Did this really just happen?

[_Icarus]

Laura Ingraham claims Barack Obama and Eric Holder organizing group helped train antifa


Dan Bongino says Antifa is carrying out 'sophisticated insurrection' and must be shut down

“They’re lifting and shifting, and moving around trying to hit strategic points at the White House,” Bongino told “Fox & Friends.”

The former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent said that his friends informed him that “known Antifa leadership is there organizing” the riots.

“This is not some run-of-the-mill criminality by people who have nothing to do on a Saturday night. Yes, there are some people there who are just there to cause trouble. This is a sophisticated insurrection-type attack. This is not a joke,” Bongino said.

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Apparently it was a joke. And the joke was on us.

[_EAllusion]

I'd like to think there was an radical leftist watching the news who thought, "The Revolution is at hand!," called his friends in his anarchist book club to make a road trip, but each one had to bow out due to reasons like having to watch their neighbor's dog on the weekend.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

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Who made the argument antifa organized the protests?

- Doc
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No one. There were, however, lots of people arguing that Antifa is a terrorist organization that was a significant factor driving the subsequent looting, arson, and riots.
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I think they're just showing up and taking advantage of the protest. There's just a big mix of a lot of people out there for their own motivations, like you've mentioned. I didn't realize the argument was being made by right-wingers that they were behind the protests, which is absurd. Everyone is out there for their own reasons, most of them just.

- Doc

[_Icarus]

Brian Kilmeade claimed, with no evidence, that antifa were dropping off pallets of bricks and pick axes to encourage rioters to use them in a war against the cops.

https://www.mediamatters.org/crime-and- ... d-pickaxes

This conspiracy theory came as people were noticing pallets of bricks on sidewalks but that was quickly debunked as these were there before Floyd was murdered for construction projects.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

That’s funny because there’s been unsubstantiated claims deep state actors were doing the same to get protesters to use them to commit acts of violence.

- Doc

[_subgenius]

Graphic video of 75 year old man being shoved to ground and immediately begins to bleed out of his ear.

https://Twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/statu ... 93632?s=20

The entire Buffalo special unit has resigned in protest of 2 officers getting suspended for their role in this incident.

The police involved has summarized the incident as the person having slipped and fallen, so not only do they expect to be able to do this with impunity, the expect to be able to lie about it too.

(Nearly every single video involving police misconduct usually has a deceptive police report summarizing the events. It's standard protocol to lie in those circumstances. Always makes me wonder what's happened in the events there isn't video of.)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/buffa ... index.html

wanna revise your from the from-the-hip self-indulgent pressuposition here given the emergence of this old guy's identity and strategy?

[_EAllusion]

The entire Buffalo special unit has resigned in protest of 2 officers getting suspended for their role in this incident.

The police involved has summarized the incident as the person having slipped and fallen, so not only do they expect to be able to do this with impunity, the expect to be able to lie about it too.

(Nearly every single video involving police misconduct usually has a deceptive police report summarizing the events. It's standard protocol to lie in those circumstances. Always makes me wonder what's happened in the events there isn't video of.)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/buffa ... index.html

wanna revise your from the from-the-hip self-indulgent pressuposition here given the emergence of this old guy's identity and strategy?

His strategy to get the police lie about their behavior? Dastardly.

[_EAllusion]

Mitt Romney is marching with BLM. What a world.

[_EAllusion]

And James Bennet has been ousted at NYT. Fantastic. I hope someone publishes an editorial about he should be beaten with socks full of nickels. You know, to hear all the perspectives.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

"Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) joined a group of hundreds of evangelicals marching Sunday as the tenth day of demonstrations took on themes of faith and prayer."

Despite some obvious differences in politics, I respect Senator Romney's actions. I wonder what kind of legislation will come out of this...

- Doc