Who/What Is Antifa?

 Well....early in the 1920s....you had fascism start up in Italy....National Socialism start up in Germany, and Francoism start up in Spain.  

Oddly enough....to counter this...at the left side of the spectrum...various social political parties start 'clubs'.  Its safe to say both the SPD Party and Communist Party of Germany had elements that were developed as 'thugs'....who were supposed to oppose the bad evil Nazis.  

There is a belief as 1932 came along and the Nazis were in charge of the government....this element of both the SPD and Communists....left Germany and spent the next decade in the USSR.  After the war, they were set in various ways to return to Germany....as the face of Antifa.

As you go through the 1950s/1960s of Germany, there was class warfare going on, with university students brought into the 'club' of Antifa.

There were various upstarts in France, Italy and across most of Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.....bringing violence as a tool for the 'common working man who was suffering'.  

In this era of 2008 to 2020?  In a number of cases, the US Antifa attached itself to black inner city, and this puzzled blacks because it was mostly a bunch of educated white intellectual kids....who were into destroying communities.  In some odd way, they resembled intellectual klan groups.

Do they have leadership?  No.  If you find a group of a dozen.....there might one leader of the group, who seems to have cash flow.  So far, no one connects the dots....to say a foundation or authority exists.

Interest within the US Marshalls or FBI?  That seems odd too.....like they are simply refuse to view them....while spending a lot of time with the Proud Boys.

Final word?  As long as they operate in urbanized communities where weapons are frowned upon in open use....they probably will get their strategy done. If they appear in southern communities where weapon use is encouraged....their strategy is doomed.  

Whoever brought them to Atlanta....probably isn't from the state of Georgia....just my humble guess.  

Q-and-A

 1.  When talking up about the Russian Orthodox Church....just how close are they to the Russian government?

If Putin called the 'boss' of the church up and said a verse out of the Bible needs editing.....they'd hop right on it.  To be honest, it's less a church, and more of a Kremlin-cult group.

2.  Did AG Garland really utter: "We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich or the poor."

Yes, and virtually no believes him.

3.  Did the Energy Secretary (Jennifer Granholm) really utter that Biden says he "would veto" any bill from House that limits his ability to deplete the Strategic Petroleum Reserve....without any plan to refill it?

Yes.  There probably needs to be some type of law in effect that says the minute you sell x-amount of oil, the clock starts ticking and you have six to nine months to replenish the reserve used up.  

4.  What will the Washington Post bring here in 2023, as Bezos says he'll sell it?

2013 price that he paid....$250-million.  Presently, it'll be hard to convince anyone that it has a value of half the 2013 price (figure $125-million).  In cash....I suspect the first guy to come up with $100-million gets the newspaper and it's woes.

I suspect that a hundred big-wigs knew what Bezos was thinking back in October (selling the paper) and have cash ready to buy it.  No one will be paying full 2013 price for it.  

5.  Is Antifa a domestic terror organization?

Well....my thing is that they cross state lines, which means the feds have to be involved.  Once you encounter a group like this, and the feds won't do anything....you need a special gimmick in place.

In the same fashion that you charge out-of-state tuition at a higher rate at colleges....if you have a out-of-state criminal in your possession....the sentence factor should go up by 30-percent, as well as the fines doubling in nature.  

6.  Local Catholic Church 'leadership' in SF now says that Pelosi never called them to perform some exorcism over her house.....with the hammer-event and her husband?

Yeah, that's what's said.  So either it never occurred, or she got someone dressed in priest outfits (fake guys) to come out and do a chant....to make Paul happy?  

Something about the whole story just doesn't fit.

7.  This dead guy in Atlanta (the guy who fired at cops first) connected to the Antifa stuff.....has a pronoun thing?

Well...Antifa says in some official message that if you talk about him....use certain pronouns (they/it).  Course he is stone-cold dead.  Seems like past-tense usage should outrank pronouns, but that's just the logical side of me saying that.

8.  Ever get the impression that 10-percent of American society is walking around in some form of outrage?

Just getting a half-cooked burger is enough now to set some folks off, and they wreck some burger-joint.  

9.  When some intellectual says they are 'elite'....are they really 'elite'?

With enough whiskey or cannabis....anything is possible.

10.  If someone projects themselves as a 'woman' but has a moustache of sorts.....should you say anything?  

No...just imagine the moustache as being marker drawn, and skip introductions.

11.  Isn't life about a bunch of people feeling under-classified and a bunch of people feeling over-classified?

Yeah, more or less.

12.  Is there talk in the UK about a tax on unused bedrooms in a house?

The chatter is....if you own a 2-bedroom place (or 3-bedroom place), and you only use one for yourself (and your partner)....you ought to pay some yearly fee/tax.  Otherwise, you ought to be forced to move to a smaller place.  Those folks in palaces (16 bedrooms for example) are the ones who will freak out over this.