Trump is saying that if Biden is elected, the riots will happen, which implies he will stop them. They are currently happening under Trump. How can you expect him to stop them if he's re-elected if he can't stop them now? If he's refusing to because of the election, that means he is putting his campaign ahead of his country, which is a pretty shitty thing to do. So either he can't stop them and is lying, or he won't stop them until after the election because he values his campaign over his country. Which one is it?
Before anyone gets too deep into the dick-punching over this, it's worth mentioning that Acting DHS Chad Wolf,
during an interview with Tucker Carlson, talked about discussions that he's had with AG Barr about multiple investigations being underway into Antifa, who's funding them, and how their networks are functioning because they are
way too organized and well-funded for it to be a purely grassroots sort of organization.
The Department of Homeland security has been working to tie Antifa to foreign powers, because while the law generally prohibits the gathering of intelligence and spying against U.S. residents, these protections no longer apply if it's believed that someone is acting as an agent of a foreign government or power. Antifa's network is being analyzed under the
2019 DHS Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence.
Four weeks ago, the Washington Pos
t published an article concerning information that was leaked to them from someone inside of the DHS, and that person was promptly uncovered and reassigned, because The Washington Post was fed classified information revealing that the agency had been compiling intelligence reports on Americans (rioters) who were posing as journalists.
It was lost in the shuffle amidst all of the statue-toppling, but when the DHS created the
Protecting American Communities Task Force, that allowed the DHS to send assets to Portland and other cities. Does anyone really think they were sent there
just to protect statues? Because I don't, I think that was a guise, because a month earlier in June, the Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center, Counter-Network Division, compiled data on individuals who returned from Syria and fought with the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel. These individuals s
upposedly had ties to the U.S. branch of Antifa, according to that report.
A month before
that, in May, was when Trump's administration officially classified Antifa as a terrorist organization, which gave the government a
massive amount of wiggle room when it came to how they can investigate and treat people in Antifa's ranks, a month before they "needed" to be able to do that. If you follow all of this stuff backwards, you can start to see the pattern emerging and get an idea for where all of this is headed. If you treat reality like it's an episode of 24, and are expecting non-stop shoot-outs and hordes of people being frog-marched in orange jumpsuits in the street, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
There's a
lot going on concerning Antifa and the mapping-out of their organization at the moment--especially when you consider that this is
not just a domestic issue--but people are agonizingly impatient and they want immediate results. We could fire up the Insurrection Act right now, march down to Portland and throw every motherfucker in the city into a back of a van, but does anyone
really believe that the people marching on the streets are the people who are funding the organization or calling the shots?
How many years did we spend killing tens of thousands of random assholes in sandy, shit-hole countries before someone had the bright idea to just take out the leadership instead? Antifa is
not a purely-domestic organization. Treating it like one and just pitching random foot-soldiers into a cell would accomplish absolutely nothing.