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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:04 PM Jun 2020

Trump threatens to 'take back' Seattle as protesters set up 'autonomous zone'

Washington Post
By
Tim Elfrink and
Marisa Iati
June 11, 2020 at 11:29 a.m. MST

Full Headline: ‘This is not a game’: Trump threatens to ‘take back’ Seattle as protesters set up ‘autonomous zone’

After days of clashes with protesters outside the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, authorities backed down on Monday, removing barricades and boarding up the building. Since then, protesters have moved in, proclaiming the area the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” where the police are forbidden, food is free and documentaries are screened at night.

To some protesters, it’s a first step toward their demands to defund the police and end racial injustice.

But President Trump suggested another term for the demonstrators late Wednesday: “Domestic Terrorists.” Trump blasted Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Twitter, threatening federal action if local leaders don’t “take back” the city.

“Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before,” Trump tweeted. “Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped [sic] IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!”


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/11/trump-seattle-autonomous-zone-inslee/

Idiotic blowhard!

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Trump threatens to 'take back' Seattle as protesters set up 'autonomous zone' (Original Post) Mike 03 Jun 2020 OP
Oh hell! Is this the Onion? rainy Jun 2020 #1
Trump is having a tyranttantrum I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2020 #2
Basically then... Newest Reality Jun 2020 #3
Molon labe, baby gratuitous Jun 2020 #4
I want the Hippie Patrol to move in. Laelth Jun 2020 #5
yeah, whatever dude.... dhill926 Jun 2020 #6
Trump would know all about stooping. Solly Mack Jun 2020 #7
Here's the link to CHAZ's website uppityperson Jun 2020 #8
Great list of demands. jmg257 Jun 2020 #11
I'm sorry, but someone else had to have written that tweet. Trump doesn't know what BComplex Jun 2020 #9
Howler monkey flings shit. Blah Blah Blah. Stooped. SammyWinstonJack Jun 2020 #10

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
3. Basically then...
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:14 PM
Jun 2020

Trump's IRON FIST will crush them mercilessly and his BIG JACKBOOT will stomp on their faces forever! Domination at all costs!

Nice going Big Bother. You sound so very frightened, General Dictator. Protesters are not anarchists unless you feel that your back is to the wall and anarchy means to you that this is the end of your regime, Captain Furor.

Power to the people!!!!!!!!!!




This is not a game, that ugly Fascist must be stopped!!!!

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
5. I want the Hippie Patrol to move in.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:15 PM
Jun 2020

Everybody would be chilled. The situation would be de-escalated, people would smoke a few bowls, their grievances would be aired (in front of a sympathetic audience and not a bunch of Nazis in riot gear), peace would reign, and there might even be some love, understanding, and progress.

That’s what “defund the police” is about. Put the money into programs that actually SOLVE problems as opposed to escalating them.

-Laelth

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
7. Trump would know all about stooping.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:28 PM
Jun 2020

He stoops lower and lower each day.

Even his misspellings give him away.

BComplex

(7,977 posts)
9. I'm sorry, but someone else had to have written that tweet. Trump doesn't know what
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:35 PM
Jun 2020

"taunted" means, he wouldn't know how to spell anarchists, and doesn't speak in sentences with that many words, unless it's about him.

“Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before,” Trump tweeted. “Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped [sic] IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!”

Someone else (Steve Miller?) wrote that tweet. Just because they misspelled stopped (stooped), there's never been a republican who could spell, anyway.

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