DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek that the City of Glendale’s decision was “deeply disturbing,” and accused state officials of siding with criminals over public safety after unrest in Los Angeles.
Just so people are aware, this is the same rhetoric/same regurgitated talking points being used against “progressive” policies in blue cities within red states all over the country.
They are banking on an escalation of physical violence and confrontation that they will use as an excuse to establish a permanent federal and military force in California that will not be subject to any California state laws.
Why do I believe that? Because its how it happened in my own city to establish a permanent state police force that can’t be regulated by any city or local ordinance.
They instigate and then argue that progressive policies have resulted in an emergency and chaos, that leaves them no choice but to step in and fix things by taking control.
Frustrate and impede, just don’t help them advance their agenda by giving them the physical escalation they’re hoping for.
An “insurrection” under Trump will not be handled the way an actual insurrection was when Trump instigated it under Biden. This has been planned for a long time.
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I hope more Americans at city and state levels will start joining cities like Glendale.
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Make sure you give them the physical escalation they’re afraid of.
The state believes it has a monopoly on violence. After all they’ve spent most of a century propagandizing the public with the idea that “violence is never the answer”.
It might have been well intended at first. But over the last 20ish years I’ve come to see it as a weapon. Look at France or hell, most other countries. Government tries to do some fuck shit and people riot. Farmers protest with a military parade of tractors and spraying manure on parliament. Those countries haven’t had their populations brainwashed into the belief that “violence is never the answer”. There exists an implicit threat of violence behind protest virtually anywhere on earth except the US and some other authoritarian countries.
That implicit threat doesn’t exist here. Not at all. And that is why protests nationwide comprised of multiple millions of people are routinely ignored if not actively suppressed by gov’t jackboots. And always mocked as agitators or outliers. And our government is absolutely terrified that people will realize it. It’s why Trump’s military parade is going to have 19 miles of fencing and hundreds of magnetometers. Because those at the top know the pulse of the country. They have the data. They know the causes. They’ve squeezed people more and more for decades. They’ve suppressed wages while prices grew. They’ve allowed technologies like AI to remain largely unregulated while wiping away millions of jobs that people depended on to survive in a sink-or-swim society that doesn’t value human life beyond its utility to oligarchy. They’ve ignored protest for decades. Protest does not work here because it has been intentionally defanged. There is no threat behind it.
Then a fat bloviating painted cow of a man who thinks himself a king sends out masked plainclothes agents to rendition our neighbors. To kidnap people in your community. People you know. People who’s children go to the same school yours do. People you see every single day. Your people. Its slow death by boiling. Suddenly interrupted by someone rapidly turning up the heat.
Bruh, seriously…
Every positive change, especially when that change challenges existing power structures, must be backed up with “And we’ll fight you to the death over this.” Yes, you hope it doesn’t come to that, you hope that only the threat of revolution will be enough.
The threat won’t be enough if it’s an empty threat.