At Tuesday's pro-Trump rally, right-wing pastor Greg Locke was asked to pray for the Proud Boys and their leader Enrique Tarrio, who was ordered by a judge to stay away from protests after being arrested with high-capacity ammunition magazines. 1/4
“Lord, they may get a bum rap on the news media, but we just thank God that we can lock shields, and we can come shoulder-to-shoulder with people that still stand up for this nation, and still love the rights and the freedoms that we have ... 2/4
"...‘cuz Lord, we’ve got to recognize the fact if we don’t have convictions worth dying for, we don’t even know what living really is. So, God, help us to live, help us to fight, and if need be lay down our life for this nation ... 3/4
" ... and we thank you for those that have gone before us and done just that.” 4/4
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The guy on the right in the second photo is white nationalist Matthew Heimbach. Seems odd that an antifa activist would be hanging out with the likes of him. washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…
It is astonishing to see right-wing activists freely roaming the Capitol that they violently stormed. This attack should not have been a surprise. Right-wing activists have been publicly threatening violence and civil war if Trump was not reelected.
At a pro-Trump "prayer rally" last month, a speaker warned that right-wing militias would lead a "bloody war" if Trump didn't use the military to stay in power rightwingwatch.org/post/ecumenica…
at a pro-Trump rally yesterday, speakers invoked 1776, warned of an "uprising" of "pissed-off patriots" if Biden's victory was confirmed, and led chants of "Victory or death" rightwingwatch.org/post/christian…
Right-wing Orthodox Christians are part of today’s “Let the Church ROAR” rally put on by “Stop the Steal” organizers, Trump administration staffers, and other right-wing activists. George Michalopulos, who blogs at Monomakhos, is listed as a speaker. rightwingwatch.org/post/right-win…
Michalopulos reposted a comment from Roosh V’s Twitter feed calling on Trump to refuse to step down, use the military to “crush his enemies,” and “use his authority under the Insurrection Act to arrest and/or kill everyone who participated in this plot.” monomakhos.com/one-of-the-gre…
“It really says it all, doesn’t it,” Michalopoulos wrote admiringly of the call for Trump to arrest leaders of the Democratic Party and Big Tech and “everyone of significance in the mainstream media.”
Organizers of today’s “Let the Church ROAR” rally include conservatives from different branches of Christianity. One right-wing Catholic set to speak is “traditionalist” Taylor Marshall, an author, YouTuber, and member of the advisory board of Catholics for Trump. (thread)
When a Catholic priest drew criticism for declaring that it was not possible for a Catholic to be a Democrat—as Joe Biden was on his way to become the second Catholic U.S. president—Marshall called the priest a “hero.”