land of the free
We were never free, we just kept telling ourselves that. It is all made up, The rich gotta fall.
Nothing cowards like a republican.
Pansy.
I doubt there is a need for any of them in Texas.
There is no need; the point is to create a riot so as to provide an excuse for a broader crackdown
Republicans are the biggest scared snowflakes of them all. They throw gasoline on embers and blame the embers for becoming a fire.
Are all the troops fascist too?
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was enough to not matter if some aren’t
The Deregulated Texas Oblast is red, wtf are they worried about? But hey, go ahead and waste your money on BS.
They’re worried that people might get organized enough to vote them out
National guard are gonna be the new homeless because no one will employ them knowing they are gonna get called off work every other week on some bullshit
When I read this, I thought you were being naive with the first half, thinking that any employer would give a shit, but then you gave me new hope by citing the grim rationale of the corpocrat. Thank you for this breath of fresh, cynical air. A much-needed, realist break from the glitter-bomb hope porn I expected
So in protests where there are no police officers getting killed or no civilians being attacked we’re gonna go ahead and deploy the National Guard, but in national weather emergencies we’re not gonna give money to California or Arkansas?  I think that tells me everything I need to know about this current administration.
Also, that time we had a literal insurrection with people threatening to hang elected officials
It’s theatre. Plain and simple. They just want the spectacle of unruly violent riots and the whether that happens or not, they will make it look like it happened. Nothing makes a protest look like a warzone like the literal military being there.
This theatre is exactly why it’s so important to fly American flags during the protests. Put away the Mexican and Palestinian flags, so the news can’t spin it as a foreign invasion. Fox News has been cherry picking footage of burning cars with Mexican flags in the background, and going “look how dangerous these Mexicans are! It’s a foreign invasion, and Trump is using the national guard to defend America.” That “foreign invasion” is extremely specific wording, because that’s how Trump is going to justify all of the crazy despotic bullshit.
Make it abundantly clear that this is American troops, deployed on American soil, against American protesters. MLK Jr was extremely particular about American flags being in the crowds whenever he marched. There are American flags somewhere in the crowd, because he ensured that his protests were full of them. He wanted to be sure that history wouldn’t get spun to make it seem like the protesters weren’t American citizens. He wanted the world to know that America was repressing its own citizens, and he didn’t want the government to be able to handwave it away with the “that’s not me” defense.
I bought 12 so I can share!
What people believe is more important than what actually is.
America is beyond fucked. I said in November after the rapist won that there wouldn’t be an America by the end of his term.
I think he’s accelerated it and there won’t be an America at the end of 2025.
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
Fuck you Trump, die already.
White is not as inclusive as it sounds. Don’t worry they’ll find reasons to round up them folk too.
Too true
Bro they put a white Canadian woman in custody without access to the outside world.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11080371/canadian-woman-detained-ice-example-immigration-border/
Is whiteness a stack and they’ll pop Irish and Italian off the top?
I mean, according to the history of how conservative news has worked, you constantly need an ‘enemy’ to be afraid. It’s the reason we’re attacking their rights, not yours, it’s the reason that we’re enacting laws to target this specific ethnicityn not yours, etc.
Modern conservativism only works if your supporters are fearful of the ‘other’. It used to be “orientals” and the Red Scare back in the mid-1900’s. Then the blacks, the ‘marihuana’, and communism in the 60’s and 70’s. In the 80’s, it was the welfare queens, the moral panic, and AIDS. In the 90’s, it was child predators, gays, and the start of many identity politics. Then it was Middle Easterners and Islam in the 2000’s. Now it’s the Great White Replacement and the immigrant populations. See? The pattern is that you always have to have some target for fear. They don’t stick around long before people realize that what they were fearful of isn’t as bad as people said they were or that it was never a risk on the first place. It’s all just a massive distraction to keep people from targeting the real problem. The ruling class, and they’re ability to manipulate our laws, elections, and lives all for their benefit.
In the 1980s, conservatism leaned heavily on fear of the communist threat, the ‘welfare queen’, and a moral panic over crime, AIDS, and the erosion of traditional family values. By the 1990s, the new ‘others’ were undocumented immigrants, queer Americans, and the imagined tyranny of political correctness and globalist elites. The conservative movement has often relied on stoking existential dread—whether it’s the red menace, the crack epidemic, or creeping secularism—to unify its base through fear rather than hope.
They already popped Latin Americans and Middle Eastern people off of it
Yeah, Persian people definitely got rugpulled
@remindme 2026-01-01
Does that actually work?
@remindme 2025-06-13
No idea.
Didn’t work for me :( but maybe it was too close @remindme 2025-06-15
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
So like America has always been?
Don’t pretend it can’t get worse
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
Im most of these things but also gay so I’ll be in a camp before most especially after the Southern Baptist convention votes
Fuck, the only thing on the list I’m not is rich and I’m fucking scared of the Southern Baptists.
Camping does sound nice in the summer months at least.
American protests tend to die down after a few weeks unless there is constant new irritation applied.
Continuous mass roundups of people with indefinite detentions, in harsh conditions will probably help keep this protesting active.
But I don’t see how it can get much worse. The police and federal agencies are pretty much at maximum limits for being evil for them. New people will have to be recruited to do worse.
And while there will be mass beatings and the occasional death, and tens of thousands of kidnappings. it’s not enough to tip things over to the next stage unless people in the administration try very hard to achieve that. And I think they are too incompetent to succeed making things worse.
Something unexpected would have to happen first?
You’re assuming the power structures survive, the US is a shit tonne more fragile and weirdly over extended than one would expect. Mind you that over extension only really comes out with authoritarian action but still it is notable. I expect a bunch of MAGA Khmer Rouge to pop up and then an extended series of campaigns by various factions to destroy them. Also calling it now the great planes are going to devolve into a bunch of city states.
Remember don’t all protest in one place. Multiple protests in a city are harder to control.
Drag Abbott from his chair across the road. Preferably one with lots of dust. Let the maggot crawl home.
Someone should tell him that fascists really don’t like people with disabilities
I hope he gets stuck on the 10th floor of a non-ADA compliant building. After all, ADA is just “red tape” for these fucks.
He won’t be anywhere near Americans, hell be staying home watching the fascism do its things.
“NO GODS OR KINGS, ONLY MEN”
Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!
Abbot vs Waltons fight fight fight!
Oh man, but the statement of Abbot vs Waltons.
She’s not even one of the actual inner circle Waltons, a married in one, has no real share power to Walmart, just rich as fuck. But I can’t stop laughing at the idea of Abbot getting confused and going after the likes of Alice and such as well.
Deploying the military domestically to crack down on free speech
