The Oregon GOP posted this image on Twitter.
Oh my goodness. I had no idea the anarchy was so bad.
On all three platforms, the statement was illustrated with an image that seemed designed to support Trump’s false claim that protests against immigration sweeps in Portland are so out of control that the city is “burning to the ground”. On one side of the image, a line of police officers held riot shields; on the other, a crowd of young men held up flares that lit up a night sky filled with red smoke.
Except…the police on the left side of the image are Ecuadorian, and the photo was from 2008.
And the fiery protest is a photo from Brazil in 2017.
Do you realize what this means? South America has invaded the United States! The spearhead has been driving up the West coast for the last 17 years, and we’re only finding out now! MAGA was right all along about the Hispanic invasion.
Or, I suppose, it’s possible that Republicans are terrible liars.
This type of lying should disqualify folks from power. But now is how one gets power.
The nominal head of our military, Trump, won’t know or care if they are lies.
It is thought that his puppet masters showed him videos from years ago of protests and claimed they were happening now in Portland.
The goal of the National Guard deployments isn’t to prevent violence.
It is to cause more violence.
That is what ICE is doing in Chicago and LA right now.
Not the first time they’ve pulled this. Didn’t Trump post old photos of a crowd at a Rod Stewart concert and claim they were from one of his rallies?
dispicable behavior by our administration.
They do this all the time and have for decades.
A few examples:
.1. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which was the legal pretext for the Vietnam War.
There were two attacks, the second one in reality, never happened.
.2. The Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
Most of us were alive and saw this in real time.
They never existed and there was a huge amount of evidence at the time that they didn’t exist.
Bush used this pretext to invade Iraq anyway.
Those drug boats that the Venezuelan drug cartels use that we keep destroying are probably mostly not drug boats.
The first one with 11 (now dead) people was almost certainly not a drug boat. A drug boat woudn’t be carrying 11 people. It was probably ferrying refugees from Venezuela to Trinidad.
PZ wrote: South America has invaded the United States! . . .Or, I suppose, it’s possible that Republicans are terrible liars.
I reply: In today’s world of the absurd, BOTH could be true. Although, I would only put money on the ‘Republicans are terrible liars’, if I were a gambling sort of person. Wait, aren’t we all now caught in a rigged gamble?
Perhaps our only mistake is to assume that Taco had anything to do with this directly. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s never seen it, except perhaps when it showed up of Faux. Herr Miller probably directed the production of this propaganda. Meanwhile Taco is in his presidential suite, alone, watching whatever is on the tubes, sometimes his Faux buddies, sometimes other things that are not mentionable.
i heard that Portland burned down completely.
so trump don’t need to send troops there any more…
Portland Mayor: [with a small wave of the hand] You don’t need to send troops here any more.
trump: We don’t need to send troops there any more.
Portland Mayor: This isn’t the blue city you’re looking for.
trump: This isn’t the blue city we’re looking for.
Portland Mayor: Portland can go about it’s business.
trump: Portland can go about your business.
Portland Mayor: Move along.
trump: Move along… move along.
Why not post images of American troops being deliriously greeted as liberators of Amsterdam in 1945? Say it’s Portland. The MAGAverse would never know the difference.
John Watts @ #6 — Because it’s an embarrassment that the US ever fought against Fascism, and they haven’t figured out how to co-opt the war against Fascism quite like they have co-opted the war against slavery?
Newsflash: The MAGAts don’t care.
This is what they want to see and hear: that cities are hives of sin, race-mixing, radicalism, crime, and depravity, etc.. It doesn’t matter than Antifa isn’t really torching downtown Portland right now. The fact that Portland’s cultural, racial, and sexual diversity is allowed to exist at all will inevitably lead to such destruction unless Big Daddy Trump sends in the troops to bring law and order and purge the liberal influences that are corrupt America at their source.
The image may not be factually true, but it represents a mythic truth that the right clings to no matter what. No amount of fact-checking will change their minds.
Proverbs 6:16
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
God is not going to be happy with these GOP lying clowns.
Don’t worry, patriots: the
governor King of Texas has reportedly vowed so send genuine yeehaw troops to Portland.Uhh, lemme try that last ‘graf again:
Don’t worry, patriots: the
governorKing of Texas has reportedly vowed so send genuine yeehaw troops to Portland.Maybe it is Portland, Maine that is burning down.
I’ll put this here because it is related.
ICE shot a female protester a few days ago in Chicago.
Their account was to say the least, highly inaccurate and not factual.
The truth is coming out.
There is video.
They said she had a gun.
Which is apparently true. She had a legal conceal carry permit and every right to have that gun. There is zero evidence that it was ever pointed at ICE.
She was also shot multiple times at close range.
I can’t quite see why she is still alive.
To sum up a lot of data, these ICE agents are poorly trained and probably unemployable any where else that requires qualified people.
About what you expect for thugs who target women and children.
@12 cheerfulcharlie
The Christian god sent lying spirits to confuse his own priests, lies many times in the Bible, including about “I never change my mind”, then immediately doing so, and intentionally hardens heart, so that people will commit wars, atrocities, slavery, etc., all supposedly for the, “Good of his chosen people.”, or to teach them a lesson, or maybe just because he decided to fuck with them this week. The god of the Bible IS Trump, and his chosen people where the “first” MAGA. So, while it is lovely to think said god, which isn’t real, would not be happy with them, its probably more accurate to say, “If they lose, he will be super unhappy, otherwise he, or his priests at least, will praise it all as part of his great work.”
Sorry to say but an invasion from South America may actually be good for the US.