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2020-11-15 Fifth Column

Arrests in Washington as Trump supporters clash with counterdemonstrators

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-15 08:47|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 I don't recall any reports of clashes with Antifa/BLM at the many Trump rallies across the country in the run-up to the election.

So why is Washington D.C. different? If Trump supporters haven't had a problem prior to this, one has to assume it is the left instigating this violence.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-15 10:27|| 2020-11-15 10:27|| Front Page Top

#2 They missed this little irony, from a photo caption: Trump supporters cheer as Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones speaks

Ironic, because he is a member of the Democratic party and a person of color. Not ironic that he is reviled by his (D) peers.

Posted by Bobby 2020-11-15 11:04|| 2020-11-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Note the propagandist vocabulary: fervid Trump supporters join the president in his spurious claim of a stolen election, neo-fascist Proud Boys, largely peaceful did not show up until the bottom of the article, and Antifa/BLM thugs ae labelled under photos and videos as anodyne counter-protesters.

We truly are f---ed if we tolerate these lies any longer.

Antifa/BLM thugs are literally attacking mothers with children, old people, ordinary citizens in restaurants and at hotels and everywhere in between.

This violence is specifically designed to intimidate us into voting for Democrats and staying silent when Democrats fix ballots and rig elections.

This cannot be allowed. If law enforcement will not put an end to this behavior, honest citizens will. There will be blood.

Posted by Hupolung Peacock5153 2020-11-15 11:13|| 2020-11-15 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Proud Boys are not Neo-fascist. That is a false narrative perpetuated by the Marxist Left
Trump Supporters are non-violent. Antifa and BLM Marxists are completely violent
All they want are to physically eliminate all Republicans and white men.

Posted by VROOOOOM 2020-11-15 11:17|| 2020-11-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Proud Boys are not Neo-fascist.

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, the definition of neo-fascism starts

Neo-Fascism lends itself to an exact definition even less than Fascism, its ideological progenitor. In the postwar world all radical right-wing movements, irrespective of their doctrinal contents and differences – except those explicitly aiming at the restoration of an antisemitic, racialist, Nazi-type dictatorship (see *Neo-Nazism) – are commonly referred to as "neo-Fascist."

So any movement that wants simply to end violence against civilians and ensure free and fair elections could not possibly be neo-fascist, with or without the hyphen.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-15 12:23|| 2020-11-15 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Aren't fascism, communism, socialism, and capitalism all economic systems?

Posted by Clem 2020-11-15 12:38|| 2020-11-15 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Anti-fascists are communists and as such are statists. They are the other side of the same statist coin. One side is fascist, the other side communists--both are statists or totalitarians. That is not America or American! We have fought against this from the beginning of our country.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-15 12:54|| 2020-11-15 12:54|| Front Page Top

#8 The DC mayor ordered the police to force the MAGA folks to run a gauntlet of BLM/Antifa types when they were headed home.

Posted by gorb 2020-11-15 13:57|| 2020-11-15 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 The Proud Boys are multi-racial.

Tim Poole describes seeing a multi-racial group of Proud Boys being attacked by Antifa in the Pacific northwest. A white Antifa scum was screaming every racial epithet imaginable at a black Proud Boy, and was starting to get under his skin. A white Proud Boy went to his friend, pulled him away, and calmed him down, letting him know he has real friends in the group, and to ignore the scum; his friends know him and respect him.

Which group is fascist?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-11-15 14:48|| 2020-11-15 14:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Anyone who has the audacity to disagree or speak out against the Dem leftists are labeled fascists. Many who watch only the MSM believe this propaganda.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-15 15:43|| 2020-11-15 15:43|| Front Page Top

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