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These soldiers are disregarding and overriding the elementary rights of American citizens by applying tactics which must have been copied from the manual issued the officers of Hitlers storm troopers.

-- The president is substituting military dictatorship for the Constitution of the United States.

-- My fellow citizens, we are now an occupied territory.

All this because, after 50 days of raging violence, President Trump has finally sent federal agents to restore order in Portland, Oregon.

No wait. Different Democrats and different president.

Although all those quotes are indeed from Democrats about a Republican president, it wasnt Trump. They were Democrats Richard Russell, George Wallace and Orval Faubus, denouncing President Dwight Eisenhower for sending troops to enforce desegregation at a schoolhouse in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In 1983, Faubus was warmly embraced by Bill Clinton at his gubernatorial inauguration. Todays Democrats are Orval Faubus.

In Portland, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Atlanta and elsewhere, children are not merely being blocked from the schoolhouse door -- theyre being killed. Theyre being maimed. Citizens are having their property looted and their public spaces destroyed, all with the connivance of local Democratic officials.

And once again, the Democrats are championing states rights to protect domestic terrorists.

Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped. -- Nancy Pelosi

Democrats and the media want the federal government to brutally crack down on people who dont wear masks -- whatever the states say -- but faced with an actual violent rebellion, the feds are supposed to stand back and let the governors lead!

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called the federal officers protecting American citizens an attack on our democracy. Yes, Orval, Portland is occupied territory -- just like Little Rock in 1957!

Democrats dont care that they are mimicking monstrous figures from the nations history. They dont care that they are taking sides with Antifa, whose express mission is to kill police officers and destroy America.

Oh, well get away with it. The media wont report on the violent rioting that the federal government is quelling.

Boy, are they right.

If Faubus had had MSNBC, CNN and The New York Times covering for him, Americans wouldnt have had the first idea why Eisenhower was sending troops to Little Rock.

Until the feds arrived in Portland last week, the Times most expansive description of the riots was this aside in a chipper article about Seattles autonomous zone: Perhaps taking a cue from Seattle, demonstrators in Portland, Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere have tried to set up protest sites of their own.

The media pitch the Lesbian Motorcycle Collective as Portland Moms.

When reporting on the protests, MSNBC and CNN invariably feature some area of Portland far from the carnage, showing people strolling, the sun shining, and not a single building on fire!

Youll never see the part of the city -- a little area called downtown Portland -- where thousands of black-clad Antifa have been laying waste to everything in sight.

You wont see the miles of charming graffiti spray-painted on every vertical surface [such as] Abolish America, No Good Cops.

Trump should say nothing about Portland except: Look at the videos. I recommend you start with journalist Andy Ngos Twitter feed: @MrAndyNgo.

After hiding the truth for 50 days, this week, Democrats and the media have been gasping in horror at the sight of federal law enforcement agents appearing in such a bucolic little burg.

Heres some of whats being hidden from you:

Night after night, the peaceful protesters have thrown bombs, bricks, frozen water bottles and cement blocks at the Portland police, whom they vastly outnumber. Theyve fired mortars, marbles, ball bearings and commercial-grade fireworks at officers, sending dozens to the hospital.

They have blinded police with laser guns, slashed their tires, assaulted journalists, and set fire to buildings, statues and homeless peoples belongings.

So far, the rioters have done millions of dollars in property damage. In the first few days of July, shootings were up 240% compared to the same period in 2019.

Portland police precincts and the federal courthouse have been under constant siege -- windows smashed and people barricaded inside as the buildings are set ablaze.

Or, as summarized by Ali Velshi on the Antifa Channel: While most protesters are peaceful, small groups have clashed with authorities.

Look at the videos.

Once federal officers moved in, the Times finally decided to tell its readers about Portland. For an accurate portrayal of the protests, the Times interviewed local reporter Robert Evans, who has tweeted:

-- I feel like tonight Portland finally joined the pantheon of cities that are Good At Rioting

-- One of Portlands lessons for the Left is that, sometimes, if you meet liberals in the right way, they wind up wanting to break down the doors of a federal building with sledgehammers.

So you know youre getting the straight poop from one of Portlands leading antifa cheerleaders.

I dont care if you havent heard about whats happening in these cities. I dont care that their governors and mayors dont think its a problem. Unless youre Orval Faubus, its the federal governments responsibility to quash insurrections and protect the rights of American citizens.

The very reason we have a Constitution (instead of the Articles of Confederation) is precisely to allow the federal government to put down rebellions. It wasnt a federal school in Little Rock. Its the presidents job more vital than randomly bombing Syria! to suppress domestic insurrections.

This is not the first time Republican presidents have had to deal with terrorist-supporting Democrats. It probably wont be the last.

New York Times bestselling author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter is a graduate of CornellUniversity and the University of Michigan Law School. She was a law clerk for the 8th CircuitCourt of Appeals, legal counsel to Sen. Spencer Abraham on the Senate Judiciary Committee, andpracticed corporate law. She was a political pundit for MSNBC from 1996 to 1999. In addition to her newspaper column for Andrews McMeel Syndication, Ann is a regular contributor to conservative news sites Human Events and Breitbart. She is a native of New Canaan, Connecticut.

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These soldiers are disregarding and overriding the elementary rights of American citizens by applying tactics which must have been copied from the manual issued the officers of Hitlers storm troopers.

The president is substituting military dictatorship for the Constitution of the United States.

My fellow citizens, we are now an occupied territory.

All this because, after 50 days of raging violence, President Trump has finally sent federal agents to restore order in Portland, Oregon.

No wait. Different Democrats and different president.

Although all those quotes are indeed from Democrats about a Republican president, it wasnt Trump. They were Democrats Richard Russell, George Wallace and Orval Faubus, denouncing President Dwight Eisenhower for sending troops to enforce desegregation at a schoolhouse in Little Rock, Arkansas.

In 1983, Faubus was warmly embraced by Bill Clinton at his gubernatorial inauguration. Todays Democrats are Orval Faubus.

In Portland, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Atlanta and elsewhere, children are not merely being blocked from the schoolhouse door theyre being killed. Theyre being maimed. Citizens are having their property looted and their public spaces destroyed, all with the connivance of local Democratic officials.

And once again, the Democrats are championing states rights to protect domestic terrorists.

Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped. Nancy Pelosi

Democrats and the media want the federal government to brutally crack down on people who dont wear masks whatever the states say but faced with an actual violent rebellion, the feds are supposed to stand back and let the governors lead!

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called the federal officers protecting American citizens an attack on our democracy. Yes, Orval, Portland is occupied territory just like Little Rock in 1957!

Democrats dont care that they are mimicking monstrous figures from the nations history. They dont care that they are taking sides with antifa, whose express mission is to kill police officers and destroy America.

Oh, well get away with it. The media wont report on the violent rioting that the federal government is quelling.

Boy, are they right.

If Faubus had had MSNBC, CNN and The New York Times covering for him, Americans wouldnt have had the first idea why Eisenhower was sending troops to Little Rock.

Until the feds arrived in Portland last week, the Times most expansive description of the riots was this aside in a chipper article about Seattles autonomous zone: Perhaps taking a cue from Seattle, demonstrators in Portland, Philadelphia, Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere have tried to set up protest sites of their own.

The media pitch the Lesbian Motorcycle Collective as Portland Moms.

When reporting on the protests, MSNBC and CNN invariably feature some area of Portland far from the carnage, showing people strolling, the sun shining, and not a single building on fire!

Youll never see the part of the city a little area called downtown Portland where thousands of black-clad antifa have been laying waste to everything in sight.

You wont see the miles of charming graffiti spray-painted on every vertical surface: Fk Cops, Fk ICE, Abolish America, No Good Cops, Kill Cops, Cops = Bastards, Pigs!, Yes All Cops, Oink, Oink, Fck Trump, Kill the Police, Dead Cops, Pigs, Slaughterhouse Die Piggie Die, Burn Pigs, and of course, the antifa slogan, ACAB, or All Cops Are Bastards.

Trump should say nothing about Portland except: Look at the videos. I recommend you start with journalist Andy Ngos Twitter feed: @MrAndyNgo.

After hiding the truth for 50 days, this week, Democrats and the media have been gasping in horror at the sight of federal law enforcement agents appearing in such a bucolic little burg.

Heres some of whats being hidden from you:

Night after night, the peaceful protesters have thrown bombs, bricks, frozen water bottles and cement blocks at the Portland police, whom they vastly outnumber. Theyve fired mortars, marbles, ball bearings and commercial-grade fireworks at officers, sending dozens to the hospital.

They have blinded police with laser guns, slashed their tires, assaulted journalists, and set fire to buildings, statues and homeless peoples belongings.

So far, the rioters have done millions of dollars in property damage. In the first few days of July, shootings were up 240% compared to the same period in 2019.

Portland police precincts and the federal courthouse have been under constant siege windows smashed and people barricaded inside as the buildings are set ablaze.

Or, as summarized by Ali Velshi on the Antifa Channel: While most protesters are peaceful, small groups have clashed with authorities.

Look at the videos.

Once federal officers moved in, the Times finally decided to tell its readers about Portland. For an accurate portrayal of the protests, the Times interviewed local reporter Robert Evans, who has tweeted:

I feel like tonight Portland finally joined the pantheon of cities that are Good At Rioting

One of Portlands lessons for the Left is that, sometimes, if you meet liberals in the right way, they wind up wanting to break down the doors of a federal building with sledgehammers.

So you know youre getting the straight poop from one of Portlands leading antifa cheerleaders.

I dont care if you havent heard about whats happening in these cities. I dont care that their governors and mayors dont think its a problem.

Unless youre Orval Faubus, its the federal governments responsibility to quash insurrections and protect the rights of American citizens.

The very reason we have a Constitution (instead of the Articles of Confederation) is precisely to allow the federal government to put down rebellions. It wasnt a federal school in Little Rock. Its the presidents job more vital than randomly bombing Syria! to suppress domestic insurrections.

This is not the first time Republican presidents have had to deal with terrorist-supporting Democrats. It probably wont be the last.

Ann Coulter is a regular contributor to conservative news sites Human Events and Breitbart. She is a native of New Canaan, Conn.

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Ann Coulter: Democrats: The party of Antifa | Opinion - Today's News-Herald

Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, is seeking the GOP nomination to replace retiring Republican Pat Roberts in this year's race for Roberts' U.S. Senate seat. And he has to thank for his campaign's viability an $850,000 investment from controversial tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

"I think the money that that super PAC is putting into the raceprimarily through this one rich guyis absolutely the lifeblood of the pro-Kobach campaign at this moment," Patrick Miller, a political scientist at the University of Kansas, told Recode. "You take that money away and Kobach doesn't have a lot of campaign left."

That Thieloften identified, including by himself, as a libertarianis dedicating himself to a candidate whose primary obsession is immigration restriction is a further sign of the tumultuous swirl of hypernationalism pushed by and surrounding Thiel (and discussed at length in a story in the August/September issue of Reason, now available online to subscribers).

Unnamed friends of Thiel tell Recodethat Thiel "has a really strong preference for people who stick their middle finger up to the status quo and conventional wisdom. There is nobody who I think was more obviously sticking his middle finger up at conventional wisdom quite like Kris Kobach."

Thiel back in 2016 shook up some of his libertarian fans by becoming a Trump delegate and hyping him onstage at the Republican National Convention. Thiel went on to become a poster boy for the new conservative nationalism and has been reported to be disappointed in the president lately and so far sitting out this presidential race.

Thiel had, however, reportedly began donating to immigration-restrictionist causes at least as far back as 2008, and over the years he's given to a wide variety of GOP candidates and PACs, including $2 million to a Carly Fiorina PAC.

Thiel's interest in Kobach is likely rooted in the same reasons he was enthusiastic about Trump. Kobach was one of the minds behind Trump's Muslim registry and his unrepentant anti-immigration views mark him as perhaps Trumpier than Trump. (Kobach believes COVID-19 death numbers are being manipulated up to harm the president, for one.) Trump endorsed Kobach in his failed attempt to become governor of Kansas in 2018, and Thiel began funding Kobach during that race. Fellow disillusioned Trump superfan and immigration-hater Ann Coulter co-hosted a Kobach fundraiser in Thiel's New York apartment.

Recodereports that Thiel has "cut at least three successive checks to [a pro-Kobach PAC called Free Forever], the most recent for a half-million dollars last month." The PAC has "spent more than four times what Kobach's campaign itself has spent on television and radio adsThe heavy amount of mailers sent by the PAC have run the gamut of attacking [Republican challenger Roger] Marshall as 'anti-American' for being insufficiently tough on immigration, alleging that he voted to fund 'Rosie O'Donnell summer camp,' 'global warming musicals,' and 'transgender plays,' and promising that Kobach will 'stop the next Ruth Bader Ginsburg.'"

Thiel's other candidate donations this year are going to another super immigration hawk, and advocate of sending in federal troops to quell protesters, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.

Kobach is also one of the leading voices claiming American elections are rife with fraud and had his attempt to fight it when he was Kansas' secretary of state overturned in 2018 by a federal judge who questioned the reality of the problem Kobach was allegedly solving.

The primary election for the U.S. Senate seat Kobach is vying for will be held on August 4.

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Immigration Hawk Kris Kobach's Senate Campaign Is Heavily Supported by Peter Thiel - Reason

In usually deep-red Kansas, Democrats have the luxury of a sleepy primary contest for US Senate. Republicans do not.

Thats because in the Democratic primary the Kansas state senator Barbara Bollier is the heavy favorite to win her partys nomination and then run a competitive general election campaign fueled by a large war chest of cash.

That prospect is sharpened because Republicans are having to go through a bloody primary between the Kansas congressman Roger Marshall and former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach, the immigration hardliner and former Republican nominee for governor whose unpopularity should he win the nod could hand the Democrats a vital Senate seat they would never normally hope to win.

Kobachs candidacy is notable for its support from the billionaire Peter Thiel, the libertarian venture capitalist who has at times expressed the same type of hardline immigration stances as Kobach.

Thiels support for Kobach has flowed through a pro-Kobach Super Pac called the Freedom Forever Political Action Committee. That support has allowed Kobach to effectively remain competitive with the more establishment-aligned Marshall. It has also meant that Republicans have had to sort out their contentious primary right up until the election on 4 August rather than focus on their Democratic opponent.

Thiels support is not based on a longtime relationship with Kobach, despite comments by both of them that places them roughly in the same immigration hawk wing of the Republican party.

Rather, Thiels support for Kobach stems from Ann Coulter, who connected the two and helped host a 2019 fundraiser for Kobach featuring Thiel. Other high-profile Republican donors such as Rebekah Mercer and Eric Prince attended. Kobach and Thiel first interacted in 2015, according to Recode. But Thiel really decided to support Kobach in 2019 after being pitched on supporting the pro-Kobach Super Pac, according to the Recode report.

Peter and Kris dont actually know each other reasonably well, said one well-entrenched Kansas Republican operative. Ann Coulters one of Peters best friends, and he kind of does whatever she tells him to.

Thiel has poured over $850,000 into the race to support Kobach. That support has buoyed the Kansas secretary of state through a multi-candidate primary and sparked a string of stinging attacks between Kobach and Marshall.

Super Pacs have played an influential role in this Senate race. A mystery Super Pac with ties to Democrats has tried to play spoiler in the Republican primary. Marshall also has a Super Pac supporting him.

Some Republicans cant see Kobach winning the primary, even with Thiels money behind him.

Republicans in Kansas want a proven winner, not a proven loser. Kobachs toast, the edge goes to Marshall, said the Republican strategist Chris LaCivita, who is helping run the pro-Marshall Super Pac.

But in the final few days before the primary internal campaign polling has found Marshall with a single-digit lead over Kobach, according to multiple Republicans with knowledge of those figures. More concerning for Republicans is that polling also shows Bollier competitive against either candidate.

If Bollier won the Senate race, it could dramatically shift control of the Senate to Democrats. It would also end the eight-decade streak of Republican control of both Kansas Senate seats. Statewide Democratic victories in Kansas arent unheard of. In 2018 the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Laura Kelly, defeated Kobach after a grueling Republican primary fight. Now Republicans worry 2020 could be deja vu.

Theres plenty Kobach and Thiel have in common.

Thiel has donated money to NumbersUSA, the anti-immigration group thats supported Kobach. Both have considered running for governorships with Thiel weighing a bid in California. Both have ties to Trump. Thiel spoke at the 2016 Republican national convention for Trump, donated $1.25m to the Trump campaign, and had been in consideration to serve on the Trump administrations intelligence advisory board.

Kobach had been mentioned as a potential secretary of the Department of Homeland Security or immigration tsar but those talks fell apart after an unusually long list of Kobachs demands to serve in the Trump administration became public.

Both Thiel and Kobach have connections to extremely aggressive approaches to curb immigration. Software from Palantir, a company co-founded by Thiel, was used to target the relatives of migrant children, according to a report in the Intercept. Kobach has also laid out a blueprint for a federal registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

The Kansas Senate race has emerged as one of the more competitive races regardless of who wins. Trump does not plan to weigh in in the primary despite having endorsed Kobach when he ran for governor in 2018. Aides and advisers see Marshall as the more competitive opponent in the general election.

On Wednesday on Air Force One Trump indicated he would stay out of the primary. During a conversation on that flight the Texas senator Ted Cruz reminded Trump that Marshall supported the former Ohio governor John Kasich and not Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.

Cruz has ties to Thiel as well. Thiel has been a longtime donor to Cruz campaigns going back to Cruzs initial interest in running for attorney general of Texas. So the forces pushing Kobach extend to multiple corners of the Republican party.

Other parts of the party remain unconvinced. I think if Kobach is going to be the nominee its over, fretted a longtime Republican strategist.

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Why is a Silicon Valley billionaire trying to get an immigration hawk elected to the US Senate? - The Guardian

r/The_Donald, the largest group on Reddit devoted to discussing Donald Trump, has been banned from the site for violating three of the sites' rules, namely, rules 1, 2, and 8:

Rule 1Remember the human. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

Rule 2Abide by community rules. Post authentic content into communities where you have a personal interest, and do not cheat or engage in content manipulation (including spamming, vote manipulation, ban evasion, or subscriber fraud) or otherwise interfere with or disrupt Reddit communities.

Rule 8Dont break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of Reddit.

"All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith," a spokesperson for Reddit said. "We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every opportunity. The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average (Rule 1), antagonized us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8), and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations. Until now, weve worked in good faith to help them preserve the community as a space for its usersthrough warnings, mod changes, quarantining, and more."

The virtual "quarantine" had been in place for just over a year, and required viewers to opt-in before being able to see the site. Reddit had previously hidden popular r/The_Donald posts from the site's front page.

r/The_Donald has often become embroiled in the discussion of conspiracy theories, including Pizzagate and the alleged involvement of the Clintons in the 2017 murder of Seth Rich. It was also a hotbed of racism, Islamphobia, and misogyny. While Trump wasn't officially affiliated with the subreddit, he did an AMA there in 2016. Other AMAs hosted on the subreddit included Ann Coulter, Alex Jones, Roger Stone, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Tucker Carlson.

Along with r/The_Donald, around 2000 other subreddits, including one for discussing podcast Chapo Trap House, were banned.

Meanwhile, streaming site Twitch temporarily suspended Trump's own account today. A spokesperson for the site told TechCrunch, "Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch. In line with our policies, President Trumps channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed."

The comments that led to the suspension were from two of Trump's campaign rallies, the first from his 2015 campaign kickoff:

When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre not sending you. Theyre not sending you. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what were getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. Theyre sending us not the right people.

The second comment was much more recent, coming from his Tulsa, Oklahoma rally earlier this month:

Hey, its 1:00 oclock in the morning and a very tough, Ive used the word on occasion, hombre, a very tough hombre is breaking into the window of a young woman whose husband is away as a traveling salesman or whatever he may do. And you call 911 and they say, Im sorry, this numbers no longer working. By the way, you have many cases like that, many, many, many. Whether its a young woman, an old woman, a young man or an old man and youre sleeping.

"Like anyone else," Twitch told TechCrunch, "politicians on Twitch must adhere to our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. We do not make exceptions for political or newsworthy content, and will take action on content reported to us that violates our rules."

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