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gregdoucette.bsky.social • 19 days ago

With what? The tanks that have been shipped to DC for Trump's birthday parade?

Good luck with that

https://bsky.app/profile/hobbidysparks.bsky.social/post/3lr2aa7err22s

Reposted from Hobbidy Sparks

They will bring in the army

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cometsncats.bsky.social•19 days ago

OmG they're so fking incompetent.

Thankfully, for us for the long run. I hope.

malavolpe.bsky.social•19 days ago

Considering morale and other issues the military would also have, Best of luck I guess.

hobbidysparks.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes

fleurdelisa.bsky.social•19 days ago

Omg the timing!!! Wow.

profexistential.bsky.social•19 days ago

Of Uncle Sam’s assorted guys w/ guns, the US Army’s best able to deploy lots of them to one place. But it’s also least likely to actually shoot Americans if so ordered.
I think you’re right. If they’re thinking Tiananmen Sq, they’re more likely to get a EuroMaidan

wolfgabe.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also likely those tanks aren't even armed

dianeofnv.bsky.social•19 days ago

Thank you! Ppl clutching their pearls thinking these bozos have an actual “plan.” It’s absurd.

europeaninsf.bsky.social•18 days ago

I'm confident they'll try, regardless
Trump never missed the opportunity to shoot himself in the foot whenever he had the chance

gregdoucette.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fair. I fully confess to not understanding LA's geography, just that there's an immense expanse of tons of people to the point that even flying over it takes awhile 😂

https://bsky.app/profile/roosefella.bsky.social/post/3lr2ahdq3qk2t

robertcameron.bsky.social•19 days ago

LA County is 4,700 square miles. By comparison NYC is 468 square miles. Baghdad is 78 square miles. Kabul is 106 square miles. See what I mean?

kirkmurphy.bsky.social•19 days ago

We in SoCal are vast: we contain multitudes.
"..Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns, the Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 18,584,307 in 2025."

alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social•19 days ago

Long Beach is in LA County which has 88 individual incorporated cities.

keynesaddiction.bsky.social•19 days ago

Well, LA is 47% Latino. If it was like Portland it would be easier to find a particular Latino. Also, Latinos aint going to stand for this shit. Also, LAPD has become far more Mexican over the past 10 years. So are they going to help deport their abuelita? I dont think so.

sthomas451.bsky.social•19 days ago

And its almost 100% open concrete, no geographic advantage to play, a million exits. It probably would've been easier to capture Hanoi.

roosefella.bsky.social•19 days ago

Just saying it's *even harder* (though other LAC cities have police forces, too)

deblatorre.bsky.social•19 days ago

Los Angeles county is about 4000 square miles.

generationalize.bsky.social•19 days ago

NO ONE understands L.A.'s geography!

Our 3 weapons are a vast floodplain, multiple incorporated cities within the city, overlapping identically-named leadership structures, and a deadening dependency on automobiles...
Our --4-- weapons are a vast floodplain, multiple incorporated cities....

gregdoucette.bsky.social•19 days ago

Militias only get you a few hundred extra bodies

And protestors are much more comfortable fighting back against them than they are against uniformed officers

https://bsky.app/profile/saysben.bsky.social/post/3lr2akmjn7s2a

keynesaddiction.bsky.social•19 days ago

The LA Gangs will get tired of this too, and will act out if threatened.

travellingmatt78.bsky.social•19 days ago

Great thread thank you (and followed). You're right across the board here but also I think to a certain extent they are relying on creating another George Floyd type of scenario where they can eventually twist any resistance into a propaganda tool with their back the blue BS.

travellingmatt78.bsky.social•19 days ago

…and to that point they love love love pitting red states against blue cities with this stuff. “Look at the anarchy, make sure you vote R to stay safe in your little enclaves”

wolfgabe.bsky.social•19 days ago

I do think a lot of people overestimate how much American citizens will be willing to roll over for a bunch of ignorant racist neckbeards that are even less respected than ICE probably.

warrocketajaxjr.bsky.social•19 days ago

And not all those uniformed officers will show up, some will take sick days.

ilozue.com•19 days ago

Given the rate or resignations through other actions, outside of completely insane agencies like ICE and maybe LASD, who is gonna actually support this at scale? It's absolutely not the FBI.

warrocketajaxjr.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also, given that the National Guard is composed of people from the communities trump wants to suppress then I figure some of them won't show up either.

ilozue.com•19 days ago

Also if he redeploys everyone to LA, who will be doing deportations?

gregdoucette.bsky.social•19 days ago

This absolutely would have worked in Texas, and pretty much anywhere along the Sun Belt

It's a political op without thinking through second- and third-order consequences

https://bsky.app/profile/figmentpudding.com/post/3lr2aoy3ndc2g

linas.org•19 days ago

Texas cities are blue. Voting districts are gerrymandered to return red results.

gregdoucette.bsky.social•19 days ago

A few things:

➡️ Too early to hope bad video alone will be enough. No one's going to be persuaded in November 2026

➡️ "Lawlessness against ICE" means diddly when juxtaposed with "self-induced recession and mass unemployment"

https://bsky.app/profile/thatac.bsky.social/post/3lr27zveci225

gregdoucette.bsky.social•19 days ago

One day @wolmanj.bsky.social's time will come!

https://bsky.app/profile/exdinette.bsky.social/post/3lr2bhhrbpc25

gregdoucette.bsky.social•19 days ago

If the economy improves and it's still happening in 2026, agreed

If either of those things don't happen, likely has zero political effect

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johnpanzer.com•19 days ago

I was just saying, the 3A association might need to start limbering up

daven50.bsky.social•19 days ago

True, if this remains an isolated incident. But if this initiates a series of similar events, it will have a significant affect on November 2026 elections.

vmcf.bsky.social•19 days ago

The 2020 protests and Trump’s abuse of force helped get lots of Dems elected (even if they then forgot abt that)

hvillealrailfan.bsky.social•19 days ago

IMHO, it really seems like Stephen Miller wants to recreate Nazi Germany (or at least some other form of fascist state like Russia or Hungary) without having the weaknesses in the system to exploit, the proportional manpower to do it with, or the years of power consolidation required.

thatac.bsky.social•19 days ago

Except MAGA is completely unaware of things we all are.
They live in a bubble where the biggest news, until today, was that Biden was replaced with a clone & his staff signed all the laws to cover it up.

its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social•18 days ago

War is policy by other means and these dipshits in gov don’t understand either

tonyhighwind.hellthread.vet•19 days ago

They don't have Gin Rummy to do that for them anymore.

craigwinston.bsky.social•19 days ago

Let's hurt a blue state's economy and make liberals cry. So we raid LA? That will work out fine.

martinbettik.bsky.social•19 days ago

Don’t try this shit in North Texas or Houston, though. DFW has as many guns as the rest of Texas, but we don’t like MAGA. And the feds don’t actually want to test Houston gangs.

igd.bsky.social•18 days ago

Texas doesn't want to lose their access to low-wage immigrant labor. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-e-verify-requirements-immigration/

drewkadel.bsky.social•16 days ago

Their problem in Texas would be offending the right wing employers of undocumented people they would arrest--also accidentally arresting right wing hispanic millionaires, etc. Lots of Mexicans in Texas who've been there since before the Texas Republic. Not all of them Democrats.

punkhistorian.bsky.social•19 days ago

Dallas maybe, but Houston (most diverse city in the country) would rise up. Suspect they also didn’t do this in Texas since a lot of Texans would shoot back

lemachlica.bsky.social•19 days ago

FYI the population of LA county is equal to the entire state of NJ (the most densely populated) and 1/2 the sq mileage

fryz123.bsky.social•19 days ago

I'm thinking they're just trying to lay the groundwork to occupy blue states with the military

malavolpe.bsky.social•19 days ago

The military does not have the manpower to occupy California let alone every Blue state.

duskydesert.bsky.social•19 days ago

can't be done, it is physically impossible.

fryz123.bsky.social•19 days ago

true, but they're to dumb to know that

birblib.bsky.social•19 days ago

Unless these particular militia have extensive combat experience within their current org structure, they probably reduce the overall capability of the government response, rather than grow it.

michaelrodriguez.bsky.social•19 days ago

It's fascinating that so many people view what is happening as if it is a movie or video games, and a lot of those edit out logistics or have easy logistics. To paraphrase Napoleon, an army or a military moves on its stomach. Supplying and maintaining such a force for a campaign is astronomical.

zzztestaccount.bsky.social•19 days ago

Don't siege Los Angeles, take it immediately

seifersythe.bsky.social•19 days ago

People don't understand the vast gulf between what it takes to level a city and what it takes to occupy one.

michaelrodriguez.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes, that's true, and you are right.

rvaux16.bsky.social•19 days ago

🎯I've been watching the Mission: Impossible movies, and noting exactly that. Who installs the tape drop or puts the cool car on-site? Who gathers the intel that Tom Cruise gets in the beginning? It's all in good fun with a spy movie, but thinking that reality works the same way is insane.

michaelrodriguez.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes, you are exactly right. These things happen, or things are just left around conveniently for the major character to find because that's the plot of the movie. In real life, those things don't just happen that often. It's like video games where people can find ammo drops everywhere.

kevincarson1.bsky.social•18 days ago

Nah, bro, it's all warrior ethos bro. Who needs logistics when you can just repeatedly hammer your head into the wall while bellowing "HOO-rah!" This is what happens when your SecDef is a TV personality who thinks anything not stupid is "woke."

derekalee.bsky.social•18 days ago

Reminds me of “the cult of the offensive” that was popular among WWI generals at the start of the war. The French “élan” true believers were pretty much all dead by the end of 1914.

michaelrodriguez.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yes, the First World War I showed that defensive warfare demonstrated how essential logistics are in waging a modern war. Now, of course, logistics have always been important throughout the history of war, but to the scale of industrialized warfare of the modern age.

austinwiltshire.bsky.social•19 days ago

The one thing the center and the left agree on is if they had to shoot they'd much rather be shooting at a proud boy

rebeccakell.bsky.social•19 days ago

Legally that makes sense. A decent lawyer would find one easier to work with

missamandajones.bsky.social•19 days ago

Mostly defensive and LARPing anyway.

noahlz.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also, I suspect that despite LA being "blue" - the residents have firearms.

mbdrapier.bsky.social•19 days ago

The smarter alternative would presumably be a campaign to deputise and ship in large numbers of local cops from red states? But the logistics would still ofc be an issue, and AFAIK there’s no sign they’ve started preparing this.

pfoxen.bsky.social•19 days ago

Most of those would have to come from cities, which would then potentially become their own hotspots.
Either of protests or actual crimes by local opportunists realizing all the cops are off playing in a different sandbox.

mbdrapier.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes, but those states are more docile (under a GOP POTUS) and ICE mostly hasn’t been poking the hornet’s nest out there.

balme.bsky.social•19 days ago

Cops are so trainable and smart that I am sure such a plan would go off without a hitch.
I would guess it would be as well coordinated as the Uvalde shooting response.

susanschorn.bsky.social•19 days ago

I for one would love to see the Oklahoma Freedom Farts Militia airdropped into LA to fight. They'd be unarmed, pantsless and mewling in the gutters in ten minutes.

keynesaddiction.bsky.social•19 days ago

We could just send the gangs to take care of them. We wouldnt have to do anything.

the-central-fire.bsky.social•19 days ago

The "militias" ain't about shit. They'll walk into the wrong neighborhood and be violently reminded that the origin of many street gangs was defensive.

oldsoldier999.bsky.social•19 days ago

Any "militia" in LA would find out pretty damn quick that they're outnumbered, outgunned, out-organized, and out of luck. They'd hightail it back to Redding where they can strut around pretending to be all alpha and shit.

ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social•19 days ago

American Black-and-Tans are going to be a biiiiiig help.

patsfanlisa.bsky.social•19 days ago

Homan just said he's bringing in the National Guard.

lexalexander.bsky.social•19 days ago

2,000 troops. That'll barely make a dent.

patsfanlisa.bsky.social•19 days ago

But it gives them the opportunity to initiate the Insurrection Act and martial law.

lexalexander.bsky.social•19 days ago

An opportunity they take at their peril. I think it's pretty clear that if they try that in LA, at least, they really will have an insurrection on their hands -- one they won't have the personnel to defeat. Obviously I hope it doesn't come to that, but the logistics numbers are pretty compelling.

alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social•19 days ago

They claim to have 2,000 NG. If they're the CA Guard at least half will be people of color. If they're from Red rural states they are afraid of the big city.

dweller42.bsky.social•19 days ago

We had a militia group show up to intimidate us at a protest in NH. It did not end well for them. They were outnumbered about 45:1, and they did not anticipate that we might also be armed.

yetidude.bsky.social•19 days ago

LA is exceptionally hard because of how spread out it is as well. Logistically hard to tackle as well.

balme.bsky.social•19 days ago

Can you imagine how panicked out of town cops would be in typical 405 traffic! Let alone gridlock from a chaotic scene like martial law.

gratefuljim.bsky.social•19 days ago

The greater LA/Long Beach area is nearly 20,000,000 people, larger than almost every red state, and far more prosperous and diverse

suannelqr.bsky.social•19 days ago

And armed. 🤔

miladymigraine.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yep. For some reason, MAGA thinks liberals don’t have guns. Of course they do

suannelqr.bsky.social•19 days ago

And we’re better shots.

publicuniversal.bsky.social•19 days ago

Militias are also way less well trained and more easily to break/notorious for losing discipline

polyparadigm.bsky.social•19 days ago

Militias are really bad in combat too, especially if they are doing violence for the joy of it rather than following orders

I expect the dudes in jeans will be worse than useless

lantro.bsky.social•19 days ago

Worse than useless: they’d be a liability.

nullconvention.bsky.social•19 days ago

walking loot boxes

scottjohnson.wtf•19 days ago

After a couple of them FAFO their numbers are probably going to dwindle

microplastic-stare.bsky.social•19 days ago

Like what happened after three AWB members were killed on camera in Bophuthatswana in 1994

im-still-me.bsky.social•18 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/im-still-me.bsky.social/post/3lr3ycqvh5s2z

polyparadigm.bsky.social•19 days ago

Many of them probably personally broke and ran when Ashli Babbitt was neutralized; I don’t imagine the median one has done much introspection about how to display any courage next time

passchendaele.bsky.social•19 days ago

A lot of right-wing yahoos don't bother with firearm safely.

If militia types get involved, the government should expect to lose some personnel to ostensibly 'friendly' fire.

#MuzzleDisclipline

millermena.bsky.social•19 days ago

I mean I live in Cali and this is the bare minimum understanding you need

michaelrodriguez.bsky.social•19 days ago

Excellent points. The logistics alone makes this all impractical. Furthermore, such operations would take days or weeks to carry out, and who will be paying for all this?

jasonemiller.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah, geography is important. The greater Los Angeles area is considered America's largest megalopolis. Read that again: MEGAlopolis. It essentially extends from the Santa Monica Mountains to San Diego. It contains a region called the INLAND EMPIRE, so names because it's huuuuge.

treesquestionx451.bsky.social•18 days ago

Immense mostly uninhabited forests and mountains in greater LA.

its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social•18 days ago

I always like to move my assets the complete furthest away from where I need them before I start using them

commanda4.bsky.social•19 days ago

I would hazard a guess that a lot Joe/Joan Q Soldiers aren’t just going to open up on American citizens either

rikitaun.bsky.social•19 days ago

The real threat might be the rise of paramilitary groups, hunting protestors and helping ICE.

steelabjur.bsky.social•19 days ago

Wouldn't the move be to activate the National Guard, like what happened at Kent State University in Ohio in the '70's? Maybe bring in the Guard from neighboring States, like Texas, if required?

erobin.bsky.social•19 days ago

All the tanks are in DC? Unlikely. Are tanks moving around the country ostensibly for some stupid parade? Very likely. (Dsclmr: I know nothing.)

charlesxavier.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also, ICE are obviously bootlickers, the police are very Trump friendly - but the troops much less so. If the idea is to have the army fire on American protestors I think that will go poorly for this administration.

no1lion99.bsky.social•19 days ago

Right and it would be a monumentally bad geopolitical move to start deploying large battalions away from their normal locations. Asking for foreign actors to exploit the weakness.

marsha.bsky.social•19 days ago

Imagine a ground offensive in LA. It’s huge with no easy transportation routes

alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social•19 days ago

LA traffic is a bitch. It can take hours to go 10 miles even knowing the old "shortcuts".

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