Portland? For Realz?
Jesus Christ, if the po-po are doing this in Portland, and the cops are gassing the pregnant and elderly in Seattle, I hate to think how the cops are breaking up Occupy Atlanta or Occupy Birmingham protesters.
Gee, it all seems oddly coordinated among all these police departments.
[LAT]
I don’t know, I think it can really only be considered coordinated in the loosest possible sense. It’s a bunch of mayors with a similar problem — their major donors are threatening to pull further support unless they do something about the damn hippies — so they chat among themselves to figure out what they can get away with. And the police are apparently more than happy to break some hippie-commie-anarchist heads.
The mayors all rest easy in the knowledge that photographs of protesters with bleeding heads and granny after she’s been pepper-sprayed will not be seen by the majority of Americans, and many of those that do see the pictures will be easily persuaded to believe that they are an anomaly or the protesters must have done something to deserve it. At the end of the day, it’s not the opinion of the 99% that concern them, it’s the opinion of their donors that counts.
TJ/ Oh, hey. Just wanted to brag let you know that I met a Tahrir Square protester today. He’s 27 years old and studying in the states. When did he join the protest? When the gov’t turned off their cell phones. There’s much more to the story, but yeah, that’s when the kids got pissed. His mother was marching before he was.
BRUCE.DESERTRAT • 2026 Election Results Arizona has a Democratic trifecta for the first time since 1966! The former power brokers in the…
NOJO • 2026 Election Results @ManchuCandidate: Oh gawd, forgot that night. This one, while everything was pointing in the right…
MANCHUCANDIDATE • 2026 Election Results I hope that the GOPers understand a little of what black men (and some other minorities) have dealt…
MANCHUCANDIDATE • 2026 Election Results Fuck yeah. Sort of like watching 2010 with Nojo, but way less shitty results. That old witch…
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! Gawd, you keep missing the target!
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! TACO Tuesday. The demented methhead next door blinked. Delay on trade war albeit…
SANFRANLEFTY • TRUMP FINISHES CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT WITH THE AYATOLLAH ! ! ! CHAINSAW!!!!
NOJO • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! @Beggars Biscuit: Yup, still here, if enjoying a long slumber.
BEGGARS BISCUIT • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! The drapery not really covering his name is not a feature, it’s part of the operating system.…
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! Can't that dumb motherfucker get anything right? Now he's trying to Drill Baby Drill Greenland…