What Do You Do When Nazis Show Up to Your Party?
The first Indivisible protest in Monroe was a big success. We have pictures, as well as news on the next one, and what to do when the MAGA Nazis show up and try to ruin things for everyone.
Pictured Above: Between 1 pm and 2:30 pm on Saturday, May 3rd, the local Monroe chapter of Indivisible held an event at the corner of 17M and Lake Street. The organizers counted over 60 people in attendance during that time. Of your local elected officials running for office in Monroe, Town Councilwoman Maureen Richardson, who is running to be Monroe Town Supervisor, and Mike Sussman, who is running to be Orange County Executive, attended.
There was no sign of David Rabbitts, Brandon Bernard, or Paul Phelan. We suppose we can give Brandon Bernard a pass, given that he doesn’t actually live in Monroe full time. (Funny that he’d run to be on your Town Board, though, huh?)
The lack of attendance by these three, as well as the absence of Matthew Fabbro and James Freiband from Woodbury — both running for re-election to the Village Board — proves once again that it’s easy to campaign and claim you’re going to do the right thing for the people. It’s another to actually show up and do it.
We hope Convicted Felon Tim Mitts and, his simp friend Alex “Nice Toes” Rivera, are taking notes. If Mr. Rivera is acting as the convicted felon’s de facto campaign manager, he isn’t doing a very good job.
The local Indivisible Monroe group has planned its next event for Saturday, May 17th, 1:00 pm—2:30 pm, at the same corner, 17M and Lake St. in Monroe. Rain or shine.
These events are non-partisan and welcome Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike to stand up against the traitorous and un-American MAGA movement. These events are also for standing up to the corrupt Schumer Democrats who put corporations ahead of people. (Speaking of corrupt Schumer Democrats, it’s not too late to call Governor Hochul’s office and demand State Senator James G. Skoufis’s fascist, pro-Trump mask Ban be removed from the final New York State budget. The 2025 New York State budget is currently the latest in the last fifteen years. You can use the information here to give the Governor a call.)
And you should ask all of your local elected officials, Democrats and Republicans, and those running for office and asking for your votes, if they will be at the next Indivisible event in Monroe.
If they legitimately care about you, they will put political affiliation aside and come together as Americans to support upholding and defending our Constitution from MAGA.
We should give a round of applause to the local event organizers for this protest. According to the event’s initiator, Nora Staffanell, “I simply mentioned the idea of holding a standout in Monroe on the social media site ‘Nextdoor Neighbor.’ Local residents responded within minutes!” The group developed a flyer and a logo under the name “HandsOff Hudson Valley.” They distributed the flyer, they posted information on their social media sites, they emailed friends and acquaintances, they made signs—all within a few days’ time. They crossed their fingers and hoped for a good showing. “We were not disappointed,” said co-organizer Carol Sotiropoulos, “in fact, we were amazed that over 60 people showed up in solidarity today at the corner of 17M and Lake St. in Monroe.”
I spoke with Nora and Carol this weekend, and it sounds like many exciting things are in the works. So I hope you’ll come out on Saturday, May 17th.
And for those of you asking, yes. A massive nationwide protest is being planned on June 14th to counter Trump’s Big Boy Birthday / Fascist Dictatorship Military Parade. The Monroe and Warwick groups are discussing the best way to partner on that event. The Monroe Gazette will provide information for that event as soon as we have it. The plan for the Indivisible Monroe group seems to be to hold an event in Monroe at least once a month.
What is The No Kings Event on June 14th?
Despite successfully derailing an economy that was the post-COVID envy of the world, our Dear Leader has decided to spend over $100M to throw himself a military parade in Washington.
(By the way, all of these Executive Orders operate on the basis that America is experiencing a series of emergencies. So you should ask yourself: If we’re experiencing multiple emergencies, why is the President golfing every weekend? If America is being “invaded” by Venezuelan gangs, which is the basis for the use of the Alien Enemies Act, wouldn’t this “invasion” require his constant attention to protect us? And wouldn’t our men and women in the armed services have something better to do? Like, say, stop the “invasion” then parade uselessly in D.C.?
This Big Boy Fascist Birthday Parade was announced not long after local Congressman Mike Lawler was on CNN. There, Lawler (falsely) announced that we would experience the largest tax increase in American History if we didn’t pass Trump’s $880B proposed cuts to Medicaid.
(Yes. That is the new line of bullshit from Congressional Republicans. If you don’t let us take away your Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, we’ll raise your taxes.)
Of course, as we’ve pointed out, Misleading Mike Lawler has a problem telling his constituents the truth. So much so that he’s now been booed out of two career-killer Town Halls. Including one yesterday featuring audience members who were ostensibly pre-screened by the Congressman’s team.
This includes a Very Online pro-Mike Lawler fan named Vince Landers Jr., an account that Rockland County residents have flagged for us to examine as a potential sockpuppet. We can verifiably say that Congressman Mike Lawler and his team use sockpuppets to spread disinformation. So, for that reason, we looked into Mr. Landers Jr. Is he a Congressman Mike Lawler sock puppet?
You can find Mr. Landers Jr. in the Facebook comments section of every single Mike Lawler post, shouting down and harassing anyone who says anything negative about the Congressman. That’s why Rockland residents suggested the account was operated by the Congressman’s team.
When Mr. Landers is not doing that, he’s got very strong opinions that he’d like to share with you on Twitter. Look closely at the date on that last tweet. It follows President Trump being banned from Twitter — before Elon Musk bought the platform with Saudi money — after committing an act of insurreciton on January 6th.
So, it’s not inaccurate or libelous for us to suggest that Mr. Landers Jr. is a MAGA Fan.
I honestly thought Vince was a fake account too, but the photos above reveal it’s a real person and not a sock puppet.
After Rockland residents called our Mr. Landers Jr. for being a potential sock puppet for the Congressman, he posted the following to his Facebook account. (By the way, Vince got these tickets at 6 am?)
Mr. Landers Jr. is also apparently as good at picking politicians as he is horses:
Despite the attendance of Mike Lawler fans like Mr. Landers Jr. , things did not go well for the Congressman yesterday. Proving once again that the MAGA Nazi trolls you encounter online are not the majority, no matter how often you see posts from our friends and neighbors like Mr. Landers Jr. Remember this point, we’re going to get back to it in a second.
Now of course, what Congressman Lawler didn’t say was that the Trump Tarriffs, as originally announced, would have represented the largest tax increase in American History. And even though they’ve been reduced since, the remaining tariffs have still led to price increases on virtually everything not made here, which is most things.
Not to mention, if you get your medication from a place like Central Valley Pharmacy, you may have been informed, like I was, that there are now shortages on medication because of these tariffs. You can also expect to see shortages starting in the middle of this month on various products. But don’t worry, our Big Boy Fascist In Chief is going to spend $100M on that military birthday parade. And Mr. Landers Jr. is loudly going to tell you that Trump saying he may not uphold due process for American citizens is just an elaborate troll. Of course, if you were to ask the two US citizens, both children, both being treated for cancer, whether or not the President was trolling them, I doubt they’d agree.
You see how this works? MAGA isn’t about the people. MAGA is a pyramid scheme. Where the people at the top rob you blind while the rest of us have to pay higher prices at the grocery store; and can’t get the medication we need. All the while, the people at the bottom of the pyramid like Mr. Landers Jr will try to gaslight you.
That’s why people are taking to the streets on June 14th. It’s time to stop the gaslighting and take back our country from this traitorous, un-American movement.
MAGA Nazis Hate The Monroe Gazette
Do you want the latest local news? Sometimes we can’t get to everything here on the Gazette, so I do post other updates here on our private Facebook Group. The only way to get in is to be a paying subscriber. For example, Congressman Pat Ryan’s team will be in Monroe on May 15th from 10am to 12pm. We think this is a great opportunity for South Blooming Grove residents to flood them and demand answers as to the status of the FBI and EPA investigations into Isaac Ekstein (FBI) and Joel Stern (EPA), respectively. It’d also be a great opportunity to ask Mr. Ryan’s team when they will be giving back the money he’s received from Palantir Technologies.
One thing you won’t find in our Facebook group are people like Mr. Chris Conte. Mr. Conte, proprietor of Blue & Gray Total Home Services, did not like to be fact-checked. The other day, he blamed liberals for how the Town of Monroe “ain’t what it used to be.”
I corrected him and pointed out that Tax Hike Tony Cardone, 2X State Senate Loser Dorey Houle, Walking Penis Sal Scancarello, Scout Master Steve Thau, and people like Convicted Felon Tim Mitts are not liberals.
Cardone’s been running this town since 2017 or so. Before him was Harley Doles. Harley Doles was a lot of things, but he wasn’t a liberal either.
Mr. Conte didn’t like being corrected. So when Mr. Contente didn’t like some of the pictures I just showed you at the top of today’s article, I asked him what his problem with them was. Here are the results:
So, if you want to stick it to the MAGA Nazis, feel free to subscribe to The Monroe Gazette. It costs less than a Netflix subscription, and you get to comment on our posts, join the Facebook group, which is troll-free, and access our archives.
You also get satisfaction in knowing that these people get really unhappy when you subscribe to our publication.
Help! There’s A Nazi At My Party!
So let’s wrap up with the answer to today’s question: What Do You Do When a Nazi Shows Up to Your Party?
As these protest events occur in Monroe and elsewhere, there are going to be MAGA trolls showing up. That’s what they do. It’s an elaborate game of “gotcha.”
For example, here’s Congressman Mike Lawler retweeting the ViralNewsNyC Twitter account operated by Oren Levy. Mr. Lawler also shared it on his Facebook page:
Pictured Above: Oren Levy, center, standing next to a kid wearing a bunch of Neo-Nazi patches. According to The Daily Dot, Mr. Levy is Internet Famous (“went viral”) for fucking around and finding out with a Boom Mic operator.
Recently, Mr. Levy posted a video of an incident in Brooklyn, which Congressman Mike Lawler then re-purposed to push his pro-Genocide AIPAC agenda in Congress.
This event, to put it mildly, became a shit show. It also became incredibly difficult to tell what the fuck was going on. For example, you see Mr. Levy’s post above. Here is the video from Mr. Levy’s original post, which the Congressman shared:
But what you don’t see is this video, from the same incident, which I want to caution you, is hard to watch.
Neither Mr. Levy or Mr. Lawler mentioned the above video, nor did they mention the woman who was assaulted by a group of Haredi men at this same incident.
Mr. Levy described the event as “pro-txrrorist.” He then went on to say:
Now, is what Mr. Levy saying true? I don’t know. And that’s the point.
Because Mr. Levy and the Congressman certainly presented their version of what happened as if it was fact.
So I asked Levy, “In this X thread, you repeatedly claimed that the protestors at the Brooklyn incident are the same as those in other incidents, but you did not cite any sources or evidence to verify this. Can you explain or justify your claims that the protestors from Brooklyn are, in your words, "It's often the same people all the time. One day, they are pro-Palestinian protesters the next day they are anti ICE protests, then anti cop protesters, they also played a big role on the college campus protests last year and disguise themselves as college students, and whatever else they can grab on, too." Did you FOIL police reports or speak to NYPD at the scene to confirm this allegation, for example?
I also asked Mr. Levy about the above Tweet, saying, “What information can you provide to support this claim?”
And, among other questions, I also asked Mr. Levy if he could tell us what news organization, or other entity, he received his press credential from. (I, for example, got my press credential through The Author’s Guild.)
When Mr. Levy sued the City of New York, his legal complaint stated that he was “a credentialed member of the press and noted freelance journalist.” But the most I can find about Mr. Levy is that in another court filing, he described himself as being a "well-known expert, producer, of various natural oil products, medicine, vape products, and accessories in NY.” Both things can be true, sure, but I wanted Mr. Levy’s help in clarifying this. Where does his press credential come from?
Mr. Levy responded to all of our questions by saying:
You sound completely unhinged man and it seems like you might be scared of the federal investigation that might be coming .
Are you a part of these groups ?
If you slander me in an article I'll personally sue you and take every dime you have in your savings.
Gotcha!
See how all this works? We’ve known for many years that in the MAGA and Conservative movement, people show up to these events, look to cause trouble, document the trouble that they cause, and then report it as news. That’s a fact. James O’Keefe, formerly of Project Veritas, made an entire career out of playing this game.
And as we’ve seen with Congressman Mike Lawler, just recently, people have recorded Indivisible Rockland Zoom meetings, taken clips from the meeting, and then sent them to Fox News in an attempt to paint the group as radical activists.
The answer to the latter problem is that you have two choices. You can be careful who you let into your Zoom meetings (my preference) or you can do what the main Indivisible Group does and call those people out right at the start of the meeting:
As far as the MAGA Nazis that show up in person? Or the Far Right Provocators and “journalists”? The simple answer is not to engage.
Remember: They are a small, weak, and traitorous group of seditionists. But they have something the rest of us don’t: a very well-funded propaganda ecosystem. They can take isolated clips (like what happened with Indivisible Rockland) and feed them through their channels. Which then gets their nonsense repeated by Fox News and congressional representatives like Mike Lawler.
So, believe me, I’d love to take a swing at these people, but you will lose every single time you do. Every single time. The solution is not to engage with them. Just walk away. The Pro-Democracy movement is a peaceful, non-violent movement. Any act of violence, if it comes, will likely come from a bunch of these right-wing provcators looking to stir shit up. So you don’t want to give them an excuse, nor an opportunity, to run around and say they’re right.
You will only defeat MAGA through peaceful, non-violent means.
Let them demonstrate their weakness by looking to sucker you into something. Let us demonstrate our strength by walking away from them.
But …
If you really want to get even? Here’s what you do: If one of these people show up at your event, take a photo of them. Get their name. Share it with your group. Don’t dox them (publicly releasing the information.) But do share that information among your peers.
You want to get even? You boycott their business. You tell others to do the same.
You want to get even? If they’re a local politician? You can sue them pro se on the grounds that they’re aiding and providing comfort to people (MAGA) engaged in insurrection. (Because remember: When you defy a 9-0 decision by the Supreme Court, that’s insurrection. We only call it a constitutional crisis because the corporate media is owned and funded by people who like and endorse this shit.)
Name them and shame them. But do not engage with them at these protest events; if you do, you empower them. Got it?
There are ways to hit them back. You do not have to resort to physical violence. You can; however, hit them where it hurts with their reputation and wallet.
Fight smart. If you do, you’ll win.