And yet Conservatives are the problem

@Shutup Most Democrats never did like them much in the first place, at least until Trump raised them up as boogeywomen.

Kind of like antifa, tide pod eating kids, black athletes kneeling, Mexican rapists, and Communists.

P.S. the whatabout should probably be white supremacists or Steve King. But its pretty useless to bring it up if you don't do more than throw it out and say "both sides".

@MistyCee they are a disgrace to their office and our country, and the mayor of Portland for one won't do anything to dissuade antifa violence in his city because he's a radical leftist jackass who should be thrown out of office for failing to protect the citizens. Antifa views the American flag in the same vein as a nazi swastika. Free speech protects their right to their Anti-American rhetoric but he shouldn't be condoning the violence which is what he is doing by not putting a stop to it. The Chief of Police advocates for a law that prevents cowardly protestors from covering their faces. How is that different from cowardly KKK members wearing their hoods? It's hypocrisy at it's finest.

@Shutup I'm not clear on the Portland Mayor's reasoning, but the ACLU position seems pretty consistent with respect to Antifa masks and Klan hoods.

Other than an angry rant against the left, I'm not sure where you're going. Did he refuse to sign off on an ordinance? I could see that being grounds for getting him thrown out of office.

But if it's just not endorsing an ordinance or refusing to pass an executive decree, I'm not sure how that's much different than saying Trump should be impeached for not sending out the national guard to confiscate firearms and prevent gun violence.

It doesn't seem like a left/right issue to me, but if you can enlighten me with facts, maybe I'll see better.

@MistyCee http://www.theamericanmirror.com/portland-or-mayor-mulls-mask-ban-as-trump-threatens-terrorist-designation-for-antifa/

@MistyCee ban the masks and the threat goes away.

@Shutup The same reasoning would apply to guns.

I get the mask argument, but I'm still not clear why the Mayor should be removed from office for what he said in that article from a month ago.

If you can explain it, I'd love to see how it might apply to Trump, but I have a feeling it's not that simple.

@MistyCee it's been 2 months since ngo was assaulted to the point he had a brain bleed by these cowards and nobody has been arrested. What does that say about the Mayor dragging his feet on the law to ban face coverings? Trump would be 100% right in declaring antifa as Domestic Terrorists.

@Shutup

1)Re: the mayor:

I'm still waiting to hear how he might lawfully pass a "law" by himself, much less whether he should be removed from office for not trying it.

Remember what I said about Trump not confiscating guns by executive action?

This sounds like a typical Trump rant.

2). Trump threatening to declare Antifa a Domestic Terrorism also seems pretty similar to screaming about the Steele Dossier.

Has he done the same with white supremacists? Or is he screaming the threat as a whatabout and and a distraction from his reactions to allegations that he's inciting domestic terrorism himself?

This kind of stuff is not what the President should be doing. He was not elected to defend himself, but to serve the public and uphold and enforce the very laws he seems to misunderstand and hold in contempt.

If you think I'm wrongly accusing you of supporting or aiding and abetting him in his abuse of office, I'm sorry, but this kind of factual distortion for blatant self serving political interests really disturbs me.

Facts do matter, but the deliberately lying or distorting them as a pattern and practice (modus operandi) matters more and does more damage than an isolated mistake or even a single instance of "puffing," or shading.

@MistyCee maybe law isn't the right word but he can institute an ordinance that prohibits protestors, no matter their political affiliation, from wearing masks so they can be identified. That would be a strong deterrent against the violence that antifa is perpetrating. He should have done that as soon as the Chief of Police suggested it, and I believe the fact that he has not done it yet is because of his political views. He has shown that he doesn't care who gets hurt as long as it's not the group he supports and has called the antifa protests peaceful. If it were conservatives doing this you could bet your bottom dollar it would have been implemented already.

@Shutup Mayor's can't usually pass ordinances. That's usually a city council thing, an IMO, conscious liberals and conservatives alike should have issues with executive actions where the legislature (either Congress or a city council) declines to act and the executive does something like that without a true emergency which prevented them from doing it.

Conservative didn't used to mean authoritarian or dictatorial, although under Trump that seems to have changed.

I can't defend this guy, and I personally think he probably ought to have at least gone on the record that he'd support such a law if the council would pass it.

Again, the bigger picture problem is Trump blaming local officials. Bush did a tiny bit of that after Katrina and he got some heat. But, with Trump, it seems to just be the way he works. If he can blame anything on anyone who's not his friend he does.

I'd probably annoyed with this guy if I lived in Portland, but slamming him without knowing all the facts is just wrong, imo.