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struggle4progress

(120,241 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:03 AM Monday

"Makes us look like Nazis": talking about mass deportation camps

By Griffin Eckstein
Published November 16, 2024 4:26PM (EST)

onald Trump’s allies have been told to stop saying the quiet part out loud.

Rolling Stone reports that MAGA associates have been asked to stop using the word “camps” to describe potential facilities that would be used to house people rounded up in a massive deportation operation.

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” one Trump ally told the outlet. “Apparently, some people think it makes us look like Nazis” ...

https://www.salon.com/2024/11/16/makes-us-look-like-nazis-allies-asked-to-stop-talking-about-mass-deportation-camps/

If the jackboot fits ...

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Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags struggle4progress Monday #1
I am willing to bet these are the same people who stopped a local church from having a .... Botany Monday #3
So the Nazis don't like being called Nazis. Noted. nt Buns_of_Fire Monday #2
Ya know DemonGoddess Monday #4
You can name a turtle Speedy, but it's still a turtle. tanyev Monday #5
Wear it!!! As the old saying goes.... Butterflylady Monday #6
Those who bdamomma Monday #7

struggle4progress

(120,241 posts)
1. Masked group marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:04 AM
Monday

ByIvan Pereira and Julia Reinstein
November 17, 2024, 3:55 PM

... armed, masked individuals marched through the streets of the Ohio capital city Saturday dressed in black and holding flags with swastikas on them.

The unidentified people were spotted around 1 p.m. walking through the Short North neighborhood, according to Columbus ABC affiliate WSYX. Images and videos of the marchers went viral on social media sites.

Individuals in the group were detained, but no arrests were ultimately made, according to the Columbus Police Department. Police said officers had initially been advised of a possible "physical altercation," but released the detained individuals after determining "an assault did not take place."

Police said the individuals were "armed with firearms" ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/masked-group-marches-ohio-neighborhood-swastikas-flags/story?id=115937210

Botany

(72,475 posts)
3. I am willing to bet these are the same people who stopped a local church from having a ....
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:48 AM
Monday

Xmas show that had some drag queens reading Xmas books to children but they
came under the name then as Proud Boys. Exact same M.O. travel in a rented U-Haul
Van, wear masks, and are from out of town.

DemonGoddess

(5,123 posts)
4. Ya know
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 04:54 AM
Monday

Just because these idiots think that "saying the quiet part out loud" makes them look like what they are, is mindboggling. We all KNOW what they are. The fact that they don't want to own it, shows what kind of chickenshit cowards they are.

bdamomma

(66,390 posts)
7. Those who
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 06:37 PM
Monday

parade in the streets promoting this swill are nothing but cowards.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" FDR.

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