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Leaked texts show that Jason Miller invented the ANTIFA lie about the Jan 6 attack (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2022 OP
Have we ever seen a segment of the country willfully promote lies as a driving force? SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2022 #1
Kick dalton99a Apr 2022 #2
They should all head for prison malaise Apr 2022 #3
I suspect that is why we are getting so many leaks now... Ohio Joe Apr 2022 #4
+1,000 malaise Apr 2022 #7
"Let the criminal suffer the consequences" tecelote Apr 2022 #12
Kinda confirms the informal narrative that everything they accuse Democrats of Torchlight Apr 2022 #5
Twitter replies: Rhiannon12866 Apr 2022 #6
My winner is G-Mac malaise Apr 2022 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Apr 2022 #10
TY for these replies.. Rt! Cha Apr 2022 #11
No shit! How did they get "leaked"? Rt TY! Cha Apr 2022 #8
Somehow the RW has convinced their followers that Antifa is some kind of huge organization. LiberalLovinLug Apr 2022 #13
There's too much right wing group think to credit Miller with starting that lie... RockRaven Apr 2022 #14
Yep, that's how the lizard-brain works FakeNoose Apr 2022 #15
I don't understand in the least Jilly_in_VA Apr 2022 #16
The sins of stupidity, ignorance, and lack of information and judgment bucolic_frolic Apr 2022 #17
Maybe he was the first to say it, but all of them were going to use the "Antifa did it!" ploy when Martin68 Apr 2022 #18
K&R UTUSN Apr 2022 #19
I know we have had threads making fun of tavernier Apr 2022 #20
Why would the republicans not want an investigation? keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #21
Transcribed. BWdem4life Apr 2022 #22
Wow, Repubes are Full Satanic Achilleaze Apr 2022 #23

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,412 posts)
1. Have we ever seen a segment of the country willfully promote lies as a driving force?
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 03:30 PM
Apr 2022

We are surrounded by greedy people with no concern for anything but their own views - which are too often driven by lies. That is what Free Speech has come to mean.

Ohio Joe

(21,898 posts)
4. I suspect that is why we are getting so many leaks now...
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 03:33 PM
Apr 2022

They are intended to ramp up anticipation for the public hearings. I approve of that, as many eyeballs should be on them as can be

tecelote

(5,156 posts)
12. "Let the criminal suffer the consequences"
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 04:12 PM
Apr 2022

As they say, let the criminal suffer the consequences.

We agree... lock them up!

Torchlight

(6,832 posts)
5. Kinda confirms the informal narrative that everything they accuse Democrats of
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 03:38 PM
Apr 2022

they themselves were guilty of.

That being the case, I totally get why they're so into accusing people of grooming kids.

Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #6)

LiberalLovinLug

(14,690 posts)
13. Somehow the RW has convinced their followers that Antifa is some kind of huge organization.
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 04:28 PM
Apr 2022

Instead of the rag tag unaffiliated groups that counter protest Nazi rallies.

Is Antifa even a thing now? How many people regularly go to Anitifa meetings?


Of course that's not even mentioning that they have reinterpreted and demonized the word "antifa" which means Anti-fascists. Something they'd all agree with during WW2.

RockRaven

(19,398 posts)
14. There's too much right wing group think to credit Miller with starting that lie...
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 04:38 PM
Apr 2022

Alex Jones was blaming Antifa live on air during the riot/insurrection as he was broadcasting from blocks away.

"Antifa" was already the go-to bogeyman at that point, so they all went with the same lie organically.

Jilly_in_VA

(14,387 posts)
16. I don't understand in the least
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 04:43 PM
Apr 2022

why anyone except the extremely illiterate and stupid would believe a word coming out of this fool's mouth.

And I can't even say in polite company what I think that mouth looks like. Use your imagination.

bucolic_frolic

(55,178 posts)
17. The sins of stupidity, ignorance, and lack of information and judgment
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 05:02 PM
Apr 2022

The thought was well-received, I'd bet.

Martin68

(27,758 posts)
18. Maybe he was the first to say it, but all of them were going to use the "Antifa did it!" ploy when
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 05:51 PM
Apr 2022

it was clear it was a fiasco. They were doing it during all the BLM protests, too.

tavernier

(14,444 posts)
20. I know we have had threads making fun of
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 06:28 PM
Apr 2022

the kooks who spread the antifa baloney: we’ve joked about our secret handshake and meeting in the cemetery next full moon, etc.
But all kidding aside, has anyone here ever met or talked to any real person claiming to be an antifa member??
I’ve just understood this is a nonsense organization with a non-sense title, that was just made up by the wacky doodle magats.

If you really exist, please speak up because I am curious to know how you can be so invisible and yet scare those Trumpies so badly.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
21. Why would the republicans not want an investigation?
Mon Apr 25, 2022, 10:17 PM
Apr 2022

Why would the republicans not want an investigation?

Who was in the Jan 06 insurrection/riot smearing poop on the walls of Congress, attacking police, seeking Mike Pence for execution, and vandalizing the Capitol Bldg?

The ONLY proof you need that Antifa had nothing to do with January 6th is the Republicans' refusal to form a commission to investigate it.


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