Whitmer, for her part, has largely dismissed the protests and the protesters with divisive and dismissive rhetoric, which she ratcheted up a notch during a television interview Sunday, when she claimed that the protests “depicted some of the worst racism and most awful parts of U.S. history” and that they specifically included people displaying “confederate flags, nooses and swastikas.”
Many in the media have uncritically repeated Whitmer’s claim about the protesters without verifying whether they are true or not.
After reviewing hundreds of pictures of the protesters that were posted on social media, and by media photography services like Getty Images, as well as news accounts from other media outlets repeating Whitmer’s claim, it appears that Gov. Whitmer’s claim is partially true, but misleading.
We were able to locate exactly two protesters who displayed swastikas on their signs while protesting. However, as you will see, no reasonable person would conclude that these people were displaying the swastika as a symbol of white supremacy. Rather, they were obviously using the swastika in an admittedly over-the-top criticism of the harshness of Whitmer’s policies.
The first one is not even technically a swastika, although it is certainly trying to be:
AFP via Getty Images
It should be noted that this picture was NOT taken at the April 30 rally that was the subject of Gov. Whitmer’s Sunday remarks, but rather at the April 15 protests that occurred on the steps of the state capitol. However, in the interest of being as fair as possible to Gov. Whitmer, and including all of the protests against her orders that have occurred, the above photograph should be noted.
The other sign featuring a swastika appears to be the only instance of a swastika being displayed at the April 30 protests. And, as you can see, no reasonable person could interpret the sign as being pro-Nazi or pro-Swastika:
JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Thus, the claim that swastikas have been on display at the protests against Whitmer is true; however, the claim that the swastikas were used as an expression of racism or white supremacy is clearly false. These protesters were not comparing Whitmer to Hitler because they are huge fans of Hitler and therefore also huge fans of Whitmer. Rather, they are comparing her to Hitler because, in their mind, that is the worst comparison that could be made. If anything, that is an expression opposing racism rather than supporting it.
Comparing Whitmer to Hitler, and suggesting that she is a tyrant deserving of “the rope” might well be criticized as over-the-top and/or unacceptable rhetoric. Neither of these displays, however, has any obvious racist intent. Nor would such displays even make sense within the context of a protest about stay-at-home orders, which have nothing to do with race or racism.
In conclusion, it is literally true that there was at least one swastika and at least one noose on display at the anti-Whitmer protests last Thursday. It is, however, false (or at the very least misleading) to claim that they were displayed as symbols of racism.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has instituted some of the harshest and arguably least constitutional stay-at-home orders in the country in response to the coronavirus pandemic/dempanic, and as such has been the target of some eminently predictable protests.
WELL, WELL, WELL!! Isn’t it just an interesting coincidence that Remdesivir is made by Gilead and is the “CURE” for COVID-19….and here’s where it gets interesting China holds the patent on the drug through an agreement with Gilead’s drug patent sharing subsidiary branch called UNITAID who has an office near Wuhan and you’ll never guess who are the main financial investors in UNITAID….none other than George Soros, Bill & Melinda Gates, and WHO. I know what your thinking! It’s just all a coincidence isn’t it! Oh, don’t let me forget the other coincidence that Gilead and UNITAID were financial supporters of Hillary Clinton. Oh, silly me I forgot one more coincidence Fauci was the one authorizing millions to be sent to The Wuhan Institute of Virology specifically for the “study” of Coronaviruses……I sure am thankful it’s all just coincidences! Nothing to see here just keep moving along….WOW! No wonder Fauci slapped down hydroxychloroquine which has a 92% success rate…he was told to!! The Best Coincidences are always found when you follow the money..copied from Dee Lee
I’m pretty sure there is a warning against allowing the evil one to put his stamp on us. Isn’t there a Revelation against the eternal danger of such a thing?
Dude has been in office for 3 years…. what has he done? Other than dodging the darts the media and Pelosi have thrown?!?
what has PRESIDENT TRUMP and his cabinet accomplished…..
Here you go. * Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana. * Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch. * Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.👀👀 * Violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected. * Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.👀👀 * Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan. * Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil. * Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information. * Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.👀👀 * Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms. * The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country’s highest-paid workers. * Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay. * Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land. * Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.👀👀 * He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down. * Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies. * When signing that bill he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance. * Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept. * In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month. * He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans.👀👀 * VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far. * Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life. * Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years. * Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers. * Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.👀👀 * All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays. * Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price👀👀 * President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans. * In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society. * The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.👀👀 * The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes. * Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans. * The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime. * Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.👀👀 * Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs. * New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago. * Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. * Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments. * The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.👀👀 * Poverty rates for African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data. * President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund. * Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.👀👀 * Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all time high. * More than 7 million jobs created since election. * More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history. * More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election. * Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.👀👀 * Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe. * Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts. * In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking. * Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to more effectively combat human trafficking. * Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking. * Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need. * The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases. * Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.👀👀 * The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support. * President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.👀👀 * The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million. * The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.👀👀 * Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled. * ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed. * Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs. * Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers. * Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith. * Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism. * President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions. * Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens. * Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea. * Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.👀👀 * Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal. * Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam. * Okay’d up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.👀👀 * Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed. * Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades. * Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border. * The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment. * Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.👀👀 * President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country. * 8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones. * Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country. * Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 * Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law. * Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.👀👀 * Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed. * Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years. * Stock Market has reached record highs. * Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded. * African-American unemployment is at an all time low. * Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all time low. * Asian-American unemployment is at an all time low. * Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low. * Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low. * We have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded. * The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. * 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever. * As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.👀👀 * Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses. * Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.🙌🙌 * Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. * Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.👀👀 * Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before. * Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.❤️❤️ * Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.👀👀 * U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East. * The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957. * NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign. * Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.👀👀 * Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration. * Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed. * Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.👀👀 * Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in. * Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports. * Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China. * Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.👀👀 * Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments. * The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it. * It also created a new tax credit for other dependents. * In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund child care for low-income families. * The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care. * In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.👀👀 * In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER. * Another upcoming accomplishment to add: In the next week or two Trump will be signing the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) Once it’s thelaw, the TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone. * US stock market continually hits all-time record highs. * Because so many people asked for a document with all of this listed in one place, here it is. No links provided to remove bias as Google search is easy. Print this out for family, friends, neighbors, etc. I encourage you to drop this list off to voters before the 2020 election too! *Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment charges. ——-please explain to me why you have a problem with OUR president? Because he has misspoke a few times? Tell me when you find a perfect person, please….I’ll wait! I’ll tell you why, because the media has skewed him in such a negative light and unfairly report his accomplishments to undermined those achievements! Why? Because the media is complicit in every single thing this man is trying to undo! Start thinking for yourself! 🇺🇸WWG1WGA🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸Are you tired of winning yet?🇺🇸🇺🇸 –Nicole Connell, Feb 26, 2020
He gave us our country back after Obama tried to tear it down to the ground for his boss, George Soros. – pastorwardclinton.com
President Trump mulls freezing U.S. funding to World Health Organization over its response to Coronavirus crisis. Japan reportedly refers to WHO as CHO (China Health Organization) for its false reporting early on which likely resulted in more lives lost than would have if it had told the truth from the beginning instead of running interference on behalf of China.
Many died because “CHO” lied.
The defunding and investigation of the Communist Chinese Government centric “WHO” is long overdue. Git ‘er done, Mr. President.
For the past decade, Bill gates has been warning us about an inevitable pandemic. Conditioning us. Getting us used to the idea.
Last year, he even held a summit on the matter and ran computer simulations to predict outcomes. Why did a former computer nerd and mogul become so interested in vaccination and disease? Possibly because he’s worth over $100 billion and thinks he owns the world. He also wants to make an impact on humanity. Getting rid of excess humanity, that is. Bill’s father was once the head of Planned Parenthood. He comes from a eugenics background. Gates frets about world population growth. Is it any wonder he pushes Monsanto’s GMO food as well as harmful vaccines?
Apparently Bill’s computer simulations discovered that people would easily fold under government pressure combined with an unseen enemy. Billions of people are under lockdown right now. Half the world is shut down. Gates must marvel at how easy it was to do it. Things are going according to plan.They can’t control us physically, but he can control us mentally through fear drummed into our brains 24/7 by mass media.
The corona virus is real, but we’ve had many waves of flu viruses throughout the years. Many thousands die each year from the flu. Our elderly and infirm are the hardest hit. This time the deaths are being magnified by the Fear Porn Channels. Statistics are controlled and manipulated to produce panic and hysteria.
The Democrats failed with their Russia collusion lie. They failed with impeachment. They are all for this hysteria because they can blame it all on Trump.
Trish Regan was fired from Fox Business Network because she called out concerns that the Chinese coronavirus was just another attempt to impeach President Donald Trump.
That was too close to the truth for Fox. They fired her.
We now have social distancing to further divide the human race—as if we were all some sort of disease in need of eradication. The corrupt WHO and CDC have us controlled like puppets on strings. We obey without question. Citizens are not allowed to question medical ‘authorities’ without fearing censorship or ridicule. When the time comes for a mandatory vaccine, people will already have become conditioned to obey the medical ‘authorities,’ and it’s all going according to plan.
But some plans have a way of not working out as planned.
Never take your eyes off government in a crisis.
I suggest Gates is part of it but not the driver of it. The drivers are the “never let a crisis go to waste” Leftists/Globalists who want society-wide power over individuals. It makes it so much easier for them to model society after their own particular wishes.
This simple meme shows the extent of Democrats’ pernicious malfeasance. It’s even worse; WHO was still parroting the Chinese government’s lie of no human-to-human transmission JAN. 14.
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