— winter washes it away anyway —
I watch this “short” on YouTube that I assume is along the lines of, oh, Jimmy Kimmel’s “Show Us Your Hellhole” — or even just mocking protesters at the ICE facility. It is an oh so scary visage, “what’s really going on in Portland”. And I suppose the guy who put this up — trying to counter-act the media frame of the wacky frog and etc protests, missed the lessons of Aisles or Atwater on campaign commercials, where he thanked the network news “Reagan campaign ad versus reality” producer for showing that gaudy commercial again, no one is paying any mind to the audio laying out damming statistics. Once I look at the comments and gander the man’s youtube work, I see he is a Trumpist “exposing” the criminality of these “antifa” frog costumed jerks, his sneering “Hi Antifa” to the chicken costumed guy a genuine sneer. And I have to watch to see what lawlessness he is even claiming, taken as second nature from the yah saying comments. Even here I have to watch a longer video from a “local activist with a YouTube channel” to grasp the forced perspective — along the lines of — The city is allowing Chicken Man to direct traffic, complicit in letting them yell at good ICE functionaries before they enter this building.
Another short pops into view, it is a doozy in messaging terms. “MAGA Destroys Antifa in Fist Fight in Portland”. Royal Rumble this, agitators spoiling for an eruption, a weird coda of incredulity washes past, inconsistent storylines blurring, an expression of raw power and no framework. Nah nah nah — we lift weights, you don’t. Again — so many of these declared “antifa” are wearing inflatable costumes, so they are kind of at a disadvantage when the bullies come in from out of town.