[MtnClimber]

This is exactly what I think. I knew on January 5, 2021 that the DC police escorted three busses of Antifa into DC and that there was social media chatter that they needed to remember to wear Trump gear. Why would they need to wear Trump gear unless they were supposed to make whatever they did look like it was done by Trump supporters.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“DC Draino thinks that we may have watched an illusion on January 6”

Exactly right. The leftist marxist progs can call up antifa and BLM for mayhem or tell them to lie low and stand down all on command.

[GOPJ]

And yet, suddenly, on January 6, conservatives turned into wild-eyed rioters, exactly like Antifa. Moreover, also on January 6, the hyper-confrontational Antifa was nowhere to be found. Or was that whole thing an illusion? Were conservatives, as usual, peaceful, just like the grannies who wandered wide-eyed through Congress after the police opened the doors and let them in? And were the violent Antifa types hiding in plain sight?

No fires, no graffiti, not looting, no damage other than one door and two windows. ...

[PghBaldy]

“Beginning in the 1960s, leftist protests involved violence.” Weren’t there violent leftists in the US decades before that?

[CletusVanDamme]

Ask Ray Epps.

[digger48]

I’ve been asking this since the day it happened

It’s not like they all just decided they’d better stay in the basement that day and eat Hot Pockets

[sauropod]

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[Reverend Wright]

In the "Secret Shadow Campaign" Time Magazine article, they admit that Antifa was told to stand down.

So the word went out: stand down. Protect the Results announced that it would “not be activating the entire national mobilization network today, but remains ready to activate if necessary.” On Twitter, outraged progressives wondered what was going on. Why wasn’t anyone trying to stop Trump’s coup? Where were all the protests?

Podhorzer credits the activists for their restraint. “They had spent so much time getting ready to hit the streets on Wednesday. But they did it,” he says. “Wednesday through Friday, there was not a single Antifa vs. Proud Boys incident like everyone was expecting. And when that didn’t materialize, I don’t think the Trump campaign had a backup plan.”

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

They wanted Antifa to stay away, and let the FBI informers and instigators do their thing.

[mountainlion]

Antifa, KKK, brown shirts are all the same.

[Dan in Wichita]

Antifa jerks were probably the people breaking windows and attacking police. Betcha not a single Antifa scum is in the J6 Gulag.

[Republicanprofessor]

And I think the reason the government is being so tough on the J6 prisoners is because these are the people with the guts to resist government overreach.

[Chewbarkah]

During the 60’s, “outside agitators” were often used as the explanation for race riots. The concept was that “our” local black folks wouldn’t have the initiative to riot on their own; they had to have been stirred up to it by political activists sent in from The Nawth. There was some truth to it; it was what people wanted to believe; and, it allowed looking away from the real problems.

On J6, Antifans and various operatives (notably Ray Epps and the Tower Commander, who is a leftwing journalist) fired up the most radical of the Trump supporters, worked them into fighting with police, and led them like dimwited sheep into entering the capital building. It did not require massive numbers of agitators — it doesn’t take much to light dry tinder. The danger about blaming the agitators is that it misses the faults and gullability of (some) Trump supporters. Trump’s coalition includes a tranch of ignorant thugs, and these are easy marks used to discredit everyone else.

The Left is ruthless, organized, and uses Bolshevik tactics, both in and outside of government. Trumpers should learn from J6 not to be played for suckers, and exercise greater self-discipline in the future. Trump needs to lead on that by example.

[piasa]

Na, we are supposed to believe it was the first conservative demonstration / protest ever conducted in this country that did not attract leftwing hecklers and bomb throwers.
First ever.

[DeplorablePaul]

There is no question Antifa was in the vanguard to breach the capitol. There is video of a masked man breaking windows, threatening a MAGA person who told him to stop. It’s sad that good people got entrapped by this operation. The truth is seeping out.

[Safrguns]

I will take “Things you say to capital police or FBI about why you were in DC on Jan 6th” for $1000.00 Johnny”.

[Jim Noble]

Where was Antifa on 1/6/21?

Right here:

[Chickensoup]

they were all over dc. saw it that night

[suthener]

Who DIDN’T know this? Watch the video of Ashley Babbit getting shot. Those are not MAGA people around her. One of the guys with horned helmet guy was identified as an Antifa guy by name. There’s a video of people in bushes changing into from ANTIFA to MAGA clothes. This ain’t news.

[Albion Wilde]

They were right there in and around the Capitol Building, wearing maga gear, as advised on their web site.

[Fedora]

The same Antifa groups and partners that protested Trump’s inauguration (organized as DisruptJ20, DC Anti-Fascist Coalition, etc.), were there on J6 as the Shut Down DC coalition. Groups involved included:

Black Lives Matter DC
All Out DC
Autonomous Liberation Collective NYC
Baltimore Liberation Front
DC Youth Liberation
Front Fairfax Smash The Fash
Frederick Socialists
Generation Ratify
Liberty Union Party of Vermont
Maryland Youth Liberation Front
One People’s Project
Shut Down DC
RichmondStrike
Showing Up For Racial Justice DC
United Against Racism and Fascism-NYC
Wake Up 301

And people like John Earle Sullivan with a history of appearing alongside both BLM and the Proud Boys were also there.