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lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
3. arrest the leaders of antifa
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:06 PM
Sep 2020

ummm... you do understand the philosophy of the anarchists, right?

Leaders? LOL

bearsfootball516

(6,369 posts)
4. Exactly. Antifa isn't some kind of organized group.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:08 PM
Sep 2020

It’s kind of a loose mindset. Anybody can call themself “Antifa”. There’s no leader, etc.

brush

(53,474 posts)
13. Exactly right of course, but they'll make up charges to pin on...
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:33 PM
Sep 2020

a few people and do a well-publicized and recorded perp walk of the suspects being arrested. With Tucker Carson and another admin official hyping this, expect some trumped up (how appropriate) shit happening soon as they don't have much time before the election.

Rand Paul is also pushing this ridiculous story of black-clad antifa figures filling a plane to fly to do outside agitation.

It's getting real crazy but they are desperate and will try anything to keep trump in power and out of jail.

JHB

(37,132 posts)
10. Doesn't matter. It's the headlines he's after.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:34 PM
Sep 2020

That's the name of the game: get the headlines, get the chyron, get the soundbite, and just bullshit if anyone asks about it later.

That's not a "Trump" tactic, by the way, it's a Republican tactic. It was an essential tool over the course of three decades for building the "Clinton Crime Family" mythos among the meatheads who eventually became Trump's base.

hedda_foil

(16,368 posts)
5. If Strokeahontis manages to steal the election it WILL be his real political opponents.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:10 PM
Sep 2020

That's what fascist dictators do.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Watch Kensoha
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 08:19 PM
Sep 2020

for more on this. There was a story this AM about local officials charging five protesters under some type of RICO actions.

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