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  • Trump has played his hand so hard that anybody who is capable of thinking for themselves will be voting against Republicans in November. If there can be a “blue wave”, then we have a small amount of hope for avoiding that future without violence. If violence escalates quickly, then that election can even be canceled.

    If people still don’t vote against MAGA and GOP in November, then America is doomed with or without violence.

    At least, that’s the way I see it. Resistance is important, but violence before this election may be counterproductive. Of course, if you assume, probably correctly, that American citizens will never pull their heads out of their asses, then I guess it doesn’t matter.



  • What Trump wants is to stay in power for the rest of his life.

    The easiest way for him to do that is to cancel all elections going forward.

    The easiest way for him to excuse that is if there is an active armed domestic resistance.

    The easiest way for him to have an active armed resistance is if he deploys the military domestically and oppresses the citizens.

    The easiest way to deploy the military domestically is through the Insurrection Act.

    The easiest way to excuse invoking the Insurrection Act in Blue States is if citizens are killing federal agents in those states.

    (We are here today)

    The easiest way for him to get citizens to kill federal agents is if they are being oppressed and murdered by those agents.

    The easiest way to get agents to oppress and murder people is to deploy them where they’re not welcome and tell them they have free rein.

    The easiest way to deploy federal agents where they’re not wanted is to have a huge manhunt.

    The easiest people for the federal government to target in a huge manhunt are immigrants, legal and illegal, because the federal government has an immigration police force.



  • I’m not saying that people shouldn’t do this, but it’s exactly what Trump wants people to do.

    He wants everybody to be armed so that the odds of someone killing an ICE agent go up. Trump believes conflict between the government and citizens will allow him to use the Insurrection Act to mobilize the military against us, and then as he continues to escalate violence, he believes that he’ll be justified in canceling our elections moving forward.

    People need to keep this in mind as they decide how to act going forward. It is practical to arm yourself, but you should go out of your way to avoid using a weapon.





  • Legal scholars have said the strikes, launched against civilians in boats far from the US, are violations of domestic and international law. The Trump administration maintains they are legal, under a secret opinion written by the justice department that argues the US is in an armed conflict with cartels and that the laws of war apply to the strikes.

    Let’s see about this “war.”

    War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

    Obviously, Wikipedia isn’t the absolute authority on defining what “war” means, but it does a great job at checking your common sense. Like, a war isn’t always between established states, but it’s also distinct from enforcing laws in places where they don’t enforce their own laws or where their own laws don’t suit you.

    Even if you assume that everything the Trump administration has said about these people is true, these boats were not carrying out anything like a military operation. Drug running isn’t a military operation. They’re not supplying front lines with drugs for battle.

    These people were accused civil offenses, not military operations, and we in the US do not give the death penalty for running drugs.

    And of course, the Trump administration lies as naturally as it breathes, so I have no reason to think the men from this article were running drugs in the first place. This is all just showing that even the lies Trump has told are not sufficient to justify the military actions he’s ordered.