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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[–] 304 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Any time ice shows up, declare a protest and they have to unmask. Checkmate.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I never expected him to be so authoritarian and incendiary. Who could have possibly seen this kind of dictatorship coming???

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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 148 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I'm pretty sure that's not within his power to dictate people can't wear masks.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    It's pretext to be able to designate a riot when someone in a peaceful protest has a mask.

    That, and/or they'll do the time-consuming thing of recognizing people that aren't wearing masks, and arresting them at their homes or places of work.

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    “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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    [–] 78 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

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

    Ask ICE this question...

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    pigs deserve so much more than to be associated with cops

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pigs are as intelligent as dogs. Calling police pigs is an insult to pigs.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago*

    Silly rabbit, masks are for stormin the Capitol!

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    [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    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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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s literally 10:30 AM in LA. National guard hasn’t done anything.

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Well that's not really how civil disobedience works now is it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Who do I email to to get paid to be a troublemaker? I’ve got experience.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Lol

    I do believe the correct response is "make me."

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    HEAR YE HEAR YE FOR THE KING HATH TROOTED, LET IT BE SO

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    If people are getting paid for protesting, why the heck am I doing it for free!?!?!?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    let’s ensure ICE agents don’t get masks too.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There weren't any issues on the protest side to declare a success. It was pretty quiet last night when I was checking the live steams. It looked like there were way more ICE than protesters.

    Here are some links of the live streams you can check out for yourself:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MfqiO3QQk

    Here's another view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPTnHNEUiE

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