... and Trump didn't riot anywhere.
I agree, but most people relate to what happens when there isn't any power or it's super expensive.
Then your plan is working well.
Yes, as long as you always agree with them.
Bottom of the 8th. Going into the homestretch.
The Oath Keepers were banned from Twitter earlier this month for supposedly violating its rules against “violent extremist groups” after Rhodes claimed Black Lives Matter and Antifa were terrorists engaged in an “open communist insurrection” and urged Trump to deploy the National Guard across the country, calling the “street assassination of a Trump supporter in Portland” the “first shot” of a civil war.
Biden wanted Trump to denounce the Proud Boys as white supremacists. Yet their chairman is black and Cuban? And it's a "white" supremacist group.....Yeah. Right. Bet they follow the 14 words to the letterDemocrats and liberal media elevate Proud Boys with hysterical reaction to Trump’s mention of the group in debate
30 Sep, 2020 21:58
Democrats and media figures who want groups they brand “white supremacist” to be denounced and de-platformed may have shot themselves in the foot with their reaction to Donald Trump’s mention of the Proud Boys in Tuesday’s debate.
Media outlets from the BBC and the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Jerusalem Post and Quartz to Scripps National News did articles profiling the Proud Boys after President Trump told the group to "stand back and stand by" from riots across the US. The New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NBC and The Hill also posted stories on how the Proud Boys were celebrating after Trump called them out.
Trump's comments and the media reaction likely pushed the Proud Boys from the margins to center stage in terms of public awareness. As if that weren't enough to spur a recruiting surge, Democrat politicians chimed in to demonize the group. When CNN host asked Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris about Trump referring to the "far-right, neo-fascist" Proud Boys, she said, "I heard what we all heard – the president of the United States, in the year of our Lord 2020, refuses to condemn white supremacists."
Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) said that in his debate with Democrat challenger Joe Biden, Trump sought to organize and election-day intimidation effort by right-wing groups. "He succeeded," Murphy said. "Recruitment by Proud Boys and others is under way."
Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), member of the left-wing "squad" in the Democrat-controlled House, joined in dropping the group's name, saying, "Did he denounce Proud Boys and we missed it?"
"Let's be clear: The Proud Boys are white supremacists," tweeted Democrat Oregon Governor Kate Brown.
Democrats also lamented that Proud Boys shirts emblazoned with Trump's words were already being sold Tuesday night. One Twitter user even theorized that the president and the Proud Boys must have conspired for the shirts to be available so quickly, saying, "Trump must have told them the questions before the debate."
But Vogue magazine producer Kinsey Clarke pointed out the possible harm done by raising the group's profile: "Consider deleting this so as not to give domestic terrorists more publicity than they've already gotten," she said.
Trump told reporters Wednesday that he didn't know who the Proud Boys were, but he wanted them to stand down and let law enforcement quell violent protests around the country. Asked again if he denounces white supremacists, he said he has always denounced them. He added that any form of crime, including that committed by right-wing militias, concerns him.
Proud Boys were founded in 2016 as an all-male organization dedicated to “defending Western values.” Its members have clashed with Antifa and other left-wing groups in demonstrations across the US, including on the side of another right-wing group, the Patriot Prayer.
Described as “white nationalist” and “neo-fascist” by ‘anti-hate’ groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the mainstream media, the Proud Boys have been blamed for provoking violent confrontations. The group denies having any racial animus and says that it is multi-race. It also rejects being “white supremacist.”
Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio, who is of Afro-Cuban ethnicity, said he was excited about being mentioned by Trump at the debate, but he didn't take the reference as an endorsement, because “the question was in reference to white supremacy, which we are not.”
The group recently made headlines in the wake of a shooting in Portland. CCTV footage showed that a Proud Boys member was stalked and shot dead by a self-described “100% Antifa” activist. When the group held a memorial service a week later in nearby Vancouver, Washington, one of its members was purposely run over in a parking lot and injured, allegedly by a truck driven by an ‘Antifa’ member.
Democrats and liberal media elevate Proud Boys with hysterical reaction to Trump’s mention of the group in debate
Democrats and media figures who want groups they brand “white supremacist” to be denounced and de-platformed may have shot themselves in the foot with their reaction to Donald Trump’s mention of the Proud Boys in Tuesday’s debate.www.rt.com
Is it too much to ask for some basic level of journalistic accuracy? hmmmmm Let's see here it was a member of PATRIOT PRAYER who was murdered by antifa thugs, and not proud boys. This article was riddled with mistakes, quotes from people who had no idea of what they are talking about. I just viewed a video of a BLACK Proud boy member, which kinda neuters the white nationalist meme.Democrats and liberal media elevate Proud Boys with hysterical reaction to Trump’s mention of the group in debate
30 Sep, 2020 21:58
Democrats and media figures who want groups they brand “white supremacist” to be denounced and de-platformed may have shot themselves in the foot with their reaction to Donald Trump’s mention of the Proud Boys in Tuesday’s debate.
Media outlets from the BBC and the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Jerusalem Post and Quartz to Scripps National News did articles profiling the Proud Boys after President Trump told the group to "stand back and stand by" from riots across the US. The New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NBC and The Hill also posted stories on how the Proud Boys were celebrating after Trump called them out.
Trump's comments and the media reaction likely pushed the Proud Boys from the margins to center stage in terms of public awareness. As if that weren't enough to spur a recruiting surge, Democrat politicians chimed in to demonize the group. When CNN host asked Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris about Trump referring to the "far-right, neo-fascist" Proud Boys, she said, "I heard what we all heard – the president of the United States, in the year of our Lord 2020, refuses to condemn white supremacists."
Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) said that in his debate with Democrat challenger Joe Biden, Trump sought to organize and election-day intimidation effort by right-wing groups. "He succeeded," Murphy said. "Recruitment by Proud Boys and others is under way."
Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), member of the left-wing "squad" in the Democrat-controlled House, joined in dropping the group's name, saying, "Did he denounce Proud Boys and we missed it?"
"Let's be clear: The Proud Boys are white supremacists," tweeted Democrat Oregon Governor Kate Brown.
Democrats also lamented that Proud Boys shirts emblazoned with Trump's words were already being sold Tuesday night. One Twitter user even theorized that the president and the Proud Boys must have conspired for the shirts to be available so quickly, saying, "Trump must have told them the questions before the debate."
But Vogue magazine producer Kinsey Clarke pointed out the possible harm done by raising the group's profile: "Consider deleting this so as not to give domestic terrorists more publicity than they've already gotten," she said.
Trump told reporters Wednesday that he didn't know who the Proud Boys were, but he wanted them to stand down and let law enforcement quell violent protests around the country. Asked again if he denounces white supremacists, he said he has always denounced them. He added that any form of crime, including that committed by right-wing militias, concerns him.
Proud Boys were founded in 2016 as an all-male organization dedicated to “defending Western values.” Its members have clashed with Antifa and other left-wing groups in demonstrations across the US, including on the side of another right-wing group, the Patriot Prayer.
Described as “white nationalist” and “neo-fascist” by ‘anti-hate’ groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the mainstream media, the Proud Boys have been blamed for provoking violent confrontations. The group denies having any racial animus and says that it is multi-race. It also rejects being “white supremacist.”
Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio, who is of Afro-Cuban ethnicity, said he was excited about being mentioned by Trump at the debate, but he didn't take the reference as an endorsement, because “the question was in reference to white supremacy, which we are not.”
The group recently made headlines in the wake of a shooting in Portland. CCTV footage showed that a Proud Boys member was stalked and shot dead by a self-described “100% Antifa” activist. When the group held a memorial service a week later in nearby Vancouver, Washington, one of its members was purposely run over in a parking lot and injured, allegedly by a truck driven by an ‘Antifa’ member.
Democrats and liberal media elevate Proud Boys with hysterical reaction to Trump’s mention of the group in debate
Democrats and media figures who want groups they brand “white supremacist” to be denounced and de-platformed may have shot themselves in the foot with their reaction to Donald Trump’s mention of the Proud Boys in Tuesday’s debate.
Sheesh, the Atlantic is just too much, first with the military lies and now this.Atlantic fuels ‘white supremacist’ fears with claim Oath Keepers militia packed with cops & vets are plotting civil war
A militia group called the Oath Keepers that counts cops, soldiers and veterans is spoiling for war – or so an alarmist profile portraying its members as trigger-happy white supremacists claims, ramping up pre-election fear porn.
Capitalizing on a wave of sensationalistic stories about “white supremacists” and militias menacing America, the Atlantic has shined a spotlight on the Oath Keepers – a decade-old group with members in every US state, some two-thirds of whom hail from law enforcement or the military, which vows to defend the country from “all enemies foreign and domestic.” Armed and dangerous, the group believes the US is currently in a civil war and is spreading that gospel to active-duty servicemembers and cops, the outlet warned on Wednesday.
The organization neither calls itself a militia nor espouses racist ideology, as the Atlantic somewhat grudgingly admitted. Its president, Stewart Rhodes, reminded the writer “We’re not f***ing white nationalists,” pointing out that the term has become an all-purpose smear unconnected to its literal meaning. “Everybody on the right is [called] a white nationalist,” he said.
That didn’t stop the writer from describing the group as an unhinged, paranoid crew of far-right gun nuts who hate leftists and non-whites and believe the US is under attack by hostile elements, all but plagiarizing from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s entry on the Oath Keepers. The group is described as “based on a set of baseless conspiracy theories about the federal government working to destroy the liberties of Americans,” a line which hasn’t aged well in the era of coronavirus lockdowns. Ironically, it was the SPLC that forwarded a leaked 25,000-strong Oath Keepers membership roster to journalists, affirming the group’s paranoia.
The writer sat in on an Oath Keepers meeting in which Rhodes calls Antifa and other rioters “insurrectionists” and declares “we have to suppress that insurrection,” warning the agitators are “eventually… going to be using IEDs.”
The Oath Keepers were banned from Twitter earlier this month for supposedly violating its rules against “violent extremist groups” after Rhodes claimed Black Lives Matter and Antifa were terrorists engaged in an “open communist insurrection” and urged Trump to deploy the National Guard across the country, calling the “street assassination of a Trump supporter in Portland” the “first shot” of a civil war.
While the group has a black vice president and has denounced both right-wing provocateurs the Proud Boys and the alt-right in general, its aesthetic and general political orientation have gotten it lumped in with more unsavory groups. In an era where many Americans are leery of speaking ill of Black Lives Matter – with good reason, as those who’ve lostjobs or universitypositions can attest – the group has not hesitated to condemn them as “Marxists,” and for those unfamiliar with the many militia groups in the US, most bands of burly gun-toting men look alike. They have not hesitated to threaten violence against rioters and believe November's election will bring massive unrest, a view shared by their further-right counterparts.
While the media continue to hold up right-wing militias as the number-one threat to the nation, Rhodes for his part insisted the real threats were leftist militias like the John Brown Gun Club and the Not F***ing Around Coalition – plus, of course, Antifa, which the FBI continues to insist does not actually exist even as President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr denounce its members as domestic terrorists.
For better or worse, the constant harping on the militia threat has taken root in the American psyche – paranoid liberals seeing white supremacists under every rock recently mistook the “P” on Portland police officers’ hats for a logo of right-wing provocateurs the Proud Boys when it actually stood for “police.” Trump was ordered to condemn the group during Tuesday’s presidential debates, and when he ordered them to “stand back and stand by,” it was bafflingly interpreted as an endorsement.
Atlantic fuels ‘white supremacist’ fears with claim Oath Keepers militia packed with cops & vets are plotting civil war
A militia group called the Oath Keepers that includes cops, soldiers and veterans is spoiling for war – or so an alarmist profile portraying its members as trigger-happy white supremacists claims, raising pre-election fear porn.
Funny and inconvenient
