Nazi armband, T-shirt worn by pair in Providence

[demmiblue]

"It's perfectly despicable and shameful,” says the ACLU, “but also perfectly lawful."

PROVIDENCE -- Sondra Pierson was having a glass of wine at Parkside Rotisserie & Bar after work last Thursday when she saw something outside the window that shocked her.

“Everyone in the restaurant turned around, and they were like, ‘What? Is that for real?’ she said this week.

A beat-up old Cadillac with Massachusetts plates had parked near the front of the restaurant, and a man and a woman wearing Nazi paraphernalia had gotten out.

The man wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat and a red armband with a black swastika on it. The woman wore a matching armband and a swastika T-shirt.

“I said out loud, ‘Are you kidding me?’” said Pierson, who lives in Pawtucket and works in an office right next to Parkside Rotisserie on South Main Street.

The swastika-wearing pair crossed the street to the Holocaust Memorial, leaned on the various statues, took pictures and laughed, Pierson said.

https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190417/nazi-armband-t-shirt-worn-by-pair-in-providence

[Heartstrings]

1. And these people breed....

Ugh!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Massachusetts isn't the liberal shangra-la

that everyone thinks it is. There are way too many knuckledragging idiots who think Trump and Hitler are their homeboys. Sorry Providence.

[democrank]

3. Sickening

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. And he's wearing a MAGA hat. What a surprise.

[struggle4progress]

5. It's not a crime to be unbalanced and half-witted in America

[Tipperary]

6. And not the south.

There would already be at least 30 denigrating comments about the south if it were.

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. "The South" has more effective ways of furthering hatred

Like sweeping the likes of Cindy Hyde Smith and Ron Desantis into office.

[Tipperary]

9. Yeah, there are no bad politicians anywhere else in this country.

Every state has these problems. Trying to remember where rump is from...hmm...

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. Every federally elected official in RI is a Democrat.

Whitehouse, Reed, Cicilline and Langevin are as good as it gets. Proud to say we get it right at the ballot box, and it's not even close.

Same at the state level.

Oh, same federally in Mass. with Warren, Markey, all Dem reps.

And Trump lost his home state. Big time. Never won shit there as a matter of fact.

Have a nice evening.

[Tipperary]

24. Two of the smallest and least diverse states in the union.

And you still have whack jobs. Get it?

[RhodeIslandOne]

28. Okay???

Look, I'm sorry, I'm enjoying my Democratic representation over here.

My guess is whatever state you're defending in your mind, two people walking around like this wouldn't even be reported in the Bugtussle penny saver. It would just be "Tuesday".

[Tipperary]

41. Ooh, got some real regional animosity eh?

I have lived all over the south; I have never in my life seen anyone dressed like that. We would laugh them right out of the Bugtussle!

[GulfCoast66]

29. Oh, like the great Southern state of Ohio? And the bastion of the Confederacy, Indiana?

Virginia beats the hell out of them. Even Louisiana has a Democratic Governor.

[RhodeIslandOne]

31. Half of Ohio is Kentucky North

And yes, I know Kentucky wasn't in the confederacy either. Sadly many in Kentucky adopted it years later.

[GulfCoast66]

33. So now Ohio and Indiana are actually southern states?

Until November Wisconsin was as red a state can be. Still very reddish purple with the legislature being republican and the recent election of a right winger to the supreme court.

So now the South stretches to the Canadian border?

How about we just stop stereotyping? There are shitty people everywhere.

But if where you happen to reside gives you a sense of superiority, well, how nice. Good for you.

[RhodeIslandOne]

34. We know how to vote, what can I say? It's political vaccination.

I wasn't the one who started the "SEE! There are shitty people everywhere!" canard in this thread.

The fact is these two bozos can't make a dent in my area and I'm grateful as fuck for it. Meanwhile mindless zombies who don't dress or advertise like these two shitstains and look like "good people" are continuing to vote for Mitch and Rand, Steve King, Gomhert, Scalise, on and on, and of course Dump.

[GulfCoast66]

39. So if I move to your town/state do I automatically get a sense of superiority?

Or do I have to do some kind of Penitence to wash away the fact I live in a red state?

Have a nice evening.

[Tipperary]

42. Lol, thank you. Spot on!

[GulfCoast66]

45. Yeah, right.

It really does not bother me. But I just got back from our local Brewery(red states actually have them?). Was feeling in the mood for some fun.

[Tipperary]

47. Lol, I know some small towns in the south with some good breweries!

Usually located next to the Bugtussle...

[RhodeIslandOne]

46. Yup! Free delousing with every housing purchase!

And just think, you don't have to look at your "friendly" neighbor from across the yard who says "Yeah, I know Marco is lazy and does nothing, but I'm still voting for him because pelosiobamaschumerMAGAMAGArabblerabble".

[Blue_true]

30. DeSantis barely won, that was after tens of thousands of ballots

were not counted due the the mail snafus that the MAGA bomber caused. If people that mailed in ballots had ONLY taken advantage of Florida's 11 days of early voting before Election Day, we could very well have another governor in Florida, as well as still have Bill Nelson as a US Senator. Mississippi is a different deal, that state is really fucked up, I feel sorry for blue people that have to live in that shithole due to family and other reasons.

[RhodeIslandOne]

32. Neither race should have been close.

A racist and a crook like Desantis and Scott should be imprisoned.

But of course the fix was in, I agree.

[d_r]

10. Meh they probably stole

The car or at least the license plate. Damn southerners

[cwydro]

21. Well done.

[bdamomma]

7. Hmm..

thus it begins.....this is bullying. tRump is unleashing his sickness of hate and division to those who believe his shit.

God, this is my home state. Were police called???

[sarisataka]

11. I am curious

What would you call the police for?

[bdamomma]

17. The article

said they stood on top of the Holocaust Memorial giving the Hitler salute. So were they right to do that, freedom of expression.

What I wonder about is that they proudly exhibit their MAGA hats and swastikas and their allegiance to tRump, do they lack so much confidence and feel as though they are threatened if they don't wear their so called "hoods" not white but red.

Progressives or Liberals don't exhibit themselves like they do. We sort of blend in. Which is what diversity is, something they will never understand.

[cwydro]

23. Lol , you ever been to a gay pride parade?

I have marched in them. We didn’t blend in.

Pussy hats? Remember those?

I know what you’re saying, but some of us blend in more than others.

[gratuitous]

12. Go outside, point, laugh, and yell "LOSERS!"

Then go back in, exchange high fives with everyone in the joint, and send another person out to do the same thing.

[IcyPeas]

15. yeah, but what are the chances they are armed?

[gratuitous]

16. Then you'll have reason to call the police

And if that makes some folks nervous, I'll volunteer to go first every time.

[RhodeIslandOne]

37. We have solid gun laws in this area

[Tipperary]

43. They have gun laws in Chicago too.

Just sayin’.

[RhodeIslandOne]

44. Invoking Chicago, are we?

Hmm.

[ProudLib72]

13. Only in America

Because Germany has laws against this sort of shit.

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Blatant and disgusting,

and MAGATs too. Not surprising they identified their loyalties - their ignorance abounds.

Please stay out of Rhode Island. We don't need or want your hatred here.

[bdamomma]

19. Your right

Totally Tunsie their ignorance and arrogance isn't to be proud of. We don't need that crap in our little state.

[appalachiablue]

18. American Nazis, 'German American Bund,' Feb. 1939, 20,000 At NYC Rally

(7 mins.). "A Night At The Garden." Feb. 20, 1939, Madison Square Garden, NY City, 20,000 people came to hear the leader of the German-American Bund and leader Fritz Kuhn. https://anightatthegarden.com/
German American Bund, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund

“IT CAN HAPPEN HERE” TV SPOT: 30-second TV trailer for A Night at The Garden, which aired nationally on MSNBC and CNN but was rejected by FOX for being “unsuitable for air.“
•FRITZ KUHN’S FULL SPEECH: Audio of the Nazi Speech at the Garden Rally.
•THE GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND: Transcripts of Nazi Speeches from 1939. If you compare Kuhn’s speech with the audio file above, you’ll notice that there were edits made by the Bund to the transcript.
•THE GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND CHARTS: A series of charts created by the German-American Bund as propaganda and archived at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

•THE SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: “Footage Recalls the Night Madison Square Garden Filled With Nazis” by Jason Daley. An article detailing the historical background behind the events of the film.
•THE WASHINGTON POST: “When Nazis Rallied In Manhattan, One Working-Class Jewish Man From Brooklyn Took Them On.” Reporter Philip Blum tells the story of Isadore Greenbaum, the Jewish protester who ran out on stage the night of the rally.
•THE MEMORY PALACE: “The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs.” A podcast story about a brawl outside of the Garden that night.
•RETROPOD: “In 1939, the ‘American Hitler’ Took the Stage at Madison Square Garden.” A podcast story from The Washington Post about Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the Nazi group called the German-American Bund.

[peggysue2]

22. But, please, please we must never call them Deplorables

Because it might hurt their feelings or drive them into the Trumpster's arms or . . .

Whatever. They're deplorable.

[jmowreader]

25. They wear "Deplorable" as a badge of pride

They should be tied to Il Douche at every opportunity.

[John Fante]

26. Garden variety Trumpers.

Nothing to see here.

[guillaumeb]

27. Proud Nazis.

Proud racists.

All part of the Trump era where racists do not hide behind white hoods.

[Blue_true]

35. Yep. Trump has made them brazen. That is why we must defeat him in 2020.

I truly fear what happens if we don't.

[guillaumeb]

36. You are not alone.

In the Illinois 3rd Congressional race in 2018, an open and admitted Nazi received over 56,000 votes in the Chicago area.

[A HERETIC I AM]

38. At least they have made themselves easy to spot.

Hey dipshits! This country invaded Europe to rid it of the likes of you! You actually think you have a chance HERE?


LMAO!

Please continue to display the artifacts of the losing side. Makes it easier to pick you off first.

[Demovictory9]

40. whoa.