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Trump to Governor Inslee Amid Seattle Antifa Revolt: 'Take Back Your City NOW. If You Don't, I Will.'
PJ Media ^ | 06/11/2020 | Tyler O' Neill

Posted on 06/11/2020 6:37:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

As antifa militants have taken over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, calling it the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or the “People’s Republic of Capitol Hill,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has refused to act, and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) actually laughed about this open revolt, claiming he hadn’t heard about it. He did say, however, that he was demobilizing the National Guard. President Donald Trump told Durkan and Inslee to get their acts together, stat.

“Radical Left Governor [Jay Inslee] and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before,” the president tweeted. “Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!”

Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before. Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stooped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2020

President Trump is correct — this is not a game. Roughly 500 Americans live in the six city blocks that antifa militants have claimed in the name of their revolution. The anarchists in the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” appear to have set up an extortion racket to blackmail local businesses into forking over supplies.

Yet Jay Inslee appears to think it is a game.

Gov. Inslee on so-called "autonomous zone" on Capitol Hill:

"That's news to me". pic.twitter.com/L3LT86Zxgq

— Rebecca Perry (@Rebecca_Perry) June 10, 2020


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: antifa; govinslee; inslee; seattle; trump; trumpantifa; trumpseattle; trumptweet
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To: Black Agnes

You can count the under 35’s that oppose this stuff on the fingers of one hand.
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I think the situation appears as you’ve described because, as the saying goes, it’s the squeaky wheel that gets the attention. But I believe the vast majority of people under 35 are not participants or supporters of the lunatic fringe, On the other hand, I’m sure there are a great many of them who deem it necessary to act rebellious and cheer on the thugs, but if/when threats of physical danger get serious most all of them will become basically invisible.


101 posted on 06/11/2020 8:24:18 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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To: Wallace T.

Oh, piff. There’s plenty to worry about without inventing it.


102 posted on 06/11/2020 8:24:52 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Colo9250

RE: What about states rights? If the Governor wants his state to burn down, let it happen.

What about insurrection?

The US constitution gives Congress the Power to suppress it.

Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution states that Congress has to power:

15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

Question: Does this thing going on in Seattle constitute INSURRECTION?


103 posted on 06/11/2020 8:25:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it wil)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

That doesn’t make them ‘not commies’.

It just makes them ‘cowardly commies’.


104 posted on 06/11/2020 8:28:24 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Starboard
Somehow I just don’t see these ‘takers’ ever becoming ‘makers’. Their sense of entitlement has been deeply embedded by years of permissiveness and indoctrination.

Exactly so. We worry about earning a living, they spend their time demanding "access to services."

105 posted on 06/11/2020 8:28:30 AM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: skimbell

and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
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Has the executive or the legislature made such application?
If not the President can patiently wait until such application is received.


106 posted on 06/11/2020 8:32:34 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The people of Seattle should rise up and take over this illegal government
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According to what I’ve read and heard in the media, a large percentage of the people of Seattle are supportive of the rabble!


107 posted on 06/11/2020 8:35:46 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (No foreign enemy is as dangerous as the Democrat Party and its supporters.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly. Trump should simply put them on display for what they are. The rest will solve itself in November.


108 posted on 06/11/2020 8:46:06 AM PDT by reardensteel
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To: HighSierra5

Trump could prevent his problem by not threatening actions that he will not carry out.


109 posted on 06/11/2020 8:48:39 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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The Russian hostage approach: Nerve gas everyone and sort out the still alive quivering bodies from the cold ones. Safer that way.


110 posted on 06/11/2020 8:49:29 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: T.B. Yoits

Our son listed his house, sold it and moved away.
Good going, kiddo...


111 posted on 06/11/2020 8:51:47 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: gogeo
I can see you enjoy being cleverly provocative. Why not, for the sake of variety, try being intelligent?

And if, for the sake of argument, I was as intelligent as you then what would be my reaction to Trump's threat?

112 posted on 06/11/2020 9:06:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ScottinVA
RE: Don’t do it, Mr. President. Let it go... let the chips fall where they may. The occupations by ANTIFA isn’t a priority to the locals and their state, so it isn’t one for us.


113 posted on 06/11/2020 9:20:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it wil)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Haven’t been to Seattle in over 20 years, but my perception is that the majority of the inhabitants are effeminate safe-space liberals who are scared to death of guns, freedom, and any difference of opinion.


114 posted on 06/11/2020 9:24:27 AM PDT by Left2Right (Keep America Great!)
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To: DoodleDawg; gogeo

Don’t worry. We’ll nuke’m from space just to be sure. ;-)

DD - You do seem to be trying to get a rise out us ‘Mericans. President Trump knows what he’s doing, starting with getting this story into the news cycle whether they like it or not.


115 posted on 06/11/2020 9:54:17 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Pride in the USA

No, no it won’t.


116 posted on 06/11/2020 10:33:24 AM PDT by lonevoice (If I were not a physicist, I would be a musician. I think in music. ~ A. Einstein)
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To: gogeo

You’ve learned nothing over the last four years?

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I’m a Trump supporter who has donated a lot of money to his campaigns, but I’m not an unquestioning drone. We should never stop questioning those who lead us.

We’re in a very dicey time in this nation’s history and he has to be very measured in what he says. There’s an old expression that says “Say what you mean, and mean what you say”. Trump had best be prepared to back up his words lest he appear weak to a growing mass of violent anarchists. And that would be very bad for all of us.


117 posted on 06/11/2020 10:33:39 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

Spot on.


118 posted on 06/11/2020 10:47:50 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: USCG SimTech

Or just surround the 6 block radius cut the power andand wait. With no food or power they will last a day or two at most.


119 posted on 06/11/2020 11:01:41 AM PDT by cyberstoic (I)
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To: gogeo

“Wake up and smell the flippin’ coffee”

Next time try to actually say something useful. You sound like a moron.


120 posted on 06/11/2020 11:47:14 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The only black lives that matter to BLM are those ended by whites.)
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