Trump administration is creating a ‘quick reaction force’ designed to rapidly supress civil unrest and protests throughout the country.
Posted by tigerdogbearcat@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 437 comments
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
So they have genuine QRF’s now huh?
Strap in lads. Unify with your neighbors. Collaborate on food/water. Buy Baeofangs.
And always remember-the United States has never won a guerrilla war. The only one we have won was fighting off a tyrannical government in red coats. Now they wear red hats.
DistillateMedia@reddit
These alpha bros don't realize that the Viet Cong were a largely female volunteer fighting force.
YogurtclosetIcy5286@reddit
The Viet Cong were basically wiped out in the Tet offensive of 1968... After that regular NVA regiments from north Vietnam fought the war... And the were mainly men.
DistillateMedia@reddit
No, the Viet Cong (VC) were not wiped out as a fighting force after the Tet Offensive, though they suffered significant losses and were significantly weakened. While some VC units were indeed decimated, particularly in and around Saigon, and the offensive severely impacted their overall strength, they were not completely eradicated. The VC were able to regroup and rebuild, though their role in the war shifted in the years following Tet.
Get fucked dude.
YogurtclosetIcy5286@reddit
Seems like you agree with me
Split hairs much?
RyukXXXX@reddit
So it seems like the Viet Cong did become a secondary force due to the failure of the Tet Offensive and the NVA had to do even more than before...
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
Which is why their guerrilla combat worked so well. Half the time we didn’t even realize they were combatants until they pulled an AK from their dress lmao.
ceruleanmoon7@reddit
Omg i didn’t know this. Amazing
DistillateMedia@reddit
They gave our boys hell in the jungle as well.
Steelcitysuccubus@reddit
But they didbt have the constant surveillance we do
RyukXXXX@reddit
Largely? Weren't they still mostly men? Especially the fighters?
Dear_Log_8094@reddit
where the fuck did you get that
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
What they don't realize is like the Pacific ocean with their actual knowledge but a small canoe upon it.
Haveyounodecorum@reddit
Rural area, excellent place to prep, did not expect the rampant MAGAts that are surrounding me now. I don’t particularly want to help them. I know they have been used and manipulated, but now the cruelty seems to be the feature not the bug.
ImSirius678@reddit
Hate to burst ya bubble (and I’m well aware this will get massively downvoted but I speak the truth no matter its popularity at the time)
But if it makes you feel any better this was going to happen regardless. This is the script and it will be followed by the puppets no matter what
If the attorney general kamkam Harris would’ve “won” the (s)election then you would have just seen massive “right wing” protests over “stolen election,” rioting and objections, to which the “left wing” leaders would have responded with the full force of the military, as we are starting to see here but with the roles reversed, and it would have escalated as we are about to see with this current version. This was inevitable. Those with eyes to see have seen the writing on the wall for quite some time now.
Again that’s just the truth. Well aware it will be extraordinarily unpopular. Called names. Said I’m delusional schizo liar wacko. Personal insults, maybe bot accusations etc. But that is the truth
And one way or another, everyone will (eventually) know the truth (:
AliceCode@reddit
Just because you keep saying something is true doesn't mean that it is.
ImSirius678@reddit
Well the best part is even if it goes unsaid the truth remains the truth. So might as well say it out
“Speak truth to power” something something. And let’s be real. Anyone being honest with themselves can absolutely easily see that outcome. Truth hurts sometimes I know. But we gotta be like pickles and dill with it :)
AliceCode@reddit
Don't even act like the left is anything like the right in this scenario.
ImSirius678@reddit
It is a FALSE DICHOTOMY. A hegelian dialect. A false choice. You want a sh*t sandwich or diarrhea soup? Either way you are still eating feces (:
Choosing the supposed “lesser of two evils” guess what m8 you’re still choosing evil
Fortunately the time is nearing, it is almost upon us that the human family will wake up from the spell it’s been under really for millennia. We gotta grow up and evolve as a people. Likely to get way way WAY darker before the Light shines through. But in the “end,” it’ll all work out (:
AliceCode@reddit
What is evil about the left? Genuine question?
ImSirius678@reddit
Came back to respond these cause I just got off a 7 day ban, ironically enough for defending the j-ewish people and standing up for what is TRUE (what’s up w that Reddit are y’all ann-tye simm-it-ick or something?)
Anyway. Yea. Keep voting for a system of monsters. Vote “left wing” you get the same tyrant bird that takes you to the same place. Vote “right wing” you get the same tyrant bird that takes you to the same place. Humans gotta free their minds
Government is now, has always been, and always will be eternally- Slavery. Lie to yourself if you want. The truth remains the truth.
AliceCode@reddit
I'm an Anarchist. You're not convincing me of anything, here. But the left and right wings are not equally bad. And Leftists are on the left, and they are a stark comparison from Nazis and Fascists, which are on the right.
ImSirius678@reddit
They are equally bad. In fact, the illusion of separation between them is just that. An illusion, meant to divide and weaken the slaves. And it’s working perfectly
“Left wing” gets you to socialism then to communism, then to a boot with a weapon stomping on your face, and breadlines
“Right wing” gets you to fascism then to nazism, then to a boot with a weapon stomping on your face, and breadlines
The people have to stop lying to themselves. Government is slavery.
AliceCode@reddit
Communism is stateless, which means no government. Anarchism is also stateless.
ImSirius678@reddit
In a fairy tale world sure. All the wonderful ideas lead to utopia on paper. But they always leave out the human factor
When you allow your entire species to be governed (from the Latin gubernare+mente literally to govern or control the mind) by FLAWED HUMAN BEINGS. Then you inevitably get dictators, order following trash that do as they’re told for a paycheck. And as George Orwell said “a boot stomping on a human face, forever.”
That is the truth of the matter. Has been the truth for basically all of known recorded human history. And will remain the truth as long as we as a species keep looking externally to a daddy or mommy figure to keep us safe and solve all our problems. It’s time for the human race to (finally) grow the hell up and get it together, or we’re looking down the barrel of open, overt whips chains and cages slavery, forever.
AliceCode@reddit
So what is your suggestion if not Anarchism? What are you even saying here?
ImSirius678@reddit
TRUE anarchism is absolutely a viable solution. Ie actually NO slaves and NO masters. As long as people continually try to avoid self responsibility, and outsource their governance to other flawed people, then we will remain in the state we are now and have always been. The state of slavery
The only true solution is the abolishment of every form of government from every corner of the Earth (and beyond.) In order to reach that state though, the human species will first have to recognize that as the solution, and rise in consciousness. As long as we stay dumb trash slave apes looking for a master, we will get exactly what we deserve.
AliceCode@reddit
Guess what? That's a left-wing viewpoint.
ImSirius678@reddit
Let me guess. Still supports “voting” still supports elections. Still supports ELected (the term El is an old term for god- specifically Saturn. Look it up) leaders IN ANY WAY. Still supports human authority. Might be wrong here (very doubtful) but literally every proponent of “anarchy” I’ve seen is just another slave that advocates for their flavor of HUMAN SLAVERY.
And side note the whole left wing right wing terminology itself comes from ROME aka the Roman empire (which the US is just the modern version of) and before that it was Egyptian. It’s WINGS because in the ancient world birds (specifically the Phoenix) was used to represent the Sun. Your rulers literally themselves as divinely appointed to rule over you, aka gods on Earth. Comes back to my point of human governance. Is. Slavery
And just before I get any comments of schizo wacko take your meds etc type responses. just know. My words here sound absolutely wild to the uneducated slave populace (about 95% of people) but rest assured. Your rulers. Your masters. Your OWNERS. Know these things very well and use them to keep the divided, weakened, and ultimately ENSLAVED. So NO. Any “wing” of the evil bs called human governance leads only to ruin. As I’ve said, people can lie to themselves all they want, and most do every second of every day. But the truth is the truth.
AliceCode@reddit
No, Anarchists are Anarchists, buddy. Why would they support the system? Anarchists might vote, but that's only as a means of harm reduction, not as a means of legitimizing the system. Maybe you should read more about Anarchism before you spout more nonsense.
ImSirius678@reddit
If they are absolute TRUE. Real Anarchists. Then absolutely. All about it, and honestly that’s the only real path
But as I’ve said the “anarchy” movement has been so so so he silly co-opted that it has become a total mockery of what real Anarchy actually means. And he’s ily disagree of “voting” for harm reduction. If you know it’s all rigged bullshit (which it always has been and always will be) then by voting or participating in such a flawed system IN ANY WAY. Then you have sold out and compromised your core values. So yea if you’re espousing TRUE Anarchy in the literal, eternal meaning of the word itself. Absolutely on board. But the minute left wing rihht ring, voting etc other nonsense is brought up. Then nope, wrong position, three strikes and it’s out. No slaves no masters.
AliceCode@reddit
Voting doesn't hurt anyone.
Voting doesn't mean you aren't Anarchist. If it's a choice between the person that wants to genocide trans people, and the person that wants to build affordable housing, I hope you would vote for the person that wants affordable housing.
You're not going to eliminate the system by refusing to vote, and in fact, refusing to vote could allow the system to become more entrenched.
Yes, there are "Anarcho"-Capitalists, but they aren't real Anarchists.
ImSirius678@reddit
Voting does hurt. It lends credence to their bullshit rigged system
And guess what? If enough people refused. Said NO I will not now or ever participate in your bullshit. Rigged. SLAVE system. Then they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on, they would have to go full on mask off fascism to oppress the people, and then at least everybody could see with their eyes the slave system, instead of this covert garbage ass mental slavery we’ve had going on the past few centuries. So you are incorrect
Voting in a garbage manmade and most inortanrly FAKE system does nothing but harm and honestly makes a mockery of anyone silly enough to participate in it, which is unfortunately a vast vast majority of the population currently. Because of course they gotta send you to 13 years of slave school get you pledging to the 13 stripes of course. Literally indoctrinate the people from birth. Wake up.
AliceCode@reddit
No, it doesn't. Whether you vote or not, they still have the system. If you don't vote, you are just giving any power you do have to the people that will vote.
You sound like you're maybe just discovering that the system is corrupt. Congratulations.
ImSirius678@reddit
Goddamn. Yea. I figured this wouldn’t really go anywhere. Think I’m kinda done engaging here, trying to reason with a heavily conditioned individual (like almost everyone is) is most of the time ultimately and exercise in futility. Unfortunately the brainwashing runs so deep, most people would literally rather die than ever admit they were wrong or have been deceived. And you say I’ve just discovered it’s corrupt? Good one. Says the voter xD. Let me guess you’ve voted your entire adult life and look where it’s got ya. Same Goddamn place as the rest of the slaves. But w8 let me guess “vote harder bro”
Tell ya what, you just keep voting for your child harming SLAVEDRIVING masters like a good little one. And I’ll keep being as free as I can and stay ready to give it all up at any moment if that’s what it takes. And I saw your gif comment, yup lotta eglin bois pushing narratives these days. I’d say it’s more bots than people at this point tbh. Hopefully you and more people will wake up soon enough. One thing for certain though eventually the Truth will be known by all, one way or another (:
AliceCode@reddit
Ahh, yes, because not voting makes you free. Lmao.
Look where that got the U.S., many of the registered voters just didn't vote, and now Donald Trump is deploying the military on cities and black bagging people for crossing an imaginary line.
These slave masters that you are complaining about are the very people that don't want you to vote!
Voting does not legitimize the system. It's the very least that you can do to slow the descent into fascism.
People already know the truth! The system is fucked, through and through. Quite a lot of us don't care for governments. That's not something new, and you aren't special for discovering Anarchism.
Personally, I don't vote. I've only voted once in the recent presidential election in the hopes that it would prevent Trump from gaining power.
It's not possible for you to live outside of this system, and it's certainly not possible to make it go away by simply refusing to vote. It would take a hell of a lot more than that.
But if every single person on the left chose not to vote, that would leave only the people on the right, the people that actively want to vote in autocrats to secure totalitarian control on the nation. You're not going to convince the right wing to stop voting, and you're not going to convince the world to vote, so what can you do in the mean time to slow the descent into fascism?
ImSirius678@reddit
Your words indicate you are very heavily conditioned. Again, most people alive today are. The slavemasters brainwashing works so well, and people lie to themselves so much. That they refuse to recognize or even acknowledge the possibility of their own conditioning
Again. Participating in a bullshit game made up by the slavemasters is an absolute exercise in futility AT BEST and really as I’ve said only lends legitimacy to the fake system. To my original point from last week, this was the script all along. Now you’ve got the fat orange pedof1le “dictator” in there going to war against the so called “left.” If the tide had indicated enough that the “other side” was to be (s)elected for the role of president, then we would have seen infringement on the people from the “left side” and subsequent rebellion and fighting from the “right side” all ending in the slaves fighting each other, hating their neighbors. All while your masters. Your OWNERS who own all of you regardless who you waste your time voting for. Laugh at all of you. And honestly, I’m kinda laughing with them. If a populace is this ignorant, this lacking in consciousness, then they kinda deserve what they get to be honest
Only ones I really feel sorry for are the children and the animals. Those beings are innocent. The adults for the most part, ESPECIALLY the ones who have participated and lent credence to this absolute slavery shitshow. Deserve every second of what you get. And as I’ve said personally, I’m ready to give it all up in a moment if that’s what it takes. Infinitely better to “die” a free being on your feet, than live on your knees.
So yea. I’m done responding here to you. It’s a waste of my time. I know what I know. And I know “voting” or asking your masters to please be a little less evil or maybe just tread on the other “side” does not has never and will never do or lead to a single Goddamn thing besides absolute. Human. Slavery
So ya. Goodluck with your ped0file masters hope they don’t tread on ya too hard (:
ImSirius678@reddit
I’ll say it clear. “Voting” for so called lesser evil. Is still VOTING FOR EVIL. Again. No slaves. NO masters. The only solution to human slavery.
AliceCode@reddit
Reindeer_Adept@reddit
You know, we want rights for EVERYONE, and for everyone to be themselves and love who they want, and for everyone to be able to obtain the "American Dream." So evil of us.
ImSirius678@reddit
The “left” party wants rights for only those belonging to their camp, same ad the “right” camp. Newsflash bud it’s a big club and YOU ain’t in it-no matter what the tv man or the slick talking politicians tell you (:
Reindeer_Adept@reddit
False, I want the same rights for everyone. 🤷♀️
ImSirius678@reddit
Well then you are inherently against government if that is the case. And that is the only moral position to have.
One group of human beings RULING over another is inherently 100%, by definition SLAVERY. That’s where the term Authority comes from, they Author aka write down the arbitrary laws, they see themselves as gods on Earth. So if someone truly wants the same rights for all beings (as it should be) then people better get comfortable governing themselves and living in a free world (:
AliceCode@reddit
You do realize that the people that are against the government are on the left, right? Anarchism is a left-wing ideology.
ImSirius678@reddit
The term “anarchy” itself has been co-opted by the establishment. Now the so called anarchists are the “rage FOR the machine” types
The word itself from the Greek is literally just an arkos- it means NO RULERS. Aka no masters, no slaves. If you support government or human authority IN ANY WAY then you fundamentally support slavery. Again, people can lie to themselves if they want, say “left wing right wing” all day. The truth has always been, currently is, and always will remain the same.
AliceCode@reddit
Okay.
JoeGibbon@reddit
Are you suggesting Kamala Harris would have dismantled the federal government a la DOGE, sent the Marines to a US city to stand around and stare at protesters, declared that she is in control of the city police of Washington D.C., released all of the felons involved in the seditious acts of Jan. 6 2021, offered Alaska's natural resources to Vladimir Putin, had the FBI declare the Epstein files don't exist, made a deal with Ghislaine Maxwell that resulted in her getting moved to a minimum security resort where she can leave every day...
You think she would have done all that? You're serious comparing Donald Trump -- a convicted felon, rapist, con man, and one of the most blatant liars in the history of the human species -- to Kamala Harris?
You are a fool.
s1gnalZer0@reddit
My neighbors are all maga :(
hectorbrydan@reddit
Mine too.
socialmedia-username@reddit
Mine three.
Background-Library81@reddit
The red hats are about to find out they are expendable too. Their votes are no longer needed. If they get in the way, they will be deported with everyone else.
hectorbrydan@reddit
They still have another 3 to 7 years before they're not needed anymore. They got to make sure the fix is in proper.
But yeah, fools all. The people they are supporting have nothing but contempt for them. I do not have contempt for them I want to help them. But they told them that I would have nothing but contempt for them.
Admiral_Falcon@reddit
I do not expect this to be a stable dictatorship with an actual in group. The country is ending.
hectorbrydan@reddit
There is a while to go. They are still making max cash, it is not until the econ tanks and trust in the dollar is ruined that it gets real bad outside of the normal reign of terror.
At some point society will implode and security services will become warlords along with the remaining rich. The remnants of the federal government will be more akin to organized crime, as the states may be.
Which is to say, once money loses its value society will collapse. and money will collapse, they print enough to pay down the debt and whatever else
Kumo999@reddit
I don't want to be anywhere near a red state when this happens. It will be absolute hell in much of the South. There will be a point to where Democratic strongholds will break off from the Union and go their own way. This will most definitely trigger war, but I would rather be on the side that chooses to align with our old allies, instead of the extreme isolation that MAGA seems to want.
Think_Industry8431@reddit
Your second point doesn’t get enough airtime. If a void of lawlessness is created, other forces will step in and provide control and protection, and those forces aren’t held to the constraints of FOIA, inspectors general, or the law of the land. Things can get so much worse structurally, and many Americans don’t have the imagination or global/historical frame of reference to appreciate that.
Background-Library81@reddit
That is why the push for crypto and low interest rates
The billionaires will buy everything up with those cheap loans, then when the dollar crashes, they won't care because they already own everything and have money in crypto.
Xyrus2000@reddit
No one is getting deported. The new concentration camps will become forced labor camps.
We've seen this movie before.
pegothejerk@reddit
A lot of them are about to have to decide between food and rent and their medications.
lavapig_love@reddit
Reducing or eliminating the types of food they buy will reduce and eliminate a lot of their medications. Cause and effect.
Big_Virgil@reddit
Dude people have illnesses that aren’t just caused by being fat AF and they’re gonna straight up fucking die because others were selfish and needed more shit.
Silver lining for them though, they don’t have to worry about the rent when they’re dead! /s
Tall_Newspaper_6723@reddit
Good!
SKI326@reddit
I’m #4. ☹️
sludge_monster@reddit
Mine four and I'm Canadian smh
keep_living_or_else@reddit
Arguably more important than ever to establish nonpartisan positive ties and subdue your provocation in the interest of not being ratted out or targeted for being out of line. Do what you can and make the choices you want, but it may be pragmatic to be friendly with them and try to solidify a friendly view of who you are among those folks. Best of luck either way; I'm in a similar spot but without the option to do the above due to a few pieces of decor hanging in my windows.
s1gnalZer0@reddit
I get along well with my neighbors and am not worried about being ratted out or targeted. I keep a very gray man profile and avoid talking politics with anybody.
Nondescriptish@reddit
Signed loyalty oathes are coming.
Ann_Amalie@reddit
They’ve got the voter rolls for that. Easy peasy.
mrkrabsbigreddumper@reddit
How you vote is not recorded, just if you voted in the election. At least in WA. Source: I personally worked in a county clerk office
Ann_Amalie@reddit
Correct, your actual vote is private but your party affiliation is not. That’s enough “proof” for a lot of people where someone’s loyalty lies.
lapidary123@reddit
I feel like i read that there is a push toward ballots being personally tied to people in the near future. Not sure how they'd do that but I think its on the list...
twospirit76@reddit
That D next to your name will soon make you and your family a target.
Cautious-Progress876@reddit
The states definitely record whether you are registered to a party and whether you have already voted in a primary and which one (if you have open primaries).
picturesfromthesky@reddit
how things have been run in the past doesn't seem to be a very good indication of how things are being run now, or will be in the future.
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
I'm sorry, but for the MAGA members around me if your head isn't bobbing like a bobblehead every time they start a moronic rant they would turn you in in a New York second. I wish I could trust neighbors but that ship sailed when they supported this clown the second time. I spent hours once explaining what would happen if trump got elected and so far nothing I said was wrong. But they still wave trump flags and tell me he is the best thing to ever happen to America and I know they are at the bottom of their bank accounts already and this ride just got started. I would bet they could be drug out of their homes by ICE and the FBI and watch their kids be killed and still wonder how Biden had it done.
Dear_Log_8094@reddit
I spent hours once explaining what would happen if trump got elected and so far nothing I said was wrong...
just what did you say would happen, and not proven wrong?
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
We are the same. But my neighbors are not careful with their speech. I feel like they realize they are in safe numbers. We are not prepared for violence at our house. Maybe time to look into that.
CannyGardener@reddit
My neighbors are the same way, very Maga, and generally we all get along, but then I hear stuff like, "Ya if they come we'll blockade off the street here and here." thinking that the dems are coming for them... The state of this country makes me very sad. Everyone is so wound up and paranoid about 'the other side' it makes everything feel very charged.
keep_living_or_else@reddit
It's psychopolitics through and through. There is, for better or worse, a longstanding interest in pure mania overtaking the American mindset. We have a long history of being overcome by waves of decentralized vigilante violence spurred on by moneyed interests who stand to gain from the waves of chaos. I know you know this, but it makes me feel slightly better to articulate it to others, hah. Best of luck out there, friend.
TheVeryVerity@reddit
Is there a book or something I could read on this? I have a few guesses but I might not remember all the possibilities. Or is this your own theory?
owl_ry@reddit
Thank you for articulating this.
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
Sorry but the MAGA members are too stupid to live. There is no way to trust anyone dumb enough to support trump. Their sheer idiocy will get you killed.
carlitospig@reddit
Even they are starting to change their tune. Unless they have a trump flag still flying, they might already be in the headspace to see sense.
s1gnalZer0@reddit
There are a couple with flags, including one that still has a fuck Biden flag. And a farmer just outside of town with a huge sign strung up between two trees that says "I'd rather be an American than a Democrat."
carlitospig@reddit
Your poor town. 🥺
mkren1371@reddit
Damn I’m sorry..seriously! They are scattered in my neighborhood
GodTheInvention@reddit
Palmetto State Armory makes affordable 5.56 casters. Your neighbors probably already have theirs.
s1gnalZer0@reddit
I am looking to add another AR to my collection
AvantSolace@reddit
Tell them a bullshit law without telling them it came from Trump. They won’t do their research and will blindly support a protest.
ICould-ButNah@reddit
They’re all bitches. Arm up.
s1gnalZer0@reddit
I'm like 8 or 9 steps ahead of you there, boss. The challenge is finding time to practice though.
GamermanRPGKing@reddit
Plus ammo is pricey
RedHatsRTrash@reddit
Range ammo isn’t so bad in bulk
RedHatsRTrash@reddit
Then you know where they sleep and where to acquire free weapons and food.
Aimless_Alder@reddit
If you're a good listener, you can start keeping your ears open for cracks in the cult brainwashing. A lot of them are gonna be open to new ideas because the hiding of the Epstein files is such a betrayal of the cult's core mission. They'll hide their doubts at first, and may even double down, but if you're supportive and nonjudgmental, they might confide their doubts to you. If you validate them and make them feel safe when they do that, you can present new ideas and they may be open to them. I'm not saying you'll turn them into progressives, but you might be able to help them become anti-authoritarian conservatives, who believe in respecting their neighbors' right to be themselves on their side of the fence. Yes, I know folks like that won't be the best allies, but if you're stuck in Trump country, they're better than nothing.
JtassleJohnny@reddit
You know what to do then.
ImNotFromTheInternet@reddit
Then you’ll be protected
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
Same. Trump flag flying everywhere you look
TheUniverseOrNothing@reddit
If you actually talk to them like a normal person you know you can still bond/respect other human beings? Especially in SHTF, not a single maga supporter I know wants to kill other democrats. They might be idiots and not understand politics, but they aren’t going to shoot other Americans and would help you in survival situation. This is just a perspective from a normal town with mixed demographics. Not everyone is as radicalized as the internet makes you think.
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
I think you have a very optimistic and unrealistic outlook on human nature.
TheUniverseOrNothing@reddit
Big difference between human nature and your neighbor. Not saying you won’t find plenty of terrible ones. I’m saying everyone I’ve had was friendly and would help anyone. Even in the Deep South. Yes even a trans person. The fact that Reddit cannot fathom this shows how many people aren’t even trying and make it impossible to be friendly towards each other.
Reindeer_Adept@reddit
I came from Florida, they def want to shoot us.
IntrigueDossier@reddit
Big fucking doubt if it were a trans person seeking help or simply trying to speak to them.
s1gnalZer0@reddit
I get along with them, and avoid talking politics. I just don't like the fact that they helped get us into the situation we are heading for.
EnvironmentalKey3858@reddit
Mine are all apathetic as fuck which to me is honestly worse at this point. Hang in buddy.
Scary-Button1393@reddit
Free real estate post collapse.
silentbuttmedley@reddit
Then you don’t need to worry about rounds overpenetrating lol
Primary-Shame-4103@reddit
target practice when the shooting starts.
microcandella@reddit
then be maga badly (for maga) . train maga . badly. secure maga. badly. reveal insider maga opponents badly. use their resources and attention badly. enforce secure communications - badly and uncomfortably (atac)
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Move?
s1gnalZer0@reddit
Nah, not with house prices and interest rates where they are. I keep a low profile and my neighbors don't know my politics, so I'm not worried about them turning on me or anything like that.
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
Makes CID easier :-)
Fearless_Pool_7783@reddit
Now they wear red hats
Intelligent-Parsley7@reddit
Can someone PM me about the BAEOFANG RADIOS THING?
Fickle-Side-9053@reddit
Just look them up. Expecting people to sum it all up for you is nuts. Look them up and when they're used, you'll answer your own question.
kingofhearts778@reddit
Me too
BigTroutOnly@reddit
Those Baeofangs are fucking awful to operate
booksandfairylights@reddit
Rats, it's behind a paywall. What's a QRF?
Dear_Log_8094@reddit
Y'all know if you don't like it here, don't like what's happening, you can always leave, get the fuck out...
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
Hey found the bootlicking retard
PlumbGame@reddit
I hope the the vast minority in the group this person associates in who try to think they are some majority please do not listen to this and result in harm happening to yourself among confusion on how this could happen to you as some majority group of something.
sludge_monster@reddit
How is having extra cans of soup going to mitigate the endless tide of fascism?
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
Buddy thinks i’m talking about soup💀
sludge_monster@reddit
What are you talking about?
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
Bread.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
Do you think I'll have to flee to a blue state with my family eventually, out an I safer living in a small podunk red county in a pretty red state?
Could go either way, ultimately.
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
If you’re in a city-you’re IN the city. If shit goes sideways highways will fill up within minutes creating massive traffic jams the likes we’ve never seen.
If you’re in a more rural area you’re chillin. Do not flee. That’s exactly what they want. Blue and red truly don’t matter.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
Yeah, I blend in with my redneck neighbors when I actively try. Lol
stringInterpolation@reddit
I'm fortunate that I live near the great lakes. It's still urgently important that everyone finds a fresh water source. Recession is already here, it's going to be much worse. All to give billionaires some tax cuts, and to have every public servant being subservient
NationalGeometric@reddit
Baeofangs and Labubus!
griphookk@reddit
Also get a gun, and lots of training/practice on safe use/handling, and lots of ammo.
mouseknuckle@reddit
Ugh, I already did Stop The Bleed training. Now I’ve got to do Start The Bleed training too?
Lighthouseamour@reddit
What is a baofang?
That_Lore_Guy@reddit
It’s a type of short range radio.
Sinz_Doe@reddit
What are you even talking about? This is a good thing.
Honey_DandyHandyMan@reddit
Black coats with swastika too. There's hope
ice_up_s0n@reddit
Red coats; red hats; some things never change
OtisPan@reddit
Nothing will stop it at this point because the vast majority of Americans are doing nothing about it other than complaining, posting memes, and tossing around up and down votes. That's it. You can't fight fascism from a couch. You get exactly the amount of freedom that you fight for. Y'all are earning this.
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
By my point of view I see this coming to a head in January. From the tech side I am watching the power grids get more wobbly by the week, the national storage of food drop every week as well. With normal Christmas shopping I will be surprised if we don't see grocery stores have pretty big holes in stocking by January. And what is on the shelf will be largely more expensive than today. Both MAGA and the lukewarms won't understand they are screwed until they start understanding hunger from a very personal viewpoint. I expect to see at least one of the national power grids fail by April. This will be the trial run. I would bet it will be either west coast or the NorthEast. The reason I think it would be one of these is bulk food freezer storage and city occupants stores. They will take it out so that it should take a month or two to fix it just to see how cities work to get around it. California would have most of its cities back up within days but the NorthEast might very well take weeks.
OtisPan@reddit
Thank you for the thoughtful insight. Take care.
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
Well, as another said, we are the frog in the pot and the lid is slowly closing as the water gets hotter. Unless something happens that makes the lid slam shut or the water to suddenly boil I am worried most will not notice it unless the lid is locked down. This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany too.
Bingo-Bango-Bongo_@reddit
Realistically what should we do about it, though? I’ve not yet seen any comment like this propose a viable solution to the growing authoritarianism here. People are still too comfortable to get off the couch.
IIRC about 1/3 of this country loves what’s happening, 1/3 didn’t care enough either way to vote, and most of the remaining third is useless in events like this.
The right wing propaganda machine has slowly been growing more powerful, year by year, but the effects haven’t been visible to most people until recently.
OtisPan@reddit
I guess if I don't have a solution, none exists? I suppose you need a united vision, but that's something the left tends to fail at; it's easier to have a very simple but wrong message, than a complex but correct one.
IDK, not my country, I just know general apathy when I see it. Best of luck to all you folks out there.
JoeGibbon@reddit
You don't see it on social media because people who are serious organize and it would be stupid to discuss details of your militia or revolutionary cell on social media.
nycdiveshack@reddit
Buy guns and defend ourselves and others if the need arises. Protect people who cannot protect themselves. Stand up to tyranny and fascists with words and actions
toastmannn@reddit
This is going to get good once people start to wake up and realize what is going on and don't feel like they have anything to left lose.
itsallcosmica@reddit
I JUST NEED TO LEARN TO HANDLE and SHOOT a gun
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
I can train you, if you're in the south.
nostrademons@reddit
We won the guerrilla war when we were the guerrillas.
ChromeAstronaut@reddit
(Reread the last 2 sentences)
nostrademons@reddit
Yes. I am clarifying your comment, for those that did not make the connection.
pooinmypants1@reddit
So crazy how it’s the R’s that became the authoritarians. I always thought the D’s and woke folks that would do this first.
neeblerxd@reddit
well, for what it’s worth, you probably thought that because you’re fucking retarded
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
It's wild to me that folks had this opinion.
It's been extremely obvious my entire 46 years of existence that the GOP are the enemy of individual freedom. (Despite what they say)
nigmano@reddit
Here's your sign
P0Rt1ng4Duty@reddit
They can control 1,000 people standing in one place a lot easier than ten groups of a hundred people spread out over a city.
AliceCode@reddit
I think everyone should go out individually and cause a ruckus wherever they are in the city. Everyone all at once. Overwhelm them.
PossibleGenius2345@reddit
Who is "them" that you want to overwhelm? Fellow Americans who you happen to disagree with?
AliceCode@reddit
Yeah, people I disagree with. That's what it is.
pauliesfreakin@reddit
Or 100 groups of 10.
hugzilla1889@reddit
Be water
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
Ah, the Daoist principal of Wu Wei.
Be like water. Soft and supple, always taking the path of least resistance.
Don't be fooled. Water is powerful enough to carve out canyons.
hugzilla1889@reddit
Eastern philosophy was a great college course, the Daos have it figured out haha
Upstairs-Parsley3151@reddit
The civil unrest:
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Upstairs-Parsley3151@reddit
Basically, but people are more educated now.
GHASTLY_GRINNNNER@reddit
Good this is exactly what we voted for. Let the revenge continue
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
"Standing armies are dangerous to liberty" -The Federalist Papers 1788
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" -Benjamin Franklin
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." -Thomas Jefferson
Don't ever call yourself a patriot.
The founding fathers would never call you that.
GHASTLY_GRINNNNER@reddit
You are an open traitor who the founders would have got in the tar and feather out for.
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Damn. You are triggered. Suuii im owning the sweathogs today 😂
Yeah the founding fathers were terrified of a police state. You should learn some American history.
This nation began as a destructive protest/riot. Against tariffs. 6-8% on tea. In Boston.
GHASTLY_GRINNNNER@reddit
I see another dimwitted prog is babbling about things he doesn't know 💩 about. That's to be expected from your kind. 🤷♂️
carlitospig@reddit
That’s called fascism, in case you were wondering. Their ‘civil unrest’ is our first amendment right.
Brave_Mail_4256@reddit
Real question; is now the time to invest in a rifle and sidearm? And what would you recommend?
0masterdebater0@reddit
Between this force (personal body guard) and ICE getting funded more than most of the worlds militaries, Trump is rapidly creating a large military/paramilitary force that depends on him staying in power for them to get paid..
Sound familiar?
US is on track for a collapse of the late republic speedrun
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
He’s going to take complete control. His hero’s are Putin, Kim jong Un and that chiiiiiina guy
AliceCode@reddit
Thankfully he's nearly an octogenarian.
Fickle-Side-9053@reddit
You're nuts if you think he's acting alone. Or that him getting older would be the end of this.
AliceCode@reddit
I never claimed that.
Fickle-Side-9053@reddit
Then why did you bring up that he's an octogenarian as a relief if you know that all the bad stuff we're talking about will continue even as he ages out?
AliceCode@reddit
Because I'm glad that Trump himself is not far from death.
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
Vance is young. And worse.
litreofstarlight@reddit
Vance has the charisma of a damp dishrag though, he's not going to be able to get the faithful to congregate around him like Agent Orange does.
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
Doesn't need the peasants anymore.
Intelligent-Parsley7@reddit
Peasants have AR-15s in this country now. That’s not a joke to law enforcement. They know how far they can push.
litreofstarlight@reddit
No, but they at least need the peasants not to go feral when they feel betrayed until he's completely solidified power. There have already been attempts on Trump's life, and he's their god-king. I don't think the wing nuts would hesitate to go after Eyeliner Boy.
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
He won't need to as long as ICE takes their orders from him.
Intelligent-Parsley7@reddit
Vance needs popularity to hold power. He’s a tool bag. Nobody is looking up to that.
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
He’s next
J0E_Blow@reddit
But nobody would vote for Vanceeee!! Oh. Wait. Nobody will have to. :-/
Unbentmars@reddit
Vance is ready to be the next puppet, they just need Trump alive long enough to consolidate power
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
Plenty of time to do plenty of irreversible damage
AliceCode@reddit
But not likely enough time to turn the U.S. into another North Korea. One would hope, at least.
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
He’s been president this time for 7 months and sent the military to two cities already
AliceCode@reddit
It would take a lot more time to create the conditions that led to North Korea. We'll likely see something more like Türkiye.
Reindeer_Adept@reddit
He already has.
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
I agree. I have written my reps twice already. Nothing gonna come of it but my voice has been made
KikiWestcliffe@reddit
Old evil fuckers live forever.
Slow-Crew5250@reddit
this comparison is fucking stupid, trump is actively escalating towards war with both the DPRK and China
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
Why do you think trump wanted Putin on American soil. By treaty and law we were supposed to arrest Putin one he set foot on American ground.
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
He is selling him minerals and oil from Alaska. Probably drilling rights and more. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gave him the whole fucking thing
dropbearinbound@reddit
Creating?
Maybe if this was six months ago
dextercho83@reddit
When they enter a state/city, they may be able to quell a 10,000 people protest by confining them to a few square blocks but if the people break up the protest by creating 10 - 1,000 people protest, it would break the logistical chain for them
kassbirb@reddit
Blitzkrieg v2
heloguy1234@reddit
The right to assemble is protected by the first amendment
AldusPrime@reddit
It turns out, those protections don't work on their own. Congress and the DOJ need to care about the Constitution for those protections to matter.
theinferiorbone@reddit
Lol
Aduckchicken@reddit
you redditors needs to stop thinking that they would follow the constitution.
WeddingPKM@reddit
The constitution matters right up until the point that it doesn’t.
Sweet-Meaning9874@reddit
if there's one thing these MAGA respect.... oh, who am I kidding.
Upset-Equipment6963@reddit
Please understand that laws will not do anything good when they are cherry-picked.
ThatBadFeel@reddit
And enforced by the second if needed.
hectorbrydan@reddit
Our leaders including the courts and lawyers already think the Republic is dead.
One-Employment3759@reddit
Dementia Don has no use for the constitution
grownup789@reddit
Goodbye right to free speech and assembly. You were cool before we rolled over and let an orange loser take you away.
anxious_differential@reddit
Yep. Where are all those 2A "resisting tyranny" and such hot air folks at now? Those crickets are awful loud.
Deus_is_Mocking_Us@reddit
The left is going to pay the price for not availing ourselves of our 2nd amendment rights.
XCrimsonTearsX@reddit
Millions own weapons they just don't wave them around like a toddler discovering their penis for the first time like the right does.
throwAwayWd73@reddit
The majority of them are celebrating the deportation and harassment of minorities.
cheongyanggochu-vibe@reddit
They're ICE members and MAGA voters and oh right.Training to be paramilitary.
Suspicious-Limit8115@reddit
This doomer attitude is almost as foolish as the authoritarians who are perpetrating these crimes against humanity. One single wave of protests in every city in the country could put an end to a lot of this nonsense, that means more than just LA and NY and Portland, it means Billings Montana, it means Waco Texas, it means providence rhode island. We need protests in places that matter, and we need them in midsized cities as support. We need to force servicemen to choose between family, friends, and community, and their despot. Maybe you can get them to make that choice in big cities, but you can’t in the small ones, not in all of them.
SirPhilMcKraken@reddit
So they will bomb every city if the country if they come to realize this could lose them the control of the government.
They are literally racially fueled GENOCIDE MACHINES inhabiting wrinkly pedo bodies and just waiting to peel off the fake skin.
They are angry and seething that we dare care about our rights.
Suspicious-Limit8115@reddit
Let them try
SirPhilMcKraken@reddit
Might not want to jinx them.
The US is infamous for bombing innocent civilians.
wwaxwork@reddit
Hard to send the force to break up 1000 small protests nation wide. Hong Kong protestors can teach us a thing or 2 we're just too easily intimidated.
DukeOfGeek@reddit
It's this, except it needs to be 100 big protests. Also can we just shove all these "We're doomed just give up now" commenters to the bottom of every thread? They belong there.
WiseSalamander00@reddit
I would argue for revolution but reddit is ban happy with those subjects
threadbarefemur@reddit
You’re right, never comply in advance folks
Optimal-Archer3973@reddit
The real deal is when they start the shooting war. If this happens, take out the choppers first, then fiber optic centers. Spare parts are a problem for phone companies right now, chopping glass will only make them fix it, take out transceivers and power arrays though and they have a real problem. A taser to a 48V DC device can give it a rather bad day. A lightning rod attached to a wire can as well. Keep in mind every cell tower has video cameras that can watch as far as the tower top can see. Some are watched by live human, some are watched by AI.
throwawaygamer76@reddit
I didn’t follow the HK protests too closely, but did it accomplish much in the long term? From what I gathered, Beijing is still slowly eroding their rights.
threadbarefemur@reddit
I think the fact that HK is still called Hong Kong and not something else is a good sign. The protests put a lot of global pressure on the people in power to slow their roll. Takeover is still a threat, but they know they’re being watched
Healthy-Sherbert-934@reddit
Unfortunately no. The end result was the leadership detained or exiled and a large exodus to the UK for those with the passport that's capable of doing so.
Ricky_Ventura@reddit
It wasn't passport based. They gave BNO status to HK residents and the allowed special pathway for all of them to get citizenship.
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
I think it likely that the resistance would stage something just to draw them into an ambush.
Quiet-Vegetable7606@reddit
The internet is a powerful tool for voices.
Drakoji@reddit
You won't change anything in the real world on the internet.
americend@reddit
someone forgot about the Arab Spring
Quiet-Vegetable7606@reddit
This. Yes, Arab spring was a revolution that actually changed a country, simply using the internet. It's a fascinating event we in America should learn from.
Kind_Fox820@reddit
It wasn't "simply" using the internet. They used the internet to organize, but they still had to get off the couch and go outside. Americans seem to think we can stop fascism with angry tweets and witty signs.
-heatoflife-@reddit
What did you mean? It worked in occupied Europe, they just protested the Nazis away.
/s
Kind_Fox820@reddit
Not sure what it will take for folks to realize that we're at war and losing badly.
-heatoflife-@reddit
Nobody around me is grasping the severity and urgency. To discuss these things makes you sound like Dale Gribble.
Kind_Fox820@reddit
I hear you. People take freedom for granted. It doesn't just exist. Lots of people fought and died for us to have it, and they are rolling in their graves, watching us wave our signs around for a few hours only to then go home and carry on like everything is mostly normal.
Reindeer_Adept@reddit
They also forget that this country isn't even that old, in the grand scheme of things, and everyone has seemed to have gotten complacent, I know I did, until Trump's first presidency.
of_mice_and_meh@reddit
Outside of Tunisia, the Arab Spring was a complete failure.
americend@reddit
Success or not, things changed wildly for the region, which was the only thing we were talking about.
Drakoji@reddit
Your fat american ass won't fucking lead an arab spring.
You people are too fat and comfortable to do anything.
The_Monsta_Wansta@reddit
That's a wild thing to say considering how much sway the internet has on culture in general. It's easier than ever for one morons ideas to be adopted by other idiots
Drakoji@reddit
Oh if you wanna talk about how right wing politics can gain from the Internet, then yeah I agree. But it's impossible to win against the amount of disinformation available online.
grownup789@reddit
I mean censorship is coming for the internet too lol
Quiet-Vegetable7606@reddit
Proxies exist.
LilGrunties@reddit
For now.......seriously though. Private VPNs will be illegal soon enough just like China/Russia/North Kora (all our "enemies?) given the trend in how companies are DEMANDING fucking drivers licenses just to reset a password or prove your age to watch a video that is "NSFW" and often times really isnt even inappropriate.
Anyway, after VPNs are banned, internet discourse will be limited to using a burner phone or laptop on some free wifi networks to post something even mildly offensive to our fat orange piece of shit excuse of a "leader". We all know people in China have been and likely will continue to be kidnapped and put in Jail for even using a meme of Winnie the Poo.
This is all in the best interest of the ultra rich and powerful so under this dumbass excuse if an administration, there is no stopping it.
Really they are just making the internet more and more useless. This will help them when teller try to bring back serfdom and company housing ruled over by the bro-tech lords of the world.
Half joking, but at some point I wouldn't be surprised it some fucktard GOP senator proposed banning ALL ENCRYPTION and doesn't even think about excluding SSL certs for credit card payments in their bill 🤣
It is so sad that I truly can actually envision that happening in the next year or two.
They just want to get rid of as much privacy as possibly, all while molesting children, committing blatant fraud and insider trading, bribes, and who knows what else.
GOP leadership: "Human rights for me, not for thee."
Longjumping-Map7257@reddit
The vast majority doesn't know about proxy or VPN and you need the vast majority to change anything.
One-Employment3759@reddit
Internet is the problem, people think it is real life.
ImSirius678@reddit
We haven’t seen the “first amendment” truly in practice for everybody basically ever. It’s been unarmed “protestors” getting trampled, tear-gassed, sprayed with water cannons, beanbags etc basically since the country’s founding. We’re just now seeing the begin of the real slide into the dark side, and it will be exponential :/
ThatPhatKid_CanDraw@reddit
Where are the 2A guys ready to defend
LaSignoraOmicidi@reddit
Do you not have 2nd amendment rights? Are you not a US Citizen? Does it make you feel good that you finally realized that the nazis were lying about why they wanted guns? Does it make you feel bad that mostly everyone said you dont need them and the 2nd amendment is for savages. What will you do now? Your country needs you and you are here spitting out hyperbole about how you dont have the tools to resist, while sarcastically asking for others who do to come and do something about it. Good luck with that.
princess_raven@reddit
The folks you're thinking of are likely part of the problem/joining up w ICE Anyone left of center who has and/or trains with guns dont tend to make it their whole personality.
r/LiberalGunOwners r/SocialistRA r/IronFrontUSA
LilGrunties@reddit
For now we still have some......but already trump wants to hav ICE fo after people who badnp8th Israel online. Thays just the beginning. I am almost certain that private VPNs will be illegal soon enough (just like China/Russia/North Korea, supposedly all our "enemies?).
Given the trend in how companies are DEMANDING fucking drivers licenses just to reset a password or prove your age to watch a video that is "NSFW" and often times really isnt even inappropriate, this is a destined future unless someone can stop it.
Anyway, after VPNs are banned, internet discourse will be limited to using a burner phone or laptop on some free wifi networks to post something even mildly offensive to our fat orange piece of shit excuse of a "leader". We all know people in China have been and likely will continue to be kidnapped and put in Jail for even using a meme of Winnie the Poo.
This is all in the best interest of the ultra rich and powerful so under this dumbass excuse if an administration, there is no stopping it.
Really they are just making the internet more and more useless. This will help them when they try to bring back serfdom and company housing ruled over by the bro-tech lords of the world.
Half joking, but at some point I wouldn't be surprised it some fucktard GOP senator proposed banning ALL ENCRYPTION and doesn't even think about excluding SSL certs for credit card payments in their bill 🤣
It is so sad that I truly can actually envision that happening in the next year or two.
They just want to get rid of as much privacy as possibly, all while molesting children, committing blatant fraud and insider trading, bribes, and who knows what else.
GOP leadership: "Human rights for me, not for thee."
Michellenjon_2010@reddit
"Half joking" NOT
hectorbrydan@reddit
They have been working on taking that away for 50 years now, this did not start with the president and would have happened with a different leader if not him.
Y_Are_U_Like_This@reddit
And this is why people were protesting cop city in Atlanta and why the pigs were so quick to kill one of them
SharkOnGames@reddit
GOOD!
Since the states aren't doing it, glad someone will.
Washington State (where I am) literally let people take over entire city blocks, including all the violence, and called it 'summer of love'. The governor literally said he didn't even know it was happening (a complete lie caught in a live governor debate).
All the violence and theft could have all been avoided had state or event city stepped in to ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS.
But since they won't, glad the federal government WILL.
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Like they were enforceming the existing laws on Jan 6th 😂
Don't pretend your about law and order.
The military doesn't enforce laws, it's unconstitutional under the Posse Comitatus Act.
You dont enforce laws by breaking them. That's crime. Anyone who supports using the military against citizens is unamerican at best and treasonous at worst.
SharkOnGames@reddit
I have a question for you. If the local city/county and state police won't protect it's citizens, then what would you do?
You are paying taxes that aren't being spent based on the state consitution (i.e. protection, law enforcement, etc). So crime is up, you and your family encounter dangerous situations on a weekly basis. You call for police and they never show up. Murders, violent criminals, etc get arrested and released the next day. Your business gets destroyed and nobody gets arrested or is released a day later.
What is the next step? Local governments aren't doing anything, so who do you go to next?
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
Not to mention they act like schoolgirls over a felon, pedo, rapist, grifter.
Law and order? Lol
Buch of crazy fucking hypocrites. The mental gymnastics are quite impressive. If they weren't so damn dangerous, it would be hilarious.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
Not to mention they act like schoolgirls over a felon, pedo, rapist, grifter.
Law and order? Lol
Buch of crazy fucking hypocrites. The mental gymnastics are quite impressive. If they weren't so damn dangerous, it would be hilarious.
SharkOnGames@reddit
I see you bring the common 'one and only example'. I can cite hundreds just in this state alone or city and state failure to enforce laws and protect it's citizens.
krissithegirl@reddit
FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT!
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
Trunk is blatantly ignoring the Constitution and the rule of law.
He's an evil despot.
The Coppertone Caligula...
Any_Particular8892@reddit
The Trump administration is so afraid there will be more Luigi situations, so many armed people here, so few billionaires in comparison, why not sacrifice US soldiers?
Mysterious_Sport5211@reddit
Interesting, isn’t it a bit Ironic, since he caused one of the biggest civil disobedience and unrest in modern history?
superkook68@reddit
AKA - a goon squad
BigDaddySodaPop@reddit
8647
Electronic-Pilot4703@reddit
freedomfromreligionfoundationsdeepInTheseStatesUnitedThomasAkinhead1676ThomasJefferson1776
Glittering_Nature_21@reddit
GENERAL STRIKE
skategeezer@reddit
Release the Epstein files
nordic-nomad@reddit
Lots of small protests everywhere seem like they’ve been much more effective than 1 big location recently.
Intelligent_Hair3109@reddit
Afraid of the very people they're hurting. Sounds like guilt to me
Justcoffeeforme@reddit
Yes, he embarresed himself with what he did here in Portland a few years ago.
I don't think his fragile ego has gotten over it.
Feeling_Bag_7924@reddit
And other world threats, are completely disregarded! Shame, shame, shame!
Odd_Investigator8480@reddit
After 80 years, Donny, thanks to the Republicans and Christians, we now have the nazi death squad in Fasict America. WW2 vets are spinning in they're graves.
Rich_Personality_920@reddit
Pretty sure “right to protest” is in the constitution. Any obstruction is an immediate lawsuit and any single person would win against it.
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Damn. The Weimar Constitution had free speech protections... if only the Jews had thought of sueing Hitler.
The government of Chile had the same civil rights laws if only the people accused of communism thought of sueing Pinochet.
The Chinese constitution has the right to assemble enshrined. Maybe the people whos organs were harvestes should have sued.
Druid_High_Priest@reddit
Does everyone understand that by replying to this news, you are leaving cookie crumbs to allow you to be identified at some point in time? Before the dawn of AI, I felt very confident using a VPN was protection enough. Now I consider nothing to be private and very trackable.
They know me well so hiding is not an option.
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Ever since the patriot act the federal government already knows where you stand on most things....
George Dubya Bush admin created it. Obama renewed it. Trump renewed it... And its overreach will likely be one of the nails I. The coffin of free speech and privacy in the United States.
MadamXY@reddit
Only the brave will survive this. “He who dares, wins.”
Minute_Ad_1211@reddit
You mean a pop up shooting range? The ones without masks count for extra.
AdventurousRun7636@reddit
Too bad he doesn’t realize that there are over 190 million armed people in 50 little countries in the US. Fat bastard is delusional. The US couldn’t pacify a stone age country with 34 million people and a fighting populace of less than 4 million men with Ak’s and rpgs.
feebleartist@reddit
Most of 190 million armed people are with Orange Pedo.
AdventurousRun7636@reddit
Not true at all.
thicketdweller@reddit
Difference lies in their willingness to die. We are nowhere near that place yet.
dcj667@reddit
So a for real Gestapo, huh?
zed2point0@reddit
Paywalled
Xyrus2000@reddit
Before this ends, DHS will "deputize" ICE to aid in the oppression.
BaryonChallon@reddit
Ok gestapo.
_WeAreFucked_@reddit
Crossing fingers that the next administration will undo this silliness.
refusemouth@reddit
I don't think JD Vance or Don Jr. will undo any of this. It will probably get much worse, actually.
_WeAreFucked_@reddit
It’ll be a Dem so I don’t see how those tools play a part it
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
You still think we we have free and fair elections in 28?
Bless your heart.
_WeAreFucked_@reddit
It seems to sway from Dem to Repub but ultimately I believe they are one of the same. Two sides of a coin type deal.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
I've convinced myself the Dems are essentially controlled opposition at this point.
I'll always vote for the lesser viable evil, which is exactly what they want us to do. Lol. They have it set up to where it's a two party system whether I like it or not, though.
While I'm not a fan of the Dems, they are infinitely less dangerous than the GOP.
_WeAreFucked_@reddit
I really appreciate your insight. Thank you and I agree
refusemouth@reddit
I admire your optimism.
_WeAreFucked_@reddit
As many years as I’ve been around this is the trend but your pessimism is not without vain.
Graymouzer@reddit
The government has no authority to suppress protests. The right to protest is guaranteed in the Constitution. What is the purported legal function of this group since this reason is clearly illegal.
apotheosis24@reddit
In case you haven't noticed, this administration uses the Constitution as toilet paper.
AdoptingEveryCat@reddit
When you have to develop a QRF to suppress civil unrest, you might be doing things wrong.
MadamXY@reddit
They’re said to have a one hour reaction time (I highly doubt that, usually it’s the most elite units we have that are able to move that quickly, not Meal Team 6) but even if those claims are true an hour is plenty of time to do whatever you want to do. Just make it count.
Curious_Resolve4641@reddit
What happened last time the feds got overzealous?
MadamXY@reddit
They keep getting smacked but they never learn.
ead617@reddit
Looking more and more totalitarian
burstytexter@reddit
There are usually way more protesters than police. We can do flash protests too! Fuck trump!
sludge_monster@reddit
Just call it the Mobile Infantry and roll out the propaganda films.
Would you like to continue?
dantekant22@reddit
Wouldn’t it be easier to just suspend habeas corpus and declare martial law?
sigristl@reddit
They will call it, the Gestapo…
stringInterpolation@reddit
I was gonna post a reminder, remembered the community here
Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit
Doesn't the US already have all kinds of "quick reaction forces"... every goddamn metropolitan police department has them... the FBI has them... the goddamn ATF? The military? What a waste of money and time... Trump only wants to make his gullible cult feel 'safer'... and his detractors (potential protesters) intimidated. Like everything else in that swine's life, it's spectacle without substance...a racket... a waste.
Objective_Problem_90@reddit
We have a right to assemble and protest. Trump is trying so hard to squash our 1st amendment rights.
iloveschnauzers@reddit
Welcome to Gilead.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
After the dust settles, I imagine the Technofascists and Christofascists will have to fight it out.
They are working together at the moment, but they ultimately have very different goals.
HellisEmptyDevilHere@reddit
Regardless of your neighbors politics, remember that this administration makes no attempt to spare either side. We are ALL in this together. What I find is, despite the rhetoric, most Americans will still help other Americans in a time of need. Unity, not divisiveness, will save us.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
That's mostly true, but I worry that if the shit really hits the fan, there's enough MAGA zealots out there to cause a LOT of serious damage before righteousness defeats fascism.
I've never been this worried about the future.
dyslexic-alien@reddit
And where are the “don’t treat on me” people? The 2A people? The “Obama is making frogs gay” people?
What a bunch of pussies
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
I'm WILDLY progressive, but being anti-2A at this point is just reckless and stupid.
If you folks haven't armed yourselves yet, your crazy.
Do you want me to go attack federal agents and get killed immediately? Go to a torture prison on terrorist charges for the rest of my life?
I've got kids and responsibilities.
We don't know where they will be, and that makes it impossible to organize armed resistance. It would literally be a death sentence.
What should I do? Honestly, what is it you expect me to do?
R2-DMode@reddit
Good. We already saw what happened when Marxists took over part of Seattle. That shit won’t be happening again.
here4daratio@reddit
Groucho?
R2-DMode@reddit
LOL!
LaSage@reddit
Is that what those creepy car sized drones in NJ that were all over the news in Dec 2024? I am still wary about those damned things. They were determined to partially belong to law enforcement, and they were near his golf course. I may have to watch some episodes of Dark Angel just in case, to prepare, or really just because it was such a great show. Jessica Alba, Jensen Ackles, and Michael Weatherly, it's so good. The police drones in the show may have been prophetic. We'll need a genetically enhanced supersoldier, I guess, to save us. As an aside, Jessica Alba and Jensen Ackles both have apparently not aged in the 30 years since.
kangaroos-on-pcp@reddit
real drones, fake concern. the regulations were lose and lots of need to know basis only stuff going on. gotta investigate that noise earlier? let's try the drone out. but multiply that by the news, cops, army, airforce, marines, ect. not to mention private companies (like future uber or something)
AliceCode@reddit
There were no drones, that was mass hysteria.
sfsp3@reddit
There were drones. There was one flying by my house. It was real. It was a drone. It was large.
ThatEndingTho@reddit
The vast majority of sightings were normal air traffic. There was one UAV which crashed in a tree. One agricultural drone spraying in a field and then just planes and helicopters.
sfsp3@reddit
So were there drones? Or no drones? What would I know about normal air traffic in my Township? Why are you arguing against the people who saw them? Are you, somehow, in the know about what was going on?
ThatEndingTho@reddit
I was in /r/ufos during the flap and we saw all the videos. People in NJ were laughably obtuse about planes on approach to EWR.
sfsp3@reddit
Lol. You were in r/UFOs? Seriously? Did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express too? I don't live in NJ so there's that and as for a video, I believe I do.
ThatEndingTho@reddit
So you don’t live in NJ and thus were not physically present during the drone flap?
lol
sfsp3@reddit
It might surprise you to learn it wasn't just in NJ. I live in PA. They were seen here, as well as NY, Connecticut, Ohio, and CA. Maybe you missed that class on r/ufos. Lol
ThatEndingTho@reddit
Usual no proof claim that it was for sure totally a drone and not misidentified air traffic. Videos out of PA showed planes, probably yours among em.
sfsp3@reddit
Usual no proof claim that it was for sure a misidentified plane. (FYI... large or "commercial" drones are, in fact, considered air traffic.)
LaSage@reddit
Notice not one person person has contested the awesome that was Dark Angel. Nice.
CitYHawK23@reddit
I'm trained in various forms of hand to hand plus a good many forms of melee combat styles. I'm pretty good with a crossbow and standard compound bow. I possess a higher than average knowledge of chemistry, work as a carpenter and electrician with knowledge of grid systems. I have an IT background with specialties in hardware. I've done a stint in the setup and configuration of cell phone towers while also being a hobbyist with radio. I have military training with a better than average understanding of guerilla tactics- but must admit most of my tactical knowledge of today's up-to-date gear and involved tactics is sorely lacking. I consider myself a good to decent field medic. While not having a green thumb, I'm decent at running a garden and hydroponics. I can speak 7 languages, know how to drive anything with wheels, and can captain a sail. I can't pilot a copter or plane but can operate an RPAS. I say all this not to be impressive or brag, but to say I've amassed a ton of skills and odd talents without ever the want or need to have a gun in my home. That was, unless recently.... I don't feel like any of the bullshit I know matters unless I can properly defend myself against the lunatics I see out there ready to swap every right they have for a chance to be able to "dig" on someone else. I just don't fucking get it It's completely fucked folks.
roger3rd@reddit
That better be a huge ass force because they definitely are gonna need it ✊
No_Fisherman_3826@reddit
They are already building and training a paramilitary force ideologically aligned with MAGA with that huge ICE budget.
Regardless of ICE, historically, Law enforcement buckles first under fascist pressure; they have an incentive, fascism empowers them.
They are preparing for a fight. You guys should start organizing accordingly. shit could deteriorate very quickly and could keep getting worse for decades. Coming from a Syrian Minority.
Upper-Requirement-93@reddit
The US does not have the economy to keep this shit going for decades.
No_Fisherman_3826@reddit
There is always money for clinging to power.
cheongyanggochu-vibe@reddit
Don't forget the Oath Keepers doing paramilitary training
socialmedia-username@reddit
Physical force will not be necessary with the database Palantir is currently developing for the US government. When they can freeze individual citizen's bank accounts and market trading accounts with a few mouseclicks, they'll only need physical force for people who have nothing, or those off grid folks who keep their finances out of banks and markets. Remember how the Canadian government froze the assets of the truck drivers protesting the COVID mandates?
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
Take everything someone has and they will be out for blood. But also, the resistance will have to take down the grid. There's simply no way around that. Same reason the right-wing wanted to for so long.
Big_Fortune_4574@reddit
I have assumed for a while that blowing up substations was gonna get popular.
QuixoticSun@reddit
Sounds akin to having to have some sort of mark, device, or system, say, without which one cannot legally engage in commerce. Then, those who do so otherwise and/or speak out against the - let's call it evil or devilish? - way of oppressing humanity in this way, persecution follows such lights amongst the many, to make examples of them for trying to live up to higher standards. Rhymes of nothing else.
SpaceballsTheCritic@reddit
LOL, what resistance? This isn't WW2 France.
This is a natural human cycle. McCarthy-Commies, Nixon-Hippies, Regan-(Back) welfare queens, Trump Latinos.
Best thing you can do now is encourage speed it to the logical end.
CitYHawK23@reddit
https://archive.ph/J42JT Paywall workaround
xxforrealforlifexx@reddit
He's antagonizing, he wants their to be civil unrest they can go against the constitution in every way including 2A . You are going to start seeing a lot of press focusing more on black citizens and highlighting crimes involving them. They want civil unrest.
EarthBear@reddit
Agreed. I recently watched this TED talk by an Epidemiologist discussing how violence spreads just like a disease. They’re essentially creating hot spots and trying to spread the contagion to incite a means of implementing martial law.
One of the best things we can do is treat violence like a disease. This epidemiologist apparently started an NGO that trains folks to de-escalate violence. I’m digging into this now, because I think it’s one of the ways we can minimize the threat of martial law and civil war.
Here are some links if you and others are interested:
Dr. Bandy Lee’s substack, where this post has the embedded video to the TED talk by Dr. Gary Slutkin (highly recommend Dr. Lee who is also doing a lot to reduce violence and is a social forensic psychologist and violence expert)
Dr. Slutkin’s recent interview post on Dr. Lee’s site
Cure Violence Global is the NGO offering training. I’m just now digging into this one, for training myself.
Sea-Region1135@reddit
Fuck it, I’m ready for the stupidity and the downfall. Just make sure my liquor cabinet is full.
No_Boot1478@reddit
Lure them in...and bingo.
fbomb1977v2@reddit
Maga?
helper_robot@reddit
DONT PLANT MEXICAN FLAGS IN FRONT OF MAGA HOMES
BranchCommercial9355@reddit
Both of 'em? Almost feelz a bit excessive... ur dinero, tho.
OwnPressure6978@reddit
Seeing as I can't read this without paying, I'd assume this is for some like the riots that were happening in LA and other places. I see no issue with this
All_is_a_conspiracy@reddit
So, gestapo.
ImNotFromTheInternet@reddit
Good
bunglesnacks@reddit
Don't be such a douche that people have to protest and you won't have these kinds of problems.
UpTheRiffMate@reddit
Still 3 years to go for Americans to turn this ship around before it crashes on the rocks.
Sure-Possibility4458@reddit
The democrats don't seem to be in much of a hurry to do anything.
UpTheRiffMate@reddit
Wonder how much further it'll go before everybody remembers their 2A Rights
hexdurp@reddit
Streisand affect. Americans do t like the government telling them not to protest. Bring it old man.
werzberng@reddit
They can’t even hire enough border patrol.
Also— Epstein and Trump did what?!
apefromearth@reddit
Prepping for when they steal, rig or cancel the next election
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
He has no intention of leaving office. He is setting up all these different methods to protect the capital and so forth to prevent anyone from forcing him out. I hope I’m not being paranoid.
GerthySchIongMeat@reddit
This is why I have the items I’ve collected so I can avoid going into downtown areas and take care of myself for extended periods if needed.
Situations like this can happen fast so make sure you’ve got the ability within 2 hours to have yourself situated at home if there’s a sudden lockdown in your area. It can happen anywhere. Even in the remote wilderness if they find a reason so any of our neighborhoods could be locked down.
Much more is coming. Martial Law will be called into effect in major cities in the next few weeks.
R2-DMode@reddit
🤣🤣🤣🤣
LoveEllie316@reddit
He's for sale in the future cause I'll tell you one ain't nobody happy with this shit
CenturyLinkIsCheeks@reddit
i cant wait until these losers come to chicago and get sent packing.
YogurtclosetIcy5286@reddit
Why is this? World war three for Israel? Palace coup? Collapse of the dollar/default on debts? What?
Arlennx@reddit
They are preparing for mid terms because they know they are fucked. Can’t call fraud when you have guns pointed at you at every voting area.
CollarControl@reddit
I swear this is a rerun.
Roller_Bonez@reddit
So what happens when we collapse?
Scary-Button1393@reddit
Come and take it fuckers. When it pops off it's going to get real ugly.
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
You ready?
Scary-Button1393@reddit
Born ready.
Affectionate_Pin673@reddit
Knew this was coming
Coug_Darter@reddit
Probably has to do with that “comet” headed toward earth in November/ December
Anonymous9362@reddit
600 for a nation of more than 350 million. Ok.
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
In addition to Local and state police, Nat Guard, other Feds, and ICE. They'll have a lot of manpower, and live ammo.
WattaTravisT@reddit
I do not consent to this.
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
I don't think they care...
IllCantaloupe6872@reddit
They do realize that there are a lot more of us…. I think they are looking for a fight,
Murky_Conclusion_637@reddit
Ok.
monos_muertos@reddit
"..designed to suppress voting and protests about voter suppression throughout the country"
oh, and BTW, the crops that aren't failing are rotting...so the reaction to that will also be suppressed, and the starvation will continue until morale improves. For such staunch anti communists, Tmans handlers sure do love reading them some Stalin.
Stach302RiverC@reddit
the Legal Right to peaceful protest is within the 1st Amendment, what's left left of it anyway...
herecomessunshinee@reddit
Gluteusmaximus1898@reddit
JizzCumLover69@reddit
americend@reddit
They know what's coming with the next recession and want to accelerate it. What they don't know is that you can't pre-empt an inferno. I invite them to trigger mass unrest- I am certain it will lead to the dissolution of the United States.
IntrigueDossier@reddit
Full balkanization steam ahead! I welcome the coming Cascadia-Four Corners alliance.
inaloop001@reddit
That's the goal, sell off the US piecemeal.
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Russian oligarchs already consumed and ruined Russia. Trump has numerous connections to these people and has created his "gold card" immigration to let them in.
Cleptocrats are societal parasites, by function they weaken and kill a society. Parasites always seek a new host when the old host is dead or dying. Russia has nothing left to steal.
WorldPeaceStyle@reddit
If planing to use our own Military forces against the Citizens of the United States
is not "textbook" definition of _TREASON_ then
I don't know what is?
What are our Constitutionally abiding military leaders waiting for?
Generals need assemble a Legal Team and process a Military Tribunal.
Start a special task force to investigate his Aiding and abetting as he currently meets with the Enemy.
The "Commander and Chief" has gone too far deploying Live Ammo Military "Police" forces on American Soil.
You do not point the Military at Civilians!
AliceCode@reddit
Honestly, all of this is absurd. It's like anyone that could do anything about this just sat down and decided to sit this one out. It feels like we've been abandoned by our so-called "leaders".
BenGay29@reddit
Planning? He’s already doing this in Washington DC. He plans to expand this to …everywhere. As more people wake up to the fact that democracy as we know it is over, there will be massive protests that he will crush.
MoodyMiss88@reddit
The Washing Post 🤣😂
Embarrassed_Camel422@reddit
Why would he need to do that? What’s he about to do?
refusemouth@reddit
Crash the economy and steal the next election?
aeondru@reddit
Team America world Police
crazysmitty27@reddit
I guess the Trump administration hasn’t heard of the Minutemen. They still exist. They don’t like fascists nor kings and they are far better equipped than any National Guard QRF.
It’s been just over 140 years since they’ve been called-out to fight on US soil. I guess the FAFO paradigm plays here, now.
These guys don’t post on social media. You don’t see them training. They live amongst you. They come from all walks of life, including doctors and lawyers. It’s secret society type sh*t.
When it happens, it’ll happen fast. God help us. Some real Lexington and Concord crap, on the horizon.
Aggravating_Plant848@reddit
My ancestors fought for the United States in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and WWII. They also fled the French Revolution after the takeover of the Freemasons, another secret society (but hidden evil). My Irish ancestors fought in the Indiana regiment for the Union. I'm an old woman, but I won't let my ancestors down.
Dontbelievethehype24@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/qC1rjFvUe1
CassandraTruth@reddit
From May 2024:
"His allies have an idea of how to capitalize on that agenda and make cities in Trump’s image, detailed in the conservative Project 2025: unleash new police forces on cities like Washington DC, withhold federal disaster and emergency grants unless they follow immigration policies like detaining undocumented immigrants and share sensitive data with the federal government for immigration enforcement purposes."
socialmedia-username@reddit
We need so, so many more of these reminders that everything that's happening now was laid out, in writing, in speeches, in podcasts, in symposiums, etc. for at least a year or two ahead of the elections. Even if you weren't aware of the crazy Silicon Valley billionaires who were/are backing Trump, you can't escape the fact that it was all openly discussed. Abstaining from voting was about as stupid as it gets.
-UltraAverageJoe-@reddit
Washington Post reporting on incoming terror but wouldn’t endorse a candidate who would never have done this. F*ck this rag.
BongoLocoWowWow@reddit
Release the Epstein files.
Nouseriously@reddit
Exactly what someone would do before deliberately provoking civil unrest.
Few-Concert963@reddit
Time to fight! 👊
ImSirius678@reddit
Totally stunned. Literally no one could’ve possibly seen this coming. Totally out of left field
At least we can count on the order followers to lay down their arms, take a stand for what’s right, and not gladly tread on their fellow human for a paycheck. That’s good at least and historically how these things have gone down. It’s not like they just follow orders or anything (:
Hillary_is_Hot@reddit
Wonder if they will wear brown shirts?
NeoSapien65@reddit
Is there a non-paywalled version?
tigerdogbearcat@reddit (OP)
Not from the Washington Post but it's also being covered by many other media outlets:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5448885-quick-reaction-force-proposal/
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/081325_protest_guard/trump-plans-rapid-deployment-military-force-quell-protests-any-us-city/
https://newrepublic.com/post/199008/trump-plans-military-reaction-force-use-americans
NeoSapien65@reddit
Thanks!
t-o-m-u-s-a@reddit
How do you spell gestapo
suddenvalleyfarms@reddit
ICE
MrsWaterbuffalo@reddit
Brownshirts or in this case National Guards ….
DxrthRevxn@reddit
Who will they use? The nasty guard?
Cool_Yesterday4866@reddit
But muh furst amendment
Mountain_Fig_9253@reddit
Maybe he can deploy a quick reaction force to publish the Epstein files.
Roboticpoultry@reddit
Isn’t it only like 600 soldiers? How exactly would that work if every major city erupted in protest?
ThatBadFeel@reddit
Exercise 2A responsibly!
Techn028@reddit
A protection squad of sorts, hmm, bet that would sound kinda cool in german
Dismal_You_5359@reddit
Beta Mexicans that think they’ll get a seat at the table, you’re walking into a trap 🪤 ChingaTuMaga wey!
Longjumping-Map7257@reddit
Gee, I wonder why?
Toes_In_The_Soil@reddit
LodossDX@reddit
Sounds like tyranny to me.
Nice_Collection5400@reddit
In the eye of the beholder.
jar1967@reddit
Trump's own Republican Guard. They will be comprised of zealots and they will be willing to use live ammunition on protesters
PennyLeiter@reddit
Flood the zone and they can't stop it
WatchMeImplode@reddit
There always has been. Ask anyone who has huffed teargas for lunch in the last 20 years.
SoFreshNSoKleenKleen@reddit
So is this like a Waffen-SS now?