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(31,112 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)This is what happens when there are no serious consequences for those who break the law.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)ummm... you do understand the philosophy of the anarchists, right?
Leaders? LOL
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Its kind of a loose mindset. Anybody can call themself Antifa. Theres no leader, etc.
brush
(53,778 posts)a few people and do a well-publicized and recorded perp walk of the suspects being arrested. With Tucker Carson and another admin official hyping this, expect some trumped up (how appropriate) shit happening soon as they don't have much time before the election.
Rand Paul is also pushing this ridiculous story of black-clad antifa figures filling a plane to fly to do outside agitation.
It's getting real crazy but they are desperate and will try anything to keep trump in power and out of jail.
JHB
(37,160 posts)That's the name of the game: get the headlines, get the chyron, get the soundbite, and just bullshit if anyone asks about it later.
That's not a "Trump" tactic, by the way, it's a Republican tactic. It was an essential tool over the course of three decades for building the "Clinton Crime Family" mythos among the meatheads who eventually became Trump's base.
hedda_foil
(16,374 posts)That's what fascist dictators do.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)for more on this. There was a story this AM about local officials charging five protesters under some type of RICO actions.
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)DSandra
(999 posts)To arrest them.