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Trump’s pick for counterrorism called for arresting BLM leaders as terrorists (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 1 year ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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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.”

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha.

History teachers will only be teaching the approved curriculum about how God Emperor Trump the First blessed us with his presence to purge the world of the Satan led Communist Woke Transgender Army™.

To suggest anything else happened, even in jest, is a treasonous executable act good sir, and you have been reported to the X Office of Wrongthink.

I do thank you for the opportunity as it means my family will have enough rationa for the month thanks tonthe reward program.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All empires crumble even the ones with the strongest bases such as Rome fell inevitably, and let me make this clear The United States is no Rome.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if its accurate but a long while ago (like, maybe the 90s) Invaguely remeber hearing something along the lines of, "No super power in the world has ever lasted more than 200 years".

Basically in the context that the US was overdue.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Id argue that the 200 year count down would start when power projection becomes a big thing sincw that is what defines a super power. The war of 1812 was argueably when that power projection started, its been about 200 years.