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TPM has been reviewing the “OperationFlagDrop” channel since late last month. Several of the accounts that participated in the group appear to have been deleted and conversations there indicate that some individual messages were removed. We endeavored to reproduce all of the posts quoted in this story as close to their original format as possible, which includes some spelling and grammatical errors.

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[–] iBaz 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Last night we did a flag drop in the middle of riots to support our Blue and our PB’s that were protecting us !!!” Forte wrote on November 15, 2020.

Love how they claim to “back the blue” except, you know, when they were beating the Capitol Police with whatever weapons they could find and spraying them with bear spray.

[–] shalafi 22 points 1 year ago

Related this recently:

Man came over to pick up a thing I put in Nextdoor.com. Said, "Hey I seen you on there, talking about 01/06. My brother's a cop."

He wasn't in my grill by any stretch, but his struck me as a bit adversarial. Impossible to relate in text, and it's been a couple of years.

"And those vile scum beat policemen with an American flag. 2 committed suicide directly after. FUCK those people." (Again, can't get it across in text.)

You could see the gears turning, thinking, "Well... yeah... fuck them!"

Anyway, the guy honestly gave it a thought, and I think he found a new take on the whole thing.

We parted very amiably, shook hands, all that. One of the rare times I think I gave someone a truly new perspective and the internalized it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"He says he’s never read a book—not a single one, not even in school. He doesn’t have much of a dating life. He has a few friends, but they tend to “change every two years.'" - well that's surprising /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's after his multimillionaire grandfather sent him to a 50k/yr boarding school in between yaughting trips.

This is a broken trust fund bro who spent years trying to get his rap career going because being a rich kid wasent enough. He stumbled on MAGA as his answer and just went 100% fucking stupid about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

challenger implies seriousness in candidacy or plausible chances of success.

it's more of a vanity campaign for a fox news gig.

as close to their original format as possible, which includes some spelling and grammatical errors.

also not surprising