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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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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The Infowars supporter tells me thar Joe Biden has accepted 1.5 million dollars from China and is beholden to a communist party. That Kamala Harris is far left and has affiliation with communists I nod sagely. She eventually moves on
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Meanwhile the speaker, a member of Mothers for America, tells a heartbreaking story of how her son is trying to plan a wedding during COVID and her other son is missing out on his basketball season The maskless people are suitably sad
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Someone named the Reagan Babe speaks. She says this reminds her of the Tea Party She's not the first person to bring this up and I agree Remember: movements like this ALWAYS do best with a strong enemy to unite it
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"Are we really to believe that the party that approves of looting in the name of social justice didn't steal this election in the name of social justice?!" Boos Bulletproof logic
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She talks about how we are ready to fight for this with our lives For today, we'll just march to the Supreme Court
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A few Proud Boys enter. Weird to see them without body armor That's where I went wrong with my disguise, by the way. I was thinking of Portland protests. Sometimes I forget I live in a warzone (by comparison)pic.twitter.com/jpc4H9CHMu
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Uhurus echo as I find the interesting section of the rally. More body armor out here at the outskirts. They didn't come for speechespic.twitter.com/lag6AzQanR
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People are asking about the vibe. This is definitely a peaceful protest right now. The normie-to-chud ratio is off-the-charts normie. There's some rhetoric that suggests violence, but it's the kind of posturing I remember from the Tea Party, not a serious threat right now
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I have found the chud corner because of course I have Proud Boys chant "Fuck Antifa!!" at no one. There are no counterprotesters herepic.twitter.com/zJkQHsxyET
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Proud Boys just marching in circles. Maybe two dozen tops. I'm not really worried about them right now
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Meanwhile, an investigative reporter for underground news (?? Might not have caught that) tells us about the importance of independent journalism I agree! She says, we must protect independent journalism and also the First Family Chant: "CNN SUCKS!! FOX NEWS SUCKS"
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"What happened [to Fox News]?! What a disgrace. They are the enemy of the people!!"
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The speaker tells the narrative I'm hearing over and over Trump was up big in all the important states Then they "found a bunch of ballots that night while we were asleep" Then the media declared Biden the victor
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The myth of the Lügenpresse is ascendent. They hate Biden of course, and a variety of other groups. But it is the media who is the enemy in this story. They are the ones who executed the stab-in-the-back
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A chant: "LOCK HIM UP!!" Boy howdy they like to lock people up, won't someone tell them about FetLife I feel like we would all be much happier
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A chant goes up in a corner of the crowd: "America First!" That slogan had a real interesting history. I should know, my grandfather was an America Firster back in the 1930s He's dead now, and that slogan should also die
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Having trouble uploading video again but they keep chanting America First and waving America First flags I feel like I should know who they are but I'm face-blind Then they start chanting "GROYPER!" and I'm like oh, this tracks
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