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speak easy

(11,947 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 07:59 PM Thursday

I'm slow on the uptake - watching from afar.

The whole thing has been a ruse to put a police state in place. That's why Krasnov was so determined to remain president. COVID put his rollout on hold. Now he's moving ahead with his ICE brownshirts, the Guard, and the Army out on the streets - which was always the plan. Have your 'papers' ready.

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DENVERPOPS

(12,987 posts)
11. I pity the EMT's and/or Coroner
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:37 PM
Thursday

when he croaks..... that have to lift lardass off the floor to put him on the pram.....................I am sure there are a ton of back strains happening with lifting the obese and morbidly obese patients off the floor and onto prams these days...

LakeVermilion

(1,363 posts)
2. MAGA's aren't getting away "scot-free"...
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:02 PM
Thursday

Just wait till they start rounding up the dumb shits.

Irish_Dem

(72,238 posts)
3. Yes the ICE raids are performance art for power and attention.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:04 PM
Thursday

The real goal is Trump building a secret police state.
To terrorize the public and get complete control.

wcmagumba

(4,343 posts)
4. I still trust the system enough to believe he won't remain in office past his term ending.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 08:09 PM
Thursday

We are definitely going to have more Krasnov chaos but as Chief Joseph once said (supposedly), "we must endeavor to persevere"...or maybe just Lone Watie said this...

Martin Eden

(14,604 posts)
19. In less than 6 months he is corrupting and usurping the powers of the system
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 09:52 AM
Friday

Already has deployed the National Guard against the wishes of a state governor, and deployed the US Marines -- which is crossing a Rubicon for no legitimate reason other than exerting power and getting away with it.

The "conservative" super-majority Supreme Court has been an enabler instead of a guardrail against the unconstitutional actions of this fascist regime.

Where will be more than 3 years from now?

During the George Floyd protests in his 1st term he wanted the military to shoot protesters in the legs, but there were guardrails in place.

No longer. He's put sycophants in charge of the military, Justice Dept, FBI, and every federal agency. Anyone involved with previous investigations against him or deemed disloyal to him in any way is being fired.

He's chomping at the bit to declare large scale martial law, exerting REAL POWER that goes far beyond performative political theater.

Protests against this fascist regime will grow, and rightwing thugs are likely to instigate violence to provide a pretext for deploying the military against all forms of public resistance.

If you think he and his Rethuglican accomplices won't find a pretext for siezing elections, think again.

The highest priority for every kind of authoritarian government is to sieze power, and hold onto it.

The power we are struggling against goes far beyond one man. Donald Trump can stroke out before the end of his term, but that won't necessarily change a thing. JD Vance was selected to fill his role.

DENVERPOPS

(12,987 posts)
13. If they didn't accept Obama's birth certificate
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:41 PM
Thursday

when he was president......they can most certainly reject anyones......

wcmagumba

(4,343 posts)
9. I agree, me too...but, I do have a wallet sized sealed official birth certificate card I received from my state in 1962
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:30 PM
Thursday

Papers? We don't need no stinking papers...

Response to purple_haze (Reply #6)

Cha

(312,980 posts)
8. Yes, Hitler's playbook.. Traitor Putin
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 10:28 PM
Thursday

Neo Nazi edition.

I feel for People on the Mainland who are being Terrorized by this Nightmare.

Hopefully sooner than later.. Patriots and Events will happen that knock the Psychopathic Dictator off his self Exalted Pedestal and We The People Will Persevere .

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