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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, October 5, 2025

More Illegality

 Trump was banned from using Oregon National Guardsmen in Portland. So he grabbed some from California. Given how we've seen ICE behave in recent days - behavior that should upset anyone in favor of professional conduct by law enforcement - the best we can hope for is that the California Guard keeps these ICE thugs from beating up the citizenry. There are rumors - only rumors - that the worst violators of public safety in Portland are MAGAts looking for a fight. It would be grimly amusing if the the California Guard beats up a punch of Proud Boys and 3%ers.

None of that obscures the increasing lawlessness and fascist actions from the Trump administration. I think 90% of this is coming from Stephen Miller's warped brain, but until someone tells him to go back to the hole from whence he crawled and as long as Trump's pudding brain is technically in charge but actually ceding power to Miller, that's where we are.

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