Kippenstein cannot stop me from talking just because he restricts access to his own web page. I can re-stack him, then add the comment. I wanted to post a ‘Comment,’ but he ruthlessly obstructed me. I will do so anyhow. No attempt to shut me down will work.
I am sympathetic to his views. Okay? I would take the following and add my own extension to the sentence: “ [ the article opens by saying that Patel etc. is] ...actively investigating “Antifa” individuals and organizations...” / ...that Trump invented. / (My three-word extension.)
My understanding is that an “organization” has to meet specific criteria, and that they are formally organized to tie persons together. The benefit is that they operate more effectively or coordinate better. There would be specific rules they need to follow, or maybe certain policies that are standardized and then published in the organizations charter documents. Where are the membership lists and where is the documentation? Is there such an “antifa” organization? Of course not, I doubt it anyway. The problem remains to figure out what this weird dingbat murderer Trump is thinking. This is a mystery. As for people who believe in carrying out violence on behalf of some Left cause, I do not them and I have never been quite able to figure it out. So I am not an expert on who these persons are; I had heard a bit about some of them. They were in California.
They might be mostly talk. I understand that they seem to believe they can use real violence, to go up against “the machine” or rage against the machine or whatever it is. So they endorse actually doing harm/violence. Which sounds weird to me. They are not a threat. How are a tiny minority going to use violence against the thugs of the law, who really do believe in violence? The US/American state? There would be immediate, massive retaliation. And that is what is a bit queer about Trump. He does not wait. Nor does ne need an actual attack. He assumes they WILL attack him, which makes sense because he is super extreme in his own violence. So violence will beget violence and let’s get the show on I guess. Probably this makes some kind of sense.
He does not say something rational: “Well, there are these individuals talking about Left-wing attacks.” No. You need to lie. You need to create something then you go and fight this thing you created. He created “Antifa.” They would not exist without Trump’s kind of people. The Trump element in society is precisely the sort of state terrorism machine Antifa exists to oppose.
Trump creates all his own enemies, in general. This is the psychological syndrome. So now the Trump fantasy is that the group is an organization. The fantasy is that they are a gang or an organization. Trump, either literally or as fantasy, creates Antifa. Now He has to fight them. It is all lies; that is the thing that stands out. So what do I say next? Let us ask how many attacks have been carried out by the persons who have these sorts of ideas. How many “antifa” attacks are there on record? Um — I am guessing. Zero? Well, extremely few. I do not know of any.
Trump doesn’t care. He just makes it all up. This is contrary to the workings of a peaceful democratic society. You do not have a peaceful world if you do not wait for your enemy to attack but instead create your own fantasy. Now the fantasy, or accusation (these people are “terrorists”) still has to be based on something. So, there has to be some grain of truth. Yeah. There are persons loosely called ‘Antifa’ who promote violence. But there is no formal organization, and that is something simple to see for anyone except this current USA Trump administration spectacle. But the sensible types should be able to see it. So I think there are some considerations about why we seem unable to defend the truth. I think it must be that this nation departed from sensible truth — some time back. The Warren Commssion was a pack of lies. And the threat of “World Communism” or level of threat posed by Russia was a lie and still is. This whole country is so strongly based on these lies that, now when you get an out front championship liar, the real thing, our elite guardians of goodness and virtue don’t bat an eyelash. That is because the entire professional eite class is lying and for so long they are used to it. So, being a little more clever (and organized) about it is the only distinction. Another big lie: the “vaccine” lie.
Only RFK jr., who may be nuts, is talking about some of that, and everyone says “he is crazy.” But so what… Everyone else is completely in on the scam. Even if the vaccine lie kills people, still no one cares. That is extreme, isn’t it? As extreme as Antifa. What sort of professional elite is running this country at present. What sort of ruling elite have we in fact had? As we hippies used to say, that’s the “establishment,” man. They are not worth believing in. The medical field is killing more than Antifa. more than Trump. Doing so for years! That is the truth.
So, although we find that Trump never stops to consider the truth why doesn’t our nation shut this stuff down? Because the whole country has been lying for approximately 150 years. Since the Civil War. A competent professional elite should be able to stop this — immediately. We do not have one. That explains why can’t perform a simple operation of exposing a liar president. Wow. That is all I can say at this point in the current essay inspired by Klippenstein’s obstructionism.
If he wants to imprison an enemy, he makes up something. Then, with the excuse in hand, eg that Antifa exists as a real organization, he goes after them. He called peaceful, but unauthorized residents of the country “criminals.” Then he went after them, killed some, and sent other to El Salvador where a sympathetic foreign national is “taking care of it” for Trump. As I understand it, some of those sent to that prison in El Salv. are not citizens of El Salv. OR the USA.
We can say with confidence that no such organized entity exists. It is a non-entity. What then is going on? Tump is making up stuff again. Why can he do that? Why doesn’t anyone care? The guy does this. His method: When in doubt you lie. This is not a brilliant method. It is rancid. But why can He lie all he wants and nobody says much, really? What’s wrong here?
I will suggest that this is a country in which nobody has cared about the truth for a long time. Now here is guy that is not even going through the motions and we cannot do anything!
Exactly. We set ourselves up as our own patsies.