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Tuesday, October 07, 2025

On three GOP platforms, Republicans displayed an image that was meant to prove Portland was out of control and the city is "burning to the ground" but the image was not of Portland, Oregon., The Guardian reports. Instead the image was from South America, specifically from two different events that happened a decade apart.

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Portland city officials confirmed Tuesday that U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem plans to visit the city. [image or embed]

-- OPB (@opb.org) Oct 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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The GOP really wants to be able to kill some people and feel good about themselves.

That's most of the point of these military operations in American cities, to create the conditions where someone gets shot.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-07 01:59 PM | Reply

The GOP is one big party of liars.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-10-07 02:02 PM | Reply

Caught red handed in another lie. But sadly there will be not repercussions or accountability.

Newsworthy thread.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-07 02:07 PM | Reply

When a journalist pointed out the image's inauthenticity, the Oregon Republican Party responded on social media with a cavalier admission: "We're not reporters, just bad memers."

And, of course, when caught, all they have is a flippant deflection devoid of any shame or integrity.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-07 02:12 PM | Reply

Why won't Democrats explain to farmers the image is a fake?

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 02:49 PM | Reply

Pres Trump seems to want to invoke the Insurrection Act as a path towards negating elections.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 02:50 PM | Reply

Pres Trump seems to want to invoke the Insurrection Act as a path towards negating elections.

#6 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

If nothing happens, or if Trump can't make something happen, he'll lie about something happening.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-07 02:57 PM | Reply

Trump needs a reason to declare martial law.

Even if he has to create a fake narrative to justify it.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-07 03:29 PM | Reply

I don't care.

#9 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 03:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

"The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the German parliament building in Berlin on February 27, 1933.

The Nazi Party, which had been in power for less than a month, exploited the event by blaming it on communists and framing it as the start of a violent uprising. This enabled Adolf Hitler to seize absolute power in Germany and dismantle the democratic structures of the Weimar Republic."

www.google.com

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-07 03:41 PM | Reply

Leave it liberals to avoid the issue and deflect to photos.

#11 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 03:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Leave it liberals to avoid the issue and deflect to photos."

Leave it to conservatives to lie their asses off, protect pedos, and crash grindr at conferences.

#12 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-10-07 03:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Leave it to conservatives to lie their asses off, protect pedos, and crash grindr at conferences.

Posted by dibblda at 2025-10-07 03:48 PM | Reply

Bears repeating

#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-07 03:50 PM | Reply

I don't care.
#9 | Posted by BillJohnson

Don't worry, Bill, we already knew you are completely lacking in integrity.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-07 03:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Leave it liberals to avoid the issue and deflect to photos.
#11 | Posted by BillJohnson

Republicans make up a fake issue out of fake evidence and you expect liberals to act like it is real?

#15 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-10-07 03:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Americans really want to be able to kill other Americans and feel good about themselves.
#1 | Posted by Zed

FTFY
A disgrace.

#16 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-10-07 04:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

...liberals to avoid the issue...
#11 | Posted by BillJohnson

It seems to me the issue of this thread is how Cons need to lie to make their point. Which of course means they have no point.

#17 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-10-07 04:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I don't care.

#9 | Posted by BillJohnson

You don't have the brains to realize why a fascist administration needs to lie to you about liberal cities needing military invasions.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-07 04:27 PM | Reply

Just like you don't have the brains to realize why a fascist administration needs to lie to you about millions of illegals voting.

Just like you don't have the brains to realize why a fascist administration needs to lie to you about economic data.

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-07 04:28 PM | Reply

I don't care.
#9 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 03:39 PM | Reply

We know

#20 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-07 04:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" Republicans make up a fake issue out of fake evidence and you expect liberals to act like it is real?"
#15 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

(Unrecognized) Newsworthy Flag

#21 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-07 04:31 PM | Reply

I don't care.
#9 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 03:39 PM | Reply

Mighty christian of you.

#22 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 04:51 PM | Reply

Leave it liberals to avoid the issue and deflect to photos.
#11 | Posted by BillJohnson

What issue? The violence in Portland?

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 04:52 PM | Reply

As an aside, every time I see Noem, I ask myself, what is wrong with her face?

It is some serious uncanny valley ----.

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 04:53 PM | Reply

Leave it liberals to avoid the issue and deflect to photos.
#11 | Posted by BillJohnson

Republicans make up a fake issue out of fake evidence and you expect liberals to act like it is real?

#15 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE

Bill does not care that republicans are lying ... err, creating stories so that the ... "media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people!"

Because he is "Christian" but not a follower of Jesus's teachings.

In John 8, Jesus said to the Jews who were lying, "You are just like your father. You are of the Devil." Lying is perhaps one of the most common of all Christian sins.

#25 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-07 04:55 PM | Reply

www.youtube.com

Live footage from the Portland ICE facility

SEND IN THE NATIONAL GUARD!!!!!

#26 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 04:55 PM | Reply

Speak,

I know this.

Kamala would've been a horrible mistake. Just look at the mess the world's in now.

Trump's a wildcard, for sure, but he's got sharp instincts most people can't fake. I get him.

I spent 30 years managing accounting systems. Some I built from scratch and others I was hired to find holes and inconsistencies.

Here's what people without that kind of experience never understand. Solving complex problems isn't just about logic or backtracking data. It's instinct. Its the kind that comes from years of reading subtle cues and catching what others miss.

Trump has decades of educated guesses and gut instinct.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 04:56 PM | Reply

In find it mind boggling that magat scum would lie like this.

Even the whole eating the cats and dogs lie was in some way plausible because you don't have live video of people NOT eating dogs and cats throughout Ohio.

We have actual live video of Portland.

Like full farting coverage.

How is this reality to magat scum?

Trying to understand their thinking gives me a headache

#28 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 04:58 PM | Reply

Speak,
I know this.
Kamala would've been a horrible mistake. Just look at the mess the world's in now.
Trump's a wildcard, for sure, but he's got sharp instincts most people can't fake. I get him.
I spent 30 years managing accounting systems. Some I built from scratch and others I was hired to find holes and inconsistencies.
Here's what people without that kind of experience never understand. Solving complex problems isn't just about logic or backtracking data. It's instinct. Its the kind that comes from years of reading subtle cues and catching what others miss.
Trump has decades of educated guesses and gut instinct.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 04:56 PM | Reply

GFY BILLJOHNSON I mean seriously STFU.

#29 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-07 04:58 PM | Reply

Donner,

Stuff your religious BS up your ass.

It's meaningless and a mockery of people who take scripture serious.

#30 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 05:00 PM | Reply

Laura,

Yawn...

#31 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 05:02 PM | Reply

Trump has decades of educated guesses and gut instinct.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson

Trump declared bankruptcy 7 times
Trump University-fail
Trump Steak-fail
Trump Water-Fail
Trump Magazine-Fail
Trump airlines-fail
Trump Vodka-fail
GoTrump.com-Fail
Trump Mortgage-fail
The Trump Network-fail
Trump Football-fail
Trump Foundation-fail
Trump the Game-fail
Trump World's Fair-fail

I could go on, you get the point, right?

#32 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 05:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump has decades of educated guesses and gut instinct.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 04:56 PM | Reply

Trump has bankrupt 6 businesses in his lifetime. So much for his educated guesses and instincts.

#33 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-07 05:03 PM | Reply

Trump has 10's of thousands of Documented Lies more than he has instincts.

And his guts hang WAY over his belt.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-07 05:04 PM | Reply

t's meaningless and a mockery of people who take scripture serious.

#30 | Posted by BillJohnson

There is absolutely no proof by any of your posts for years that indicate, even slightly, that you take scripture seriously.

#35 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 05:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- people who take scripture serious.

Don't but Chinese bibles with Trump's name on the cover.

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-07 05:07 PM | Reply

bill did iirc

I think that says just about enough about bill

#37 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 05:08 PM | Reply

Hey bill has your trump bible fallen apart yet?

#38 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-10-07 05:08 PM | Reply

Don't but Chinese bibles with Trump's name on the cover.
Posted by Corky at 2025-10-07 05:07 PM | Reply

Yeah a long with mixing politics with religion. That's a huge no no. Just sayin

#39 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-07 05:09 PM | Reply

Kamala would've been a horrible mistake.

You literally provided zero, zero, reason why.

You never have.

Trump's ... got sharp instincts
#27 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Factually false. You're lying.

His six bankruptcies alone prove that.

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-07 05:17 PM | Reply

Speak,

I know this.

Kamala would've been a horrible mistake. Just look at the mess the world's in now.

Trump's a wildcard, for sure, but he's got sharp instincts most people can't fake. I get him.

I spent 30 years managing accounting systems. Some I built from scratch and others I was hired to find holes and inconsistencies.

Here's what people without that kind of experience never understand. Solving complex problems isn't just about logic or backtracking data. It's instinct. Its the kind that comes from years of reading subtle cues and catching what others miss.

Trump has decades of educated guesses and gut instinct.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson

Trump has decades of bankrupting businesses and stealing from charity. His only instinct is to grab whatever he can for himself whether that's money from a kids cancer charity or the ------- of married women.

He's as fascist who lies to you so he can ignore the constitution and target americans with the military.

And your best defense is "kamala would have been worse." with ZERO support or explanation. In truth you would vote for trump no matter who he ran against, even if it was christ himself, since you don't give 2 ----- about your country or your religion.

#41 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-07 05:25 PM | Reply

I don't care.
#9 | Posted by BillJohnson

Bill NEVER cares about facts.

He still maintains mail in voting is completely fraudulent because Republicans lied about it.

Facts never matter to MAGAts.

#42 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-07 05:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump's a wildcard, for sure, but he's got sharp instincts most people can't fake. I get him.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson

You get the Pedophile? ...Interesting...

#43 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-07 05:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Truth,

"Hey bill has your trump bible fallen apart yet?"

Its KJV. I dont read that.

My current preference is NLT. New Living Translation. It's not a paraphrase like the Living Bible. Its a translation. Its thought for thought rather than word for word.

My personal favorite these days.

#44 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 05:36 PM | Reply

44 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

MAGA worships Trump because they think that Christ failed them.

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-07 05:43 PM | Reply

Christ preached empathy, forgiveness, charity, compassion, community. Love thy neighbor, help the sick and poor, care for others.

Basically everything MAGA preaches against.

#46 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-07 05:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Solving complex problems isn't just about logic or backtracking data. It's instinct."

Trump does not have any "logic" or "data" to back up his decisions.

Prove Me Wrong. Show me the logic and data Trump is using.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 06:00 PM | Reply

Christ preached empathy, forgiveness, charity, compassion, community. Love thy neighbor, help the sick and poor, care for others.
Basically everything MAGA preaches against.
#46 | Posted by ClownShack

BillJohnson does not believe that's what Jesus preached.

BillJohnson believes Jesus wants us to cast the first stone.

#48 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 06:01 PM | Reply

@#15 ... Republicans make up a fake issue out of fake evidence and you expect liberals to act like it is real? ...

Maybe that alias is just projecting its mindset upon liberals?

#49 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 06:02 PM | Reply

Trump has decades of educated guesses and gut instinct.
#27 | Posted by BillJohnson

^
It's absolutely crazy how people worship this carnival barker.

BillJohnson can't name a single educated guess Trump made. Not a one.

#50 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 06:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

My current preference is NLT. New Living Translation. It's not a paraphrase like the Living Bible. Its a translation. Its thought for thought rather than word for word.

My personal favorite these days.

#44 | Posted by BillJohnson

Your favorite what? Paperweight? Doorstop? Because you sure as fuck don't read it and understand the words inside.

#51 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-10-07 06:05 PM | Reply

Bill Johnson, you're a garbage human. Saying you don't care about something like this? And yet we're supposed to put any stock in anything you say?

Your entire worldview is based on fraud like this. To me that's pretty significant. You should care, but you've already said you don't, so whatever.

#52 | Posted by cbob at 2025-10-07 06:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#44 ... My current preference is NLT. New Living Translation. ...

While I would not categorize it as a "current" favorite, what I do like to read is...

The Complete Parallel Bible.

The Complete Parallel Bible, with the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version / Revised English Bible / New American Bible / New Jerusalem Bible
www.goodreads.com


I enjoy reading it, and referring to it when I have questions, because it shows four various translations of the original Bible text.

More from the link above ...

... This outstanding Bible presents four of the most highly respected modern language Bible translations, arranged side by side on the page for easy comparison--the first and only parallel text Bible to include the Apocryphal books in the NAB and NJB as well as the NRSV and REB translations.

Bonded leather flexible binding; ribbon marker; 2-piece box.

Genres: Religion

3292 pages, Leather Bound

First published November 25, 1993
...


YMMV, and all that.


#53 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-07 06:30 PM | Reply

BillJohnson chooses whichever Bible translation hates gays the most. FACT!

#54 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 07:09 PM | Reply

I don't care.
Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-07 03:39 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by rcade, funny by ClownShack

You got the coveted blog God endorsement so there's that.

#55 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-07 07:46 PM | Reply

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