Online extremists are ignoring Trump's call for calm

[brooklynite]

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Source: Politico

President Donald Trump has instructed his followers to not engage in political violence following the deadly riots on the Capitol on Jan 6. But the video in which he made the plea has barely made a dent in the groundswell of extremism that was seen last week and has proliferated online since.

A vast swath of the president’s diehard base in MAGA Nation — the conspiracy theorists, the militia members, and the followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory — has disregarded Trump’s Wednesday remarks. Instead, they are dissecting his phrases and using those cues as rallying cries, doubling down on their plans to keep the MAGA movement going after Trump leaves the White House.

The absence of a formal Trump concession to President-elect Joe Biden has emboldened their chatter and bolstered their ideology. So, too, has the clamp-down by social media platforms on MAGA extremist content — Trump’s own posts included — which has given white nationalist and unapologetically fascist groups openings to recruit Trump fans to their cause.

They’ve claimed that elite forces have started purging conservatives from the internet. They’ve argued that the riots were actually false flag operations. Within the QAnon community, they’ve gone so far as to suggest that the upcoming inauguration will be a cover for Trump to announce the long-elusive mass arrests of government bureaucrat pedophiles.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/14/online-extremists-ignoring-trump-calls-calm-459535

[Thomas Hurt]

1. He didn't mean it and they know it.

[TigressDem]

7. Yah. )Wink, wink) nt

[Major Nikon]

12. As soon as he's drug out of the WH he will be off the chain again

[mwooldri]

21. I believe they called these videos...

... "Hostage videos". Trump being made to read off the autocue stuff he really doesn't want to say, just to get him out of a tight spot. I believe we know what his true feelings are on the matter; the reports of him being pleased at the rioting when watching it on TV seem to be credible.

[marble falls]

2. They didn't buy it anymore than we did.

[msongs]

3. nice analysis and opinion. who are "they" nt

[Progressive Jones]

4. Radical Righty.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. He's not talking to the

and they know it.

[rdking647]

6. if the extremists try and pull some crap it should be met with extreme force

set up a police line. if they cross it treat them as imminent terrorist threat

[Arne]

8. Could Bannon be seeding all the crap?

[PA_jen]

9. Who is surprise raise your hand high...

Huh, no hands.

[regnaD kciN]

10. "ignoring"...yeah, right...

[Initech]

11. Trump is this guy:

[NJCher]

16. Hah

That’s perfect.

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Re the article, don’t you love the part about secret messages?

[onetexan]

13. Con has emboldened them & unleashed the genie in the bottle. Their #s have increased exponentially

One of the first things the new DOJ needs to do is label all the white supremacists groups as hate groups, and step up the units focusing on weeding them out. This problem is a cancer in our society that is the root of many evils.

[appleannie1]

14. He probably sent them another message via a different media earlier to that one.

[Cha]

15. Of course they are they "know"

he doesn't mean it.

When a cult leader tells you who he is for years.. they can't just take it back by saying "never mind".

[keithbvadu2]

18. '...they "know" he doesn't mean it. '

Not the first time.

White supremacists cheer Trump’s response to Charlottesville violence

They accept it as support for themselves.

https://thinkprogress.org/white-supremacists-cheer-trumps-response-to-charlottesville-violence-3d0d50196c52/

[Cha]

19. Yes and that's what Biden

launched his campaign on.. Taking that shit down

[DallasNE]

17. Can't Put The Toothpaste Back In The Tube

Accordingly, this is exactly what I predicted would happen.

Besides, they know from previous statements that they are doing exactly what Trump wants them to do, which aligns with their fascist desires.

[Layzeebeaver]

20. it was and will be that obvious double negative in his video speech

the nuts will use that as a message from "dear Leader" to keep on rioting

Assuming their english skills are up to snuff.

[llashram]

22. they know he does not mean

a word he said nor his protestations for calm and observing the law. He and his family "GLEEFULLY" watched unfolding events on the 6th. They really thought they/fascists would be in power throughout perpetuity after this. We dodged ONE bullet, many more coming our way into the foreseeable future...

[Cheezoholic]

23. There's a noticeable increase of these assholes

on what boards and message platforms they have left that I regularly peruse and am member on , especially 8kun, expressing their growing ire for Trump himself. I've seen lots and lots of posts from they don't need him to he's going down with the rest of them. Their are plenty of prominent actors out there that could step into the rally role.

[Omaha Steve]

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