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Reasons for anger
They are angry. Worse than that, even. Two days after the vote was closed, they came to demonstrate in front of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg to say “stop theft”. But who are they? Simple supporters of Trump? Knowledgeable people? Illuminated? Unless … Twenty years ago, demonstrations of the same kind had taken place, the Republican camp favorable to George W. Bush demanding that we stop recounting the votes of Democrat Al Gore. Some time later, it was learned that these supporters were small party hands paid to protest.
Boot pushers
At the time, in 2000, the very clean look of the demonstrators had inspired the American media to use the term Brooks Brothers riot, the “Brooks Brothers riots”, named after the ultra-conservative American brand… Nothing to do here. The look of the demonstrators was neither very Brooks Brothers nor very clean. Starting with this pair of cowboy boots that Americans will necessarily designate by the term western boots. The word santiag, inspired by the name of the Belgian importer of American boots Santiago, is only used in France. And in Belgium.
Cloakroom engaged
There is nothing very Brooks Brothers in that shirt, either, and nothing very neat. On the contrary, it is a military shirt. Its patch and raglan seams even allow us to determine that it is the M51 shirt put into circulation, in 1951 obviously, by the American army for its soldiers engaged in the Korean War. A piece, moreover, very easy to find in American thrift stores.
Whistle snake
If the funniest and most ironic sign in this image is certainly the one that says “there is no compromise with the truth”, the most interesting is this yellow sign, adorned with a snake. and words “Don’t tread on me” (“Don’t step on me”). She indicates that these four activists are in fact libertarians. The Gadsden Flag is one of the main symbols of the movement, the rattlesnake having been chosen because it never attacks men on its own, but is particularly dangerous if provoked.
Capitol Crimes
Do these activists know that the building in front of which they are demonstrating was the subject, during its inauguration in 1906, of a major political scandal which earned several elected officials convictions for fraud? The Pennsylvania State Capitol cost $ 13 million, three times more than initially expected. A long investigation at the time made it possible to establish that the work and the furnishings had been greatly overvalued, a shoe-shine stand valued at $ 125, for example, being billed at $ 1,619… A case of fake accounts, already.
