Jeez I go offline for a few hours and all hell breaks loose.

President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of US troops to Portland, Oregon, authorising use of “full force” if needed, to suppress protests targeting immigration detention centres.

But we’re allowed to protest. It’s called a right.

Trump said he was “directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland”.

Mushbrain draft-dodger pretends protesters are great big scary sojers and he alone can stop them.

And Hegseth is Secretary of Defense. His job is not to help Trump unleash the military on protesters.

The announcement drew pushback from Democratic lawmakers, who said there was no need for federal troops to be deployed to the city.

O reason not the need – our basest beggars are in the poorest things superfluous. Trump needs to deploy federal troops to a city full of lefties because he’s a flabby lazy makeup-slathered couch potato who wants to feel all steely-man-like.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland has been targeted by protesters since early June, sometimes leading to violent clashes.

As of 8 September, the US Attorney’s Office had brought federal charges against 26 people for crimes including arson, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that demonstrators had “repeatedly attacked and laid siege to an ICE processing centre” in Portland.

In a post on the social media platform X, the department stated that several individuals had been arrested and charged with federal offences. “Rose City Antifa, a recently designated domestic terrorist organization, illegally doxed ICE officers. They published their home address online and on public flyers. Individuals associated with Antifa also sent death threats to DHS personnel,” DHS wrote on X.

Yes well that’s no good, but it’s still not an actual war.

Earlier this week, Trump signed an order formally designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation. Antifa, short for “anti-fascist”, is a loosely organised movement of primarily far-left activists.

Legal experts have pointed out that there is no legal mechanism in the US that would formally establish any group as a domestic terror organisation. Such efforts, they said, could face constitutional challenges under the First Amendment, which protects free speech and assembly.

Yes but Trump doesn’t care and he’ll just do whatever he wants.