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Pro-Trump forums erupt with violent threats ahead of Wednesday's rally against the 2020 election
washingtonpost.com ^ | 1/5/2021 | Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell

Posted on 01/05/2021 2:58:52 PM PST by ransomnote

Far-right online forums are seething with references to potential violence and urging supporters of President Trump to bring guns to Wednesday’s protests in Washington — in violation of local laws — as Congress meets to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Many of the posts appear to be direct responses to Trump’s demands that his supporters pack the nation’s capital in support of his bogus claims that November’s national vote for Biden resulted from election fraud. Congress’s largely ceremonial role in confirming Biden’s victory has emerged as a catalyst for expected unrest that has D.C. police and the National Guard deploying on city streets to quell potential trouble.

Talk of guns and potential violence is rife on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, the conservative social media site Parler and on thedonald.win, an online forum that previously operated on Reddit before the company banned it in June after years of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and calls for violence.

Trump’s tweet last month pushing baseless fraud claims and promoting the “big protest” on Jan. 6 — “Be there, will be wild!” — has become a central rallying cry. It was the top post on thedonald.win Tuesday morning, and anonymous commenters saw it as a call to action: “We’ve got marching orders,” the top reply said. . .MORE AT LINK

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KEYWORDS: fakeelection; fakenews; reallyfakenews; tds; washingtoncompost
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They refused to cover the fires and violence by BLM/Antifa rioting in front of the capitol and leaving many Secret Service agents injured, but they'll fan panic over Trump supporters.
1 posted on 01/05/2021 2:58:52 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Pravda’s got nothing on these Bolsheviks.


2 posted on 01/05/2021 2:59:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: ransomnote

Obvious infiltration of the sites by leftists.


3 posted on 01/05/2021 3:00:44 PM PST by databoss
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not a good example for us Trump supporters to sport guns at this rally tomorrow. We will end up looking just like BLM and antifa. Not good at all.’


4 posted on 01/05/2021 3:01:07 PM PST by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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To: ransomnote

F U compost heap


5 posted on 01/05/2021 3:01:55 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: hoe_cake

BLM and Antifa will be carrying guns and wearing MAGA clothing.


6 posted on 01/05/2021 3:02:02 PM PST by Saveourcountry
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To: databoss

agree...it’s not what we do.


7 posted on 01/05/2021 3:02:05 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: databoss

“Talk of guns and potential violence is rife on the encrypted messaging app Telegram”

Apparently not encrypted enough...


8 posted on 01/05/2021 3:02:45 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ransomnote

And it’s all based on the reporter reading a single web site. Which I’d literally never heard of until reading the article.

Reminds me of the “alt right” hysteria in the liberal media back in 2016 and the identification of Richard Spencer as some sort of mastermind. Who most of us had likewise not even heard of until he became a boogeyman for the Left.


9 posted on 01/05/2021 3:03:27 PM PST by rockvillem
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Not a good example for us Trump supporters to sport guns at this rally tomorrow. We will end up looking just like BLM and antifa. Not good at all.’

Anybody "sporting" guns tomorrow will be BLM/Antifa false-flaggers, but you know that, being a professional concern-troll and all.

10 posted on 01/05/2021 3:03:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: ransomnote

Don’t worry WP - it’ll be mostly peaceful 😎


11 posted on 01/05/2021 3:03:34 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: ransomnote

Goebbels is looking up and smiling at his disciples, aka the American ‘media’.


12 posted on 01/05/2021 3:03:52 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: ransomnote

And the criminal, leftist media ratchets up their propaganda.

JoMa


13 posted on 01/05/2021 3:04:25 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ransomnote

I’d like to see the Antifa burn down the Washington Post.


14 posted on 01/05/2021 3:05:39 PM PST by davidb56
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To: ransomnote

Many of the posts ***appear***

Yes just like the news


15 posted on 01/05/2021 3:05:44 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: databoss

“Obvious infiltration of the sites by leftists.”

Probably by WaPo, NYT, CNN, CBS, PBS and other lefty ‘reporters’ themselves. Any bets?


16 posted on 01/05/2021 3:06:26 PM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: ransomnote

Tell me again about the violence on the Right, WaPo.

17 posted on 01/05/2021 3:07:31 PM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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I wonder who can do more targeted damage in their riots? I think there would be a loss of windows on Capital Hill. Not one store will be looted.


18 posted on 01/05/2021 3:08:54 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: hoe_cake

i know we know this, but i repeat: guns are illegal in DC without a permit/license or whatever it is called

We obey law, unlike the Left

can take taser, spray, pocket knife


19 posted on 01/05/2021 3:09:10 PM PST by Karoo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are you calling me a troll?


20 posted on 01/05/2021 3:09:40 PM PST by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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