When news breaks, she screams at it.
Many of the people who attended Monday's George Floyd vigil at the Holy Name rotary were local parents and their children.
And then there was Dianna Ploss, a Trumpist Muslim-hating provocateur from Gloucester who helped run virulent homophobe Scott Lively's failed 2018 campaign against Charlie Baker but who now takes to YouTube to post videos in which she rants about things like the absolute tyranny of the Swampscott DPW painting social-distancing markers on downtown sidewalks.
On Monday afternoon, she navigated her way to West Roxbury and roamed the rotary with a phone mounted on a tripod, trying to interview some people, but screaming at others.
Cora Carey of Roslindale, who brought her sons to the vigil, reports:
Oh she was BONKERS. She got right up in my face in front of my kids and screamed at me that I was a disgusting person for bringing my children to this. I calmly told her she was entitled to her opinion and turned my back. She kept screaming. It did start an interesting conversation with my kids on the bus ride home, though...my ten year old asked, "why didn't any of the cops standing right there protect us from her or ask her to stop?" I replied, "because she was not threatening us physically, she was not armed, and she was not using hate speech, and she was exercising her right to speak freely, which we should not take for granted." That made a big impression.
She adds:
What I found particularly ugly was there was a man there who was replying to her calmly and quietly...sort of trying to defuse the situation....she kept getting up in his face and then the second he didn't budge and confronted her she yelled, "oh you think just because you're a BIG MAN you can come and intimidate me like this? Because I'm a woman?" Such an ugly mutation of feminism; this was a kind, thoughtful citizen who happened to be male-presenting and 6' tall. She's a tool.
She called me "disgusting" at least five times and told my kids "your mother is a disgusting person." She also said BLM is a "terrorist organization." It took all the self restraint I had to not tell her I found her 80's blue eyeshadow "disgusting" but I didn't think that would make me a very good role model for my kids.
Another local mother, who requested anonymity, had a similar story:
She came up to us screaming like a lunatic "You're disgusting, bringing your children to this!!" She seemed truly unhinged.
There's yet another report from a parent in the Chronicles of West Roxbury II Facebook group.
As we waited to cross the street she started aggressively harassing my family. She started yelling "You are horrible parents", "You should be ashamed of yourselves" "You don't belong here" and "Your children deserve better than you" among other sentences I don't feel I can write here. My youngest started crying. ...
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She's doing it all wrong.
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:34am
You've got to make some money on this act like the rest of the MAGA movement profiteers. Sell some shit lady. How did Limbaugh get to 30 mil a year or Howie Carcinaoma his Florida manse? Get with the program KKKaren.
She doesn't have the gift
By Old Groucho
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:56am
of the grift.
She's one of the Certifiables, an offshoot of the Americanus Deplorablus (AD).
While possessing many of the same traits of the more common AD, the Certifiable will also be aggressively unashamed in their self-righteousness and almost always be obsessed with the illuminati, Area 51, or the Loch Ness Monster.
Nah
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:34am
Like the Proud Boys, their latest funding mechanism is to be Professional Victims of the Deep State - Just like the Westboro Baptist Church/Phelps Clan.
And what side is destroying
By Murkin
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:30am
And what side is destroying every US city.
Ooooh ooooh ooooh [in Horshack voice]
By BlackKat
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:58am
Republicans.
Right on!
By Don't Panic
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:41pm
Power to the People! @BlackKat
The police
By fungwah
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:00pm
see here and thanks for playing.
"Side" explains it all.
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:00pm
Stars N Bars was the side that lost but I'm not sure MAGA understands.
How do you figure?
By Willy
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:44pm
Most of these cities that are in crisis right now have been run by democrats for decades
The uneducated, obese, poor
By Kinopio
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:50pm
The uneducated, obese, poor states are all Red states. The most successful states are all Blue states. No one vacations in Kansas or Alabama because they are shit holes.
As a resident of a tax-revenue-generating blue state,
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:58pm
I for one am tired of all these freeloading red states, sitting around on their asses drinking Mountain Dew and eating beef jerky when they should be pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps. Why are Republican-led states so lazy and shiftless?
Ok...
By Willy
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:00pm
but that doesn't make my statement any less true.
But
By lbb
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 9:27am
it does make it considerably less relevant.
Alabama vacations?
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:03pm
You think folks don't visit the Gulf of Mexico? Ever hear the term "redneck Riviera?"
Mostly Florida though.
By Pete Nice
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:37pm
Panama City Beach, etc.
I heard Greenbow has a nice
By dd808
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 7:27pm
I heard Greenbow has a nice park bench at the bus stop.
Statistics Say ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 3:24pm
BZZZZZTTT!
But thanks for playing. Your special parting gift is a Bonus Read!
Cities in crisis
By Kathy Griffin
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 4:38pm
The crisis in the cities you reference, is a crisis in race relations that manifests itself in the entire country (indeed, in much of the western world, but I can't speak to other countries' politics and cultural troubles). The fact that the large cities have the large problems, is a reflection of the size of the population. There are smaller protests going on in many other places that you do not hear about. The whole country is in crisis, not just the cities (and their protest marches and rallies) which are covered by the major news outlets. So it doesn't matter who is "running" a city. What matters is the long, ugly, sad history of race relations in this country, and the present attempts to bring light and attention to that long trouble.
Yes, Thank You.
By Residente
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:53pm
No party has a monopoly on systemic racism. It is all over the country, no matter who is in charge. I would love to give Republicans the benefit of the doubt and have them elected in every major city across the country, but unfortunately it would be basically the same, with just less public services and less tax revenue. More chic-filet's maybe.
The other virus
By Irie
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:40am
She repeatedly used the words disgusting. The president's favorite word is nasty.
These words reflect attitudes that are responsible for more deaths than coronavirus. We are in a very dangerous time.
No big surprise
By Brent Jeffries
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 7:37pm
Just one of many studies
Diane’s a hoot!
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:51am
She’s pals with Muslim hating school invader Stilletto Dee and her Facebook page will give you hours of laughs. True Trump believers that have no time for liberals that want comprehensive sex education and Halal meals in our schools! They actually have a hashtag that says #voteoutswine!
Halal food
By Anon
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:54am
is delicious.
I recommend she give it a try before writing it off.
Vote out swine? They want
By brianjdamico
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:17am
Vote out swine? They want pork removed from our schools? How very halal of them.
No
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:06am
They want pork back on the menu at all schools!
I want the Eucharist and
By Meat Lover
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:22am
I want the Eucharist and cheese sandwiches that I recall so fondly from school!
I believe in sacred nutrition.
To heck with that....
By Bob Leponge
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 8:50pm
I want the goddamned Welsh Rarebit. Steaming hot gobs of yellow cheese poured over toasted squares of white bread. Gringos answer to nachos, man! Talk about sacred! Disappeared after elementary school.
We had enchiladas and nachos
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 10/02/2020 - 2:36pm
Which is why A TacoTruck on Every Corner! sounded like pure heaven to me!
Cut from the same cloth as our
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:26am
bloated, hateful, vocabulary-challenged toad of a President. Her Facebook page is a family-sized bucket o' frothing, foaming, conspiracy-fried cuckoo.
Putin's investment in destroying America from within has really paid off handsomely.
Gross
By anony-mouse
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:53am
She seems gross. And very uncouth.
Also my compliments to Cora Carey for a thoughtful approach to teaching her children. And the rest of us.
I just threw out my blue
By anon
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:53am
I just threw out my blue eyeshadow. The things you learn reading Uhub.
As soon as I saw that ...
By adamg
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:02pm
This is what I thought of.
...or a poor woman's perfect smokey eye.
By Lily
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:39pm
As Rick Wilson says, #ETTD.
Along the same lines
By Neal
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:54pm
This is what I first thought of. But then I realized she reminds me more of this. It's a wonder she made it out of the city alive. She is just like a character ripped right out of a John Waters script, but Ms. Ploss's shit is so bogus even Divine wouldn't eat it.
This part made me LOL...
By JJ
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:04am
I would SO like to see her reaction to that.
oh yes
By Lisfnord
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:23am
I know Cora (the woman who said this) and I can absolutely see her saying that to someone, without batting an eye (as it were).
She is something else
By Matt Frank
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:12am
She is something else entirely.
Back in the olden times I remember being in a restaurant in Chelsea after she was kicked out of a Winthrop joint for some weird rally then they got kicked out of a hotel bar and ended up at the local place I was in. When she walked in I was curious... maga hat, huge shoulder pads with a silver blazer, a skirt and white sneakers . Her whole demeanor was just so weird.
Then while chatting with friends I saw something on Twitter about the group and their troubles and how they decided to escape to a Chelsea hotel bar and we joked about going over to counter protest. Then I saw her picture and almost spit my beer out. We left right after because we didn't want to be there for the trouble that seemed to spiral around them.
TURBOKAREN on the loose!
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:37am
TURBOKAREN on the loose!
The yin to your yang.
By Murkin
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:34am
The yin to your yang.
To be fair
By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:42am
I don't believe Dianna ever called William Gross the "homeboy commissioner".
Haha yes both sides amiright
By fungwah
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:58am
Being a bigot who screams at people protesting police violence is the same as making snarky comments on a blog, look at me, I am very intelligent
Naw
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 3:28pm
I don't hate gay people and don't try to get black people killed.
That's your idea of a good time - maybe you should ask her for a date?
Any relation to Turducken?
By Daan
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:51pm
Birds of a feather and all that flock.
Yep, that's Dianna
By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:45am
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/03/08/trump...
Oh yes I saw it on the police
By Matt Frank
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:35am
Kicked out of a hotel bar for holding a noisy Trump rally
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:10pm
when none of them were staying at the hotel, this bag of hate- and stupid-gas opined, "It's basically Communism."
She uses that word as an imprecation a *lot*, basically for "anything I don't like or understand." If she keeps that up, she runs the risk of making MA Trumpies look dumb and ridiculous, which is -- oops, too late.
I have no words, but I cannot
By brianjdamico
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:15am
I have no words, but I cannot remain silent. This is a deplorable human being. Shameful and unconscionable.
Your North Shore neighbors
By Matt Frank
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:29am
Your North Shore neighbors have known that for quite some time now. I'll add you to our annual Ploss is a POS BBQ celebration
If anyone doubts the damage that leaded gas pollution did
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 10:39am
Just check out this hideously reactive, cognitively impaired person's "work".
Lead in pollution from cars did a number on multiple generations by reducing ability to think critically, control themselves, and age without accelerated dementia.
What an absolute ass.
By DPM
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:03am
What an absolute ass.
Impressive
By jared
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 11:17am
Ms Carey found a fantastic way to turn this hatred into an incredible teachable moment for her children....well done!
Magoo sez.
By MisterMagooForYoo
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:41pm
Hmmm. Magoo thinks this lady should take a long walk off a short pier. Or make like a tree and get outta here. Or take a hike up Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. Or go take a ride in Elon Musk’s Tesla that is in outer-space right now. Or visit a cannibal tribe with some parsley in your mouth. Magoo.
Diana Ross came out
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:53pm
Dianna Ploss should stay in.
Angry Trump Lady
By OceanLover
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:56pm
Gloucester resident here. I’m stunned almost everyday to see as many Trump signs and bumper stickers and flags around town. Glosta is pretty libertarian, possibly related to feelings about governmental restrictions on fishing. But this woman’s craziness is just craziness- having to do with her own self- not Gloucester.
Excuse my ignorance
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:44pm
But you can't eat 'em faster than they breed, right? How does the fishing industry ensure that it doesn't literally kill the job?
Book
By ElizaLeila
Thu, 06/04/2020 - 9:03am
One to read: The Secret Life of Lobsters. Those lobstermen are working to ensure they don't kill the job.
Yep
By Parkwayne
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:15pm
Remember the great fluoride debate at the polls? So weird... That's an entry drug on the path to anti-vax for sure.
2016 - mid summer
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 3:31pm
I biked past a gas station on Cape Ann where there was a giant TrumperTruck fueling up. Another giant truck pulls up full of traps, dude jumps out, calls the guy by name and says "WHAT! Are you fucking CRAZY! That idiot is gonna kill everything we worked for!".
Sounds like there are some differences of opinion on the subject.
Lady you be cra cra.
By 617MoFoBecauseM...
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:16pm
As a 61sevener I can honestly say that this woman be cra cra. “staunch” supporter of trump she says she is. Anyone that is so black and white (no race thingy intended here just talking about the disparity of the two colors on the color spectrum) is just cra cra. There are nuances in everything.
She's on the air right now
By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:28pm
She's highly agitated by a protest happening in Nashua tonight.
Link
By 617MoFoBecauseM...
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:57pm
Link y’all and not Zelda’s boy toy. I need to hear this!
Search Dianna Ploss on FB
By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:12pm
Usually her show is streamed there - she's on a Nashua AM station M-W-F 1-5p.
She also does the occasional live shot - she was running the protest at Charlie (or Char-LIE as she endlessly calls him) Baker's home the past few weeks.
Ha, ha! Char-LIE! It's genius, because pronouncing it
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 9:45pm
in the French manner ("shar-lee-AY") is hilariously derisive, implying he probably puts mayo on his fries, wears a flimsy scarf and little black beret in private, and has a cinq à sept girl on the side.
Such devastating, incisive wit! Well done, m'lady -- well done! Le mot juste! [Two-cheek kiss.] Champagne all around!
I've never heard of this lunatic
By Willy
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:36pm
until right now.
Has anyone here met a normal Trump supporter in real life? There are some vile ones, but we aren't all like this lady- just like you on the left aren't all wild Antifa looters and rioters. We all support black lives and are against police brutality, I think we can agree on that. We don't have to be at eachothers' throats 24/7
All Trump supporters support
By Kinopio
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 1:55pm
All Trump supporters support black lives? LOL. Your favorite orange trust fund brat has been a known racist for 40+ years.
Ok well
By Willy
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:13pm
maybe we don't agree on much but we can agree that this Dianna Ploss sucks
So you support Trump without listening to him?
By fungwah
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:22pm
Trump literally called for police to not be too nice when dealing with people in custody. You might want to start paying attention to what the guy you support is actually saying and doing.
(and that's to say nothing of his long-established racist bonafides)
Very well aware
By Willy
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 2:45pm
that Trump says dopey things all the time. But do I believe he is a racist- no
More than "says dopey things"
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 3:34pm
He does fundamentally stupid things on the daily.
His racism goes very deep and is very obvious, too: He funded efforts to "prove" that Obama was born in Kenya. He took out a full page ad in the NYT demanding the execution of five young black men who were later exonerated because they were innocent and had been railroaded.
Even his father was arrested for rioting with the KKK.
See, this is the problem with Trump supporters
By fungwah
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 3:58pm
He can say whatever terrible (or illegal!) thing, and that's just him saying "dopey things all the time" (until it's something you agree with I guess - presumably you support some things he says).
And he can do whatever terrible (or illegal, or racist) thing - like, say, having police and National Guard use force to relocate protestors for a photo op, and people like you just ignore it.
So ultimately we have to conclude - either you do support his actions and statements, or you're willing to ignore them because you're getting something else out of it, or you don't realize what's going on. It's either evil, opportunistic, or stupid - pick your poison.
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