Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why the FBI and CIA intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most […]
I know it's Grayzone which has been cringe recently but this is Parenti's son and it's a very good read so.
In Portland if there was escalation, it was by the PPB, they were coordinating with SPD to fuck people up from day 1. You don't need the feds for that shit. Cops are dumb enough to do it on their own.
DHS was in Portland egging them on. There are tweets from Chad Wolf in Portland saying how they were going to restore law and order by any means necessary. I know you all hate the PPB, and I'm sure it is well-deserved, but DHS was in Portland ready to murder people and, from what I remember, it was Wheeler and the PPB pushing back against armed DHS agents coming in. I'm sure part of that was a pissing contest between agencies, but it was DHS that was really trying to escalate against the protestors.
In Portland if there was escalation, it was by the PPB, they were coordinating with SPD to fuck people up from day 1. You don't need the feds for that shit. Cops are dumb enough to do it on their own.
DHS was in Portland egging them on. There are tweets from Chad Wolf in Portland saying how they were going to restore law and order by any means necessary. I know you all hate the PPB, and I'm sure it is well-deserved, but DHS was in Portland ready to murder people and, from what I remember, it was Wheeler and the PPB pushing back against armed DHS agents coming in. I'm sure part of that was a pissing contest between agencies, but it was DHS that was really trying to escalate against the protestors.
Yeah, shit escalated after DHS came in, but it was not them those first few nights.
Besides, PPB has been ramping up since like 2016, beating up Sierra Club types un-provoked.
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