Pro-Trump protester Daniel Parks and a friend (NEWSPLEX).
A Trump supporter, worried that there were other “closet” Trump supporters who felt unheard in Virginia, stood outside a Congressional candidate’s campaign office for twelve hours while displaying a loaded firearm. Daniel Parks said that his protest was peaceful, but that he intended to “stand his ground” on behalf of other Trump supporters.
“I’m just trying to provide a voice for someone who might be a closet supporter of Trump. Other people who are a little worried to speak out because of possible persecution,” Daniel Parks told reporter Taylor Cairns. Cairns reported that the Parks, who was later joined by a friend, wanted people to know that they were not giving up the campaign “quietly.”
Y’know, I don’t think that’s what you’re trying to do at all, Daniel. You claim to be making a peaceful protest (with a loaded gun), which is fine, but generally, a protest is against something. That’s built into the definition of the word. Since you’re busy being intimidating in front of a democrat’s office, one would assume you’re against democrats. As for closet Trump fans being persecuted, oh please. It’s those who are supporting Trump who are more than willing to be screaming bullies, and all too happy to be violent in their “support” for Trump. If someone just can’t cope with hearing different opinions, perhaps they need to stay in their closet.
Parks insisted that he wasn’t a threat, despite the fact that he was carrying a gun to a peaceful protest. Those who think so are ignorant: “We’re not a threat to anybody, the only threat is ignorance, and ignorance breeds fear,” he said.
Ohan, there went yet another irony meter. Yes, that gun is just the accessory to set off your outfit, right? I’m far from ignorant, Daniel, and I don’t like people walking about with guns. You can’t trust someone so attached to a gun to not use it at some point.
Parks also told Cairns that Trump may leave the race, but he will continue to “speak out.” “He [Trump] may be pulling out, but we’re not pulling out, and I’m going to stand my ground. And I’m going to speak out for what I believe in, and I guess I would encourage everyone else to do the same.”
Cairns noted that Parks intends to take his armed, peaceful protest to more campaign headquarters later this month.
You encourage others to speak out. I’d guess you aren’t all that willing for people who are against Trump to speak out though. Just all those terribly timid Trumpians in the closet. Oddly enough, I have not noticed the slightest reticence on the part of Trump supporters. So far, they have all been loudmouths who blithely assume everyone thinks the way they do. I’ve had Trump supporters say the most obnoxious isht to me at the bloody market, ffs! Complete strangers to me, and I live in a state noted for polite niceness on the part of the inhabitants.
Via Raw Story. There’s video at the link.
#1 shining example of why Trump supporters scare me: “it’s just a loaded gun, I’m totally peaceful!”
A gun by its nature is violent, dude. Go home.
rq:
Yes, and it’s a lie, too, no matter how much they claim to believe it. If you’re standing outside one particular place for 12 hours, staring, with a loaded gun, your intent is not a peaceful one. You’re out to intimidate. You cannot trust anyone with a gun, sooner or later, they will use it.
Yes.
(a) Intimidation is not a neutral action, and
(b) I shudder to think what he would have done had someone ‘provoked’ him (i.e. said some heated things about the fact that he’s standing around intimidating people in a public space).
Oh wait, that reminds me -- I don’t suppose anyone called the cops on him? No?
Funny, that.
Trumpsters are overwhelmingly anti-LGBTQ. Actively, vigorously, and viciously anti-LGBTQ. So what broke my irony meter is that these yahoos used the word “closet” when so very many queer people are forced to live in closets because of yahoos like these. That they would try to seek sympathy by comparing themselves to the people they victimize.
Gregory @ 4:
Unfortunately, that’s a tried and true tactic of those who are in a place of dominant privilege -- the constant mosquito whine of “what about meeeeeeeeeeee?”. Look at Trump, he will not shut the fuck up about being a victim. He sexually assaults women, and he’s the victim. Someone wants to look at his tax returns? Victim. Someone brings up his inability to keep it in his pants? Victim. And on it goes.
Also — and again teh trum-prat is an excellent example — “shoot the messenger”-ism: It’s the newspaper’s fault there are sexual assault allegations (so sue them); it’s Secretary Clinton’s fault his campaign is imploding (so assassinate or jail her); it’s the thug party’s fault for something (so threaten them); and everything is President’s Obama’s or (Bill) Clinton’s fault… Teh trum-prat has (almost) never apologized — probably never if you don’t count his notpologies — and noticeably never accepts responsibility unless he “thinks” something worked, such as his Vice Scumbag in the VP debate, in which case it’s all because of him (the Vice Scumbag was his choice…).
Blatantly obvious intimidation tactic is, well, blatantly obvious.
Tell me again why these assholes aren’t arrested? Oh… right. They’re WHITE!
Yeah, loaded guns are not threats against political opponents. Just ask Gabby Giffords.
The worst thing is that US law apparently agrees with that asshole