Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the anarchist jurisdiction. x tickled by this because I watched 5 seconds of the KATU coverage and the proud boy on the mic said something like 2,000 people were there— voltaverse (@voltaverse) September 26, 2020 x BLM car caravan from Vanport…
Category: Portland
Proof there is a Gaia in Heaven.
The Proud Boys are assembling, with firearms, in North Portland’s Delta Park. Police predicted twenty thousand of these dangerous folk will attend. The Boys call for revenge for the killing of one of their own. They brag, no bag limit on Antifa. The morning began sunny, as forecast. My heart sank, but my prayers soared….
Was Michael Reinoehl shot “clutching a cellphone and eating a gummy worm as he walked to his car”
Trigger-happy extralegal shooting by federal law enforcement. US Marshals fired many rounds into/at him. But surely death squads don’t exist in America. When police last week surrounded Michael Forest Reinoehl, a self-described anti-fascist suspected of fatally shooting a member of a far-right group in Portland, Ore., the wanted man wasn’t obviously armed, a witness to the…
DHS Says White Supremacy is Country's Biggest Threat
DHS is drafting its annual threat assessment report, and Politico got hold of the draft: DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security. Two later draft versions of the same document —…
Portland mayor rips Trump to shreds: 'It’s you who have created the hate and the division'
Somehow Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler got hold of my bile duct and squeezed out all my personal feelings about Donald Trump like it was a very unfunny whoopee cushion. After last night’s Trump-encouraged unrest in Portland, Mayor Wheeler went on a righteous rant today — and he successfully diagnosed the disease currently afflicting us. Surprise! It’s Donald…
one killed, this time in Portland amid protests and counter-protests
Because we’re still using stereotypes from the 1960s, the Nixonian 1968 campaign Trump now has hate riders and flags. And violence. Presently lots of disinformation on twitter with RWNJs spinning the event. One version of reporting is that a person with a Patriot Prayer hat sprayed someone with pepper spray and got shot for his…
Proud Boy aims handgun at protester, violates state law ORS 166.190 (Pointing firearm at someone)
Proud Boys appeared at today’s “Back the Blue” demonstration in Portland OR, one brandishing a firearm like the St Louis couple defending their villa. Perhaps another last-minute speaker at the RNC perhaps to speak about self-defense law when you have superior force. Plenty of violations today. One qualification is that there were technically not enough police to declare…
'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division
I live in a blue state, and it’s pretty clear what Donald Trump thinks of me. From his peevish attitude toward the tribulations of Puerto Ricans to his threats to cut off disaster funding to California, it’s become more than obvious that Trump sees some Americans as more American than others. And sometimes he wears that attitude…
Did an ex-military contractor throw IEDs at Portland protesters
Like the DHS and DoJ contractors deployed with the miscellaneous tactical units, a variety of former military are formally and informally at play during the Portland protests. In this case, a rogue element was pursued by citizen activists because these “contractors” were trying to escalate peaceful protests. The Military Industrial Complex has dregs as well as…
Spartacists and the antifas like movies about gladiators
Street protests do not resemble those of the 1960s and Portland is not like Berlin after WWI, even as Trump has constructed from DHS tactical units and DoD contractors, an actual Freikorps. The Spartacist League and the Catholic League will not be meeting in the next World Baseball Classic. Trump probably cannot name a leader of antifa. Violent far-right…
New Lincoln Project: “Moms”
Which early on calls Trump “the worst President in history” and says he “sinks to a new low” It is about all kinds of Moms And yes, it is about the Wall of Moms in Portland The ad says “They won’t bend. They won’t break They won’t stop fighting to protect the rights of every…
Portland protests continue not because of “professional anarchists” but because there's no justice
In his presser, Trump blamed Portland violence on “professional anarchists” because of course they carry cards noting their memberships, rather than those awful amateur anarchists. There are so darn many of them, so many moms and vets. Too many pro-tips for Trump, because when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. But Trump insists on repeating…
'Sort of hilariously unconstitutional': Arrested protesters told they can no longer attend protests
I’ve spent most of the afternoon watching clips of the U.S. attorney general flouting standards of fairness and the rule of law, so this was a real pick-me-up. It seems some detained Portland protesters are being told, as a condition of their release, that they can no longer attend protests in the state of Oregon….
“This is Donald Trump's videogame fantasy world.”
That’s a line from a new VoteVet’s ad that debuted today on Morning Joe. There are a lot of memorable lines in the ad. It reminds people that Trump got 5 deferments to avoid service during Vietnam. It is worth your watching and sharing. You may want to watch it more than once. Just saying…….
Tom Cotton: Portland protesters are 'insurrectionists,' just like Confederate traitors
Tom Cotton, the only member of Congress named after his own brain, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning, and he was fixing to put both feet, both hands, and perhaps Brian Kilmeade’s head in his mouth after bellowing more gormless gibberish to an ungrateful world. You see, Donald Trump is just like Abraham Lincoln, and…
Trump Attacks America, making Portland like Minneapolis and DC
Trump's protection squads may deploy drones in Portland, as he aches for another Minneapolis or DC. Feds control airspace over Portland to minimize news coverage and facilitate drones, as street confrontations continue against a background of DHS attempts to make the suburbs scared of manufactured urban conflict. These actions, like the DC park-clearing photo-op, are a…
The weird are turning pro: people and truth are inconvenient to Trump's staying in power
Billions and billions of odds and dollars are being wasted or stolen because Trump thinks he can BS his way to re-election and set up federal paramilitary forces as ‘protection squads’. x He really believes he can bullshit his way through this. https://t.co/joAVB4g1r3— digby (@digby56) July 18, 2020 x Trump doesn’t care if people die, he…
Using DHS forces like Border Patrol as a 'Protection Squadron' has always been part of the plan.
The expansion of the ranks of the CBP happened in the first months of the Trump administration, because it had some personnel turnover. It had spaces available in the first front lines of that ‘Muslim Ban’ executed at points of US entry. It is one of the areas that allows for operations of a federal…
On the ground update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf understates Portland crisis
Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and grandstanding regarding the ongoing demonstrations in Portland, Oregon. In his memo justifying the deployment of federal marshals that neither the mayor nor the governor requested or wanted, the man supporters call…
