New: The disparate tribes of MAGA Nation — Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Infowars fanatics, Groypers, Proud Boys, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and die-hard Trump fans — are promoting an impromptu, chaotic MAGApalooza rally in DC on Saturday.https://t.co/CMzrlNykVU
— Tina Nguyen (@tina_nguyen) November 11, 2020
From the Washington Post‘s ‘Local’ section:
Demonstrations in support of President Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the presidential election will descend on downtown Washington this weekend…
The rallies, which include a Women for Trump event, a “Million MAGA March” and a “Stop the Steal” demonstration — which falsely asserts that voter fraud cost Trump the election — will begin Saturday morning in and around Freedom Plaza.
The pro-Trump rallies have garnered support from Fox News host Sean Hannity as well as more fringe figures, including Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the Proud Boys; self-described “American Nationalist” and social media agitator Nicholas Fuentes; conservative provocateur Jack Posobiec, who promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory tied to the 2016 shooting at D.C. pizzeria Comet Ping Pong; Scott Presler, a pro-Trump activist who works with anti-Muslim group ACT for America; and Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones…
Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller responded to a tweet Thursday in support of the rally, saying, “Love the outpouring of support for @realDonaldTrump!”
A handful of anti-Trump rallies have also been announced, including one near Union Station organized by local activists and a protest involving Refuse Fascism D.C., which has said it intends to stand against “the Trump regime’s attempts to steal the election.”….
Christopher Rodriguez, D.C.’s director of homeland security and emergency management, said in a news conference Thursday that officials are expecting a relatively small turnout at Saturday’s rally spread out among about a dozen groups.
Local website DCist has been updating the potential rally numbers:
… On Friday, the National Park Service has issued a permit for 10,000 people in Freedom Plaza. According to NPS spokesperson Mike Litterst, Women for America First originally requested a permit for 50 people. Following a meeting between the organization and NPS on Tuesday, Litterst said Women for America First increased the number of attendees on their permit to “more accurately reflect the size and scope of their event.”
Bethel Campus Fellowship, a Maryland-based Christian group for young people, has also requested a permit for Saturday. The application expects 500 people near the Ellipse for a “Proclaim Freedom Crusade” to “encounter Jesus and experience FREEDOM like never before.” It’s unclear if this event is linked to the MAGA demonstrations. (A pro-life group has also submitted a request for a 250-person prayer event on Sunday in Lafayette Park. )
According to the various social media pages set up for Saturday’s rally, the activity is set to start in Freedom Plaza at 12 p.m., and continue with a march to the Supreme Court around 2 p.m…
A list of planned counter protests:
– They/Them Collective has planned a “F*ck MAGA” counter protest on Saturday at 12 p.m. at the Supreme Court.
– All Out D.C., a collective of anti-fascist activist groups in D.C., has also promoted a counter protest for 12 p.m., beginning near Union Station.
– Refuse Fascism has a counter protest planned for 11 a.m. at Freedom Plaza.Will there be street closures?
Yes. D.C. police released a list of more than 30 streets downtown that will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Saturday. Several streets in the area will also be closed to street parking starting at 2 p.m. on Friday until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday…
So just a bit of advice for DC tweeps: these will mostly be local white supremacists who've been trying (and failing) to start shit in the city for four straight years, joined by a smattering of the Grifter diaspora.
Have fun yelling 'you lost, bitch' but don't get too worked up
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) November 13, 2020
this is what happens when the big guy doesn’t give a shit what you do because he’s got the biggest megaphone and needs all the cash – we are entering fight for scraps time https://t.co/rOlpUEfDcw
— kilgore trout, four seasons appreciator (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 13, 2020
someone will win! they’ll be excited and happy! they’ll prostrate themselves before the big guy and say look what we are doing for you mr. trump sir please love us and promote us. and donny will say fuck you pay me
— kilgore trout, four seasons appreciator (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 13, 2020
Parfigliano
A real gathering of assholes
WaterGirl
@Parfigliano: Since there are many groups, might that be called an asshole of assholes?
Barbara
Buildings near Freedom Plaza have closed their public garages. You can’t really get a lot of people to show up if you announce at the last minute like this.
mrmoshpotato
From CNN’s Twitter account (not embedding because of Dump’s disgusting face):
Trump campaign eliminates “voter fraud” hotline after it’s flooded with prank calls
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: A shitstain of assholes?
CaseyL
Pucker. A pucker of assholes.
mrmoshpotato
Time to bust out our giant foam fingers!
INJURIES #1 WOO!
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
Right wing factions hate each other. They just hate us more.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Ok. This new information does not derail my cheering. WOO! :)
misterpuff
Pucker. I like pucker.
A Sphincter of Assholes would also be acceptable
Origuy
A preview of the rally.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
A Republican grass-roots organizer is named Ali Akbar? have he and Sasha Baron Cohen ever been in the same room?
Frankensteinbeck
The important sentence, right there. Expect this to be sad. Republicans are dispirited, chickenshit, and lazy. Unfortunately, voting is very safe and takes very little effort – for them.
Have I mentioned that Trump is not going to remain a major national political figure? The jackals are already fighting over the bones, and his presidency isn’t even dead yet.
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck:
We are? Hehe
Frankensteinbeck
@mrmoshpotato:
There’s an argument over the best way to insult them right in this thread!
Yutsano
@Origuy: “Mongo just pawn in game of life.”
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck: I know. See my vote for “a shitstain of assholes.” :)
divF
@WaterGirl: An acquaintance used to refer to a heavily-coauthored work as “one turd from many assholes”.
I’m can’t remember whether he was quoting from Polish or Hebrew – he spoke both.
Baud
A prolapse of assholes?
scav
@Baud: Gotta be an amateurlapse surely.
although . . . . they are really really good at lapsing . . ,
semi-pro?
Omnes Omnibus
I really just think we should call them Republicans. Can anyone think of a worse insult?
Honus
Can’t believe Ted Nugent is going to show up draw a couple hundred fans for this.
LurkerNoLonger
Observers going to point and laugh must be masked. Not just because it’s the smart thing to do, but also to cut down on the smell from these people.
Delk
Hahaha… the kids are flooding the millionmagamarch hash tag with pancake pictures.
Just Chuck
So an impromptu rally … tomorrow. The crowd might swell to tens!
WaterGirl
@Delk: Do we know why pancakes? Not that it really matters.
Suzanne
And what fresh hell does 2020 bring tomorrow? A Zoom funeral for an eight-year-old girl.
I will likely take Spawn the Youngest out of the house so Mr. Suzanne and elder Spawn can participate without distraction.
debbie
@Parfigliano:
A parade of losers.
Gravenstone
@Baud: Goatse! Consider it the wingnut version of Yahtzee.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Kay will appreciate this:
16 Federal Prosecutors Tell Their Boss, Bill Barr, There’s No Evidence of Election Stealing
The DOJ lawyers are standing up to Trump and Barr
Delk
@WaterGirl: no idea but if you go to the hashtag it’s pretty funny.
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I was told that the DOJ had completely failed as an institution. Hmmm….
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Another Twitter user said, “There’s nothing that flips better than a pancake- except ya know.. maybe Georgia and Arizona. #MillionMAGAMarch.”
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
“Shaka. When the walls fell…”
Frankensteinbeck
Twitter is arguing about arithmetical order of operations, which is what happens when the president isn’t 24/7 devoting himself to hurting as many people as possible. Just think, this is what it’s like when Trump is distracted and sulking and not bothering. Imagine when we have a president actually working to make things better.
Baud
@Gravenstone:
Make America Goatse Again.
Mike in NC
I certainly hope Speaker Pelosi is working on some fresh Articles of Impeachment for Fat Bastard. One for criminal negligence during a pandemic, and one for being such a petulant asshole who refuses to concede, spitting once again on the Constitution.
Amir Khalid
@Honus:
Ted Nugent is what the Republicans have for a Bruce Springsteen.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
“Four Seasons Total Landscaping, when the campaign ended.”
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
Heh.
schrodingers_cat
You can add BJP’s flying monkey squad lying on behalf of the Orange Clown on the intertoobz. But I guess it should not surprise me when the British ruled India their ideological forefathers were British collaborators.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: No thank you.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Chicken.
planetjanet
Sorry is someone has posted this before, my Ilhan Omar has the best tweet response to Kellyanne Conway. 306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dammit I wish I’d bought pancake fixings today
Elizabelle
@Suzanne: My condolences. The plane crash victim? Very sad.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Been there, done that.
TomatoQueen
Here is a link to Miss Patti LaBelle’s Macaroni and Cheese recipe: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2020/11/13/patti-labelle-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe/
Ruckus
@Frankensteinbeck:
It may not be dead/dead but it is on life support and the leader doesn’t believe in science, like life support, so is yelling and screaming, because he does believe in that. IOW, it’s all over but the coroner’s report.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not to me. But they seem to think of it as a badge of something, honor sure isn’t involved.
mali muso
@Suzanne: I’m so sorry for this loss. Have been receiving and reading the email updates since giving to the GoFundMe and each time I choke up and cry. I just can’t imagine the pain in losing a child. Sending love and support.
Wag
@WaterGirl: Perhaps a Colonic of Assholes?
Doug R
A planet of assholes. With a ring.
You know, Uranus.
westyny
@misterpuff:
No love for a clutch of assholes?
Omnes Omnibus
@Doug R: Uranus has a ring?*
*Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Benw
@Baud:Darmok and Jalad on the ocean
Zzyzx
Trump is really starting to lose it. His tweets tonight are getting close to sovereign citizen type arguments.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Oh, no, is that the funeral for the girl and dad who died in the plane crash? I was thinking about them earlier today and thinking I would have to ask.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: clever!
Peale
@Zzyzx: if the county sharifes don’t recognize the election, it’s over for Biden.
dmsilev
@Zzyzx: Has his campaign tried filing a lawsuit in Admiralty Court yet?
randy khan
@Frankensteinbeck:
Ah, order of operations. Just like the good old days.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Echoy farts.
Zzyzx
@dmsilev:
The ballots have gold fringes therefore it’s not a real election!
Peale
@Zzyzx: once you realize that we’ve been holding illegal elections in this country for 240 years, you’ll know why the Deep State is against this one simple trick to avoid paying taxes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: Is it remaining unemployed?
trollhattan
Bigass golf course gator, a.k.a. another day in Florida.
Wyatt Salamanca
My sympathies to Democrats living Alabama.
It turns out that Tommy Tuberville is not the sharpest knife in the drawer:
h/t https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34670416/tommy-tuberville-alabama-daily-news-interview-three-branches/
WhatsMyNym
@Wyatt Salamanca:
So we lost WWII ?
ETA: that’s making the network news, a blurb showed on recommended News on my YouTube. They weren’t impressed with his knowledge of the three branches of the federal government.
Spanky
@Wyatt Salamanca: In Alabama* he’s considered a jeenius.
* Except for Huntsville. Rather nice place, actually.
Omnes Omnibus
I don’t know why, but that one really grabbed me. Perhaps because it is so oddly specific?
Omnes Omnibus
@WhatsMyNym: The Germans are rather dominant in Europe.
WaterGirl
I don’t know if anyone has seen this already, but Alexander Vindman has joined the Lawfare team, with a two-year fellowship.
From the press release:
So glad to see him landing on his feet.
Richard
@Amir Khalid: yes, A K that is a good comparison.
West of the Rockies
@Zzyzx:
Yep. He’s claiming he won PA (some shit about 700,000 ballots and being unballotish.
West of the Rockies
I wonder if Joe will pardon Reality Winner.
Danielx
@mrmoshpotato:
Image:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zPUe7O3ODHQ hyena playing bone congas…
Gravenstone
@Wyatt Salamanca:
He’s using the idiot wingnut (but I repeat myself) trope of Nazi = socialist, because it said so in the name!
randy khan
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s going around in right-wing land. It’s some argle-bargle about the mainstream media having called the race and Gore having been declared President. As usual, it’s impossible to explain why think it’s relevant.
mrmoshpotato
Any word on whether Joe Biden is going to lay waste to “uuuuuuhhhh Space Force! I’m tremendous bigly at Space Force!” ?
The Soviet shitpile now has his fascist legacy of hundreds of thousands of deaths anyway.
debbie
@Gravenstone:
Next you’ll be telling me the German Democratic Republic was the real free Germany.
mrmoshpotato
@Danielx: Haha!
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Democratic is in the name! SAD!
ET
I will not be at all surprised of the turnout is well below 10,000.
Omnes Omnibus
@randy khan: But the… And the thing is… Arrrgghh! I can’t even…
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Well, just look at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
I rest my case.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
And the Democratic Republic of the Congo! It’s a conspiracy!
WhatsMyNym
@Gin & Tonic:
They really covered all of their bases with that name.
Mike in NC
@mrmoshpotato: An Executive Order should disband Space Force on Day One.
randy khan
@randy khan:
I just read part of one thread. There are people arguing that because operations in parentheses go first, you have to do the operation that immediately precedes the part in parentheses immediately after you resolve the part in the parentheses. (That is, insisting you have fully resolve x(y+z) first regardless of what comes before x.) It’s madness.
randy khan
@Omnes Omnibus: Exactly.
MisterForkbeard
@Wyatt Salamanca: There is a reason he refused to debate. No upside at all for him.
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in NC: Good!
Soprano2
@WaterGirl: Ugh, that is so awful. My sister, her boyfriend (also the pilot) and his three children were killed in a small plane crash in 2012. The kids were 16, 15 and 10. It was a week of mourning for the whole city – I went to 4 services in 4 days. Definitely the worst week of my life. You couldn’t get me on a small plane on a bet! I never realized how many of them crashed before that.
Jeffro
@Zzyzx:
Dan Scavino is tweeting out some serious crazy videos tonight
Total martyr shit
trnc
The legal fund probably has about $25 left. Check the food court.
gogiggs
As has been said elsewhere and, almost certainly, already in this thread, pretty much the only (redeeming, ameliorating, comforting, I dunno) thing about Trump is that he always turns hardest on the people that prostate themselves the most.
He always wants more, there is never enough and when you reach the point where he’s asking for more than you’re willing to give, he turns on you harder than he does on anyone. He’s a pimp and you can never whore enough to please him (Lindsay).
JAFD
@trnc: You’ve heard about the two lawyers who went to the shoppyng mall ? …
One said to the other, “Let’s go to the food court, and try some food.”
WaterGirl
@Soprano2: What a terrible loss, I am so sorry. Just catching up on the thread this morning. So very sorry.
Luciamia
And the day will end with them whining that the National Park Service is deliberately under counting their numbers, even though the NPS stopped estimating crowd size over 20 years ago.
Nobody in particular
@debbie: Some political labels are more honest than others, and most are probably intended to deceive from the get-go. Rarely will any label aptly describe those individuals who attach themselves to that label. Humans, including MAGAs, are more complicated than that – until they become fanatical. Then as Santayana observed, a fanatic redoubles his efforts and forgets his original aim. I’d venture this is akin to a fire drill and a headcount. How many of their unthinking fanatics and useful idiots will “report for duty” this weekend. Obviously, I’d like to see it fizzle out like a dud but I can’t guesstimate the number of Pavlovian fools will show up. I’m very curious. 70 million Americans are “objectively pro-fascist.” Orwell’s formulation applied to pacifists during the Spanish War. He caught a lot of shit for that. Now we know that true pacifists are actually quite rare, and quite remarkable like Desmond Doss.
There hasn’t been an actual adherent to the republican ideology of Plato, or an actual conservative in the GOP for over 60 years.
Maddow echos Korzybski’s General Semantics fundamental maxim: “Don’t confuse the map (language) for the actual terrain,” when she warns us to pay attention to behavior, not rhetoric or labels. There was no “conservative movement” in America before 1940 but they continue to baptize posthumously anyone who cannot protest the anachronism. Libertarians do this constantly. I’m a proponent of honest labeling in my breakfast cereal and politics
P.S. And you are correct. It wasn’t democratic, nor was it a republic. It wasn’t even German. It was Soviet.
The Lodger
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re quoting Lindsey Graham’s bath attendant?