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Antifa is like the KISS Army, anybody can say they're in it, and when the band is in town everyone at the show is KISS Army until the lights go up.
If you only watch TV/Cable news you think Portland Oregon is a war zone, but the action seen on TV takes place within four city blocks-square. The rest of Portland is mellow and a great place from craft beer and awesome donuts. There are a lot of young homeless people in the area, and huge drug problem creating a ready army of sock-puppets for the weekly protests and or riots. It has become the Silocon Valley of leftist causes, which is ironic since Portland is extremely liberal already. In my view it's the flavor of the month. Trumpistas have used Antifa as their bogey man for a while as Hilary Clinton faded from view. Trump cultists, like Antifa, have different reasons for supporting their lost cause. Like Antifa they hate the US Government while cashing in on Social Security, VA, Agriculture, and SBA goodies (they're against socialism until they're for it). Like Antifa, they are driven by social media and internet sources. Unlike Antifa, Trumpistas have a low bar for the things they believe, and a firewall against fact-based information. They genuinely believe Biden will usher in an era of Socialist expansion in the US. They state this as if it is fact. Like Antifa they are afraid of something that isn't there, and end up being punished by the problems they themselves create. Yes, Antifa has no central leadership or platform. If they were ignored they would go away. Trump has taken a valid political party and shredded it from the inside. The 2020 election was historic, the turnout was amazing, and if anyone else was President they would gather the GOP leadership and build on the outstanding numbers they did receive in the election. They could be in prime position to retake both the House and Senate in 2022, and still have a solid shot at the White House in 2024...until January 6, 2021. Now they're a party that will have to explain it's embrace of lies to promote treason against the country, and democracy. Technically, Trump is Antifa. |
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You can judge for yourself what happened last Wednesday in Washington. Rarely has an event been filmed from more angles. You know what that was. You also know what it wasn’t. It was not an act of racism. It was not an insurrection. It wasn’t an armed invasion by a brigade of dangerous white supremacists. Those are lies. Why are they demanding that you believe them?
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"To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived. He truly is without fault, so simple and at the same time possessed of masculine strength" -Leni Riefenstahl Wollen owns the stage
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"To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived. He truly is without fault, so simple and at the same time possessed of masculine strength" -Leni Riefenstahl Wollen owns the stage
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Playground pretender forgets from which propagandist pretender he wishes to plagiarize propaganda.*
Unoriginal dead enders gonna dead end. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!! *Say that five times. |
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Lest we forget one of the multiple earlier attacks on the capitol:
This one was by "lefties"
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Playground pretender briefly looks at objective reality and says "Nah."
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You're in for some shocks
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Playground pretender keeps digging.
Dead enders gonna dead end. Nothing to be done about except laugh. |
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Once again, the soundtrack for all the Q-nut, CTer, trumpscum insurrectionists, in custody, or soon to be.
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Dont forget....
DC Metro and NYPD had warnings of capitol breach planning before Jan 6, and... DC Cops asked for crowd control support 6x and were told "no". Entrapment is still on the table |
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Playground pretender pretends harder, looks sillier.
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"To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived. He truly is without fault, so simple and at the same time possessed of masculine strength" -Leni Riefenstahl Wollen owns the stage
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---------------------- Anything goes in the Goblin hut... anything. "Suggesting spurious explanations isn't relevant to my work." -- WTC Dust. "Both cannot be simultaneously true, and so one may conclude neither is true, and if neither is true, then Apollo is fraudulent." -- Patrick1000. |
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Real soon
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---------------------- Anything goes in the Goblin hut... anything. "Suggesting spurious explanations isn't relevant to my work." -- WTC Dust. "Both cannot be simultaneously true, and so one may conclude neither is true, and if neither is true, then Apollo is fraudulent." -- Patrick1000. |
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---------------------- Anything goes in the Goblin hut... anything. "Suggesting spurious explanations isn't relevant to my work." -- WTC Dust. "Both cannot be simultaneously true, and so one may conclude neither is true, and if neither is true, then Apollo is fraudulent." -- Patrick1000. |
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#184 |
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A lovely opportunity to clarify just what an "Entrapment" defense means, in comic form!
https://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com...-was-entrapped (Short answer: no, not remotely) |
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Bubba, apostrophes are not a socialist conspiracy.
So it wasn't entrapment, then. I see. What you're saying, then, is that all it takes for peaceful protesters to start rioting is for there not to be many police there. Anyway, you've already shown that they were planning a riot beforehand. Which of your two contradictory statements are you going to ditch? My understanding is that the Capitol police are under the control of Congress. You appear to be implicating the Trump administration in this supposed entrapment. Thanks for that. Let's hope they add that to the list of charges against him. |
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#189 |
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Originally Posted by Puppycow
Thankfully not many died.... |
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If you look at the video where that woman gets capped, you see the attackers run back from the window after idiot girl takes one in the chest. I think had the police used more deadly force, the Capitol might not have been taken. It's unfortunate that more officers didn't fire on the attackers. A significant attrition of the enemy might have taken the wind out of the sails of a lot of these wannabe revolutionaries.
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She was never charged with any bombings although she was a suspect in several. In the end she was found guilty of a weapons charge but given a much stiffer sentence than others found guilty of the same crimes. The government was forced to drop most of the charges in the Weather Underground Cases because they used unlawful wire tapping methods to monitor both members and suspected known associates without a court order or warrant.
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I had not read this before, but a quarter of a million dollars to send insurgents to DC. came from a Christian crowdfunding site. The Washington Post has a more detailed story behind its paywall.
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"A closed mouth gathers no feet" "Ignorance is a renewable resource" P.J.O'Rourke "It's all god's handiwork, there's little quality control applied", Fox26 reporter on Texas granite You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald |
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Nah, look at this clip from the invasion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWYPIrNLCPc Totally peaceful /s eta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQHNZfSwlYM This one also tells a story. |
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