Trump Floats Deploying National Guard to New York, Chicago, and LA After DC Crack Down
Trump Floats Deploying National Guard to New York, Chicago, and LA After DC Crack Down
I'm pre-laughing at those who will be pitching US tourism to Canadians.
The Epstein files are going to fuck him over. There's probably pics of his naked fat ass and his Fat Bastard baby dick.
Who are you kidding. Those files will never see the light of day. And if the unredacted files ever did - his cult followers would believe any bullshit Trunp said about how it’s all lies and fabrication by Joe Biden or whatever. Nah Trunps never leaving the White House. It’s as plain as day.
Doesn't look like people an mass give a fuck actually. Until he dies of a heart attack, he's gonna be invincible. That comment about shooting people and not loosing support was probably first and only true thing he told in public.
but but but guys, Kamala Harris had a weird laugh….
/s
And the emails.. Bondi will make sure it gets done!
That was never the criticism from anyone actually opposing Trump. The criticism is that she built her career as a cop, locking people up for minor offenses, fighting to keep them in prison for cheap labor, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth. But sure, go ahead and whitewash her record because it’s easier to joke than to confront the fact that your “lesser evil” still has blood on her hands.
That was never the criticism from anyone actually opposing Trump.
Yes it was. It was a dumb and invalid argument, but it came up more often than it ever should have. It was an EXCUSE to not vote for her, because it was easier to say that than to admit that they’re just afraid of a woman in power.
I realize there were many more valid reasons to dislike her but compared to trump, she’s a goddamn saint. Plus, I liked her VP pick better than trump’s. She also would have selected a much more competent and qualified cabinet.
The criticism is that she built her career as a cop, locking people up for minor offenses, fighting to keep them in prison for cheap labor, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth.
Those are all valid criticisms, but trump built his career as a criminal, is deporting people for minor offenses, fighting to deport innocent people to prison labor camps in countries they are not even from, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth.
So comparing the two with just those criticisms, it’s a wash. And then adding on all the other AWFUL shit trump is doing, especially “project 2025,” it’s no contest.
But sure, go ahead and whitewash her record because it’s easier to joke than to confront the fact that your “lesser evil” still has blood on her hands.
I’m not whitewashing anything, I made a sarcastic comment mocking the misogynists who have put a LITERAL AUTHORITARIAN MADMAN in the presidency because they couldn’t handle a woman president.
When our choices are : lesser evil or absolute evil (and the third choice is: just let absolute evil win), we really can’t let petty things like “annoying laugh” (again- just a lame excuse for misogyny) go.
I was accused of having “blood in my hands” for voting for Harris. But really, protest voting against Harris is drenching yourself in that same blood plus gallons more.
If you didn't turn out to vote you didn't oppose trump.
At least she isn't nazi, traitor, piece of shit like Trump.
I only really saw those criticisms of her from people already on the left. What I saw (in generalized and slightly exaggerated manner) from conservatives was, "NO, SHE'S A LIBERAL, WOKE, COMMUNIST WHO WANTS TO DESTROY AMERICA!"
To which most people I saw on the left respond with, "Communist? The former cop and DA?"
This is untrue.
I think you dropped this:
Is Trump still worse? yes, absolutely. But maybe the Democrats could try running candidates that aren't obviously terrible if they want to win.
We had a bad choice and a worse choice. So i said let it all fall.
We had a bad choice and a worse choice. So i said
let it all fall.I'm a sociopath that's fine with seeing minorities being brutalized and killed so long as I can maintain some kind of bullshit ideological purity.
FTFY
Fuck you
At least with the bad choice more people would have energy and resources to fight back in more meaningful ways.
So i said let it all fall.
At lest vote 3rf party.
Otherwise the material reality is that you got out the way for the worse choice. Obstruction isn't ideal, but its helpful none the less
When do the Goose Stepping lessons start?
Short answer: good luck with that. Deployable up to 100K. Total population you're trying to control is 15 million. So 1 per 150 citizens.
Except it obviously would quickly need to include the Bay Area, St Louis, Indianapolis, Portland, Seattle etc
Lol Indy isn't some hotbed for activism.
Stay the fuck outta Portland, you Nazi bastards 😠
Goddamn right.
They want to provoke a violent response to scare the shitlibs into supporting martial law and a Reichstag Fire type event.
The 100k combat troops don't mean anything compared to a million cops and the reality that only a very, very small percentage of Americans are organized enough to actually put up resistance.
ACAB includes the troops. Fuck em
WTF is in those files???
Look, the Epstein shit is important, and it's important that we keep it in the conversation, but this isn't a fucking distraction. Do people seriously not understand how dire this is? This isn't a fucking joke. We are deep into full-on fascism now.
thanks man, finally someone else saying it!
We’ve been chasing the dragon since 2016: This is gonna bring him down, that is gonna bring him down, oh no but wait, this is definitely going to finish him off. How is the Epstein story ever going to harm him in any way?
In reality those things are the distractions from the real shit that’s been happening. Now that he’s accelerating his fascist actions in plain sight, how dare anyone say it’s just a distraction? This narrative only works in his favour, jfc.
I work at Microsoft and they just did massive layoffs all of this year. Last round I was layed off. 9000 of us in the last round.
I say this, because, I think people might associate tech jobs and education with being more liberal and pro immigrantion. This is not the case at all. The liberals are being offered fascism as a means to deal with their unemployment and will accept it with open arms as their material conditions decline. Most people I know from my job would absolutely join ICE for the paycheck as the tech sector lays off more and more people.
I'm sure we are seeing this in other industries as well. But just sharing for mine. ICE is going to look like an attractive job for a lot "middle class" Americans to be able to make rent. None of them are having class conflict conversations either. These people have next to no idea of what is going on.
We will not just get the hogs joining ICE. You're gonna see a lot of liberals start to justify it as their livelihood starts to get connected to it too. This is how fascism works.
That's a really good point. I remember at the most recent DEFCON, Cory Doctorow got a heckton of cheers when he was talking about tech workers waking up to the fact that they were workers, and are beginning to push towards unionising. In the comments, people were glad to hear the cheers, seeing it as evidence of the shifting tide that Doctorow spoke of.
However, as you highlight, this mass squeezing of the middle class will also send a significant chunk of people over to Fascism. We definitely shouldn't become complacent
I watched a documentary a couple days ago about a school counselor who got laid off and needed to join ICE to make his monthly nut.
When the economy crashes it will be the ICE half of the poor killing the other half poor - that's the plan.
As someone watching from out side, no shit. The us has crossed the Rubicon a while ago, no longer a nation based on laws, no longer a place that people have rights, no longer a place with free elections (well this one has been around for a bit with the stupid 2 party system) and no longer a place other nations want to do business with.
The most infuriating part of this has been watching americans (and more of the rest of the world then I would have liked) act like this is all potentially bad and then normalizing just flat out dystopian shit. Like shit this is not even the first place troops have been deployed to put down political "wrong speak".
This is exactly whats happening. Every fascist act is normalized. There is no line to cross. There are just constant moves that are more and more harmful. Sinclair Lewis wrote about this almost 100 years ago.
act like this is all potentially bad and then normalizing just flat out dystopian shit.
Yes, that's how it happened last time as well.
it's all important. don't lose sight of any of it
I've been trying not to. And I am losing my mind.
Getting the military in place for the coup.
He's getting everything prepared for when he denies the next election. He doesn't want to lose power to a pesky thing called democracy.
It's way more than that. We're only 7 months in. This is complete power grab, complete takeover. Democracy will only barely matter by 2026. And there will be no loss to deny.
If he's even on the ballot all norms have already broken down at that point.
Martial law is next! I tell ya.
This is damn near the same thing, without all the fancy steps.
Martial Law was one of the last steps in Project 2025.
Oh he surely won't do that the morons say.
I saw Marshall Law at Lollapalooza ‘98!
"Trump floats the idea of starting a civil war." FTFY.
Trump floats the idea of starting a civil war
Russia floats the idea of a new American Civil war. FTFY.
Russia already won their information campaign. NATO is dismantled, Europe is weak and the US doesn't listen to Europe's complaints and concerns anymore. Leaving them free to start wars wherever they want in Eurasia, no one will stop them. America is checked out, and Europe doesnt have the guts to make a stand.
I reluctantly welcome that, if only because that is permission to force his ilk into a well deserved box. At this point, I consider the Turdpublicans and Geronocrats to be the enemy of anyone who isn't wealthy.
We are already at war, it is just that ordinary people believed we were all part of the same society.
FYI - He tried this in Portland last time:
Bonus: The guy in charge of it, Chad Wolf (not making that up) had been illegally appointed and had no authority:
https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/dont-shoot-portland-v-wolf/
How quickly people forgot that unmarked vans with unmarked personnel were kidnapping people off the streets of Portland during BLM
Did we forget? I kinda feel like this is an extension of the BLM persecution. It worked so well they decided to keep using the same techniques.
Helicopters have been flying low over Houston every couple hours all through the day for the last week.
I hope y'all liked our hard work in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Yemen, cause it's coming home
That's a lot of air time. I sure hope the notoriously poorly trained police pilots don't fly into a bird or a drone, tail rotor first.
I hope they don't use the military on the homeless
... that's literally what he said he was going to do
That is literally what they are doing.
Bonus army moment
Douglas MacArthur and George Patton murdered and beat up a lot of fellow soldiers. A disgusting and rather unknown part of US history.
Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
I wish I had something meaningful to say about this.
More diversion from the Epstein files?
I'm not sure taking over the government and making himself a king with a personal army who cannot ever be removed from power no matter how obscene his abuses are is a diversion.
I agree, but he does (or tries to do) so much and says so much that some of it probably is a smokescreen. Which parts? I don't know.
The craziest shit is that he's not even going to make it beyond this term.
Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
The most free country on the planet is now the most fascist.
Way to go America, yer fuckin’ winning.
The most free country on the planet...
Well you see that is the neat part, the us was never that. They like to say that they are, but no.
Now its just so blatantly wrong that no amount of rah rah usa will work.
Not the most, yet, but getting close!
Yo, try that shit with NYC and see what happens. The city is a breath away from mass protest on a GOOD day.
How will this shit end?
best case, bloody
worst case, bloody but under authoritarian rule
Hard to predict, but you can get some good guesses by researching what happened to previous fallen empires in history.
Are they Democrat cities by any chance? I assume he won’t also deploy them to Republican cities?
One thing that the mayors of all of those cities have in common is that they are Democrats. One thing. There is another.
Yes, cities are overwhelmingly liberal.
How did an allegedly civilized country allow one of the worst people imaginable to become their leader?
Because he embodies American values. Greed, ignorance, show-boating and self importance.
Trump is the leader the US deserves. "Allegedly civilized" is exactly right. No matter who runs our country, it's always been an orphan-crushing machine. Trump is more of the same, but without the mask.
The Republicans have been waging war against our education system for 50+ years, and brainwashing their constituents. It's a literal cult.
I’ve been asking that a lot lately too. I think a lot of people are extremely susceptible to the kind of propaganda that the right wing media peddles and they’re too dumb to know or don’t care to know the difference between opinions and news. Add to that the fact that the right wing has been politicizing everything and waging war on entertainment and there’s a lot of people in this country that only seem to get their news and entertainment from places like Fox News.
Trump will disovle the states quickly from here in my opinion. He doesn't like any executive authority except his in my opinion, and the Trump administration will make the country out of a few hundred corporate counties run by the richest fascist in each corporate county in my opinion.
I'd say by the end of September in my opinion.
What else do you say IN YOUR OPINION
Wow digital screaming at a very interesting part of my opinion. These days it is very important to delineate fact from opinion.
But that is just like ... ya know ... my opinion.
Guess I need to get more storm matches.
He's like the brightest lighthouse in the galaxy blasting out the message "I AM TOTALLY GUILTY" with this diversion shit