This took less than 3 days.
Less than 3 days of mild protest in one city and Trump is saying the governor needs to be arrested and is using the military against civilians.
This wasn’t even classed as a riot.
That’s because it was nothing on Saturday. Trump sends in the National Guard and they make a lot of smoke. There were 3 or so waymo fires and some cop cars damaged. Protesters were hit by rubber bullets a lot though.
See for yourself.
Saturdays Live Streams:
- NBCLA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MfqiO3QQk
- ABC7- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPTnHNEUiE
Sunday’s Live Streams:
- AP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXT945ZJNCI
- Reuters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSNMZEjRBsk
- Agenda-Free TV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BrsI2vVHKA
- AXN News (?) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmwdCmOkdQ
This weekend is the totally not celebrating the rapist in chief’s birthday military parade.
There are… a LOT of concerns that is just an excuse to militarize DC ahead of midterms.
But yeah. That also means trump wants protests to go away NOW and an excuse to attack California always makes him happy.
Hasn’t there been national guard, and a literal wall around the white house for the last decade?
There are military resources available and heightened security around the white house. In a country where children either buy an AR-15 or get shot by one, that only goes so far.
Contrast that with an actively deployed and on guard… guard. Protests in DC will become next to impossible and “dissenting” congress people will be much less likely to ever try to get a photo op while pretending they care about stopping doge et al.
In one neighborhood of that city.
The president deploying the national guard, let alone the fucking MARINES, to “assist police” is a direct violation of the posse comitatus act, which was written to SPECIFICALLY PREVENT ANY PRESIDENT from using the military as law enforcement
Trump has been using the Constitution as toilet paper with zero consequences. Why do you think he cares about this?
We know who is really behind this stuff: Russell Vought.
The remaining question is: how to make it look like a suicide?
Doesn’t matter if it’s illegal, if there’s no consequences
This is what so many people fail to understand.
When your boss steals $100 from your paycheck, you’re supposed to file a wage claim, wait years for your day in court, and even when you show that the company stole from you, the punishment for them is a small fine ($50 per person first time, $100 per person every time after that). You don’t even get the fine. The fine is paid to the state.
Now flip it around and imagine what happens when you steal $100 from the company. Immediate legal repercussions, multiple court dates, probation if you’re lucky and jail if you’re not.
The entire system is designed to fuck people as hard as possible while reserving the kid gloves for corporations and oligarchs.
I am gleefully awaiting the day protesters start disappearing federal agents/national guard. Fuck all fascists, even the ones “just following orders”. No habeas corpus is a two way street motherfuckers
This
Well, it actually does matter this time around. I think this is going to come back to Trump if we make it through long enough. California doesn’t fuck around.
The “police” are already illegally supporting ICE in their sanctuary city.
Pigs are always class traitors
Officially using the military against civilians. Yup we’re cooked
Don’t worry. All the heroic men and women in the armed services will decide THIS oppression of a civilian populace is too much and some of the officers will resign. Then, in just a decade or so, they’ll have O-5s who are only qualified to be O-3s and it will all come crashing down! And if you disagree, you are just a doomer!
Yeah… This does not end well in any conceivable way.
There are several historical examples where a dictator tells the military to shoot civilians, they say no, and the regime collapses.
The world is also filled with governments that ordered the military to shoot civilians and are still comfortably in power. No country is immune to authoritarianism, the US is not exceptional.
The US is just exceptionally good at being a dictatorship.
part of the problem is this absurdly naive optimism everyone has. people need to start being more fucking pessemistic and angry.
On the contrary, people are pessimistic as hell. Source: this thread.
Yeah, really if anything we need optimistic and angry
those don’t go hand in hand. ever.
If that were true, no revolution would have succeeded, ever. You don’t win if you don’t believe you can.
Every military and law enforcement member needs to understand right now that attacking protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights is crossing a line that they can never come back from. I, for one, will always hold it against any MAGA for the rest of my life. They deserve to be mercilessly shunned, ridiculed, and discriminated against for the rest of their miserable, stupid, treasonous lives. I own a business, and I will never hire a MAGA supporter, ever.
I’ll add to this do not go on vacation to any red state. Do not buy goods from red states whenever possible
Assist with WHAT?
Occupation.
Correct answer. The fascists in charge want to do to California what Israel is doing to Gaza.
Not American and maybe I’m just OOTL but this confuses me as well… I’m aware of a peaceful protest against the mass deportations, but what else? Why do they need armed soldiers??
To prove empirically that he is a king and the constitution is dissolved.
It’s the next step in his takeover. He already controls the government. He controls business through tariffs. Now he needs to control the people.
Once he’s got control internally, he’ll turn his eyes to other countries. What we’ve seen so far with his threats will become reality as he annexes Canada, Mexico, and Greenland to secure natural resources and wages a full economic war on anyone else who challenges him (China, EU)
It’s pretty textbook rise of Nazi Germany 1930s. None of this should be surprising.
Yeh as a Canadian I’m pretty sure we’re next after he crushes the democratic states. Can’t build an empire without conqueting your neighbours.
We don’t. This is all for Trump to wave his dick around
Did Trump declare martial law while I was asleep? Because last time I checked, he can’t deploy the military on US soil unless the country is in a state of emergency. And peaceful protests don’t count.
Until one of the other branches of government decides to grow a spine, Trump is free to do whatever he wants.
Or the people.
The people can’t do much against an MQ-9 reaper, much less strategic bombers that can fly well higher than civilian aircraft.
If it comes to something like Red Dawn, we are fucked.
“The people” aren’t going to engage in traditional warfare against the undivided might of the US military. If there is armed resistence it’s going to be attacks on individuals and sabotage/explosives, and it’s going to divide the armed forces.
since when does it matter what the law says? he’s been breaking the law every single day since he took office. nobody is gonna intervene.
Almost everything Trump has attempted to do, has to some extent, been blocked in the courts. Sometimes temporarily…other times completely. And the temporary blocks are all still active cases, that stand a good chance of getting permanently blocked in the future.
The problem is, the media isn’t covering that enough. They like the drama…so, all they report in is the shit that gets clicks. And boring court details don’t attract a lot of interest. Especially considering that by the time anything is resolved, the news steam has long since moved on to other, more recent scandals.
he doesn’t need to apparently.
Well, he IS the king of America (and Canada, Panama and Greenland), so why would he need approval?
I don’t condone deploying the military, its illegal, but burning waymo’s isn’t peaceful.
The people setting those fires should absolutely be charged for their actions. But their actions don’t negate the Constitutional rights of everyone else who is protesting. And calling in the National guard before the local authorities have declared the situation to be out of their control, is a direct violation of Constitutional law.
Agreed that the national guard shouldn’t have been deployed as well. I’m just saying they aren’t peaceful.
But, when you say, “they”…you are painting the entire protest as violent, unless you make the distinction that it isn’t. And the vast majority of protestors are simply exercising their 1st amendment rights, in a perfectly legal manner.
I never said they were violent, I haven’t heard of anything violent (edit: from the protesters) yet personally. There’s a difference between peaceful, not peaceful, and violent.
If there’s enough bad actors doing things like setting cars on fire, then it warrants a larger police presence (but not the national guard at this level or ever the military)
Edit: Just to add clarity, it warrants a larger police presence, because they are in fact no longer peaceful. Sure most people are, but the protest itself isn’t.
Impressive how the troll farms always manage to put one “yeah people were hurt but what about property?!” in every thread about our pigs.
Waymo’s are ultimately used for surveillance to intimidate protesters. Ideally they wouldn’t get burned, but at this point they have chosen to side with authoritarians (tho that is expected of corporations)
I’d love to see proof that Waymo is providing live footage to the police to help manage the protests if you have it. That’s pretty fucked up if true. (edit: Burning is still bad, but I’d be down for defacing (e.g throwing paint on it) if so.)
Granted, this is not about the protest, and it is too early for that footage to be used so far. Still we know the current admin is not happy about any protest and was elected on themes of revenge. It is worth taking steps to protect protesters from being targeted in the coming days and weeks.
I think it comes down to did waymo freely provide it (article doesn’t say up to where it wants me to sign up) or did the police have a warrant.
If they have a warrant, I think that’s legitimate. I don’t think Waymo should be responding to police requests without a warrant though, otherwise it will breed distrust, and rightfully so.
The police have been known to demand footage from Tesla’s in the area of crimes as well, again as long as its with a warrant, or the individual owner decides to provide it, I think that’s fine. I want to make the distinction that if an owner of a car that has cameras wants to provide it, i think that’s okay, but as a corporation, with a fleet of vehicles, that should never happen without a warrant.
Congress could end this immediately, by revoking Trump’s emergency powers. Spineless traitors the whole lot of them.
What emergency?
Well, there’s like 40 he’s declared to choose from, but specifically rescinding the Southern Border Emergency enacted on day one. These unprecedented circumstances provide him the ability to deploy military against civilians.
Edit- Adding an NYT article with better overview
Like I said, what emergency? They’re all made up.
Ah, no disagreement from me. If only congress saw it that way. There’s at least a majority of representatives who clearly feel the orders are valid through their lack of action.
ILLEGAL.
as if it even matters.
Everyone, go to your local retailer that sells crayons and get a variety of colors from different manufacturers. You never know what flavor or brand they will want so it’s best to have a spread. You can use that to barter or as a lure.
I understand Crayola is usually the preferred brand amongst marines.
BAS is not high enough to afford Crayola
Don’t cheap out on our military!!
Bring some lube, too. Not all Marines prefer to consume them orally.
The Silver Lining: Media coverage of the extensive protests in every city in America has been so light, that some people are asking why nobody is doing anything. Meanwhile Millions of people are protesting across America. Some protests have been higher than 5 million nationally, and they are growing. At 12 million, we reach 3.5%, which experts say is the threshold for a “tipping point,” which leads to trends like revolutions.
But since the media isn’t covering it, most people have no idea how much is happening. That is, until HitlerPig and The MAGA Morons hit the stage and start puking all over everybody. THAT makes the news, and now EVERYBODY knows about the protests.
Somebody should explain the Streisand Effect to these jokers.
No, someone should definitely not explain it to them, lol.
That’s really interesting, where did you read about that tipping point. I’d love to know more if you have a recommendation.
Two books:
Mark Penn’s Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes
Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
I especially like Gladwell’s book, and his other books as well. Blink is another favorite of mine. I haven’t read Penn’s book in a long time, it may be getting a little dated.
I read Gladwell already, which has its issues but taking at face value with a pinch of salt is good. I’ll check out the other one, thanks!
RIP America July 1776-June 2025.
249 years. Almost right on the fucking dot for the 250 year lifespan of every empire!
meh, it died last november when US citizens decided to elect a felon back into the white house for a second term after he had committed treason in broad daylight and obstructed justice throughout his tenure.
“I was just following orders.”
They should refuse the orders and arrest Trump and everyone else involved in this shit. Which includes a lot of the administration.
Kinda seems like the US has gone to war with her citizens: what with the deploying of troops against them and all. Maybe her citizens should start acting like they are at war.
Too bad there are no cases in history of a guerrilla force standing their own against the “undefeated” US military. /s
us citizens are too fucking stupid to do anything truly substantial about it.
California didn’t accidentally become wealthy. Lots of smart & capable people there, albeit with much to lose.
They’ll reasonably try to keep a lid on things, but there’s a line not too far from where Californians have currently gotten pushed to.
Ooh will we see the 95-99 percent hire mercenaries to fight the 1%'s mercenaries?
Is this gonna be a proxy civil war?
No.
Well, I recently bought two guns and tons of ammo in preparation.
So have a few friends of mine in the last few months. And I know we aren’t the only ones.
If this administration wants a war, they’ll get it, but they will not win.
i’ve been armed for a long fucking time, but not because i want to start the fucking revolution. I’ve been armed because you can’t depend on the police for jack shit. it just felt like common sense.
Buying a gun does not make you a warrior. How much do you train?
I shot around 20000 rounds a year, and would not want to go up against a trained armed force.
So this is what freedom looks like? Where are all the 2nd Amendment fanboys when they’re needed? Probably sitting in the parents basement surfing the net for manga.
Where are all the 2nd Amendment fanboys when they’re needed?
Siding with the cops and looking for a Target they can protect while shooting some n***ers.
Karl from InrangeTV is probably one of the only genuinely honest Second Amendment supporters out there and he summed it up pretty well (in his video on how Palantir/Doge is all about surveilance and The Government is already coming for people): The vast majority of gun nuts (youtube or otherwise) are silent because they align with what is happening.
2nd Amendment fanboys
That was just cosplay.
Where the actual fuck are all the active duty military personnel who all swore an oath to defend the constitution from all threats, foreign and domestic? They are literally oath-bound to engage Donald Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the United States.
Do your fucking job already!
Ah yes, why won’t someone else come to save us?
Collectively, you voted for this fascist. As a non-USian, I’ll just grab my popcorn and watch the drama unfold. Very similar to watching the Brexit debacle here in Europe.
Unfortunately this shit show won’t be contained so I wouldn’t be so gleeful in the end of the united states, this will get to you, the united states has the record of spreading the “democracy” where they see fit so it might be coming to a country near you or to you…
Fortunately nothing bad ever happens in Europe, so enjoy your smug superiority.
We don’t have yet a dictatorship where the army is shooting citizen and foreign reporters.
Orban? Erdogan? Mussolini making a comeback? I could go on…
Don’t you guys have an active war zone?
Which timeline is that Europe of yours in?
