My latest in PJ Media:
Former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton told Shepard Smith Friday that “for the last 20 years our biggest concern was international terrorism — ISIS, Al Qaeda,” but “now it’s here and it’s us, and it’s the citizens of the United States, some of whom are rebelling against everything we thought we believed in for the last 300 to 400 years.” (Apparently Bratton subscribes to the 1619 Project, which dates America’s founding not from 1776, but from 1619, so as to add on 150 extra years of slavery and oppression.) And Bratton wasn’t alone: his analysis of the “far-right” threat is the latest establishment media narrative.
Former FBI director James Comey joined in the fun. Asked by a British broadcaster if he thought “far-right extremism in the US” was “a greater danger to the country than Islamist terrorism,” Comey answered in the affirmative, and added: “The threat has slowly risen as Donald Trump and those around him have withdrawn the control rods. America has always had a radioactive stew of racist conspiracy-minded misogynist people oriented towards violence. We’ve always had that in this country. But we’ve managed over generations to contain it inside a containment building as you would with a nuclear waste pile and put control rods down into it which we’re cultural. And that calmed the radiation. And over the last five years Donald Trump and those around him have pulled the rods out with signals and dog whistles and sometimes explicitly”
A former Homeland Security Department counterterrorism official, Nate Snyder, likewise also affirmed Friday that the biggest terror threat the nation faces today comes from “violent white supremacists, neo-Nazis, sovereign citizens, militia movements.”
It’s easy to push this narrative today, when even putatively “conservative” writers are piling on President Trump for supposedly inciting a riot that began in Washington as he was calling upon the crowd to remain peaceful, and that even CNN admitted was “not just a protest that spiraled out of control,” but showed careful advance planning.
Never Trumpers will Never-Trump, no matter what the evidence is, but it is important to recognize what Bratton, Comey, and Snyder, and others like them are trying to do. Remember in Animal Farm how Boxer the horse struggled to remember, as the pigs implemented their totalitarian rule, how things had once been different? It’s all-important to remember, and these vicious and mendacious propagandists such as Comey, Snyder and Bratton, and many others, are doing their level best to make sure we forget.
Remember: It wasn’t “far-right extremists” who rioted all summer in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Wisconsin, New York, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and numerous other cities that I have already forgotten. It was Leftists: Antifa and Black Lives Matter, who have also been found to have been among those storming the Capitol that is being used as a Reichstag Fire pretext to shut down dissent from the Leftist agenda. When Snyder talks about “violent white supremacists, neo-Nazis, sovereign citizens, militia movements,” what he really means are ordinary citizens who oppose the dominant political philosophy. Lies like what Bratton is spreading here are in service of solidifying the hegemony of that philosophy.
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jca reid says
biggest threat to the US are the latest ‘incomers’. domestically it’s the BLM/ANTIFA lot. People are forgetting too easily the anarchy they spread in Democrat controlled cities last summer.
mortimer says
The ‘Boogaloo Bois’ were deeply involved in the Break-and-Enter and Trespass at the Capitol. They are a sister group that supports BLM and Antifa. A number of them have been charged.
warren raymond says
Don’t allow leftist groups to dictate the narrative.
You are up against a full-blown communist insurgency.
Most people are totally clueless what’s happening around them, but the Obamunists & the Klintonistas are laughing all the way to the White House.
Grace says
Since the attacks by BLM/Antifa mobs were never recorded by the MSM, the nation never saw them unless they tuned to OANN or Newsmax. Even Fox never posted them.So it’snot just a case of forgetting. Now, with the curtain pulled down and social media cancelling all resistance there is no longer communication among the right or the other side. What next, the post office ! As with any totalitarian take over, history is soon buried.
Infidel says
Grace, there were actually two FNCs: their ‘news’ shows and their ‘opinion’ shows. Their news shows never showed them. But it did feature on Tucker Carlson tonight, as well as Ingraham Angle, and would get discussed in The Five, as well as the weekend shows. But you’re right: by pretending that what was happening in the streets wasn’t news, Fox’s credibility is shot
In fact, Fox has been hemorrhaging viewers either to Newsmax, OANN or people have just stopped watching. As a result, they’ve slipped below CNN and MSNBC, which is quite an achievement, given that CNN will no longer pay airports to air their channel exclusively. Martha Macallum has been so badly trounced by Greg Kelly that she’s been moved from 7:00pm to 3:00pm EST, and her numbers there ain’t gonna increase. Every show on Fox, including Tucker and Laura, has hemorrhaged viewers. I for one, stopped watching them on election night, as I had seen enough of Chris Wallace and Chris Stirewalt to disgust me
It’s said that their CEO is likely on her way out, but their fortunes won’t change unless and until they completely lose the Murdochs as well as establishment republicans like Bill Sammon and Paul Ryan. Even then, it may not save them, as Newsmax and OANN have already picked up steam. And even if Newsmax is dropped from channel listings, they are live-streamed on their own website newsmaxtv.com, so there’s no reason people shouldn’t be able to follow them. I don’t have a cable service nor a TV, but I watch them on my laptop. OANN should do the same and stream their own shows live
terry sullivan says
bs
mortimer says
I doubt Bill Bratton knows any of the following basic elements of political Islam : taqiyya, kitman, Al Walaa wal Baraa, Treaty of Hudaibiyya, Reliance of the Traveller, the Near-Enemy Doctrine, Taqlid, Jizzya, Dhimmitude and Gheyra.
They are all basic elements of jihadism. Without a thorough knowledge of those CANONICAL TEACHINGS of Islam, no one can claim to understand the threat of Islam.
Such presumptuous leaders as Bill Bratton claim to know more than they know. They are blind guides. Both the guide and those who follow them will fall into a pit.
Aussie Infidel says
Mortimer, How very true. The Near-Enemy Theory is a core Muslim battle strategy. It stems from the Quran: “Oh you who believe, fight the unbelievers who are NEAR to you and let them find in you harshness and know that Allah is with those who fear him”. (Q9:123).
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/02/the-near-enemy-theory.html
It is much easier to fight your neighbor than someone further away; and conversely, it is much harder to defeat an enemy within, than a conventional existential threat.
Bratton’s claim might yet prove to be correct – not because of a threat from the ‘far-right’ as he claims – but from a fifth column of Marxists and Muslims who have infiltrated Western societies.
I listened to Comey interview on TV – what a lying, sickening, traitorous bastard he is.
Carol the 1st says
Comey doesn’t sound very objective, does he? [my caps and brackets added]:
“America has always had a RADIOACTIVE STEW of RRRRACIST CONSPIRACY-MINDED [read paranoid] MISOGYNIST PEOPLE [read women-haters] oriented toward VIOLENCE [barbarians]. We’ve ALWAYS had that in THIS country. But WE’ve managed over generations to contain it inside a containment building as you would with a NUCLEAR WASTE PILE and put control rods down into it which were CULTURAL [refinement is our hallmark on the Left you see]. And THAT calmed the radiation [so just look at what we cultured ones have selflessly done to spare everyone from these stewing barbarian*%@* dogs?] And over the last five years Donald Trump and those around him have pulled the rods out with signals and DOG WHISTLES [todays script] and sometimes explicitly” [or ‘almost’ explicitly – which will DO FOR NOW so shut up and take it or we’ll call you names!]
Comey snarls out his paranoia and projection and if Dems can’t UNIFY whilst such barbarians run about America I wonder what he’d LIKE to propose? Finger wagging and socks stuffed down throats might NOT work indefinitely!
JOHN says
Always knew this day would came……..
Dwaine Kimmick says
What a Weasel
Rob Porter says
Dwaine Kimmick – You read what James Comey stated to the British broadcaster and absolutely marvel at the mentally deranged nonsense this idiotic man concocted. Consumed by ego, he’s never got over being fired. Under Joe Biden just watch a witch hunt for right-wingers develop in the U.S.. The left is laughing while the leaderless right flounders.
Crusades Were Right says
“nuclear waste pile” “signals and dog whistles”
Gee, I wonder if comparing a group of folks to radioactive waste could be interpreted as some kind of “signal” or “dog whistle”?
Westman says
Comey has a working strategy. After derailing Hillary’s election with an Oct 28 2016 investigation letter to
Congress, he has kept himself in the news for 4 years so that very few will remember what he did back then and win back some brownie points with Dems. It’s a great time to jump on the Biden bandwagon while it rolls up to glory, even for the shoeshine boy.
mortimer says
Comey antagonized both sides, you mean.
Westman says
Yes, and so soon they forget, eh?
mortimer says
Jim Comey is calling ordinary Republican Americans ‘toxic waste’. In general, the Leftards feel almost no restraint when they viciously dehumanize Republicans … mischaracterizing them into ‘deplorables’ and ‘thugs’ at every opportunity. They are as a group much more law-abiding and compassionate than the Dems.
Wellington says
This is a bad or stupid man or both. The descent continues.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
I’m leaning more toward bad.
It takes a certain amount of intelligence to keep all those lies straight…
rubiconcrest says
It’s just a narrative that most people know is not true even though the MSM is pushing it 24/7. Just like the narrative that Trump is a white supremacist, Hitler, dictator etc… Obviously, 80 plus million voters were fed this garbage for 4 years and did not believe it. There is a valuable interview….’A New Leninism Is Gripping America—James Lindsay on Repressive Tolerance & Free Speech’ …. on YouTube. I am sure many would enjoy which helps make sense of it all. We’re not going crazy, the left going Lenin 4.
gravenimage says
+1
E T says
Listen to Klaus Schwab, one of the many global madmen. Social conditioning takes time, he cites pandemics and climate change /Paris accord — as a basis to argue for the Great Reset.
Mailin, criminal, Joe will begin their Build Back Better bullshit. Agenda 21 – Trump out- has been accomplished ( I am sill hoping someone will say it ain’t so), now they plan to accelerate Sustainable Development/ Agenda 2030.
People need to be convinced they are at risk and will only be safe if everyone’s behaviour conforms to certain standards. Stay home, stay safe, wear a mask, shut up and depend on the government. They will push lockdowns and tell us we need to follow instructions until at least 2022.
The new normal is pandemics, and climate change. Big tech is your future, you will be kept safe from germs IF y’all harmonize with nature – – so sys Agenda 2030.
Soros coup has worked, now they implement covert replacement of rule of law.
Tomorrow, they will replace democracy.
If you don’t like the pilot, don’t fly.
Eleanor says
ET did you hear Biden say those words “Build Back Better” in his speech the other day? Those three words are the words of Leftie world leaders who are supporters of the Great Reset. Trudeau mentioned those words in his campaign, Ardern mentioned those words in her campaign, and now Biden. Be very wary of those who say “Build Back Better” – it sounds innocuous but the world leaders who repeat those words are very dangerous!
gravenimage says
I’ve heard this used in relation to the pandemic, as well–for instance, suggestions that people not be allowed to drive at levels exceeding those current during the lockdown.
Eleanor says
GI – Sky News Australia have the Great Reset nailed. Well worth a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAO4-o_4Ug
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Eleanor.
curious george says
E T,
Interesting comments.
Biden Cannot Legally Get Us Back Into the Paris Climate Accords; Here’s Why
https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2021/01/19/biden-cannot-legally-get-us-back-into-the-paris-climate-accords-heres-why/
Batten down the hatches, the worst is yet to come.
gravenimage says
Former NYPD Commissioner: ‘Citizens of the US’ Now Biggest Terror Threat
…………………..
What a tool.
mortimer says
He’s a ‘tool’ of the Cancel Culture. Joe Biden was almost ‘cancelled’ by his own party for being an old ‘racist’ white male.
James Lincoln says
Yes, mortimer.
But his own party found him more valuable as a useful idiot….
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer and James.
somehistory says
It’s a strategy. If enough people…and there are plenty…say the same things, over and over, more people will be inclined to accept it as true.
Countless “authorities” and “experts” are saying that the people who did not want biden to ‘win’ are dangerous, terrorists, and worse than the terrorists who killed all those people on 9/11. All those nearly 3000 people in a couple of hours time, and Mr. Trump’s voters are ***worse.*** The people who wanted him to win again are ***terrorists*** and ***dangerous.***
And how many times was isis on the news, murdering, enslaving young girls and women, beheading people, burning people alive, drowning people…horrible, terrible things. And yet, Mr. Trump’s supporters are more dangerous than those isis creatures.
25,000 troops…all deputized as Marshals…are going to be in D.C. to “protect” biden and the others who will be there. Because Mr. Trump’s supporters are so dangerous that they may try to do something. The mayor of that city has said, “This is the new normal.” She’s expecting to keep troops in the city “for some time.”
The authorities are pretending that they have something to fear…really fear…from a large portion of the population.
And who’s to care if a few months from now, all of those who supported Mr. Trump are in deep, dark trouble…because they are all so very bad, worse than al queda. or isis.
Truth is in very short supply right now.
And susan rice is going to be biden’s “adviser.” She’s quite the liar, herself.
mortimer says
Sun Tsu said, ‘Know they enemy.’ Bill Bratton does not know the jihadist enemy.
Linda Goudsmit says
This is the Orwellian inversion of reality that Yuri Bezmenov describes as ideological subversion. The Big Lie, that violent white extremists are the the greatest threat to the nation, facilitates the systemic racism narrative to increase racial tensions and disguise the coming Great Reset – the actual globalist threat to American sovereignty and freedom. The Constitution is the target – everything else is a distraction. Conservatives who defend the constitution are being targeted whether they are white, black, rich, poor, etc etc.
E T says
Watch how long it takes mailin criminal Biden to tell y’all “Stay home, stay safe, wear a mask and shut up.”
The filthy madmen have introduced FEAR by way of the flu and the little useful idiots/fragile, mental cases are thriving on the drama. Get use to
Stay home
Stay safe
Wear a mask.
Don’t listen to the msm
Don’t live in fear
Don’t wear a mask
Remember Hitler
Remember the gas chambers
Remember “In God we trust” – not the government
In Canada we have politicians telling people to snitch on their friends, family and neighbours. When one drives down a highway and there are overhead signs saying “Stay home, stay safe, wear a mask and your cell phone starts screaming an alert to stay home, stay safe and wear a mask, normal people should rise up.
We the people have been played by the Global madmen.
George Soros vowed after the 2016 election Donald Trump would not be re-elected in 2020. Then came the “Pandemic, the mail-in vote, laws changed and an old man with dementia declared the winner by FOX VIEWS traitors.
I know the President of the United States is Donald Trump. God bless Donald Trump.
OLD GUY says
Comey feels empowered, he got away with helping to cheat the American tax payers out of $40 million with a fake investigation set up by Hillary Clinton that disrupted our government for years. The Muller investigation was a total fraud, how much of the $40 million did he end up with. Why do these crooks get away with this? If you or I cheat or defraud someone out of a few dollars we will be prosecuted and jailed. The sad part is that our judicial system, politicians, and prosecutors allow these crooks to get away with it. Two different legal systems, one for the RICH and POWERFUL and one for the rest of us who pay the price.
E T says
“Why do these crooks get away with this?” Was it Hitler’s playbook or some other madman in history who said how easy it is to manipulate the little people, 95 per cent will do as they are told, it’s the 5 per cent who will be the dissidents.
Khomeini hung the dissidents in the first week when he took over.
What are the utter lunatics Biden wants to appoint saying?
We know they are massive cheaters, liars, commie lovers, so why are they getting away with it?
don vito says
Now the reason for the prison and jail population being released (for wuhan virus, sure) using released criminals to create crime, then smearing and libeling law abiding citizens as the biggest terror threat, pleassssse!
Tom says
“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” George Orwell.