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struggle4progress

(118,330 posts)
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 03:22 AM Jan 2021

"Women For America First" bus tour led to coup attempt

Craig Silverman
Jane Lytvynenko
Pranav Dixit

... This group, founded by Trump loyalists and supported by the former president, not only obtained the permit for the rally where former President Donald Trump told the crowd to march on the Capitol, but also spent the weeks leading up to it on a 20-city bus tour, spreading incendiary propaganda, lies, and hate across an American tinderbox ...

... on Dec. 2, a county commissioner in North Carolina speaking at a Women for America First rally told the crowd, “We’d solve every problem in this country if on the 4th of July every conservative went and shot one liberal” ...

“If we allow this election to be stolen from us, we will become a third world country overnight,” said the New Mexico county commissioner who founded Cowboys for Trump. “The elitist, gross, wicked vile people that are in place will continue to wage war on America. Because there is a war, mind you, I promise you that” ...

Stockton advised people to arm themselves, “study tactics,” spend time on the firing range, and pursue self-reliance and self-sufficiency. At times, he evoked images of revenge and violence ...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/maga-bus-tour-coup

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"Women For America First" bus tour led to coup attempt (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2021 OP
then Stockton said, onethatcares Jan 2021 #1

onethatcares

(16,178 posts)
1. then Stockton said,
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 09:02 AM
Jan 2021

"let us bow our heads in prayer"

That's just my take on the usual crap these people spew. Sometimes they use it before or after they talk about right to life.

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