The Rude Pundit: Portland Becomes the Testing Ground for the Next Level of Trump Fuckery

[babylonsister]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/07/portland-becomes-testing-ground-for.html


The Rude Pundit
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7/17/2020
Portland Becomes the Testing Ground for the Next Level of Trump Fuckery


Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, who has the douche name and the douchier face stubble of the asshole Wall Streeter who gets punched in the dick by, say, Michael J. Fox in a late 1980s comedy, issued a statement on "the Rampant, Long-Lasting Violence in Portland." The Portland is the one in Oregon, and it's been the site of ongoing protests in the wake of the police execution of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. In the last couple of nights, they've escalated into confrontations with police and other authorities (get to that in a sec), confrontations that have been provoked by the police and other authorities. For Wolf and DHS and the Trump White House, "Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property."

What follows is a list of actions by day, and, gotta tell you, it's just fuckin' embarrassing and overwrought, like trying to hype D-Grade meat as a quality Trump steak. This is really from the DHS doc:



For three days, apparently anarchists violently spray-painted graffiti. I'm not really sure how you do that. Maybe you scream, "Fuck Trump" as you write that. Maybe you punch the wall. What I'm saying here is that you kind of water down your accusations of violence if you include wanton tagging in the category. Basically, you look like a pussy or a drama queen, which is really the two modes that Trump and his lackeys operate in.

And even when Secretary Wolf's weak-ass list of alleged crimes gets to more serious stuff, any credibility has been destroyed by the image of the federal government shitting itself before the terrorism of the graffiti artists. Oh, and it's destroyed by the fact that most of it is complete hyperbole.

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This is scary shit right here. I don't want to be like Chad "Punched Dick" Wolf and blow this up (I've avoided using the term "Gestapo," yet if the overcoat fits...), but when your government feels like it can just snatch you off the street without even the pretext of some kind of official reason, we're into new levels of necessary paranoia.

And while we're a few steps from needing to find decent-sized attics to hide out in, we're damn far down the list of "they came for," getting preciously close to "me."

[niyad]

1. KNR for RP.

Graffiti?????? The Brownshirts (or erik prince's goons), were called in for grafitti??????

Proof that some organizations have wayyyyyyyyy too much time on their hands.

[gratuitous]

2. According to Wolf's office, those violent anarchists have caused (hope you're sitting down)

Five. Thousand. Dollars. Damage. Five Thousand! Five! Thousand! The flag is falling, the Republic is tottering!

[Captain Zero]

3. It could get even worse with SHARPIES !

I want my mommy !!

[niyad]

4. I am so glad that you warned me, otherwise I might have injured myself when I fainted.

I wonder how much it cost to deploy these henchmen?
Five grand is not even a dot in the defense budget. And I am fairly certain that I could find that much in frivolous spending in wolie's office budget.