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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1222752)

4/20/2020 10:34:22 AM

From: Brumar89

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Vectors of Stupidity:

.... Many of the protests devolved into festivals of recklessness and crackpottery, complete with conspiracy theorists, Confederate flags, gun-wielding cosplay, and chants of “lock her up.”

Here’s a scene from Saturday’s protest in Brookfield, Wisconsin:

Needless to say, Wisconsin was not, and has never been, part of the Confederacy.

The message at other rallies was similarly incoherent. In Texas, demonstrators chanted “Fire Fauci,” and carried a sign demanding “Deliver up the treasonous men,” including “Bill Gates, Mike Pompeo, Deborah Birx, Steve Menuchan (sic), and George Soros.”

Of course, if advisers like Fauci, Pompeo, Birx and Mnuchin have misled the country, then Trump himself is the dupe-in-chief. But such contradictions are not a problem for a movement that picks and chooses its slogans and principles to suit the moment.

At other times, the zombie Tea Party events took on an anti-vaxxer overtone, with its contempt for science and insistence that personal preference and ignorance should take priority over public health. In Madison Wisconsin, one demonstrator held up a sign reading.

No tests
No vaccine
No masks

Ironically, the sign does not appear to be a description of Trump’s policy failures, but rather a declaration of quasi-libertarian defiance, not just of the stay-at-home orders, but of every rational response to the pandemic.

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