What's really going on in Portland and Chicago right now...

 

... is the same playbook used by violent (and not-so-violent) progressive extremists for years.  They're twisting the rules of society, the social norms by which we live, and using them as a weapon against that very society.  With the help of the complicit news media, they're pushing a smokescreen of claimed oppression and intolerance to advance their own revolutionary agenda.

El Gato Malo offers his usual succinct analysis.

“kick the dog until it bites, then demand the dog be shot for biting.”

this is very much the current playbook of the agents provocateur seeking to decry as fascism any resistance to their own depradations ... and this is all coming to pass.

it’s all the simple, well worn playbook of “force your enemy into an impossible choice and then make the story about how they react.”

they call it “putting your target in a decision dilemma.”

the whole point is to act badly, provoke reaction, and then act as though the reaction were the story, that self-defense is aggression, and that those trying to clean up your mess or deal with your violence are the mess making bad guys.

you “lead with sympathetic characters” (like women and children) and you “play to the audience who isn’t there.”

but don’t take my word for it. go read their own websites. they are not shy about telling you how they do this and these are professionals paid for by vast networks of grants from the brandon administration (more here).

this whole shabby psyop masquerading as a morality play has been being set up for years.

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the whole point is to be so provocative and violent that only violence can serve to resist or constrain it, then they call you violent.

what just happened in chicago is a prime example ... yes, indeed, a “woman got shot.” that woman was marimar martinez. it cannot be an accident that adam is leaving out the context that she (and others in her group) had been driving erratically around the ICE vehicles, boxing them in, coming inches from them and behaving in a highly threatening fashion even running red lights and driving the wrong way on one way streets to do so before they, wait for it, rammed the ICE vehicle with multiple vehicles of their own. (report on this)

“la maggie,” as she is known, was also armed with a 9mm handgun.

this was not “ICE shooting down some nice lady in cold blood.” she quite literally and unequivocally violently attacked them.

what’s astonishing here is that this is not an isolated incident. numbers of highly coordinated groups have been harassing and ramming ICE vehicles. here’s one from just a couple days ago.

the fact that there are so many examples of this taking place over extended periods of time is, in and of itself, quite telling.

astonishingly, the chicago PD seems to have been called off and left to allow this. it’s not as though it’s subtle and much of what is going on is a federal crime. this seems to be another version of the BLM riots playbook of “mostly peaceful ramming of federal vehicles and the injury ot federal officers” all getting the wink and the nod with no enforcement or protection from the depredations of “our team.” it’s only fascism when YOU do it. when we do, all good.

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what about these antifa gangs in portland?

astonishingly, nock sortor, the reporter who got shoved down, is the one facing charges. he’s being arraigned today for “disorderly conduct.” his assailant has been neither charged nor arrested.

what are we to make of this sort of police and justice system?

just what is being protected here?

note the deliberation, planning, and coordination of this group using masks to hide faces and umbrellas to block cameras etc.

these are not amateurs.

the clear goal here is to provoke a national guard response and then make the story about “military dictator” instead of about lawless cities and corrupt officials.

it seems like this is the hill they want to die on.

newsom just ordered the code red.

they are spoiling for a fight and want to isolate trump and federal agencies to try to cast them as some sort of invading army as opposed to the ones coming to fix the wild mess and federal funding sinkhole created by their actions.

they are creating bad, high risk, difficult to navigate situations on purpose.

they are releasing rabid puppies into your house and then trying to make you the bad guy when you get caught on camera kicking one to keep from being bitten.

There's more at the link, and at the links provided in the above excerpt.

Have you been wondering where all the "NGO money" being disbursed by USAID and other agencies went to?  Have you been wondering how and why the last administration, in its last weeks in office, took extraordinary steps to disburse billions upon billions of our taxpayer dollars to newly-established bodies or organizations that had never done anything effective in their brief existence - but were led and managed by many of the most radical and dishonest progressive leftist politicians among us?

Wonder no longer.  That money was the funding pipeline for the radical left to continue its work.  President Trump cut off that lifeline the moment he could, and struck what I truly hope was a mortal blow to the progressive left's grassroots organization as he did so.  Deprived of funding, they've been thrown back on what they've already managed to misdirect and steal, rather than the flow of funding they assumed would still be coming in.  They can see the day when all their savings and reserves have run out, and those who misused government and taxpayer funds to amass them are facing the consequences of their actions.  That's why they're lashing out now - because they know their reserves are running out, and if they don't use them, they're going to lose them to investigators wanting to know where they've come from and claw them back if possible.  That's why Democrats in the Senate are demanding more than a trillion dollars from US taxpayers as their price to pass the budget - because they're relying on the graft, corruption and theft that will skim off a large chunk of that $1 trillion for their pet projects and progressive-left causes.  I'm not exaggerating.  Just look at what they're asking for in the present negotiations.

Senator John Kennedy ... pointed to a series of foreign aid initiatives that have raised eyebrows, which included millions of dollars for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia, funding for transgender programs in Nepal, and $4.2 million worth of LGBTQ initiatives in the Western Balkans and Uganda. He noted other examples, including $3.6 million in , half a million dollars for electric buses in Rwanda, $6 million for media organizations for Palestinians, and $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho.

Later that day, Kennedy appeared on Fox News, where he claimed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was not in control of his party and that far-left lawmakers were calling the shots.

Again, more at the link.

"Cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti"???  What the hell does that have to do with good governance of these United States?  How can the Democratic Party even think of wasting a penny on such nonsense?  I'll tell you how - because precious little of it, if any, would reach those for whom it's ostensibly intended.  The rest would be siphoned off to fund the political violence and turmoil currently crippling our cities.

Expect renewed uprisings (they amount to nothing less) in leftist power centers like Portland and Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles, and others like them.  The left is playing for all the marbles.  President Trump is hampered by partisan judges and others who are trying as hard as they can to disrupt his response, and that will undoubtedly cause him problems;  but right now, according to my scorecard, he's winning more battles than he's losing, and he's not afraid to fight more of them.

So, when you see Portland and Chicago, and read the screaming "FASCIST!!!" headlines in the news media, you know what's going on - and who to believe.

Peter