Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary”, ignoring pleas from local officials and the state’s congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.

Trump made the announcement on social media, using references to antifascists and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). He claimed that the deployment was necessary “to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our (immigration and customs enforcement) Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists”.

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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, we ARE war ravaged here, and the place is total hell. I mean, I had to wait 15 in line at the ice cream shop, that's inhuman.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I’m watching the press conference right now and it just looks horrid! People driving by in their fancy boats and riding bicycles along the waterfront. I mean people are so scared they are walking with their dogs! The horrors.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    He's going to run out of troops. What an idiot. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, I suppose.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doing stupid shit like this is a good way to continue to lose support.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No one asks how we will pay for this like they do when we need to help people.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Every person along the chain of command here is in violation of their oath, and openly committing an act of treason. Anyone who has taken an oath to defend the country from threats, “foreign and domestic,” is now required by their oath to put these invaders down.

    Any military force invading US territory, regardless of if they are themselves US soldiers, is now a legitimate target and civilians have every right to self-defense against them.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    To go beat up hipsters with pet pigs who run the local tattoo parlor? Have these idiots ever stepped foot in Portland?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    No, they haven't. They probably believe the lies they spread that Portland and Seattle are burned-out war zones.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    All the places that are far more densely populated and have a far higher gdp per capita. The small bits on the map that turn blue that they don't like.

    It's against their new cults teachings to understand basic facts and so can't understand those blue dots are 90% of the countries econony

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Same reason they look at the red/blue maps by county, see all that red and it validates the belief that the entire country is with them and the elections are being stolen. Can't fathom the fact most of that red is completely empty.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He wants to start a civil war. It would provide him with the reason he needs to further destabilize America and, eventually, become a full blown dictator.

    The best thing the people of Portland can do is nothing. Let the troops stand in the roads for a while. Don’t even protest.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any reason why or? Just whatever now?

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  • Imagine being a high-school kid. You got talked into enlisting, sold on the dream of bravely serving your country, traveling the world, fighting terrorism, defending democracy wherever it is endangered... all the stuff they say to sell it. And then you get deployed to... Portland.

    Imagine being a veteran in 20 years. "Where did you serve?" "Memphis."

    If this weren't a violation of American norms, an abuse of power, an attempt to silence cities and states that push back on the Trump regime, and the precursor to the coming attempt to fully dismantle our democracy as we know it, it would actually be kind of funny.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What a wild headline for someone from 2012 to read, for so many reasons

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Looks like all that money saved is going to be spent on security theatre. Sad display for pathetic people.

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