Given the presence of other people on the ranch (Pastrami et al.) who are 'verifying' the "fash attacks", I am increasingly becoming convinced that something is going on. I can for sure believe the tranch running all this for the grift, and/or descending into a mass hallucination, but I find it difficult to imagine a Troo And Honest antifash cissy showing up and being sat down by Penny to hear "there are no fash, it's a grift" and going "cool" or immediately catch the group insanity.
I don't for one second believe the militia crap, though, and I'm not even sure I even believe there were any initial threats (though I can believe there was chatter in the town about not liking the local trannies, which could well count as a 'threat' as far as they're concerned). Far more likely is that local 3%er-type nutters got pissed by the tranch arming up (in response to a non-existent threat) and decided to spook them a bit, or bored local teens saw the hysteria online and formulated a top-kek trolling plan mostly revolving around who could get close enough to ring the tranch's doorbell.
Of course, all of that is utterly fucking irrelevant ultimately, because the bigger issue here is that, whether or not they're actually being attacked, they are all so fucking thirsty to murder it's frightening. These retards are practically masturbating to the fact that the Cis-Trans Boogaloo or whatever is finally occurring and they get to be at the heart of it. It's precisely the same crazy energy that preppers/"the race war is imminent!" conspiracy assholes bring, and it says a whole lot about what the tranch really is (i.e. immature boys playing at troon militia because they have sad boring little lives and it gets the blood pumping, not true and honest women who just want to be left in peace building a trans haven).