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kentuck

(111,094 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:09 AM Feb 2021

A point to consider about the mob that stormed our Capitol.

They came from all over the US to gather in DC at Trump's request.

They were some of the most vocal and active white supremacists and racists in our country.

Many have now been arrested and many more have been identified. That is a good thing. They are no longer hiding in the shadows.

The FBI now has enough information to mostly clean up this nest of vipers and blow-hards. Although I am sure it was not intended, but it is almost like Trump set a trap for them?

They can no longer hide.

And if the FBI continues to arrest them at the rate they have been, it is going to make a huge dent in the white supremacist movement in this country, in my opinion.

If there is anything positive that might come from this tragic event, this could be it.

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A point to consider about the mob that stormed our Capitol. (Original Post) kentuck Feb 2021 OP
I hope so, FoxNewsSucks Feb 2021 #1
Hopefully it puts a damper on future white supremacist activities soothsayer Feb 2021 #2
Trump is a honey trap. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2021 #3
A small group of Russian women, spanning generations, are deeply rzemanfl Feb 2021 #6
Sorry, generations of Russian women. Cracklin Charlie Feb 2021 #7
Send them to prisons far from each other and home. pwb Feb 2021 #4
Charlottesville blew much of the online Nazi world into bits underpants Feb 2021 #5
Insurrectionists, not mob. niyad Feb 2021 #8
I think Trump thought they would be successful and emboldened. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #9

FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
1. I hope so,
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:12 AM
Feb 2021

And I want to see some prosecutions of the behind-the-scenes funders of getting all that trash to DC

underpants

(182,803 posts)
5. Charlottesville blew much of the online Nazi world into bits
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:19 AM
Feb 2021

The aftermath. New people stepped into the power void. This was a one-ups manship of Charlottesville. Legends made. Stories to be told. Trump and Bannon knew it would they just had to get them close enough for someone to spark it.

We’ll see how the Nazis survive this.

Irish_Dem

(47,057 posts)
9. I think Trump thought they would be successful and emboldened.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:27 PM
Feb 2021

And be of further use to him. I don't think he thought about their welfare at all.
He saw them only as of use to him.

But in the end he brought them into the limelight so they could be squashed.

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