Trump supporters' last-ditch downtown DC election protests got off to a bleak start

[babylonsister]

Trump supporters’ last-ditch downtown DC election protests got off to a bleak start
They began with a speaker encouraging people to spread Covid-19. Really.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Jan 5, 2021, 7:10pm EST


President Donald Trump is still refusing to concede the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden — and his most fervent supporters are on the same page.

As part of Trump’s last-ditch effort to overturn Biden’s victory, he and his supporters (in and out of Congress) have been hyping Congress’s expected certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory Wednesday as the final opportunity to “stop the steal.” Trump fans planned a slate of protests near the Capitol building in Washington, DC, starting with rallies on Tuesday. Yet another will take place on Wednesday, at which Trump himself says he will speak.

And they’re not off to a great start.

Trump fans began gathering on Tuesday in Freedom Plaza and outside the Capitol, where recently pardoned Trump ally Roger Stone spoke. At the Freedom Plaza event, a variety of fringe far-right speakers alternately profanely denounced antifa, said George Soros “owns” Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, described the coronavirus as “fake” — and, in one especially shocking moment, even encouraged rally attendees, who gathered mostly without masks despite the coronavirus pandemic, to hug each other.

“It’s a mass-spreader event!” said podcast host Clay Clark.

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https://www.vox.com/22215120/trump-stop-the-steal-protests-downtown-washington-dc-electoral-college

[HUAJIAO]

1. Shouldn't it be pronounced ANti-fa, OR anti-FA

[rzemanfl]

2. I hope they all die of COVID without medical attention. K&R. n/t

[blueinredohio]

3. What a speaker.

[Biophilic]

4. Those hugs, what a great thing to do. It shows...what does it show? Why would they do that?

They really are dumber than f***.

[SergeStorms]

5. Wonderful!

Kill each other off, Trumpanzees. Its not often you get to witness such stupidity all in one place. They usually space themselves out a little so they can't all perish at once. What a slimy bunch of MAGAts.

[underpants]

6. That's all success to them.

I hate to say it but their people are creating their own legends here. Of course, that was also what Charlottesville was going to be and that was a disaster for them.

[rockfordfile]

7. What's with these un-American Nazis

[malaise]

8. Well a mass suicide of these morons

is not all bad. Hope they hug him too. I just hope they don't spread Covid 19 to others

[2naSalit]

9. They have to do whatever it takes...

To insure the rapture comes.

[Snarkoleptic]

10. Pretty sure I know where this is headed.

[erronis]

11. Oooh. I'm reading the Entangled Life also.

We're all basically just ruled by the wee ones (bacteria, fungus, viruses, phages, etc.) We're all just big edible food trucks.

[Snarkoleptic]

13. This one blew my mind-

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-parasite-that-makes-a-rat-love-a-cat-86515093/

The life cycle of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii goes like this: Toxoplasma reproduces inside the intestine of a cat, which sheds the parasite in its feces. Rats then ingest the parasite when they consume food or water contaminated with cat feces. The parasite takes up residence in the rat’s brain and, once the rat gets eaten by a cat, it starts the cycle all over again.

Researchers have known for a few years that a rat infected with Toxoplasma loses its natural response to cat urine and no longer fears the smell. And they know that the parasite settles in the rat’s amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear and emotions. Now a new study in the journal PLoS ONE adds another bizarre piece to the tale: When male rats infected with Toxoplasma smell cat urine, they have altered activity in the fear part of the brain as well as increased activity in the part of the brain that is responsible for sexual behavior and normally activates after exposure to a female rat.

The double messages of “you smell a cat but he’s not dangerous” and “that cat is a potential mate” lure the rat into the kitty’s deadly territory, just what the parasite needs to reproduce. Scientists still don’t know how the parasite works to alter the brain, though there apparently is a link to production of dopamine, an important neurotransmitter in the systems for decision-making and reward.

[hatrack]

12. If you're Cordyceps, there really IS a taco truck on every corner . . .