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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
Mon May 5, 2025, 06:32 AM May 2025

Let's do reverse Shock & Awe onto the regime

There is safety in numbers. Encourage state and local governments to push back together. Here's how it goes:

The regime is always posting notices that such and such entity is being investigated for DEI, latest I saw being Hennepin County. If lots of counties and cities and states and businesses and NGOs and educational institutions announce that they are keeping DEI in place like Costco, Delta, and Apple have, then the DoJ will be swamped with the need to do "investigations".

Keep the corrupt DoJ bogged down. All those entities can support each other in whatever ways they can, sharing successful cases, strategies and so on. Yes, the DoJ will start prioritizing but because of disfunction they will be less effective.

How to do this? Let all those institutions know that you and those you know want pushback and explicitly reference the idea of safety in numbers and banding together. Let politicians at all levels of all stripes know that you and those you know support politicians who demonstrate spine and courage.

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Let's do reverse Shock & Awe onto the regime (Original Post) Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 OP
muddling up the works bucolic_frolic May 2025 #1
well, i think that's the point mopinko May 2025 #2
Yes, the protests will build and are mass action. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #3

bucolic_frolic

(55,844 posts)
1. muddling up the works
Mon May 5, 2025, 06:57 AM
May 2025

The tactic from Reagan's Admiral Poindexter IIRC was "disinformation" and "plausible deniability". Keep them off balance, waste their time, send them on wild goose chases, change the landscape repeatedly. It's what Trump has done in court too.

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