A Deeply Fractured US

[Cloud Cover]

New portal set up by the Minnesota DoC specifically to refute the tsunami of claims made by the DHS.

Minnesotans are starting to show up more kitted out to protect protests, this was taken earlier tonight.

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This is exactly what Trump wants. Now the counter protestors can show up armed and it’s 1,2,3 what are we fightin’ 4.

 

[RangerRay]

Apparently video no available!

As disturbing as it was, it clearly showed this to be an execution. Or, to be charitable, ill trained, ill disciplined goons who couldn’t get hired at a McDonald’s with itchy trigger fingers needlessly killing someone.

 

[RangerRay]

 

[Kilted]

The odd thing about a potential NG deployment against Federal agents is the weird position it would put the senior members of the NG where they are technically State level, but they certainly have a significant amount of Federal oversight.

The situation doesn't exist in Canada, but it would be like trying to figure out if your main alegence is to HM the King in Right of Canada or HM the King in Right of Ontario.


It has a very Game of Thrones feel to it, but the courts can influence who can call the banners.

 

[FSTO]

As disturbing as it was, it clearly showed this to be an execution. Or, to be charitable, ill trained, ill disciplined goons who couldn’t get hired at a McDonald’s with itchy trigger fingers needlessly killing someone.

Clearly this group of ICE officers are out of control. And I mean the entire ICE brigade sent to Minnesota needs to be redeployed somewhere else for retraining. But this administration will never admit they are doing something wrong and more people will die as a result.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

The situation doesn't exist in Canada, but it would be like trying to figure out if your main alegence is to HM the King in Right of Canada or HM the King in Right of Ontario.

That is exactly how it works when you are deployed in aid to civil powers in Canada, Kilted.

For Octoberfest (FLQ crisis), the troops in Quebec answered to the Crown in right of Quebec, that is the Lt-Governor as advised by the Premier, under the supervision of the Quebec Minister of Justice. The troops deployed in Ottawa remained under the Crown in right of Canada.

For the Oka crisis, again we took our orders from the Government of Quebec Department of the Attorney General.

For the Ice Storm deployment, our orders came from the Governments of Quebec and Ontario, respectively. Same for the Winnipeg floods where they came from the Government of Manitoba.

Obviously, in each of these cases, these governments were advised by high ranking military officers on employment of the military forces at their disposal.

 

[McG]

The Libertarians and NRA are not liking the fascism. Although, the Libertarians seem to think the new purpose-bought Senators were brought back to the US from a foreign war.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015198712423981183

https://twitter.com/x/status/2015227627464728661

 

[FSTO]

Just listened to Bovino on CNN. This administration‘s ability to bold face lie in front of overwhelming evidence is astonishing. He’s a POS, Kristy Noem is a POS. The justice department is led by a POS. The FBI is led by a POS. Miller is an orbiting asshole piece of shit. Hegseth is a POS. AND OF COURSE, ALL THESE CLOWNS ARE LED BY A NARCISSISTIC IMMORAL, OUT OF CONTROL TODDLER WHO IS IN ALL RESPECTS A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING.

 

[mariomike]

Minnesotans are starting to show up more kitted out to protect protests, this was taken earlier tonight.

Never been to a political rally / protest / counter-protest .Even less inclined after reading this,

ANOTHER SHATTERED TESTICLE: This anti-ICE rioter is the second one to reveal he’s lost a testicle due to officers hitting him with a rubber bullet.

PPE - like a cup - is never a bad idea.

Apparently from what I've been seeing and heaing from friends in Minneapolis is Maga types are having a difficult time wrapping their heads around the concept that the 2nd amendment applies to every American citizen .

Rick Hanson says the #1 threat to America in 2026 is "Liberals with guns."

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Rick Hanson says the #1 threat to America in 2026 is "Liberals with guns."

America is beyond fixing, and beyond redemption.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

America is beyond fixing, and beyond redemption.

Yep! While Trump muses about Canada becoming the 51st state, he is blind to the much greater probability of the US breaking up into five or six separate nations.

 

[brihard]

Never been to a political rally / protest / counter-protest .Even less inclined after reading this,



PPE is never a bad idea.




Rick Hanson says the #1 threat to America in 2026 is "Liberals with guns."

America is cruising faster and faster towards remember the actual reason they have a second amendment. An unsurprising number of purported second amendment absolutists who would have taken to the streets armed if a fed under a Democrat administration killed a concealed carry U.S. citizen working as a VA nurse have done a rapid pivot to “tread on me harder, daddy”. Turns out a lot of the past quarter century’s paranoid talk about “the feds” is actually not at all contingent on the said feds’ behaviour, but rather who it’s carried out against.

There are a lot of armed liberals in America, and the discussion of arming themselves is becoming more frequent and open.

Dangerous times.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Turns out a lot of the past quarter century’s paranoid talk about “the feds” is actually not at all contingent on the said feds’ behaviour, but rather who it’s carried out against.

Nailed it.

 

[dapaterson]

An unsurprising number of purported second amendment absolutists who would have taken to the streets armed if a fed under a Democrat administration killed a concealed carry U.S. citizen working as a VA nurse have done a rapid pivot to “tread on me harder, daddy”.

 

[PrairieFella]

Yep! While Trump muses about Canada becoming the 51st state, he is blind to the much greater probability of the US breaking up into five or six separate nations.

Sounds like something in our interest. Working with the Republics of New York, California and Minnesota for example sounds much more amenable.

 

[brihard]

I think this frame grab is developing into one of those “iconic photos of our times”.



By this point the officer holding the gun had watched his colleague remove the victim’s gun from his holster and move away with it. This photo was just as he was beginning to shoot.

With the slowed down versions the best count I’ve got is ten shots. Not sure how many officers fired. There’s a distinct possibility based on some analysis I’ve seen that the first shot was an ND of the victim’s own gun by the officer who had removed it from the holster and was walking away. Too bad the feds abandoned the perimeter and collapsed the crime scene before state investigators could thoroughly examine it.

 

[PrairieFella]

Similar photos have caused great upheaval in the States in the past.

 

[brihard]

Similar photos have caused great upheaval in the States in the past.

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Exactly one that came to mind for me.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Yep! While Trump muses about Canada becoming the 51st state, he is blind to the much greater probability of the US breaking up into five or six separate nations.

But the end of the summer. Certainly before mid term elections there will be a national fracture. There’s no way they are going to peacefully co-exist anymore.

 

[ModlrMike]

Sounds like something in our interest. Working with the Republics of New York, California and Minnesota for example sounds much more amenable.

From 2021. I wonder how much sentiment has changed since then:

47% of West Coast Dems, 66% of Southern Republicans Want to Secede

Support for secession has been rising dramatically among Republicans in the South, jumping 16 percent in only five months.

www.newsweek.com