"I Don't See Them Accepting The Results." Scenes from Election Protests in Maricopa County Arizona

[JonLP24]

Tensions are running high outside of the Maricopa County Elections office in Phoenix, Ariz., where more than a hundred protestors have demonstrated for the last three nights to argue about the electoral process after former Vice President Joe Biden became the front-runner in the traditionally red state.

New York-based photographer Sinna Nasseri has spent most of this year on a road trip across America documenting the fraught political landscape, West Coast wildfires and life amid COVID-19 lockdown.

In Trump’s presidential race run on conflicting words and disinformation, photographs provide another layer of evidence to process—visual proof sliced out of the landscape that focuses your attention on particular moments, fractions of seconds. In Nasseri’s images, the confusion of 2020 is frozen using a flash, framing some of the most extreme points in the fight with the most fringe members of Trump’s base gasping in the final round.

Through his lens, supporters of President Donald Trump wrap themselves in flags and hold signs about QAnon, (a conspiracy which promotes Trump as the final defense against a “deep state” cabal of Democrats and Hollywood elite who traffic, rape, and cannibalize children); Boogaloo Boys in Hawaiian shirts strut with AR-15 rifles; and media spinsters Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich add to the chaos.

https://time.com/5908628/maricopa-county-arizona-protests/?amp=true

Click on the link for the photos.

[rownesheck]

1. Those pictures show

a lot of unstable people. At least one couple brought their BABY! looked like it was only a few months old. Plus that douche that's shown up in several photos over the years walking around Kroger and chili's with his giant gun strapped on his back was there. The mental health crisis in this country is so much worse than i could ever have imagined. Ay yi yi.

[Squinch]

2. Their opinion on the results is irrelevant.

[spooky3]

3. That's what I think, too. If people are so rabid that no amount of evidence

Will change their minds, then trying to please them is like allowing a temper tantrum throwing toddler to dictate what you buy at the grocery store. Arrest anyone who crosses the line into intimidation, assault, etc., and ignore the rest.

[Squinch]

4. Also, the photos are typical of these types of stories.

The camera is focussed tight in on a small group in a way that you can't see how many people are there but it gives the impression of a crowd. I bet there aren't nearly as many people as they want us to believe so they can get their almighty clicks.

[spooky3]

5. Good point. Nt

[mnmoderatedem]

6. they'll accept them and they will like them!

and they will eat their porridge too.

[KG]

7. they will do...nothing, because they can do...nothing

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[sinkingfeeling]

8. Showing a total disrespect for democracy and the US flag.