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douglas9

(5,193 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:24 AM Oct 8

Texas AG Ken Paxton roasted on social media for bragging about 'undercover operation' against antifa

Social media users ridiculed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after the grandstanding Republican fired off a press release Tuesday announcing that he’d launched an “undercover operation” to weed out “Leftist terror cells.”

In the release, the culture warrior AG bragged that he directed his staff to “utilize all applicable authorities” to infiltrate and dismantle antifa — a decentralized movement that aims to curb fascism — and other left-leaning organizations, which he claimed celebrate and aid in political violence.

“Corrupt ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” Paxton said in a statement. “The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead.”

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-news/paxton-operation/

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sop

(16,521 posts)
3. He's rocking the MAGA goatee look and a "Front Toward Enemy" hat (the military's instruction printed on Claymore
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 07:53 AM
Oct 8

mines, indicating their explosive force is directed forward, not in all directions). Only thing missing is the MAGA wrap around Oakley sunglasses.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,357 posts)
4. "There can be no compromise with those who want us dead."
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:08 AM
Oct 8

Says the guy who wants people like me dead.

Cute.

(What a complete asshat.)

Botany

(75,612 posts)
5. Mission Accomplished " to infiltrate and dismantle antifa"
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:18 AM
Oct 8

ANTIFA does not exist. Most ANTIFA members in the summer of “black lives matter” were
white right wing shits trying to stir up shit and start what they wanted and that was a “race
war.”

ANTIFA does not exist.

Biophilic

(6,183 posts)
6. I do agree with him about one thing.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:40 AM
Oct 8

“There can be no compromise with those that want us dead.”

LetMyPeopleVote

(171,724 posts)
7. Paxton is an idiot
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:51 AM
Oct 8

This so-called investigation tells me that Paxton has seen some bad polling with Wes Hunt in the race

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