Reminiscent of the "Tea Party" cult, mobs of right-wing thugs, waving Trump banners and Confederate flags, descended yesterday on several state capitols in a coordinated protest against their state's stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Some in the mobs open-carried guns.
Looking like a Trump rally, in Michigan they assembled on the steps of the state capitol without masks and not observing safe social distancing. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer commented:
“We know that this demonstration is going to come at a cost to people’s health," Whitmer said. "When people gather that way without masks ... that’s how COVID-19 spreads.By potentially spreading the virus, these dull-witted neo-fascists also have put not only us, but the heroes in our health care system at further risk and strain. In Ohio, they carried signs like "Quarantine worse than virus" to the capitol, again not properly guarding against spreading the virus:
"The sad irony here is that ... they don’t like being in this stay-at-home order and they may have just created the need to lengthen it, which is something we’re trying to avoid at all costs.”
It's both sad and infuriating to think that these sociopathic morons have so little awareness of the potential harm they're causing. They're listening to their cult leader, malignant narcissist Donald "Spread The Virus" Trump for guidance, someone who has consistently placed his reelection hopes and prematurely "opening" the economy over their lives and the lives of our front-line heroes.This looks like a still from a horror movie. It's not. It's yesterday outside the Ohio Statehouse. Incredible shot by @joshuabickel pic.twitter.com/wZFye9YTCX— Shawn Mitchell (@shecky218) April 14, 2020
UPDATE: Yes, it does look like a still from a horror movie... like this one --
its uncanny pic.twitter.com/anWmn9ufoh— The Urban Hermit (@sssssparkers) April 15, 2020
(top photo: Heavily armed nitwits protest COVID-19 restrictions in Michigan. Jeff Kowalsky, AFP)
