Thank you, Marcy. That was my impression immediately even when it was just about Portland and it still is. Constitutional crisis: NOT. Just bullshit distraction constitutional crisis to look tough on crime for election campaign purposes.

They'll disappear sooner or later like the ones in DC did. That probably happened because the polls about Trump's bible in front of the church act were terrible. So time to get rid of the goons that went along with that whole show.

Of course all the constitutional lawyers tweeting jump right on it with outrage, it's like their dream case. One clue for me, though, I didn't see a peep from Obama. And he was once a constitutional law professor.

It's all kabuki. The protesters do kabuki, kafaybe I am seeing DOJ sending professional wrestlers do kabuki/kafaybe back as long as they can before stopped by courts or just bad polling.

It actually sickens me sometimes looking at tweets commenting on protest videos, no matter whether they are coming from pro-protester or pro-cop. So often they sound just like someone commenting on a boxing match, so many people really get into the bloodlust action, who's winning in each bout, etc. Disgusting because all purpose is lost. What were these people protesting again? Sort of forgotten, only the kabuki left.

(I didn't even like some of this type of thing in the Hong Kong protests, when the radicals would do their thing, their act, like in a shopping mall, people would applaud, some became celebs. They became professional protesters. Where did that get them? What I think worked better, frightening the leaders in China, the mass protests, mass of people with umbrellas, that type of thing. But that's just me.)

But yeah, the Barr army is a cynical political ploy.

Like I also said before--if protesters carry it too far and keep attacking Federal property in response though, I can easily see Democrats in Congress voting for a Federal police force down the line to protect Federal property. Especially if police forces in cities are cut in response to "Defund the Police" movement.

A reminder about a name that has to do with protection of federal offices: TIMOTHY MC. VEIGH. That wasn't kabuki.