Video shows Arizona man carried out of store by son trying to stop anti-mask rant

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill

BY ARIS FOLLEY - 08/12/20 08:56 PM EDT



An Arizona man was seen being carried out of a store apparently by his son as he went on a rant against mask-wearing in footage that has racked up millions of views on social media.

The footage, which was posted to Twitter on Monday and has since notched more than 6 million views, shows the man yelling at others in the store and calling them “idiots” for wearing for masks, despite public health guidelines urging people to do so to curb the spread of COVID-19.

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Video shows Arizona man carried out of store by son trying to stop anti-mask rant
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An Arizona man was seen being carried out of a store apparently by his son as he went on a rant against mask-wearing in footage that has racked up millions of views on social media.

The footage, which was posted to Twitter on Monday and has since notched more than 6 million views, shows the man yelling at others in the store and calling them “idiots” for wearing for masks, despite public health guidelines urging people to do so to curb the spread of COVID-19.

“These people won’t learn. You’re a bunch of idiots wearing masks. You know it’s not real,” he yells. “Look at you fools. You got a f---ing doily on your face.”

“You look like an idiot. You’re the child. You’re trying to make me wear a mask,” he continues, appearing to talk to someone off-screen.

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[Marie Marie]

1. This is what Trump has done to my America.

HE did this - HE caused all of this. A video like this every f'in' day. My heart weeps for how low this country has sunk.

[Nitram]

23. I hate to say it, Marie, but Trump didn't make these people. they were already that way. Trump

just gave them permission to come out of the closet and act out. Trump has taught us that a certain percentage of the American population is racist, ignorant, anti-science, living in fear of various conspiracy theories they believe in - and proud of it.

[artemisia1]

24. Yup.

Votes for President Obama showed us that we could be better as a nation; votes for Trump showed that we aren't...

[C Moon]

2. Hasn't their god trump been shown wearing a mask now?

[vercetti2021]

3. The fact that this happened pretty much shows that's happened before

The son just picked him up and carried him out without any restraint

[Hekate]

4. It's tough to have to parent your parent. He sounds completely unhinged...

Drunk? Drugs? Mental health issues? Definitely anger management issues.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Loss of "power"

When society maintains one group at the top of the hierarchical pyramid through the entirety of this nation's history (and before) and that status starts getting chipped away, many in that group eventually reach a breaking point and start lashing out as the playing field finally starts getting leveled. It's very deep and has evolved over multiple generations, and you are seeing the visceral reaction to changes being made to how they now rank in this society.

They are used to doing what they want, when they want, and how they want, with little or no consequences for their seemingly random "bucking of the system" because they ARE "the system" and were always "in charge" and made the rules (as well as changing them on-the-fly as necessary, because they could).

Now they no longer "make the rules" and are facing the consequences for violating "other people's rules", and thus are up in arms about it.

[wcast]

9. Excellent commentary!

They are used to doing what they want, when they want, and how they want, with little or no consequences for their seemingly random "bucking of the system" because they ARE "the system" and were always "in charge" and made the rules

[Maeve]

10. We've seen the same reaction in police officers who haven't accepted

that the world of cell phones means they can't bully their way thru the job any more (thinking of the cop who got in a man's face and tore his mask off, all while the man was recording him)

[BumRushDaShow]

12. But the thing is

it's not just the cell phone videos, but they will blatantly continue to violate policies even when their dash cams and/or body cams are recording them (if they actually activated them). And they don't care because the FOPs have their back and will get them off, and/or will make sure that they can be "transferred" to another division or to another town or city, so they can continue violating policies completely unchecked (unless they are a POC officer, and suddenly the "rules" get applied and they end up in jail).

[Maeve]

16. Agreed, which is why the far-right FOPs need to lose power

And there has to be an end to the enabling of bad cops into other forces. The bully cop needs to be removed entirely.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Exactly.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. "We thought Trump could be a moron..."

"... and just coast through the task of being President! Then people invented this HOAX because they knew it would wreck it! Not fair!"

"It's a worldwide conspiracy by the elites!"

Sheesh, they're so pathetic.

Edit: I really believe that, deep down, many of them knew that Trump would screw it up. They jumped on the "hoax" idea too damn soon, just as it was being reported in the USA.

[llashram]

11. pathetically dangerous

Americans will muddle through and people like this are either going to go back to the trump swamp and suck up swamp water Jan 20, 2021, or all Americans once again will all be fighting for the American democracy against trumps traitors this time instead of Jefferson Davises'.

Very dangerous times we live in. Trump, Ivanka and Jared are not going to relinquish the WH or power easily.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

26. Oh, I know!

There was a Trump-cultist, at my previous job (which I later left), who coughed in my face! That was in early-March when there were few reported cases in the USA.

He knew that I didn't like Trump and that I had expressed deep concern about Covid-19 to some employees in the break-room.

He apologized and tried to play it off as "just a joke" when I got furious about it. (Such disrespectful behavior even without a contagion!)

Anyway, all of the Trump-cultists at that place were calling it a "hoax" even back then! Strikes me as especially weird now, looking back on it. They were probably just repeating whatever they heard on Fox News, but it also seems like it was an effort to "get ahead of the pending disaster" and create an excuse for Trump terribly mishandling it... just deny the reality of it!

[llashram]

27. I see them all as

very sick people, psychologically, even though they may appear "normal". I think they are the true vectors keeping this virus spreading at the alarming 'wildfire' rate that is happening. I can't wait for the numbers to start coming out on the Sturgis motorcycle worship with a quarter-million maskless trumpers . Especially with all the asymptomatic carriers starting to be recognized as spreaders.

"Cultists". So very true.

[Grokenstein]

6. "These people won't learn."

GAAAAH, THE IRONY, IT BURNS

"Look at you fools. You got a f---ing doily on your face."

So this is all about your insecure masculinity?
And you don't realize how obvious you're making it?
Tell me again, who's the fool?
We don't really have to go through all the pictures of mask-wearing firefighters, soldiers and doctors throughout the decades again, do we? Fuuuuuuuck, we do, don't we.

https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/625931571299532800

[ouija]

8. A new enlightenment

Loss of white privilege and as soon as this fool is out of the WH, we can begin to cleanse this country. That behavior shows that people who have clung to white privilege know the end is upon us...thankfully.

[oasis]

14. We'll see more be coming to the surface. This idiot's the tip of the iceberg. nt

[lagomorph777]

13. They'll be playing this clip at family reunions for years to come.

"Remember when Dad's Alzheimer's started to kick in?"

[Turbineguy]

15. I try never to embarrass my kids.

[Initech]

17. There is a new one every freaking day!

This is going to be one long damn year.

[greenjar_01]

18. Dude sounds Philly/South Jersey and one of the sons is wearing a shirt for a HS in Philly suburbs

He might have been in Arizona, but I doubt he lives there.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. So the giant man baby being carried out in the most comical fashion (while he rips one out) is

telling people, they look like idiots.....

[Vinca]

21. Well, as they say, you can't pick your relatives.

[apnu]

22. Sorry son, your dad is an asshole (nt)

[artemisia1]

25. I think the son, well aware that this could lead to violence, led his father out to avoid trouble if

only to protect his father from the consequence's of his actions.

[Akacia]

28. Fools like him are the reason we may never get this virus under control.nt.