Let's not forget that Trump declared war exclusively on Democratic-run cities

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...well before Charlie Kirk was shot.

But the maga right-wing republicans this morning want to use his killing for their political agenda; not just to start a civil war based on party affiliation, but to fan the flames of the one they'd already begun with the election of a convicted felon who's openly and repeatedly called for retribution and revenge against the ONE party stepping up and taking responsibility for holding the inveterate lawbreaker accountable to the rule of law.

Mother Jones headline this morning:

“THIS IS WAR”: Some Right-Wing Figures Call for Retribution Following Kirk Killing
“More people will be murdered if the Left isn’t crushed with the power of the state.”

"Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives." Trump said in the wake of the shooting, of which law enforcement, as of this writing, has revealed no actual suspect or motive.

Putting aside that Trump's maga coalition has had the actual aim of 'crushing the left,' and has directly targeted the Democratic party since its inception surrounding the initiation of Trump's cultish following, that cynical effort against Democrats is now being advantaged by an actual 'state' sponsored enterprise (the presidency) aimed solely at the Democratic party; an effort directed by Trump which encompasses every political appointment and instigation of his administration.

In his announcement last weekend disclosing his plans to send ICE into blue states, exclusively, Trump expressed open hatred for his political rivals by threatening to direct the force of our nation's military, armed U.S. troops into several cities he listed which are run by black, Democratic mayors.

"These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them," Trump asserted in his announcement.

"Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians," Trump wrote on Truth social after the announcement, "but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History," Trump wrote.

"In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens."

This is, as so many pointed out at the time, an open declaration of war against Democrats based on Trump's own political rhetoric mischaracterizing the motivations of Democrats.

He's openly denigrating his political rivals as he threatens to wage actual war against communities with majority Democrat populations using militarized, armed troops to carry out deportations under the false pretext of the 'emergency' he's claiming to provide his assault on 'blue cities' with the extra-constitutional powers the courts are still allowing him to claim; still allowing him to proceed before their final ruling without proof of anything justifying using a wartime provision of law that requires an actual 'invasion' of a foreign or hostile force to trigger a military occupation of a major U.S. state and city.

All the while he's declaring war on Democratic cities, Trump is insisting he can, "do anything I want to do" with the U.S. military.

“Not that I don’t have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States,” he said at a Cabinet meeting in August, when he was asked about the prospect of Chicagoans engaging in nonviolent resistance against the US military.

So, not only are Chicagoans supposed to sit obediently and dutifully as their rights are being threatened. Democrats are supposed to stand by and docilely acquiesce to their own domination by their own government that's supposed to represent all Americans.

There's a word for what Trump is doing. It's totalitarianism: a dictatorial, centralized system of government that demands complete subservience to the state; characterized by ideological dominance and the suppression of individual freedoms.

Their ploy to martyr a promoter of this fascism in this cynical attack on the Democratic party is far beyond even what they've conjured up to accuse 'the left' of promulgating. Despite this effort by Trump to close the circle on his own prosecutions which he cancelled upon entering office, he's just producing even more consequential crimes than the extraordinary abomination of sending his maga mob to attack the Capitol and hunt down Democratic legislators and his own Vice president to stop the certification of votes in the presidential election he lost.

This is an actual assault on all Americans, with the clearly false implication by him that only Democrats and Democratic party interests are in the way of the military forces he's unleashing on U.S. neighborhoods full of Americans of disparate and diverse political affiliations and interests, who have already expressed to the federal government through the elected representatives who are responsive to their interests in the states they reside in that they oppose this autocratic, disingenuous exercise of our nation's defensive fighting forces against them.

Trump and republicans have been 'crushing the left' using the power of the state since his election, with indifference or ignorance to the fact of the myriad millions of other Americans unaffiliated with anything except their own lives who are squarely in the way of his promised retribution.

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1. Puts the Kirk shooting in perfect focus

Military troops will now go to different blue cities for absolutely no legitimate sensible reason other than to intimidate and hopefully to get us to react so they can kill us.

And some ARE going to react that I can assure you!

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2. I hope folks don't go to sleep on this

...because the hammer is coming down even harder now.

Almost as it they had planned all along to find a martyr to elevate and give their fascism more appeal to the fearful and the ignorant who are deawn to displays of authoritarianism for it's seeming protection of THEM againt the OTHERS.

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3. You think. I remember when the piece of shit was shot at, the keyword being "at"

At first it did not occur to me that it would be a set up that he would be part of this day I have a hard time believing it because he is a single biggest coward on earth and he would never volunteer to be that close to that kind of Bullet rifle etc. but now I don’t know.

This shooting has the mind of someone like Putin written all over it or Vance or hegseth etc.

Multiple occasions I’ve tried to tell people here and elsewhere that they really do have to exercise their second amendment right.

There is no question whatsoever that the United States military and National Guard and armed MAGA traitors will come for us eventually. The only thing that stops this other than something crazy is if they are able to control the elections so they don’t have to worry about us, and that’s what these false flags are for so they can send the military into our cities.

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5. And as I posted elsewhere, I have no doubt the piece of shit wants to use our American military

To fight alongside Russian soldiers against NATO countries, of course he wants that and Hegseth will do whatever he is told who also probably wants that.

What I hope by now is that everyone believes that is what the piece of shit wants. Just like he wants all Americans who do not support him to be either dead, imprisoned or deported.

I hope all Americans now understand that fact.

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6. he was expendable?

...wonder who's carrying around the little plastic zip lock with all of the incriminating evidence to drop by the body when the 'find' it?

Their history makes this little writing exercise more likely than fiction.

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7. You'd better tell M$Greedia

They are clueless