It's so weird to first-hand experience how some historical things aren't recognized until after the fact.
Trump is an American traitor. Plain as day. But it's not generally going to be accepted until much later. I mean the nation, in general, is staring a traitor directly in the face and just not seeing it.
This ignorant, uneducated nation is about to go through a very painful experience.
Sometimes I question my sanity because the world is going on like everything's normal. I wonder am I just delusional for thinking this is a fascist takeover of America?
Nope.
Turns out most Americans are really, really ignorant.
And don't let anyone argue that there's no way that many people can be that ignorant, because history has some stark examples to the contrary.
I still see many posts getting upvoted with excuses for why they're not doing anything to save their own democracy/lives. And posts trying to prompt them to organize and resist get downvoted.
They're not even willing to try saving their country. They just don't have any fight in them. They've already lost the battle with fascism and it's only just started.
"Home of the brave".
Bullshit.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
Chicago should call in their national guard to protect the state against the gestapo trying to invade them and install their fascist views. You are running out of time and tests America. Wake the fuck up!
No, no. Send the Illinois National Guard to DC. To overthrow fascism.
“Accused”
No man, this is just straight up what is happening. There’s no other way to phrase it and I’m tired of weasel words like this softening and enabling this and Trumps supporters.
Oh he’s accused, must be by the libruls!
That’s how his supporters will dismiss this.
The media will burn for this. They had literally one job.
It's hard to do that job when they're literally owned by the same people pushing this agenda.
They made their choice by following orders.
Or we make a new media with blackjack and hookers
This is the way
"There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
Commander William Adama
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
-Jingo
GNU Sir Terry
"Accused" is funny when you can go outside and talk to the military in question deployed in front of your home.
My grandma lives in DC. I'm so disappointed that she has to witness America doing this at the end of her life.
My grandmother (granted we live in Canada) is in denial and treats me like I'm joking when I talk about what's happening in America. She was pretty much gaslighting me when the Jan 6 attack happened
"accused"? Which part of that is an opinion? It is objectively true that the man is Trump, it is objectively true that the military are the people being sent, and it's objectively true that there are Americans in Chicago.
Any military personnel that acts on orders to engage with civilians should no longer be considered part of our American military and should therefore be treated as enemy combatants.
Domestic terrorists.
Yup.
I'm reluctantly starting to think that a civil war is inevitable. Does Illinois assert that there is no emergency to justify Federalization of the National Guard? They should act first, then, and force the issue.
The only genuine emergency is Federal overreach. Illinois should mobilize its National Guard and State Police first, with the express mission of keeping their citizens safe from outside military and paramilitary forces. Arrest anyone from out of state who claims the authority to act within the state illegally. And also arrest anyone from a Federal agency who conducts their business without appropriate identification. Pass new laws enabling this if they don't already exist. When the Federal Government tries to counter-mobilize, tell them to pound sand.
This will force all this to the Supreme Court sooner rather than later. And if this court rules that this President can send military force to uncompliant states on a whim, then the civil war is officially on, because I don't think Blue states will roll over and take that.
I'm reluctantly starting to think that a civil war is inevitable.
That's what they're driving towards, yes. History may say that it's already started by now.
Historians will be arguing when the 2nd American Civil War started. For some, it was the end of Reconstruction. Others, the Business Plot. Yet closer to now, when the Heritage Foundation was created.
All I know, is that many pieces of shit were allowed to fester.
The failure of the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson after Lincoln's assassination.
Johnson believed in white supremacy, and he was lenient towards the southern ruling class to keep them in power so that they would suppress the freed slaves*. Leaving the southern elites in power ruined the only chance the U.S. had to overcome the taint of slavery and racism.
Think of the difference:
The traitors from the first civil war may have actually faced consequences for their attempt to destroy the nation in order to keep people enslaved.
A president actually being removed via impeachment would have made the presidency less secure which may have either discouraged some of the behavior presidents have engaged in, or it may have been more likely to have resulted in them being held accountable (of course, I'm thinking of Nixon, Clinton, and Trump).
It already started. There are masked men in the streets with guns abducting citizens. They are tampering with infrastructure. They are stealing funds. What more do they have to do before you consider it a war?
I think war would require an armed and active opposition. Without that, it's not civil war. It's just oppression.
they basically said they are looking into options to be prepared and the governor and mayor are giving statements in two and a half hours.
I think blue states will roll over and take it. I can't see an armed standoff happening on the highways or wherever the mobilized NG column arrives.
Trump and the fascist front wants to escalate against any resistance. Blue mayors and governors don't want to be made an example of, so they will slowly get boiled.
I don't think Illinois will roll over. Pritzker and the General Assembly have been on point. I'm very interested to see what the response is if Little t tries to send other states' National Guard troops into Chicago. I feel pretty confident that Pritzker will not allow IL Nat Guard to be federalized for this purpose. Newsom didn't authorize and yelled about it, but also didn't really move to stop it in the moment.
Newsom didn't authorize and yelled about it, but also didn't really move to stop it in the moment.
To be fair, I don't think Newsom and his administration thought they would go there, this quickly. Pritzker has the benefit of seeing how things went in LA, it's no longer a hypothetical.
Yes, that's definitely true. Other states now have California and DC as relevant examples, and can use that information to respond more firmly.
The thing is, I don't see an armed standoff happening either, because I think that when push comes to shove, if any Federal or out-of-state troops are ordered into a neighboring state where they are not wanted, and facing the proposed to shooting other guardsmen, the troops themselves will stand down.....
On the other hand, if I am wrong, at least we'll know about it sooner. And maybe the frog will jump out of the pot if the heat is suddenly cranked up too high.
I fear they'll just lie down and take it
Create chaos to justify a martial law. And then going all in with death and destruction to stomp any revolt. That's dictatorship 101
My money is on starting a war with Venezuela being the spark that starts the revolt which enables him to crush everyone with the military :/
Yeah Canada was too obvious and failed miserably. Venezuela is a perfect target, "communist", full of oil. It's mad how clear their plan is, and everyone just follows along, instead of calling them out.
Guess it is time for the national guard to do their job and arrest the felon child rapist. Right?
The list of things Trump should be arrested for is longer than the constitution
While oligarchs hole up in a "no blacks allowed" village named after the people the land was stolen from. They also don't want to pay for shit. Can't make this up.
https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2025/06/24/island-of-billionaires-lobbied-sewage-surfside
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Creek%2C_Florida
Accused? He's fucking doing it!
We are only one neglected discharge away from disaster.
We were far more prepared to use physical action again state violence in 2020. What happened?
Hyper normalisation has left everyone feeling defeated or indifferent. The strategy of "every day is nore insane than the previous" has fucking worked.
It's not an accusation. It's a fact.
What about Shelby County, TN and Texass
Look at this list and we'll see it just to boost the profile of the red stated and make the blue states look bad.
https://getsafeandsound.com/blog/which-state-has-the-most-murders/
When can we mark our calendars for the hostile invasion of Chicago?
Capitalism in decline will always let its fascist roots show. It always has.
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