It’s actually quite mainstream in the Democratic Party and “echo chambers” are part of why that is. Many people cannot comprehend why someone would disagree except by explaining it as fascism, racism, or some other ism or phobia that they consider unforgivable.
Here’s what the front runner for Virginia Attorney General plainly stated. Ghoulish.
Dude is proud of what he said about the kids?
In the olden days politicians dropped out of races at the first hint of a scandal. Once the skeletons came out of the closet, or you said something that upset people you had to quit to “avoid distractions” to the election process.
Did President Trump set a new precedent by always refusing to to be pushed out of campaigns after controversy and outcry?
Anything goes now?
I wouldn’t call it a “new precedent” by far. There have been an awful lot of scandals over the centuries, but the Virginia AG’s statements are pretty out-there, even compared to whatever the worst thing you think Trump got caught doing was.
Its more of a game of deception and rigging for the Democrats at this point. It really is. How many people can they fool?
He apologized after he was caught and exposed, but he isn’t withdrawing and I don’t think any of VA prominent Dems have withdrawn their support. His only mistake was being caught. He’s exactly the kind of guy Democrats want as a state’s top law enforcement official.
I do. Well, it depends on how we define political violence. Fighting tyranny? Killing those who use the power of the state to suppress your God given rights? Yes. That’s how we got this country.
The problem is we have people living in lala land who think they’re doing that. They think that Trump is a tyrant and they’re fighting facism.
I thought it was pretty bad until I saw the guy. I realized his comments were justifiable after seeing that it’s possible some of his ancestors were enslaved in the U.S. instead of being allowed to remain enslaved in the African Paradise.
Imagine the possibilities if Trump wanted to troll Baby Jesus:
“this poor man sits down every night to nothing but contempt…” 
Obama’s legacy will grow worse and worse as time goes on, historians peel away propaganda, and write future history books about this truly crazy time. That dude set race relations back decades, and now we’re here. Where is “here”? Obama himself explains in this clip, where he speaks very authoritatively about the tactics that have been used on Americans since he left office.
Speaking of historians, Victor Davis Hanson isn’t being hyperbolic here at all. He doesn’t tend to be hyperbolic. He tends to be quite clear.
I think it’s weird how people believe there’s riots in Portland, that things are burning down, that it’s a warzone. Or, that there’s a “violent armed resistance” that’s “violently attacking ICE agents”.
There’s a lot of video evidence now of the situation in Portland. There’s a lot of taunting and mocking, there’s at least one incident of spitting on an officer (which was dealt with swiftly), there’s at least one incident of hitting back when pushed (again, dealt with swiftly), and a few idiots who kicked the teargas/smoke canisters back. Some pushing, some punches here and there, some arrests, sure.
What there isn’t is… weapons. Unarmed protestors. There’s no arson, no murders, rapes, stabbings or gunshots. Not even looting.
But those things did happen across the country, in lots of places this weekend. Nobody’s calling those “insurrectionists” or an “armed rebellion”. Why is the unarmed annoying protesting around Portland’s ICE facility getting called that?
Additionally, if ICE is actually the highest funded law enforcement agency in the country, why are there claims that they are unable to handle it?
I’m comparing footage in Maine to footage in Portland, OR. Maine hasn’t had anything like what I’ve seen with my own eyes out of Portland over the last few years, including the last few days, and all of our Targets remain operational and weren’t lit on fire, like in Minneapolis.
We did have a poop house that probably had sex parties too, but The Church of Safe Injection was condemned by code enforcement a couple weeks ago. At least 300k in public funding hosted that party house, which I posted pictures of above.
I think it definitely is bordering on insurrection when you have governors and mayors who demand federal funds but actively obstruct border security operations. Calling up the guard frees up the ICE agents to do ERO work instead of guarding the federal property, which obviously needs to be guarded right now.
There is a demonstration planned at the Saco ICE facility soon, but I’m guessing it will mostly be boomers like most other demonstrations in Maine.
I’m not seeing the obvious need here.
Neither does Portland Police, the mayor, the governor, or the federal judge.
But if ICE does see that there’s that need, why can’t they shift their enormous resources to do that? To claim that they’re understaffed and under-resourced while simultaneously also claiming and demonstrating that they’re not… I interpret that as mismanagement. 6 hours of helicopter fuel can pay for 6 hours of a few extra personnel.
Of course they don’t see the need. They are part of the neoconfederacy.
The need for ERO operations is plainly evident to me here in Lewiston.
What are you seeing that I’m not?
As far as need for ERO operation, you could start with what I’ve documented in this thread. There’s the migrant gang war that’s erupted in our streets, resulting in regular public exchanges of gunfire and a 1,750 percent increase in shooting incidents. There’s the two dead pedestrians who were struck by illegal migrants in the span of one week, both of whom had been illegally issued drivers licenses by our secretary of state. There’s our system of elections that enables anyone to register and cast a vote in it. There’s our abysmally failing public schools and all of the related staff retention issues who are overwhelmed and placed in dangerous situations at work. There’s our massive tax increases that do, indeed, pay for unprecedented amounts of benefits that are specifically directed towards migrants both legal and illegal. There’s the Lewiston school committee member who was appointed when credible accusations of Al Shabab membership were known to the city. There’s the guy downtown running a nonprofit receiving tens of millions in public money who also funded a private militia in his bid for the presidency of Jubaland, Somalia. There’s the mass shooting donations that were dishonestly distributed to unrelated immigrant and prisoner nonprofits. I could go on and on…
As far as what I’m seeing differently with regards to “protests”, no footage like this exists from any events in Maine, which all tend to look like @otay ‘s picture around here. No journalists have been beaten in Maine that I’m aware of, either. Nothing like Portland’s BLM riots took place here in 2020.
Like I said earlier, it sounds like Lewiston needs support more than we do.
As for the video, it shows an altercation where the Portland Police responded within 30 seconds of the incident and arrests were made.
Earlier that night, that same “journalist” is on video shoving a woman during a verbal altercation.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to suggest. Was there anything in that worse than you’ve seen in your time as a bouncer?
But I do suggest you look for all the weapons in that picture, and look at all the unbroken windows and empty streets behind the scene.
The same night, Mark Sanchez was stabbed in Indianapolis, far more violent of a crime. Why isn’t the guard being sent there?
Earlier that day, federal police ended up giving some elderly woman a concussion in Portland.
Nobody was interfering with federal agents at the bar. Signs and chanting is one thing, actively obstructing is another. History matters, too, and there has been no shortage of political violence out of Rise City Antifa over the years.
After years and years of FA, they are now in the FO part since the revolution was rejected last year. I’m guessing that’s why some of the organizers in Portland have bravely fled the country.
Sure, but there’s no federal agents in that video either.
Where there have been federal agents, those end up in an arrest. Obstruct their ability to clear the street to get a vehicle in or out of the facility, you get arrested. But I’m also unaware of a situation where the federal officers have been unable to handle it.
As far as Rose City Antifa is concerned, you’ve mentioned it multiple times, but I don’t know how that’s relevant. Are there terrorist activities that you’re hearing about that are happening in Portland?
Is there any evidence of rioting? Weapon violence? Sexual violence? Looting?
As far as actual things that have happened, there was the shooting in Dallas. Why is nobody calling in troops there? Clearly that needed to be better protected. There are well documented extremist groups in Dallas.
I can’t speak to the “why”, other than the why of Rose City Antifa’s well-documented rhetoric and acts of violence over the years, especially in 2020, along with being a spiritual center for the ongoing socialist revolution we’ve all experienced to varying degrees. The symbolic nature of Rose City Antifa is of real national significance, and I’m sorry it’s all going down where you call home.
It’s not that the federal officers are unable to handle your local lunatics, it’s that handling the local lunatics prevents them from carrying out their lawful mission of enforcement and removal operations. Calling in the guard frees them up to do this.
To go back to the bar analogy, I can’t check anyone’s ID’s if I’m involved in a 12 person brawl at the pool table. I’m just a guy, after all.
It isn’t a secret that one of Antifa’s objectives with disrupting and protesting ICE while making all manner of actual threats online is to subtract resources from ERO efforts. They’re pretty clear on it.
I reluctantly purchased a copy of the Anti-Fascist handbook and it should arrive this week. The Minnesota Attorney General recommended it, so I decided to pick up a copy, despite my distaste for giving the author any of my money.
I don’t see this getting any better until states fall in line with the federal government, just like the last Democrat confederacy in the 1860’s. I’m not a betting man, but right now it looks like invoking the insurrection act might be a real possibility when I listen to the rhetoric and observe the actions of the neoconfederate political leaders both in Maine and elsewhere.
We’ll see if Maine’s ICE protest has anyone who isn’t eligible for social security when it happens, but I don’t predict it.
I don’t see that though. That’s why the Federal Protective Service is doing it, so that ICE is free to do their job. As far as I understand, ICE doesn’t have any jurisdiction for handling the protestors unless they cross the clearly marked property line on the driveway. Everything in the street is handled by FPS.
Are you suggesting that FPS is unable to handle the street, or the local FBI agents are unable to chase down the domestic terrorists in their own city, the ones that are standing in front of a federally-rented building?
I know for a fact that ICE and all federal resources are stretched thin in Maine with a great deal of stress among the staff, along with concerns for personal and family safety.
They are real concerns from real people, and we have politicians in Lewiston who want the same guys who selflessly participated in the hunt for Robert Card when he was armed with a battle rifle to get no cooperation from local officials and demand that they don’t wear masks during ERO duties.
Broadly speaking, the USA doesn’t seem to have any patience left for the left, and that is entirely the left’s fault.
