On ‘Ask the Editor,’ Mehdi and Prem call out GOP hypocrisy, as the domestic ‘War on Terror’ comes to Portland, Oregon. Plus: is it time for Schumer and Jeffries to resign?
I’m in Portland. The Portland Police have testified in court that ICE agents have been instigating clashes with protestors at the ICE facility. Also, a lot of the photos that mainstream media have been sharing of the clashes (and Portland in general) are grossly misleading. They manage to make it look super dystopian, and as someone who actually lives here, it’s almost surreal to see the level of the distortion. The ICE facility is just one building in this nice area just south of downtown called the South Waterfront, which is mostly full of residential buildings, shops, and some Oregon Health & Science University and Knight Cancer Institute buildings. There is a Tesla dealership kitty corner to the ICE building, and there was a charter school across from the ICE building that had to relocate because of all the chemicals that the ICE agents were using on protestors. There have been a small number of people (1-2 dozen) regularly protesting the facility. One of the regular protestors wears a chicken costume and sometimes hands out cookies. I am describing all of this to try to convey how benign it all is. And yet when I see the photos that are being shared in the news, they’re often at night, with ICE agents kitted out in tactical gear and with tear gas or smoke surrounding them. Of course that makes it look scary, but it could not be further from the truth. It’s just bizarre seeing firsthand how the media manipulates its viewers/readers through selective framing. I always knew that the media did this - fear & outrage drives engagement - but it’s really strange being in the middle of it and seeing how massive the disconnect is between what is being conveyed and reality.
Thank you for sharing this information. It's so important that people not be fooled by the reporting of the msm. For those in blue states, you can contact your state's sttprney generals and request that they file an amicus brief in support of Oregon's lawsuit if they haven't already done so.
Yes please, get those wet noodles Schumer and Jeffries out of there. Someone with some backbone and strong language needs to take over the opposition to this corrupt administration. Stephen Miller has been unleashed and we are getting 'war on terror' 'war on immigrants' 'war on the Left'.
Most people don't understand the animus evangelicals and other conservative Christian denominations have for Mormons. I was born Mormon in 1967 and left the faith in 2012. Evangelicals in the town I grew up in in CA demonized us from the pulpit on the regular and refused to acknowledge we were even Christian. Even though Mormons doctrinally and politically fit solidly within the Christian right. I read the Bible in church every week and we revered Joseph Smith as a prophet, but never remotely equal to Jesus. Christ was the center of our religion and always infinitely superior to Smith. Right now I'll bet you there is a nervous huddle-up going on among President Trump's advisors, trying to decide if they should tell him to not refer to Mormons as Christians, after he endorsed them as such in his initial war on Christians post. To someone with my background, it looks a lot like a retaliatory act against Mormons for Kirk, inflamed by all the rhetoric of the need to destroy the perpetrators of political violence. I don't think we've seen the end of evangelical violence against mormons in retribution for Kirk, if indeed that's what it was.
I will do you one better. Kill a single individual and they are labeled a terrorist. Kill multiple people and set fire to a church and it is described as "an attack of targeted violence". Give me a break.
The generals never understood fully why 'reformed drunk' secretary of war Pete Hegseth convoked them to the US Marines base at Quantico, Virginia, within a crow's flight from Trump in Washington. It is obvious he want to ' bring them into line' MAGA like Congress, the Supreme Court, the civil bureaucracy, media, universities, local governments. A US version of Hitler's 'gleichschaltung'. Trump loves military parades. Will he lead his 'generals' like the snake oil huckster Harold Hill. in 'Music Man' in a grand parade, in lockstep, with '76 trombones' up Constitution Avenue?
Re: the bromance displayed by Bibi and Donald. Nauseating show. Still ignores the two state solution. But Medhi, what's the big deal about pronunciation of "abraham" in the Abraham Accords reference. Trump couldn't settle on one pronunciation. Even Bibi said something about it. What's up?
we support Zorhan!! I also called US Capitol and left Jeffrey's and Schumer a message and said if they folded and funded this administration without getting our Medicaid back and STOP FUNDING ICE THEY WILL BE VOTED OUT!!💯
Straight out of Hitler's Remigration, the Orange Cheeto described how immigrants are destroying the country by taking away jobs and benefits from Hard Working Americans, diluting voters' choice, cheating in elections, growing the welfare state
"These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities—And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports—And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!”
The boogeymen(Democrats and immigrants) have been identified and the Nazis are ready to strike all the blue cities across the country The Civil War is on
Protest Protest Protest Bring neighbors friends relatives This is how WE the People fight fascism
I’m in Portland. The Portland Police have testified in court that ICE agents have been instigating clashes with protestors at the ICE facility. Also, a lot of the photos that mainstream media have been sharing of the clashes (and Portland in general) are grossly misleading. They manage to make it look super dystopian, and as someone who actually lives here, it’s almost surreal to see the level of the distortion. The ICE facility is just one building in this nice area just south of downtown called the South Waterfront, which is mostly full of residential buildings, shops, and some Oregon Health & Science University and Knight Cancer Institute buildings. There is a Tesla dealership kitty corner to the ICE building, and there was a charter school across from the ICE building that had to relocate because of all the chemicals that the ICE agents were using on protestors. There have been a small number of people (1-2 dozen) regularly protesting the facility. One of the regular protestors wears a chicken costume and sometimes hands out cookies. I am describing all of this to try to convey how benign it all is. And yet when I see the photos that are being shared in the news, they’re often at night, with ICE agents kitted out in tactical gear and with tear gas or smoke surrounding them. Of course that makes it look scary, but it could not be further from the truth. It’s just bizarre seeing firsthand how the media manipulates its viewers/readers through selective framing. I always knew that the media did this - fear & outrage drives engagement - but it’s really strange being in the middle of it and seeing how massive the disconnect is between what is being conveyed and reality.
Felt exactly the same here in Los Angeles.
Thank you for sharing this information. It's so important that people not be fooled by the reporting of the msm. For those in blue states, you can contact your state's sttprney generals and request that they file an amicus brief in support of Oregon's lawsuit if they haven't already done so.
Yes please, get those wet noodles Schumer and Jeffries out of there. Someone with some backbone and strong language needs to take over the opposition to this corrupt administration. Stephen Miller has been unleashed and we are getting 'war on terror' 'war on immigrants' 'war on the Left'.
No longer a significant mass murder. It doesn't fit the narrative.
Annalisa - Good for the Portland police for speaking the truth. THAT needs to be reported by mainstream media.
Good for the Portland police for speaking the truth. THAT needs to be reported by mainstream media.
Most people don't understand the animus evangelicals and other conservative Christian denominations have for Mormons. I was born Mormon in 1967 and left the faith in 2012. Evangelicals in the town I grew up in in CA demonized us from the pulpit on the regular and refused to acknowledge we were even Christian. Even though Mormons doctrinally and politically fit solidly within the Christian right. I read the Bible in church every week and we revered Joseph Smith as a prophet, but never remotely equal to Jesus. Christ was the center of our religion and always infinitely superior to Smith. Right now I'll bet you there is a nervous huddle-up going on among President Trump's advisors, trying to decide if they should tell him to not refer to Mormons as Christians, after he endorsed them as such in his initial war on Christians post. To someone with my background, it looks a lot like a retaliatory act against Mormons for Kirk, inflamed by all the rhetoric of the need to destroy the perpetrators of political violence. I don't think we've seen the end of evangelical violence against mormons in retribution for Kirk, if indeed that's what it was.
I will do you one better. Kill a single individual and they are labeled a terrorist. Kill multiple people and set fire to a church and it is described as "an attack of targeted violence". Give me a break.
The generals never understood fully why 'reformed drunk' secretary of war Pete Hegseth convoked them to the US Marines base at Quantico, Virginia, within a crow's flight from Trump in Washington. It is obvious he want to ' bring them into line' MAGA like Congress, the Supreme Court, the civil bureaucracy, media, universities, local governments. A US version of Hitler's 'gleichschaltung'. Trump loves military parades. Will he lead his 'generals' like the snake oil huckster Harold Hill. in 'Music Man' in a grand parade, in lockstep, with '76 trombones' up Constitution Avenue?
Re: the bromance displayed by Bibi and Donald. Nauseating show. Still ignores the two state solution. But Medhi, what's the big deal about pronunciation of "abraham" in the Abraham Accords reference. Trump couldn't settle on one pronunciation. Even Bibi said something about it. What's up?
we support Zorhan!! I also called US Capitol and left Jeffrey's and Schumer a message and said if they folded and funded this administration without getting our Medicaid back and STOP FUNDING ICE THEY WILL BE VOTED OUT!!💯
Cheeto's Truth Social Tells It All
Straight out of Hitler's Remigration, the Orange Cheeto described how immigrants are destroying the country by taking away jobs and benefits from Hard Working Americans, diluting voters' choice, cheating in elections, growing the welfare state
"These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities—And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports—And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!”
The boogeymen(Democrats and immigrants) have been identified and the Nazis are ready to strike all the blue cities across the country The Civil War is on
Protest Protest Protest Bring neighbors friends relatives This is how WE the People fight fascism