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Well, you know that story about the so-called Patriot Front, the khaki-wearing young males who all look like they came out of the same printing press. They're apparently associated with a white supremacist group, and they marched through downtown Boston carrying police shields and flags and bearing the group's emblem. Now what was it they were protesting for or against? Anybody? Anybody?
They were protesting for... what? They were protesting against... what? Nothing. They coincidentally were protesting for or against nothing and appeared just at the time that the Democrats are telling you, gosh, these Republicans like to get together and march on things and conquer them, because that's what the January 6 hearings are. Is it a coincidence that the group you most imagine had is well named the Patriot Front? Yeah, that's right. They're a front for something. Don't know what, but they call themselves a front for something.
So they appear at exactly the time that their appearance would be most associated, somewhat automatically in your mind, with Republicans trying to conquer their republic by marching on the capital. Coincidence? Is it a coincidence that they have no cause and they're marching? Have you ever said to yourself, hey, let's get together because nothing's happening and go have a march? Do you ever remember doing that?
Ah, we're so calm today. There's nothing going on. Let's get together and all wear the same clothes and put on masks and march in a foreign city where it costs us money and our time. Why? Why'd they do that? Was it a recruiting effort?
And so here's the weird thing. I'm reading the news, and I looked
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at left, right, and Axios, which is somewhat in the middle, and they all cover this story the same way. They just tell you what happened. What's missing in the story? What's missing in the story is who are they, why were they there? Did anybody talk to them and say, hey, why today? Why today? What's happening? Are you protesting for or against the abortion rulings? So they can't find their leader…
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