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Armed protesters demonstrate against Covid-19 lockdown at Michigan capitol
Michigan politicians wear bulletproof vests as armed protesters storm Capitol to protest stay-at-home orders
Trump calls protesters who carried guns into the Michigan state capitol 'very good people'
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,909 posts)Very fine people.
unblock
(52,392 posts)armed terrorists threatening legislatures while they try to conduct official business??
whoever said it could never happen here isn't coming close to paying attention!
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)In his view, only the terrorists are good people.
calcetines
(11 posts)Very telling that he doesn't say that. Guess he doesn't support the duly elected officials, nor those following the guidelines.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I doubt it.
Confronted by armed terrorists, yelling and screaming, he'd piss himself and run behind the Secret Service Agents.
underpants
(182,957 posts)Id be surprised if that wasnt a wink to the Nazis
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Ilsa
(61,709 posts)those same guns, everyone with a badge would be there to arrest them.
They'd be mowed down in a hail of gunfire. Any that survived would then be arrested.
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)What was I thinking?
Initech
(100,108 posts)lastlib
(23,339 posts)I have zero doubt that they want to disrupt government function so as to produce government paralysis, and thereby induce public fear. They thrive on chaos, and the chaos works to Shitgibbon's advantage. I wish I knew how to fight them, short of shooting them or burning them out of their houses.
Initech
(100,108 posts)ChoosenWisely
(17 posts)This is meant to intimidate the Democratic minority in our Michigan legislature. If the protesters were there to try to intimidate the Republicans, the House or Senate Republican Majority leaders would have had them thrown out and barred from coming back in.
They are looking for a fight with the Dems as an excuse to call in Trump and AG Barr because their cibal rits were abuzed.
This is a small minority of people protesting (about 200) out of the 9+ million in Michigan. The news channels don't have anything else to broadcast so they sensationalize the 200 tin hats militia wanna-bees that protest.
Gov. Whitmer will not back down.
C Moon
(12,223 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,788 posts)UpInArms
(51,285 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)cp
(6,672 posts)Roc2020
(1,618 posts)Trump with this kind of behavior? or do they just want to show off their big guns? because this behavior is only pushing Dems to vote more than we are pushed and motivated already.
PatrickforO
(14,599 posts)to vote against Trump.
But the question is: Will the Independents, who outnumber us, do the same - make it a point to vote for Biden? Will the Millennials? Hopefully the answer is yes.
benfranklin1776
(6,449 posts)Encouraged by der Fuhrer. Also unAmerican seditious treasonists, demonstrating their fealty to Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
TxVietVet
(1,905 posts)Putin aka tRump's boss used the same tactic in the Ukraine. "Civil" War is the end result. Send in armed "protesters".
Just saying........
benfranklin1776
(6,449 posts)And I agree. Malcolm Nance has warned us of this very type of destabilization activity by the orange ones Russian handler.
rwsanders
(2,609 posts)allowed as a warning to the rest of us, not just the democratic legislators.
Right leaning officials in the government will allow this to go on. This election may be hell.
PatrickforO
(14,599 posts)If we had any kind of presidential leadership at all, and not Trump, they'd be rolling in the tanks. I'd be rolling in the tanks, or at least calling out the Guard. Because these are nazi dirt bags.
DENVERPOPS
(8,865 posts)Dictionary Definitions of three words to think about when you see these armed asswipes demonstrating:
Insurrection......an act of revolting against civil authority or an established government.........
Sedition.......incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority........
Cabal.....the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot.
AND MOST NOTICEABLY ABSENT FROM ALL OF THESE RIGHT WING DEMONSTRATIONS IS ANY POLICE INTERVENTION.....
They are once again begging for an OHIO? STATE..........
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,865 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I lived about 40 minutes from Kent State.
Scared the Hell out of all the parents.
DENVERPOPS
(8,865 posts)frightened the shit out of every citizen in the U.S. to the depths of their soul........as should everything else that's been going on in the U.S. ever since....
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)Most law enforcement I know of frown on displaying armed long weapons. Jurisdictions and Judges usually do too. Conveying a threat and reckless endangerment come to mind.
If my they had suits and ties on, and brandished long weapons they'd look like the mobsters they are following.
ancianita
(36,161 posts)rainy
(6,095 posts)Oh yea they only show up when the left is protesting
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)The significant few once again ride roughshod over the insignificant many. Why give these misanthropes all the press? Because that's what the press does. There wouldn't be controversy if they didn't, and controversy leads on the nightly news.
Do I often answer my own questions? Why yes, yes I do, thank you. I'm in a crowd when I'm all alone.
Crowman2009
(2,503 posts)Be it the beards, wanting a religious law based on their favorite book, weapons fetish, etc.
Crowman2009
(2,503 posts)... is because they are either friends with these terrorists or related. Just sayin'!
DENVERPOPS
(8,865 posts)Most of the people in this nation have no idea how right you are......
People on the left need to realize that for the most part if they think they can rely on the Police and Military they need to wake up....
If all hell breaks loose across the nation politically, watch out.....
Remember the Federal Governments massive outfitting of local police departments across the nation with bunches of military equipment and vehicles???
As I remember, Cheney/Rumsfeld even tried to repeal the Posse Comatatus Act and failed......
WASF
Crowman2009
(2,503 posts)...the police/military as well.
Crowman2009
(2,503 posts)-Meal Team Six
-Flu Klux Klan
Any other names my fellow DUers can come up with?
orleans
(34,086 posts)i don't get why it's not closed to the public because it obviously should be!
PatSeg
(47,672 posts)Translation: "These are my voters."