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captain queeg

(10,231 posts)
2. Is that a surprise?
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:05 PM
May 2020

They should ask these dipsticks if they have an elder parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle that they want to see die?

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
3. It is a white nationalsit movement.
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:06 PM
May 2020

They are hoping to use the pandemic as a launch pad to overthrow the government.
You notice how well armed they are?

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
6. Some of them have publicly stated that goal.
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:52 PM
May 2020

There are people that are affiliated with anti-government groups and white nationalist groups among the "protesters".

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
8. Yep, and I'll bet the FBI and other intelligence agancies
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:55 PM
May 2020

are well aware of the threat. But they are themselves compromised. Many in these agencies and the police and the military are Nazis sympathizers or Nazis themselves.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. I believe that most FBI agents and cops in cities are mostly
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:24 PM
May 2020

not in such groups. But the group as a whole (agents, cops) tend to be socially conservative and likely will soft peddle dealing with the alt-right with the force that they should be handled with. One of the goals of some anti-government and supremacist groups is to kill cops and FBI agents first off, because they see them as impediments. In Las Vegas a couple years back, a white supremacist killed two cops and posed their bodies, it was all part of his ideology that cops were the enemy.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
15. I hope you are right
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:29 PM
May 2020

but in my lifetime, which is not short, those agencies have mainly targeted left wing groups.
It may not be the fault of the individual agents but of those in charge (Trump and Barr for example).

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
16. Yes, they have historically been hard on leftwing extreme groups,
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:35 PM
May 2020

and tended to look the other way with right ones. But the dynamics have shifted, how many modern anti-government, violence proposing left groups do you know of in this country? I know of none. The biggest threats to law enforcement agents at every level are violent rightwing groups, cops helped those groups grow by being soft on them, now they have to deal with their own Frankenstein.

tirebiter

(2,538 posts)
4. I was standing at a lookout today checking my favorite surf break
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:08 PM
May 2020

A guy comes up and I say it’s cool we can do this. The numb-nuts down in Huntington fucked themselves. Guy starts up saying that Newsom is a commie and how ridiculous it is going overboard for what just amounts to a flu. I let him finish then said guess Vietnam was just a bad cold. Let it go thud turned and went to put on my wetsuit. Surf wasn’t that great but leaving the land behind me was.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. The best case scenario would be if one got sick, survived and then became
Sat May 2, 2020, 09:39 PM
May 2020

a big proponent for the things that they are protesting against, and challenged their current soul mates face to face (peacefully) on the issues. That has happened before.

The worst case? I think some of those people will likely end up dead, killed by their own stupidity.

doc03

(35,362 posts)
7. I don't think it has anything to do with the virus they are white militia groups
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:18 PM
May 2020

incited by Trump thinking it will help his reelection. Look at them they look like typical militia and
bikers for Trump thugs. They are all fat ass bearded morons.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
9. Yep, they are mostly from the Thugs For Trump militia groups.
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:03 PM
May 2020

Or maybe you could call them the "Little Dick - Big Gun Club".

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
10. Why do I feel the media just needs to ignore the arseholes...
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:18 PM
May 2020

No coverage, maybe, just maybe they will take their extensions and go home...

JI7

(89,260 posts)
12. Lawrence O'Donnell said that if the same amount of people had been protesting
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:20 PM
May 2020

for a liberal cause the Media would not have reported on it as much as they do with these right wing shits.

JI7

(89,260 posts)
11. Yes, It's Mainly Trump's Racists Supporters who want to believe this whole thing is a conspiracy
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:19 PM
May 2020

to bring Trump down.

And they want to convince themselves that Trump is a far superior President and Person than Obama. That Obama was a Disaster but Trump right now is just "perfect" .

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