> **I covered dictatorships for CNN. Portland looks eerily familiar**
> Now, Portland is no longer simply my home — a city of roses, food carts and rain-slicked bike lanes — it is a pilot program for normalizing domestic militarization. Helicopters drone above leafy neighborhoods, and armored vehicles idle near federal buildings as a small group of protesters gather outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Portland has begun to resemble a domestic occupation and the front line of a war the president insists is already underway, even if, for now, only figuratively.
youveruinedtheactgob on
Every non-hive mind in the world knows this is the case. The real question is how to get the coopted horde to accept basic provable reality.
TintedApostle on
Really? LA Times finally notes the truth.
WaIlstreetBots on
It exists only on one particular driveway at the ICE HQ and it amounts to protestors obstructing vehicles and dangling donuts on fishing poles.
ProJoe on
No fucking shit it doesn’t.
the mainstream media should be standing on the streets saying “where’s the battlefield? where’s the insurrection?” on prime time TV every day.
but they won’t. because they’re complicit.
Small-Explorer7025 on
Ya don’t say?
Realistic-Shower-654 on
The fact that this even needs to be said is fucking insanity
CishetmaleLesbian on
You don’t get it, the Portland ‘battlefield’ Trump describes doesn’t actually exist ‘NOW’, but it will in the future. He sent the troops to ~~cause~~ prevent Portland becoming a battlefield, it is a ~~self-fulfilling~~ prophesy! He’s a reincarnation of the ancient psychic prophet – his name is Nostradumass!
Listening_Heads on
The United States media is helping it exist. I expect AI to play a role soon.
Deep_Alps7150 on
They want to pretend 20 or so protestors outside an ICE concentration camp is somehow at all comparable to January 6th where we had video and pictures in real time of those traitors
jono9898 on
He saw an AI video of some shit and thought it was real
Turbulent_Ad5764 on
…yet. But he’s creating it
LuxLocke on
Idk…Kristi Noem just stared down the war zone first hand…
The only part of Portland that is a warzone is all the landmines from the losers that don’t pick up after their dogs.
ocwilly on
It only exists in those tiny MAGA cultists heads!
enlitend-1 on
He, brace yourself, lies.
jdstew218 on
Thanks Captain Obvious
bb_kelly77 on
The one in Detroit does tho, it’s just regular Detroit
Familiar-Risk-5937 on
He is trying SO HARD to make one happen though.
tucosupreme on
Any bored troops reading this: try the sour cherry dumplings at Kachka. And check out the Japanese Garden, it is amazing. Also, get some takeout from Din Tai Fung.
“Hell” is surprisingly chill and delicious!
DbaconEater on
But they will do anything for pictures: Speed, drive reckless, throw smoke grenades, run out in full gear, even if it scares the ducks. A show for social media and “news.”
EDIT: Damn magass, what happened to all of you going ape shit about Jade Helm government take over? But now, perfectly ok.
CEdGreen on
Shocked Pikachu face
prestocoffee on
Anything pedo orange man describes doesn’t actually exist. His mind is gone.
paxwells97 on
I saw a video I believe was taken last couple days, and there was maybe less than 100 people at the ice facility and nobody was acting violently
m0j0r0lla on
The same guy that said Haitians were eating your cat…no way!
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God forbid a Trump makes any factually correct statement.
Another nice article from La Porte was this:
* https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/i-covered-dictatorships-for-cnn-portland-looks-eerily-familiar/
> **I covered dictatorships for CNN. Portland looks eerily familiar**
> Now, Portland is no longer simply my home — a city of roses, food carts and rain-slicked bike lanes — it is a pilot program for normalizing domestic militarization. Helicopters drone above leafy neighborhoods, and armored vehicles idle near federal buildings as a small group of protesters gather outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Portland has begun to resemble a domestic occupation and the front line of a war the president insists is already underway, even if, for now, only figuratively.
Every non-hive mind in the world knows this is the case. The real question is how to get the coopted horde to accept basic provable reality.
Really? LA Times finally notes the truth.
It exists only on one particular driveway at the ICE HQ and it amounts to protestors obstructing vehicles and dangling donuts on fishing poles.
No fucking shit it doesn’t.
the mainstream media should be standing on the streets saying “where’s the battlefield? where’s the insurrection?” on prime time TV every day.
but they won’t. because they’re complicit.
Ya don’t say?
The fact that this even needs to be said is fucking insanity
You don’t get it, the Portland ‘battlefield’ Trump describes doesn’t actually exist ‘NOW’, but it will in the future. He sent the troops to ~~cause~~ prevent Portland becoming a battlefield, it is a ~~self-fulfilling~~ prophesy! He’s a reincarnation of the ancient psychic prophet – his name is Nostradumass!
The United States media is helping it exist. I expect AI to play a role soon.
They want to pretend 20 or so protestors outside an ICE concentration camp is somehow at all comparable to January 6th where we had video and pictures in real time of those traitors
He saw an AI video of some shit and thought it was real
…yet. But he’s creating it
Idk…Kristi Noem just stared down the war zone first hand…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/s/M7BCTbJrGS
The only part of Portland that is a warzone is all the landmines from the losers that don’t pick up after their dogs.
It only exists in those tiny MAGA cultists heads!
He, brace yourself, lies.
Thanks Captain Obvious
The one in Detroit does tho, it’s just regular Detroit
He is trying SO HARD to make one happen though.
Any bored troops reading this: try the sour cherry dumplings at Kachka. And check out the Japanese Garden, it is amazing. Also, get some takeout from Din Tai Fung.
“Hell” is surprisingly chill and delicious!
But they will do anything for pictures: Speed, drive reckless, throw smoke grenades, run out in full gear, even if it scares the ducks. A show for social media and “news.”
EDIT: Damn magass, what happened to all of you going ape shit about Jade Helm government take over? But now, perfectly ok.
Shocked Pikachu face
Anything pedo orange man describes doesn’t actually exist. His mind is gone.
I saw a video I believe was taken last couple days, and there was maybe less than 100 people at the ice facility and nobody was acting violently
The same guy that said Haitians were eating your cat…no way!
/s