Conservative in government on both sides of the US-Canada border are telling voters to ignore their eyes and ears as they do a terrible job distancing themselves from displays of Nazi Swastikas at far right protest events over the weekend in Orlando, Florida and Ottawa, Canada.
In Florida on Sunday, Governor Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw, no stranger to anti-semitic conspiracy bullshit herself, questioned whether the MAGA asshole pictured above at a Saturday Nazi rally in the Orlando area and his pals were really actually white nationalists and not some false flag cosplayers in a tweet that she quickly deleted. “Do we even know they’re Nazis? Or is this a stunt like the ‘white nationalists’ who crashed the Youngkin rally in Charlottesville and turned out to be Dem staffers? I trust Florida law enforcement to investigate and am awaiting their conclusions,” wrote Pushaw. She then tried to spin it, terribly, in a response to FloridaPolitics.com.
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘denying Nazis.’ I was referring to this event in VA, when a group of Democrats dressed up as white supremacists to discredit a (Glenn) Youngkin rally,” said Pushaw, which raises the question of why she would want Florida law enforcement to investigate an incident that happened in Virginia three months ago and the Lincoln Project already admitted to staging.
Meanwhile, a Canadian Conservative MP for an Edmonton, Alberta-area district is trying to spin his way out of trouble for showing up to the shitshow weekend anti-vax-fest and being interviewed by the CBC standing in front of a group with at least one swastika painted on to a Canadian flag hung upside-down, (which sadly arguably wasn’t even the most disgraceful behavior on display).
“Today I attended a peaceful protest in support of truckers and other Canadians defending their freedoms and jobs. I did an impromptu interview with CBC. Moments later I learned from social media that unbeknown to me, someone with whom I’m not associated had been standing some distance behind my back holding a flag with an evil symbol on it. Had I seen the symbol, I would have condemned it, as I do now. Naziism is the purest form of evil and I have always condemned it completely. Whoever flew this flag is personally responsible for that reprehensible decision and should be eternally ashamed of him or herself. He or she does not represent the thousands of peaceful protesters who waved Canadian flags and acted responsibly. I stand with them and will continue to fight for them,” wrote Conservative MP Michael Cooper in a statement attempting to separate the more quietly racist wheat from the openly white nationalist chaff.
Cooper and Pushaw are staying faithful and true to the words of their messiah. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” as the Holy One said on July 24th, 2018.