black helicopters
It is that place where the right wing conspiracy mongerers lose the script, or are too myopic and self-interested to proceed with the script. Remember that line about the black helicopters? Yeah. Here they are now. Flying about the city. And it is indeed the Feds. Because the President has declared war, or has a conception of war, or wants to enforce power. And he is able to cite visuals from five years back of a Quarantined and George Floyd protest era — no great truck with them, though I guess amusing to watch them scuffle forward to duplicate the stupid “police free city-state zone” of Seattle’s Capitol Hill — and more so some weird street scuffles before that between some weird trolls of Vancouver and … Indeed, there they, antifa — vegan shake dealing antifa.
Conservative journalist Andy Ngo pushed back early Friday morning by claiming the costumes in Portland “serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.”
“Conservative journalist” does some heavy lifting. He knows of the ultra-violence. When last I thought of that guy, he was showing up on Fox News with a neck brace and talking of “quick drying cement” that the vegan shake thrown at him was masking.
The other place where your Alex Joneses fall away from their line — we get ourselves some new Reichstag Fires. Or apparently not. We have to enforce standards and law and order after Charlie Kirk’s shooting. In a prior era, before a political figure had glad-handed him, Jones might piece in a lightly non-partisan bit in Andover contradictory and partisan conspiracy on this. But now? — nah.