This morning I was out on the back porch with my bride, doing our ritual wake up coffee drinking when she said this. “Go to www.antifa.com and watch what happens.”
So of course I did just that.
When I went to that site I was immediately redirected to www.https://joebiden.com/
Ok, that was odd, but I like to be thorough when I post articles. I mean this could be a conservative website trying to set Sloppy Joe up, right? So I did some investigating and surprisingly Snopes gave me all I needed to know.
Did Antifa.com Redirect to Biden’s Official Campaign Website?
Of course the subtitle reads, “If it was a prank, it wouldn’t be the first time the politician has been targeted in such a way.” Because they’re liberals and the naturally want to protect his decrepit ass.
But then the article goes on. Snopes says this is “Mostly True.”
What’s True
In August 2020, the antifa.com URL began redirecting users to joebiden.com, the official campaign website for U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden. Since the initial publication of this story, the redirect link continued to change and pointed users to other websites, including kamalaharris.org and the self-described anarchist website itsgoingdown.org.What’s False
However, there are no apparent links between any of the website redirects and the Joe Biden campaign (anyone who owns or has access to a domain can establish either a temporary or permanent URL redirect, which essentially tells a search engine that the page has moved).
What’s Undetermined
As of late August 2020, it is unknown who implemented the web redirects.
Ok, it still MIGHT have been a clever conservative prank, but read on.
Shortly after presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris of California as his running mate, Snopes readers asked us to verify a number of rumors and claims surrounding the Democratic ticket and their respective campaigns. Among them was the question of whether the URL antifa.com automatically redirects to the official campaign website of Biden and Harris.
A quick search by Snopes confirmed this rumor to be based in truth (our initial search from Aug. 12, 2020, is recorded in the video clip shown below). As of that date, the URL redirected internet users to joebiden.com. However, by the next day (Aug. 13), the antifa.com site and its redirect had been removed entirely. Since our initial publication of this story, the antifa.com redirect continued to change, pointing users once again to the official Biden campaign website at some point in late August 2020, according to readers. On Aug. 25, the URL redirected at least some users to a site called It’s Going Down (itsgoingdown.org), which described itself as a “community center for anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements.” By Aug. 31, the antifa.com URL once again redirected the majority of users to joebiden.com. There was no apparent link between either of the websites and the Biden campaign.
Rumored associations with the political protest movement antifa, short for anti-fascists, have plagued Biden’s campaign. In June 2020, the politician was falsely accused of having called the far-left network a “courageous group of Americans.”According to the Anti-Defamation League, antifa is not a unified group but rather a “loose collection of local/regional groups and individuals” that many civil rights organizations have deemed “dangerous and counterproductive” for their use or endorsement of intimidation and violence.
As of the most recent update of this article, it is unknown who implemented the web redirect. Anyone who owns or has access to a domain can establish either a temporary or permanent URL redirect, which essentially tells a search engine that the page has moved. As such, a redirect simply directs site visitors to a different URL when they click a particular link, according to website hosting platform Squarespace.
Snopes contacted the Biden campaign for comment regarding any potential involvement with the redirect but did not hear back at the time of publication. We will update the article accordingly.
I don’t know about you, but that part in bold says all I need to know. This article was published on August 13, 2020. And they HAVE updated it. Look:
According to Whois, an online domain registry record, antifa.com was registered on April 24, 2002, and was last updated on Oct. 23, 2019. We dug through the internet archives to establish a timeline of the domain in order to determine when the redirect was created. Here’s what we found:
The earliest archive of the URL listed the domain as for sale on Nov. 21, 2008. The domain remained available for sale until Jan. 30, 2020, according to our analysis of the archives.
The first archived version of the URL that directly associates it to the antifa political group is dated May 31, 2020.
On July 23, 2020, the most recent version of the “antifa” website was available with a note that an updated website would be coming soon.
An Aug. 12, 2020, archived version of antifa.com confirmed that a redirect from antifa.com had been established to send users to the joebiden.com official campaign website (see below). At this time, the URL redirected internet users to joebiden.com. Later on Aug. 12, antifa.com showed a “500 — Internal Server Error” message. At that time, the website was listed as unavailable.
At the time of this story’s initial publication (Aug. 13), the antifa.com site and its redirect had been removed.
Starting Aug. 21, antifa.com started redirecting to kamalaharris.org, which itself had already been redirecting to joebiden.com since Aug. 12.
On Aug. 25, the joebiden.com URL redirected at least some users to a site called It’s Going Down (itsgoingdown.org), a self-described anarchist website.
By Aug. 31, antifa.com once again redirected most users to the official Biden campaign website.
So, yes. Lots of updates. But what’s missing? It’s now August 31, 2020 and not ONE SINGLE RESPONSE from the Biden campaign either denying or confirming the Biden-Antifa connection. None. Certainly if it was a hoax, they would have immediately denied and condemned it. “It’s just those lying conservatives ‘going low’ again.” I mean what an opportunity wasted for him if this wasn’t indeed true!
Any reasonably thinking person would take this as what we suspected all along. Biden is linked to Antifa and supports their lawless rioting and murder. As Combat Bead said to me when I showed him this, “The proof is in the pudding.” I assume what he meant by pudding is what is left of Biden’s brain.
To me this just reinforces everything we knew about Biden all along. He wishes to destroy America and has united with his, however feeble, forces to do just that.
