# Fucking idiot coronavirus-loving rednecks in Michigan **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895 "2020-04-16T04:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/101 "2020-04-17T15:07:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why on Earth would people in Michigan wave Confederate flags? :dubious: Besides being racist assholes, there’s one other point to the two pics of the same Confederate flag that I’ve seen linked to here. That flag is the Confederate flag, but it has the silhouette of an assault rifle imposed on it, and at the bottom are the words “Come and Take It.” This was taken from the Come and Take It flag from the Texas Revolution in the 1830s, against Mexico. That flag usually is white with a black cannon and the words at the bottom. So not only are they using Confederate imagery in Michigan, they’re appropriating Texas pride imagery. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/102 "2020-04-17T15:28:54Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > Besides being racist assholes, there’s one other point to the two pics of the same Confederate flag that I’ve seen linked to here. > > That flag is the Confederate flag, but it has the silhouette of an assault rifle imposed on it, and at the bottom are the words “Come and Take It.” > > This was taken from the Come and Take It flag from the Texas Revolution in the 1830s, against Mexico. That flag usually is white with a black cannon and the words at the bottom. > > So not only are they using Confederate imagery in Michigan, they’re appropriating Texas pride imagery. So not only racists. Fucking plagiarists. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/103 "2020-04-17T15:35:13Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I think this is correct. Confront someone flying the “Stars & Bars” and they will weasel by saying, weaselly “Oh, it’s about southern heritage and history, not about teh blacks!”. I think it’s because they’re all whiny snowflakes and the Confederate flag is the nation’s largest participation trophy. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/104 "2020-04-17T15:42:24Z")
It’s all about the imagery. What gets the libs all worked-up better than a big Confederate flag, guns, threatening sloganism, “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, the camo gear, Trump paraphernalia, etc., etc. Attention-seeking whores, one and all. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/105 "2020-04-17T19:46:23Z")
> [@slumtrimpet](#): > > How about Canadians? Seriously, there’s a bubba not too far from here with a Confederate flag painted on the side of his house. No, he’s not a displaced Southern American. Yes, he is a complete racist fucknugget. There was an episode of the Scottish cop show “Shetland” where a family drove around in an American truck with a Confederate flag on the side. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/106 "2020-04-17T20:55:04Z")
Looks like Minnesota protested today and Hunting Beach California. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/107 "2020-04-17T21:01:21Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Looks like Minnesota protested today and Hunting Beach California. Huntington Beach ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/108 "2020-04-17T21:03:24Z")
Oh if only there was an island for the extremely stupid and aggressive where they could be left alone to kill each other off. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/109 "2020-04-17T21:04:33Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > It’s all about the imagery. What gets the libs all worked-up better than a big Confederate flag, guns, threatening sloganism, “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, the camo gear, Trump paraphernalia, etc., etc. Attention-seeking whores, one and all. You mean the whole point of blocking the entrance to a hospital during a world wide medical crisis is to be annoying? ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/110 "2020-04-17T21:17:55Z")
Kentucky new too ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/111 "2020-04-17T21:29:03Z")
I’m sure these protests are coming to my neck of the woods (eastern WA/northern ID). We have shit-for-brains Matt Shea in WA and deranged Heather Scott in ID. Scott is calling the ID governor (very much a Republican) “Little Hitler” for ordering a state shutdown: > **[Idaho Rep. Heather Scott calls governor ‘Little Hitler,’ compares...](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/16/idaho-rep-heather-scott-calls-governor-little-hitl/)** > > Scott, a Republican whose district includes Bonner County, compared Gov. Brad Little’s shutdown orders to Nazi Germany during an hourlong Zoom interview with a Houston-based podcast host. She questioned the governor’s authority to decide who can and... Fucking nutjobs. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/112 "2020-04-17T22:17:27Z")
It’s a foregone conclusion [it was going to happen here](https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200417/dozens-protest-oregons-stay-at-home-order-at-capitol) (AP). Sadly, no shortage of these whackadoodles in Oregon. > [@](#): > > Dozens circled Oregon’s state Capitol in their vehicles Friday to protest the state’s stay-at-home order meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus. > > People in vehicles honked horns and displayed signs in one of several protests happening across the country this week as conservatives push back against virus-related restrictions. I did have to chuckle at the “dozens.” Meantime, [beware the sneaky antifa](https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/portland-anti-fascists-are-making-hand-sanitizer-for-essential-workers-homeless-residents.html) (Oregonlive): > [@](#): > > Popular Mobilization, or PopMob, is probably best known by Portlanders for their counter protest activities against right-wing groups. They drew headlines most recently for their 2019 milkshake party, after Portland police tweeted a claim that some of the milkshakes contained concrete – a claim PopMob disputes and which ultimately had no evidence. > > Now, the collective of activists and anti-fascists has moved from making vegan milkshakes to hand sanitizer. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/113 "2020-04-17T23:46:37Z")
I’m a little concerned about what’s going on outside the Minnesota governor’s mansion, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/114 "2020-04-17T23:47:20Z")
I suspect you’ll be seeing these [del]protests[/del] mobs of morons only in states with Democratic governors - after all, Ohio was quite early on the public lockdown, but there don’t appear to be any mobs there yet. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/115 "2020-04-17T23:57:51Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Oh if only there was an island for the extremely stupid and aggressive where they could be left alone to kill each other off. I think there’s an entire planet devoted to that, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/116 "2020-04-18T00:01:57Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > I suspect you’ll be seeing these [del]protests[/del] mobs of morons only in states with Democratic governors - after all, Ohio was quite early on the public lockdown, but there don’t appear to be any mobs there yet. Ohio was one of the first states that saw protests. [April 9](https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2020/04/09/protesters-want-ohio-back-open). ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/117 "2020-04-18T00:30:47Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > I suspect you’ll be seeing these [del]protests[/del] mobs of morons only in states with Democratic governors - after all, Ohio was quite early on the public lockdown, but there don’t appear to be any mobs there yet. > [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > Ohio was one of the first states that saw protests. [April 9](https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2020/04/09/protesters-want-ohio-back-open). I stand corrected. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/118 "2020-04-18T00:34:06Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > I suspect you’ll be seeing these [del]protests[/del] mobs of morons only in states with Democratic governors - after all, Ohio was quite early on the public lockdown, but there don’t appear to be any mobs there yet. I think you missed my post above about ID which is solidly in red. And, I just saw pics on Facebook of protests in Lewiston, ID. ID hasn’t had a Democratic governor since the great Cecil Andrus back in the 80-90s. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/119 "2020-04-18T01:31:06Z")
The local news, in covering the Michigan. event, interviewed a young girl (maybe 8 years old) who was a part of the protest. She feigned indignance at being restricted from gathering with her friends. She said her civil rights were being taken away from her and that it was not fair. It was at this point my emotions went from anger to profound sadness. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-idiot-coronavirus-loving-rednecks-in-michigan/851895/120 "2020-04-18T01:33:20Z")
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