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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
(24,086 posts)Biophilic
(6,722 posts)That was a pretty gutsy thing to say in this day and age.
riversedge
(81,888 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
(24,289 posts)Dont invade Portland when the Spirit Halloween stores are open.
Liberal In Texas
(16,483 posts)He'll declare a civil war and invoke Martial Law. Making himself an entrenched dictator.
KS Toronado
(24,001 posts)but after their disastrous meeting last week with all the Generals, declaring Martial Law
just became more difficult for him IMHO.
Jacson6
(2,263 posts)Oh the humanity.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(138,139 posts)IronLionZion
(51,630 posts)so how long until that general is fired? He might be asking for it with statements like that.
AllaN01Bear
(29,941 posts)im doing a lot od urec ing lately
travelingthrulife
(5,692 posts)AverageOldGuy
(4,279 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
(325 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
(8,228 posts)kimbutgar
(27,653 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
(27,653 posts)Scrivener7
(60,220 posts)(I love those dancing fools.
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calimary
(91,145 posts)Looked like fun out there! And the point was made anyway.
Were here to open your mind. NOT trash your city.
iemanja
(57,797 posts)They can really dance.
Amaryllis
(11,473 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(21,007 posts)
Generals Dwight D.Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George S, Patton in 1945.
Looks ANTIFA to me.
Justice matters.
(10,158 posts)some eight decades ago.
Good on him to remember that...
Sogo
(7,338 posts)The war zone that is Portland!!
Cha
(321,197 posts)iemanja
(57,797 posts)Props to Portlanders. We could all learn from them.
Skittles
(173,378 posts)Chicago needs to step up their game!
2naSalit
(104,257 posts)I wonder what this is all about but I can't see xitter posts.