The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 US troops based in Alaska to prepare to deploy to Minnesota as a precautionary measure in case the administration decides to send them, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The unit of the 11th Airborne Division is a cold-weather unit nicknamed “The Arctic Angels.”
Just a reminder that levying war is against the United States like this is the one thing the Constitution actually defines as a crime: Treason.
Don’t.
As an European I’m starting to wonder how the USA are getting out of this situation. Trump is nearly a de facto dictator as no one is trying to really stop anything he is doing. Even if democrats wake up, what can they do as long as SCOTUS legitimizes his decisions and the army goes with what he say… If he doesn’t cancel midterms with martial law,he will most certainly influence it or rig it, so where is the exit to this madness?
As a US citizen, we aren’t. The US is fucked and the problem is all the milquetoast peaceful protestors and people waiting for midterms to solve everything haven’t accepted that.
Every agency is now infiltrated and poisoned. Hundreds of agencies are gone or dying. The nazis are everywhere in the house and the Oligarchs are sucking their dicks.
The only two options are kill them all or let everything collapse on itself and rebuild.
The latter is most likely.
In community, at the state and local level. There are 340 million of us, something like 40,000 federal troops, and much growing anger.
For all the pRoTeStS dOn’T dO AnYtHiNg crowd we tend to hear from online, the individual people who have taken the trouble to attend are the first ones now organizing their neighborhoods and preparing for direct action. Meanwhile, Minnesota is not giving in to provocation.
Keep in mind American history: states were first, and the fed came later. You tend to see only the fed, especially internationally, but this country is physically massive and most practical, actual power still resides in the states. That was by design. The fed almost didn’t come at all: with states refusing to ratify otherwise, the Constitution had to be tweaked multiple times to ensure that we’d never again have the concentration of power in the executive that we are seeing now.
Yet of all the sins of King George III listed in the Declaration of Independence, the orange kiddie raper is up to somewhere between 32 and 40, last I heard.
But because of how the Constitution was structured, if the fed goes off the rails, all it really takes to fuck it all up for him, in countless ways large and small, are a handful of non-compliant states deciding that the fed isn’t worth obeying. The fed literally does not exist without the states, and certainly not without states continually sending up money, remittances that are made up of taxes levied on our collective labor.
I have no idea of what it might take for states to withhold taxes, but I certainly know whether I can withhold my labor in a general strike. No need to wait, regardless of how unthinkable that may seem right now. And if he wants to bring martial law to the streets it’s going to slow commerce: I don’t know what the price of that will be, but he can’t expect the same amount of cash to flow from the states when the streets are filled with soldiers. Not to mention what it does to the dollar in the international markets if states, or even large groups of people, start checking out of taxation by whatever means, passive or active, even for short periods of time.
Again, the real power does not lie in the fed, even when it comes to maintaining the value of the dollar. It resides in us and in our willful individual and collective participation in federal government, or, if he really wants it that way, our individual and collective denial thereof. No one can make me go to work, lol. But they can make me stay home.
Meanwhile there are various individuals and groups looking at Minneapolis right now, planning for how they will react if/when the orange pedo brings his personal SA into their cities and towns. The good citizens of Chicago and Portland and LA have made it hard for him. Very hard, to the point of making it impossible for him to remain in their cities with any real significance. Minneapolis is following in their stead. And if he wants to keep cosplaying as king, that’s all we have to do at this point: resist. It’s just not going to work if we simply do not give into fear and anticipatory submission. We CAN stop it here, if enough of us work together.
There’s something else. For all the noise and bother of his incursion into peaceful cities, I’d like you to notice the progression here: he started in Chicago and LA, massive cities, then he downgraded in size to places like Memphis and Minneapolis and New Orleans, and the latest news is that he’s going in to Lewiston, Maine. That sprawling metropolis of 37,000 that many of us didn’t even know was on the map. He can claim it’s about Somalis all he wants, but the fact of the matter is he can’t win in the big cities and he’s having to try smaller and smaller targets, again losing power faster than he can consolidate it.
He’s a year in and nothing he’s touched is working out for him, including getting kicked out of the larger cities by the courts.
All this stinks of desperation. Not on our part, but on his. Meanwhile, impromptu local demonstrations are springing up and growing, even in places like Florida.
I have no idea what will happen next, but it’s not all lost. Do not look to mainstream press to show you the truth; they’ve already given in. But many of us have not even yet started.
A nationwide general strike with armed citizen militias providing protection against the feds. There is no voting their way out this time.