The network has also repeatedly facilitated online and offline harassment campaigns against perceived enemies, often leading to real-world harm, including attacks and assaults.
Two days after Biden was inaugurated, I said that, as long as we can root out dark money and opaque funding sources in our political system, Dems would be in a great position to win in 2022.
I still believe this, which is why I have spent so much time bringing attention to it.
Dark money vehicles are also responsible for funding and coordinating most of the astroturf style propaganda operations that continue to divide us against each other and erode confidence in our government.
Sorry, it’s that Obama was an “Arab,” not a Nigerian Muslim terrorist (that was said about Obama many times too, but that isn’t what was said in this clip).
This was 13 years ago.
And here is how Liz Cheney handled the seething anger engendered toward Obama and Dems over the idea he was born in Kenya. She justified & basically encouraged it.
When out of power, Republicans use the positions that they do have as tools to sabotage the agenda of their democratically elected “enemies,” as part of a strategy to regain power.
This “political warfare” has been standard since at least 2009.
Salsman is another product of the perverse set of selection pressures that create the modern GOP’s candidate pool.
Ask yourself why so many predators - sexual, emotional, financial and otherwise - decide, and feel confident & safe enough, to seek public office as a Republican.
Republican Charles Peruto Jr. is also running for DA in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
Peruto has repped mafia figures, including Joey Merlino and Nicky Scarfo.
His campaign website has a section explaining how his 26yo girlfriend/paralegal came to be found dead in his bathtub.
Why did the FBI reportedly help Proud Boys schedule their rallies, and use Proud Boys as informants against ‘Antifa,’ while simultaneously ignoring the clear threat that the Proud Boys represented leading up to Jan. 6th?
Joe Biggs of the Proud Boys says he started meeting with the FBI in July, 2020.
Did the FBI source information from the Proud Boys as part of Trump & Barr’s efforts to generate a false threat equivalency around Antifa through the last half of 2020?
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chair is pressing the [FBI] to explain how it failed to anticipate the violence of Jan. 6, despite having contact with several members of the far right Proud Boys in the months before the insurrection.