Oath Keepers Leader Disavows Far-Right Rally In Portland Saturday

The leader of a large right-wing militia group told followers to skip a planned rally in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, saying that organizers hadn’t properly kept white nationalists away from the event and that attendees could face legal consequences.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1243200
1 Like

Heard of the “rat race”? How about the “rat rush” (from sinking ship) phenomenon? It’s about time these bastards got scared of their own shadow and started slinking away back down into the sewers and gutters from which they emerged in response to Current Occupant’s clarion call.

11 Likes

Me thinks Rhodes is afraid of going to prison for violent actions perpetrated in his name.

10 Likes

“…attendees will demand that anti-fascists, or ‘antifa,’ be labeled a terrorist group.”

Oh, look – here are some anti-fascists now:

60 Likes

Never get tired of that meme.

I mean - WHO THE FUCK IS PRO FASCISM?

Yeah, that was a rhetorical question.

19 Likes

attendees will demand that anti-fascists, or “antifa,” be labeled a terrorist group.

The group’s other demands include reclassifying the letter “M” as vowel.

17 Likes

Transl:

“Cos-playing grifter realizes that insane incendiary playacting has real-world consequences, squeals.”

27 Likes

In a statement on his group’s website, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes said he owed it to his membership to disavow the so-called “End Domestic Terrorism” rally, where attendees will demand that anti-fascists, or “antifa,” be labeled a terrorist group.

Yep. Them Oath Keepers love them some fascism! Creating a fascist state is essentially what that group is all about.

10 Likes

Driving home from my winery workplace yesterday I saw an inordinate number of pick’em up trucks torturing the American Flag. The shit-kickers are aching for a rumble and I’ve no doubt it will come down here tomorrow.

16 Likes

Mr. Rhodes seems to be suffering from some strange delusion that tells him a large percentage of white nationalists are not already involved in his organization.

As%20If|nullxnull

13 Likes

The leader of a right wing militia is turning on white nationalists? Sounds like the FBI paid someone a little visit.

Damn “deep state”.

9 Likes

MmmmmmmK. :neutral_face:

4 Likes

Stay safe, friend.

10 Likes

Oh please, there is only the patina of separation between the White Nationalists and White Christian Nationalists.

3 Likes

Yeah, that Antifa. Totally pro-fascist!

And let’s not forget about the racist NAACP and the anti-Semitic Holocaust Museum, too!

7 Likes

An Oath Keeper calling anyone else a white nationalist is like Trump calling someone at his rally “fat”.

21 Likes

It’s always so sad to see internecine warfare within the domestic terrorist community.

12 Likes

The only ones afraid of “Antifa” are the Fascists and assorted racists… so for such an anti-antifa event keeping out the White Nationalists would mean no event at all.

2 Likes

And the best part of that was it was one of his supporters.

3 Likes

Oath Keepers like to be under the national radar, they are more geared towards bullying local governments, business and activist. They seem to hate the national spotlight. They pretty much have been issuing these do not attend notices since Charlottesville all in the name of ‘not looking bad’.

My favorite one I saw was about a year and a half ago when they told members not to attend a full on nazi rally because ‘if you’re seen marching in nazi gear or with nazi’s we’ll look bad’. Which of course begs the question, if you have to constantly badger your members not to march with nazis… perhaps your members are a bunch of nazis…

18 Likes