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The Federal Agents in Portland are the Gestapo. (Original Post)
Dawson Leery
Jul 2020
OP
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)1. Still more of an embryonic Gestapo...
...but the direction is clear...
Blecht
(3,806 posts)7. Nothing embryonic about them
They are fully formed enough to be driving vans and kidnapping people.
Don't forget what Gestapo means: geheime Staatspolizei = secret national police
Gestapo is not hyperbole.
unas3
(22 posts)2. Trump's SS rears its ugly head. I hope the military is ready to decapitate it!
We have a disturbing, embryonic dictator. The military needs to be ready to escort this bastard and his cronies to hell if he tries anything else.
triron
(22,240 posts)5. Someone certainly does.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. Trump is probably testing his martial law strategies and being coached by Putin to see
how far he can go. Trump will not leave office quietly. He has far too many witless cronies and enablers with him plus the stupid factor of the US.
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louis-t
(24,583 posts)4. Can you just imagine if Obama had done something like this?
As Judge Ito once said, "I'd have to peel you off the ceiling."
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)6. There no one worse to give orders for Gestapo than
Ken Cuccinelli.
He's smart AND he's evil. Ken Cuccinelli would love to use mercenaries on Americans. Because he's smart, he's even more dangerous than Trump.