(I am not infiltrating: this is an entirely too normie event for the costume I brought. Should have brought a different one. Too late now) (It does mean I can live-tweet more or less safely though)
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Forgive me, friends. I lied to you. I intended to infiltrate the MAGA rally on DC today and it seemed prudent to tell the far right people who follow me that I wasn't going to DC I am in DC The rally is HUGE Stay tuned for coverage
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DC has been a trip. When I checked in last night, ~15 MAGA folks were hooting and hollering outside, drunk as fuck "They've been there for hours. Apparently it's their right," the clerk told me. "Someone called the cops" The cops stood around until they went to bed around 2
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@Johnnthelefty for a couple hours last night, and virtually every hotel we passed had a similar scene They're here in forceShow this thread -
Apparently my hotel is the Portland Chud Hotel. I passed Audra and several people with "Justice for J" this morning while I attempted to find breakfast Rode the elevator down with a bunch of obnoxious people in MAGA gear who started blasting a pro-Trump song and taking selfies
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This is not the rally. This is a small group on the way to the rally Does that fencing look familiar? The whole White House area is surrounded by the same kind of fencing that surrounds the Portland district courthouse You can't even see the President's Housepic.twitter.com/Xr3MW0C8NJ
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Lafayette Square, in front of the White House--or rather, the street by the fence separating the people from Lafeyette Square A small counter-protest The tape on the fence is where the Trump supporters came and ripped down BLM signs commemorating Black lives lost last nightpic.twitter.com/D4omJ59tA3
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MAGA people on the way to the rally with police escort past the maybe 40 BLM protesterspic.twitter.com/X3rPj1buoN
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This is ALSO not the rally. This is an entirely different group of Trump supporters heading to the rally It's been like this all morning. I scouted earlierpic.twitter.com/FdneGaD0lH
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THIS is the rally. You can't see all of it from up here but it's as good as I can get It's not a million but it's SO MANY. They're gonna overflow Freedom Plazapic.twitter.com/1ldvg7yonP
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Internet is FUCKED. That last video took 10 minutes to upload. There are at least 10,000 people here and a lot of them are uploading video so it's gonna be a lot of words for a while
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Someone from Women for America First thanks everyone for coming. Then says we should wear masks unless we have medical exemption. If we aren't wearing one, she assumes we're exempt "I'm exempt! It's called the Constitution! I'm constitutionally exempt!" someone shouts
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(Most people are, of course, not wearing masks. I am double-masked, in case you were wondering. Medical mask under a cloth one)
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The speaker instructs us to ignore the counter-protesters. "They aren't important. We the people are speaking, and they're scared" I can't even see counter-protesters. Too many MAGA people
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It's time for prayer. Hats off "I don't want you to bow your head. We aren't bowing to anyone today. Look up!" Not sure that's how Christianity usually works, pretty sure bowing to God is real important, but what do I know He thanks God for Trump in flowery prose
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"God told us that you will not be led by CNN or Cable News or Fake News" Corinthians 14:88
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"It will be weeks. It may be months. But we will stand with our President, Donald Trump!" "The bodyguard of the people, the bodyguard of Western civilization, is one man: Donald J Trump" They pledge allegiance to the flag
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The Epoch Times aggressively pushing product on people. I didn't know they even had a print version but this is going in the collectionpic.twitter.com/LmauEKZZfT
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"Everybody loves our President, some just don't know it yet!" This speaker says that 72 million people voted for Trump, which is a record The record, for the record, is "second-most votes," and it's 70 million last I heard
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Apparently the most important thing he's done is smashed the tool of political correctness "It was politically incorrect to say Merry Christmas! So many things were wrong. When j did my commercials, they told me I couldn't wear my cross!!" What?
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(An aside: obviously it's not great that this is happening for a variety of reasons but for me, an absolute nerd for the far right, this is fucking incredible and I'm so glad I get to be here holy shit)
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This guy is doing a speech so rambling I'm having trouble parsing it Something about how Planned Parenthood and BLM are the same because political correctness and abdication of personal responsibility? I'm not sure that's right?
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Another prayer. Off to my right, a small chant of "USA! USA!" The energy is high but god damn the words are dull
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Someone named Paris Denard with Black Voices for Trump starts speaking "Turn to the media and tell them we are here and we aren't going anywhere...there are 72 million people who are not going to be silenced!" So we'll silence the 74 million, I guess, that makes sense
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"We are going to WIN, WIN, WIN!" The crowd chants it for a while The speaker says he's looking over half a million people and look this is fucking huge but it is not even a little bit half a million
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He's talking about the Weather Underground now for some reason "That's what helter skelter meant! Divide and conquer! It means a catastrophic race war! And that's what the Democrats have been trying to do!" He proves this by pointing out that Democrats were the party of racism
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Someone points at me and says "Antifa" several times and no one seems to care, which is nice
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The speaker talks about Muhammad Ali for some reason. When Ali was asked what he thought of Africa, according to this dude, he said"Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat." Scattered applause This is the kind of shit my uncle likes to say and that is not a compliment
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He talks about how the evil ones have taken over the schools and the media as part of their evil plan. Boos. "This has been a long time coming and it's a revolution! I don't care if they put a smiley face or an old man's face on it!"
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A woman hands me an Infowars bumper sticker and asks about my body camera. Her companion looks at me skeptically and asks if I'm on the Left or the Right but I just keep talking about the camera until she relaxes She tells me about the massive media censorship in this country
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