This election gets scarier by the day. It seems only a matter of time before someone gets shot. And if there are going to be shots fired, more than a few supporters of Donald Trump want to make sure they’re the ones doing the shooting.
On Twitter, and elsewhere online, Trump supporters are talking openly about bringing guns to political rallies and polling places. Some are actually taking steps to form some kind of Trump militia.
The living sack of human garbage that is Matt Forney recently Tweeted these suggestions for fellow Trump lovers:
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/708811928664195072
https://twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/708516727190065153
Unfortunately, Forney isn’t the only Trump supporter talking about guns.
https://twitter.com/RobinFoxNews/status/708974116653543425
https://twitter.com/LibrtyGuerrilla/status/709103137030668288
https://twitter.com/AmbikaPadmaloch/status/709142040232071168
@FoxNews Do us Trump supporters, have to start carrying our Guns For Protection at Rally's, WE WILL…..
— Radical Republican. (@todstertodd) March 12, 2016
@FoxNews I would encourage Trump supporters, To be armed when attending Rallies. This is for Your own protection. The Left Wants WAR.
— Radical Republican. (@todstertodd) March 12, 2016
You Liberals do not want to take it the streets, we will wipe the sreets up with your Blood.
— Radical Republican. (@todstertodd) March 12, 2016
Meanwhile, discredited right-wing hack “journalist” Chuck C. Johnson posted the alarming picture below on Facebook, promising to “use the Second [amendment]” against — that is, to shoot — anyone he think is threatening Trump’s right to free speech , even though he personally supports Ted Cruz.
Johnson took the post down, but not before it was screenshotted by Charles Johnson, a non-discredited journalist who unfortunately, and rather confusingly, shares the same first and last name as the dude with the red hair and beard pictured above.
Other Trump supporters think that their candidate needs to have a somewhat more organized army of Second Amendment fetishists to protect him from the “bad people” he talks about so much.
Like, say, a militia.
https://twitter.com/FoxLegChair/status/708520806716837888
Hire them? I’m fairly certain most “militia” members would be happy to do it for free. Earlier this month, in fact, the FBI arrested the co-chair of Veterans for Trump in New Hampshire on an assortment of charges related to his alleged participation in the armed standoff at Bundy Ranch in Nevada in 2014.
But hiring or otherwise working with Bundy’s militia may not be necessary, as Trump may soon have an unofficial militia of his own.
Yesterday, RT.com reports, a new Twitter account announced the formation of something called “The Lion’s Guard,” describing itself as
[a]n informal civilian organization dedicated to protecting the safety and security of innocent, peaceful Trump supporters from violent Far-Left agitators.
While the group would remain unarmed, the organizer pledged, it would be “willing to forcefully protect people if need be.”
Whoever was behind the Twitter account took it down within hours, citing threats.
But in that brief stretch of time, RT.com reports, the account was able to pick up 500 followers and a good deal of support from other Trump fans on Twitter, including many on the far right who presumably already own the requisite brown shirts and swastika armbands.
https://twitter.com/Third_Position/status/708760325353385984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/DonnyLateNight/status/708741461773295617
https://twitter.com/TrumpLiberals/status/708738364405649408
https://twitter.com/GeorgiaAlpha/status/708738477769289732
@wearelionsguard You are doing what needs to be done. God bless. Can I donate?
— Jordan (@realJordanIV) March 12, 2016
@Third_Position @wearelionsguard Where do I sign on
— Concierge Monthly (@ConciergeMthly) March 12, 2016
https://twitter.com/Jenixian/status/708760475354288128
https://twitter.com/lyz_estrada/status/708753037561438208
Meanwhile, over on clickhate tabloid The Daily Stormer (partially archived here), the regulars are if anything even more enthusiastic about The Lion’s Guard than their counterparts on Twitter — though some of them seem to have forgotten the bit about the group being unarmed.
On 4chan’s Trump-loving, fascist-friendly /pol/ board (archived here), some are talking about trying to resurrect The Lion’s Guard on their own.
Whether or not The Lion’s Guard is resurrected, by its founder or by sympathetic Trump fans on 4chan or somewhere else, it’s clear that the idea of a “Trump militia” has an appeal to many of the orange-faced demagogue’s fans — and not just Daily Stormer readers posting pictures of a well-armed Pepe.
Writer Sarah Kendzior, who spent many hours with Trump supporters while waiting in line to see The Donald on his recent visit to St. Louis, noted in a piece for the Guardian that
Several Trump fans vowed that the next time, they would come armed. Some warned that if Trump was not chosen by Republicans, a militia would rise up to take him to power.
On Twitter, other Trump fans are making similarly chilling “predictions” and threats.
https://twitter.com/BLang71/status/709123350233280512
https://twitter.com/DXint/status/709151004030341121
https://twitter.com/_America_First/status/708819001959276545
Normally, I would dismiss this sort of talk as empty blathering. But this time this talk is attached to a dangerous demagogue who’s managed to rile up a very noisy minority of disaffected white people, millions strong, many of them already heavily armed.
If even a fraction of those people “march on DC” or anywhere else, the results could be bloody. I really hope that things aren’t heading where they seem to be heading, because that’s a very dark place indeed.
Dear right-wing knuckle-draggers who’re drive-by posting here, there are two things you need to know right now:
1. The First Amendment does NOT give you the right to make death threats, and
2. The Second Amendment does NOT give you the right to carry them out. In a polling station, at a rally, on the street, or ANYWHERE.
Thank you, and fuck off.
SJA: Well, it also seems odd to me that people who snark about “groupthink” and “pc thoughtcrime” and that nonsense are perfectly happy to sign up with a slavering mob when it comes right down to it.
In Russian language newspapers we spell trump ‘tramp’. ‘Дональд Трамп.’ XD
Here’s the second amendment in its entirety.
Shooting someone is not a second amendment right.
Just as much of a journalist as the humor blogger. What a vote of confidence.
Holy crap, the bloodlust! One of the thoughts that came to my head is that if many people did indeed come with guns to the next place where Trump shows up, what if someone also wielding a weapon pretended to be a supporter but was intending to just cause chaos? Or even, given how eager they are to harm someone, what if a balloon pops? It would be super ugly, and then they would probably blame it on their usual targets.
I just really hope these threats are empty.
I love how hot and bothered our visitors are about free speech, as long as no one they disagree with does the speaking, then it’s death threats to shut them up. Don’t claim rights you won’t give to others.
SJA: You’re here on a blog where men often claim to be the real victims. Any facts will be morphed to fit the narrative.
Remember how some on the right wing said not to nominate Obama in 2008 ’cause if he lost, black people would riot?
Funnily enough, that turns out to have been projection!
Who could have guessed?!
@opium4themasses
Good point, guess I shouldn’t be surprised. But even after all these years of hearing about the shit neonazis do and say, it still manages to surprise me how horrible they can be.
Y’know, it’s not like the candidates who don’t talk about paying for the legal defense of anyone who roughs up protesters seem to have fights breaking out at their events.
Just sayin’.
They say that if Trump loses they’ll try to overthrow the government? Hitler tried the same thing when he lost his first election. They are trying to do the same thing that the actual Nazi’s did. I’d say that history has taught us nothing but its Trump supporters, If they didn’t already know the historical significance they probably still wouldn’t mind it when they found out.
So, I don’t catch all the news stories, but can someone tell me about these acts of left political violence? Got some names, maybe a violent event, even some violent rhetoric you can point me in the direction of?
Because if you can’t, I can only think of two explanations. Either the claims are rooted in, “Well, this isn’t literally impossible, so it must have happened!” or that our open, sometimes sharptongued disagreement is violence (in which case, concrete dude can take his own advice) or, and this is a long shot, could result in violence at some point. It’s like when that doxxed guy claimed David clowning on MRAs tacitly encouraged people to dox them despite his constant, open denouncement of it. And we all remember how completely correct and not full of shit that guy was.
So, I’m not buying it, but I’ve been wrong before. If you have an example, feel free to tell me all about it. I’ll wait.
@Number Sequence
Some people are so self involved, they can’t concieve of a mindset other than their own. They want to commit violence against leftists, so they assume leftists must also want to commit violence. Facts are apparently beside the point.
I love how the umbrella epithets of “SJWs” and “leftists” carries so many contradictory definitions. One minute they’re a violent and angry mob out for blood, and the next, they’re a bunch of wimps who are afraid of guns. Basically, the term can mean whatever you want it to depending on the circumstances, but I suppose that is the nature of umbrella terms.
Well well well
How long is it til they start firing unto their own crowds cause of some insults? Cause frankly I’m watching a kid with dynamite, and that fuse is getting really short.
But in all seriousness just try Trump supporters. I would love to see you cower just like the Sovereign Citizens of Malheur Oregon.
It would be the highlight of my day.
@Mels
Oh, I know. I am painfully aware.
I know I’m being both way too optimistic and way too kind, but it’s my hope that by challenging that mindset directly, maybe someone who would respond to what I said will actually go to the effort to try and get an actual example, not find anything meaningful, and end up with enough cognitive dissonance to be pushed through or at least towards the other side. I’ve seen it work. I’ve been a person that’s worked on. Maybe I’m projecting.
At the very least, I’d like to give someone pause for thought before they pitch a fit because we’re being meanie-heads to their favorite jackass with hair like a melted science fair project.
Since when are the Bernie suppprters violent?? Trumps followers are the ones beating people up and forcing protesters out of rallies. Trump doesn’t even condemn them. Meanwhile, Sanders denounced Berniebros for thier misogyny.
The people who shut down one rally were shutting down hate speech.
1. Is Robin Fox actually advocating murdering Democrats? What the fuck?!
2. Re: Daily Stormer guy with the caricature fish: paraphrasing Breaking Bad? Really? You don’t mess with Heisenberg.
3. What the hell is that black-and-white photo of the guy crossing two rifles, some sort of clothing ad? I feel sorry for that model, what with having his photo used by neo-Nazis.
“When standing on a powder keg, it’s wise to watch the man handing out matches.”
I learned that from a space-wolf.
@Unlucky Blackjack
This reminds me of how/r9k/ thought for a sec they had enough balls to start trying to coordinate mass school shootings before cowering back into the shadows.
Except this is like the Chimera of all the shit this blog keeps up on. Racist bigoted MRA types with a persecution complex and desire to stomp on everyone not them. Bullies who were bullied and take it out on others.
Frankly because of that, it’s exactly why I laugh. I’m just waiting for something to happen. Cause frankly I am getting sick of fascism infecting the country I live in.
I think it’s because Twitter, Facebook, 4Chan, Reddit etc have all been so happy to allow them to congregate and metastasise like the cancers they are while banning anybody who dares stand up to them. They’ve had years of one-way freeze peach to egg eachother on and convince themselves that they’re a silent majority rather than a small, loud-mouthed minority.
And you really want to know something sad? I think those people have always been there. I don’t believe for a moment that racists/misogynists/etc. ever stopped existing. They just were forced to be hidden, only coming out to spew hate before being chased back into the dark.
But now, they can meet other hate-filled people, form hate-filled friendships, and most importantly, never have to be exposed to that pesky “reality” again. They were given their own castle, had all attempts at breaching blocked by those who didn’t want to deal with the hassle of getting rid of them, and now they can launch attacks on others with a safe place to fall back to.
Relax, dude, buying drive-thru hamburgers isn’t that dangerous.
Uh, hey David, you do realize you don’t have to give in to the dumbass who calls himself BJ Papa Shitty or whatever it is, right?
Fair use is a thing, and giving in to shit-flinging monkeys who attach themselves to hacks like Milo just because of the specter of maybe copyright threats someday on some imaginary grounds doesn’t do anything good for anyone.