I don't think Alabama is sending it's best people

[LunaSea]

https://www.alreporter.com/2021/01/07/no-this-capitol-insurrectionist-isnt-a-communist-but-he-is-from-alabama/


n the hours after the attempted insurrection at the U.S capital, some Republican lawmakers and those sympathetic to the pro-Trump demonstrations began squaring the blame for the calamity not on President Donald Trump, his supporters and fringe elements of the conspiratorial right, but rather on alleged “antifa infiltrators” they said were the cause of the disorder.

“Don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol,” said Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who represents Alabama’s 5th Congressional District, in a series of tweets Thursday. “All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.”

In a following tweet, Brooks said: “Evidence, much public, surfacing that many Capitol assaulters were fascist ANTIFAs, not Trump supporters.”

One popular piece of conspiratorial “evidence” for this theory was a photo by Agence France-Presse and others of rioters gathered inside the Capitol Building. A member of that group, whom we are identifying as Will Watson from Montgomery, is pictured far left with a large beard and hands across his chest, with what appeared to some to be a hammer and sickle tattooed on-top of one of his hands.


The symbol actually comes from the 2012 video game Dishonored. The “Outsider’s Mark,” as it’s called in the game, is a supernatural symbol given to Corvo Attano, the game’s protagonist, by the figure known as “The Outsider.” It grants the player mystic powers that are used throughout the game.

[elleng]

1. They did it once,

and repugs shot him down.

Governor Siegelman, that was.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Don't forget Doug Jones

I have no idea when we will go for the trifecta.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Fascist antifa....think about that you socialist anti-socialists!

[judesedit]

7. I know. I liked it, too. That is called an oxymoron. They fall for everything

[ResistantAmerican17]

3. Those goddamn communist anti-communists are ruining things.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. "fascist ANTIFAs"

Motherfucker is so stupid he doesn't even know when he has used a oxymoron.

[soothsayer]

5. Alabama AG leads nonprofit that helped organize march at Capitol

Link to tweet

?s=21


Patrick
@pat_ipad
Anyone investigating this group that FUNDED and bused these insurgents? Maybe they should called themselves ANTIFA to be noticed

Alabama AG leads nonprofit that helped organize march at Capitol
alreporter.com

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Oh yeah, lets get to the heart of the matter.

The financiers of the sedition.......

[BlueIdaho]

8. That mouth breather Mo Brooks should be in a holding cell right now

He is as guilty as Trump.

[msongs]

9. it's sending ppl that are representative of the state majority nt

[Blue_true]

11. Wow.

If Antifa is as good as some republicans and Magats make it out to be, we are DONE, DONE I TELL YOU. We just should send Antifa all of our money, our best meats, wines and cheeses, and a gaggle of virgins thrown in for good measure. Then we head to the hills to hide.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

Trump, a NY Yankee, calls Sessions a 'dumb southerner' and they love him down there.

After all, Trump 'tells it like it is'.

[Whiskeytide]

13. I am very, very sorry ...

... for Mo Brooks. Truly I am.

[misanthrope]

14. Alabama's longtime problem has been retaining its "best people"

Are there good people in Alabama? Sure, but they are vastly outnumbered by the complacent and cowed, the marginalized and malicious and, most of all, the willfully ignorant.

So many of those who could make Alabama a better place get worn out by fighting the tide or squandering their potential and leave to find their lives' purpose elsewhere. I've seen it for a half-century, the cycle that keeps places like this making the same mistakes with little change.