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I'm ready for a "Hot Tariff Summer." By Christmas, 75% of Americans will be out of their minds about HitlerPig and his MAGA Nazis, and a good portion of the remaining 25% will be outwardly supportive, but inwardly worrying badly. A few will be loving it, but they're just pyschopaths.
At that point it's going to start getting really, really ugly. The plan is make people so angry that the protests will get violent, and if they don't get violent on their own, he'll encourage his RedHats to instigate it. Then he'll send in the military to quell the violence with even more ferocious violence. This is why he is keeping Hegseth, no matter how poor his performance at the Pentagon - he is confident that Hegseth will order American troops to fire on American citizens who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
Hegseth will also launch a nuclear weapon, if ordered, and that day is coming.
I cannot fathom that two officers in the military, no matter how deranged the government is, would ever agree to turn the key against a domestic target.
I decade ago, I would have thought it was impossible, too. I no longer believe that. There are people in our government who would love to nuke a blue city like Portland, just to prove how scary they are.
Except they'd probably go for a blue state in the NE so the fallout would go to Europe instead of a west coast state where red states would get the fallout. OTOH, we're starting to see that trump doesn't give a shit about red states either (cut them off from disaster funding too).
While Trump seems morally capable of doing such things, nothing about his history has suggested he has the competence for it to be a coherent master plan.
It's not that complicated a plan, even a moron like HitlerPig could understand it, but that doesn't mean he will actually accomplish his objective. It is likely that in the end, we will be saved by his virtuosic incompetence.
as per usual the cops get violent
& yes, the amendments will become endments
You say that but military attacking your assistance would be the worst movie they can make, because that one not only make the regime look extremely bad it also puts lead ammo on the playing field, something that neither side and wanted to escalate to last time. Two can play that game.