Posted on 07/03/2019 2:26:33 PM PDT by Ennis85
A right-wing meme was born this weekend after Portland police said they’d been informed that Antifa protesters had pelted far-right demonstrators with cement milkshakes. Conservative internet trolls, including Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and writer Ian Miles Cheong, pounced, tweeting that left-wingers were pelting people with cement drinks. Their followers ran with it, posting photos of concrete burns suffered by the demonstrators.
Except that none of it was true. There’s no evidence that the milkshakes contained cement. The photos were fake. And the police got it all wrong, and in the process birthed a right-wing internet movement based on a falsehood.
Here’s what actually happened: The Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group, held a rally in Portland on Saturday. Protesters aligned with Antifa, the anti-fascist movement, showed up, and some of them sold vegan milkshakes to other protesters. Throwing milkshakes, or “milkshaking,” has become a left-wing protest tactic, aimed at embarrassing the far right, and some of the protesters proceeded to pelt Proud Boy demonstrators with their drinks, according to reports.
No one seems to have actually been burned by concrete—at least no one reported evidence of it to law enforcement. So where did this idea come from? It started with a tweet from the Portland Police Bureau on Saturday, stating that it had “received information that some of the milkshakes thrown…contained quick-drying cement.” The police later told Willamette Week reporter Katie Shepherd that an officer at the protests had thought he noticed quick-drying cement on a milkshake cup, prompting the tweet.* The police subsequently received an anonymous email claiming that Quick Rete Cement Mix had been added to the milkshakes, the bureau told Shepard.
Headlines in conservative media outlets highlighted the allegedly violent
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“Pounced” everyone drink!
A right-wing meme was born this weekend after Portland police said they’d been informed that Antifa protesters had pelted far-right demonstrators with cement milkshakes.
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According to the left it is the seriousness of the accusation that matters, not if it is true of not.
So Antifa tossed cement laced milkshakes.
Of course there’s no evidence, but that doesn’t eliminate the possibility.
Wait
These idiots think they can take down, as they call us, the “NAZIs” with milkshakes? What a group of pansies. That is some soy boy thinking right there
Also “proud boys” sounds gay
One would hope that Lawsuits would be filed very soon against these thugs, and yes there is a Legal Theory, that regardless of your Age, if you are Still under your Parents Care they can be held LIABLE for your actions. Living At home is one qualification, so is full financial support. Start making these Thugs Parents Homeless and see what happens.
That might be kind of funny to start throwing milkshakes at antifa
I’ve seen pictures of people bloodied by ANTIFA. The milkshakes are an issue — but not the main issue. The main issue is Leftwing violence.
I wonder if Mother Jones would be so quick to squelch a rumor that the right wingers responded to the hostilities with lead coated air-soft pellets!!
Lack of evidence is not evidence of incorrectness.
(Hurl Alert)?
Just the fact this pukeage is from Mother Jones is all the warning we need to know it’s puke-worthy.
I looked at photos of “Proud Boys”...No masks...
I looked at photos of Antifa....Almost ALL masks....
If they are “only” protesters” why do they feel the need to wear masks????
Mommy Jones today would defend Democrat Klansmen for spitting on black people and harassing them in diners.
And however the milkshake controversy turns out, it is a certainty that the conservative journalist fag was badly beaten by these "anti-fascists." I don't recall any antifa(gs) being beaten up by the Proud Boys.
Oh so the POLICE said that there were cement in the milkshakes. Well then they MUST be wrong or lying.
And I guess Antifa really didn’t beat people in the heads with clubs or whips or whatever it was that drew so much blood.
One video that I saw showed pepper spray being streamed at the back of the retreating victim. That’ll sure put burn marks on the skin.
Vegan milkshakes?
Isn’t it some kind of assault these days for throwing ANYTHING at another person?
How is this mask wearing legal? Also thought that was against the ‘law’ so they had another charge for a masked bank robber?
These pansies had all these laws passed to rein in the ‘bad boys’ and now using them to their advantage..
Good point. They’re quibbling about milkshaking to deflect attention away from the more serious violence they engage in and refuse to discuss.
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