Armed Democrats

“But according to NBC News, ‘the Trump administration indicated it’s prepared to go beyond the traditional furloughing of some government employees during shutdowns and fire federal employees.’”

Who’s to say the asshole won’t do it anyways if Dems cut a deal? MAKE REPUBLICANS OWN IT!

Mark my words, they’re going to use this to “legally” eliminate any opposition.

Anyone else thinking this can only be a bad thing? Maybe a loyalty test to try and purge any of the leadership deemed “disloyal”? We can only hope our top brass remember Oath to defend the CONSTITUTION against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC. Stay vigilant!

Apparently MAGAts are compiling a list of people they believe were celebrating or glorifying Charlie Kirk’s death yesterday. Stay safe!

If this isn’t a call to arms I don’t know what will be.

…be a Caprio.

U.S. troops on U.S. soil policing U.S. citizens.

Still not far enough across a line for most I’d wager. Maybe when it happens in New York? Or Baltimore? Nah, we’ll just keep taking it. Fascism is here to stay. But please, continue to tell me how I’m “blowing it out of proportion” or “need to wait for the next election”.

Crossposted from https://slrpnk.net/post/25696399

Compare with the original, from a few weeks back

Half of section 8, governing Congressional power over the military is removed.

Section 9 had, among other things:

• Habeas Corpus the right to get a court hearing instead of arbitrary imprisonment
• a ban on foreign emoluments for the US officials (eg: payments from foreign governments)

Section 10 reserved foreign policy for the federal government instead of the states.

Looks like the only justice we can expect these days is from vigilantes.

Peaceful protest your way out of this one. I’m not lifting a finger until assurances of consequences for the administration, their enablers, and their supporters are guaranteed.

…when are we moving on to the next step?

So I think we’d all agree that if people were being herded onto boxcars and delivered to incinerators that would clearly be a time for violence. Not happening right now (that we know of), but our homegrown Führer may change his whim at any moment. My question is “What is the line that makes violent protest acceptable?” The first time a cop shoots a protestor? Military does it? Does the shot need to be fatal? Life altering (think paralyzing)? And if so, why does it have to at a point where it’s SO MUCH HARDER to come back from, as opposed to now? Which wouldn’t be easy, mind you, but their positions aren’t fully fortified yet, so better than 6 months, a year from now. Especially when we can all see where it’s going, to the point of inevitability. And before I get called out on that, any criticism needs to include exactly how the critic sees this de-escalating in any other manner.

Hoping for some thought provoking discussion here, because let’s face it - Republican actions are making things go downhill fast.

Fun fact: the big fucked up bill eliminates the ability of Federal Courts to enforce injections if a bond has not been issued. Easy way for our fledgling dictatorship to keep doing all of the illegal things they’re doing, but “legally”.

Time to start getting ready to take corrective action - people are waking up. I hope.

Yeah, it shut down the FUCKING WORLD but let’s go ahead and scale it back. Probably the fault of whatever jackass was in office when they weee developed; anyone happen to recall who that was?

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/43781363

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/178638

From BBC News via this RSS feed

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/29427517

Now that I’ve written that, he might actually get away with it. It would be a refreshing level of government transparency.

I guess to be fair I was never really a stickler for any particular method; I’m just a lot more open to a lot of them.

…and instead start calling them Royal Decrees? Seems far more fitting and a better way for Dems to messages what’s going on.

Crossposted from https://programming.dev/post/29737966

So apparently protests alone don’t work - wow who woulda thought?

Crossposted from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43422939

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21386331

Well how about that?

NRA been quiet right

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28785001

So this is a wonderful resource to help avoid local business that are run by Neo-Nazis.