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(171,997 posts)Gimpyknee
(903 posts)Trump has been seeking an armed response.
Blue Full Moon
(2,970 posts)FoggyLake
(305 posts)Warpy
(114,130 posts)Demonstrators were gassed and worse,many were scooped up on bogus charges, there was vandalism to some gonvernment buildings.
He's so fucking stupid he thinks it never stopped, that the intervening 5 years didn't force demonstrators to get jobs and stop demonstrating. Portland made him look bad so Portland must be punished. Besides, he thinks violating Posse Comitatus makes him look strong. If there is any justice left here, it will make him look like a jailbird.
Pro tip: if you see military deployed, just stay out of their way.
NBachers
(18,976 posts)1WorldHope
(1,745 posts)I remember vans were showing up with thugs dressed for hunting taking people off the street in his first term. Am I mistaken?
Warpy
(114,130 posts)and said everything was peaceful until the MAGAts showed up to start shit and that they were responsible for the vandalism. If any of them got hauled in, there was no arrest record (sounds familiar to this old 60s relic), and that after the MAGAts started shit, the peaceful demonstrators got arrested.
Lesson: cops are right wing and they're not our friends. If MAGAts show up to start shit, LEAVE. If it was a good demo, you made your point. Leave the cops and violent thugs staring at each other.
calimary
(88,324 posts)We Oregonians are, in a VERY large part, fair-minded, friendly, peaceful, helpful, congenial, nonjudgmental, nonviolent, law-abiding, and warmly welcoming to newcomers.
tinrobot
(11,844 posts)He wants a confrontation.
Mtnmama
(120 posts)So he can respond with a show of force. Cause the unrest, then use it to crack down on "far left extremists", which he believes is anyone who doesn't support him. A distraction, too, from the Epstein files.
dweller
(27,475 posts)and no one is responding with anything actionable .
But it will eventually , everywhere all at once
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GopherGal
(2,677 posts)at the mandatory generals' meeting?
pfitz59
(12,015 posts)All his info is filtered by bad actors
