Portland

[togor]

So the protests are becoming less about police brutality or systemic racism now, and more about Trump's secret police. Leave it to Trump, the Great Unifier, to bring opposing factions together!

But seriously, what is his exit strategy from Portland when public opinion sees him as the instigator? Declare victory and leave, I suppose, as he did in Syria and Afghanistan. Another way incompetence shows itself, in a poorly defined mission.

[rayg]

So the protests are becoming less about police brutality or systemic racism now, and more about Trump's secret police. Leave it to Trump, the Great Unifier, to bring opposing factions together!

But seriously, what is his exit strategy from Portland when public opinion sees him as the instigator? Declare victory and leave, I suppose, as he did in Syria and Afghanistan. Another way incompetence shows itself, in a poorly defined mission.

Poor you!..so obsessed with Trump ..Lol

[dryheat]

Go big or go home.

[togor]

Go big or go home.

Worked like a charm in Iraq, Vietnam, etc.

Sending state secret police into a quagmire, where they face an increasingly hostile local population (eg. "wall of moms"), with no exit strategy, and no good way to gain the initiative, no clear sense of a legitimate law enforcement mission, is incompetent. Trump is seen as the instigator now.

[rayg]

Worked like a charm in Iraq, Vietnam, etc.

Trump is seen as the instigator now.

How so, by protecting government property...

[shadycon]

All law enforcement in Portland need to take a day/week off and see what's left. Maybe then people will wake up!

[Major Tom]

I agree! Let the mob of protesters go wild and burn/loot everything in sight. Police should stay away or call in sick. When Portland is nothing but ashes and Portland asks for Federal ais to repair damage, then the response should be "Too bad".

[togor]

How so, by protecting government property...

By pulling people off the street by unidentified agencies. We only know about the ones they let go. Who knows how many they made disappear, young people who may not have someone keeping tabs on them. They're also trying to expand their perimeter now, making forays away from Federal buildings. BCP claims the freedom to operate within 100 miles of any shore. Any they're experts at evading judicial oversight.

[oscars]

This is nothing more than Trump's culture war to change the subject from his miserable abandonment of the American people in the face of his incompetence dealing with Covid 19.

[clintonhater]

Who knows how many they made disappear, young people who may not have someone keeping tabs on them.

Release them to carry on rioting? Let's hope their disappearance is PERMANENT.

[rayg]

This is nothing more than Trump's culture war to change the subject from his miserable abandonment of the American people in the face of his incompetence dealing with Covid 19.

Oscars AKA Togo joins in with his old Covid 19.crap again,,Lol

[oscars]

Hey fool, what's your answer to Trump's performance (or lack of) or leadership (or lack of) during Covid 19. Hey, I know inject bleach, take an unproven drug that causes cardiac arrhythmia or shine a light up your butt. Culture wars or chintzy memes don't count not does bragging about a cognitive test used to screen for dementia.

[rayg]

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Oscar ays...Hey fool, what's your answer to Trump's performance (or lack of) or leadership (or lack of) during Covid 19.

My, my, calling me a "FOOL" is not nice, and almost sounds like you are losing it! Now take a deep breath and hold it.....and you'll feel better after an hour..Lol..

[clintonhater]

Hey fool, what's your answer to Trump's performance (or lack of) or leadership (or lack of) during Covid 19.

What would have been YOUR answer? When he banned travel from China, Dems called him an hysterical racist. When he suggested a quarantine where it all started, NYC, like China did in Wuhan, Dems called him a would-be dictator. (Rich coming from a TRUE dictator, that SOB Cuomo!) What could HE, or anybody else, have done to overcome the shortage of masks & test kits, except order production into high gear, which he did? So please specify what you'd have done differently.

[Sandpebble]

What would have been YOUR answer? When he banned travel from China, Dems called him an hysterical racist. When he suggested a quarantine where it all started, NYC, like China did in Wuhan, Dems called him a would-be dictator. (Rich coming from a TRUE dictator, that SOB Cuomo!) What could HE, or anybody else, have done to overcome the shortage of masks & test kits, except order production into high gear, which he did? So please specify what you'd have done differently.

Well you are asking what Oscar would do but I'll jump in here.... I wouldn't have closed the Pandemic Office run by our government and then blame Obama for leaving nothing behind .....

I might not have underfunded the early warning system for pandemics by 75% .... again blaming Obama for leaving nothing behind .... blamed Obama three years after the fact mind you .

of course we all cheered cutting costs and eliminating regulations ... draining the swamp and all that...