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      “At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” Trump said Saturday in a post on Truth Social. “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”

      I guess because Portland is “War ravaged,” whatever that means and because he says so is as close as we’re getting to reason.

      Speaking of “whatever that means,”

      authorizing Full Force

      At the risk of stating the obvious, we are dealing with an unbelievably stupid person here (but this actually makes him more dangerous)

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        “siege” this fucker; when ICE is calling door dash into their fucking offices I think “siege” is hardly appropriate.

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      In the constructed reality that right wing media has built, Portland is an ongoing warzone.

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        Right wing media proves that the harm caused by chatbots is not unique. It’s just tech companies made the problem way worse.

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        It’s fairly effective in the outskirts of Portland and Gresham. I had someone ask how Portland was a few weeks ago. They were convinced it was experiencing raging riots for the past 90 days. Their source: “news from the East coast”. Not sure what that means, but yeah.

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      they’ve been protesting at the Ice facility there for a while… also there’s lot’s of homeless people to put in concentration camps

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          good ol, still-on-fox, still-on-apple-podcasts, brian kilmeade….
          i feel like it wouldn’t be too hard to get him cancelled on apple podcasts, at least…

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            I feel like watching him hit the floor like Kirk would be very satisfying, and the best part is he is far less relevant. Though I am not advocating murder, I’m more of a maim and ensure they have a long miserable life where they wish for death every waking moment.

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        Yeah it’s kind of wild that there is barely a whisper of the 24/7 protests and on tiktok they have to refer to them as music festivals to avoid being censored.

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      ICE operates out of a building south of downtown and there have been a handful of protestors camping out and protesting in front of the building 24/7 since June. The protestors have been for the most part peaceful, the ICE agents however have been violent, beating protestors, aiming guns at them, shooting them with pepper balls and gas cannisters, and deploying a variety of unknown chemical gasses.

      The grade school next door to the ICE building had to move because of concerns over exposing the kids to those chemicals. The residents of the apartment buildings across the street aren’t so lucky. Portland’s own police department recently testified under oath that ICE has been instigating violence over the protestors.

      There’s a movement to evict ICE from the building. Just the other day, ICE was found to have committed over 20 violations of the agreement they had struck with the city in order to operate from that location this year alone. I wouldn’t be surprised if the escalation from Trump is in response to that.

      Source: I live in Portland and have been following the situation closely.