Probably asked and answered a while ago but I’m a lazy POS, and I’m trying very hard to not be a doomer.
Is the reason the Fed is still treating all the shit in Portland/Chicago/<Insert Dem Shithole Here> with kid gloves an effort to try and persuade whatever remains of the moderates that the Dems are nuts, in the hopes of midterm gains in the House and Senate?
Because right now, watching the videos of lawlessness without consequence (unless the shitbags are actively shooting; ‘bricks of peace’ still get pepper balls, it seems) it feels like Trump is Buchanan 2.0 (the pres who let the Dems seize Federal coastal forts, garrisons, armories, etc. through the South in 1860).
If there’s some strategy here, fine. But I’m not convinced it’s not just some combo of fecklessness and sabotage from shitlibs in the agencies still. Feels bad man.
EDIT: Phone posting, lol.
As far as I can tell, the feds are treating <insert dem shithole here> with kid gloves for two reasons. The first reason is the fed is not MAGA, and therefore does not have MAGA's desire to see the filth crushed. Trump is MAGA, the people who he appoints to run the agencies can be MAGA, the recent influx of new people can be MAGA. Yet the agencies themselves are still staffed with people hired decades ago whose politics can range from neocon boomer to far left progressive. The guys doing the actual policing of antifa/protestor behavior are all likely MAGA types, but they don't make the rules.
Not yet at least.
The second, and more important reason is that Trump, and the people he's picked to run the show do not feel an escalation is needed. Yes Trump is deploying national guard to <insert dem shithole here>, but he's only doing it to the extent to enable ICE/CBP to carry out their jobs.
Which is the kicker here, ICE is still doing its job despite all the antifa goons current efforts to stop them. Blocking access to facilities gets them pepper balled, tased, sprayed with tear gas, and arrested for no tangible hit to ICE operations. Deploying the nasty girls will free up more agents to go around arresting more illegals. The more violent actions like the attempted ambush in Chicago, and the three attempts down in Texas have resulted in two dead antifa shitheads, two dead illegals, and a bunch of them getting arrested. Again for no tangible benefit.
ICE operations have only picked up pace, and so far there hasn't been widespread public outcry about ICE.
To use an analogy, imagine the illegals, the antifa types, the democrats in general as under brush that's been allowed to accumulate threw years of mismanagement in a forest. The concern is that all this excess fuel can and will catch fire and burn down the whole forest. Now imagine Trump, Millar, Homan, Patel, or any in the admin as a crew of forest firefighters that have come in to do a control burn. They agree with us, the public, that all this underbrush can lead to a forest fire, and they are doing something about it. Its just from our perspective that they aren't doing enough, or fast enough because we see the storm clouds are on the horizon and we can hear the thunder. They know those clouds are there, they know the storm is coming. They, however, feel a "now, now, now!" approach could cause the control burn to turn into a forest fire.
Now I'm not saying their assessment is correct or right. They could be wrong, but they are the crew doing the burn, not us. So far everything seems to be going their way.
