The recent protests have drawn hundreds of participants but remain far smaller than other mass demonstrations, including the 2020 protests against police violence that spurred Newsom to request assistance from the National Guard.

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    He needs his base to believe Italy’s it is a war zone.

    The propaganda machine is going to make it look like CA and other places are in open insurrection to justify civil war.

    Welcome to Nazi America.

    (Edit to correct an auto incorrect.)

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      Honestly I thought you just meant they’d take footage from a recent riot somewhere in Italy and claim it was Inglewood, manufacturing evidence is certainly in the playbook as we’ve seen from previous wars.

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        I mean, they might do that. Floyd rioters apparently spoke a whole lot of french in the coverage my grandma saw (and sent me.)

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    Maybe he should start paying attention to daily briefings and not to Fox News. Another failure by him and a huge waste of time for the military.

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      Honestly, his daily briefings are just telling him what he wants to hear. He might have had some pushback in his first term, but those people have all be purged by now.

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        22 days ago

        Yeah that’s true. I think he’s got Fox News people doing the daily briefings for him now too, so they’re about the same.

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    The news is really trying to sensationalize it but yes, it’s by and large very peaceful. Also for some reason, line dancing.

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      Same as with Portland and Seattle’s autonomous zone, either nothing was happening or the things that were happening was because of the feds

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      Absolutely, the headlines and reported words don’t match the video evidence at all. The best they had was police pushing against a small group of maybe 30-50 protestors.