By David Futrelle
So the Nazis and their pals had a “free speech” rally in Boston Common that drew … several dozen people. They were met by TWENTY THOUSAND antifascist counterprotesters. You go, Boston!
Also, Steve Bannon got canned at the White House and has returned to Breitbart to launch a “war” against the White House, but that was yesterday and you already know that. But hey, it’s still fun to joke about.
Let’s check the tweets, as Craig Ferguson used to say.
Love this city!!! Crowd size is just like Obama vs Trump… #bostonresist vs #freespeechrally – NEVER leaving Boston!!!! pic.twitter.com/21WzJSUZHV
— Tyrone Goldenstein (@tyrogoldenstein) August 19, 2017
A procession of thousands of counterprotesters stretched for two-plus miles from Roxbury to the Common today. https://t.co/yqrxFWLpZB pic.twitter.com/isw3QF84OT
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 19, 2017
Police estimate 15,000 counter-protesters are marching through Boston, shouting anti-Nazi and anti-fascist slogans: https://t.co/30EmFLxYZU pic.twitter.com/U5VXpUPEub
— ABC News (@ABC) August 19, 2017
Police estimate is 15,000; MSNBC says 20,000. Either way, that’s A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT.
Aerial video shows thousands of people flooding the streets of Boston for dueling rallies.
Follow live updates: https://t.co/SindDYycVL pic.twitter.com/hIYSdoImjr
— CNN (@CNN) August 19, 2017
If these are “dueling rallies” it’s pretty clear who won the duel, by many orders of magnitude.
The hate speech rally in Boston has about 100 white supremacists and TWENTY THOUSAND peaceful protestors…pic.twitter.com/bjaRqVWN4Q
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) August 19, 2017
Also, we’ve got witches.
https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/898958875390554114
https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/898942018881286145
https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/898957264542892032
https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/898957059839983617
https://twitter.com/dansolomon/status/898964001895350273
#Boston isn't the only place anti-hate rallies are taking place.
Find one near you. @TheMajorityBTMhttps://t.co/Gr9nA7ap0F#saturdaymorning pic.twitter.com/p8yWSwooNT— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 19, 2017
Boston restaurants send a message to the white supremacists who descended on the city —> https://t.co/zLbhDdM2Yw pic.twitter.com/zI80WwcjTA
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 19, 2017
As a New Yorker this is excruciating to say: I love you so much, Boston.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) August 19, 2017
The Nazis and their fellow travelers are really having to stretch to smear the counterprotesters:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/898957347631923200
Dude, it’s just a list of those canned from the White House so far. None of the crossed-out people have been “violently assassinated” or even non-violently assassinated.
In other news:
Trump pulled out of the Kennedy Center Honors event because honorees pulled out in protest. Good time to remind him he lost the popular vote
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) August 19, 2017
Kennedy Center is "grateful" Trump is not attending this year's honors, what a brutal low-key burn https://t.co/5bWdCySThC
— Christopher IngrahamđŸ¦— (@_cingraham) August 19, 2017
When the president of the United States can't show his face in public because he's a Nazi sympathizer and everyone hates him. https://t.co/xVg13l3MOK
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) August 19, 2017
Does this photo the White House put out today strike any of you as being a little … off? pic.twitter.com/wYNHVEcIl7
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) August 19, 2017
The other photo of the signing ceremony the White House put out is also a tad disconcerting. pic.twitter.com/HqDByETVUP
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) August 19, 2017
Oh, ok. The real picture is also pretty hilariously terrible, unless you’re a white male supremacist.
Oh laaaaaaaaadies pic.twitter.com/W02MEAZjnb
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) August 19, 2017
Looks like Alex Jones paid a dude to throw cold coffee on him? (I mean, come on, that’s the fakest fake confontation I’ve ever seen.)
https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/898665835908055040
The year is 2017. Nazis roam the White House, the National Enquirer is "real" news, and police departments double as burn units. pic.twitter.com/l1IdMf4vZ5
— shauna (@goldengateblond) August 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/2Ferdi7/status/432472189053702144
This is the organizer of the Unite the Right rally where Heather Heyer died. pic.twitter.com/MVnJHecLOt
— Matt Pearce đŸ¦…đŸ‡ºđŸ‡¸ (@mattdpearce) August 19, 2017
Kessler said his Twitter was hacked, then said he might have posted it when he was high on booze and prescription drugs.
Strange. He tweeted a couple hours ago that he was hacked, and Weev took credit for hacking him, but now it's gone. https://t.co/k6TSutDSVn pic.twitter.com/GQnWZnj13o
— Matt Pearce đŸ¦…đŸ‡ºđŸ‡¸ (@mattdpearce) August 19, 2017
Common Excuses for Fascism
Germany: Bread costs wheelbarrows of cash
Japan: Obeying emperor god-king
USA: A feminist critiqued my video game— Scott Westerfeld (@ScottWesterfeld) August 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/898593499821375488
Here at arbys we'd like to welcome steve bannon back to his old job: sleeping in our dumpster & barfing up gin in our parking lot
Eat arbys— Nihilist Arby's (@nihilist_arbys) August 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/nickbilton/status/898590515129499648
this is the stupidest thing i've ever done and i can't stop laughing pic.twitter.com/8dBCe1cBV6
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) August 19, 2017
This is the future liberals want (H/T @70sscifiart ) pic.twitter.com/VNNrPWPJaa
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) August 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/landpsychology/status/898599735484968961
Today’s a nice day to be in Boston, even though I haven’t liked living in America for… well, the last eleven years since I arrived, really.
It can’t even be called just a counterprotest any more. It’s a massive, encouraging gathering of people standing up to hatred, and some knobheads on a bandstand somewhere in the distance.
I love those anti-racist witches!
This gives me hope. Well done, Boston!
Hell yeah, Boston.
If only all confrontations with Nazis involved them being outnumbered 200 to 1.
This is how these protests should be handled. Keep the white supremacists and the counter-protesters apart from each other, let them compete with numbers, and see the white supremacists get trounced. There were a few scuffles with police, apparently, but nothing serious.
The Monstrosity, of course, seizes on the scuffles. “Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston.” Slime.
Also: I wondered why Alex Jones would ever go to downtown Seattle. It’s like the Mouth of Sauron walking into Minas Tirith. If he went there just to have a fake fight, that would explain it.
Damn, this makes me miss living in New England, flaws and all.
Good on you Boston! Stuff like this shows the Nazis in no uncertain terms that the majority are not on their side.
Yay Boston!
Also, for any crafty Mammotheers, I just discovered the Welcome Blanket Project. They are collecting blankets for immigrants who have recently arrived in the US. The blankets will all be on display in Chicago for a short time before the are sent to the recipients. I only found out today because they have extended the submission deadline. I’ve started planning a quilt to submit.
Or “wicked lodge”, as we New Englanders say.
So glad to see the huge turnout, driving away the darkness. This is what our nation, and the world, should be.
Ooglyboggles:
Something something metropolitan elite, something something Soros.
@Moggie
Speaking of whom, Soros I’m still waiting for college money, you know for the thing I did with them and those doing this and that?
*puts on Yankees cap*
Fuck you, Boston
…
And, yeah, thank you, Boston đŸ™‚
#BostonProud.
Beautiful.
This image is also quite relevant
I am proud to be an American!
@Axe – (squinting) There seems to be some sort of unnatural abomination attached to your head. You should probably get it looked at.
(but, thank you for the appreciation đŸ˜€ )
I wish there was more I could do to help with these protests besides looking at articles and sharing them, but I’m a mentally ill queer person with a job, a college career, and a not-as-radical family. I’m considering setting aside some money for some Muslim friends of mine in case something bad happens, but I only earn $8.66/hr for 4-8 hours a week. I wish I knew what I could do.
That is some next level reaching to suggest the list of fired Trump staff is an assassination list. I mean, he had to realize how stupid he was being by posting that, right??
Hurray, Boston– you do it right! Nothing but Mensch as far as the eye can see, I applaud you all đŸ˜€
More obvious version of that Trump “staff pic”…
http://i.imgur.com/BDVYn51.jpg By twitter’s own photoshopper @darth, of course.
Also, the original is guaranteed to be inaccurate within the next month.
Meanwhile people in Vancouver protested a gathering by Canadian hard righters that included members of the group Worldwide Coalition Against Islam and the Cultural Action Party of Canada. The anti-racist protesters easily outnumbered the far right bunch.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anti-racism-rally-vancouver-city-hall-1.4253117
As much as I normally hate Boston (sports jealousy reasons only), I love it today.
How do you like them apples, Nazis!
@Tessa
IIRC, Posobeic was one of the guy that started the “hillary killed Seth Rich as revenge for WikiLeaks”. He’s probably trying to get a new break to not become just a one hit wonder hack like that James O’Keefe kid became.
@JS
That’s the worst Photoshop I’ve ever seen. Nothing had been changed at all!
Does anyone have that Resistibot text thing handy? I’d like to do more with the resisting stuff, but I have almost literally no money to spare for donations, I’m fairly busy with doing all this stuff the unemployment office wants me to do to keep getting money from them (plus job search in general), and while I’m fairly good as a photojournalist, no-one resistance-wise in my area has call for such skills. (That I know of, anyway.)
Setting up my phone for a text barrage, that I can do, I think.
My thanks in advance for any help.
Posobiec also started the pizzagate myth,.
I’m pretty sure that sign with crossed-off Trump staff is a takeoff on lists one sees in sports-oriented Massachusetts establishments, with crossed-off names of Red Sox personnel who have moved to other teams. Unless Nomar Garciaparra has been assassinated, I really don’t think it’s a threat.