Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests
Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, along with more than 2,000 state police.
The No Kings protests on Saturday are national. There is probably one near you.
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America is beyond fucked. I said in November after the rapist won that there wouldn’t be an America by the end of his term.
I think he’s accelerated it and there won’t be an America at the end of 2025.
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
Fuck you Trump, die already.
White is not as inclusive as it sounds. Don't worry they'll find reasons to round up them folk too.
Bro they put a white Canadian woman in custody without access to the outside world.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11080371/canadian-woman-detained-ice-example-immigration-border/
Is whiteness a stack and they'll pop Irish and Italian off the top?
They already popped Latin Americans and Middle Eastern people off of it
Yeah, Persian people definitely got rugpulled
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
So like America has always been?
Don't pretend it can't get worse
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
Im most of these things but also gay so I'll be in a camp before most especially after the Southern Baptist convention votes
Fuck, the only thing on the list I'm not is rich and I'm fucking scared of the Southern Baptists.
I'm not scared of them but I utterly despise those sanctimonious, hypocritical, racist sons of bitches.
Well, individually I'm there with you. What frightens me is they actually have the capability to organize.
Coming from the south, they have an impressive ability to organize (fucking hell, potluck happens and shits on) and by the end they'll be gathered together for a good rant of racist anger.
Dad talks about when he was a kid the KKK outright coming in full costume to give the tithe to show. The important part he said was that it wasn't that they were so threatening they could do it, it's because enough people there agreed with them to not throw them out.
Camping does sound nice in the summer months at least.
@remindme 2026-01-01
Does that actually work?
@remindme 2025-06-13
No idea.
Didn't work for me :( but maybe it was too close @remindme 2025-06-15
Nope
American protests tend to die down after a few weeks unless there is constant new irritation applied.
Continuous mass roundups of people with indefinite detentions, in harsh conditions will probably help keep this protesting active.
But I don’t see how it can get much worse. The police and federal agencies are pretty much at maximum limits for being evil for them. New people will have to be recruited to do worse.
And while there will be mass beatings and the occasional death, and tens of thousands of kidnappings. it’s not enough to tip things over to the next stage unless people in the administration try very hard to achieve that. And I think they are too incompetent to succeed making things worse.
Something unexpected would have to happen first?
You're assuming the power structures survive, the US is a shit tonne more fragile and weirdly over extended than one would expect. Mind you that over extension only really comes out with authoritarian action but still it is notable. I expect a bunch of MAGA Khmer Rouge to pop up and then an extended series of campaigns by various factions to destroy them. Also calling it now the great planes are going to devolve into a bunch of city states.