Last week, we posted about the MAGASOTA's surprising speakers list for Northfield Trump Rally Minnesota 2020 Saturday.
At the event yesterday, the "Surprise Guest of International Fame" was revealed as British columnist, Katie Hopkins.
For those provincial souls who don't don't know who she is, a synopsis. Forbes' Alexandra Sternlicht reported in June's Far-Right U.K. Commentator Katie Hopkins Permanently Banned From Twitter For ‘Hateful Conduct’:
The controversial U.K. media pundit and reality TV star Katie Hopkins was permanently banned from Twitter on Friday for “abuse and hateful conduct.” . . .
This is far from the first backlash Hopkins has faced from her remarks. The police reportedly investigated her over tweets in 2017 that questioned whether a Labour politician was a pedophile after he posted a picture with the Pakistani flag, reports BBC. She was also made to pay nearly $160,000 after a court found her guilty of libeling non-binary food writer Jack Monroe for implying Monroe had vandalized war memorials. Hopkins was fired from her job at LBC, and reported to the police, after using Nazi rhetoric in calling for the “final solution” in a tweet after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. . . .
Our favorite Hopkins headline comes from Snopes in 2017: Did ‘Liberal Feminist’ Katie Hopkins Advocate ‘Euthanasia Vans’ for the Elderly? The answer:
Hopkins, a British commentator known for making outrageous and sometimes morally bankrupt statements, made the comments in 2015.
Claim: Liberal feminist Katie Hopkins advocated for driving euthanasia vans around to kill off the elderly.
Rating: Mostly true
What's True
Hopkins did make the comment in an interview in 2015.
What's False
The comments were not made in 2017, when the story was being shared on disreputable web sites; Hopkins is considered a right-wing commentator, not a "liberal feminist".
Here's Hopkins' Wikipedia entry for more dish and libel judgments levied against the British right-wing celebrity.
Given MAGASOTA's Michele Even's judgment in putting Hopkins on the speakers list, we've have yet another clue as to how the group got on the Republican Party of Minnesota, the Minnesota House Republican Caucus and the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus's Minnesota Scammers Exposed menu.
Nor does Hopkins' speech disappoint the low standards for discourse she's set in her career. Via anti-Muslim conservative activist Marni Hockenberg's YouTube channel, here's her performance:
Hopkins begins by asking the 1,300 people in attendance:
How you all doing, you beautiful people. This is where they put all the pretty people, is it? I've been staying in Downtown Minneapolis...is it ugly there.
So ugly. All this [unclear], this is what you get when you marry into you own family, right? You get some ugly looking people.
Like the first night at the DNC. . . .
My name is Katie Hopkins. Straight, white, Christian, conservative, nationalist, patriot . . . mother of three children and I'm proud of all those things.
I've been married twice before. I've been married almost as many times as Ilhan Omar except I've never married my own brother.
I have three children under the age of sixteen. All my Somali friends in the crack huts back in the center of town have sixteen children under the age of three. Don't tell me I don't have any Muslim friends. . . .
It continues along those lines--and so much more--until she says that the president can grab her pussy since that's better than having a pussy president. Okay then.
Perhaps she's never heard of Minnesota Nice.
Speaking of which, the next video on Hockenberg's channel, #MagasotaTrumpRally2020take three With Michael Matt, features Matt, publisher of The Remnant, a Traditionalist Catholic newspaper, according to Wikpedia. Matt also runs RemnantTV.
As my late father would likely have observed, a pair to draw to.
The Southern Poverty Law Center included The Remnant among 2019 radical traditional Catholicism hate groups.
Photo: Katie Hopkins at the MAGASOTA Trump Rally at Castle Rock Bar and Grill in rural Dakota County on Saturday, September 19. Via GunderzThunder's tweet.
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Posted by: Karen | Sep 21, 2020 at 12:56 PM