Miguel has written a out how Ghandi could only win against the British. It was because he knew how the British were and could beat them weaponizing their own civility against them. Had Ghandi tried his tactics against the Nazis, he would have been shot in a day.
The Protesters in Portland are winning because they know us and the rules we live by.
If you missed the news, a naked woman joined the protest, doing naked yoga in front of the police.
That led to Tweets like this:
https://twitter.com/DonovanFarley/status/1284410621283328000
“Ha ha ha, big scary cops run into little boys when they see a naked woman.”
Or:
https://twitter.com/RaindropWorkPDX/status/1284412343875559424
“We can defeat Nazi cops with the power of feminist vagina.”
I can tell you exactly, 100%, what was going through each and every officer’s mind.
“If I touch that woman in any way, if I even look too hard, I’m going to be accuse of rape or sexual assault or some other sex crime and I’m going to be ruined for life.”
This woman absolutely knew that her nakedness made her invincible because it weaponized our own civility against us.
Our law enforcement cannot shoot to kill protesters.
We cannot employ the overwhelming, crushing force we need because we are beholden to our standards which they flaunt.
Next, and mark my words it will happen, the next Wall of Moms will be wearing babies in carriers on their chests knowing cops won’t pepper spray a three-month-old in a Babybjorn.
The only way to beat them at their own game is not to play.
Surrender Portland.
Let Antifa take it over completely.
When the Antifa death squad start killing civilians, they are just depleting Oregon’s Democratic voting base
Stop using twitter, it is a microcosm of idiots and assholes that do not represent the public at large, turn it off, twitter is not reality.
They had obviously-pregnant women out there last night, so baby carriers are not far off.
Sounds like criminal child endangerment to me… Why would you bring a baby to a riot?
Because it’s not a riot; it’s a “peaceful protest”! Children should be welcome to come and see what democracy looks like!
*headdesk*
Slightly off-topic, but it’s fascinating (in a divorced-from-the-situation, academic sort of way) to see how the language is being perverted to serve the needs of the Leftists.
“Antifa”: Short for “Anti-fascist”. They use classically fascist tactics, but that doesn’t matter. What matters is…
“Fascist”: Anyone who Antifa opposes. If Antifa is using those tactics against you, then by definition YOU are the fascist.
“Peaceful protest”: This is a threat. We see violence, looting, burning, assaults against police and bystanders, destruction of property, etc. But it’s a “peaceful protest”.
The threat is, “This is a peaceful protest, not a riot. Give us what we want and you won’t have to see what a riot looks like.”
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
They WANT the feds to retreat. How about instead, the President declare Washington and Oregon to be under insurrection and cut off all Federal money? Including welfare, social security, and all other payments.
Because the Democrats will immediately get a Hawaiian judge to issue a restraining order against such an action.
Maybe the Post Office, too? I would argue that Hawaii is not the proper venue. Sorry, you lack standing, just like the Citizens who sued to have Obama release his birth certificate.
Divemedic: They’re being tongue-in-cheek; Hawai’ian judges tend to be notoriously partisan.
That said, it wouldn’t be hard to find a federal judge in WA or OR that will issue a stay, forcing the fed.gov to keep paying moneys to support states that allow and encourage rioting and punish law-abiding citizens and journalists (see: Michael Strickland, from Portland).
On welfare, I’d agree. On Soc. Sec. and/or disability payments, I’d say Hell No.
Old folks on SSD and SSI aren’t the ones rioting and looting.
I don’t have a problem with peaceful protests, and there are quite a few actual peaceful protesters who show up, demonstrate, don’t cause trouble, and go home right after dark. They’re usually gone by about 9:30 or 10 pm or so.
The problem is everyone else who stays just to break s@#$ and clash with police.
When it’s all over, however it goes, Portland will request federal grants to help pay for rebuilding. Trump absolutely decline/deny those, just like he did with Minneapolis.
They had a duty to the city and community to stop the riots and prevent the damage. They chose to let it burn. They can pay for the damages.
The people who live there still voted for the people who are demanding that the Feds leave. It isn’t about the peaceful versus nonpeaceful ones. Everyone who is a part of that group is just as guilty as the others. They are using this “peaceful protest” thing as a ruse so that we leave their REMFs alone.
Do you think the Allies said “Better not bomb the Division HQ because they are peaceful. It’s the frontline infantry we have a problem with?”
We are fast approaching CW2. This is going to get ugly. If telling some people that their SSI or SSD isn’t getting paid for as long as they live in that area heads that off, I don’t care.
I think you meant flout, not flaunt.
YMMV….
Tonight’s entertainment will be a “dad wall” like last night’s “mom wall.” they’re being asked to bring leafblowers (for teargas dispersal) and hard hars.
A reminder what happens to women when they face people who do not have the same western sensibilities
https://youtu.be/yH3_dJArFV8
BLM, Antifa, etc. may be the face of our enemy and their shocktroops, but their influence is being enabled by the media. The media give cover to the leftist pols and their paymasters. We will not defeat the willful idiots without forcing the media to tell the WHOLE truth in their stories. As long as the media control the narrative we will not prevail.
Typical leftist.
Does not know the difference between being shocking and being clever.
Before the feds leave, make the mayor and the city council sign an agreement that they personally and professionally agree to reimburse the city for any damage to federal buildings and real estate from rioters, arsonists, vandals and graffiti artists.
If the feds are the problem, then it should disappear as soon as they leave.
Or that all federal monies that would have gone to help the city function will be reapportioned to repairs on federal property until the damage is completely fixed.
The continued rioting will ensure that there are always repairs to be done. Or, because the feds are the problem (*rolls eyes*), the rioting will cease, and there will be no issues.
Funny thing about the feds though: I don’t recall them being a problem during the last presidential administration. Their duties haven’t changed since then, nor have their numbers or locations.
Maybe the problem isn’t the feds. Maybe the problem isn’t that the rioters don’t like the feds. Maybe the problem is the rioters just don’t like the man currently sitting in the White House — they didn’t seem to have a problem with the last one — but they can’t get him, so they get whoever they can who is linked to him, however tenuous that link.
“Our law enforcement cannot shoot to kill protesters”
There not protestors. There Communists and shit sacks destroying a city.
What these cities need is a Magnum Force.
What I said above: They are not protesters by any objective definition. When they call their activities a “peaceful protest”, that is a threat:
“This is not a riot. Give us what we want and you won’t have to see what a riot looks like.”
They’re promising worse if they don’t get their way. They are not “protesters”. At best they are rioters, at worst domestic terrorists (literally: “persons who use unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”).