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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Okay the article is too much.

GOP candidate struggles to burn rainbow flag on top of U-Haul truck while screaming at 2 people

“It’s white boy summer!” the 30-year-old man yelled to his cameraman and some guy banging a small gong.

Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterday afternoon while yelling, “Happy Pride Month, fa**ots,” to his cameraman and one other supporter holding a gong on the sidewalk.

Lang stood on top of a U-Haul and yelled, “We will not allow this degeneracy!” as he ignited an intersex-inclusive Pride flag. The wind quickly extinguished the flames before they could seriously harm the flag.

He then struggled to re-light the flag, dousing it in lighter fluid before yelling, “These people need to go. We will overcome the homosexual agenda to destroy our children.” Meanwhile, he continued struggling to re-ignite the flag as his lighter repeatedly failed to produce a flame.

Upon finally reigniting the flag, he yelled, “Happy Pride Month, fa**ots,” as the wind quickly extinguished the flames once again.

“Get out of our country!” he yelled, holding the unlit flag. “This is a Christian country!” He soon threw away the unlit flag and unwrapped a basic rainbow Pride flag and unfurled it in the wind. Someone then laughed at him.

“Get these homos out!” he continued. “They’re the ones bringing in all the migrants!” He re-lit the flag before the wind quickly extinguished its flames once more.

Throwing the flag towards the sidewalk, he yelled, “Here you go, fa**ots — happy Pride Month!” But the video showed only two people on the sidewalk: his cameraman and one other individual (holding a handheld gong) running alongside the truck.

Lang then yelled, “Make America great again!” triumphantly raising his arms while standing on top of a U-Haul truck that costs about $30 a day to rent. Someone off-camera yelled, “F**k you,” in response.

He unfurled a banner off the back of the truck that said, “Save America. Deport 100+ Million.” He then jumped off the front of the truck and yelled into the camera, “America, we are so f**king back!” while a long-haired white man in a black bowler hat repeatedly banged a small hand-held gong.

Lang entered the cabin of the truck and used a megaphone to say, >“Traitors of the Deep State will see the gallows. You will hang traitors. Our country is worth fighting for. We will stand united. This is a Christian country. They have stolen the rainbow from God, and we’re here to take it back. It’s white boy summer!”

Lang is 30 years old.

He’s like a fascist MAGA furby.

[–] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 3 points 22 hours ago

...Why does it read like an Eric Andre skit...?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This reads like a comedy bit. Our most brilliant minds couldn't come up with this level of incompetence.

[–] aceslip@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

It reads just like an I Think You Should Leave skit

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Traitors of the Deep State will see the gallows. You will hang traitors. Our country is worth fighting for. We will stand united. This is a Christian country. They have stolen the rainbow from God, and we’re here to take it back.

So first of all, they've stopped pretending that the "deep state" is something they're concerned about or fighting, but rather something they're actively attempting to establish.

Second of all, stealing the rainbow from God is so unfathomably badass. We're in our Prometheus era now.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Just do what makes you happy, then you can say you're feeling gay, by the old definition.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Imagine the stiff, thick shaft pushing into your mouth and pressing on your lips and tongue. Feel the firm plushness of the head against the top of your mouth, the back of your tongue, and back of your throat, as it pulses and swells from the pleasure of your mouth. You smell the radiant hot sex, emanating from the pelvis pressed to your face, and you look up to see eyes, eagerly watching you just as you feel it press itself past the back of your throat. You choke a little and can no longer breathe. You shut your eyes as they begin to water. The burning hot cock, lodged in your throat smells musty and rich, exactly how you remember, as soft and cool balls graze your chin. You feel yourself throb and leak in response, the pressure building, and you could almost cum just from what's happening right now, your mind only imagining one thing, excitement building, and shuddering, and groaning, and bursting, releasing down your throat.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He's definitely saying they are the deep state.

[–] zener_diode@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

I parse that sentence as

Traitors (traitors to Trump/MAGA/...) of the Deep State (who belong to/are part of/work for the Deep State) will see the gallows.

But then again ... I think your interpretation is equally plausible.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I wonder if U-Haul will give him their usual extreme bill for damage to the vehicle he inevitably did by walking on it ?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We will overcome the homosexual agenda to destroy our children.

Hi, heterosexual white male here. I too want to destroy your chances of having children. If you already have children, I want to take them away from you, and put them in the hands of a gay couple wanting to adopt.

Just to be clear, that quote is from Jake Lang, and thus that's who I'm directing my comments towards.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And as a homosexual, I just want the queer kids to get to grow up, and ideally to not be entirely traumatized by the process. Aside from that my main concerns with kids and queerness is that good parents who happen to be queer get to be parents without harassment.

And yeah, by no means should that man be allowed near children

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wish there was video of this from 50 feet away to just show how ridiculously embarrassing it is.

This is a grown ass man too

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a grown ass man too

I mean, that’s kinda arguable. Emotionally he’s maybe 13.

https://xkcd.com/37/

hes a grown ass-man not a grown-ass man

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since I've had a kid of my own I'm quickly come to realize that a lot of the "adults" I encounter literally just never learned how some basic lessons on how to act in a group. It's become painfully obvious spending all day with a toddler and then seeing literally the same behavior in adults.

Like, my toddler has a lot of the same level of emotional skills as adults but just expresses them in a more extreme way.

Like, an 8 year old that wines and has a tantrum like a toddler is going to quickly learn that no other kids want to be around them. Did we lose this socializing part of growing up at some point? Do those kids just have other forms of socializing online so they never learn how to act in a real life group?

I'm sure this is true for any generation to a degree. But, I can't help but think Ipad childhoods have created a generation of adults that never had to learn simple traits like sharing or working in a group. Instead of feeling bored and isolated for their bad behavior in a group. They have constant access to a stimulant while isolated.

A lot of these "adults" find their social connections through other "adults" that also just act shitty to other people. There only way of finding community is finding others that are also garbage hateful people.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's why he was in prison before the orange man child pardoned them.

But, I can't help but think Ipad childhoods have created a generation of adults that never had to learn simple traits like sharing or working in a group.

~~I'd also like to point out, the first iPad came out in 2010. This guy would have been 20 years old at the time.~~

Edit: As pointed out, I can't do math half-asleep. He would have been 14, still too old to be an ipad kid.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's 30, he would have been 14-15 at the time. But yeah, he's definitely old enough that rather than blaming the iPad I'm more prone to blaming the alt right pipeline that specifically targeted teenage boys in his age bracket as they were coming into maturity.

The internet created an alternate reality where people who behaved badly were able to recruit those who were badly behaved allowing them no never have to learn. It also made jumping between communities easy and removed long term face to face interaction from being the only real form of interaction and expression.

This fracturing of society is a mixed bag imo, it did a lot of bad like this, and I'll say that it's a far more likely general complaint than the constant stimulation the other person blames. But on the other hand I can't hate it entirely as for a queer kid in the suburbs it made finding myself and understanding myself and finding community so much motr accessible.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your right, I was half asleep when I made the comment about the ipad.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's cool, I totally get the thought process and too often also comment while half asleep

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Based wind.

The elements are woke!

Also, Jake Lang is a loser. I can't believe he's still wearing that fake-ass flak jacket without the sappies.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

That's some industrial strength stupid.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Save America. Deport 100+ Million.”

Important to note that this is ~1/3 of the US population, while ~90% of the US population are American citizens, 85% of the population natural-born citizens.

People calling for massive deportations like this are absolutely calling for 'deporting' natural born US citizens.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Horrible fact: the number they call for almost exactly matches the number of nonwhite people in the US, including indigenous peoples.

This is literally calling for an ethnostate, and should be treated that way.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Save America. Deport 100+ Million.”

That's nearly 1 in 3 people. That would do the very opposite of "save" america.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, firstly, nobody's taking that many, I'd be death camps. Secondly, that's no more supply chains level bad. And he clearly wants it to be the non white people so the missing workers are going to be disproportionately hard manual laborers, particularly those working in the food supply and construction. You don't want to be one of the people left here.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Didn't watch the video yet, but but my closeted gaydar is making loud noises already