We’ve covered all the strange things that happen at Donald Trump rallies a lot recently.
With Trump still holding a commanding lead in the GOP primary (at least in national polls and in most state polls), it is important to know what his supporters think.
At a rally in Rock Hill, SC last Friday a Muslim woman named Rose Hamid was silently protesting Trump’s anti-refugee and pro racist policies was removed after standing up during the event. It became national news.
Hamid and other protestors were wearing yellow star shaped patches that seemed to be a reference to similar emblems worn by Jews in Nazi controlled termites during the Holocaust.
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Reid Jeffries, a 21 year old native of Cincinnati and a student at the University of Mississippi was also at the same rally and he protested Trump in a truly hilarious way.
Ole Miss Student Reid Jeffries holds up a sign protesting Donald Trump on Friday, Jan 8, 2016. Photo Credit: Reid Jeffries
“I went to the Trump rally because I knew that years down the line, the whole world would look back at his campaign, whether successful or not, as important history,” Jeffries said in a message to RISE NEWS. “Also, we hear a lot about Trump via the media and I know that this isn’t the most fair representation of him as the media is bound to skew him one way or the other. So I knew by seeing him in person I would get a definite idea of what he is actually like.”
Jeffries said that he is moderately politically active. He’s worked as a House page for Republican Speaker John Boehner in the past but has since identified himself as an Independent.
Jeffries also loves pranks and decided to bring a “Trump likes Nickleback [sic]” (Nickelback is the proper spelling) sign to the rally, playing on the longstanding Internet meme.
Here’s what happened according to Jeffries:
“The event was electric. It started out like the Rolling Stones concert I went to earlier this year. The people there were full of energy and emotion. If you would have asked any one of them who was going to be the next president, every single one would have told you Trump without a stutter. When I talked to people individually they seemed normal. But when Trump spoke there was a mob mentality that came over them.”
After holding up his sign, Jeffries walked out in solidarity with the other protestors.
“When I walked out with one of the protestors, I remember people screaming ‘fuck you’, ‘terrorist’, ‘get the fuck out’. They were chanting USA which made no sense because I’m pretty sure he was an American citizen though I do not know this for certain.”
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Cover Photo Credit: Reid Jeffries
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Millennial Intelligencer: Burkina Faso’s Coup Is A Powder Keg Ready To Blow
By Curt Evans
A month to go before national elections and Burkina Faso is enduring yet another military overthrow.
Just last week, General Gilbert Diendere and a group of presidential guards took over the government by deposing interim President Michal Kafando and Prime Minister Isaac Zida.
Diendere and the presidential guards were fiercely loyal to former President Blaise Compaore, the man who Kafando and Zida took down last year in a coup of their own.
General Diendere, the leader of the current coup had been given a take-it-or-leave-it deal by the Army Chiefs of the West African nation, to step down from his position by 10:00 GMT- 6 AM EST or he would be attacked. As the deadline came and went, there was no violence in the country, although the BBC reports that Army troops are massing in the capital of Ouagadougou to take back control.
Diendere has said that he was ready to hand over his power to transitional non military personnel powers.
“We do not want to fight but ultimately we will defend ourselves,” Diendere said according to Agence France-Presse.
Diendere and allies in the presidential guards assaulted a cabinet meeting and keeping the president and ministers that were present.
Diendere has a strong force behind him that consists of about 1,300 fighters ready to attack if he is harmed.The strong force is known as the presidential guard (RSP)- called that because they are devoted to former President Compaore (he also formed the group for his own protection.)
Compaore created the feared paramilitary unit to guarantee his own assurance in the wake of the 1987 assassination of his predecessor, the so called ” Che Guevara of Africa”, Thomas Sankara.
The troops were to surrender by 10 GMT or be attacked by the Army, but that deadline is now expired.
According to Al Jazeera reporter Nicolas Haque:
“Minutes before the deadline expired, General Diendere called a press conference and released a statement saying he wants to stand by the framework agreement that was negotiated with ECOWAS.”According to military leaders in the country, if the coup leaders were to surrender and disarm, they would be granted safety and not be attacked-hopefully avoided more bloodshed in a conflict that has already taken the lives of at least 10 protestors.
But even if that happens, there is still a big question hovering over the country: Can Burkina Faso really become a stable democracy?
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Does Tinder Prove That “True Love” Is A Myth?
Online dating can be a minefield.
Fake accounts, bad intentioned users and conversations that can only be classified as cringeworthy.
But for those using apps like Tinder, finding a legitimate connection with someone can be hindered by a factor you don’t always think about; your location.
What happens if your search range on the app is 25 miles, but your “true love” is 26 miles away?
Sure, that may be overthinking it, but just like in real life, it’s a real possibility that you could be passing by your potential significant other simply because they’re located slightly outside your search distance.
There are 1.4 billion swipes and 26 million matches per day on Tinder.
One of those matches lead to Arianna Johnson meeting her husband Ben.
Arianna said she wasn’t expecting to meet her future husband through Tinder.
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She had been using the app for a year on and off, going on a few dates, with three turning into what she considers actual relationships.
At the time, Arianna had her search distance maxed out to 100 miles.
“I did it because it allows for potential matches,” Arianna said.
Arianna recalls Ben being around 20 to 30 miles away from her when the two originally matched.
For Arianna, distance wasn’t going to be the biggest hurdle in meeting someone, but talking to a stranger might have been.
“When you go to a coffee shop…you don’t know if a person is single or taken,” Arianna said. “It’s ‘hard to talk to a total stranger…If I saw my husband in public without Tinder, I probably would have never gone up to talk to him.”
Unfortunately for the rest of us, cases like Arianna and Ben’s serve as an outlier to overall online dating statistics.
According to Pew Research, only 5% of Americans who are married or are in committed relationships say they met their significant other online.
The good news is, Pew Research also indicates that online dating has lost much of its negative stigma, with only 23% of American adults believing people who use online dating sites are desperate, and 59% now say that Online dating is a good way to meet people.
So now we can swipe away without the majority of people giving us the stare down.
Small victories right?
Arianna Johnson met her husband Ben on Tinder.
You should be worrying about the truly important things when using online dating.
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Things like coming up with a witty pick-up line they’ve never heard of before, or making sure your pictures and bio page describe you as the perfect match, straying away from the hyperbolic nonsense that would lead your date to realize you are way lamer than they initially thought.
In all seriousness, the biggest obstacle preventing you from meeting that special someone might still be starting that initial conversation.
Stressing about missing your “true love” because you didn’t set your search distance high enough is superfluous.
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Mike Pence Just Got Booed To Hell And Back At “Hamilton”
So this just happened.
Here’s Pence getting booed as he gets to his seats at Hamilton pic.twitter.com/IRQG68x1sB
— David K (@dkipke12) November 19, 2016
According to the Huffington Post, Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended the Friday night showing of the hit Broadway play “Hamilton” and things didn’t go well.
While a few people clapped, most were mad as hell.
I’m at #Hamilton and so is Mike Pence. Crowd booed him like crazy, and gave a standing O at the line “immigrants we get the job done” 1/2
— Christy Colburn (@christymoose) November 19, 2016
I’m at #Hamilton and so is Mike Pence. Crowd booed him like crazy, and gave a standing O at the line “immigrants we get the job done” 1/2
— Christy Colburn (@christymoose) November 19, 2016
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