WASHINGTON — White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump’s invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the United States for law enforcement purposes, five people with knowledge of the talks told NBC News.
It fucking sucks, but it is really about waiting for The Moment.
Getting some baseball bats and rushing an ICE office? The news media will instantly villify it as an act of terrorism and most people will decide that they themselves hadn’t noticed any problems so it probably was terrorism.
But when The People are sufficiently angry and are actually looking for an outlet? THAT is when that act of Resistance transforms from “terrorism” to “spark”.
I’m just annoyed that we’re all going to have to go through so much extra pain because of the stupids. And we’d DAMN WELL better prevent them from EVER having a say again after this. I don’t care if you call it anti-democratic, I don’t care if you call it Jim Crow, I don’t care if you try and argue slippery slope - these MAGAts need to be barred from voting ever again, and their particular brand of lying hate speech needs to be outlawed.
Oh. Be-fucking-lieve me, the things I want are things you don’t type out ever.
But the problem is that a plurality of the voting populace in this country WANTED this shit. You can argue that they were too stupid to know what they were voting for but they still chose hate and bigotry
And while I sincerely doubt the Democrats will do anything (if they ever even get power again), you fundamentally can’t do ANYTHING without the will of The People. Because… that voting plurality have already demonstrated that they will be much faster to engage in violence to get their way and the Democrats have already demonstrated they want to maximize “decorum”
I mean not really when you take voter suppression and other tactics into account. That’s not to even mention the handful of lawsuits from the election that are currently ongoing showing mathematical ilregularities, borderline impossibbilities.
Bypassing democracy to oppress your political opponents? Rings a bell
Call it Reconstruction.
Look, .22 doesn’t do a whole lot other than suppression. But I have A LOT
That would carry a lot more weight if US citizens weren’t presented with dozens of wonderful opportunities to fix their shit which they still ignored. Stop waiting and do something you lazy cowards.