President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.
It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.
“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
A White House official told CNN, “This is just one of many actions the president will take to address left wing organizations that fuel political violence.”
Trump — who’s overseas for a formal state visit — signaled the move earlier this week in remarks from the Oval Office following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Of course Trump will declare ANTIFA a terrorist organization, any fascist would do that.
I suppose this will please MAGA, in spite of making no sense.
Look, mum, I’m a terrorist
To a fascist government, anti-fascists are “terrorists”. It was the same for partisans in nazifascist occupied Europe.
Communists*
Yes, a lot of partisans were communists. What’s your point?
Next he’s gonna put out a warrant for the bogeyman. Senile fuck.
Centrists are gonna keep throwing people under the bus to appease fascists.
The people at the top of these large organisations are never centerists. They are pretty damn ideologically extreme.
Like so.
So next democratic president should sue Fox News, cut off access to all right wing propaganda sources, designate CPAC a terrorist organization, move Trumps portrait to the basement of the Whitehouse, encourage people to raid mar a Lago then pardon them afterwards… You get the idea.
I don’t recall the last time I actually heard anything about antiFA…I didn’t realize that was even still a thing
What a gigantic fucking asshole.
It’s not ACTUALLY about Antifa:
“I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.”
This is his excuse to go after George Soros based on the anti-Semitic lie that Soros is funding Antifa:
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/soros-conspiracy-theories-and-protests-gateway-antisemitism
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-checkfalseclaims-about-george-soros-idUSKBN23P2X7/
Antifa isn’t an organization…it’s an idea. So, if someone is anti-fascist, they’re terrorists?
Make it make sense.
See: Israel, Hamas. Reuters: “this news camera is Hamas.”
See that’s the neat part: since it’s not an organization, you can just call anyone and everyone Antifa and lock them up. How would they prove their innocence?
Without “FA”, there would be no “ANTI-FA”…
If you’re not maga you’re Antifa. Get it now? The frogs are boiling.
Is Antifa an actual organisation? I always thought of it as a vague lumping together of leftish people by … well, by people like Trump.
Similar to “Internet hacker Anonymous”. The media needs somewhere to place blame, so here’s a fishing net.
antifa = “anti-fascist”, that’s it
There’s been some twitter accounts! Meanwhile the KKK still exists and has never been declared a terrorist organization despite being an outright terrorist organization
I don’t want to say they’re harmless now, but the KKK has been more or less tame since around the 80s. They just act tough sporadically and yell now, demographics on the KKK leans real old. Probably should have been on the terrorist organization list back in the day, but now they’re mostly just annoying.
I’m old enough to remember a Klan leader telling a journalist that times had changed and that klansmen recognized they needed to go about things differently to get what they wanted, and their plan was to infiltrate all levels of government, the police, justice system, etc. This was late 80’s, I think.
Looks like they’ve succeeded.
“Because the power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will use to take away your money, take away your power, and if you’ve broken the law, to take away your freedom.” -Stephen Miller
This is how they’re going to prevent future elections. Any large left-wing donors can be labeled as supporters of terrorism and have their assets seized and be thrown in jail. Anybody who protests can be labeled a terrorist, anyone who says things on the Internet can be said to be ‘supporting terrorism’.
After 9/11 we gave the government ridiculous domestic spying powers in order to catch terrorists and the mechanism that they built was described by Edward Snowden as turnkey totalitarianism. They’ve turned the key, labeled their political rivals as terrorists and are going to use the massive domestic spying tools in order to persecute and jail their political opponents.
This is him outright stating he is a fascist.
Explain?
What do you not understand about criminalizing anti-fascism as a concept?
How about we get this changed to “Kamala Harris: I am pleased to inform our many real U.S.A. Patriots that I am designing MAGA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL RIGHT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. I will also be strongly recommending that those funding MAGA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”, which I think would sound a lot better here.
