2,000 National Guard troops will be sent to L.A. amid clashes over immigration raids - Los Angeles Times

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, four dead in Ohio.

This is what 2A is for. This is what Madison feared.

"Quick! The Gestapo is running into resistance, send in the SS!"

“Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,” Vice President JD Vance said in a post on X Saturday night.

Big yikes. "Insurrectionists"? Bloody hell.

Holy fuck. Some finally have the balls to stand up and fight and a bunch of you are all...this is wrong. Escalation and violence is not ok...or...but they have so many big guns.

Your country is run by a fucking dictator. Your own people are being forcefully removed from their homes and families and put in concentration camps.

Unbelievable.

They want another Kent State

Just saw an ICE truck carrying a bunch of jackboots through Echo Park. Don't know where they're ultimately heading to though.

Anyone remember what this was from?

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

Fucking newspapers these days, this shit is important.

https://archive.ph/3X3Fe

OK, so the same shit about "trump is going to". last I heard newsom was in charge of CA NG. Trump isn't allowed to bring them up without a declaration of emergency or whatever.

Just bullshit that they will walk back in the morning.

e: LA times and AP seem to think this is actually happening. This is the boiling point; are you going to sit in the pot or jump out?

the point of protesting is the escalation. this is success.

Someone get my NWA CD and boombox, we hitten the streets.

Well, we always knew #RATM were right, but no one expected yet another playbook decades after this album was released in 1999. It all feels that unreal... 😔

“…The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.*

-Karis Nemik, Andor

elon could do the funniest thing here and declare open rebellion against tyranny

Are the Europeans proud of our protests yet?

I would like to see California boldly and forcefully repel this invasion, but I don't know how it would work.

The California National Guard is part of the National Guard of the United States, a dual federal-state military reserve force.

When National Guard troops are called to federal service, the president serves as Commander-In-Chief. The federal mission assigned to the National Guard is: "To provide properly trained and equipped units for prompt mobilization for war, national emergency or as otherwise needed."

The governor of California may call individuals or units of the California National Guard into state service during emergencies or special situations. The state mission of the National Guard is: "To provide trained and disciplined forces for domestic emergencies or as otherwise provided by state law."

Role: Organized militia
Size: 24,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_National_Guard

EDIT:

When I look at this as Trump and his gang deliberately inciting conflict with state/local governments in order to have an excuse to seize control from them before the next election, the situation becomes even trickier.

AMERICA! IS FUCKED! NEVER COMING AGAIN TO SAVE THE FUCKING DAY YEAH!

So glad I never joined the National Guard cause I would definitly refuse to go, and if forced, join the side of of the ones fighting ICE.

If this turns into an American Tiananmen Square, you're going to end up knocking a star off that flag.

Could this be the start of the Second American Civil War?

And so it begins.

Martial law incoming.

What’s to stop Cali national guard from ignoring Orange man? Or maybe I have been watching/reading too much fiction.

TACO

I hope this don't turn to a civil war

The "L.A. 92" part of this song needs an "L.A. 25" update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKcL7q8RJU

Bring ‘em.

Other states, you know what to do.

New rage against the machine album coming...

Time to fuck up some fascist. Someone is going to get domed soon when the current escalation.

Realistically, the rioters are going to eventually be condemned by the peaceful protestors, and the general population will soon follow, thus giving support for law enforcement to squash them and end the fiasco. This has been the case for a loooooong time.

I hope they're scared

clashes

What kind of clash? A violent one or?

raise hell!

Trump: "Bist du faschistisch?"

https://youtu.be/ZQAmic9m50Y