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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 06:30 AM Jul 2020

Let us call them what they are

'The FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshalls Service and Homeland Security will together be sending hundreds of skilled law enforcement officers to Chicago to help drive down violent crime' - Trump on Wednesday as he continues his violent attack on the constitution. Lets call these agents what they are - Brown Shirts 2020 or as they have become Trumps personal army ...


(saw Storm Trumpers on Daily Kos and thought it very clever - graphic mine)

It only took Hitler 3 months to destroy democracy in Germany and a part of that was his private brown shirt army breaking skulls and intimidating any opposition with violence and death. Trump has gone full on fascist at this point and whatever justification he is trying to give to go in on the streets of any city in America, it is all about breaking skulls to gin up his nazi base and to silence descent of his horror show handling of everything.... November needs to hurry up

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brewens

(13,393 posts)
1. I would post Ted Nugent "Stormtroopin'" but I just can't. That was before "Uncle Ted" went
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 07:03 AM
Jul 2020

totally RW wackjob. He of all people should be calling bullshit on Trump's secret pig force. If he wasn't full of shit.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
2. I haven't liked him since he went all RW nutjob and especially since I saw that video of him
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 07:47 AM
Jul 2020

shooting an arrow into his audience with a bow. I'd prefer musicians I am watching in concert not try to kill me. I won't be caught dead or alive in one of his audiences ever, because that is just dangerous.

mnmoderatedem

(3,706 posts)
7. yep. recall his accusation that Obama was going to use "jack booted thugs"
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 08:47 AM
Jul 2020

now I wonder if he recognizes REAL jack booted thugs when he sees them.

wnylib

(21,146 posts)
5. I heard a broadcast of Mayer Lightfoot's
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 08:31 AM
Jul 2020

recent comments on this. She said that if the forces being sent in are willing to coordinate with the city and already existing system, and not act like an occupying force, then they might be helpful.

And then I felt like I was watching a late night horror film, where half the kids at a party have been killed in a gory slaughter, and a survivor is about to open a forbidden door. You're yelling at the screen, "Don't DO it!" But she does, and you cringe because you know what's gonna
happen.

Good luck, Lori Lightfoot.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. Who came up with this idea,
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 08:44 AM
Jul 2020

Stephen Miller, Eric Prince from Blackwater, needing to replenish his coffers? A few of these "SS" troops need to be arrested, and made to explain who is paying them? Who supplies the uniforms, weapons, gas masks? Are taxpayers footing the bills for all of this illegal activity?

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
8. History sanitation(hoping i'm not too off topic or weird)
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 09:23 AM
Jul 2020

Last edited Fri Jul 24, 2020, 12:47 PM - Edit history (1)

for america that'd be
silver shirts

and Silver legion of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Legion_of_America

whilst the silver shirts never reached
the stages of S.A. (brownshirts):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel

we can probably say that kristallnach has been happening on and off over America for decades
''go home spic'' ''vaya con diablo mexicano'' are some of the stuff i've cleaned off windows for my employers


teargassing medical supplies at protests have been going on for a long time too from police
which is straight out of kristalnach

nacht und nebel (disappearing people) well immigrants and ''unlawful combatants'' quite some time, now comes citizens

--i think this is sorta original me--
But that is how it works.
One group at a time.
One small step at a time.
Now it affects you, so now it sucks for you but not for him.
He's another group.
He comes later, after you are neutralized.

He's still protected and privileged.
He's still safe, he can still believe in freedom and democracy.
You can't get him to understand, because it doesn't affect him yet.
But soon it he too will be singled out, there must always be an enemy, somewhere to focus the hatred.
--Ends--

it's a case of ''oh that's horrible, but not my business, doesn't affect me, what's on cbn? oooh look my favorite show, what's for dinner?''

i would recommend
'They thought they were free'
by Milton Mayer

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
9. And here I always thought the 2nd Amendment was all about government tyranny
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 09:32 AM
Jul 2020

But apparently, these gun-humping fascists interpret tyranny as the political beliefs of other Americans that they don't agree with.

Which isn't government tyranny at all.

In truth, they are the tyrants. They are the enemy of our republic. They always were.

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