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NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:38 PM Apr 2017

Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town

Source: The Guardian

In a tent deep in the woods of rural Kentucky, an old neo-Nazi spoke bitterly of how he feels “betrayed” by Donald Trump.

“I’m sorry I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am,” said Art Jones, who the Anti-Defamation League identifies as a Holocaust denier who has been dressing in Nazi garb and celebrating Hitler since the 1970s.

“I’m sorry I spent $180 out of my own pocket to buy three big banners that said, ‘President Trump, build the wall’,” the blazer-clad Jones said, to a tent full of about 100 men, some of whom wore paramilitary-style uniforms. “Now he says, ‘Eh, what wall?’ I’m embarrassed that I voted for him.”

Jones blamed Trump’s failures on the “Jewish lobby” and the president’s son-in-law and aide, Jared Kushner, who is Jewish.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/29/neo-nazi-rally-pikeville-kentucky-anti-fascist



What a depressing article. This is how far America is sinking. I hear Portugal is a beautiful country to retire to.
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Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town (Original Post) NeoConsSuck Apr 2017 OP
The Nazis finally figured out that Trump lies. alfredo Apr 2017 #1
I doubt that is the reason Ahpook Apr 2017 #13
They think they are like him. alfredo Apr 2017 #15
" This is how far America is sinking." No. It's always had nuts like that. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #2
This! nt retrowire Apr 2017 #4
Yes, we've always had nuts like that NeoConsSuck Apr 2017 #7
"every potential altercation is settled with guns and military weapons"? No. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #9
Blaming the Jew keithbvadu2 Apr 2017 #3
He'll hold back until he is finally forced out or tRump is forced out. Then tRump's name will be mud Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #6
A favorite past time for many on the far fringes. Behind the Aegis Apr 2017 #17
I have to admit Aristus Apr 2017 #5
No violence today in the clash Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #8
I'm glad, for the sake of the town, mountain grammy Apr 2017 #10
Just how many blueinredohio Apr 2017 #11
Trump's not deplorable enough for deplorables Zambero Apr 2017 #12
Please oh please Rebl2 Apr 2017 #14
don't worry nazi boys joe_stampingbull Apr 2017 #16
"NAZIS.... I HATE THESE GUYS...." yuiyoshida Apr 2017 #18

Ahpook

(2,751 posts)
13. I doubt that is the reason
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:11 PM
Apr 2017

They are just like him! Lying, fake, pissed off at everything and clueless. Only difference is they are rubes and think someone like Trump gives a shit about them.

Useful idiots!

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,043 posts)
2. " This is how far America is sinking." No. It's always had nuts like that.
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:49 PM
Apr 2017

Note that the article states Jones is a "Holocaust denier who has been dressing in Nazi garb and celebrating Hitler since the 1970s".

He and his ilk did not happen overnight and it has not become particularly more prevalent.

Some of it is a little bit more out in the open after the pumping up of the faux "alt-right" meme by Breitbart. They always were and are white supremacist fascists.

NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
7. Yes, we've always had nuts like that
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:57 PM
Apr 2017

I know, I worked with a John Bircher nutjob in the 1970's. What has changed, is the rise of the NRA, and every potential altercation now is settled with handguns and military weapons:

In an interview last week, Matthew Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, said the groups staging the rally would come with armed security officials, who would carry AR-15 rifles and wear body armor.

and further down the article:

The commander of the Indiana III percenters, who declined to give his name, said he expected at least 60 members to attend in “full battle rattle”, with “our helmets full body armor, 9 thirty-round magazines and an AR-15”. He said he expected at least four other III percenter groups to attend.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,043 posts)
9. "every potential altercation is settled with guns and military weapons"? No.
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 07:01 PM
Apr 2017

See my post in this thread with news from the actual event today.

keithbvadu2

(36,917 posts)
3. Blaming the Jew
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:50 PM
Apr 2017

Even Breitbart had to be told to not pick on Jared.

Wonder how long Bannon will go along with that.

Behind the Aegis

(53,989 posts)
17. A favorite past time for many on the far fringes.
Sun Apr 30, 2017, 02:40 AM
Apr 2017

Sometimes, it isn't even far-flung people who enjoy a rousing game of "Throw the Jew Down the Well". Of course, there are also those who will make all kinds of excuses for the anti-Semites and try to reroute the discussion to other social ills, they too, play a huge part in the anti-Semitism which still infects this country.

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
5. I have to admit
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 06:52 PM
Apr 2017

to a great deal of schadenfreude over Neo-Nazi butt-hurt.

It's not like they would have voted for Hillary Clinton, but they could at least have stayed home on Election Day and washed their swastikas...

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,043 posts)
8. No violence today in the clash
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 07:00 PM
Apr 2017

Hardly peaceful, but no violence as white nationalists, protesters yell in Pikeville
{Good photo at the top of the page}
http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article147594424.html

By Bill Estep

Pikeville: Despite fears of a violent confrontation, nothing but verbal clashes broke out between white nationalists and opponents at a rally in downtown Pikeville on Saturday afternoon as a heavy police presence and metal barricades kept the two sides separated.

About 125 white nationalists were on one side of Main Street in an enclosure beside the historic Pike County courthouse, while more than 150 opponents were on the opposite side of the street behind barriers.

A line of local and state police officers stood nearly shoulder-to-shoulder in the street between the two sides as they screamed at each other.

The white nationalists hoped to recruit members with a message of help for working people in a place where the economy has been hurt by a sharp drop in coal jobs, but they spent more time condemning their opponents for trying to shout them down.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
11. Just how many
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 07:51 PM
Apr 2017

Jews and Mexicans do you think there are in Pikeville Kentucky? If there are any I'll bet it's very few.

Zambero

(8,968 posts)
12. Trump's not deplorable enough for deplorables
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:00 PM
Apr 2017

Even hardened bigots know they've been lied to by this guy.

Rebl2

(13,557 posts)
14. Please oh please
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:52 PM
Apr 2017

stay in that tent deep in the woods and never come back out into the civilized world-please.

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