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19 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Mrs @Brisketexan is a Presbyterian Minister, and I’ve met her. It would take a lot more than one pepper ball to slow her down.

 

Well, he can’t bitch about it because it was obviously Predestined….

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22 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Mrs @Brisketexan is a Presbyterian Minister, and I’ve met her. It would take a lot more than one pepper ball to slow her down.

 

Yet this will get little to no airplay or indignation from any significant media outlet.

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29 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Mrs @Brisketexan is a Presbyterian Minister, and I’ve met her. It would take a lot more than one pepper ball to slow her down.

 

A pepper ball would only piss her off.  Trust me.

And she has participated in several exercises like this.  And (1) you're damned right she wears her collar, because she is called to bear public witness, (2) they have extensive planning and training on how to deal with just this sort of thing.  In fact, at some events, they wear color-coded armbands to indicate where they should be in position in the protest, and who is willing to be arrested if necessary.

Honestly, the book on non-violent resistance is one of the only hopes we have.  Make MAGA shoot and beat members of the clergy, publicly.  AND, have a plan to make those images go worldwide and be amplified instantly (this is where "the resistance" is failing).

And ultimately -- and this is important, and hard to stomach, but true -- it's going to take US troops, or paramilitary forces (and that's exactly what ICE is) opening fire en masse against members of the public.  When there are images of a dozen dead Americans in the street, including a grandmother, a pastor, etc.....then you have a CHANCE to break through and break the nerve of the fascist-adjacent and apathetic people.

Of course, there's also a tipping point that we're going to face as well: when the US military is ordered to slaughter Americans in America....what do they do?  I am not optimistic about that.  I do not trust them to honor their oath, or I at least fear that those who would do so will have been removed from the equation, and craven bloodthirsty fascist-sympathizers will have taken their place.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

A pepper ball would only piss her off.  Trust me.

So tell us more about the times you've shot your wife with a pepper ball gun.  And if you have video, please share.

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Just now, South Austin said:

So tell us more about the times you've shot your wife with a pepper ball gun.  And if you have video, please share.

I still possess my testicles, so we know that has never happened.

However, she has slept in the same bed with me after I spent all day tailgating eating BBQ, tacos, chicken wings, and drinking gallons of cheap beer.  So I assume her tolerance of chemical attacks is off-the-charts.

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19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

A pepper ball would only piss her off.  Trust me.

And she has participated in several exercises like this.  And (1) you're damned right she wears her collar, because she is called to bear public witness, (2) they have extensive planning and training on how to deal with just this sort of thing.  In fact, at some events, they wear color-coded armbands to indicate where they should be in position in the protest, and who is willing to be arrested if necessary.

Honestly, the book on non-violent resistance is one of the only hopes we have.  Make MAGA shoot and beat members of the clergy, publicly.  AND, have a plan to make those images go worldwide and be amplified instantly (this is where "the resistance" is failing).

And ultimately -- and this is important, and hard to stomach, but true -- it's going to take US troops, or paramilitary forces (and that's exactly what ICE is) opening fire en masse against members of the public.  When there are images of a dozen dead Americans in the street, including a grandmother, a pastor, etc.....then you have a CHANCE to break through and break the nerve of the fascist-adjacent and apathetic people.

Of course, there's also a tipping point that we're going to face as well: when the US military is ordered to slaughter Americans in America....what do they do?  I am not optimistic about that.  I do not trust them to honor their oath, or I at least fear that those who would do so will have been removed from the equation, and craven bloodthirsty fascist-sympathizers will have taken their place.

Our best realistic way out of this long term looks something like ICE/cops firing on peaceful protestors, leading to a huge public backlash, leading to an overwhelming defeat of the GOP in 2028. Chances are, they'll refuse to concede and claim it was rigged, but in that case the military likely refuses to go along with it (same as they refused in early 2021). Then we'd need a unified Democratic government committed to punishing the GOP and its enablers outside of government to wield the full force of the state against them as well as to seriously reforming SCOTUS. 

If Trump can get the military to shoot protestors, that's when shit gets real dark. If the military itself becomes embroiled directly in violence against civilians and generals start worrying about being held accountable if Democrats retake power, that's where things will get real ugly. 

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I still possess my testicles, so we know that has never happened.

However, she has slept in the same bed with me after I spent all day tailgating eating BBQ, tacos, chicken wings, and drinking gallons of cheap beer.  So I assume her tolerance of chemical attacks is off-the-charts.

White girl removes gas mask in the sun ...

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical right conservatives are still obsessed with Obama for some dumbass reason

 

"Obama being black" isn't a dumbass reason.

I mean, it's a shitty, evil, racist reason.  But....it's a reason.  

Wait...it's also a dumbass reason.  My bad.

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30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Honestly, the book on non-violent resistance is one of the only hopes we have.  Make MAGA shoot and beat members of the clergy, publicly.  AND, have a plan to make those images go worldwide and be amplified instantly (this is where "the resistance" is failing).

I think this is true.  I would say "hope" it's true, but don't mean to imply that I hope that ICE and federalized national guard start will employ greater violence against nonviolent protestors.

I'm reminded of a book I just read, King: A Life, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on MLK.  It's fascinating in so many ways, even after I've watched numerous documentaries about King and the Civil Rights movement over my life.  You talk about a guy with an unwavering commitment to nonviolence, even when violence against the Black community had escalated, and when others in the movement had pleaded for King to start physically fighting back.  

But one thing Brisket's comment reminded me of was how the growing video footage of Southern law enforcement, unprovoked and without mercy, physically beating protestors -- men and women, and eventually children when they started joining the protests -- that started changing the attitudes of those viewing audiences outside of the South, including JFK himself and his administration.  It was the proliferation of TV sets in most American households by the 1960s, which showed more and more of the senseless beatings, fire hosings, and dog attacks against peaceful protestors, that really gave the Civil Rights movement significant momentum.

Maybe Trump's invasion of the blue cities will lead to something similar.  Though I'm sure plenty on the right won't see a comparison, and will chalk it up to a bunch of loser instigators in Chicago and Portland with nothing better to do, as opposed to Black's pushing for an end to segregation and the right to vote.  Those folks will cheer on the pepper balls, or worse.

But maybe it will start to change the minds of some folks.  Not entirely on Trump, because that toothpaste has left the station.  But maybe some of the more "reasonable" Republicans and right-leaning voters will push back on his overreach of executive force and power that they have let go unchecked so far.  Maybe.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Radical right conservatives are still obsessed with Obama for some dumbass reason

 

Bruce Pearl is not the only one exercising his first amendment rights. His ass is being roasted on black social media. He has made his son’s job much more challenging.

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16 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I think this is true.  I would say "hope" it's true, but don't mean to imply that I hope that ICE and federalized national guard start will employ greater violence against nonviolent protestors.

I'm reminded of a book I just read, King: A Life, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on MLK.  It's fascinating in so many ways, even after I've watched numerous documentaries about King and the Civil Rights movement over my life.  You talk about a guy with an unwavering commitment to nonviolence, even when violence against the Black community had escalated, and when others in the movement had pleaded for King to start physically fighting back.  

But one thing Brisket's comment reminded me of was how the growing video footage of Southern law enforcement, unprovoked and without mercy, physically beating protestors -- men and women, and eventually children when they started joining the protests -- that started changing the attitudes of those viewing audiences outside of the South, including JFK himself and his administration.  It was the proliferation of TV sets in most American households by the 1960s, which showed more and more of the senseless beatings, fire hosings, and dog attacks against peaceful protestors, that really gave the Civil Rights movement significant momentum.

Maybe Trump's invasion of the blue cities will lead to something similar.  Though I'm sure plenty on the right won't see a comparison, and will chalk it up to a bunch of loser instigators in Chicago and Portland with nothing better to do, as opposed to Black's pushing for an end to segregation and the right to vote.  Those folks will cheer on the pepper balls, or worse.

But maybe it will start to change the minds of some folks.  Not entirely on Trump, because that toothpaste has left the station.  But maybe some of the more "reasonable" Republicans and right-leaning voters will push back on his overreach of executive force and power that they have let go unchecked so far.  Maybe.

the difference is that in King's day, newspapers and TV stations nationwide covered the events and showed the cruelty.  Today 75% of the media would either outright ignore the event or blame the victims.  

Something similar to Selma could happen today and most would shrug and go about their day.

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We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech

The fuck does that even mean?  We took it away but the courts said no?  And the flag burning crap is just his usual  drivel.

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Posted
57 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

No, no, it's because he wasn't "grateful" enough! To the country that so generously allowed him to be in that position! Not racist at all.....

“Trump’s ICE would have deported him back to Kenya because of that false birth certificate…..” Probably.



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