The Portland henchman are from both US Marshals and DHS/CBP - all are special ops troops. No National Guard because only a governor can do that, and the governor would have known about it if so.
My question is at what point do the states' rights that neo-cons have been crowing about for decades kick in for real? Because the gov of OR is trying to get the federales out, but has not succeeded so far.
At what point is state secession no longer illegal?
20,000. What does that number mean?
On July 9th, the President of the United States surpassed the 20,000 mark in number of lies he's told the press since taking office. Here is what the wise have said about lying:
1. “One who feels no shame at telling a deliberate lie,” the Buddha told a monk after dramatically pouring out the contents of a dish, “has as much of a contemplative in them as this empty bowl.”
2. "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
3. "Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul."
4. "Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone"
5. "The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
6. "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state." Alexander Solzhenitsyn (he was talking about the Soviet Union)
7. "Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger."
#1 from the Buddha, tells us that T is totally empty.
#2 is the reason I shut off the radio whenever they put T on and skip past his statements in the press. #2 is also why I skip over anything a fossil fuel company or any other corporate spokesperson says to make themselves look good, like "we are all in this together," or "our hearts go out to blah, blah, blah.
@tgraf66. So maybe it is all that lying that makes T seem cognitively impaired. He can't keep track of the lies.
Notable is that his lie rate has dramatically escalated:
So maybe it is all that lying that makes T seem cognitively impaired. He can't keep track of the lies
With him, I don't think it's a matter of memory; he just doesn't care what lies he's told or keeping track of them. He doesn't care about anything or anyone but himself and trying to make himself look good. If telling the truth would accomplish that, I can almost guarantee that he would be the most scrupulously honest person on the planet. Unfortunately for us and the rest of the world, only lies could make him look good, and even then only until his lying is exposed, which, as we have seen, is on a daily basis.
Does anyone have a sense of the Portland protests? Not to be alarmist, but if the mystery troops are from Trump, then they are from Putin. This is where things turn badly for us. I've had recurring nightmares for awhile (like others, I didn't mention them because I'm not sure of myself, and because they are frightening). In each of the dreams, I'm in an unknown place (always lush, green mountains and bodies of water-- like Oregon where we now live) and people were running and hiding from foreign troops. Sometimes the troops were alien ships, other times soldiers from another country. In all, I'm shooting back at the soldiers with good aim but always short on ammo. I always wake up when the situation becomes overwhelming. My recurring nightmares tend to reflect reality at present or in the future and be solid, but I've figured they were my mind working out issues in symbolic form.
@jewels
You and @michele-b share a home state. We are having some discussion about Portland over on the False Flags... thread. There is some new info today that the Undersecretary of DHS has announced plans to roll out what's going on in Portland nationwide. So we can all look forward to more fascist tactics as the election approaches.
As for your dream, you should post it on the Dreams... thread too.
As someone who rarely has predictive dreams, but when I do they are usually spot on, I feel you. I have had similar dreams, but in mine it was never aliens or foreigners.