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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh, I'm sure we'll have troops marching. I'm guessing they're teaching them to goose-step as we speak, so they can do the full-on "show for our dear authoritarian leader" routine as they pass the reviewing stand. We went from a constitutional republic to a kleptocratic dictatorship in, literally, weeks. What we had was that fragile. And half of our country thinks that's a GOOD thing.
  2. It is the third largest military budget in the world, behind only the regular US military, and China. Yes, it's materially bigger than Russia. To be clear, the US has created a military force that is the third-best funded military on the PLANET, for the purpose of deploying it against people inside its borders. Oh, and that force is singularly loyal to the POTUS, and is not bound by the restrictions on the military that have long applied to military forces within our constitutional republic. Yeah, there's nothing to see here.
  3. Ain't nuthin poor about it.
  4. Entire secondary armies created and funded to be at the total control of a deranged psychopath cost money, dude. You think the Gestapo worked for free? Those Hugo Boss uniforms cost some serious scratch.
  5. Exhibit infinity in case of "the US has - for no fucking sane reason whatsofuckingever - functionally declared war on . . . every country on the planet except Hungary, Russia, and North Korea." It's not just that we don't treat our allies like allies anymore. It's that we treat them like enemies. It's a total psychotic break, done at the behest of absolute psychopaths.
  6. Why would anyone do that when the government is there, happy and ready to be weaponized against people inside the US? It's a new day, amigo. Go out and bask in its light.
  7. Sure. Posting Twitter posts celebrating the cops going Fallujah on people is "news." Posting anything from anywhere that is contrary to that take is "opinion."
  8. Any opinion other than total and complete subservient bootlicking is "ON NOES CR!" to the snowflake DT safespace crowd. This board is reserved for bootlicking and cheering on the cops when they go Fallujah on people inside the United States. Did you not get the memo? I think it was circulated at a happy hour. Or maybe that was an appetizer menu. I dunno, I was a few Fireman's 4's into things by then.
  9. Good sir, ALL Surly threads are the "debate about stupid shit" threads.
  10. He will inflict violence on civilians somewhere. Good. We need him to do that. Do his evil out in the open, for all Americans to see. Put women and children on the front lines. Create the opportunity for thousands of images of the Gestapo clubbing and gassing innocents. Don't worry, they'll get around to killing some. Maybe more than a few. They can't help it. It's in their fascist nature.
  11. Austin says Through a hail-smashed window and everything.
  12. Gavin Newsom: most recent approval rating = 55% Greg Abbott: most recent approval rating = 44% That tells you two things. First, there are plenty of people in BOTH states who "don't approve of state leadership." No shit, sherlock, these are polarizing times. Second....it tells you that MORE Californians approve of their state's leadership than Texans approve of theirs. Sure, among the 45% of Californians who don't like leadership, you talk to a disproportionate number of them. Cool. Anecdotal evidence is not statistical evidence. Statistics....are.
  13. And it won't. It will be among the next targets of the raids. Because we can't allow any dirty browns who have the temerity of acting like good citizens around. It's bad press. Better round 'em all up and shove them in a hole. I'm dead serious. "Good brown people" are more dangerous to the Regime than "bad brown people." Because they show that we're all human beings. And that's one message the Regime cannot and will not accept.
  14. Several years back, I was in a pretty hotly contested injunction fight against a small oil company. It was led by the kind of guy you'd expect -- a hothead who was used to always getting his own way. After a half day of hearing, it was obvious that he was going to lose, and we were going to block his project. The judge told us to go into the jury room and talk, based on what had happened so far, and see if we could work out a deal. I sat in a chair on one side of the room. He was pacing on the other side, with his lawyer. I told him - in a pretty measured way - how this should work out. It meant he was going to have to move his project from the planned location. That pissed him off. He came at me, and it was quite apparent that he intended to throw a punch. And I distinctly remember thinking "I'm going to leave my hands here by my side, so - in front of multiple witnesses - he punches someone who isn't a threat, and didn't even raise his hands. Because then, I WIN." His lawyer ran the same calculus, and ran over there to grab his client and turn him away. It would have sucked to get punched in the face. But goddammit, I'd have not only won my case on all points for my client, I'd have had a nice high-dollar assault suit to go with it. Letting the bad guy do bad guy shit where everyone can see and no longer deny they're a bad guy is one of the ways you can win big. Wasn't looking forward to the bruised face. But couldn't back away from the opportunity for the big win.
  15. I wore slacks and a jacket (no tie) to an outdoor summer protest in 2020 (no tie). My wife wears a black shirt and her collar to every single protest, including the summer. Yeah, I was hot. But image is important. Visuals are what we the people are selling to our audience, so make the sale. There will absolutely be right wingers there. Record them, and dox them. Own the information space. Flood it with the right kind of visuals.
  16. Their open desire to "Make America Full Jim Crow/Juan Crow Again" is out there in broad daylight. They ain't hiding shit, and there are posters on this site who cheer it.
  17. There's some of that, sure. But see the Civil Rights protest photos above. Those were dirty N-words getting beaten, attacked, and firehosed. And the white allies among them were dirty N-lovers. Yet....it resonated. Slowly, just by causing some initial discomfort. But it builds. Sure, the gal in the clerical collar is just a dirty lib, to their lizard brain....at first, when they are trying to rationalize it. But it's also...a person who looks like them, in a clerical collar. Not being violent, yet being hosed or hit with pepper spray. It sticks in the brain, and won't go away. Make the evil bastards commit their atrocities in daylight, for all the world to see. The Nazis knew that was a problem. It's why they didn't just round up jews and slaughter them in the street where they found them. That would have been too much, and might have turned public sympathy against them. Ship them off, kill them by the trainload behind walls, hidden from view. Nope, you gotta make the Nazis go nazi in broad daylight, where everyone can see them. That's how you win.
  18. Good for you. And truly, good luck. She should protect herself as well. There is risk, no matter what precautions you take, when you confront a state-organized criminal gang intent of ending the Republic and oppressing its citizens. But....those people all started out as American folks, the same as you. Make them sick to their stomachs as they go home and realize they took a club to a 60 year old woman wearing her church dress. They feel good about themselves when they can beat "rioters and thugs." When they beat someone who looks like they just left church to go to Luby's? You plant some seeds of doubt and dissent.
  19. The real problem is that underneath it....is racial bias. The real problem is that the organic protest and reaction is coming from all them brown people who look at messican and shit, not like "real Americans." That's why I suggest that ORGANIZED protestors do their best to present an image that Joe and Jane White American at home can relate to. See a dirty messican being beaten? Well, Joe and Jane are actually kinda okay with that. See a white pastor in a collar beaten? See a man who looks like your manager at work, wearing a tie, beaten? WTF? This regime is doing some bad shit! The undercurrent of racism in American society is real, and must be accounted for. Organized protests are a chance to show the wider audience that it ISN'T just "those undesirable brown people in their work clothes and hoodies" protesting and standing up for American values. It's "real Americans" (and we all know what they mean when they think "real Americans" - so give them that image). Waving American flags, and Marine Corps flags. Seeing a veteran stand straight with his USMC flag as a Gestapo thug pepper sprays him just for standing there? That's how you move the needle.
  20. Have a small pack (fanny back, backpack) with some supplies - mask of some sort to limit gas. Even an N-95 left over from COVID times can help. Goggles if you have any (need to seal on the sides -- so think cheap swimming goggles even). A couple of bottles of water. Keep all those things tucked away, though -- don't want to look like you're looking to engage in trouble. No stick for your signs, just carry them. And yes, dress respectably. Seriously, wear a jacket and slacks, even a tie. Look like "a regular American," somebody any audience can see looks like an ordinary, good person, not a rabble-rouser. RELATE to your audience to win them. Hell yes, carry an American flag, carry your Marine corps colors (I'm presuming you served). If you have your old dress uniform, maybe even wear your white dress cap. You are a good American, a veteran, standing up for the values you swore an oath to protect and defend. Show that to the world. Oh, and if the jackboots commit acts of violence against you....to the extent that you can endure it, LET THEM. And do all you can to make sure it's photographed and recorded. Gestapo thugs beating respectable, regular old American veterans....that is the kind of shit that will move the needle.
  21. By the way, violence CAN win this. But not the way many think. Make the Gestapo commit violence against normal, peaceful people, who are not committing violence themselves. Images like this helped turn the tide of the civil rights struggle: Let the Gestapo commit crimes against the innocent, against the defenseless. It's in their nature, so let the world see it. Don't strike back. You win by letting them display their evil for the whole world. You win when they beat women and children (that's why they should be on the front lines, not just men). Nazis gonna nazi. Make them do it out in broad daylight, against people just like the folks watching at home.
  22. A fair amount of this. And a fair amount of latinos ARE "white" in race terms (on the forms, you have race, then ethnicity, so they clearly contemplate someone checking both "white" and "hispanic," which is correct - it's what I check, and it's correct in my case and many others). And yeah, there's a lot of "but I'm one of the good ones" mentality going on. Want to create separation from the little brown guys with bad teeth drinking Budweiser after a day hanging sheet rock. But here's the thing....to the Stephen Millers of the world, to the Donald Trumps of the world....there is no separation. You've both got names ending in Z? Begone, you ain't real Americans. The guy in the work vest and the guy in the suit, both with names ending in Z, both end up in the vans and flights to El Salvador eventually. There are no "good ones." Just groups with different ways of being useful to the Regime in its quest for unlimited power.
  23. Because we're really, really, really fucking dumb. And because it's a common phenomenon - if you act like and "side with" the asshole majority, you think it makes you "one of them." You are never, ever, ever "one of them." They'll take your alliance and assistance, for as long as it buys them more power. But once they've consolidated the power, and don't need you.....you end up on the rail cars, too. Just another example of "this time will be different, it didn't work for those other guys, but it'll work for us."
  24. Excellent post. And I agree with most all of it. Yes, I cringe when I see violence (I often understand it, but I see how it colors the entire narrative). I also cringe when I see people dressed in fringe outfits (no, most people do not have 20 piercings, odd hair colors, trashed-out clothes, etc.). My wife and I have both participated in protests - she has, multiple times, in DC and in Texas, including at ICE detention facilities. She wears her full clerical collar. I try to wear a suit, or at least slacks and a sportcoat. As in "we are what you think of when you think of 'accomplished and respectable people,' not just 'fringe rabble-rousers.'" And if what looks like accomplished and respectable people are standing up against this bullshit....huh, then maybe the rest of us should do so too. And hell yes on the American flag. Liberty. Freedom. Patriotism. We the people need to reclaim ALL of those things from the fascists. They don't get to scream "freedom" while they storm schools, libraries, arrest children, ban books. They don't get to scream "liberty" when they detain people for saying words the regime doesn't like. They don't get to call themselves "patriots" when they stand against every patriotic value, every right, every principle that make this country great (or had a chance at doing so). WE DO.
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