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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPortland, Oregon protestors..........last night.........
@SpencerHakimian
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Portland tonight:
Link to tweet
Winter
@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Lovie777
(23,741 posts)Biophilic
(6,681 posts)That was a pretty gutsy thing to say in this day and age.
riversedge
(81,541 posts)Steven Maurer
(511 posts)State National Guards report to the Governor of each State they're guard of, and while State units can be commanded by the President in certain emergencies, the adjutant general (i.e. leader of each State national guard) always serves at the pleasure of the State's Governor - not the President or the Secretary of Defense.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,079 posts)Dont invade Portland when the Spirit Halloween stores are open.
Liberal In Texas
(16,428 posts)He'll declare a civil war and invoke Martial Law. Making himself an entrenched dictator.
KS Toronado
(23,870 posts)but after their disastrous meeting last week with all the Generals, declaring Martial Law
just became more difficult for him IMHO.
Jacson6
(2,197 posts)Oh the humanity.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(137,429 posts)IronLionZion
(51,554 posts)so how long until that general is fired? He might be asking for it with statements like that.
AllaN01Bear
(29,803 posts)im doing a lot od urec ing lately
travelingthrulife
(5,579 posts)AverageOldGuy
(4,169 posts)For a new Oregon NG General coming up.
That man has the integrity, the professionalism, and the steel balls required of and representative of general officers.
ThreeNoSeep
(323 posts)Here is a more extensive article.
https://wholecommunity.news/2025/10/03/national-guard-our-200-professional-citizen-soldiers-are-oregonians-not-federal-agents/
Loved the video of those "insurrectionists" dancing in their silly costumes.
Clouds Passing
(8,192 posts)kimbutgar
(27,558 posts)Media to make the ridiculous statements of violent protesters.
I myself have been advocating for dance offs with protest music against the ice gestopos.
SomewhereInTheMiddle
(671 posts)MAGA can't take being the butt of a joke. It's why they hate the TV comedians.
And it will make onlookers all the more horrified when MAGA responds with violence.
kimbutgar
(27,558 posts)Scrivener7
(60,071 posts)(I love those dancing fools.
)
calimary
(90,796 posts)Looked like fun out there! And the point was made anyway.
Were here to open your mind. NOT trash your city.
iemanja
(57,780 posts)They can really dance.
Amaryllis
(11,430 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,982 posts)
Generals Dwight D.Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George S, Patton in 1945.
Looks ANTIFA to me.
Justice matters.
(10,079 posts)some eight decades ago.
Good on him to remember that...
Sogo
(7,303 posts)The war zone that is Portland!!
Cha
(320,590 posts)iemanja
(57,780 posts)Props to Portlanders. We could all learn from them.
Skittles
(172,881 posts)Chicago needs to step up their game!
2naSalit
(103,809 posts)I wonder what this is all about but I can't see xitter posts.
CentralMass
(16,994 posts)
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