The Evc crew & your friend are just about the same thing, imo.
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Though by the "imo" you are boasting that you also have a rectum.
(I never heard of a single claim your friend made,fyi, and I mean it)
I never heard of anyone saying what your friend said.
How long have you been living in this news blackout? I'm sure that a lot of people would love to find a refuge from this past year's shit storm.
What is the most common source for these direct assertions?
Q, the GQP members of Congress, "conservative" talk shows, FOX News and the other far more radical ones that consider FOX to be filled with flaming radical liberals, etc.
My own son supported Trump -- he avoids conversations about it, so I don't know whether he's a Trump sheeple flocking to be fleeced over and over again. He refuses to be vaccinated for "scientific reasons" and insists that it's not political even though that's what's motivating this entire anti-vaccine nonsense. He lives in Florida now, having moved from being a cop in ND, so those facts are probably clues to his decline.
I would add that even my son tried to blame Antifa for the attack on the Capitol, but he then quickly backed off to "don't want to discuss this." It should also be noted that in the text messages from Sean Hannity to the White House begging Mark Meadows to get Trump to call off the attack, it was very clear that Hannity knew full well that the attack was by Trump supporters -- it's also quite clear that Hannity was well aware of the coup plan. And yet a few hours later Sean Hannity went on the air blaming Antifa for the violence, even though he knew better.
But engage the "discussion".
With a brainwashed cult member, discussion is virtually impossible. Try having a meaningful discussion with a creationist some time.
The only strategy for having a discussion would be to try to find some common ground, something you both agree on, and then follow lines of reasoning from there. Though that can blow up very quickly as I've witnessed taking that approach with creationists: they firmly believe that if their faith depends on their false claims being true, so if they were to realize that those claims are indeed false then that would destroy their faith and result in
spiritual death, a fate worse than death for them. So the moment they start to reach that point, their defense mechanisms kick in causing them to, in some cases, totally freak out.
Taking the Antifa false-flag claim, for example, I would express my own sincerely held feelings: those who planned and launched the attack on the Capitol are
traitors who should be swinging from the yardarm
regardless of who they are. In reality, we will never see any of them swing (the conditions for an actual charge of treason, which include actually being in a declared war, would not be met -- the Law is a fickle dominatrix), but they all must be identified, their crimes against America determined and documented, hunted down, arrested, indicted, prosecuted, and dealt with according to the law. No exceptions, not even for one particular human-orangutan hybrid!
My son was a cop who answered an interview question by stating that he would arrest his own grandmother if she broke the law (kind of like legendary black deputy marshall
Bass Reeves who hunted down and arrested his own son for murder; Bass Reeves was referred to in the first episode of HBO's
Watchmen which started with a reenactment of the white mob annihilation of Tulsa's
"Black Wall Street Massacre" of 1921, complete with a biplane dropping dynamite bombs on the community). I have very little doubt that he would agree with me about those attackers being traitors and what their fate should be. Maybe, if it were to come to a discussion between Percy and his young relative, they might also agree on that point.
Now, what do we do at this point? Well, if Antifa were involved, wouldn't we want to identify them, determine what they had done that would be considered criminal, track them down, arrest them, indict them, prosecute them, and execute their sentences? I would. I can only assume that my son, Percy, and his young relatative also would. Fine!
So how do we do that?
First and foremost, we need to conduct a thorough investigation of that attack. I think that we would all agree, but then we have the GQP Congress. At every step of the way, the Republicans have steadfastly opposed and even worked against such an investigation. And they still do, even unto trying to obstruct the investigation in every manner possible.
Why? If Antifa and even elements of BLM (
not Bureau of Land Management, even though Gohmert is
still angry at them for not changing the earth's or moon's orbit in order to solve global warming) were actually involved in that heinous attack on our government, wouldn't the most devout opponents of those groups be chomping at the bit to finally bring them to justice and utterly destroy them? But they steadfastly refuse to. Why? Why
not investigate and root out the traitors?
Oh, yeah, because the actual traitors are members of the GQP. They are just covering their asses, hoping to have been successful enough in fixing the next election to be able to regain a majority so that they can kill the investigation.
Though, if you are trying to deal with a family member whose bat quano blood levels are too elevated from all the Kool-Aid they've been swilling, their cult-member defense mechanisms would have already kicked in long ago.
Edited by dwise1, : Clean up in aisle 24. Some editing notes at the end that I hadn't cleaned up before posting. Sorry.
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