As much as Wheeler enjoyed making Trump look bad, Antifa may not care.
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brad johnson it is january the 3rd of
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2021
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and uh the mayor of portland who
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until now has been just an
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extraordinarily
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obstinate character in terms of antifa
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he’s been
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seemingly funding them if not funding
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them certainly enabling them in every
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imaginable way
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um denying their existence even when
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they took over
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they took over the lobby in either his
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own building or his own apartment or
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something
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i mean he’s just done everything he
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could to enable
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antifa and now here we are a couple of
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days before the
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possible inauguration of joe biden as
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president
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he’s he’s done an about face what do you
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think all this means i mean you know
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i don’t want to steal your thunder but a
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part of me just can’t help but think
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that this entire charade was about
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making president trump look bad
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well i i don’t think there’s any doubt
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that there’s
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that there’s truth in that to one degree
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or another i mean
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i don’t know that that’s the uh
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the main motive for antifa who’s
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actually conducting these
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these riots and has taken over these
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these
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areas of downtown but i would say
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certainly on the part of ted wheeler
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uh i would say that was a very large
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motivation for him
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that he most assuredly wants to do this
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stuff to embarrass president trump
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now that you know this is like you know
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in his mind the election is over
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and biden’s coming in it’s it’s time
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where he can kind of ease off the
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throttles
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so that from his perspective may be part
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of the reason why
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he’s done uh something of a turnabout
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now going back a bit
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this this is not the the first attempt
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there was uh
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you know antifa tried to take over an
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area of portland uh i don’t know what
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four or five months ago too uh when it
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first started happening well longer ago
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than that now when it first
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started happening in seattle kind of on
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the heels of that and they had a lot of
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riots downtown and there was a lot of
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film coming out of portland of that
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older couple that you know late 60s
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early 70s somewhere around there where
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they were just driving their sedan and
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they got attacked by antifa for just
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driving
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through near that area and damage to the
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car and so the guy sped off went down a
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block
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stopped got out of his car to look and
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the antifa people were chasing him down
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the street to attack him again
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while the portland police were standing
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there watching now
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in defense of the police this is one of
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those things where
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they know that that
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mayor wheeler does not have their back
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and if they do anything against antifa
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it’s going to be their rear end that’s
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in trouble not the antifa guys
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so they’re in a very tough position
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where they’re having to stand by and
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watch
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you know old people attack and the old
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lady in the wheelchair and things like
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that
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and they’re really they’ve kind of got
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their hands tied and this is all back to
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mayor wheeler
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this is this guy’s fault and his
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responsibility
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and he’s the one that’s allowed this to
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go forward and don’t forget this is
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something i try to mention often there
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was that guy in the red hat the trump
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supporter of the maga
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maga hat that got assassinated on the
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streets of portland
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his shooter was eventually uh tracked
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down and killed in an exchange with
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police
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but he was part of a team of you know 20
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or 30 people
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and antifa filmed the shooting
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for training purposes i guess they
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wanted evidence of what they were doing
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or
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or a record of what they were doing i
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should say and so they filmed it that is
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out there you can see the film where the
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surveillance team
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the spotter sees the guy the red hat
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coming around the corner calls them out
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the team that comes in afterwards in the
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car picks up the
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shell casings and kind of draws
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attention back to the shooter off of
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them
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and a car waiting for the shooter a
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block down that he ran down and jumped
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into and drove away all that stuff so
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this is a larger team
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everybody knows that took place
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including mayor wheeler
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everybody knows that information is out
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there including portland police
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i i would hope that the
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police would have loved to go after that
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entire team and arrest every one of them
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and put them in jail for this accident
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certainly a hate crime and yet they’re
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not able to do it
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and it’s because the mayor does not have
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their back they know he doesn’t have
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their back and they’re in a
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horrible horrible position not a good
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time to be in law enforcement in
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portland oregon
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but this goes to the larger picture
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there’s something been talking
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off and on here for a very long time and
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that is
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that the democratic party is out of
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their freaking minds
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with what they’re allowing to go forward
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with antifa
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and these other groups they think they
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can control them remember a few when
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this first iteration of this takeover
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portland came
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out mayor wheeler went down there
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and was going to like get up on a
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podium with these uh antifa guys you
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know raise fists and say
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you know we’re all in this together
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brothers and sisters and we’re gonna
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fight back against trump
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instead he got heckled and jeered and
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chased off and had to run
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and leave so that he didn’t get overrun
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by the antiva guys who would have
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probably punched him around a bit
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so they are not friends and this is a
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very very good indicator of this
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deep divide that exists within the
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democratic party
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and these groups the these socialist
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uh hard left progressive um
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democrats who are in the these places
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like portland in control
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and these really hardcore left communist
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groups like antifa
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not that there’s a huge difference
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between those two things
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but they’re completely separate factions
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and they hate each other
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and so this is where uh
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recognizes that he cannot just allow
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these buildings to be burned down in
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downtown portland
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and turn it into a you know derelict
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dead zone
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and that he’s got to start to do
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something so he’s he’s
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a faced had to face up to the fact
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that he’s got to do something and that
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those guys are his enemy along with
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everybody else
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and that he’s got to do something so
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that’s why we’re starting to see this
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change
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and i think again as you mentioned
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earlier i think embarrassing trump was
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certainly part of it but now
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it’s gone far enough that he just has to
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stop it because he can’t allow the city
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to actually be destroyed so uh now
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they’ve of course refused
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federal help already out of hand without
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even you know without even discussing it
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and they’re going to try to take care of
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this locally but again as i say
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if the the portland police
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they recognize that the mayor does not
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have their back
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they do not have political support there
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so they’re they’re dangling out in the
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wind
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they are not going to take decisive
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action
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against antifa because they know that
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the mayor would probably still
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rather support anti-fan and conflict
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than he would his own police force in
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portland
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so it’s one of those things that is not
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going to have a happy ending it’s not
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going to work out
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mayor wheeler is not going to be able to
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step in and take control of the stuff
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with what what forces are available to
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him in portland
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so to be fixed i think what he’s banking
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on is to start this problem
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wait for biden to be inaugurated and
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then go and say okay well now we have an
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understanding federal government and the
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good guys are in charge again so now
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we’re going to bring in federal
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troops to go quell this thing and then
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he’ll take advantage of that to just
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absolutely kick
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and keep his ass there so we’ll see how
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all this works out we’ll see what antifa
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is willing to tolerate
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there too because let’s not forget as as
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you and i have discussed and in these
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interviews many times
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antifa while horizontally organized is
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enormous international they have
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serious uh financial backing
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in these areas they’ve been bringing in
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arms and munitions for a long time
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they’re seen walking around carrying
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assault style route rifles i’m assuming
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they are they’re
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they are ar-15s which is still uh you
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know pretty good weapon
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and and for in an urban situation it’s
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more than enough
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and um i just i don’t know that the
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the police are going to come as well
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armed to the party if that’s how it
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turns out or the federal troops that
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show up
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depends on who does it and how but i
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think the
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the biden administration would not go in
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very uh strong-handed so
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it would be a situation where it would
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be interesting to see
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does antifa accept
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backing down under a biden
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administration or
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not because they’re not friends this
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divide exists all the way up to that
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level
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and it could easily turn into a very
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ugly situation so
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this is this is playing out in a very
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interesting fashion and portland’s going
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to be a
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place for us to keep an eye on here over
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the next two three months
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there is an amazing scene in the movie
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cabaret for those people who remember
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that 1970s film
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where they are driving through the
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german countryside
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and a young man starts to sing tomorrow
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belongs to us and by the end of the song
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everybody in the beer garden is standing
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and giving the hitler salute
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and one of the principal characters the
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movie turns to the driver
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who was supporting the nazi party and
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says
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do you still think you can control them
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and i think my question to
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all of the democrats and leftists in the
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united states that have a fantasy that
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antivo was their personal street army of
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thugs to deal with republicans
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do you still think you can control them
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if they do they’re stupid because
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they’ve got the tiger by the tail and
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that’s that’s exactly their problem
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