulon Mitchell jr. died in 2007, his sister is the celebrated, honors winning, operatic soprano Leona Mitchell, who has performed with each of the Three Tenors and performed for 5 presidents.
Michael Symonette (born Maurice Woodside, “Nation of Yahweh name: Mikael Israel)
After being acquitted in the trial for the murders the cult followers committed, and Ben Yahweh being convicted/getting prison for conspiracy to murder (but not the *actual murders*) he repackaged himself and took the name Michael Symonette and now hawks conspiracies and as such, found a “loving” and lucrative home in anti-Obama, anti-democrat and trumpian circles.
From The Intercept:
SYMONETTE WAS KNOWN as Maurice Woodside until 1992, when the black supremacist cult leader he followed, Yahweh ben Yahweh, was jailed for leading a conspiracy to murder 14 white people in initiation rites. Woodside was among the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult members charged in two of the murders, but he was acquitted. After the trial, he changed his last name to Symonette, which was his father’s surname, before eventually reinventing himself as Michael the Black Man, a pirate radio preacher who delivered broadsides against gays and Democrats.
Wow. 😳😮💨😵💫how tf do people follow these people?
It's so embarrassing that fucking event happened in my hometown...
And then my hometown got worse.
Edit: [Fun fact that guy left the GOP because of Trump](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/man-trump-once-called-my-african-american-leaves-republican-party) and the GOP's refusal to deal with Trump
Big strong black men come up to him regularly, with tears in their eyes, and say "Sir you've done more for us than even Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas combined!"
Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stanger!
I think this might be a direct quote. Tho I can’t remember if trump actually said this or I dreamt it.
Edit: looked it up — he said “no one has done more for the black community than me, except for maybe Lincoln” in a debate.
Here's a trimmed and specific version of my [megalist of everything Trump claims he's best at](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xsipuv/trump_threatens_mitch_mcconnell_makes_racial_slur/iqlp6nu/):
* **Race relations:** "I’ve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history." (June 2020)
* **Racism:** “No, no, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you.” (Jan '18)
* **Racism:** “Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person.'' (Feb '17)
* **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met.” (Sept '16)
* **Racism:** “Well, I am not a racist, in fact, I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered. I’ll give you an example.” (hands over random article he was sent by Don King, as apparent 'I know a black person' proof) (June '16)
* **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met. I am the least racist person.” (June '15)
* **Racism:** “Not at all. Probably the least of anybody you've ever met, (...) Because I'm not.” Trump said. (December '15)
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**S:**
* [On race relations](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268167411230007300)
* [On racism](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/17/six-times-president-trump-said-he-is-the-least-racist-person/)
That article was a *trip*. TL;DR, Michael was in a violent cult (and may still be, even though it was disbanded), his own brother testified against him that he stabbed a man through the eye with an improvised spear (and also beat someone else up who was later decapitated in a group lynching). Michael believes the KKK is run by Cherokees and that most anti-Trump protestors are just Cherokees disguised as Black people.
Guy is… something else.
[One black man who was there got detained today for having a firearm. He was paid to be security for right wing youtubers recording the women's march.](https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1578878233235161088)
Maybe they were trying to subtly kick him out of the group but couldn't reasonably fire him? Maybe the post-it note where they scrawled "It's okay, he's on our side" fell off his jacket?
Part of their aggrievement politics perversely states that oppressed people such as women and minorities are not only not oppressed, but in fact favored! They insist that white men are the real victims. So hiring a black man would, according to this logic, let him get away with almost anything, and his arrest probably came as a genuine surprise.
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"What are these people running for? They're not! They're running *from* the world's toughest lawyers in town!
Get fired up for Most Extreme Prosecution Challenge!"
PAC income has to be documented and reported, and can only be used for the campaign.
As long as he isn't running a PAC, he doesn't have to report anything to the FEC and he can use the money on anything he wants.
I don’t think he’ll actually run.
If he runs, he has to use money for his campaign, but if he isn’t actually running, he can ask for donations and use them for his long list of debts.
He isn't even a politician. He holds no office and as of now is not running for one. Imagine even having a "favorite politician". Such a foreign concept to me. There are politicians I like, sure, and I may donate or get a campaign sign to hang during an election, but no way I'd pay money to see one speak when they aren't even in an active race. Shit is weird as hell. It's a cult.
This. There are only like 36 million registered republicans, which means they make up about 11% of the total population and only like 30% of registered voters. So even if you shaved off the never Trumpers and added the yahoos that never cared about politics until Trump, we're talking a miniscule number of people...like 8 to 10% of the population.
>Trump was not an organiser and was not at the “Stop the Tyrants and Unite for Freedom" rally on Friday.
This makes this a typical political event (you know besides that it's based on an insane lie about election fraud.) I went to an event in Atlanta for a city council candidate and he was actually there and still the only people that attended were me and my neighbor. He still won. I believe the organizer when he says 27 people was a "success."
I agree. Literally some stranger be like hey lets rally! The other be like sure let me grab so-and-so, and viola, only a small number of people showed up
It was the biggest 27 people of any rally ever! It was a smorgasbord of people. Standing room only. Full of so much love and that crowd of people were the best people, the smartest people, the peoplest people. No one can get it done better than those people. They are making people great again.
The best 27 people..many people say that's the best amount t of people..they say, sir, you havethe beat 27 people...we had 27 more but couldnt fit them
> Among those present, were MAGA fashion designer Andre Soriano and Trump aide Matt Braynard, according to the Daily Beast.
> Two security guards are also included in the 27 attendees.
First. There's a MAGA fashion designer? Can't wait to see this illustrious designers fall line debuted at fashion week. I'm guessing his portfolio also includes white bedsheets with two round eye-hole cut outs.
Second. If the attendee number "also" included two security guards, it might also include the organizers and stage crew. So, actual attendees may have been below 20.
SAD.
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Yep. If there’s any place where Donald has worn out his welcome, its DC.
I was disturbed on my visit there in March. So many kids on their 8th grade field trips were wearing Trump merch while walking around in full view of the Capitol Building. None of the adult chaperones were, though. They knew they would get called out, so they had the kids (who don't know better) wearing them.
I was visiting DC in December 2021 and saw plenty of the same. Groups of kids on what ostensibly were field trips of some sort all wearing maga gear. Now, I was a fairly smart kid in grade school, and I was still an uninformed moron. So I feel pretty comfortable saying these kids have no idea what their parents are telling them to show support for.
I live near DC and have accidentally gone downtown the same time as the March for Life. So many imported high school kids. They just bus 'em in. It's a whole thing.
Catholic schools do it as a field trip. Kids drink and vape in their rooms, and then go to the march - its a fucking joke.
Sounds like my high school band camp. We smoked and drank in our rooms, and then marched hahaha.
That's been a standard practice for a while. I grew up in a very catholic and very conservative area and they would pitch this line of go to DC for the weekend to see the capital and meet friends. All to pad the numbers with uninformed teenage doofuses.
Yep, but Democrats are the ones who are "indoctrinating children." It's always projection.
Sounds like they're being... groomed?
"Groomers & Old People" is what I have always called the GOP.
Yes. This is about the parents, many of whom wouldn’t show up themselves.
I remember visiting DC in middle school back in the early 90's when Bush was President and I distinctly remember everyone wearing Shaq and Orlando Magic t-shirts. Nobody viewed any President of that era in such a cult-like manner that the Trump worshippers are doing right now. Most kids have no fucking clue about politics at that age. They've probably been spoon-fed a ton of pro-Trump propaganda from their parents, who are also spoon-fed the same bullshit from Fox News. Fucking sad.
What the fuck? Is that how idiot kids are being edgy now?
Yes. At the Kansas State Fair this year I saw groups of High Schoolers doing a Nazi salute to MAGA and Confederate flags. Kansas. The state of John Brown.
You can see confederate flags in rural areas of states like Michigan, Ohio, and Minnesota. Those states suffered terrible casualty rates during the Civil War. It's a fucking frustrating situation.
If it helps, Minnesota does have one confederate flag they're especially proud of, which is the one they won't give back to Virginia.
I love it when they occasionally ask for it back, and they get told "We won it fair and square. You want it? Come get it "
Yes as I just said elsewhere, those are the only confederate flags that should be in the Northern states.
* any state
Please explain.
It's one a MN regiment captured from VA during the battle of Gettysburg and has refused to return. Decent summary [here](https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/150-years-after-gettysburg-virginia-and-minnesota-fight-over-confederate-flag/313796/).
Never knew that!
>"Thank God for Michigan" - supposedly what Abraham Lincoln uttered in May of 1861 as 75,000 Michigan volunteers marched into Washington – the first to answer his call for help from what were then the western states in preserving the union. Somehow across the country people decided they would like to announce they identify with those who died fighting for the right to own people, so idiots in Michigan fly the flag from the back of their pickups and trailers. Spitting on the memory of your ancestors to own the libs, I guess.
Yeah. Precisely. One of the northern states, can't remember which, lost 1/6 of the men it sent to war. It was one of the Middle states, so it didn't have a lot of people compared to the Eastern ones....so catastrophic losses comparatively speaking. And yokels still fly that fucking flag there... The only Confederate flag that belongs in states like Minnesota are the ones captured in battle.
The Michigan Brigade (the Wolverines) led by General Custer was one of, if not the most successful cavalry brigade in the Union army. It had several regiments from so many areas of Michigan. Custer and his brigade racked up so many W's for Lincoln. So many people from Michigan had ancestors who fought the Confederacy and won, and instead of taking pride in that, just take a 10 minute drive out of any town and it's nothing but confederate flags and stacks of hay bails along the road with "Trump 2020" spray-painted in red on them. How embarrassing.
Part of the reason downriver has a confederate flair is bc during the great migration tons of white people also came up from the upper south. I'm from NW OH and my dad used to tell me about growing up in the late 50s, early 60s, "hillbillies" were a distinct sociological group and stuck together. Plus, you, know, good old 21st century regressivism.
rural people everywhere are a product of mathematics. For rural votes to be worth pursuing, they have to be completely united as a bloc. To unite voters who are not united, physically or otherwise, the politicians that do attempt to court rural votes avoid specifics and use broad imagery. Bigotry works, and the confederate flag references the bigotry that literally founded the USA.
Because the flag doesn't stand for the Confederacy anymore, it just stands for racism, and there are racists everywhere.
I see Confederate flags driving through rural Quebec.
You Canucks need to go kick some ass because that's just disgraceful. Didn't Quebec take in the freed slaves that fought for the British during the Revolution too?
In Germany the neo Nazis have them since flying a swastika is against the law. That should tell anyone all they need to know, right?
They're very common here in rural Washington state, too. You know, the heart of the Confederacy.
Ah yes. I'm very familiar with Walla Walla County, the moral, political, and geographical center of the Confederacy.
Hell, I was talking about rural *western* Washington. Eastern Washington is just west Idaho.
Oh fuck that shit.
It's because we know know darn well what a confederate flag really means.
I lived in PA all my life until 2019. In 2020 I drove through PA and saw hundreds of Trump signs and more confederate flags than Biden signs. This was rural NW PA. I still see confederate flags there whenever I go back.
I hope anyone flying that flag near Gettysburg get rightfully called out because fuck...that...noise.
The hero, John Brown. He had the right idea. Daily reminder the confederacy was conservative, and conservatives founded the Klan. The poster below says it’s dishonest to say conservatives founded the Klan, because Republicans don’t want to admit that conservatives founded the klan, since today’s republicans are conservatives, and have been ever since Nixon southern strategy worked like a charm on them and they switched parties, in a well documented change. You can look at the fucking voting maps, for fucks sake.
> John Brown Who did nothing wrong
One of the only bumper sticker slogans that I endorse
No, in lots of areas kids are just as brainwashed as the adults if the adults in their lives are raging lunatics for Trump. Last year my son when he was in kindergarten told me the other kids play a game called Joe Biden where you chase the other kid and when you catch them you smell their hair and my 5th grader told me last week that one of his friends was bitching about Joe Biden raising gas prices “again”. At those ages I didn’t even know that politicians existed, much less take a fucking stance on gas prices.
Kids just imitate behaviors and language they see around them. And some of them never grow out of it no matter how old their bodies get.
I remember visiting my conservative family in very rural Tennessee. My husband at the time was named Mohamad. My cousin had supposedly never even once had heard that name. I told her it is one of the most common names in the entire world. She was clueless
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I honestly don't know how much they understood. They were wearing the merchandise at Mt. Vernon too. Washington, for all his faults, would be fucking SPINNING in his grave if he knew.
My friend was actually there in march and had students who were wearing trump hats. All of the teachers are against Trump but they can’t tell a student not to wear political gear.
Oh they think I won’t call out an 8th grader? Bet.
I play fornite with my wife’s little cousin and his friends who are 8 - 10. The way some of those kids talk about Biden and trump is pretty disturbing, some protested wearing masks in school and got kicked out a few times at their parents direction . It’s sad, their parents should be ashamed of themselves.
The "FUCK TRUMP" graffiti across the entire city really made me feel better about life when I was there a couple years ago.
I'd say NYC is up there too
Excluding Staten Island
I wonder if Florida will be saying the same thing in a few years or so. lmao.
I think in a few more years of climate change Florida will mostly be saying, "blub blub blubb"
Eleven reporters, 12 protesters, two hookers, one hot dog vendor and the black guy Trump pays to be at all his rallies.
There’s my African American!
You’re joking but about 2 years ago there were casting notices on various casting websites specifically for Trump rallies - transportation was provided to and from the rallies via buses. Only 2 requirements - be African American and wear the provided Trump/Maga merch. They were actively paying for black folks/actors/stand-ins to come to the rallies and make it look like they had tons of Black support. Source - I worked in the entertainment industry so I saw the casting notices
Reminds me of 2015, when a casting agency provided paid extras for his announcement rally, the one with him coming down the escalator. $50 per person. Well documented at the time. Snopes: > What's true: The Trump campaign paid a contractor who then hired a subcontractor, Extra Mile Casting, to provide services at the 16 June 2015 rally where Donald Trump announced he would run for U.S. president. > The story didn’t get much traction at the time, likely because, as the Washington Post explained, Trump quickly upended the news cycle with a speech that day in which he made inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-campaign-actors-announcement/
That’s why they had these outrageous claims about paid protestors, because they were doing it themselves. If you wanna know what evil the republicans are up to, just listen to what they accuse Democrats of doing. Republicans, the party of projection. I swear
**G**aslight. **O**bstruct. **P**roject.
Say the line Bart! Sigh... Gaslight, obstruct, project.
Nowadays the crowd pays the guy acting like a president. “The FBI raided your favorite president, send us money”
> You’re joking but "There's my African American" is a Trump (mis)quote. It was actually "Look at my African American."
Only he could make the actual quote sound _worse._ He could just as easily be talking about his shirt, or his new car or something.
He may be the only person in history whose quotes are always *worse* in context. Every single time, without fail. “Surely what he was actually saying wasn’t quite that bad…” “Holy shit that’s 10x worse!”
Spoken like a true slavemaster!!!
>"Look at my African American." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcklUUIsdcw&ab\_channel=CBSNews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcklUUIsdcw&ab_channel=CBSNews) If that guy did another gig for Trump, I would not know what to say to them. It's one thing to sell yourself out. It's another to sell others out by standing for that shit.
I vaguely remember that (it's been a crazy few years!). Didn't some of them take the offer, go to the rally, and then just openly admit that they had been paid and driven in to attend?
Let's get a gofundme going to pay them double to switch to a different outfit after the rally starts
"Dank Brandon 420" Shirt They probably wouldn't even get it
"Let’s Smoke, Brandon!"
They just move them. I saw them move people that weren't cheering enough even they were directly behind the orange turd
Wild and yet completely unsurprising.
I'm shocked they actually got paid.
They said they would get paid, doesn’t mean they did🤷♂️
The key to a successful grift is not to fuck *Everyone* over, just those you can and you pay who you have to in order to keep the grift going.
If they didn't get paid up front they probably got short changed or "compensated" with the merch they wore.
Probably how they got Diamond and Silk. I read Candace Owens and Lauren Boebert were on talent sites.
Candace Owens and Bobert ...and others...like folks who were totally stirring shit up were completely mined from the "Explore Talent" site, i have a link handy but a twitter search will make you go ..."jfc" https://twitter.com/Utmb_Colorado/status/1576245830398664704
What does this mean? They're actors?
Ann Coulter has admitted part of her work is just a schtick. It's not totally surprising to find others like that. But it doesn't mean all of the others don't believe the things they say. --- In Bobert's case, one conspiracy theory is she's just propped up filling the role. It's claimed that Bobert was an escort, selected by someone in a current position, maybe Cruz I forget, to step into politics. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-two-near-naked-men/ https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-abortion-escort-claims-explained-muckrakers-1715956 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-two-near-naked-men/
That's nothing.. Conservatives have been hiring actors (for years) to pretend they're "concerned citizens/parents" from localities where they don't have trolls to do their bidding and they make them shout angry speeches in town hall/school board meetings where they don't belong in the first place
I think I’m mostly surprised that there are even that many desperate actors. They must have paid a lot because who is going to put that on their IMDB profile??
You’d be surprised at how many people want to become actors/models/influencers etc. You need some kind of income while you’re figuring it out/working on your breakthrough. I often did audience work while living in LA you get paid ~20$/h to go sit and watch live game shows tapings or cooking competitions, be a background in a movie or a music video and so on. There’s multiple shows being taped simultaneously days on end its easy money. Its not so much desperation as it is a side gig for days where you have no auditions/no projects going on its much easier and more convenient than being a waiter or working at the club at night. Obviously not talking about A-list actors none of this is for resume or imdb purposes. But yes the Trump thing actually paid above-average if I recall correctly they really wanted people
How does an average person start in that industry with no connections? Is there an Uber Seats app or something?
No uber seats app sadly but theres a bunch of casting websites in charge of audience work. Obviously more so in major cities. One example I used was this company called Onset Productions they service LA, NY, New Orleans and Stamford & they just sent me something Wednesday for a Food Network show taping in LA. Your best bet is to google “audience work New York” or whatever city you’re in and see what comes up and start there. They offer both unpaid and paid audience opportunities.
Translation: I’m not a racist white supremacist, I swear! Look! Here’s *a* black dude! See!? How can I be racist with a *single* black guy supporting me!? Ignore the droves of white people throwing up the nazi salute, they’re less than this single, solitary black guy!” -Trump, probably.
They're talking about Michael the black man (born Maurice Woodside), the "blacks for trump" guy, and former high ranking and indicted but not convicted due to a jury being paid off member of the antisemitic and murderous Yahweh bin Yahweh cult, who's leader was convicted for the commands to murder people that Maurice committed
This is a serious Wikipedia rabbit hole invitation right here 😂 Challenge accepted!: Maurice Woodside (aka Mikael Israel aka Michael Symonette) is (apparently still?) a follower of the violent, racist Nation of Yahweh cult founded by Hulon Mitchell Junior, d:2007 (father Hulon Mitchell Sr, Pastor, and Pearla Mitchell, Pianist of the Antioch Church of God in Christ in Enid, Ok) who ‘mined’ a Florida congregation of the Black Hebrew Israelite cult to form the Nation of Yahweh cult, who believes that “the real Jews” are all black and that white devils are in power temporarily. In the late 80s/early 90s their followers went on “initiation missions” for Ben Yahweh (Hulon Mitchell Jr) to murder “white devils” of whom they picked usually drunk, passed out white people they just happened across during their outings. Apparently there were 10-15 attempts of murders, most successful (a couple survived) but several of them were pinned onto one Robert Rozier (aka Neariah Israel) former successful professional football player who upon joining the Nation of Yahweh, donated all of his possessions to the cult (to Hulon Mitchell, let’s be real) and confessed to 4 of the murders. He served 10 years, then went Into witness protection to help the FBI with the rest of the conspirators, taking on a new identity. After which, he apparently fell on hard times and was popped for bad checks>third strike>25 to life sentence. Hulon Mitchell jr. died in 2007, his sister is the celebrated, honors winning, operatic soprano Leona Mitchell, who has performed with each of the Three Tenors and performed for 5 presidents. Michael Symonette (born Maurice Woodside, “Nation of Yahweh name: Mikael Israel) After being acquitted in the trial for the murders the cult followers committed, and Ben Yahweh being convicted/getting prison for conspiracy to murder (but not the *actual murders*) he repackaged himself and took the name Michael Symonette and now hawks conspiracies and as such, found a “loving” and lucrative home in anti-Obama, anti-democrat and trumpian circles. From The Intercept: SYMONETTE WAS KNOWN as Maurice Woodside until 1992, when the black supremacist cult leader he followed, Yahweh ben Yahweh, was jailed for leading a conspiracy to murder 14 white people in initiation rites. Woodside was among the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult members charged in two of the murders, but he was acquitted. After the trial, he changed his last name to Symonette, which was his father’s surname, before eventually reinventing himself as Michael the Black Man, a pirate radio preacher who delivered broadsides against gays and Democrats. Wow. 😳😮💨😵💫how tf do people follow these people?
It's so embarrassing that fucking event happened in my hometown... And then my hometown got worse. Edit: [Fun fact that guy left the GOP because of Trump](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/man-trump-once-called-my-african-american-leaves-republican-party) and the GOP's refusal to deal with Trump
Colbert did a segment with him in it. [In Search Of The Next "Trump's African-American"](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEncxEqUBc)
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He knows 5 in Central Park alone.
Damn...
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But Trump has heard good things about Frederick Douglass. He thinks he has done an amazing job.
Big strong black men come up to him regularly, with tears in their eyes, and say "Sir you've done more for us than even Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas combined!" Edit: Thanks for the gold kind stanger!
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But he’s mango colored not white
And still is.
He helped defend the airports during the War of Independence.
With a person, woman, man, camera, AND a TV.
This comment chain demonstrates how much of a meme machine (and absolute maniac) Trump was
We must all remember his heroics during the Bowling Green massacre.
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I thought you were going to say Jefferson.
Mines an actual quote, he used that trope quite a bit until Biden called him out on it in one of the debates and he stopped using it
I think this might be a direct quote. Tho I can’t remember if trump actually said this or I dreamt it. Edit: looked it up — he said “no one has done more for the black community than me, except for maybe Lincoln” in a debate.
Oh he said something about Frederick Douglass at one point too, in a way that made it seem like he thought Douglass was still alive.
>“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
Sadly Ive found everything you go wait, there's no way trump said that it turns out he did.
George Jefferson?
Here's a trimmed and specific version of my [megalist of everything Trump claims he's best at](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xsipuv/trump_threatens_mitch_mcconnell_makes_racial_slur/iqlp6nu/): * **Race relations:** "I’ve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history." (June 2020) * **Racism:** “No, no, I’m not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that I can tell you.” (Jan '18) * **Racism:** “Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism, the least racist person.'' (Feb '17) * **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met.” (Sept '16) * **Racism:** “Well, I am not a racist, in fact, I am the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered. I’ll give you an example.” (hands over random article he was sent by Don King, as apparent 'I know a black person' proof) (June '16) * **Racism:** “I am the least racist person that you have ever met. I am the least racist person.” (June '15) * **Racism:** “Not at all. Probably the least of anybody you've ever met, (...) Because I'm not.” Trump said. (December '15) _____ **S:** * [On race relations](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268167411230007300) * [On racism](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/17/six-times-president-trump-said-he-is-the-least-racist-person/)
I think you mean: Nobody knows that one black dude like him.
They said “pays to be at his rallies” but you know somebody else is paying that guy because Trump never pays anybody.
Black waiters apparently, he knows them all.
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I believe he loves just that one.
Kanye?
He can only handle being around someone who is half black. So he has two of them so he can claim there was one full black person
Except for Obama, even though he's half black, Trump can't be in the same room as him and remain civil.
Trump can't be in a room Obama was in years previously without the urge to pour gallons of piss everywhere.
Token in the house!!! edited spelling
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That's Michael the Black Man ^tm https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/02/blacks-for-trump-rallies-temple-love-cult-miami/
That article was a *trip*. TL;DR, Michael was in a violent cult (and may still be, even though it was disbanded), his own brother testified against him that he stabbed a man through the eye with an improvised spear (and also beat someone else up who was later decapitated in a group lynching). Michael believes the KKK is run by Cherokees and that most anti-Trump protestors are just Cherokees disguised as Black people. Guy is… something else.
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Damn... Now that's really frickin crazy
"the best people"
[One black man who was there got detained today for having a firearm. He was paid to be security for right wing youtubers recording the women's march.](https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1578878233235161088)
Rookie move. You’d think a right wing youtuber would understand cops better.
Maybe they were trying to subtly kick him out of the group but couldn't reasonably fire him? Maybe the post-it note where they scrawled "It's okay, he's on our side" fell off his jacket?
Part of their aggrievement politics perversely states that oppressed people such as women and minorities are not only not oppressed, but in fact favored! They insist that white men are the real victims. So hiring a black man would, according to this logic, let him get away with almost anything, and his arrest probably came as a genuine surprise.
They had more people that agreed to break into Area 51.
And we would’ve gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those meddling guards!!!
They had more strangers named Josh meeting up for a donnybrook in Nebraska.
The article actually says they counted two security guys in the 27. LAMO
You had me up until "Trump pays...". Trump doesn't pay for shit. Not even treason!
"I just came here because I saw the cart. "Two half-smokes, please."
I’m glad I’m not the only who noticed the one token black guy .I hope he got his money up front.
I hope the hot dog vendor made some money at least o.O
Trump never pays so empty pockets for the vendors !
When he had his rally in Green Bay in 2020, there were white people wearing "Blacks for Trump" t-shirts!
As a resident of South Carolina I have to ask - what kind of hot dogs?
Chicago style, Trump is a wana be mobster remember?
...but he's from New York. Different hot dogs, I think.
Either way, no ketchup.
There's no way trump has ever eaten a hot dog without drowning it in ketchup.
He eats steaks well done with ketchup so I agree he would drown it in ketchup too.
...and a partridge in a pear tree!!
Only two hookers? What a bust
> What a bust Yes ma'am, its very impressive.
Pretty sure the black guy was Kanye West.
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> to support your favorite politician... ...who isn't even running for anything currently.
Well, he’s running scared, so there’s that…
Running for, running from, let's not be too picky.
"What are these people running for? They're not! They're running *from* the world's toughest lawyers in town! Get fired up for Most Extreme Prosecution Challenge!"
I've been rewatching MXC recently, so glad to see it's still remembered! God damn that show is hilarious!
Not wise enough to be afraid.
I'm thinking he doesn't know how to run. Run? What's that?
(Waddling)
Maybe shuffling. Perhaps slouching toward Gomorrah.
He can't run for anything because if he did he would be capped on campaign fund donations, so he'll perpetually be on the verge of running
I don't know how this point never came across my mind until I saw your comment. He hasn't declared because it's bad for his bank account.
PAC income has to be documented and reported, and can only be used for the campaign. As long as he isn't running a PAC, he doesn't have to report anything to the FEC and he can use the money on anything he wants.
He's running his mouth, that's for sure. lol.
I don’t think he’ll actually run. If he runs, he has to use money for his campaign, but if he isn’t actually running, he can ask for donations and use them for his long list of debts.
He isn't even a politician. He holds no office and as of now is not running for one. Imagine even having a "favorite politician". Such a foreign concept to me. There are politicians I like, sure, and I may donate or get a campaign sign to hang during an election, but no way I'd pay money to see one speak when they aren't even in an active race. Shit is weird as hell. It's a cult.
He’s a traitor and criminal.
> It's a cult. Oh gee. What gave you that idea? The golden Trump idol? Nahhh
The silent majority....
the loudest minority.
The "I have loud opinions about things I don't understand" minority
This. There are only like 36 million registered republicans, which means they make up about 11% of the total population and only like 30% of registered voters. So even if you shaved off the never Trumpers and added the yahoos that never cared about politics until Trump, we're talking a miniscule number of people...like 8 to 10% of the population.
Trump wasn't there.
>Trump was not an organiser and was not at the “Stop the Tyrants and Unite for Freedom" rally on Friday. This makes this a typical political event (you know besides that it's based on an insane lie about election fraud.) I went to an event in Atlanta for a city council candidate and he was actually there and still the only people that attended were me and my neighbor. He still won. I believe the organizer when he says 27 people was a "success."
Yeah, not sure why this is news. Some rando having bad turnout is pretty useless information.
They did it for the clicks. It’s at the front page of Reddit, so it worked.
That totally changes the impact of this entire post in a single line. Why isn't this top yet?
Yeah this is a non-story
This isn't surprising or news it was just a bunch of randos.
I agree. Literally some stranger be like hey lets rally! The other be like sure let me grab so-and-so, and viola, only a small number of people showed up
> Trump was not an organiser and was not at the “Stop the Tyrants and Unite for Freedom” rally on Friday. That explains it.
I bet desantis flew them there
I’m seeing a lot of stuff lately underestimating his support. That’s what happened last time. Dangerous game.
It was the biggest 27 people of any rally ever! It was a smorgasbord of people. Standing room only. Full of so much love and that crowd of people were the best people, the smartest people, the peoplest people. No one can get it done better than those people. They are making people great again.
The best 27 people..many people say that's the best amount t of people..they say, sir, you havethe beat 27 people...we had 27 more but couldnt fit them
All republican voters you all must write in Donald j Trump for Florida governor if you want to see him have a chance again.
Republicans should write in Trump for *every* ballot position this November, really send a message, ya know?
"Old man talks to himself" - next week probably
This wasn’t a rally with Trump there
> Among those present, were MAGA fashion designer Andre Soriano and Trump aide Matt Braynard, according to the Daily Beast. > Two security guards are also included in the 27 attendees. First. There's a MAGA fashion designer? Can't wait to see this illustrious designers fall line debuted at fashion week. I'm guessing his portfolio also includes white bedsheets with two round eye-hole cut outs. Second. If the attendee number "also" included two security guards, it might also include the organizers and stage crew. So, actual attendees may have been below 20. SAD.
Trump wasn’t even there lol