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Initech

(100,054 posts)
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:00 PM Nov 2018

Bill Mitchell: 'Is it Possible That Antifa Is Behind the California Fires?'

Ardent pro-Trump commentator and online conspiracy theorist Bill Mitchell declared on his “YourVoice America” program yesterday that the Department of Justice should investigate whether Antifa is responsible for starting the wildfires that have devastated California, despite admitting that he literally has no evidence to support this assertion.

Mitchell said that while nobody knows what caused these fires, it is possible that they could be the result of “domestic terrorism.”

“Now who is the only domestic terrorist organization that we know of in America?” he asked, rhetorically. “Antifa. Who loves to light things on fire? Antifa. So we have to ask our questions: Is it possible that Antifa is behind the California fires?”

“It isn’t too much of a coincidence that after decades and decades and decades of relatively low amounts of fires, we have all of these simultaneous fires going on in California just as Democrats take back Congress,” Mitchell said. “I am willing to bet one of the first major legislations that come out of the Democrat House will be climate change legislation—based on what? The California fires. Started by who? I wonder. I wonder. It’s all too convenient by half.”

“People say, ‘What evidence do you have that Antifa started this?’ Nothing,” Mitchell continued. “I have no evidence. I’m not accusing them. I’m just asking if it’s possible. It is something that we should consider because if Antifa is, in fact, a domestic terrorist organization and this is, in fact, a terrorist act, we must ask ourselves, ‘Is Antifa involved in this?'”

“The FBI, the DOJ should look into whether they are involved in that because nobody knows who started this,” Mitchell declared. “This is not some wild, fire-bomb-throwing on my part, I just want to know because inquiring minds want to know.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bill-mitchell-is-it-possible-that-antifa-is-behind-the-california-fires/


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RKP5637

(67,101 posts)
3. FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guys like this need to be on their meds! So tired of them saying
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:04 PM
Nov 2018

CT crap.

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
6. No -
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:20 PM
Nov 2018

A purple monkey dishwasher be behind it? No
Could Caps and gowns, cap and gown, cap and gown, dingo! ... have done it? No!
Could a potato potato explosion explosion beedeedleooo jim carrey meow goes the fish horse goes the applesauce done it? Well -
Could the fact I like cheese be behind it? Naw.
Could edible pillows have something to do with it? No.
How about a flying monkey. Not likely!
Maybe my spleen? Naw.
Could "そのカエルは、幻覚をなめてはいけない!" (that means "The frog can't lick hallucination!&quot No
Could 3 Fire Breathing Squirrels have done it Maybe!.

All more likely than Antifa.
haha

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
10. One of my co-workers was telling me about the theory....
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:55 PM
Nov 2018

the fires were set to clear out the land, so that it could be bought up cheap for the railway project. Not sure which project that is, I thought those were dead.

And of course it is a plot by Feinstein or Pelosi, he couldn't remember which.

One of there husbands supposedly works for the company building the railway.

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
13. Is it possible Bill Mitchell and Donald Trump started the fires?
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:48 PM
Nov 2018

I have no evidence. I’m not accusing them. I’m just asking if it’s possible.

What a bunch of bullshit!

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
15. We need to stop being so aghast at obvious propaganda
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:52 PM
Nov 2018

This is the what the GOP has become: a Russian asset in and of itself. Everything, from politics to media, has succumbed. Instead of ridiculing the basis of the statement, we simply need to rubber stamp it as propaganda and leave it in the sewage where it belongs.

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