MAGAs Want to Spread Hate, Fascism and Disease. Don’t Let Them
February 27, 2025
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A racist thug who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection confronted a trio of police officers last weekend who defended the Capitol during that violent attack and accused them of being cowards.
The day before Enrique Tarrio was brazenly harassing the officers — Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn, and Aquilino Gonell — through the lobby of a D.C. hotel that was hosting the Principles First conference where one of the officers received a “Profile in Courage” award, the 21st-century Nazi had been arrested again, this time for assault. (The next day, Feb. 23, conference attendees and hotel guests were forced to evacuate because of a bomb threat.)
“You were brave on Twitter,” Tarrio, a member of a hate group that promotes and engages in political violence and terrorizes immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community, told the officers. “You guys were brave at my sentencing when you sat there and laughed when I got 22 fucking years. Now you don’t want to look in my eyes, you fucking cowards.”
Gonell, a Dominican-American, was the officer honored. Dunn is Black. Tarrio is deplorable.
Jeffrey Epstein’s good friend who spews a firestorm of hate and lies from the Oval Office pardoned Tarrio and roughly 1,500 other insurrectionists soon after taking office.
This is who MAGA is. Goons and their admirers, such as Rhode Island senators Jessica de la Cruz, Gordon Rogers, Elaine Morgan, and Thomas Paolino, who support the thuggery.
It can’t be anything else, because the Mad King’s only policy positions are retribution, demonization, and abomination, and being constantly praised. MAGAs hide behind cries of fiscal responsibility, but most of their actions are irresponsible, and repulsive.
The failed Rhode Island Senate resolution introduced by de la Cruz and supported by the other three sycophants congratulated the MAGA King “on his inauguration and historic and extraordinary victory in the 2024 presidential election.” The three pages of fawning note where their king was born and that he “hosted the hit reality television series the Apprentice and was widely recognized as being one of the leading and most successful business magnates in the world.”
The last line says it all: “Resolved That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to President Donald John Trump.”
No point in bootlicking if the receipt doesn’t see the slobber. I dare you to read the resolution without vomiting.
MAGA Rep. Michael Chippendale introduced the resolution in the Rhode Island House. It was passed by acclimation, which omnipresent journalist Steve Ahlquist covers here.
Unsurprisingly, the resolution doesn’t make reference to the Mad King’s bankruptcies; his many failed businesses, from vodka and steaks to a board game and an airline; his fraudulent charity; nor the fact he is both a felon and sexual predator. It glosses over his vile and deadly handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It doesn’t mention he has a long history of being a racist.
This isn’t an administration; it’s a regime. A bunch of fake tough guys and gals cosplaying as mobster Tony Soprano and his henchman “Big Pussy,” Al Capone, and Vladimir Putin. It’s authoritarianism with plans for fascism. The oligarchical class is carrying out a brazen takeover of the federal government. The filthy rich want to profit off more cruelty.
During last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., a spectacle of Nazi salutes, hatred, and knee-bending, the regime’s border czar warned Massachusetts law enforcement officials he is coming for them.
“I read a story last night: the police commissioner of Boston, you said you’d double down on not helping the law enforcement office of ICE,” Tom Homan said. “I’m coming to Boston and I’m bringing hell with me.”
Like the rest of the regime’s repellent heap of hooligans, Homan doesn’t belong in public service.
But MAGAs love being ruled by vandals. They cheer as hammerheads destroy public education, public health, and the environment. They applaud when people lose their jobs. They don’t care if low-income senior citizens and children living in poverty lose Medicaid coverage. They want the poor to beg for health care. They want the hungry to starve. They are obsessed with building a wall. They don’t mind a chainsaw-wielding narcissist paid billions in government contracts stealing their private data and that of other U.S. citizens and businesses.
They’re fine with defunding cancer work and other medical research. They think eliminating the team studying the bird flu is a jolly good idea. The federal deficit is a problem when the king isn’t in office, but tax breaks for the superwealthy when he is. Only they have a right to free speech. They shrug as an international Nazi terrorist group with origins in the United States appears to be rebuilding its global and U.S. ranks. They have no problem with the regime’s central focus: cruelty.
They want to guzzle fossil fuels, spread measles, and tar and feather transgender people.
If you support the Mad King, all of that and more hideousness is what you desire, as long as the wrecking ball doesn’t clobber your home and family. You can tell yourself otherwise, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. The Mad King told us exactly what he was going to do and you gleefully roared.
On the same day the Proud Boys juvenile was calling decorated police officers names, a rally and food drive was held at the Rhode Island Statehouse to denounce the oligarchical coup and support those being attacked, which is most of us. About 3,000 people attended.
Across the street and behind a line of police officers, a dozen or so members of another white nationalist hate group, the Patriot Front, briefly marched, their faces finally covered by masks.
At this critical moment in U.S. history, you are either a fascist or not. Some Rhode Island elected officials have apparently chosen the former. Sieg heil.
Pathetic, or, as a sign at last Saturday’s Statehouse rally simply read, “Sad.”
Perhaps a few words from songwriter Florence Welch will inspire regime supporters to reject their miserable king: “And it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back. So shake him off.”
Note: While I normally don’t condone telling people how to vote, I believe Rhode Island and the rest of the free world would be much better off without elected officials who support a wannabe king and a punishment-first regime.
Frank Carini can be reached at [email protected]. His opinions don’t reflect those of ecoRI News.
Wow!
1. Individuals who would like to see the deficit decreased are not irresponsible and repulsive. The hard fact is the USA is 36 trillion dollars in debt.
2. To cap administrative cost to 15% of a research grant is not cancelling a grant.
3. The current laws provide the path for business bankruptcies. The way to stop individual and business
bankruptcies is to change the laws.
4. Banning fossil fuels before reliable alternate energy sources are in place is foolish and dangerous.
5. Transgender men are woman and the other 51% of the American population are “non transgendered woman, an “inseminated person”, a “chest feeder”, etc. Leading one to conclude over 51% of the American population is being threatened for elimination of their rights.
6. I pray everyday for our politicians to work collaboratively for the good of the American people, for the homeless situation to be resolved, and for all individuals to live their best life without impacting others negatively. I pray for a time when civil discourse is truly able to take place so individuals will have less anxiety about all the doomsday narrative they hear on the news and read daily.
7. Just my 2 cents.
Barbara, firing everyone and his mother who works for the federal government to make room for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, mostly for the rich, will only increase our debt, while also having a considerable negative impact on the economy that will likely hurt small businesses. Also, not wanting new fossil fuel infrastructure built is not the same as banning them. — Frank Carini, ecoRI News
Thanks for articulating what everyone with a brain needs to face and, if possible, face down.
Good job frank
Quite noticeably, during press conferences and the cabinet meeting, the media does not ask tough questions, one of which might be the following: “Mr. President, you have reversed your decision about Social Security and Medicaid and now want to slash them as well. Do you have a sense of the negative impact to millions of Americans – particularly Senior Citizens whose only income might be their monthly SS checks and need Medicaid to help pay medical bills? YOU will not feel the devastating damage millions of Americans will incur. What is your response?”
Thanks for your take on the flim-flam being perpetrated on our country. I’ve been depressed but finally realized that it is grief. Grief for our country with a fascist leader who calls Putin friend, put in place an immigrant racist Nazi billionaire to tear apart the very fabric of our country and opened the doors to unimaginable corruption.
rump is taking US down
Big businesses need certainty to plan. Small businesses need certainty to plan. Citizens of a former democracy or at least nod to democracy need certainty to plan. In business and economics this is defined as risk. If there is no clear path or policy or we have 90 – 180 degree changes every two years, this risk is elevated. We are headed for a huge economic downturn. The barometers over the past 5 days are indicating stormy times. When the institutions of greed have lost confidence in the system, is it time to bail? And are we sanctioning that violence is rewarded and allowed to fester? Do we sit by rape is decriminalized, consent assumed and the two covet laws repealed? We have solid definitions of criminal activity and democracy. Maybe, but the office of ethics was first to go. GAO will follow soon. As will any person or agency who has / had a pending legal issue with the buffoons (vandals, what are we calling them Frank?). It has long been since a democracy has existed in this country and look what it has birthed, the full shift to a militarized capitalism where we threaten the world to get personal economic gain. But it is not about money, it is about death and legacy. It is about brand. It is about chaos. It is about rewriting the last chapters of widely accepted classical religious literature. Public service institutions are not a business. Public trust institutions exist for the greater good. Many services and goods, health and safety critically depend on government institutions. Who will they suddenly turn to for their advertising needs? Campbells soup goes to NOAA for information on how to target their distributions and advertising. Intelligent and planned trimming is one thing, the current reality is a smoke screen. I hope you like what emerges from the ashes. Most people here I doubt really understand nature, really truly have lived in nature. Otherwise you would stop clear cutting our neighborhoods and forests. But you have contributed to a mass extinction, look up the geological timeline. The rate of change we are evoking on biodiversity loss may define our stewardship of the earth as the worst mass extinction. We are destroying our home without prejudice, with chemical warfare, with biological warfare. The Eco in Eco system does not stand for economics. Let’s get the imps away, the world is not a middle school playground in the 80’s. We do not want another Cold War or monarchy or Feudalism. Let the adults make the decisions again please. “We’re gonna find out where you fans really stand!” (-PF) While we don’t always agree with Frank, we would like to thank him for this piece of reporting which was not covered in any of the other news outlets.
Time for our country to allow the third party to fully emerge and have a voice.
Everyday, or nearly so, I remind the public that what Donald Trump is doing will lead to millions of deaths, many in ther USA, many around the world. It is immaterial whether it is true interntionally cruelty or malign neglect. Often i list the various ways the Orange Headed Monster is causing deaths, but it is hard to keep up. He comes up with another new way to cruelly kill each day. Closing NOAA means that people in the path of a hurricane will get little warning. And with FEMA destroyed, there wll be no one to help pick up the pieces, which means more deaths. It is obvious that many of the supporters of this cruelty are dependent upon the programs being destroyed. Do thery think the malignant one with the orange head will exempt them from the destruction of communities, ecosystems, and the economy?
T. D. S.
How is this helpful???
You’re not looking at both sides and trying to find a solution.
You’re just inciting anger of one side against the other.
Kim, I am offering a solution. Vote MAGAs out of office. The entire MAGA movement (I don’t include all Republicans in that group) is built on spreading hate, lies, and fear. MAGAs incite anger to get elected and scapegoat groups to divide us, but you get upset when their ways are highlighted. — Frank Carini, ecoRI News
MAGA is indeed dreadful, but its too late Frank, irreversible harm to people, nature, the rule of law is being done, and though I’m appalled at voters for knowingly electing someone so unfit including many who thought it was an expression of manhood to reject a women for President, I’m also appalled at all the people who should have known better for so frequently undermining the Democrats, pontificating about the “duopoly” or “uniparty” or in effect sitting out the election because they didn’t agree with Harris on everything. Saving a little more nature in RI and New England is about all I can hope for now with regard to the environment
Granted, Frank, that everything you say is true. But still, aren’t you pleased that DOGE has shown how many billions in government costs have already been saved, how living expenses are already showing a decline, and how the administration’s reputation in the world is climbing? Oh wait, is that all not the case–I’ll have to check the news again.
I was appalled by DJT back in the 80’s when he wanted the Central Park Five put to death without any proof. He took out a full page ad saying so. They were innocent, non-white low income teenagers. He never apologized and hasn’t changed, people like him never do.
He just gets worse.
I use to try to reason with his supporters using actual facts and it was quite eye opening. I equate it with trying to talk sense to a cult member..no can do. I wonder if his supporters would have followed Jim Jones just as blindly.
I wonder if they’re selfish, caring only about themselves or just lack empathy. Would they still follow DJT if they were jobless, lost their income and housing because of
him?
One last thought, does the DJT bible version have the Ten Commandments or did they whittle them down to five..or did DJT just finish with thoughts from his favorite author, Hitler?
Frank,
I am absolutely not for anyone losing their job. However, historically probationary employees in the private sector are subject to not being hired permanently in an organization. Is it different for federal employees? I have not read their union contacts. Have you? Do those contracts guarantee all probationary employees continued employment? You said fossil fuels are not being band. If that is the case, why am I reading in this news organization articles and many others about the elimination of fossil fuels? Somehow there needs to be a happy medium and not two extremes in this country. We are all Americans and should be united for the continued success of this great nation. I unfortunately do not believe it will happen in my lifetime.
And Kim Hooper…. do you think that the perpetrators of these actions are looking at both sides? They want power and control and fame over anything else. They want civil war to cement themselves in history and create dynasty. They are presenting only one side and Frank is illuminating some things hiding in the shadows of their actions. So yes, thanks to Frank.
BarbaraS – 100% of the American population is being threatened for elimination of their rights. Yesterday married women were threatened that they will loose the right to vote without the need to repeal the 19th amendment. We are being ordered to scour the health records for individuals who are no longer their natural gender to plan for corrective surgeries. We are under threat that our retirement we all contribute to is eliminated, that our elderly social health care will be eliminated. Not to mention putting many ex-patriots at risk due to sudden termination and visa jeopardy. what do we do when tariff threats lead to political hostages with questionable visas. threats to all us citizens on all fronts. As to point 2, there are very strict rules on what grants can be spent on. The indirect cost covers items that can’t be covered. Example you can buy an instrument and staff time but not tools or consumables to support the instrument. The indirect cost allows institutions attract more qualified staff. Removing this will hurt the non-ivy league institutions compete and survive so we will propagate the reality that only Ivy League universities will produce quality students. another example of putting the average and above average at a disadvantage while promoting a system of bias towards rich white men and the old boys club. Only 0.5% of US citizens (the Americas are much larger than you attest) are not going to have elimination of their rights.
I can’t stand Trump but he’s better than the alternative. You think MAGA is bad ? Why am I still getting all the Democratic hate texts after the election. They never stop and won’t leave me alone. I’m a disabled Vet who served my country for 30 years while watching it crumble under crooked politicians on both sides. I saw Trillions wasted in Africa during Obama, paying to arm warlords to enslave and murder their own people. Let churches and private groups take care of social issues. There are plenty of laws which are never enforced which could protect all Americans. We need to gut the government, cut taxes, let the market rule for sensible power alternatives, stop clear cutting our forests for solar, stop putting wind out in the water disturbing more natural resources. Bigger Government will only lead to our demise sooner. Barbara S is correct we can’t keep printing money and giving it away at the cost of average workers who have lived right paid their own way and now are expected to pay for people who refuse to work.
Bravo Frank. I’m with you all the way.
Oh and that Holman guy, I’ll be waiting for him and his posse. Bring it on.
I long wistfully for the days when Republican politicians were sensible, non-ideological, public-spirited, public servants that saw the value of Government and respected federal workers and the democratic process. People like Senators John H. and Lincoln Chafee (before the latter was driven out of the GOP).