Attorney General Pam Bondi asserted Antifa was “no different” from the MS-13 drugs gang, citing the experiences of MAGA influencers to support her claims.

She accused Antifa of being responsible for the “chaos” in Portland and other cities, where crowds have protested the deployment of federal agents. “They’re at all of these events, they’re encouraging violence, they’re calling everyone fascist, but it’s more than that. It’s hurting the American people. They’re no different than MS-13 or any gang out there.”

She added: “Talk to all the influencers who have been threatened and beat up and their lives threatened from Antifa members. It’s going to stop under Donald Trump.”

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    Asking MAGA influencers if Antifa is the same as MS-13 is like asking Mengele if its safe to take a shower.

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    1930s: Jews, Poles, communists, trade unionists, homosexuals, the mentally ill

    2020s: Antifa, immigrants, leftists, LGBTQ, the disabled

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    Who is Antifa murdering these days? Human trafficking? Drugs? Bombings? wtf is this govt even talking about?

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    So, like MS-13, an essentially nonexistent threat.

    I’m not antifa. I follow Emmanuel Goldstein.

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    Influencers are people who are paid for their opinion and make money on engagement and guess what engages people. That the government is telling people to listen to influencers instead of experts, scientists and doctors tells you all you need to know, we have a bunch of morally bankrupt greedy ass children running the country.

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    Lmao I literally rode my bike right through South Waterfront today, here in Portland. Ain’t no war zone, ain’t no chaos or whatever flavor of the day they choose. Bondi and Noem and the rest are just doing what the right always does, egging the public on and saying whatever they want to be true enough times until eventually they find barely enough to cling to as leverage

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    She accused Antifa of being responsible for the “chaos” in Portland and other cities

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    All this over inflatable costumes and naked bikers? I mean…. Tell me you’re worried without telling me you’re worried. 🙄

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    They’re no different than MS-13 or any gang out there.

    So MS-13 would have won against Nazi Germany in WW2?

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    Hello, I’m an antifa domestic terrorist and I’m in opposition to this regime. My username here is also my legal name.

    Come on, Pam, come fuck up a stroke-addled disabled trans woman who doesn’t have the strength to lift a gun!

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      Come on, Pam, come fuck up a stroke-addled disabled trans woman who doesn’t have the strength to lift a gun!

      Woah woah woah, that is WAY too pornographic of a situation for the fascists. That’s the stuff that gives them wet dreams.

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      Cassian Andor: Well, we’ll find a place they haven’t ruined yet. Maarva Andor: I’m already there. That place is in my head. They can build as many barracks as they like, they’ll never find me.

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      woman who doesn’t have the strength to lift a gun!

      Oh I think we can mcgyver something up real quick, don’t let your dreams be dreams, get armed, stay armed and resist disarmament with violent force if necessary. It’s the American was after all.