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Trump's been using the national guard deployments to slowly normalize the use of American troops on US soil. Now alcoholic Pete is cleaning out any internal resistance in the military to further military use. Martial law is next. There will not be elections in 2028.
States run the election system here, and the new Congress cannot be seated unless there is an election. There will, in fact, be elections.
The only question will be how ratfucked they will be. The recent emphasis on redistricting proves that they expect elections to happen, but they want to ratfuck the districts to gain more seats than the votes normally entitle them to.
With regards to illegal military deployments, I expect that there will be "special enforcement operations" in areas that couldnt be specifically ratfucked enough, which will conveniently target citizens in certain demographics, and aim to suppress turnout there, leaving other areas with "better" demographics alone.
See? Elections on schedule, as the Constitution calls for, with the results that the fascists call for.
You're probably right, except for that last sentence.
Yeah, it should read “There will not be elections in 2026.”
ICE guarding polling places. Fascists: I voted in 2026, if you didn't, that's on you.
A friend of mine's Trump loving but half Mexican uncle (U.S. citizen born and raised) spent six weeks in ICE detention before ICE figured out he was a citizen. Dumb shit still loves trump. Including this annecote just so people understand that citizenship is irrelevant to whether ICE will detain you without habeas corpus.
Look Mexican and try to vote? Detention for you. I imagine the racist young Republicans have plenty of employment opportunities with ICE. You know normal people aren't applying.
Just three posts in a row in my timeline:
‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones
A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone
Pete Hegseth clearing out military lawyers as 'part of a grander plan': former official
And there's a few more. A new dozen or so, each fucking day. I truly understand the term doomscrolling now: it means realityscrolling.
I would be fascinating to watch from a distance except when you guys go down, you'll take us with you.
I'm not even American, I'm just subscribed to many English language communities.
And yeah, it's a warning: do not go down this road, [European home country]!
Check out bluesky #bloomscrolling for some mental medicine.
It does not federate. We do have some Eye Bleach though.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is clearing the ranks of the military's lawyers to "get them out of the way" of possibly illegal moves, according to current and former defense officials.
Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Joe Berger, the Army's top uniformed lawyer, early this year on the advice of the right-wing social media account LibsOfTikTok and he then removed the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General, Lt. Gen. Charles Plummer, describing both as "roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander-in-chief," reported CNN.
“I see this as part of a grander plan to remove lawyers from the [military’s] operational forces and get them out of the way,” said a former senior defense official.
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He is probably clearing out those who would take "I refuse to follow illegal orders" scenarios seriously.
All the news out of the pentagon recently seems to indicate they’re planning something really big. Like a major war. Maybe like a WORLD WAR…or something.
Imagine how fucked we will soon be - engaged in a multi-theater war with gorillas leading us into battle.
Instead of Eisenhower and Patton, it’ll be drunk dipshit and his orange geriatric pants-shitting heterosexual low-skills drag queen Diaper Don.
“I’m a Diaper Don man!”
Im sure everything will be A-OKAY!