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At a Mike Pence rally in The Villages, Florida. I’d say about a quarter of people here are wearing masks. People have pushed their socially distanced chairs together. The Villages is America’s largest retirement village, aka the most vulnerable to Covid-19
My guess is there’s about 1,500 packed into a pretty small square. Three elderly people not wearing masks have already fainted and been medically assisted out #pence #florida
There’s also no shade at Mike Pence’s rally and it’s a super hot Florida summer afternoon
There's another #dogwhistle to white supremacists in the Trump Organization store: an $88 baseball.
88 stands for "heil Hitler", because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
This is a pattern - keep reading. THREAD. #WhiteSupremacists #racism
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88 stands for "heil Hitler", because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
This is a pattern - keep reading. THREAD. #WhiteSupremacists #racism
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bit.ly/31xNsY9
July 1st it was pointed out that a t shirt sold in the campaign store has a design modeled on the Iron Eagle.
The official symbol of the Nazi party.
This was intentionally designed to appeal to white supremacists.
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The official symbol of the Nazi party.
This was intentionally designed to appeal to white supremacists.
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Yesterday, June 30th, Trump tweeted a variation of the most popular white supremacist slogan, also called "14 words".
This is a direct signal to white supremacists.
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This is a direct signal to white supremacists.
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Since #TheVillages (FL) is trending today thanks to a presidential tweet, here's a serious discussion of how one of the US's newest large communities is also its whitest. The Villages is 2% Black or Latino in a very racially diverse part of Florida. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (1/x)
If you missed it, here is the tweet to the video, re-tweeted by POTUS, in which a pro-Trump golf-cart driver shouts "white power!" I assume POTUS's tweet will come down before long. (2/x)
Here are the racial demographics of The Villages per the US Census. Three residents out of every 1,000 are Black. (The Villages population is much larger now, but little evidence that the demographics have changed, discussed in the paper above). census.gov/quickfacts/the… (3/x)
