DHS is slated to send about 150 Homeland Security Investigations agents to Chicago to help local law enforcement deal with a spike in crime, according to an official with direct knowledge of the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. "Help", my ass. Federal secret police, hereinafter "the Trumpstapo", are not welcome in the cities that Trump is ordering them to go to.
This is a desperate move by Trump to provoke violent civil unrest, so see if he can get his Reichstag moment. The proof is that that the Trumpstapo's operations in Portland is causing more demonstrations. The Trumpstapo has been energizing the demonstrators, giving them something else to demonstrate about.
The Trumpstapo deployment is a naked attempt to reverse Trump's sagging poll numbers. He is incapable of doing anything to help people, it is not in his nature. Trump is bored by the pandemic. Fighting an infectious disease takes dedication and diligence, things that Trump lacks in spades.
But sparking unrest in the streets, unrest that would play out on television? Unrest that would air 24/7 on Fox? Trump will revel in that. The Trumpstapo has already shown all of the restraint of Alabama State Troopers during the civil rights protests. Trump is using his Trumpstapo to create disorder, to give him something to campaign on, to give him an issue to try and raise up his currently-failing campaign.
The Trumpstapo can't go out and club down the coronavirus or the people caring for COVID patents. So Trump will just have to try and gin up a crisis to motivate his fearful base that "the darkies are coming for your wimmin". The white supremacists have been yammering for decades about a racial holy war. It would seem that Trump has been listening to them.
Here comes the Trumpstapo!
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Well... they've pissed off the women.
Ten Bears, they've certainly pissed off this one. NSFW. https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2020/07/naked-athena-the-story-behind-the-surreal-photos-of-portland-protester.html
His numbers are collapsing in the suburbs and this is a naked attempt to scare them into voting for him.
It's one of the oldest tricks in the Republican book.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Elsewhere it has been suggested this is a "border war". Though out on the Oregon High Desert nonetheless with boots on the ground I disagree. It's a War on Oregon. A War on the West Coast.
Oregon is perceived by most people as the “weakest” of the Pacific Coast states, hence the attention. Drumpf uck has already suggested California’s votes be disenfranchised, citing their experiment in vote by mail. No doubt Washington’s vote is suspect, as well Oregon’s decade’s long system of vote by mail.
There is nothing east of The Rockies we need.
Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
In the late 1700’s an inept leader sent his government’s soldiers to quash protesters in Boston, sparking what eventually became the the Revolutionary War.
In the early 2000’s, another inept leader has sent his government’s para-military lawmen to quash protesters in Portland, perhaps beginning a new revolution?
Oh, who am I kidding. Our president passed a test. He knows more than the generals. He is a stable genius. He knows what he is doing.
Believvvveee him.
Dale
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