Armed Protesters Show Up to Protest Safety Precautions.

[MineralMan]

They show up with signs and stand right next to each other, armed to the teeth. Armed? For what reason. Nobody seems to care that they're there. Nobody's threatening to arrest them. Most people are staying home and trying not to catch COVID-19. Dumbwad J. Trump is Tweeting "Liberate" this state and that state, but only states with Democratic Governors. He likes those armed folks, I guess.

Personally, I think they look pretty silly. There they stand on the State House steps in Michigan, armed against who the Hell knows what. Nobody else is there. Nobody else cares. Maybe their protest against social distancing and hygiene will work against them in some way. Ain't none of 'em look very clean to me.

[malaise]

1. Don the Criminally Negligent Con has told them to do so

The word is sedition

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. picture title... "losers" or. " deplorables"?

[SoonerPride]

3. I just see men with very tiny penises.

[OhZone]

9. Ha - Yeah

[Botany]

4. The fighting beer guts.

Trump's own cabinet Secretary might have been paying for 'em.


https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/conservative-grouplinked-to-devos-familyorganizes-protest-of-coronavirus-restrictions-in-michigan/

Could they do 2 8 minute miles which they would have to do to be in the army?

https://www.military.com/military-fitness/running/prepare-for-2-mile-army-run

[Siwsan]

5. I'm so disgusted by this but, unfortunately, I'm not surprised

And what's with the masks? If they think that it's safe to be out in a crowd, they should also be brave enough to show their faces.

Personally, I think they should all have been rounded up and isolated somewhere, en masse.

[tanyev]

6. They gonna shoot that virus if it comes anywhere near them, you betcha!

[Hugin]

10. +1

My thoughts... Exactly.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. With Tiny, Tiny Bullets!

Tiny, tiny suits them!

[Hugin]

7. The guy in the grey pants with the cod piece is a hoot.

Are they gonna shoot them liddle viri?

[WVreaper]

8. And the competition for this years Darwin Award increases.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. The traitor told them to get their guns, too...One of his liberate tweets mentioning

2nd amendment.

Hey, I dont take any pleasure in saying TEN YEARS ago that republicans want us dead and gone, but now that they are going ahead with it, I am frustrated at limited options to defend myself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Our local knuckledraggers will be dragging their knuckles

in front of the governor's residence in St. Paul today. I wonder if they'll bring their guns, too?

[Moostache]

13. My favorites are the clowns in there WITH masks ON!

Sweet Christ does THAT have to be an exhausting life...constantly hating everything that you secretly KNOW to be true, but lacking the ability to not go along with the gun-totin' idiot brigade?

I have no use for any of them....may they all infect each other alone...that is one herd that needs culling, not immunity...

[MineralMan]

21. You have to wonder what it is they're afraid of, really.

There they all are with their guns. But, nobody is there threatening them, so who were they planning to shoot?

Yes, the ones with masks are strange. They're engaged in what they're protesting about. A contradiction in terms, it seems to me.

[DENVERPOPS]

60. Thank goodness the Governor probably

told the police to stand down. These RepubliCONS wanted a confrontation and to be the ones to be noted for
the second: "shot heard round the world" so they all could become Martyrs.......

[Walleye]

14. I'd like to see them walk a mile or 2 loaded down with all that hardware

And their beer guts.

[Jeebo]

15. Those people are STUPID.

Capital S, capital T, capital U, capital PID. As Mike Malloy would say, they are dumber than a sackful of doorknobs.

-- Ron

[Hekate]

16. "Live Free or Die"? Well, okay, then. What idiots.

[Pacifist Patriot]

32. At this point, maybe his sign would be better phrased, "Live Free and Die."

What complete and utter morons.

[Skraxx]

17. Radicalized Cultists

All roads lead to Putin. I'd bet dollars to donuts the organizations behind this are tied back to Russian troll farms.

[OhZone]

18. Dawn of the Braindead!

[Pacifist Patriot]

35. My weird first thought when I saw that...

was "Damn, I'd hate to be one of that woman's relatives. She is going to be infamous!!!" And then my brain went to zombies. The picture is creepy AF.

[SWBTATTReg]

39. Isn't it amazing? I literally can see all of the CV particles flying from mouth to mouth, in the...

first picture. I suspect that a lot of these jokers are going to be coming down sick before too long. Can't say I'm sorry, being that despite medical warnings to stay isolated and / or stay home, they ignored the warnings still.

I just hope that the hospital beds aren't too full when someone more closer to me, heaven forbid, come down sick despite the safeguards we all are following, versa these ignorant assh**es. Maybe the doctors will choose and pick who lives, those that are responsible and caring, vs. those that are recklessly putting themselves and others in harms' way.

[KayF]

19. they REALLY need their gardening supplies! n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. And hair salon appointments!

My gray roots are starting to show; whatever shall I do??? My FREEDOM is being taken away!

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. I saw that we were going to lose about 88% of the blonde population in about 8 weeks.

[Initech]

57. And their fishing trips!

[redstatebluegirl]

20. They look like they just crawled out of Mom's basement.

[Frustratedlady]

22. I said, not 5 minutes ago, that, "Someone is going to get killed over this Michigan issue."

Then I opened this post.

I had seen one of the protesters a day or so ago with a gun hanging out the window and cringed. When they get fired up, no telling what will ensue.

Why do they hate Whitmer so much? Because Trump does?

Someone needs to crack an egg and take half the shell around to collect the brains in that group. I don't think they'd need the whole shell. Just sayin'.

[SWBTATTReg]

41. Because they are paid to do this. I strongly suspect that some of them are paid actors (...

that rump uses all of the time, in order to dup his followers). That's okay, they are literally killing themselves.

[mitch96]

53. It would be interesting to see if there was an ad in the paper/facebook/twitter in the gunut section

To hire protesters... A very rodger stone thing to do... I can see the ad now..
"Show your 2nd amendment rights and look oh so cool on the capitol steps.." oh shit, right this is about the virus....... never mind...
m

[SWBTATTReg]

71. I'm surprised that someone hadn't already (popped an example of these ads up, seeking...

volunteers for these rallies). There usually is something on DU about these ads/etc. popping up.

[tblue37]

73. Or Craigslist. nt

[Different Drummer]

61. "Why do they hate Whitmer so much? Because Trump does?"

And...we have a winner!

[Frustratedlady]

66. Crazy, isn't it?

[Different Drummer]

67. Extremely.

DD

[Celerity]

74. in almost every other advanced nation on the planet, those fuckers would be surround by coppers

with far more firepower and taken down HARD as domestic terrorists.

It is madness they can walk around fully armed in public (let alone near a Statehouse) with utter impunity.

The US is a tinderbox, just waiting for a swan vesta to light it afire.

[Frustratedlady]

75. Ha! Had to look up swan vesta. Good one!

[Celerity]

76. Yes, it is a generic term for matches in Britain (I grew up in London)

Sorta like Kleenex for tissues

[Walleye]

23. Are they aware that the Governor was elected by a majority of the people in their state?

[gratuitous]

33. See, that's the problem

Trump and his fanboiz aren't used to that whole "majority rules" concept. Trump didn't get the most votes, but won the presidency, just like George W. Bush. They're selfish spoiled children who just want their way, all other considerations be damned.

[Walleye]

36. If only they were capable of governing, even a little bit

[Rorey]

24. "protest against hygiene"

[NurseJackie]

25. For the most part, they've all got a certain "look" about themselves, don't they?

Beer guts, facial hair, baseball caps (covering balding heads), etc etc. I wonder why that is.

[MineralMan]

30. It's almost like their guns are to cover up some sort of inadequacy, isn't it?

Hmm...

[ProfessorGAC]

44. The Inadequacies Are Dual

Below the waist & above the neck.

[Different Drummer]

62. You win the thread!

[Windy City Charlie]

26. Crazy

They're all acting so tough and such, but expecting one of the others to make the first move. About like the days of picture day in grade school and a group of kids saying "let's make rabbit ears" or whatever, and none of them following through except for the one kid that did so, only because he wanted to feel by doing so, he'd fit in with the others.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Virus impervious to bullets and public relations offensives. . . . nt

[MineralMan]

29. How come none of their wimmenfolk came to stand with them?

That's interesting, too.

Maybe they're the 1st Incel Brigade or something.

[underpants]

31. RED DUH!

[MineralMan]

34. The guy to the right of the Whitmer sign guy is the spitting image

of a young Che Guevara. I wonder if he knows who that is, or did he just see a poster somewhere?

[ismnotwasm]

46. Well.

Somebody failed history ...

[MineralMan]

47. Yeah. That one wasn't born when that was a "look" for radical revolutionaries.

But, the posters are still around, so he thought it looked cool and, you know, "dangerous."

I suspect that particular member of the group fancies himself an anarchist. The two guys with the white masks appear to be young incels, engaging in male bonding with their elders or something. It's interesting to look at individuals in that group photo.

[Ohiogal]

38. Big male crybabies

Don’t like no librul wimmins tellin em what to do!

[MineralMan]

40. There are no women in that group, either.

Not welcome, I guess, or unwilling to be seen with the morons.

[ismnotwasm]

43. They look fucking ridiculous

Especially the ones with masks.

They also look like every other quasi biker gun group with white supremacist leanings. Seriously they all look alike. Fucking beanies and caps. Fucking Goateed wearing swag bellied assholes. There’s a skinny ass subset that look like they can barely hold up their damn AK dash whatever the fuck number up.

Anywhere you go. They look just like this. They also look kind of...unwashed and stinky.

(Ok, disclaimer, My husband is bearded and bellied, although he’s a bit taller than those..persons..appear to be. He thinks they look like morons)

[MineralMan]

45. Yup. Same set of guys everywhere they show up.

That style of beard is de rigueur with that group it seems. Any time I see a pot-bellied guy with that particular beard, I give him a wide berth. Usually an asshole of the first order.

But, check out "Che Guevara" to the right of the guy with the Whitmer sign. He seems to have his causes mixed up, somehow. Apparently he wasn't born when that look was all the rage with the "revolutionaries." But, he saw a poster somewhere, I guess.

[pamdb]

48. White trash

What are they going to do, shoot the virus?

Personally, I don't care if they infect each other (culling the herd) but the problem is they will infect other, sane, people.

[MineralMan]

51. It's unlikely anyone with any sense will get near any of those guys.

My impulse when I see a group like that is to want to stand off to the side, light a firecracker, and flick it towards the group to see how they react. Most of them would "duck and cover," I'm sure.

[Different Drummer]

64. "What are they going to do, shoot the virus?"

"By golly, that virus better not come anywhere near me! I got a high-powered rifle and I know how to use it!"

[eShirl]

49. come get yer germs!!!!!1

[MineralMan]

52. Ewww....

[doc03]

50. Is that stupid or what they protest to open

things yet I see some of them with masks. I hope they infect each other
Trump found out he can't dictate to the states so his cult
Is trying to intimidate the governor's.

[Talitha]

54. The Beer Belly Brigade

[TrunKated]

55. Live free *AND* die...

Freedom from life.

[Different Drummer]

65. This.

DD

[PWPippinesq]

56. Darwinism at work.

[Hamlette]

58. look at how few there are

the rest of us are home because we understand science. These people are just trying to be a bully like Trump.

[BSdetect]

59. Two wearing masks? All males? Evolution bypassed these clowns

[The Magistrate]

63. Hardly An Overwhelming Number, Sir

But if this continues, the riot act ought to be read, and these critters put to the choice of firing on police or submitting to arrest, like so many 'Black Lives Matter' protesters, or 'Anti-Fa' irregulars....


"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[Iamaartist]

68. I live in Mich see them all the time....reminds me of this....LOL

[Caliman73]

69. Ridiculous people.

It is a show for them. A symbol of their "freedom".

A car backfire would have sent them all running, and needing to change their pants.

[yellowcanine]

70. Almost enough to justify 1 portapotty!

[Skittles]

72. pathetic incels with their phallic symbols

fucking gun humping COWARDS

[madinmaryland]

77. Shouldn't the armed services have recruiters at these events? Oh wait...

Most of these guys are section 8 worthy. Even Max Klinger was not as crazy a these motherfucke4s are.