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Home Front: Politix

Blaming White Supremacists For The Riots Is Nonsensical Gaslighting

2020-06-01

[THEFEDERALIST] I can’t believe they even tried it.
Oh, I can. They do it all the time.
On Saturday morning Minnesota officials came out with an audacious and absurd explanation for the looting and arson that struck Minneapolis this week. Apparently it was white supremacists from out of state who pretended to be actual protestors in an attempt to discredit the protest. The evidence? A vague claim and a lie. It turns out that most of those arrested were actually Minnesota residents.
The claim that they were all from out of state seemed a bit over the top. So do similar claims. If your eyes are seeing one thing on the teevee, and a politician is saying something else, trust your eyes.
The hypocritical mental gymnastics from the liberal media in the past 72 hours were amazing enough to earn a perfect 10 from the stingiest East German judge. First, we watched tens of thousands of people hold mass gatherings across the country, which just last week we were told would kill everyone, and the media suddenly didn’t care. It’s like the Chinese virus just went away by magic.
It'll be interesting to see how high the stack of fatalities gets. If it doesn't occur, are they gonna riot in front of Fauci's house? Will he resign and enter a monastery?
Next we were informed that the looting and arson we witnessed from the protesters was simply the language of the oppressed and how could we even comment about it when another black man was killed by the police. Celebrities posted bail for the heroes of Minneapolis. And yes, the brutal killing of George Floyd is an occasion for outrage.
They started with the support of 99 percent of the population, to include policemen. We saw second degree murder committed on national teevee, an open and shut case, caught on camera. Holding a prisoner down with a knee on his neck isn't what they teach in police academies. Ask any cop. Once the cuffs are on the incident's over. If the perp continues being a jerk (and they do, and another vid shows Floyd being a jerk in the police car) you use as little force as possible to subdue him/her/it. Then Reverend Al showed up. "No justice, no peace."
Now, and this is subject to change by the time this paragraph is over, these horrible acts of looting and arson were mainly done by Right-wing white supremacist interlopers. That’s right. Some shadowy organization of neo-Nazis apparently sent false flag psyop operations all over the country to foment a race war. Or something.
Perfidious, ain't they? Of course, you see those guys every day, don't you? They're common as shells on the seashore, warts on a toad. Klansmen wearing hoods appear daily, and they're documented in all sorts of news reports. We have daily cross burnings. Aryan Nation sympathizers lurk under every bed. The Atomwaffen Division has stormed Pittsburgh. They're not a motley collection of ineffectual nitwits with no influence whatsoever on anyone with an IQ over 55.
The good news for the racists is that famous Hollywood celebrities bailed them out of jail apparently. It is absolutely the most wrongheaded, astounding, ridiculous lie the media has latched onto during the Trump administration. And that’s a hell of a competitive category.
It's very trendy to be a revolutionary. Fight the power and all that. Question Authority®, right or wrong, drunk or sober.
The tweets from pundits at CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post came flooding in. Why hadn’t Attorney General William Barr mentioned the white supremacists they insist are the real people to blame here? He didn’t do it because it’s a flaming garbage pile of lies. President Trump made clear exactly who the outside agitators are. It’s Antifa
Antifa

...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
. It’s obviously Antifa, it has been Antifa for over two decades.
Root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't it's a shame...
So why would Democrats and their lackeys in the big time press not want to say it’s Antifa? Because for years they have insisted that Antifa is a basically harmless group that conservatives have turned into a boogeyman. Remember when Chris Cuomo compared them to Allied forces storming Normandy?
They're hoping Minneapolis is Remagen, not that they've heard of it...
No. Some other narrative had to be established. Somehow, some way, this had to be the fault of racist Trump supporters, because everything is the fault of racist Trump supporters. But how? Easy. Just lie about most of the people arrested being from out of state and claim some had ties to white supremacist groups. Is it an obvious lie that a three-year-old could see through? Yeah.
Who're you gonna believe? Them or your lying eyes?
But maybe, just maybe if enough chattering nincompoops parrot the absurd claim in their Trump obsessed outlets that once were the home of competent journalists, the lie might stick. No. There are limits. Laying the destruction and crime, justified or not, that have been associated these protests on the feet of some KKK conspiracy is so outlandishly absurd that it will not, cannot, stand.
Isn't standing.
If white supremacists, not progressive rioters were responsible for the chaos on the last few days in America and around the country, let’s see the evidence now. All of it. It’s a huge claim, that doesn’t just strain credulity, it frappes it. It is very hard to believe that those in the news media who stood up this nonsense were not aware that at best they were wildly exaggerating the role these mysterious Nazis were playing.

Posted by:Fred

#4 I can’t believe they even tried it.

God, but the Conservative Commentariat is full of idiots.

Of course they tried.

Why do con-men still run the Nigerian e-mail scam after all this time?

Because it still works just often enough to be worth the minimal effort required.

So it is with the left's gaslighting.

It doesn't need to work perfectly or even all that widely.

All it has to do is accomplish enough to create marginal benefit to the left.

Coupled with other focused efforts, it can add up to a critical mass effect.

You know, I can see why the Right keeps losing to these clowns.

Chumps like the writer of this article are our "leaders".

Posted by: charger 2020-06-01 15:19

#3 Just because it's nonsensical doesn't mean it isn't the plan. In fact - it's a pretty good sign that it is.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-06-01 14:12

#2 "When I was in Ferguson for [the Justice Department] or with the Obama administration after the [Michael] Brown shooting, we saw that there were terrorist groups, organizations in Pakistan and elsewhere who were setting up false Twitter accounts and setting, having... two sides with conversation, basically alienate each other going forward," Linskey told host Bill Hemmer.

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-01 12:24

#1 So liberals in Hollywood are donating bail money for "white Supremacists?" Good to know where they stand.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-06-01 12:24

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