We are quite obviously to the point where “racist” and “MAGA” are entirely redundant, but we’re using both words to reinforce the coupling that isn’t going away.

Normally we don’t cover anything having to do with one random guy in one random incident because one can find any old insane person anywhere supporting anything and it doesn’t have any deeper meaning. This incident below does deserve our coverage because it does have some deeper meaning. Frankly, we’re sick of it.

Trump did not invent racism, but he damned sure did invent racism going hand in hand with being anti-mask, and the “anti-mask” position as a symbol of one’s racist cred. If only – if only – Trump had stood up on May 1st last year (about when the data came in) and said, “no one should be out walking around without a mask,” and then put on the biggest damned red mask with “MAGA!” written all over it, we wonder if over half of the Americans dead would still be alive and our economy would be much freer right now. Trump would be much richer, proving he does suck as a business person.

We do know that racism and especially “proud racism” (as mostly introduced by Trump) has killed countless POC and especially black men, women, and children.

The NAZI salute? As much as it is going to sicken everyone, there is no doubt that this is the direction we could still go. Had both Trump and his “troops” at the Capitol been willing to risk his life, and they theirs, he might still be the live “president” of a dead democracy. Thankfully, there’s not a chance in hell that Trump the coward would risk his life.

Anyone who thinks that the U.S. is “above” falling into a dictatorship and all the abuses that go with it should keep one thing in mind. In the 1920s, Germany was the most sophisticated country on earth, in science, music, engineering, and medicine, it wasn’t even that close. Less than two decades later it was putting victims on train cars.

We are not that far away and that’s why we’re covering this. They asked him to wear a mask. Not give anyone money, not wait in a long line, not show an American birth certificate, just asked him to wear a mask. And that led to this:

“That’s all you do — you work at Jamba Juice. Go back to your country. You go back to your country, too!” And the NAZI salute for the camera.

We are not that far away.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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