“All the state leaders should be getting their people out … to watch for ballot stuffing,” wrote the leader of the American Patriots Three Percent militia. “Our nation depends on this."
    • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
      322·
      2 months ago

      Militias are mostly made up of police, FBI and CIA members, so no agency is going to interfere.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        142·
        2 months ago

        Local police, maybe. The other two have task forces that regularly take these clowns down, so if there are some mixed into the group, they’re really fucking bad at their jobs.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        81·
        2 months ago

        The worst thing the CIA does is hookers and blow. They’re not looking to get caught up in a right-wing coup.

        • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
          51·
          2 months ago

          You dropped the /s, you are describing the number one cause of regime change globally in the last hundred years.

          • Serinus@lemmy.world
            121·
            2 months ago

            My bad. I meant here. They’re not trying to start shit in the US.

            I do think they’ve mostly stopped in the last 40 though.

            • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
              61·
              2 months ago

              Maybe, they did sell crack domestically just forty years ago, and no one really knows where the fentanyl crisis got most of its start, or who manufactures the majority of the supply.

              • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
                11·
                2 months ago

                we know exactly where the fentanyl crisis got its start: Over prescription and aggressive marketing of opioid painkillers by the pharma industry. And we know exactly where most of the fentanyl is manufactured: China.

                • chaogomu@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  Fun fact, we know how it gets into the states.

                  The fentanyl, or the precursor chemicals are shipped to Mexico, and then white Americans drive across the border and pick up one or two brick sized packages that then sell for millions.

                  The packages are easy to hide, and racist border control doesn’t search the white guy crossing the border with nearly as much enthusiasm as they do the brown guys crossing the same border.

            • Billiam@lemmy.world
              21·
              2 months ago

              The CIA focuses on international, uhh… “activities”. If you want their domestic counterpart, you want the NSA.

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        While there are a somewhat decent amount of police, the vast majority of people in these militias are middle management, to low level office workers, blue collar workers, and service workers.

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
    32·
    2 months ago

    A trove of leaked internal messages and documents from the militia American Patriots Three Percent—also known as AP3—reveals how the group coordinated with election denial groups as part of a plan to conduct paramilitary surveillance of ballot boxes during the midterm elections in 2022.

    You mean those nutjobs that showed up to stand around ballot boxes with rifles weren’t all acting alone?

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    162·
    2 months ago

    I’m probably gonna go as offline as possible from election day until the inauguration.

  • No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.orgDeutsch
    9·
    2 months ago

    I assume the problem is the following:

    If there is dirt on a Democrat, the Republicans read it to feel backed up on their opinion and the democrats read it to see if it is true and if they need to demonstrate for a change in leadership

    If there is dirt on a republican, the Republicans ignore it because they don’t believe it, and many democrats ignore it because they allready know it3