Today in "Hey, look over there!"

Just so we're all like super clear on this point, it looks like the gunman who killed 20 people in a Walmart today was a white nationalist. A violent, anti-immigrant racist and not say, a member of Antifa.

We're about to talk about another mass shooting so before we start why
don't you enjoy this basket of puppies for a minute. Trust me, it helps. 

And after you clear your history, maybe
give it a once over with a microfibre cloth.

I mention this because this. Didn't click? That's ok, it links to a Fox News article, and if you do click on it you'll probably need to go and clean out your browser history. Here, maybe click on this link to an article about the Fox News story instead, or just wait until I explain. Anyway, it's about how in the hours after another, yes another example of a white nationalist with a manifesto and access to firearms shooting innocent people, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick issued a warning to Antifa to stay out of Texas. I think the "or else" is implied.

Above: A file photo of Dan Patrick promoting
his new Sentinel Program to deal with the
threat posed by mutants once and for all.

Wait, what the wah? Yeah, for some reason he brought up Antifa. 

"Stay out of Texas, basically. We don't need them coming in on September 1st. We didn't need them coming in before this happened."

-The Lt. Governor of Texas evidently 

having a different conversation than the 

Fox News reporter he was talking to

So he's referring to a ten-day planned convergence, wherein people opposed to U.S. Border poli-ok, Donald Trump's insane, xenophobic policy of locking people in cages, will gather and protest at the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso. It's got local authorities nervous because while not expressly affiliated with Antifa, the organizers' politics maybe overlap with Antifa and you know, they're just all a bunch of entitled millennials so same same.

"You kids better stay off my lawn with
your human rights and your twittergrams!"

-Conservatives in Texas

Lt. Governor Patrick then went on to
demand that Antifa cancel Good Omens.

So to sum up: a left-wing group that may or may not be linked a group* linked to anti-fascist counter-protests that have at times become violent, are planing a protest next month. Then Fox News asked Dan Patrick to comment on the latest mass shooting but he instead issued a vague warning to Antifa about a protest they're not actually organizing. But even if they were involved, when Antifa counter protesters do turn violent they're usually punching white supremacists, like the one in custody in connection with today's shooting.

Pictured: The allegedly Catholic Pope,
seen here doing whatever it is Pope's do.

Sorry, I should say allegedly, but the El Paso police chief is saying that he believes that the man they have in custody, Patrick Crusius, is a white supremacist and that his rampage today is motivated out of a hatred of immigrants, non-whites and Democrats. So, I don't know, shouldn't Dan Patrick be saying something like, Hey you white supremacist assholes, stay out of Texas with your racist nonsense? Like, instead of shaking a fist at an anti-white supremacy group who, again, aren't actually coming to El Paso?

Unless, hey, you don't suppose the Lieutenant Governor of Texas is deliberately trying to muddy the narrative and make people connect today's violence with left-wing activists instead of the right-wing shitheels that carry out like all the terrorist acts in the United States? Or at the very least distract from the inevitable, albeit brief and impotent calls for stricter gun control? You know, until a week from now when there's another mass shooting? If you need me, I'll be looking at those puppies in the basket again.

"I didn't say Antifa is responsible for today's tragedy, I'm just saying
Antifa as much as possible whenever someone asks me to comment
on today's tragedy. If they make the connection, it's not my fault."

-Dan Patrick, being exactly what's 

wrong with American politics right now

*update 10/24/20: I was just going back over old posts and I noticed that I kind of implied here that Antifa is more of a coherent organization that it is. Whatever right-wing conspiracy theorists may think, there isn't like a boss of Antifa or a newsletter or anything. I'm not sure if I was just uninformed at the time (probably) or misspoke (also a possibility). But I just wanted to acknowledge that antifa is just a term applied to people who are anti-fascist. Which should describe everyone, but here we are.