Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, completed 11 combat deployments during the War on Terror. The combat left scars. In 2019, an ISIS suicide bomber killed his wife, a Navy cryptologist and linguist, in Syria. By the time he returned home, his worldview had shifted: Kent came to believe, as I wrote in a 2022 profile, that his early tours in Iraq gave him a “special gift of clarity.” He understood how quickly a society could come undone.
After this, Kent went from apolitical to active. The Black Lives Matter and antifa protests in Portland during the summer of 2020 triggered fears for him that the United States could similarly implode. Everything, he felt, was crumbling. He and his two young boys quickly left the city for rural Washington.
“We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations. We need to use the tools of the federal government, the FBI, the US Marshals—go after them like organized criminals and terrorists,” Kent said in a 2021 conversation with the podcaster Tim Pool about the group’s leaders. “So, when we start arresting these guys and charging them with federal terrorism charges, that’s going to take away a lot of the incentive to go out and riot.”
These so-called groups are not organizations. That means they can accuse anyone of being in BLM and/or Antifa.
Which I guess is the point.
What boggles my mind is that Biden didn’t immediately declare the proud boys a terrorist organization so that we could completely dismantle them. I mean at least thwart Trump’s plans at creating Brown shirts
I mean… of course he did.
This is why not protesting when a Dem is president never made sense.
trump won’t care, so the last four years we should have been protesting Biden’s inaction (on so many different issues) which would have at least got him to acknowledge the left and would have likely stopped Trump from winning
But Biden had a D by his name, so the screechers kept calling anyone that didn’t agree with Biden 100% a Russian.
Biden felt no pressure from the left, which made him and Kamala move too far right and lose what should have been another incredibly easy election.
And like we saw at the inauguration, Biden doesn’t even care, we’re the ones that have to deal with consequences while Biden apparently goes into acting without a care in the world
