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Arm yourselves my friends.
(snip) In an article published Tuesday, Bulwark Editor Jonathan V. Last wrote, "I dont think theres any way to read yesterday except as President Trump deciding that with the Republican party fully subservient to him, he can subjugate the other remaining power centers in American life. He can finally be a wartime president. Its just that hes going to war against America."
Trump made it clear during the inauguration that he's "governing not for all Americansand not even just for the benefit of 'his' votersbut as an attack on the half of America that opposed him," Last wrote.
According to the article, Trump "believes that Democratic voters should not be bargained with or bribed, but intimidated, punished, subduedand rendered unable to oppose him in his quest for total power."
And Trump is going to use all the power at his presidential fingertips to ensure everyone falls in line. This includes using the courts, government bureaucracy, and mob rule to get what he wants. Last wrote that Trump released the J6 rioters, even the violent ones, for a purpose: "The message is unambiguous: Trump wants supporters who engage in street violence on the loose. He wants a paramilitary arm for which he has plausible deniability."
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brush
(61,033 posts)The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are now free and ready to strap up for the orange turd.
US wagner group. He's remaking everything to mimic pootin's werld.
C_U_L8R
(48,724 posts)And we are everywhere. This isn't a fight they should welcome.
dalton99a
(91,650 posts)Lovie777
(21,463 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,998 posts)to the party, aren't you?
Kid Berwyn
(22,609 posts)Theyre trainable.
Irish_Dem
(78,909 posts)We are seeing the logical conclusion of their hatred and desire for endless power and wealth.
sarisataka
(22,183 posts)While the J6ers more resemble the SA, a bunch of semiorganized thugs, he will need a more reliable group to carry out all his wishes.
The Stoßtrupp was abolished after the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt by the Nazi Party to seize power in Munich.[10] In 1925, Hitler ordered Schreck to organise a new bodyguard unit, the Schutzkommando (Protection Command).[1] It was tasked with providing personal protection for Hitler at party functions and events. That same year, the Schutzkommando was expanded to a national organisation and renamed successively the Sturmstaffel (Storm Squadron), and finally the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squad; SS).[11] Officially, the SS marked its foundation on 9 November 1925 (the second anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch).[12] The new SS protected party leaders throughout Germany. Hitler's personal SS protection unit was later enlarged to include combat units.[13]
