Pro-COVID Cultist Crashes Tribute To Nurses

If you wonder when demagogue and mentally unstable con man Donald "Disinfectant Donnie" Trump's tolerance of threats of violence by his unhinged pro-COVID cult will produce actual violence, wait no more. We have just one example right here:

"Salutes to nurses and other health care workers are being held across the country, as America pays tribute during the coronavirus pandemic.

But such a ceremony being held in Delaware County, Pa., was marred when a gun-waving SUV driver crashed a parade of first responders honoring the staff at Mercy Fitzgerald Medical Center Tuesday night...

Police in Darby, Pa., said the male suspect threatened to hurt people while waving the gun."  (our emphasis)

Imagine being so mentally disturbed to want to hurt or kill people that would treat you and protect you if you get COVID-19. The first responders are putting themselves -- and their families -- at risk every day at great personal cost.

The irony would be if this sick clown, who rolled his SUV after a police chase, required hospitalization; no word on whether he did.

Trump's Centers For Disease Control Now In The Word-Banning Business

As if more proof were needed of the ethical and intellectual rot that's followed dimbulb demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump into the federal government, Stormtrumpers at the Centers for Disease Control have banned several words from CDC's official pronouncements. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has helpfully provided a list of replacement words for these anti- science nihilists to use:

(Credit:  Kevin Drum, Mother Jones)

The thing is, these Stormtrumpers wouldn't see anything wrong with Drum's replacement words.

Make no mistake: these are the pig people. Sic transit gloria, America.

The New Brown Shirts

If you imagined the post-election rash of pro-Trump right-wing violence and racist vandalism might go away, Salon's Amanda Marcotte reports that Stormtrumper goons are going to organize and take their hate into the streets. Apparently modeling themselves after the brown shirt thugs of  Hitler's Germany, white nationalist /neo-fascist supporters of autocratic goon-in-chief Donald "Rump" Trump are using social media to organize gangs of violent wingers to confront and battle progressive protesters, drawing them into fights to both promote their "movement" and to play the victim if need be. A demonstration in Seattle last January that resulted in the shooting of a leftist demonstrator by an armed proto-fascist counter-demonstrator was an example of that tactic.

One group attempting to organize calls itself the "Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights," a name evocative of the KKK's various "knights" groups. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center's David Neiwert:

“These guys are there looking for a fight. These guys are clearly quasi-fascist, classic protofascists, and they’re on the track to full-fledged fascism. All we need to do is look at history and see how it happened.”

Neiwert suggests that these far-right extremists are seeking to expand their membership and power by appealing to conservatives through staging fights against a "far left uprising" that would threaten the conservative order, gaining sympathy and support from Rump's base. With the Justice Department in the hands of racist right-wing Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions looking the other way, don't expect anything approaching a national crack down on the new brown shirts instigating violence.