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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

G.O.P. Congressman’s Wild Claim: F.B.I. Entrapped Jan. 6 Rioters

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G.O.P. Congressman’s Wild Claim: F.B.I. Entrapped Jan. 6 Rioters

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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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More than three years after the attack on Congress, a Republican subcommittee chairman offered a series of baseless and disproved claims about it, reflecting an effort on the right to falsify what occurred.
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    Wait, isn’t this exactly what was done to the BLM Black Lives Matter supporter groups by anti-black people?

    Remember how BLM rallies across the country kept finding pallets of bricks randomly on the streets?

    For a movement that has no other organization, “somehow someone” organized to gather thousands of dollars per city to get pallets of bricks delivered to the middle of roads, and somehow police doing patrols the day before didn’t question a random pallet of bricks in the street.

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      I can’t recall if the bricks were substantiated, but there was a man with an umbrella who was identified as a white supremacist smashing things to start riots at the George Floyd protests. I remember people on Reddit pointing the umbrella out in multiple videos.

      It sounds like a conspiracy theory so here are news reports:

      https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white/story?id=72051536

      https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/28/896515022/minneapolis-police-reportedly-identify-viral-umbrella-man-as-white-supremacist

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        Yes! I remember the umbrella guy “infiltrating” BLM marches to do bad things and get BLM blamed.

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      So, how did the conspirators manage to convince Donald Trump to make the speech and invite all those folks to Washington in the first place?

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        Aliens

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          No crazier than some of the other Trump nonsense I’ve heard the MAGoos spout.

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        The 5G mind control COVID shot let “them” beam false memories to everyone.

        It’s very interesting how all of this mind control stuff was only done once and then disappeared. Just like the millions of migrant caravans with guns and drugs just before elections.

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          For a second there, I thought you were serious. Must be the 5G mind control…

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            I’m only sometimes serious. Just never call me Shirley (old Airplane The Movie joke)

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              This is a good example of how crazy the MAGoos are.

              After the ‘pussy grabber’ tape came out, a Conservative woman went on The View TV show. One of the panelists kept saying the word ‘pussy’ over and over again.

              The Conservative woman asked he to stop using that offensive term. It was okay for Donnie to use it, but not another woman.

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