Trump said people participating in protests in Los Angeles will not be allowed to wear masks and praised the National Guard for “a job well done” after deploying them to the city to settle the protests.

“These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED,” he wrote on Truth Social early Sunday morning. “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???”

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    Of course trumps thinks they are being paid to do this. After all that asshole has to pay people to do things like this. Even if its nothing but bigoted atta bois.

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    paid troublemakers

    Yes, Donnie, let’s talk about them. How much are you paying the troublemakers to go in and turn the protests violent?

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    IF they want to Wear Masks they MUST be Kidnapping CHILDREN! OTHERWISE you BETTER not Hide Your Identity or FILTER the Poisonous Gas the US Government is USING on YOU!

    • Watching some of the footage and live feeds, I saw very few gas masks being worn by the pigs and it made me wonder why people were throwing bottles and rocks and not the tear gas cans back at them. Especially around the depot or whatever and the pigs were standing in the door ways. Fill that shit up with their own gas and smoke.

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      donvict’s goon squad is trying to start something that they’ll then turn around and blame ‘protesters’ as they mow 'em all down and haul away those who survive.

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        They’ve been trying to start something for awhile now. I think they’ve been genuinely surprised by the lack of eagerness on the part of most Americans to get involved in civil unrest (because we’re normal people who don’t want to do that shit unless there really is no other recourse).

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    “Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why???”

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    Get fucked. If the police and other agents are masked, the protesters stay masked. Eat the shit directly from my asshole, donnie.

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    …yet it’s perfectly fine when the federal agents wear masks and/or fail to identify themselves. Fucking hypocrites.

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      reminder: if they do not identify THEY ARE KIDNAPPING YOU. Respond as you would during a real kidnapping. BECAUSE YOU ARE IN ONE.

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        If you attack them the law is on their side even if they don’t identify themselves:

        [18 U.S. Code] Section 111 makes it a crime to “forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with” federal officials engaged in their duties. But here’s the problem: You don’t even need to know they’re federal officials. You can be convicted for shoving someone you think is just someone yelling in your face, even just placing them in “reasonable fear of harm” without physical contact—if they turn out to be a plainclothes agent. That’s not hypothetical. That’s precedent, courtesy of the Supreme Court over 50 years ago.

        Which means this: An undercover agent embedded in a protest, a public meeting, even a constituent town hall could claim to have been “impeded,” and the federal government can treat that moment as a federal crime. Under the current administration’s appetite for authoritarianism, that’s not a loophole, it’s a feature.

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          If enough of the fascist fucks get their heads blown off trying to kidnap people, they’ll start identifying themselves.

          Arm up if you haven’t already.

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          Except now you can question the legality of official duties. Violating constitutional rights cannot be official duties. I’m not saying you are gonna win this one but a handful of ICE officers getting a blanket party trying to violate due process is a quagmire at best.