“The FBI showed up to my house to discuss my TV show exposing Antifa’s network,” Beck posted to social media on Monday, referencing the umbrella term for a broad and decentralized grouping of militant far-left activists who say they oppose fascism. “If you are a member of Antifa or providing material or financial support for Antifa, I might be a little concerned because the FBI is DEADASS serious about investigating you.”
Glenn Beck trying to stay relevant
Can someone please give me the phone number to antifa because I am deadass gonna make a donation
I think a crowdsourcing would be viable if only there was some sort of centralized network instead of just a vague idea of “fuck fascism”
A centralized network is kind of antithetical to a resistance movement. You want to help a Tifa? Get 3 friends together and start planning activities. Bake sales, protests, range days, book clubs. You’ve done it.
Yeah that is a problem. Fascism is just “Nazi,” which may definitely apply in some cases but we need a more specific end goal that everyone can get behind.
Good luck!
Put all of the Nazis in one area, cement it shut 2028
Oh there are plenty of those! Hell a good number of em just had a group text leaked! But to find this “antifa” group… that’s hard…
We should make an antifa sign up page to troll the Gaggle Of Pedos
This would be like the police going to the set of Law and Order asking how to catch DB Cooper.
Knowing who is in charge of the FBI, it actually wouldn’t surprise me.
Ok, so, from actually reading the article:
Assuming this actually happened, and fucking why not, modern insane rightwing idiot podcaster in charge of the FBI goes to ‘seasoned’ insane rightwing idiot podcaster/radiohost/guy who runs right wing propoganda media company…
Beck claimed to have “split antifa up into three different categories: street groups and soldiers, support groups, and funding sources.” He said that the first category had caused “carnage,” but that any investigation into antifa must go further.
Among antifa “support groups,” Beck included the National Lawyers Guild, which he identified as the “legal arm for antifa” because its members monitor the law enforcement response to protests for abuses, and the Community Justice Exchange, which he criticized for “bailing people out” in 2020 during the “George Floyd riots.”
Based on those extraordinarily tenuous claims linking the National Lawyers Guild and Community Justice Exchange to antifa, Beck went on to identify organizations that fund those two groups as antifa “funding sources.” Those included Beck’s old enemy the Tides Foundation for having a relationship with the Community Justice Exchange; the Alliance for Global Justice, in large part for giving the National Lawyers Guild “over a million dollars from 2018 to 2019 alone”; and Soros’ Open Society Foundations on the grounds that it funded the Alliance for Global Justice.
Beck also listed the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and Schwab Charitable Fund. These are both donor-advised funds that allow individuals to donate their own money to charities using an online portal managed by a financial institution — though Beck suggested that the financial institutions themselves were financing antifa in some way, saying, “If I had my money in Schwab or Fidelity, I don’t know if I would have it. They’re giving to the people who are supporting these people.”
Beck further listed crowdfunding platforms including ActBlue, Patreon, and others, but he did not indicate the channels by which money had moved through those platforms or to whom.
Ok, so what this means is that any company that has directly funded or has facilitated the movement of funds to basically any big D Democrat campaign, any kind of political organizing campaign to the left of Marjorie Taylor Greene, any kind of liberal to left wing activist group of any kind…
That, that is what these people apparently mean when they say ‘antifa’.
I… kind of really doubt any actual, explicitly self-labelled as ‘antifa’ groups even… have funds or a formal accounting of funds…
So ok yeah, yeah, this is the financial/legal version of outlawing all but the Republican party.
Any resistance to them, of any kind, any money for any of that is apparently ‘antifa terrorism’.
So, yep, we are now at the fascism stage where disagreeing with the ruling party is terrorism.
Yep, that tracks with the trajectory of what other historical fascists do once they hold formal institutional power.
Uh, have fun everyone!
Hm, we DO have evidence of real terrorists in our midst who pose a real danger to our country, but we cannot go after them?
I mean - neo-Nazi groups, Proud Boys, the Oathkeepers, the 3%ers, and anyone else listed on SPLC’s list?
Instead, we are going after some shadows the right wing likes to tell ghost stories to each other about?
We should seek antifa’s advice on what to do about Glenn Beck.
How about that thing where they tie all your limbs to 4 different horses and then scare the horses?
For future reference, that’s called being “drawn and quartered”. And it’s pretty horrific.
I thought that’s what it was, but for some reason I convinced myself that was a term for something else.
This definitely happened.
If it did happen, it sure as shit isn’t anymore.
By “antifa”, Beck means any person or organization with beliefs that disagree with the administration, or work to counteract the administration, or support those who oppose the administration.
Beck, the administration, and law enforcement are just adopting this as a framework to violently assert power, further dismantle democracy, and suppress any form of dissent. This is straightforward fascism, in motion, in the open.
I know that these points are obvious, but I just feel compelled to articulate them.
So, you want me to believe that the FbI, an organization that was basically built to do this kind of investigation into domestic organizations and finding people and has done so for over a century…went to some random old ass guy, whose sole job is saying dumb shit into a microphone, for advice?
Given who is currently in charge of the FBI would it really be that surprising. Reminder half of the Trump administration is made up of D tier influencers and F tier TV hosts, they’ll jack off their fellows for basically any reason if it gets views. Also I suspect that someone said something along the lines of “We will need outside advice” to blow off someone and they probably took it seriously.
People still listen to what this jackass has to say?
Yep, millions of people actually, maybe 10s of millions.
They’re called Republicans.
Naughty naughty Mormon, Glenn. No saying the swearsies
With a fascist government anti fascism is an enemy of the system, and that is clearly where USA is today.