Posted on 09/18/2025 6:44:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz, raised an issue with FBI Director Kash Patel that others, including President Trump, have raised as well. “I want to more broadly encourage you to follow the money,” said Cruz. “The violence we are seeing is not purely organic. There is, I believe, significant money that is spreading dissension, that is spreading violence.”
As to whether the George Floyd riots of 2020 were orchestrated, Senator Cruz need look no further than an extraordinary article published by Time magazine in February 2021. The author, Molly Ball, laid out in exquisite detail what the article’s headlined described as “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.” The word “saved” is misleading. “Rigged” would be more accurate.
In assembling what a cynic might call the “Ball Dossier,” its author claimed “access to the group’s inner workings.” By “group,” Ball referred to an unlikely “cabal”—her word—of “left-wing activists and business titans.” Although not a perfect match with the French original, “Jacobin” serves as a useful shorthand for Ball’s cabal.
At the time, the Yale-educated Ball was Time’s national political correspondent and a political analyst for CNN. As of this writing, she’s the senior political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Ball knows her way around the corridors of power, certainly the Jacobin wing.
America’s Jacobins pay lip service to the progressivism they use as bait to attract the woke among their intersectional ranks—the blacks, the browns, the greens, the gays, the lesbians, trans, the feminists, the Muslims, and any other “marginalized” group willing to make noise in the street. But for club members in the know, the ultimate goal is power, global power.
In 2020, Club Jacobin in Washington included every elected Democrat, many elected Republicans, much of the intelligence community, and most of the administrative state. Jacobin clubs in Hollywood and Silicon Valley exercised nearly monopolistic control over their respective industries. Jacobins ruled higher education and the public education establishment. Jacobins controlled almost every major newsroom and, increasingly, most corporate boardrooms.
In 2020, the immediate Jacobin goal was to deny Trump reelection. Ball interviewed dozens of those involved and reviewed “never-before-seen documents.” There is no reason to doubt her research. What needs to be questioned is her motive. Not since James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty has an author spent so much effort making a plot so boldly nefarious seem somehow noble.
Aligned against these powerful interests were President Trump, a handful of Trump loyalists, and millions of red-pilled Americans. Everyday patriots could not comprehend the scope of the opposition, but they could sense the control it had over the nation’s discourse. Particularly worrisome in 2020 were the violent protests spawned by the fatal heart attack George Floyd suffered resisting arrest in Minneapolis, a death Jacobin magic instantly alchemized into murder by strangulation.
One “conspiracy theory” traced to the Right is that the Floyd riots were orchestrated to enhance Democratic chances in November. Ball confirmed that the conspiracy was no mere theory. The organizers, who led what she called “the racial-justice uprising,” hoped to “harness its momentum for the election.” Rioting, Ball all but boasted, was the leverage leftists used to keep the business interests in line.
“The summer uprising,” Ball wrote, “had shown that people power could have a massive impact.” Harnessing the numerical power of passive young whites and the active menace of young blacks and their Antifa allies, protest organizers brought America to its knees, in many places, literally. “Activists,” claimed Ball, “began preparing to reprise the demonstrations if Trump tried to steal the election.”
By “steal” Ball meant “win.” Potential rioters had been conditioned to believe that only election fraud could assure Trump victory. Well before the election, a coalition called “Protect the Results” had posted a map with some four hundred sites where protestors would assemble to protest the election results and, if history was a guide, not necessarily peacefully.
The business community, Ball revealed, “was engaged in its own anxious discussions about how the election and its aftermath might unfold.” The rioters had alerted corporate America to the very real possibility of “economy-disrupting civil disorder” should Trump prevail. Not one to stand on principle, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce partnered with the very activists who had orchestrated the summer’s disorder. Together, they called for “the American democratic process to proceed without violence, intimidation or any other tactic that makes us weaker as a nation.”
From the Jacobin perspective “any other tactic” meant a Trump challenge to what they knew would be millions of disputed votes. In general, corporate honchos never had much use for Trump. They needed little arm twisting to make, in Ball’s words, “a sort of implicit bargain…to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.”
Ball mentioned “George Floyd” once in her article and then just off-handedly. Like others who exploited his death, she had little interest in the person and no interest in the Minneapolis police officers sacrificed to assure a favorable outcome in November. Sacrificing the innocent was a Jacobin tradition.
During the French Revolution, the Jacobins derived their power from their ability to manage the Parisian mobs. Their American counterparts followed suit. Outbreaks of mob violence had occurred throughout American history, but only in 2020 did America’s elites give the violence their imprimatur.
"If you’re able to,” then Sen. Kamala Harris tweeted in June 2020 in the wake of the Minneapolis riots, “chip in now to the [Minnesota Freedom Fund] to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” Those needing bail were not arrested for “protesting.” Among other wanton acts of violence, they burned down a police station.
The strategy worked. On Saturday, November 7, 2020, the networks all declared Joe Biden the president elect. The Jacobin shock troops got the word even before the media did. “Activists,” wrote Ball, “reoriented the Protect the Results protests toward a weekend of celebration.” Ball added, “The planned day of celebration happened to coincide with the election being called on Nov. 7.” Only the naive thought the timing a coincidence. Celebrating, like rioting, was orchestrated in Jacobin world.
In July 2025, Senator Cruz introduced in the Senate the Stop Financial Underwriting of Nefarious Demonstrations and Extremist Riots (Stop FUNDERs) Act. This bill adds rioting to the list of RICO predicate offenses. A comparable bill has been introduced in the House. If passed, the law will allow the Department of Justice to use the full suite of RICO tools against entities that fund or coordinate violent interstate riots.
Ball’s article was published in February 2021, two weeks after the events of January 6. She wrote with such brazen confidence thinking Trump was finished and the Republican Jacobin wing ascendant. The article was intended as a playbook for future elections. Now, it reads like grounds for a subpoena.
Good article.
Which means it will be ignored by the democrat party liners’ massed national press corpse.
Thank you for this...
“He seemed to think that because you couldn’t “name the leader” that they didn’t exist as an “organization”.
Because they are compartmentalized and actually never learn who the true head of the organization really is. The members of each rank only knows one leader in their rank who reports higher but they do not know who that is he reports to. Each level has Identity firewalls isolating them from the level below it. So there is no way to actually name, identify, or prove one top leader...
Here is an explanation from the Deep Green Resistance Movement themselves:
Organizational Structures for Resistance Movements
https://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/organizational-structures-for-resistance-movements/
https://deepgreenresistance.org/
“They operate just like a modern terror org, with many cells.”
Yes... See #23...
““The left doesn’t traffic in sexism...”
Pretty sure that Harvey Weinstein and his fellow Hollywood perverts are not conservatives.
The immediate impact is an addition grounds for RICO prosecution because terrorism is one of the "predicate acts" that are required for conviction under the RICO. Within the context of Antifa, the other predicate acts, such as fraud and bribery may be more difficult to prove.
I was ‘discussing’ with Grok (quite interesting).
The laws on the books (per Grok):
Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Criteria (INA § 219): Applies to foreign groups with structured leadership, sustained terrorist activity, and threats to U.S. security. Antifa, being domestic and decentralized, doesn’t fit.
Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL): Also targets foreign entities; irrelevant here.
Domestic Challenges: The FBI and DOJ can prosecute individuals for terrorism (e.g., Reinoehl for Danielson’s murder), but labeling a domestic movement like Antifa risks First Amendment violations. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in 2020 that Antifa is an “ideology, not an organization,” complicating designation because it lacks a clear chain of command. A 2020 CRS report notes that prosecuting loosely organized groups requires proving individual intent, not collective structure, which is why Antifa members face charges like assault or arson but not as a unified terrorist entity.
Thanks for posting!
Antifa is a foreign-import insurgency to overthrow the US constitution:
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