That dumbshit can’t understand that throwing that kind of gas onto the fire this early into the fascist takeover is just what it would take to wake up Americans.
Why does the article say “clashes between federal agents and members of the community” and not “clashes between federal agents and citizens”?
It means he is fucking scared. He knows he is unpopular af.
Let me get this straight: He’s threatening to attack Iran to protect their violent protesters, while simultaneously threatening American citizen protesters for peacefully exercising their Constitutional 1st Amendment Rights?
Don’t forget Greenland. And Venezuela. And Mexico.
He’s since apologised which is sadly more than you’d expect from a Trump Stooge. https://www.arctictoday.com/trumps-iceland-ambassador-pick-apologizes-for-52nd-state-comment/
Motherfucker better stay away from Iceland. I planning a trip there this year.
I am too, in May
Please be ready to have your phone scanned on the way back in. It might not happen, but I would make a backup anyways and then if they ask, just factory reset it.
It probably won’t happen to you, but this has been happening to whitest cishet people for a while now, randomly chosen too. They don’t care about just POC, they like inconveniencing people and the power trip is the point.
and Canada.
The difference is that he’s vowing to protect the Iranian protesters, while also vowing to kill American protesters.
Killing, they’re past talk
That indeed is the case
Adversarial Journalism! Someone needs to tell this man he’s a cunt to his face and he has bad ideas and his cronies are butt lickers, on television.
We already know he can’t hack confrontation, he melts down if he thinks a lesser is badmouthing him. Do it on live TV, consistently! Bully him, don’t let him get a word in, tell him he’s a nasty man, a rapist, and a cunt, and his dad thought so too.
Get in his face, make him sweat.
Once you start punishing people for insurrection you end up with a insurrection.
The fascist reality tv show host with dementia needs to be gelded.
Much, much less information in the article than the title suggests. If you haven’t read it yet, don’t bother.
Also hes already invoked the Insurrection Act to deploy the Marines in LA which was shot down in court, so same shit different day.
I mean, it is a US media publication, they are all useless these days.
None of them have a spine left, they are all controlled by oligarchs that are colluding with Trump or Thiel one way or another and they have completely normalized this insanity.
I mostly get my US news from CBC and BBC World these days - US media is done.
The handful of media companies are such conglomerat that lawmakers could affect their businesses in multiple ways, so they are too afraid to call out an administration willing to retaliate.
All of them though, even the New York Times gave up preemptively even though I do not think they are a conglomerate. I think Israel broke their brain. And or their editor and owners were fucking children with Epstein.
The NYT has been broken for a hundred years. They published pro-Hitler, anti-Jewish articles during WWII as well. More recently, they were informed 24 hours in advance of the kidnapping of Maduro (along with the Washington Post) and sat on that information.
Oh no, the US’s military strikes now have press-only events, information embargoes, and street dates like it’s the damned video game industry?
No, this was a leak that they sat on.
The MSM is SHIT. They only offer pathetically whitewashed generalities.
The Medias Touch , Anonymous News , Belle of the Ranch and Occupy Democrats are a good places to start. Jimmy Kimmel , Steven Colbert , Trae Crowder and Seth Myers are humorously informative reliefs from the dark situation we are at today.You think Israel broke their brain, but are you denying the Ellisons purchased and dismantled significant portions of the 4th estate? Porque no los dos?
What does that have to do with the New York times? Why would I deny that when I just said these media conglomerates are the problem because government can Target all of their other business interests. No se que se dice.
It’s like they had AI summarize Wikipedia. (I read it just to see what counts as journalism at Time these days.)
DO IT!
And while you are at it, invade Greenland, Canada and Iran.
Then cancel the midterms.You know you want to Trump!
So I dare you, DO IT!Oh, he’s going to do the thing he’s been planning on doing anyway? Real scary.
Tbh I’m a bit surprised he didn’t try this at some point last year
He did when he sent Marines to Los Angeles.
That was very fucking serious, but cancelling federal legislative elections is absolutely a very fucking serious escalation in a different direction.
He’s got to time it right. The primary objective is to cancel the Midterm election, and it can’t happen too soon, or the courts will have time to thwart the scheme. One thing he’s good at is manipulating the court schedule, so he needs to take steps in the right order, at the right time.
He needs to suspend the election around mid-October, which means he needs to have a crescendo of violence through the Summer to lead to that, so he needs to call for National Martial Law across America at the beginning of Summer, and he’s going to warm us up for it by invoking the Insurrection Act over the next few months, and he’s warming us for that by threatening us today.
We’re pretty much right on schedule.
You could well be right, and you’re absolutely right about the mid-terms, but when you say we’re right on schedule, from the regime’s perspective I’d say we’re the better part of a year behind, and that’s why he’s speedrunning it now. He has provoked and is now fighting huge battles on EVERY front, and aside from SCOTUS it’s turning out that the courts are largely holding. Even SCOTUS has fallen somewhat short of 100% support, though to their shame, not by much.
I honestly don’t think he’s going to last to midterms. I’m not ignorant of the distinct possibility that he CAN, I just think he knows it’s now or never because he literally has nothing left to lose and has not managed to consolidate absolute power before the inevitable challenges to it began.
Also, to have martial law you have to have the military. Between the fact that this is a volunteer force comprised of servicepeople who have never had to shoot at their own countrymen, and some tacit and not-so-tacit reminders about not having to obey illegal orders all the way up the chain of command, I am not at all certain he has that.
The way to regime change is the same way you boil a frog: keep the heat low but slowly rising until it’s too late and the frog can’t jump out, even though he now knows he’s doomed. But because he is a creature of his own pettiness and unable to manage his own party, he’s accelerated his own schedule.
More and more Republicans are starting to cross the aisle, and while that is a low fucking bar for the rest of us, for the ones that do it, it’s a huge deal. Even the shooting of Renee Good was an own-goal, because it angered a lot more than Minnesotans. The certainty that he is not only in the Epstein files but that they are nowhere near going away is another growing issue: publicly, no one’s even trying to give him the benefit of the doubt anymore just because there is no doubt. And how many Americans actually want to annex Greenland, or Venezuela, or some other fucking country and see even more of our tax dollars siphoned off to other countries he doesn’t even know what he will do with while we can’t even afford healthcare anymore?
Even Putin’s propaganda machine can’t mask all this failure. Nope, it’s all blowing up NOW, because of his own stupidity, arrogance, and shortsightedness. He has to try to get a hold of it now, by any means, including extreme force, or it will all collapse. My thought, anyway.
Or you could be right and he somehow makes it through all this. Time will tell.
Great post, I agree with pretty much all of it. I do think that this timing is deliberate.
More importantly, I agree with you that cracks are showing, and that it is remarkable. Thom Tillis, a MAGA supporter, is speaking up regularly, and has used the term “amateur hour” to multiple issues.
I want to remind people how this sort of stuff happens. Remember when the Epstein Files release needed one more vote, and Johnson wouldn’t sweat her in? While that was happening, Trump was arm twisting his MAGA turncoats who weren’t having it. Once, the new rep got sworn in, and signed the release commitment right there on the same lectern, EVERY OTHER MAGA CHANGED THEIR VOTE, and voted YES. Even Trump had to endorse it (knowing he’d just dig in on the next battle). None of them wanted to have their No vote thrown in their faces at reelection.
That’s how they will finally fall. When enough have finally had enough, and decide to resist, the rest will come over, too, and MAGA will collapse. They may just decide that they’d rather have Vance, close down the circus, and spend 2 years normalizing and rebranding themselves for 2028.
If I were a MAGA who is worried about ending up in front of a wall, or at the end of a rope, or worse, I’d be seriously considering it.
Completely agree, and thank you for the thoughtful reply. I was not aware of Thom Tillis’ remarks, I’ll check those out. Funny you should bring up Adelita Grijalva, because hers was the last signature required on the discharge petition, as you already know. But since then, there have been several more discharge petitions filed to get legislation on the floor and past Mike Johnson’s blockade, something like five, each one taking a handful of Republicans to cross the aisle and support it, who are getting threatening Trump phone calls and doing it anyway.
Another House example is Don Bacon, who’s finally found a vestigial spine after announcing his retirement last summer and clearly terrified because he’s still in office: this whole “the House could impeach if we invade Greenland” non-statement he made today is absolutely him throwing a sop to MAGA while doing nothing but making a hat tip to the extreme danger of any foreign invasion we undertake as a country, and to his own personal responsibility as a Congressman in getting us embroiled in it.
So the wind has definitely turned a bit in D.C., especially when you consider it would only take five House Republicans to stop the vast majority of this current madness.
And it’s the press as well: today Karoline Leavitt completely lost her shit because a guy from The Hill openly said that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good “acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably.” This too is a HUGE crack. I’m sure you already know this, but during the first term when everyone in the press understood that White House access would be granted solely to those toeing the MAGA line, because of the Jim Acosta ban and other similar dramas where any reporter or organization not showing overt deference lost their access, today that reporter from The Hill just put it out there, in essence saying, “Fuck it, take my press pass, this is the reality.”
I was truly glad to see it. When a reporter for a national outlet like The Hill decides that the truth is more important than White House access, it’s a serious problem for the White House.
The dam is breaking all over. But it’s an incredibly dangerous time, and they can still wreak massive havoc on their way down and out in a Leviathan’s tail scenario, no matter how inevitable that exit may seem or how much copium I’m toking on any given day, lol.
EDITED to self-correct: Sean Spicer had already resigned by the time Jim Acosta got his White House ban
I’m finally finding people who are seeing what’s really happening, and are seeing some potential light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a long ways to get there, but I can at least see a potential path out of this, without a devastating Civil War.
It’s going to take having an election in November. He’s going to try and stop it, but elections are a state-managed process, so what if Blue states decide to have their elections, and send new reps to DC to be sworn in by Johnson? What if there are so many that it flips the House? What if the MAGA government decides to honor Trump’s demands over a legal election?
Constitutional Crisis, anyone?
I just got into that with someone here the other day, lol. Not my clearest writing, but dude was just delusional, IMO.
Nobody knows what’s going to happen, everything is speculation, but one thing we can count on - MAGA is capable of ANYTHING, no matter how heinous and unspeakable.
How great would it be if a couple ICE agents went rogue and attempted to arrest Trump and Melania for not having their papers.
Elon
The secret service would never let them get that close.
He is the equivalent of having a sovereign citizen as president.
Lmfao
They, this is all the party not just the president that is a puppet at this point having lost his mind, are also nurturing the monsters in federal law enforcement for special squads to do things like Target protests. They really are emulating Nazis. They have been for some time, they are just not as capable as of yet.
Well, shit. If they’re gonna treat minnesota like it’s seceding, it might as well go for it. Wonder if Canada would take them in.
