2/
You guys are going to take the "L" here and quite frankly you deserve it. Cori Bush is going to eat your lunch every day until Biden is inaugurated and there isn't a thing you can do about it.
So....
Let's talk about how to make sure this never, ever, happens again.
3/
How did Cori Bush know you guys were going to have problems and violence?
Because she was trained in the lefty protest movement. Lefty organizing are what she did for years, that's her area of expertise. So she knows just how quickly and easily protests go off the rails...
4/
She knew that this was likely planned by people who did not understand how easily protests go bad, and she knew there was a high likelihood of something going wrong.
Someone is going to say "They had people planted to make it go violent, it is not our fault..."
5/
So what?
Your job is to make sure your people behave, and that you have enough trained people to handle agitators looking to make trouble.
The left knows how to do this. The hold peaceful protests *WHEN THEY WANT TO*
Look at the Women's march, 2 million people, no violence
6/
The left also know how to be violent when they want to, and how to be violent and not get caught at being violent. They know how to train and control their people in a street protest situation.
I did an entire thread on Antifa tactics here:
https://t.co/aHdKDcsc1n
7/
Here's the thing.
The left has been at this for decades and there is organizing and protest literature going back 60 years about how to:
-deal with police
-deal with agitators
-contain a raucous crowd
-set boundaries
-avoid arrest
-control the media narrative
8/
Holding a protest means having proper protest infrastructure. You need to have:
-Your legal permits
-a planned route for a march
-someone to collect information for follow up
-people to train volunteers
-people to talk to media
-people to film
-available water and first aid
9/
-ready made signs for first time protestors
-people to help first timers fit in
-recognized leaders to deal with police
-bullhorns/speaker system
-a coherent message
-social media branding
-people to film and influencers to drop the best images and video from the protest
10/
You need to know how to do crowd control so you can get the crowd to act in way that show up well and look good on film and video.
You need to be able to have people at the forefront of your protest that don't *LOOK* like stereotypical members of your group....
11/
Setting up a protest is a LOT of effort. It is NOT just a matter of getting people to show up. If you just have people show up antifa doesn't even have to do anything, natural social inertia will turn it into a riot.
Cori Bush knew that, which is why she had a bill ready.
12/
The right and the center do not have the organizing prowess of the left.
Both the woke left and the regular left have more experience and know-how when it comes to this stuff then anyone in the center or on the right.
This is simply a fact.
13/
The upshot is this:
The riots at the capitol are a result of people who don't know how to manage a protest bringing angry, unprepared, inexperienced people to a protest and the President riling them up before they head on their way.
That was always a recipe for disaster.
14/
It was always going to end like that and anyone with a lick of sense when it comes to protests knows that.
So yeah, you looked stupid, everyone is mad at you, the media is all over you, and you still have a Biden presidency.
What do you have to show for this?
15/
The answer is nothing.
So it's time to stop.
No more Lin wood.
No more Sidney Powell
No more Kraken
No more "trust the plan"
It's time to stop.
16/
Do you want results?
Time to read....
Start with this book. Playbook for progressives. This will tell you how the woke organize, what they do on the ground to grind out victories.
17/
This will tell you how they think and how they rebuild after failure. A great History of the Protest movement.
Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Redicalism by L.A. Kaufman
18/
Read roots to power by Lee Staples
This will tell you how grass roots organizing is done.
19/
And of course, and all time favorite around here :
Beautiful Trouble by Andrew boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell....
https://t.co/v4Nn9y6YCr
20/
The point here is not to become the left. We don't want to turn into the woke.
The point is that if you want to hold a protest, if you want to have a rally, if you want to be able to have a demonstration you have to know what the tactics and counter tactics will be...
21/
That way you can order your protest and set things up so that you don't end up with a riot at the capitol and making everyone hate you.
What happened yesterday at the capitol was shameful and the woke can make all kinds of hay with it cause the right messed up.
