Thread by @BulldogShadow

My take on today’s #MillionMAGAMarch has much more to do with American media and our own social movements for justice than the alt-right. Okay here we go.

I’m starting to see more posts on social media from friends sharing the loss of friends and love ones to #COVID19 and it’s heartbreaking. Eight months later and here we are again and with even more significance.

Sometime this morning, a quarter million Americans will have now perished from #COVID-19 in just eight months. This includes the deaths of at least 1 out of every 875 Black people in the United States according to @apmreports.

How has the Trump administration decided to respond? By encouraging a super spreader event in D.C., a city with a significant Black population. He will sacrifice anyone, including his own worshippers to distract this nation from his absolute failure of an administration.

By early reports (unconfirmed), the Trump-centered white nationalist movement and it’s alt-right coalition has put nearly 10,000 individuals on the streets of D.C. While that at first glance may seem significant, let’s take a closer look that suggests something very different.

The turnout is actually surprisingly underwhelming when you look at the charged atmosphere created by Donald Trump’s week long disinformation campaign.

Let’s look at the facts.

First. Fox News and other media outlets have been giving unfettered credence to disinformation about stolen elections for a straight week;

Second. It took a week to organize ten thousand out of 71 Million voters. In contrast. Biden celebrations had more people on the streets of America within hours; and

Third. Trump hinted he might personally appear at today’s March and rally and his rallies are known to generate large turnouts. Yet.

Despite this. Only about 10,000 people appeared. Trump easily pulls 15,000 to 20,000 people to his rallies on average. What is happening in D.C. is much less of a turnout than what should be expected. The only people not noticing this is a media addicted to the adrenaline rush.

It does serve one purpose. It distracts us from building towards the transition to address #COVID19 deaths, unemployment and unrestrained racism and stops the media from asking these real questions of our elected officials.

Today’s #MillionMAGAMarch2020 is a not so veiled attempt to change the narrative and it only works if you let it. Media should be asking these supposed alt-right leaders of the march what is their plan to address #COVID19, unemployment and political violence.

The rest of us should get back to remembering something else. A pharaoh only has power when people give it to him. Stop giving our power away. Stop pretending this is anything more than a violent temper tantrum to overthrow democracy and a weak one at that.

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