Discussion: Far-Right Derides Mail Bomb Campaign As Pre-Election 'False Flag'

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“We thought this would scare leftists, but it’s made them even madder.”

These dweebs will never learn

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That won’t guarantee they’re identified as RightWingers. The Las Vegas shooter ranted about FEMA Camps and the Federal Government and how they would be confiscating guns soon. He said someone had to wake people up and that they had to arm themselves. He said that sacrifices would have to be made.He said these things to a guy who was selling him schematics that would help him turn his semi-auto rifle into a fully automatic rifle. Yet the Las Vegas Police department said that they didn’t find any motive for the shooting.

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I guess the party that raised the terrorist alert warning to orange before every election would know a thing or two about false flags.

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Here’s how they see things…

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Quelle Surprise :angry:

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I do not believe it is anything close to 35% of the electorate since only about 26% of the electorate elected him in the first place.

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I heard one talking head say that if Soros didn’t exist, they’d find another bogey man to present as the “left wing” analogue to the Koch bros.

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You didn’t expect anyone on the right to blame one of their own, did you?

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Just another normal day in America since the Lunatic-in-Chief has been in office.

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So why are these people ready to jump so swiftly on the false flag band wagon? This is twitchy on their part. If they are that sensitive to what this may mean to the current election, it becomes another tell.

For Pence and Trump, in a different reaction, this was a pretty immediate response.

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They will. And it will probably turn out to be some deranged loner. To me the most disturbing thing is the completely dismissive reaction of the right wing to these incidents. It’s like they live their entire lives inside some virtual reality game.

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Ever think about the assassinations we’ve experienced? Except for the shootings of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, all the martyrs in this country were liberal leaders.

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Well, McKinley was R, and Ford was R. But in the 60s, yes, they were killed for disrupting the status quo.

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  • Dems verbally hassling Repubs… It’s the evil-bad DEM mob…!

  • Dems refusing to stand down in the face of hate speech and fascist parades, peacefully counter-protesting…? It’s the violent DEM mobs and out-of-control hatred, hide your wives and children…!!!

  • Dems receiving pipe bombs… it’s a DEM false flag operation…! (Wha…???)

  • A long, pathetic and poor “caravan” of asylum-seeking refugees? It’s the evil-bad Soros and the DEMS doing it, ginning up a fake immigrant wave…!!! (Wha…??? Because ya know, that benefits the Dems, how exactly???)

Just remember, it is always and ONLY EVER “the leftists”… the DEMS. Whatever we do? Blame it on the DEMS. Go…

"Republicans don’t behave this way"

Except when they do…

  • Manhattan street riots? Proud Boys… almost all the arrests? Proud Boys. Right-wing. Republican. Enough said about that.

  • Charlottesville? Neo-nazi/alt-right march, injured dozens, killed one counter-protester. A girl. In the street. Exercising her 1st amendment right. Whodunnit? REPUBLICAN “alt-right” extremists. You can’t disown them when you explicitly invite them into your party with your policies and speeches ("…good people on both sides…").

  • School shootings? The right wing and GOP looney bin exposed. Sure, disavow all you want, still registered Republicans mostly. Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Endlessly long and tragic list…

  • Church killings and burnings? Trumpeteers (aka REPUBLICANS) all. “Vote Trump” graffiti’d onto the latest black baptist church burning… [ETA: since revealed to a black member of the same church. Motives, his politics, and so on, yet to be revealed.)

  • Sneaky secret recordings creatively edited to look like “shameful, scandalous evil-bad DEMS!”?? All Republican, All the time. (Looking at YOU, O’Keefe, you f*cking cretinous maggot)

I could go on, but with every line item, my dander is kicking up, and I don’t want to spend the day angry…

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Can we go after right wing terrorists with the same fervor we go after Islamic terrorists?

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Yeah I feel ya - this really makes me furious too.

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A week ago, plenty of the regulars here on The Hive were speculating that the supposed ricin-tainted letter to Susan Collins was a false flag operation by the righties. Of-fucking-course the righties are going to speculate the reverse in this instance. If you have a cogent argument for why this case must really be righties and not a false flag by lefties, then by all means, lay out a decent argument.

Otherwise, the major thing worth noting here is that the false-flag narrative in the Collins incident seems to have been mostly relegated to a bunch of nobodies on the internet, while the false-flag narrative of today’s package bombs is being openly pushed by major media people and right-wing “celebrities”. Maybe that’s a difference worth discussing?

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Here’s my argument - take it or leave it: Donald J Trump.

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I read where all the packages had the same return address, that of a prominent Democrat. Because, really - when you care enough to send a package bomb, you really want everyone to know exactly who you are?!? … Well, it’s enough to convince the trumpists, I guess. Probably even (heh!) overkill.

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I was so mad, I had to go and edit it some more… grrrrrr…

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