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I always wonder what these assholes think when they’re being accused by their fellow trumpers of being antifa. Clearly they know they’re not. Does this open their eyes that maybe the right is full of shit about other wild claims too?
Nah they are just holding the shit bag for Trump, thinking that he will cover their legal fees. Meanwhile he will light the bag of shit on fire in their hands to distract others.
I always wonder what these assholes think when they’re being accused by their fellow trumpers of being antifa.
The day this went down, one of the guys who was there, while recording himself, said “antifa was also there”. This was based on nothing and this statement wasn’t meant for anyone who values evidence in the first place.
He knew he fucked up and no matter much they deny it most of them knew they had done something wrong. Throwing out antifa randomly is just a defense mechanism.
That’s the value of antifa to the right - it’s ill-defined and nebulous on purpose - they’re everywhere and nowhere, everyone and no one. Anything can be blamed on antifa because antifa isn’t an organization so disproving anyone’s membership in antifa is impossible.
The perfect Boogeyman.
It’s really worth reading the full article - but be sure you are prepared for the buckets of schadenfreude.
The only people who didn’t already know this are unwilling or unable to change their minds.
Which is a scary high percent of the population!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In late 2020, ahead of the Capitol attack, Lewis’ Facebook page featured anti-Hunter Biden memes, a celebration of the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett, reposts of both Donald Trump Jr. and then-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, as well as praise for former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany: “Savage, Patriot, Fearless, Warrior 🇺🇲.”
Another recent Jan. 6 arrestee who had also been the subject of claims he was antifa is Paul Orta, who wore a dark-colored balaclava on Jan. 6 and was seen ripping down fencing as the mob began flooding onto the restricted grounds of the Capitol, in footage cited by the FBI.
Complicating the effort to shoot down conspiracies about the identities of individual rioters is the fact that there are hundreds of Jan. 6 participants who have been identified by online “sedition hunters” but not arrested.
But most of those men have been arrested and identified, like Trump supporter Edward Kelley, who the feds say was wearing the black sweatshirt of an anti-abortion organization when he jumped through a broken window and kicked open a fire door.
The man, according to the sleuths and evidence reviewed by NBC News, was previously charged for threatening a Democratic official in his home state, his Facebook profile currently features the words “MAGA 4 EVER GOD SAVE OUR REPUBLIC 🇺🇸” and he appears to have even identified himself by name to a photographer who was on the scene as Trump supporters came back to the Capitol on Jan. 7.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donohue later said that open-source intelligence suggested that Jan. 6 “would essentially be a one-sided protest,” which was a “relief” because, in their mind, it lessened the potential for violence.
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Desperate & pathetic. Why the fuck would “we” protest our own win?
A full month before Jan 6th we all knew what was going to happen at the Capitol & were being told to stay away & let the cops deal with it.
I’m just typing this out to see if I can parse the mental gymnastics.
Donald Trump organized a big rally to protest the election. Nobody attended except hard core Biden fans who then decided to attack the Capitol to prevent Biden from becoming President, Meanwhile, Trump failed to call out the National Guard to stop the Biden supporters because…
See? I can’t make it make sense, but I guess that’s because I wasn’t homeschooled.
I can’t make it make sense, but I guess that’s because I wasn’t homeschooled.
Hey I was homeschooled for the better part of my younger days. How dare you lump me in as being a Trump supporter. That traitor needs to be in prison.
He’s evolved three mouths to spew triple the bullshit.
In fact, the two men were not antifa. They were Trump supporters.
In a world full of wishy washy statements, I love when journalists get to state something so bluntly.
They should keep this up, and not amplify the lies. I want to see headlines along the lines of “X lies about immigration to Y”, and bury the lies in the article.
