Federal authorities used unmarked minivans to remove Portland protesters from streets: Report

[sneakypete]

I can't afford to "move out".  And I suspect that I am not alone re: that.

@XenaLee

Wrong question. The question you need to ask yourself is "can I afford to stay?"

Just look at what happened to the middle-class homeowners in Detroit for an example. Many ended up just walking away from their homes because they couldn't sell them for any amount of money,and it was just too dangerous to continue living in them. Not to mention expensive,due to the increased taxes to pay for all the property damage and keep the city government afloat.

And after walking away from their homes AND THE ATTACHED MORTGAGES,they no longer have enough credit to buy another home.

[sneakypete]

Unmarked mini-vans?  Oh, the horror!

@Hoodat

I was afraid for a minute there that young studly fools were being kidnapped by soccer moms and turned into sex slaves.

[sneakypete]

You keep proving.... that it doesn't matter what Trump does or doesn't do, says or doesn't say....

you're going to be bashing and trashing him anyway.   My only question is....

are you getting paid for this?

@XenaLee

Of course not!

Chelsea doesn't need the money.

[sneakypete]

Yes, but.... they're not burning the entire cities down.  You know that, right?   They are only targeting symbols of the rule of law and democracy.... targets that they "think" equate to anti-antifa.   And they will NEVER burn down Berkeley.  It's their center of stupid.

@XenaLee

You can bet your bippy they are NOT burning down any houses in the neighborhoods where their parents live. These fools are the offsprung of their rich,radical hippy parents and nobody in the leadership has ever worked a day in their lives.

[sneakypete]

I will not say too much as a response, because I like @XenaLee .
But no. They are targeting anything and everything. A Wendys hamburger stand is not 'against their cause'. A liquor store is not anti-antifa or anti-BLM. They are burning and destroying everything they can regardless of what it is. They don't care.

@240B

I can guarantee you that not a single one in the first or second tier of their leadership lives in,or anywhere near where they are starting the fires.

"Suffering is for the Proletariat!"

[catfish1957]

Unmarked mini-vans?  Oh, the horror!

It might be 40 years old now, but I think we now have a strategic use....

[Hoodat]

It might be 40 years old now, but I think we now have a strategic use....

I seem to recall seeing this somewhere before.

[verga]

@Smokin Joe

And it was all done as an organized effort by the DNC to try to get Trump to overreact and send the troops in to bust heads.

The Dims were planning on using video tapes of soldiers and cops beating and shooting "innocent protesters" to show how incompetent Trump is!"

I know this pisses off the "law and order" types around here,but this is politics,and you win political battles by letting the other guy defeat himself by losing public support for allowing it to happen and doing nothing to prevent it.

Remember maybe the biggest "truism" in politics states that "ALL politics is local".

And slowly but surely,that is beginning to happen.

They keep claiming that he is acting like a dictator, hoping he will act like one and he just keeps on following the Constitution. Driving them right up the wall.

[verga]

@Hoodat

I was afraid for a minute there that young studly fools were being kidnapped by soccer moms and turned into sex slaves.

BULL$HIT! You were hoping that was the case and getting ready to purchase a ticket on the next plane there. You are not fooling any of us Old man.

[sneakypete]

BULL$HIT! You were hoping that was the case and getting ready to purchase a ticket on the next plane there. You are not fooling any of us Old man.

@verga

Well.........

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

And it was all done as an organized effort by the DNC to try to get Trump to overreact and send the troops in to bust heads.

The Dims were planning on using video tapes of soldiers and cops beating and shooting "innocent protesters" to show how incompetent Trump is!"

I know this pisses off the "law and order" types around here,but this is politics,and you win political battles by letting the other guy defeat himself by losing public support for allowing it to happen and doing nothing to prevent it.

Remember maybe the biggest "truism" in politics states that "ALL politics is local".

And slowly but surely,that is beginning to happen.

Yep. And for every angry wish that those in charge of those local jurisdictions had done their jobs, all that need be done is focus that white hot (is "white hot" racist?) beam of anger where it belongs, on the rioters, agitators, looters, arsonists and vandals, and their enablers in local and State government.

What Trump can do without providing the optics which will bring sympathy for the criminals and enablers, is being done. Subtle arrests of protagonists without fanfare for Federal Crimes, using Federal LEOs. When this is over, or at least closer to the election, he can possibly tout the number of arrests in contrast to the impotence of the locals, while saying he respected the autonomy of local and State Government.

[Smokin Joe]

@Hoodat

I was afraid for a minute there that young studly fools were being kidnapped by soccer moms and turned into sex slaves.

Oh my! The 'Cougar Express'! 

(geez, you'd think they'd just buy them a couple of drinks and invite them in...)

[Smokin Joe]

It might be 40 years old now, but I think we now have a strategic use....

Boom! Shaka laka laka, Boom! shaka laka laka....

[catfish1957]

I seem to recall seeing this somewhere before.

That's a Fact Jack!!!!!!