A New Jersey Democrat stirred up social media on Tuesday afternoon during a fiery speech outside the Treasury Department, in which she said her party would "fight back" and demanded to "shut down the Senate," declaring, "We are at war!"Rep. LaMonica McIver, who represents the district encompassing N...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) sparked controversy with a fiery speech outside the Treasury Department, declaring, “We are at war!” and calling for the Senate to be shut down in response to Elon Musk’s access to federal payment systems.
Her remarks, applauded by some Democrats, drew backlash from Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who likened them to “a call for insurrection.”
At what point to left-leaning states governors start building up their own militias?
I'm asking this as a Canadian, I honestly don't know what the process is vis a vis state militia vs federal military.
Up until recently I felt like at a certain point, there were lines that the military would not cross regarding Trump orders. But now I'm kind of terrified that they really haven't pushed back at all, meaning if it comes down to it, it's all going to up to the individual states.
I've already written my governer to ask to be on a mailing list for any state sponsored militias. I also said that he should very seriously entertain the notion of filing charges against Trump, Musk, Vance, and all of their cabinet and appointees and court nominations for Treason. Treason can be filed at both the state and federal level, and there have been a number of successful convictions of treason at the state level.
More importantly, it saddles trump and his cronies with charges that will make it justified for both state and federal militias to remove them from power by any means necessary. At that point just deputize members of your state militia, and they will have to take an oath to protect the nation from all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. They now have legal protections backed by the charges filed by the state. Now you fund those militia's and give them military kit, and refuse to cooperate with federal officials until a new election has been held and trump has been removed from power.
This is a fucking war, and the victors will write the history of it. The most important part is that facism and all of its supporters lose, and suffer the full consequences for their actions.
It doesn't matter what you do to republicans now, just do it swiftly and severly, and the next president can pardon you and tie up the loop holes.
The same tactics that facists are using to destroy the country CAN also be used to save it. We just have to act with strength and conviction.
I appreciate the effort, but this sort of minimizes just how far a lot of people are from a state capital, and how unlikely they can just up and take a day in the middle of the week to just go to their state capital. Particularly on what was, at most, a week's notice. This just seems doomed to produce an underwhelming turnout.
"Democrat lunatics want us all dead, and have declared war on all of us. Protect your family accordingly," wanted the American Firearms Association on Facebook.
The Republican party has long referred to the events of January 6th as "legitimate political discourse", and Trump even went so far as to pardon those who stormed the capital on January 6th.
Well, if it's legitimate political discourse, there shouldn't be any problem in us doing it either.
Depends on who you ask. If its someone sane then no, but if it's someone who is working with the current administration then the answer is yes.
I am frankly terrified at this insinuation and I think we will see some serious repercussions from this, on one side or the other. This feels like it will be used as an excuse by the Republicans to detain or even murder opposition.
The Republicans thought the same thing, to be fair. The difference is that we can be 100% confident that they’re pumped full of the most insane propaganda and are astoundingly stupid to believe that their team isn’t the most wild, overt version of everything they claim is evil.
Obviously it is. But not all insurrections are wrong.
Committing an insurrection because you lost an election is far less laudable than committing insurrection against an increasingly fascist dictatorship.
Insurrection when you're just mad you lost an election: 😁
Insurrection when your government is doing blatantly illegal things and the branch of government and party to which you belong refuses to hold anyone accountable because you're all complicit traitors: 😡
No, because people still think it isn't bad enough. Even in this thread I read stuff about how people 'can't' protest because it's the middle of the week. I mean, sure, if losing your job is the worst thing you have to worry about, then by all means, stay home. Of course, you know, by the time the fascist regime is well and truly established and things finally get bad enough for people to want to actually fucking do something, it will be too late.
I mean it would be a good time to grab those generals and intel agents that are being let go currently to help org things if they really wanna do something. Boot lickers are never as good as those who are passionate.