I'm just waiting for the west coast to break off and do it's own thing
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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Is there a good argument for why any society not in collapse should submit to any "higher" authority?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?! I agree with every single comment criticizing the current shitty US leadership.
Where's the cartel when you need em!?
As everyone should be.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
You know what? Yeah. GFY trump.
So the trump administration is fully admitting that the insurrection attempting to block the certification of the Presidential election 2021 on Jan 6 was open rebellion?
Holly shit. I hadn't seen that last image you posted before. I didn't realize the Jan 6 insurrectionist brought flexcuffs. That is quite disturbing. Who the fuck were they planing to kidnap or take hostage with those flexcuffs?
It's just part of their cosplay.
I mean, I could believe that if they were just on his gear or with him, but he has them in his hand, ready to use to take hostages/kidnap people. I am genuinely curious as to what his intentions were for the hostages he was planning to take.
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Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Mike Pence, and really anyone who they deemed to have offended their god-emperor and who happened to still be in the building.
They were probably associated with the ones that built the gallows outside on the lawn. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-gallows-construction-new-video/
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ELI5, If Republicans in general don't want federal control, they want de-regulation, then why they are supporting federal control of California?
They want to use the government to attack their enemies.
Like a switch, as soon as a Democrat is in office they will all be lying about wanting "small government."
They are only against federal control when it's them who are being controlled. They are fine with it happening to other people. It's how they can claim to be pro freedom out of one side of their mouth and anti-freedom with the other. Laws for thee, none for me.
This is extremely important to understand. As fun as it is, we really need to move away from the gotchas. The right wing are not consistent because they do not have an ideology. They are simply reactionary.
They're lying about that first part
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Sounds like bro wants to start the plot to the movie civil war.
If it has the same ending I'm down.
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Here we go. Buckle up and arm yourselves.
Welcome to the rebellion.
I'm in.
Microwave dispersal cannons can be blocked by a large poster covered in aluminum foil. Just be sure to attach it to a wood stake.
Sound cannons are loud enough to work through strong ear protection, but sound waves are still air pressure pulses. You can disrupt the flow of the pulse with a solid enough curved shield.
If necessary, storm matchs have their own oxidizer. You can light it and wind won't put it out. Styrofoam and gasoline is sticky. Use that information however you want
Do not use a belt to stop blood flow. Get some proper tournequtes (I don't remember how to spell it). Slide it on, and turn it until the bleed stops. If you think it's too tight, turn it some more.
Edit: most military vehicles are diesel fueled. They are pretty thirsty, so be sure to share water with them. Right in the fuel tank is good enough.
Riot shield turned backwards for sound assault
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This is the language from the law that would permit the President to mobilize National Guard troops in a state without its Governor's consent.
Edited to add: found the law here, it's small and easy to read: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title10/html/USCODE-2011-title10-subtitleE-partII-chap1211-sec12406.htm
If it is invoked, it says:
Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States
But I parse that "shall" to mean the Governor is forced to comply.
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The Confederacy was in a state of rebellion too. He's equated standing up to ICE, which is seemingly similar to when the Bostonians stood up to and were massacred by the British, with the Confederate's bombing of Ft. Sumter.
our national guard and armed forces have a decision to make: us or them. this is your time to reject fascism.
Yeah. That's not a decision we have to worry about. They'll side with fascism. There is no question here.
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Calling it...Trump declares California to be in rebellion and suspends their votes in the electoral college and congress in the next elections.
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Can California please just withhold taxes already and put this country out of its misery?
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Right to freedoms of assembly and expression.
They need to chill.
And listen.