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Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They're ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

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[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 147 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Those Epstein files must be hiding some horrific crimes.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It must be so much worse than we think. There must be photos and/or videos of Trump raping children in the files.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I believe it’s highly probable that they were infants, considering his reaction.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He’ll massacre a city to keep the evidence hidden at the DOJ. They are sitting on evidence that will end his life.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 16 points 2 months ago

He literally invaded a country to stop us talking about them for a minute and threatening to do the same again and possibly start a war with Europe to keep us from thinking about them.

There must be some bad shit in there. It is this part of the plan he's been given by Putin to avoid the pee tapes being released.

It's only been a year so far (this term at least)

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gonna call it now, Jimmy Savile levels of child rape and Necrophillia.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

Necrophilia wasn’t even a guess, but you’re probably right.

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you’re saying we didn’t already think that?

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah I suppose you’re right. The evidence against him must be incontrovertible.

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[–] pigup@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

cocaine+ultra-rich,+malignant narcissism = killing and raping for fun, torture. Remember that ring of freaks that were into videos of great apes getting tortured? That's for poor people. When you're the richest people in the world, you get to do it for real without consequence.

The lack of empathy runs extremely deep.

The way I think about it is: it's so bad that Putin can use it to blackmail a comfortable billionaire into upending his whole life and running for president and winning and following through with all that insane shit. Believe me, that fat lazy piece of shit would much rather sit back and keep fucking children and snorting cocaine at Mar-a-Lago. He's doing this because he has to, Elon Musk is doing this because he has to. They fucking know.

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[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dude, nobody in those files was ever gonna have consequences? You most know that??

The files are the distraction, damnit. Every time people follow that lead, it's another opportunity to "legally" step you of your rights. Another opportunity to loot the treasury.

And, seriously, even in the very unlikely chance any additional files are "released", they will have been tampered with. Dementia Donvict and Co names removed, and anybody who didn't least at a chance to lick his greasy turds out of his ass crack will "coincidentally" be named in said files.

But the simple fact the corporate ~~media~~ propaganda machine acknowledged the existence of the so called Epstein files all but proves it's all fucking bullshit. And they love useful idiots who keep everyone else "on message" by bringing up the exact same shit over and over again. It's the same fucking game they've been running my entire life. And, no, its not any fucking different this time around....

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

corporate media follows whatever they think gets the most veiwers for their ads, and which doesn't expose them to legal liability. they have no more loyalty to the government than anyone else in the US, that is to say they're loyal as long as it doesn't threaten their bottom line.

people do care about the epstein files, whether it'll be enough to root out such entrenched corruption ...eh...

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

The evidence is overwhelming. Epstein was an Israeli honeypot. It explains a lot too. He palled around with Israeli bigwigs, took private jet flights with Israeli intelligence bosses to Israel and back, Maxwell's dad was insraeli intelligence, it's the worst kept secret in espianoge. The cia must have helped them too shamefully, a betrayal of their oaths they should all be brought to justice but that's neither here nor there.

Forgetting about Epstein just gives Israel, and whomever else now holds proof of these crimes as well, absolute veto power on the president and a critical mass of politicians, business leaders, and swells, in the UK and US.

That is why Israel made the president look like a bitch multiple times, immediately violating ceasefires he publicly brokered. Then he had to pretend it was his idea or that it was logical for them to do that to not look like a bitch, but only to the sheep that don't think for themselves that live under the media ecosystems of those that won't tell them. Most of the rational informed world sees it for what it is, the president being humiliated time and again by Israel, even now gearing up for more Iran war he will be forced into because he can't say no to Israel and they need forever war to forestall elections.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sacha Riley said he killed children and puppies to watch them suffer

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 125 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

Remember the name of this author, who is an active Republican propagandist.

Derek Hunter. May the leopards eat his face.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (14 children)
[–] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (37 children)
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[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Welp, here comes the military litmus test. Are you mother fuckers going to comply with orders to murder civilians?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Like they complied with orders to shoot civilians in boats in the Carribean? Or do those not count?

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago

They have already murdered civilians in Venezuela. They have been trained to fight and kill, it’s not like they are having moral this time. This is what that orange turd is waiting on all the time. He would rise up martial law and refuse to let any votings happen.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago

Seeing as the troops (different units I know but still.) obeyed the very much illegal Venezuela Raid I think it’s obvious what they are going to do if mobilized

[–] hector@lemmy.today 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You see, the majority of soldiers deployed will be guarding street corners, they will handpick the ones willing to open fire, bust heads, etc., then make special units of them for the wetwork type stuff. That is their plan, like they did in 2020 with that special unit they made to disappear people in portland, cherry picking assholes from the bureau of prisons.

They will be nurturing paramilitaries too, no I am not referring to Ice which is a security service under control of the government and therefore not paramilitary even if militarized, but groups like the proud boys, 3 percenters, that they will nurture to attack critics and protesters and the like in ways they don't want the security services' goon squads to do directly. The police will go hard against anyone that fights back against them, give them a pass, share intelligence with them, etc.

These deployments they are just testing the waters and setting precedents, with 2028 in mind. With permanently fixing elections in mind.

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Could also be for Greenland.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 69 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Could be; both are utterly illegal and any soldier who follows an order to attack either deserves to be prosecuted

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Prosecuted? Maybe. Summary execution, definitely. They aren't soldiers. Soldiers took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Anyone attacking civilians and protestors is just a regular old fashioned mass murderer.

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[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Only a peace president would send the military against his own people.

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

We really are in the tyranny phase.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

President of peace everyone!

[–] chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

US armed forces are traitors to the people by all accounts at this point.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey they're just following orders ok

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare.

So that one guy slipping on ice really sent a message, but not protests? Figures.

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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t those guys be training to invade Greenland???

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't invading Minnesota be the best training?

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[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Shouldn't they be training to invade a certain house of the white persuasion? Something something foreign and domestic...

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Those soldiers better remember the US Constitution is the number one priority and not following illegal orders is lawful.

[–] Pazu900@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just like they did when murdering people "smuggling drugs" without trial and invading Venezuela?

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[–] breezeblock@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That’s definitely one way to speed run a civil war…

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who thinks these soldiers will do anything other than exactly what they're ordered is thinking more than a little wishfully

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