Top Tweets for #DeflectionPolitics

5 months ago

@DrRavenwin95421 Yahi Hindu Politics hai ... "Hume mat pucho usko dekho woh kya kar rha hai!" *insert any Identity in 'usko' #DeflectionPolitics

Jack Grodeska

@JackGrodeska

8 months ago

🧵 1/ Trump’s team—led by Karoline Leavitt and the rest of his Cabinet —is trying to resurrect ANTIFA as America’s “great terrorist threat.” Here are the facts they don’t want you to know. #Antifa #DeflectionPolitics #TrumpCrisisPlaybook 2/ ANTIFA is not an organization. No leader. No membership list. No funding structure. It’s a loose anti-fascist movement—local activists and community groups that oppose racism and authoritarianism. Labeling it “terrorist” is legally and factually impossible. 3/ There is no U.S. law that allows the president to declare a domestic group a terrorist organization. That power exists only for foreign entities under the State Department’s FTO statute. Trump’s “designation” is symbolic theater—nothing more. 4/ Empirical data tells the real story: Far-right extremists commit the overwhelming majority of politically motivated killings in the U.S. Antifa-linked violence? Rare, small-scale, and usually reactive to white-supremacist organizing. 5/ So why the sudden obsession? Because Trump needs a new crisis. Every time his administration faces legal trouble, policy failure, or, in this case, this reality is inclusion in the Epstein Files, he manufactures an internal enemy—migrants, journalists, protesters, and now “ANTIFA.” 6/ By inflating a decentralized protest movement into a “terror network,” Trump gets: A villain to frighten his base Cover for expanded surveillance and policing A headline that drowns out economic and ethical scandals Classic deflection politics. 7/ Even conservative fact-checkers have debunked the claim. No verified intel supports the idea of a nationwide antifa command structure, armed camps, or “coordinated standoffs.” Several viral “antifa threat” stories were traced to right-wing hoaxes. 8/ Meanwhile, civil-rights lawyers warn this rhetoric blurs the line between protest and terrorism—criminalizing dissent. Today it’s “antifa.” Tomorrow it’s environmental activists, union organizers, or journalists asking hard questions. 9/ The real danger isn’t antifa—it’s the normalization of government propaganda. Every authoritarian movement begins by inventing an enemy to justify its power. History remembers what comes next. 10/ So when Karoline Leavitt calls ANTIFA “the greatest domestic threat,” remember: It’s not about public safety. It’s about political survival. And it’s the oldest trick in the autocrat’s playbook.

JackGrodeska's tweet photo. 🧵 1/

Trump’s team—led by Karoline Leavitt and the rest of his Cabinet —is trying to resurrect ANTIFA as America’s “great terrorist threat.”
Here are the facts they don’t want you to know.
#Antifa #DeflectionPolitics #TrumpCrisisPlaybook
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ANTIFA is not an organization.
No leader. No membership list. No funding structure.
It’s a loose anti-fascist movement—local activists and community groups that oppose racism and authoritarianism.
Labeling it “terrorist” is legally and factually impossible.

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There is no U.S. law that allows the president to declare a domestic group a terrorist organization.
That power exists only for foreign entities under the State Department’s FTO statute.
Trump’s “designation” is symbolic theater—nothing more.
4/
Empirical data tells the real story:
Far-right extremists commit the overwhelming majority of politically motivated killings in the U.S.
Antifa-linked violence? Rare, small-scale, and usually reactive to white-supremacist organizing.
5/

So why the sudden obsession?
Because Trump needs a new crisis.
Every time his administration faces legal trouble, policy failure, or, in this case, this reality is inclusion in the Epstein Files, he manufactures an internal enemy—migrants, journalists, protesters, and now “ANTIFA.”

6/
By inflating a decentralized protest movement into a “terror network,” Trump gets:
A villain to frighten his base

Cover for expanded surveillance and policing

A headline that drowns out economic and ethical scandals
Classic deflection politics.
7/

Even conservative fact-checkers have debunked the claim.
No verified intel supports the idea of a nationwide antifa command structure, armed camps, or “coordinated standoffs.”
Several viral “antifa threat” stories were traced to right-wing hoaxes.

8/
Meanwhile, civil-rights lawyers warn this rhetoric blurs the line between protest and terrorism—criminalizing dissent.
Today it’s “antifa.”
Tomorrow it’s environmental activists, union organizers, or journalists asking hard questions.
9/

The real danger isn’t antifa—it’s the normalization of government propaganda.
Every authoritarian movement begins by inventing an enemy to justify its power.
History remembers what comes next.

10/

So when Karoline Leavitt calls ANTIFA “the greatest domestic threat,” remember:
It’s not about public safety.
It’s about political survival.
And it’s the oldest trick in the autocrat’s playbook.

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Jack Grodeska

@JackGrodeska

8 months ago

@POTUS @PressSec @HouseGOP @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats @SenateGOP 🧵 1/ Trump’s team—led by Karoline Leavitt's cheerleading efforts—is trying to resurrect ANTIFA as America’s “great terrorist threat.” Here are the facts they don’t want you to know. #Antifa #DeflectionPolitics #TrumpCrisisPlaybook 2/ ANTIFA is not an organization. No leader. No membership list. No funding structure. It’s a loose anti-fascist movement—local activists and community groups that oppose racism and authoritarianism. Labeling it “terrorist” is legally and factually impossible. 3/ There is no U.S. law that allows the president to declare a domestic group a terrorist organization. That power exists only for foreign entities under the State Department’s FTO statute. Trump’s “designation” is symbolic theater—nothing more. 4/ Empirical data tells the real story: Far-right extremists commit the overwhelming majority of politically motivated killings in the U.S. Antifa-linked violence? Rare, small-scale, and usually reactive to white-supremacist organizing. 5/ So why the sudden obsession? Because Trump needs a new crisis. Every time his administration faces legal trouble, policy failure, or Trump faces the scrutiny of The Epstein Files, he manufactures an internal enemy—migrants, journalists, protesters, and now “ANTIFA.” 6/ By inflating a decentralized protest movement into a “terror network,” Trump gets: A villain to frighten his base Cover for expanded surveillance and policing A headline that drowns out economic and ethical scandals Classic deflection politics. 7/ Even conservative fact-checkers have debunked the claim. No verified intel supports the idea of a nationwide antifa command structure, armed camps, or “coordinated standoffs.” Several viral “antifa threat” stories were traced to right-wing hoaxes. 8/ Meanwhile, civil-rights lawyers warn this rhetoric blurs the line between protest and terrorism—criminalizing dissent. Today it’s “antifa.” Tomorrow it’s environmental activists, union organizers, or journalists asking hard questions. 9/ The real danger isn’t antifa—it’s the normalization of government propaganda. Every authoritarian movement begins by inventing an enemy to justify its power. History remembers what comes next. 10/ So when Karoline Leavitt calls ANTIFA “the greatest domestic threat,” remember: It’s not about public safety. It’s about political survival. And it’s the oldest trick in the autocrat’s playbook.

JackGrodeska's tweet photo. @POTUS @PressSec @HouseGOP @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats @SenateGOP

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Trump’s team—led by Karoline Leavitt's cheerleading efforts—is trying to resurrect ANTIFA as America’s “great terrorist threat.”
Here are the facts they don’t want you to know.
#Antifa #DeflectionPolitics #TrumpCrisisPlaybook
2/
ANTIFA is not an organization.
No leader. No membership list. No funding structure.
It’s a loose anti-fascist movement—local activists and community groups that oppose racism and authoritarianism.
Labeling it “terrorist” is legally and factually impossible.

3/

There is no U.S. law that allows the president to declare a domestic group a terrorist organization.
That power exists only for foreign entities under the State Department’s FTO statute.
Trump’s “designation” is symbolic theater—nothing more.
4/
Empirical data tells the real story:
Far-right extremists commit the overwhelming majority of politically motivated killings in the U.S.
Antifa-linked violence? Rare, small-scale, and usually reactive to white-supremacist organizing.
5/

So why the sudden obsession?
Because Trump needs a new crisis.
Every time his administration faces legal trouble, policy failure, or Trump faces the scrutiny of The Epstein Files, he manufactures an internal enemy—migrants, journalists, protesters, and now “ANTIFA.”

6/
By inflating a decentralized protest movement into a “terror network,” Trump gets:
A villain to frighten his base

Cover for expanded surveillance and policing

A headline that drowns out economic and ethical scandals
Classic deflection politics.
7/

Even conservative fact-checkers have debunked the claim.
No verified intel supports the idea of a nationwide antifa command structure, armed camps, or “coordinated standoffs.”
Several viral “antifa threat” stories were traced to right-wing hoaxes.

8/
Meanwhile, civil-rights lawyers warn this rhetoric blurs the line between protest and terrorism—criminalizing dissent.
Today it’s “antifa.”
Tomorrow it’s environmental activists, union organizers, or journalists asking hard questions.
9/

The real danger isn’t antifa—it’s the normalization of government propaganda.
Every authoritarian movement begins by inventing an enemy to justify its power.
History remembers what comes next.

10/

So when Karoline Leavitt calls ANTIFA “the greatest domestic threat,” remember:
It’s not about public safety.
It’s about political survival.
And it’s the oldest trick in the autocrat’s playbook.

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CFFL @lefty_collins

over 3 years ago

@LoriLightfoot Well, I suppose posting on Twitter about a policy you have no control over is easier for you than actually taking control of the things that you do have control over. #deflectionpolitics

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@HanyaToderoff

over 3 years ago

@soanakshi123 🤮 Left woke smear campaign always attack Trump. #DeflectionPolitics

Aint that the truth @KevinCh65047961

about 5 years ago

@moneillsf Draw a breath @moneillsf and update us on this 👇 #deflectionpolitics

Kevin Doyle @KevDoyle_Indo

about 5 years ago

Sinn Féin provided party members with ID badges for a fake research company called IMRA and an instruction booklet that included vague answers to give to voters if they asked any questions about the company. https://t.co/xIITIbiS13

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Richard Garland

@richardtgarland

about 6 years ago

Did Sinn Fein know this was coming? Is that *why* they spent all week criticising Robin Swann? #DeflectionPolitics

Stephen Nolan

@StephenNolan

about 6 years ago

Breaking : Not only did Conor Murphy say an order for PPE had been placed , but on 28th March , the Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill talked about an order for PPE too . What was this order ? Was it the same or a different order ? What was she told ?

StephenNolan's tweet photo. Breaking :
Not only did Conor Murphy say an order for PPE had been placed , but on 28th March , the Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill talked about an order for PPE too .
What was this order ?
Was it the same or a different order ?
What was she told ? https://t.co/8k5YQU30AG

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PJ @MyNotifiApps

over 7 years ago

@bbclaurak Wasn’t dismayed at the comment & don’t think anyone I know was dismayed. Tusk was spot on #DeflectionPolitics #BrexitShambles #SnowflakeTories faking it

Todd Levitin @BigRedTodder

about 9 years ago

@nycsouthpaw @chrislhayes #DeflectionPolitics at its sleaziest worst. The Rethuglicans at Fox propaganda network have no moral compasses, Ailes would be so proud