billjarrett.bsky.social
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It doesn't need to even be that far. Get a bit out of Chicagoland past the burbs and most of the state is red.
They can tell you some hellish stories about things going on in the city. They haven't been there in 20 years and it's only an hour away. They could drive in for lunch and see.
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What are they actually doing? I've seen photos of them standing around. But what authority do they actually have? Have they been deputized? Can they make arrests? Can they fire on people?
This is a first in America, we'd like to know the rules or lack thereof.
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As a veteran I would be so ashamed to see our son in that background.
Hopefully he never has to go that route. We don't really encourage that career path.
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"apply to a 1-sqaure-mile area in downtown".
So everywhere else in the city is ok.
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The entire military without many restrictions on them could barely hold on to Kabul. How will they hold LA County? And NYC? And Chicago/Milwaukee? Minneapolis?
They are either flattening cities or insane. They could never keep it all occupied. Its expensive to deploy the army, even here.
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I didn’t see anything about Chicago until this afternoon and by then it was too late to get out there.
Saturday is looking like it may be large everywhere.
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Laugtivism.
Make protests funny. Throw beach balls.. wherever ;-). Get them overreacting on video.
Don't be angry. Look like you are having fun and winning. Make Trump piñatas. Bands. Give cops job fair flyers and ask them if they want a new career.
Who wants to cover people with signs?
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Hard to see from the pics, but I hope they display name and rank.
Also how are they "securing"? Are they going to open fire? Can they arrest? Will they chase us through the streets? Shoot non-lethal rounds? Should we all be keeping helmets and homemade shields in our cars just in case?
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Although we scheduled protests in response, the major city ones should have been all day parties.
It would be great to see the juxtaposition of nationwide street parties vs a drab under attended military parade.
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I keep seeing this picture. Rarely when I served in the 90s did we get hotels. Sometimes we got “transitory barracks” which were more like GI hostels.
I slept like this on school gym floors.
Not that I want to stand up for the regime, but this looks like normal army life to me.
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Make banners for the GI Rights Hotline
See if anyone they know from back home will join
And as a vet I think it would suck to have to clean pretty glitter off my gear daily. Just saying.
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So are we.
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Hey @repschneider.bsky.social and @duckworth.senate.gov can we get a soundbite?
Two words. Let’s see you do it.
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Are there any vets surprised by those pictures? That looks like normal military. I spent nights like that on school gym floors. MREs and water are easy.
But they are miserable and the protesters can definitely target that.
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Not just kindness. Fun.
We saw how they are living.
Make the protest fun. Have people in their 20s dancing. Have banners for the GI hotline.
Make the whole protest about how much fun they could be having if they weren’t sleeping on the floor of a govt building and beating people.
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Why hasn’t it been?
EOs aren’t laws. They are just as easy to say “no” to.
Unless a great opportunity for malicious compliance presents itself they should all be saying no to everything.
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A fitness event, followed by dealing with civilians all day and a parade at night.
God there must be some pissed E-4s in there.
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Is he planning on flattening all our major cities then?
Although the US military is strong, I doubt their ability to maintain control of that many disparate urban centers simultaneously. Especially with current DoD leadership.
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Bonus points if you find people they know from back home that would be willing to come to your party.
These are mostly 18-25 year olds ripped from their daily lives to do this crap. They are the moron who at work who can’t work weekends because of guard duty.
Treat them like that, not enforcers.
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Another reason why the protestors outside need to look like they are having fun.
Make banners for the GI Rights Hotline and have a dance party with 18-25 year olds right there. People their likely age. Having fun instead of sleeping in bro-piles on the floor.
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Or better yet - Make flyers for the GI Hotline. Maybe put some personal messages on there too.
Get a lot of them.
Have a bunch "blow" their direction every 30 minutes or so.
And I hope all the dancing I've been seeing is going on right in front of these guys. If not, it should be.
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Anyone holding signs referencing the "GI Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487"
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Didn’t see a lot?
But some. He saw some.
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Then the Dems need to steal their word.
Redefine “family values”.
Claim we are the party of family values.
Not a comparison to them.
Just take it like an ICE agent takes kids and redefine it.
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Hey @governor.ca.gov and Gov Gretchen Whitmer- how is the ROI of complying in advance working out?
@govpritzker.illinois.gov has a better position than you against Trump and hasn’t licked a boot yet.
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MAGA response (probably):
This is fake news. He didn’t send the Army.
He sent the Army National Guard and US Marines.
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Have you considered adding any Srdja Popovic and Erica Chenoweth?
We need to be reading more books on what we do next.
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We all should start protesting dressed like the guy on the left in the middle photo minus the firearm.
Nothing saying police.
Watch chaos ensue when they can no longer easily identify each other.
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And side benefit for the regime of nobody hears Tesla Takedown anymore.
That’s the problem with targeting supporting cast.
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And out of those with criminal records, how many of them had substantial / violent records?
Not all criminals are the same.
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America as we knew it is over. At least for our lifetimes. Even if we win it won't be what we once had, and it's doubtful it will be better.
We have short term escape plans and are pretty close to using them. Bloodshed in LA may be what tips it. Still working on longer term ones.
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Who is responsible for enforcing this law and how is it enforced?
Can all agents involved face charges? Are they civil or criminal?
Dems need to get off the damn ropes and take a few swings back.
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Not just the chief. That guy needs to be forced into a new career field.
I’ve heard there are a lot of open positions in agriculture, food service, hospitality and construction that white folk were clamoring to get into. He may want to consider those.
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It’s a well documented tactic. Go search Google for the term laughtivism.
It worked well in Serbia and there are two books (at least) written including a lot on the subject.
“Blueprint for Revolution” and “Pranksters vs Autocrats”.
Americans need to get better at this.
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How many were charged and what were they charged with?
56 arrests means jack if they were all bullshit arrests and the cops just release them when they double down on wanting a lawyer.
But it looks nifty in the media like they are doing shit. Show us charged not arrested.
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And then the Senate needs 2/3 to convict, which will never happen with the current split there.
And even if it does, that would leave us with Vance who would be able to nominate a new VP.
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Yeah. The small silver lining in the chain is if we removed Trump, Vance and Johnson simultaneously.
That gets us Grassley. Not good, but better than all the others simply because I don’t think he knows where he is half the time.
We’d just have to deal with tweets about roadkill and such.
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We would have gotten chewed out for being out of uniform.
I assuming the rest are in the proper uniform because at least at a glance they mostly match.