My honest reaction to that scenario

Which is probably why .ml is unhappy about it.

The audacity itself is a destabilizing action. Kind of like how Putin has hinted in public statements that he helped rig the 2016 elections and that he and Trump have close ties. He wants to break down trust in our system from all sides, not just one.

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MAGA vs. hawks AIPAC plants

Regarding the thumbnail, I figured procedure would be to remove your sidearms while on riot detail, being as you’re getting within melee distance with multiple people at once, thereby risking it being snatched. It’s more of a liability in that context, prison wardens do the same thing.

I guess asking a beat cop to give up his emotional support pistol is a nonstarter.

To be clear, the Pentagon has dusty filing cabinets full of playbooks and wargaming scenarios ranging from plausible to outrageous that various think tanks have cooked up over the years. There is almost certainly a plan to fight an extraterrestrial invasion. I recall one being made about a zombie outbreak during that pop culture craze. We’ve had plans to invade Canada and Mexico wholesale for decades at least. Their existence doesn’t inherently mean that anyone at the Pentagon takes the possibility of the scenario seriously. They’re thought exercises as much as they are preparation for the unlikely.

Trump is fundamentally deranged. By this time next year, he will be publicly floating the idea of nuking resistance strongholds.

Two possibilities:

1. They know some serious shit is liable to go down.
2. They know some serious shit is intended to go down.

I’d be careful with that last point - when a modern people is suddenly forced to turn to the land for sustenance instead of the industrial supply chain, overfishing and overhunting become problems quickly…you won’t be the only person out looking for a meal.

Nebraska is definitely not within 100 miles of a land or sea border, the claimed jurisdiction of ICE. It’s probably about as far as you can get, actually.

Throw it on the pile.

The numbers are probably similar but back then more of them were abused into either permanent masking or madness/suicide. Not exactly an accepting world 80 years ago.

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Confrontations with ICE are the exception, not the rule. They are grabbing hundreds if not thousands of people successfully every single day. They claim almost universal jurisdiction and are not prohibited from operating anywhere, and ignore the law when they are anyway.

The national guard is not there because of any practical challenges of manpower. They are there to normalize the use of military assets to crush dissent, and to instigate a reason to declare martial law. This was likely planned by Project 2025 architects long before Trump took office.

Unless the local police are willing to draw down on federal agents this is hardly a speedbump.

Posse Comitatus Act, yes.

The fascism is continuing to escalate.

I don’t think the SG actually believes that, but whatever serves the goal of European military independence.

The more concerning shorter term threat is a rogue United States, but that’s a hell of a thing to admit publicly.

ICE and their various fed retainers will still waltz into these neighborhoods without consequence. All it means is that they can’t count on local cooperation.

If we let them arrest everyone who isn’t an ideal leftist, then we’ll be enough of a disparate minority to stuff into mass graves. So that poem/saying goes.

They were always worried about people threatening their ability to be racist, violent, Christofascist freaks, not about actual injustices.

Incidentally, the “shall not be infringed” reading of the 2nd only really gained popularity around the same time of desegregation.

Spin the scenario around; follow the orders of a sane President or a regressive, criminal Governor?

Except that judgement call is largely subjective. The above is literally what any conservative voter who happens to be in the Guard would think of the current situation.

It’s a messy situation to be in, one fraught with desertion, courts-martial, and sabotage.