Oakland is a tell
Trump says hell yes he’s going to keep sending the feds in to trample on protesters’ rights.
Speaking in the Oval Office, the president brushed aside claims the officers are depriving people of their constitutional rights, and concerns such deployments could herald an attempt by Trump to rule without Congress.
Because he recognizes no legitimate limit on his power to do what he wants, because that’s who he is. It always has been.
In Portland, local media has stressed that the protests are not paralysing the city and are confined to a small area, and that much of life continues as normally as possible under the coronavirus pandemic.
Never you mind; it’s a pretext for Trump to bash heads and by god he’s going to bash heads.
On Monday, it was reported that agents were set to be sent to cities including Chicago. In the Oval Office, the president complained about cities including Chicago and his native New York.
“The police are afraid to do anything,” he said, though Portland police have reported some federal agents acting “under their own supervision and direction”, many while dressed in camouflage fatigues that make them look like regular troops.
Trump continued: “We’re not going to let New York and Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and all of these, Oakland in California is a mess, we’re not going to let this happen in our country. All run by liberal Democrats.”
Oakland. Huh. Not San Francisco, but Oakland. Why’s that?
Because like all the others he listed, it has a large black population. They’re all Great Migration destination cities, and Trump of course wants to kick the shit out of them for that reason.
“Nobody will have done what I’m doing in the next four weeks,” Trump told Fox News Sunday.
I think our verb tenses need a little work.
Describing actions against protesters which observers and officials have described as blatantly unconstitutional, Trump said: “No problem. They grab them, a lot of people in jail.
“These are leaders. These people are anarchists, they’re not protesters … These are people that hate our country and we’re not going to let it go forward.”
Yeah see that’s not how that works. He doesn’t get to just announce that they’re all “anarchists” (does anyone think he has the faintest idea what the word means?) and he’s going to send the feds to throw them all in jail.
Questions to which the answer is No: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#:~:text=Betteridge's%20law%20of%20headlines%20is,the%20principle%20is%20much%20older.)
:-D
why play into his [tiny] hads?
protesting in the streets is visible, and nominally “a constitutional right” but when your opponent so obviously owns the media isn’t it time to change the rules?
Go out in daylight, in normal clothes, drop off pamphlets door to door everywhere that drumpf’s goonsquads are not patrolling. Maybe get the k-poppers involved to drop some chaff on social media?
Everyone who opposes the current regime but lives in a targeted area should lay low outside of daylight hours – don’t supply easy targets.
The form civil disobedience has to take with this particular tyrant needs to change to counter this tyrant’s strategy.
Cede them ground at night around their precious statues and federal buildings, but find ways to gain ground peacefully by day, in places they aren’t expecting – mail boxes, coffee shops, shopping malls . . .