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Mark Meadows stated that tRump is planning on sending these Federal Storm Troopers to more cities naming only cities run by Democratic mayors.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-meadows-trump-democratic-cities_n_5f14c04fc5b6d14c3368cdda
We've got to be smart about this. Shut down protesting in progressive cities and target cities run by GOP knuckle draggers. Force tRump and his thugs to shut down these violent operations in blue cities and make them send their storm troopers to red cities!
flor-de-jasmim
(2,126 posts)jaxexpat
(6,865 posts)Nor should we plan for that which isn't happening yet.
Stormtroopers should only work in bad weather.
Can't we all just get behind that?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,487 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)our side stays home and lets the "others" do all the damage. Let them arrest their own instigators. I really believe that a lot of the most violent protesters are there just to inflame and cause problems. Let them take the brunt of the storm trooper brigade violence. Protest more productively, by signing up voters to make a chance come November. All this violence is not helping anyone's cause, apart from tRump, who WANTS this.
JHB
(37,163 posts)In Portland he's relying on the Border Patrol tactical team. If he puts them somewhere else then they're not in Portland anymore, and it's not as if it's the size of an army that could make that show of force in multiple locations simultaneously. He could scrape other DHS divisions for more people, but how many would that really be for this sort of job? And how reliable would they be? Not everyone is as kool-aid addicted as the BP.
The military won't be reliable for this -- they already pushed back on him in DC.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)There is no protest central command that can tell the protesters to do anything. Theyre going to do what theyre going to do. The Democratic Party doesnt control the protesters. Antifa doesnt control the protesters. Heck, Antifa is an idea, not an organization. Antifa doesnt control anything. It doesnt even have an office. DU certainly has no control over the protesters.
What do you want us to do?
-Laelth
augyboston
(193 posts)It's called a groundswell appealing to reason and what's best for the movement and those that support it.
There are always leaders of any political actions and while there is no autocratic top down authority there are those within the protests who are respected and looked up to.
BTW, this is not a demand or an order; it's an appeal.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)They had an office. They had an organizational structure.
By contrast, the current protests in the United States are completely grassroots. They are beyond anyones control, for better or for worse.
-Laelth