That was pretty fucked up. Why are they dressed like it’s Desert Storm? I guess this is just Trump’s version of how police should operate: kidnapping anybody they don’t like.
I should have had my kid record my tirade about that situation a few minutes ago. That’s some really concerning shit right there, and I can’t believe people aren’t more pissed about. God help me, I found myself in agreement with Nancy fucking Pelosi on the topic.
Portland is far gone enough that protesters should be arming themselves and fighting back. The police are useless thugs in that city, and they aren’t protecting anybody. They are simply having fun beating and kidnapping people.
Apparently he did this because Atlanta's mayor had the audacity to point out that the Great Pumpkin wasn't obeying mask laws when he was at Atlanta's airport. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...-atlanta-mayor-questions-georgia-gov-n1234141
WTF is going on with you guys down there? https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/18/...forces-mark-of-dictatorship-ghitis/index.html
Your border chief Mark Morgan is a smarmy lying cunt. These people need to be put in their place NOW because they are out of fucking control. These feared-up thugs are not the “good guys”.
Don’t know, dude... I saw some video footage that may as well have been in Brazil or some other third world country. Sure as fuck ain’t Portlandia. Would love to hear your take on what’s going on.
Trump is playing to his base. He's portraying cities as "Democrat-controlled hellholes" that can only be brought to heel by him. He is playing both into his base's hatred of cities in general, as well as their fear that "they" are going to leave the cities en masse to loot and pillage the countryside.
Now that his team control the Coronavirus data (shudder), they'll next be portrayed as plague fountains. I texted my friend at the CDC "if anyone leaks this data, I'll start a GoFundMe to pay for the hookers and blow in Vegas, or their legal fund, whichever is preferable". Also, I think federal gestapo tactics on display will backfire horribly. Most small-town protests are old dudes in baseball caps holding up signs at a roundabout. The idea that they could get black-bagged into an unmarked Suburban and sent to the Goddamned gulag isn't going to sit well with anyone. I don't see how you can see this, support it and call yourself a patriot. Flat out, this is not how America operates, and we barely put up with it when it was happening to "terr-wrists" half a world away. This was unacceptable in Waco back in the 90s, and it's damned sure not acceptable now.
Despite what the media says the video evidence of these “peaceful protestors” of them wantonly destroying public and private property can’t be ignored. Localities not doing shit about it doesn’t concern anyone? When they do You know they also use other spook tactics with facial recognition and plain clothes informants to knock on these people’s doors after the protest to arrest them for crimes right? Instead of running in with hickory shampoos for all seems more like evolving non violent mob dispersement. Like how I framed that? I should be a reporter.
Sorry. I was more referring to the no-name military forces grabbing people and shoving them into unmarked vehicles.
I’m not sure that you fully appreciate just how fucking sketchy that looks to an outsider who isn’t blinded by the Dems vs Reps bullshit.
Nope. Don't give a fuck what they were doing, or what the guys with rifles said they were guilty of. DHS has cops and they are held to HIGHER standards of policing than locals. I've seen them respond to a case with DC police in tow and the federal cops don't get to bend the rules because they play on Team Alphabet. You simply do not do this to civilians, regardless of what they are doing. The entire premise of "the people they arrested are guilty of something" is horse.shit. We have due process. We have rule of law, so that citizens know their rights are protected. You think this makes anything better? Safer? Less explosive? I call bullshit. For the record, this wouldn't be acceptable if they did it at a Mississippi cross burning.
thats some China/Hong Kong, SS-type shit. Around here, those who support Trump are more along the lines of “burn the whole system down” anti-government types, and this is very profoundly big creepy government times 10. It doesn’t sit well with anybody, except for a vocal minority who think this is the media blowing it out of proportion.
They've deployed CPB and ICE officers to Portland for this purpose. The idea that FPS (Federal Protection Service), the department charged with protecting federal property, is being overrun by graffiti artists to the point where they need backup from CPB and ICE defies credulity. This action was premeditated by the administration.