“It’s like a war zone. There are times I’ve had to have a gas mask on inside my own home,” says a resident near the ICE facility under siege in south Portland.

🙃

Oregon is effectively “stand your ground” by way of not having a duty to retreat law.

Use of deadly force is permitted in response to a felony in progress.

Kidnapping is a felony.

It’s likely a matter of time, and the incident will probably be used to justify further aggression

Hegseth’s speech was met with a relatively muted response from the military brass.

Trump took the stage after him, noting that: “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before.”

Probably because this meeting should could have been an email.

Still part of the caricature.

The notion that firearms ownership is a conservative / MAGA thing is also a farce imo. You don’t even have to go full leftist to find armed progressives.

Ultimately, there’s more to the “prepper” mindset than the catoonified arsenal of weapons for the zombie apocalypse.

Having a deep pantry is prepping. Hell, owning a fire extinguisher is a form of prepping.

“Preppers” are not tied to one set of politics or another.

You’re describing an imagined caricature.