The Trump administration is reportedly beefing up the federal muscle in Portland after weeks of protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1322609
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1322609
They are going to lose. The public does not seem to be stifling.
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1000 people a day are dying from COVID 19 and drump thinks that protecting a courthouse from being spray painted is the way he is going to win re election. They can try to drum up violence in Portland but it’s not going to beat news coverage of his complete failure to stop a pandemic that is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Looks like the official count is going to break 150,000 today or tomorrow, and its only going to keep going all the way to and past the election sadly, and with them pushing schools to reopen its only going to get worse.
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Isn’t it obvious what Portland police and Oregon state troopers should do? They need to send in all available officers to block the Trump/Barr gestapo from leaving federal properties. If these goons enter non federal land, they should be arrested for impersonating a police officer and imprisoned. Let the Trump regime sue.
They have nothing to lose. Treat the Trump gestapo as the illegal occupation army they truly are.
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I guess he thinks they need more feds to confront the wall of moms, the leafblower dads and the veterans.
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Guess the protests weren’t big enough for him, he wants the crowd to double in size again or more.
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They haven’t gotten the reaction they really wanted yet, which is mass hysteria in the streets, widespread arson and looting and shootings and maybe a couple dead officers.
And you can bet your fucking ass that the Trump campaign and GOPers are surreptitiously contacting their militia buddies…sending signals…so that more false flaggery can take place. This is specifically designed to create the conditions that will encourage and provide cover for the militia LARPers and white supremacy groups to boogaloo to their hearts’ content.
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That’s exactly what the Trump regime want.
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They may not like what they get.
Didn’t work for them in D.C. The crowds kept growing when they were being attacked, didn’t stop until the police finally blinked.
He doesn’t have nearly enough folks to actually control the ground.
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Several women who have been protesting in Portland and then dragged off to holding areas have been literally manhandled, that is groped on buttocks and bust by the no name sonderkommando. They’ve even pepper sprayed a peaceful protestor and broke his right hand.
“Violent anarchists” indeed. Fatso’s not going to win on this issue, no matter what talkers may say about it working in his favor.
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Moms in yellow t-shirts and dads with leaf blowers pose the greatest threat to America since Hitler.
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At the very least these “Federal Agents” need to identify exactly who they are and to do that I suggest requiring all of them to wear brown shirts.
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You wouldn’t kid if you’d ever been stomped with a Birkenstock.
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November is coming. And the ants are dancing on a hot skillet. Expect him to ramp this up. I do not watch Fox and definitely will not look at OANN, but the photo-ops must be rampant for them. Meanwhile he golfs. His supporters think that is just fine, salt on the wound, owning the libs.
A rattlesnake is just a snake until it is disturbed. Playing games and tweaking its tail is definitely not advisable. But they are doing it. The response in in process.
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Portland residents might as well be the new Contra Freedom Fighters when they fought against the oppression of the Sandinistas back in the 80s. Republicans used to like those types of freedom fighters. Not anymore, huh.
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You spelled Hillary wrong 
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Trump is misreading the moment and he’s been doing a lot of that lately. His political mojo is gone, kaput.
I’m willing to wager majority of Americans, especially suburban women (voters he needs) are appalled at what’s happening in Portland and place the majority of the blame on the doorstep of his bunker.
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Bigger problem is he’s never appealed to his opponents, he’s made no attempts ever to win over new voters and has only lost some voters who did go for him because of his faux “businessman” rep (and hatred of HRC). He’s appealing to a shrinking group of people and simply pissing off more and more people who never supported him in the first place.
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Does this have less to do with law & order than it has to do as a distraction from this?
4,262,674 US cases
147,143 US deaths
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I think he reads TPM and sees all the handwringing about a little graffiti and figures that’s reflective of the population as a whole.
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