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" Who're "they"?"

right-wing fascists, obviously

[Edited on May 4, 2023 at 6:25 PM. Reason : c’mon, man]

5/4/2023 6:24:22 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-fbi-agent-feds-say-urged-jan-6-rioters-kill-police-worked-terrorism-rcna82775

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" Ex-FBI agent who feds say urged Jan. 6 rioters to kill police worked terrorism task force Jared Wise was part of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and was supervisory special agent in charge of the Homegrown Violent Extremism unit."

5/5/2023 12:41:27 AM

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"right-wing fascists, obviously"

Didn't realize they were in charge of our national holiday observances now.

5/5/2023 11:47:21 AM

don’t believe he said now

5/5/2023 12:02:48 PM

Saying "they'll" do something (if they is indeed right-wing fascists) pre-supposes that this mentality will become the ruling majority. Hopefully we haven't become that fatalistic yet.

5/5/2023 1:49:01 PM

We're getting there. There's lots of examples, but just the fact that there's plenty of congresspeople and senators who still deny the election results, defend trump, defend the Jan 6th rioters.. we've got governors like DeSantis and Abbot pulling their shenigans, states passing harsher and harsher anti-abortion, anti-trans, etc bills. There's plenty more to point to.

5/5/2023 1:55:21 PM

^^ I’m not sure how anyone who is aware of what the right is currently doing could not see what the endgame is here

they’re doing everything in their power to make sure that they’ll be the ruling majority regardless of voter support

5/5/2023 2:17:24 PM

Im well aware of all that, but it seems more like a reaction to unfavorable demographic trends and an attempt to hold on to waning power than a serious political movement. Or so I want to believe. . .

5/5/2023 2:18:56 PM

this whole culture war seems like a dying last effort.

Their solid demographic is dying off, the newer generations have nothing for them. The majority of the country disagrees with them on multiple key issues.

it is this for a while and then they adapt or they're done

5/6/2023 7:32:32 AM

But even if they adapt mightily, I'd really have trouble taking them seriously for a long time given current displays.

5/6/2023 9:50:49 AM

Texas North Carolina and Georgia have all recently passed laws to tighten the gop controlled bodies control of local elections.

Electoral college already diffuses democratic votes and now key swing states are being entrenched against majority rule.

Even if culture war stuff is broadly unpopular it might be popular enough. Democrats should be trying to make inroads to Republican voters— appeal to common sense or something— in these swing states, even if it’s against conventional political wisdom.

5/6/2023 10:58:38 PM

Texas aint a swing state

[Edited on May 7, 2023 at 2:18 AM. Reason : But good luck getting GA and NC, liberal bastions this past 50 years for a dem]

5/7/2023 2:16:10 AM

Several OathKeepers are finding out

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/politics/oath-keepers-jessica-watkins-sentencing/index.html

5/26/2023 2:36:56 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna88135

6/8/2023 1:36:14 PM

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"At trial, prosecutors showed evidence that Watkins founded and led a small militia in Ohio and mobilized her group in coordination with the Oath Keepers to Washington, DC, on January 6. Watkins and her counterparts ultimately marched in tactical gear to the Capitol and encouraged other rioters to push past police outside the Senate chamber"

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"“I was just another idiot running around the hallway,”"

6/8/2023 2:34:01 PM

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"Prosecutors alleged that Harrelson was appointed the “ground team leader” of the Oath Keepers on January 6, stockpiled weapons at a so-called quick reaction force just outside Washington, DC, and moved through the Capitol chanting “treason.”"

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"In an address to the judge before he was sentenced, Harrelson said that he has “no gripes against the government, then or now” and merely “got in the wrong car at the wrong time and went to the wrong place with the wrong people.”"

Just happenstance!

6/8/2023 2:37:52 PM