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Oregon's knitted gloves are off -- Sabrina Haake
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/oregons-knitted-gloves-are-offTrump’s lawless cabal has just declared war on an imaginary dragon they call ‘Antifa.’ National security directive NSPM-7 stipulates that anyone who insults Trump, calls him or his enablers ‘fascist,’ or opposes Christo-nationalism is anti-American. Anyone deemed ‘anti-American’ is a proper target of persecution.
To support the directive, Trump’s DOJ first removed a National Institute of Justice study on domestic terrorism from its website. The removed study showed that right wing extremists are responsible for far more politically motivated violence than far-left extremists. Having removed accurate crime statistics from public view, Trump then issued a national security directive based on false ones.
In it, he ticked off a curated list of violent acts he blamed on the left, deliberately omitting the torching of the Pennsylvania governor’s home; the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband; the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband; the plot to kidnap Michigan’s Governor; the attempted assassination of Sen. John Hoffman; this week’s Mormon Church attack by a Trump supporter; and all the political violence executed on Trump’s behalf since 2015 when he began encouraging MAGA to assault his hecklers.
The 50s called. They want McCarthy back.
Perfecting his dark art of projection, Trump declared that violence from the left is “designed to silence opposing speech,” then issued a directive to do just that.
. . .
To support the directive, Trump’s DOJ first removed a National Institute of Justice study on domestic terrorism from its website. The removed study showed that right wing extremists are responsible for far more politically motivated violence than far-left extremists. Having removed accurate crime statistics from public view, Trump then issued a national security directive based on false ones.
In it, he ticked off a curated list of violent acts he blamed on the left, deliberately omitting the torching of the Pennsylvania governor’s home; the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband; the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband; the plot to kidnap Michigan’s Governor; the attempted assassination of Sen. John Hoffman; this week’s Mormon Church attack by a Trump supporter; and all the political violence executed on Trump’s behalf since 2015 when he began encouraging MAGA to assault his hecklers.
The 50s called. They want McCarthy back.
Perfecting his dark art of projection, Trump declared that violence from the left is “designed to silence opposing speech,” then issued a directive to do just that.
. . .