Posted on 10/15/2025 8:59:53 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Roughly seventy years ago, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover famously declared, “There is no organized crime in America.” Hoover’s stubborn denial of the existence of the mafia continued despite ample evidence to the contrary, from arrests to congressional testimony.
Many have speculated on why Hoover maintained his stubborn denial. Perhaps, they say, he was trying to avoid the political embarrassment of long ignoring the single largest criminal network in the country.
Many today seem to be adopting a Hoover-esque wilful blindness about another violent group: Antifa.
Politicians and pundits are denying that the left-wing anarchist group exists, mocking President Trump’s designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization.
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) seemed to morph into Hoover before our very eyes, including a posting in which he challenged anyone to “name one member of ‘Antifa.'”
Former House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) was widely ridiculed for denying the existence of Antifa.
Others on the left have joined Goldman in this absurd claim. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel committed part of his monologue to assure viewers that Antifa is no more than a mythical “chupacabra.” “You understand there is no Antifa,” he said. “This is an entirely made-up organization.”
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Antifa denies there’s an Antifa
Antifa doesn’t know that it doesn’t exist. Even Wray knows that it does.
Or maybe he’s ANTIFA. ;~((
He’s more dangerous as he’s got a brain. She doesn’t.
Antifa has a picture of Dan in a dress?
Or both.
“name one member of ‘Antifa.’”
Tina Kotek
Honestly, if I were forced at gunpoint to pick 1 of the 2, I’d prefer AOC to Goldman. He’s one of the absolute nastiest Dems in Congress with one of the most acute cases of TDS, and that’s saying something. He’s a dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks Levi-Strauss-fortune nepo baby who was born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple.
Linwood Kaine (son of HDRC's VP running mate)... and all the losers below, arrested in Portland:
Goldman may come off as “less loony” than AOC to some voters, but that might also make him more dangerous.
When I was working in networks there was a CODEX modem in our lab. That suggested certain politically incorrect puns.
Charming group. Hope the photographer wore a HAZMAT suit.
democrats to this day deny there were communists around in McCarthy’s time.
They also denied Castro was a communist.
All during the 60’s I was in LE and in two cases I worked beside FBI agents or over a year. I also read one of several books written by JEH during that time. My recollection is that the FBI was deeply involved investigating organized crime - the Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. I don’t think the author’s opening statement is true.
“politically incorrect puns”
And of course that’s what she’s routinely called in Oregon.
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