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In case you had any doubt what this whole Iran affair is really about...
nooooo thats anti semitism nooooooo im the adl take me seriously nooooooo
When the United States fakes an attack on US soil by Iran, Trump will be able to declare martial law without pushback. Once he has that kind of control he will destroy the Epstein files permanently. He will also never give up martial law and will become a dictator that will pass on to other dictators for the next hundred years. This is the future of the United States of America unless the man is taken care of.
Nah, he'll just run as VP and have Baron Trump run for president and have the special forces do any rigging needed. Fascism in America is disappointing on so many levels.
If that happens palantir will have ice come and collect dissidents and we will be enslaved and killed in core civic concentration camps
Gonna happen like that if we don’t.
The worst of it is already gone if I had to guess. When the FBI got hacked it lost 100TB of data relating to the investigation. 100TB ain't gonna be emails, that's media.
With that many terrabytes there has to be video.
People don’t lose data from being hacked. The FBI has backups of backups. Even I can’t “lose a file” if I tried because everything I do has very basic consumer level backups. If they “lost” something, it was destroyed internally… and even still there’s probably a copy.
That's why it is important to make everyone you know expect it. If enough people don't get fooled, then this won't work.
I'm actually worried about 4th of July. Fascists love dates and numbers and it is 250 anniversary of US.
He might rename it "Fourth of Trumply"
I dunno. Trump doesn’t give a shit about historic dates. My bet is October. If you’re not out of the country by then, you’re never getting out.
Ten bucks says he declares Marshal Law instead.
I’m not taking that bet. I don’t like to lose money hahahah.
My guess is he does it in October before the midterms so he can hassle voters or cancel elections.
With the USPS timestamps, SAVE act, etc there’s just no way the election is going to be fair.
The USA is dead. The fall of the USSR is going to look like utopia.
Party for one!
Oh geez, yes I lost the tread. As you were.
Martial law
That is the joke.
Not saying he wouldn't, but isn't Marshal Law part of the insurrection act? In any case, a foreign attack on a nation shouldn't be justification enough for an action of internal oppression. Again, I'm talking about a rational administration, here, not an autocratic dictatorship.
The United States government knew about Pearl Harbor, and they let it happen to get Into World War II. This led to Japanese internment camps inside the United States, which I would argue Is internal oppression. There is good evidence, that you can go find yourself, that The United States let 9/11 happen. This led to the patriot act, and an entire war.
Martial law is not part of the insurrection act. That is a different thing, with similar talking points.
Declaring martial law or using anything in the insurrection act to take over the local governments would not be marketed as oppression. And if no one says oppression, then it can’t be oppression (According to the government).
I think that if Donald Trump is willing to bypass Congress to go to war, he’s willing to break any rule in the book. The rules no longer apply and the only reason he hasn’t tried to take over local governments is because no one is standing up to him yet. He gets away with everything. He may be a few cards short of a full deck, but he’s not dumb. He knows if you don’t have a problem, don’t make one. The United States citizens are not a problem for him.
Had me until
If he’s dumb, then he’s just really really Lucky.
It’s called being born into wealth.
You just get good at using your wealth to avoid accountability. It doesn’t take intelligence to not pay contractors cause you keep getting away with it your whole life.
There is strong evidence that he basically got saved by Russian money.
So yes, being so lucky to be born into wealth and also sociopathic enough to do whatever it takes like betraying your own country.
Being intelligent and being not dumb are not the same thing.
He knows he doesn’t need to roll tanks down Main Street USA, because people in the USA refuse to stand up to the government in any meaningful way.
I guess we have different definitions of dumb.
Like there are reports that he was the dumbest student in many classes.
Remember the basic “intelligence” test he took and he kept bragging about the results?
Book smarts and street smarts and the money to pay people to fix shit.
I don't think this is even true. It is more that media (owned by the same elites) can temporarily escape to Iran so they report it.
Meanwhile the records about victim's interview that they were hiding were released and they look quite bad.
Yes. Operation Epstein Fury.
Also Operation Energy Fluffer, the saviour of Russia's war budget.
It could just be an added benefit...
It's about Netty-bo yanking on Trump's leash.
this isn't our war. it's Netanyahu's. (and maybe the Saudis, too.)