Posted on 01/17/2021 7:34:28 PM PST by Magnatron
I was standing outside the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where gun-toting defenders of President Donald Trump were supposedly going to start marching at noon. I could see cops, I could see National Guardsmen, and I could see dozens of reporters, but actual protesters were scarce. I did spot a fellow in a Gadsden Flag facemask and a woman whose shirt displayed a slogan about rebellion against tyranny, and as they passed behind me I heard him crack a joke: "I should walk up to the photographers here and say, 'Excuse me, can you direct me to the armed insurrection?'"
In the wake of the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol, a widely circulated flier had called for armed marches at every state capitol on January 17. That sounded pretty dubious—all 50 states? even the most solidly blue ones?—but it seemed plausible that someone would show up somewhere, and of the capital cities that I can reach within 90 minutes I figured Harrisburg was the most likely to attract a crowd. The day before, working from a list of upcoming protests that a security firm had been circulating, I had gone to a demo in Westminster, Maryland; it had turned out to be a liberal protest, and not a particularly big or rowdy one. Now I was in Harrisburg, and the first actual protesters to show up were, again, some liberals: A local activist named Gene Stilp and one or two assistants had arrived with a cardboard statue of Donald Trump, which they made a show of toppling for a crowd of photographers.
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This sparseness did not seem to be unusual: From Salem, Oregon, to Nashville, Tennessee, reports were rolling in of not-quite-demonstrations where the journalists outnumbered the demonstrators.
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When these “armed protests in 50 state capitols” reports first came out, everyone at TheDonald.win reacted with “BS, glowie wishful thinking, don’t go to a buffalo jump.”
The days of protesting are over. We conservatives need to understand that we are fighting for our very freedoms. We are in the midst of a civil rights struggle not seen since the 1950s and 60s.
Many of us were alive back then and we saw that peaceful protests and demonstrations sometimes worked. But often times it was the violent riots that made the difference. We see this to be true these days with antifa and BLM, and we know that unless we take similar actions we might as well board the box cars.
They desperately want something to replace Trump. They need a new boogieman because they can’t cover Biden.
WAIT, The FBI had credible proof this was happening. How did they just “magically” stop it?
Trump. Show up and be WIld ! 1.5 million show and are NICE
MEDIA SHOW UP AND CREATE A NARRATIVE !
( crickets 🦗)
Like the Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat Leftist paid terrorists. American patruits have gone underground.
PM/DSA Democrat debathafication of Conservative America has created it’s own terrorist seeds in America....
They will reap what they have sown... The prophetic story of the Turner Diaries has become reality....
They got the month wrong - it’s Feb. Or maybe March or April. Or maybe all of them.
This is getting to be just live the Soviet Union.
Look all those people have arms.
Correct,
Comrade.
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