Donald Trump has discovered a sudden, passionate love for protesters.
Specifically, Iranian protesters.
In recent days, the president has floated the idea of U.S. military intervention to “rescue” demonstrators facing repression abroad. He’s warned Iran not to harm them. He’s promised America is “locked and loaded.” He has cast himself as the muscular guardian 
of free expression — the patron saint of the First Amendment, now apparently available for international export.
How noble. How stirring.
How… completely inconsistent with everything he’s done at home.
Because while Trump is threatening airstrikes to protect protesters in Tehran, his administration has spent the last week treating protesters in Minneapolis like enemy combatants.
There, demonstrators outraged over aggressive immigration raids took to the streets. Federal agents responded with force. One protester — Renee Nicole Good, a poet and mother of three with stuffed animals in her glove compartment — was killed by 
ICE agent Jonathan Ross for no good reason. She wasn’t a threat. But before facts were established, the White House rushed to brand her a “domestic terrorist.” Evidence? Thin. Rage? Ample.
When asked about videos showing federal agents shoving and confronting peaceful protesters, Trump didn’t express concern for civil liberties. He expressed sympathy — for ICE. “Well, I think ICE has been treated very badly,” he said.
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So in review… Protesters in Iran: Heroes. Brave. Worth U.S. military protection. Protesters in Minnesota: Suspects. Threats. Possibly terrorists. Shoot first, ask questions later.
Same act. Same principle. Different political target. Different verdict.
This is not new.
ICE agents have sprayed people dressed as frogs and the giraffe guy with chemicals. They have dragged people, U.S. citizens, out 
of their cars. They have Shopointed long guns at civilians.
When millions of Americans marched in “No Kings” protests against Trump last year — overwhelmingly peaceful, massive, patriotic displays of civic participation — Trump and his allies preemptively labeled them antifa radicals, terrorist sympathizers, even insurrectionists. Federal crackdowns were floated. Free speech protections were questioned. Troops were deployed. Judges, including Republican ones, later ruled those deployments unjustified.
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Earlier this year, Trump called some protests “illegal,” suggested deporting legal immigrants for expressing pro-Palestinian views, advocated criminalizing flag burning, and mused that criticizing judges should be against the law — a fascinating proposal from a man who insults judges as a hobby.
During his first term, his own defense secretary said Trump asked whether protesters could be shot in the legs. In 2020, amid racial justice demonstrations, Trump amplified a supporter declaring, “The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.”
But now — now — he is outraged by the idea of a foreign regime harming protesters. It would be more convincing if he hadn’t spent decades telling us exactly how he feels about dissent.
In 1990, Trump praised China’s violent crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Not condemned it. Celebrated it.
“They were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength,” he said. “That shows you the power of strength.”
In 2017, asked about Vladimir Putin killing political opponents, Trump replied: “You think our country’s so innocent?”
This is not a man guided by a deep, consistent reverence for civil liberties. This is a man who admires power — and prefers protests only when they serve his interests.
Which brings us back to Iran.
Is Trump suddenly a First Amendment evangelist? A global defender of free assembly? A believer in the sacred right to dissent?
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Or is this simply another opportunity to posture as strong, threaten force, and pick a foreign enemy — while quietly eroding those same freedoms at home?
Because it’s hard to sell yourself as the savior of protesters abroad while criminalizing, deporting, or gassing them at home. In the rest of the world, they call that hypocrisy.
In Washington, they call it Tuesday.
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Ron Cohn ,
I imagine you know but MANY read these forums and never comment but the leader of Proud Boys did time for Medicare fraud then snitched on his buddies yet this is a MAGA Hero .
” The prosecutor and Tarrio’s defense attorney both cited Tarrio’s extensive cooperation in arguing that his sentence of 30 months should be cut. The judge agreed to reduce his sentence to 16 months, the records show.
“Your Honor, frankly, in all the years, which is now more than 30 that I’ve been doing this, I’ve never had a client as prolific in terms of cooperating in any respect,” said Tarrio’s lawyer at the time, Jeffrey Feiler, according to the transcript.
An email seeking comment was not immediately returned from a lawyer representing Tarrio in his current case. In an interview with Reuters, Tarrio denied ever cooperating with authorities.
After Tarrio’s 2012 indictment, he helped the government prosecute more than a dozen other people, the federal prosecutor told the judge, according to the transcript. Tarrio’s lawyer said he was the first defendant to cooperate in the case and was also involved in a variety of police undercover operations involving things like anabolic steroids and prescription narcotics.”
https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-government-informant-dc84086d78b688bc585f874452d2b481
Cubans have stolen money from Florida taxpayers and U.S. taxpayers for 50 years. Just 5 years ago a Miami Mayor with Cuban ancestors gave 100 acres of Miami park land to a Cuban who lived in a $50 Million house in Coral Gables bought with money inherited from an aggressive daddy. Cubans have been raping and pillaging. Is Trump
aware?
No words, really, other than adjectives. Vile, evil, narcissistic, egomaniacal, sociopathic, deplorable, reprehensible, demented, perverse.
Another hit piece on President Trump. Do you really think you have what it takes to call anyone, let alone the President, a hypocrite? You are just a commie-friendly, criminal illegal immigrant-sympathizer, deranged White radical-lover. And you are of Cuban-descent. Make that make sense. Stick to local politics, and don’t embarrass yourself like this.
“Because it’s hard to sell yourself as the savior of protesters abroad while criminalizing, deporting, or gassing them at home. In the rest of the world, they call that hypocrisy. In Washington, they call it Tuesday.”
How did the Miami Herald ever let you leave?
Trumps Talking points written by the Cuban exile community in Miami. Sec Marco Rubio whose immigrant parents violated 1950s deportation orders, family paid the rent with contributions from a relatives cocaine drug dealing in the house. (All documented)
The nonstop protestors over a poor child creating a ruckus so no one could get to Jackson Hospital or downtown in any reasonable time for weeks.
The harassment embodied in the Miami Model of locals mostly white anglos for the free trade area of the Americas.
And all the result of while liberal bleeding heart JFK’s indulgence and overly generous immigration policy doling out welfare to noncitizens. They took the Medicare and Medicare and then took some more making miami the headquarters of privatization of Medicare and Medicare fraud.
And what that’s have the residents of Miami in the past 70 years gotten for this invasion? Overpriced housing and out of control corruption. Worse racial inequality. Marginalized English language. Native Workers and businesses cut out of the market undercut by immigrant businesses cheating their own employees.
If Hon. Mauricio Claver-Carone wants to send the Venezuelans back, then why shouldn’t the rest of your community go ahead and start packing too. It’s what Jorge Mas cried about for decades destroying every vestige of “do good civic life” in this community from the Herald to the Non-group.
As soon as Havanas falls:
Repeal the Cuban Adjustment, invite this community to repay what they took from existing citizens in welfare and fraud.
don’t let the door hit your a—on the way out. There are plenty of bilingual Anglos the do business with Latin America. No Mauricio et al you will not be the overlords of Latin America based here. we have Steve Bannon’s “real Americans” for that job. Manage your “own” country, just leave.