This stoking of chaos and fear in specific localities is a preview of how Trump’s “mass deportation” plan will play out. It will likely be targeted on specific places they’ve singled out as “disasters” based on whatever story they choose to invent. “Eating the cats” is like a beta test. - ThreadSky

sethcotlar.bsky.social • 161 days ago

This stoking of chaos and fear in specific localities is a preview of how Trump’s “mass deportation” plan will play out. It will likely be targeted on specific places they’ve singled out as “disasters” based on whatever story they choose to invent. “Eating the cats” is like a beta test.

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The Ohio State Highway Patrol will send 36 "field force" members to sweep Springfield City Schools each morning before classes and to stay around during school and dismissal so that schools can remain open

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kenfinch.bsky.social•160 days ago

If Trump got elected, I'd hate to see how 'liberal' cities would pay the price. Places like Portland, where I recently moved from, would bear the brunt of his wrath, because he knows his base would gleefully watch the federal troops and forces he'd sent in to wreak havoc.

therealjimsanto.bsky.social•161 days ago

waiting for the day the GOP is declared a terrorist organization

johnnyrenton.bsky.social•161 days ago

Donnie and Co. Are going to pick cities where they think their Klan strategy will be the most incendiary. They want people causing violence and damage (like in the UK). They are testing for weaknesses they can better exploit. Sadly, it will eventually work b/c not enough is being done to stop it

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

They’re adding Charleroi, PA to the list that at this point includes Aurora and Springfield. Expect towns in other swing states to be added to the list soon. https://bsky.app/profile/hilzoy.bsky.social/post/3l4cjnluzbr2f

bobbyspumoni.bsky.social•161 days ago

It’s exactly how they use Jonathan Choe in WA, or the several right wing chicken littles in Portland. “MS-13, the Guatemalans, etc. are destroying the city! Look at the mess x froup has made! Time to clean up!” It’s so old hat.

strepsirrhini.bsky.social•160 days ago

🎯🎯🎯

andrewjplant.bsky.social•161 days ago

Antagonizing swing voters on a town by town basis is certainly a bold strategy. Like his incoherent debate performance I wish I had more confidence that it was going to hurt his chances but he’s completely confounded my sense of what’s transparently disqualifying.

sampotts.bsky.social•161 days ago

Yet another reason to get rid of the electoral college.

johnryanwrites.bsky.social•161 days ago

I have this feeling that he's trying to gauge if the MAGAns will rise up should he lose.

Also, he is taunting someone to stop him so he can put the "cry" in crybully. He's being picked on, silenced.

Long shot: he's stirring up chaos to make a deal - give me the presidency or I shout "purge"

lotarous.bsky.social•159 days ago

I do think it could be some sort of negotiation scheme

I'm not sure where it's heading though

I'm very positive he is going to lose bad. The billionaires know it too. The inertia...

This will only make it worse

So I completely agree with you

Is he taking the GOP down with him as he free falls?

nothingfromnada.bsky.social•161 days ago

Please tell me this will backfire.

pssjohnson.bsky.social•161 days ago

Dave McCormick started this on his FB page a few days ago by posting a Daily Wire story. Sadly I think you’re probably right that it’s going to be the playbook in swing states and states with Dem incumbents.

mitchsolomon.bsky.social•161 days ago

The swing states mostly have Dem governors. DeWine has called Trump out. This is decidedly not a winning strategy and begs the question why Trump seems so much more animated and belligerent than the man who sat sadly in the balcony in Cleveland 2 months ago. Biden being gone can’t fully explain it

hopstache.bsky.social•161 days ago

Picking places for their deranged fans to terrorize and shut down with bomb threats seems like a questionable strategy to gain support in key states that they need to win

badkittee.bsky.social•161 days ago

it would seem so, wouldn't it?

hwestiii.bsky.social•161 days ago

The sound of the NYT editorial board wringing its hands is deafening all the way to suburban Chicago

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•160 days ago

Somewhere in the bowels of Mar-a-Lago, John Eastman is crafting an argument that creating all of this trouble will allow them to replace those states' electors.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

Chris LaCivita: Look Donald, whenever you go into a community you need to inspire them with your program.

Trump: Got it, in every town I visit I will inspire them with pogrom.

feralrobots.bsky.social•160 days ago

LaCivita: ...OK that works too.

cluband.bsky.social•161 days ago

There's as much chance Trump knows what a pogrom is as there is that he knows what asylum is. Unluckily, pogrom-ming comes naturally.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

I’m hopeful, but not overly optimistic, that this strategy will backfire as towns realize the extent to which Trump’s incendiary rhetoric and actions are making everyone’s lives worse in these places.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

102 years ago.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

In February of 1923 a group of Klansman drove up to a school in Belle Vernon (next door to Charleroi) & presented the principal with a new American flag. As the Klansmen sang the national anthem with the children, their hoods blew off revealing them to be upstanding members of the community.

gleen.bsky.social•161 days ago

We moved to western PA when I was little. People called it Pennsyltucky because there were/are so many confederate flags. It’s always been like this, can’t imagine it changing.

marythetrainer.bsky.social•158 days ago

I grew up in western PA—Somerset county—and I never saw a confederate flag until I moved south. Until 2016, that is. Then they bloomed like dandelions.

therealjimsanto.bsky.social•161 days ago

"when the men knelt at the altar and began prayer, all fears were allayed"

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

I just learned that Viola Liuzzo had ties to Charleroi...born in 1925 to working class parents who would have witnessed the rise of the Klan in the area. https://www.observer-reporter.com/news/2018/feb/17/civil-rights-martyr-was-a-washington-county-native/

enbuenora.bsky.social•161 days ago

was this historical moment directed by Quentin Tarantino

ericallyn.bsky.social•159 days ago

The more things change ... the more white supremacists should be yeeted into the sun.

saxonwaker.bsky.social•161 days ago

There was a KKK rally in Uniontown (Mark Esper’s home town) in the late 1980’s. It’s about 20 miles away.

I grew up in that area, and there are LOTS of economic issues. Mostly from Reaganomics leaving those towns for dead and a few generations of rot.

None of that has to do with Haitians.

patricklasalle.bsky.social•161 days ago

I'm curious about what impact this will have in Ohio. I like to think normie Trump-leaning voters will react negatively, but maybe it doesn't matter. That said, so much of their excuse for choosing him rests on his rhetoric not being serious or literal, so what happens when they feel the effects?

sethcotlar.bsky.social•161 days ago

I've read some reports that it's turning some normie Republicans in Springfield against Trump...which makes sense, and would be the only good thing to come out of this terribleness.

patricklasalle.bsky.social•161 days ago

That's good to hear. I don't expect them to vote Harris, but staying home or voting third party is just fine. Saw he's also starting this shit in PA.

cstarks.bsky.social•161 days ago

I think and hope it will be harder to escalate this in PA or other swing states because they mostly have Democratic governors

tomprogers.bsky.social•161 days ago

A plan that relies on large groups of uncoordinated people to wise-up all together is a shaky plan.

One reason Musk destroyed Twitter is that it was solving that problem, and fascists like Musk want their victims to be caught unawares rather than forewarned and organized.

pmanzo.bsky.social•161 days ago

Does this relate to their attempts to make Portland a conflict zone?
They seem to want to generate mob violence as seen in Ireland and UK.

muninsdad.bsky.social•161 days ago

It's also just a question of does this play the same when it's multiple cities? Will the racists be able to keep up with an ever expanding list? Especially if there is no action to take. On Jan 6 he got so many people through a patina of legitimacy - oh I'm going to go see the president speak

muninsdad.bsky.social•161 days ago

That patina I think made people feel comfortable and brought the numbers that would be a required for sustained disruption. I don't see how you get that here, it's like he wishes so bad there was the more confrontational protests from last cycle but there don't seem to be the same events or draw?

kenraining.bsky.social•161 days ago

I legitimately do not understand how they think creating chaos in the communities they are trying to win is an effective strategy.

katpick.bsky.social•161 days ago

I guess the scheme is to light as many fires as they can and blame the Democrats as they already are for they shootings.

jacksplat.bsky.social•161 days ago

Largest employer in Charleroi PA shutting down clearly the fault of Haitians 😏

‘A huge loss’: Glass plant shutdown in Charleroi would be a major blow to the local economy — and community https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2024/09/14/washington-county-charleroi-glass-anchor-hocking/stories/202409110187

anxioudacity.bsky.social•159 days ago

I’m not seeing a connection

anymouse.bsky.social•161 days ago

The Republican Party wants a race war for the fascist accelerationism.

jocetta.bsky.social•161 days ago

Draws attention, creates a climate of fear. Floods the news, drowning out Harris & Dems, plus low info voters suck at cause and effect. Scary news climate drives voters rightward even if Right is _causing_ scary stuff.
*sigh* Same old tired playbook.

jennvg.bsky.social•161 days ago

This is a tiny town. I’m dreading the ghouls starting to flood in.

hof1991.bsky.social•161 days ago

I'd bet they're coming for Wisconsin. But in our defense, the city names are hard to pronounce. It's a regular for Packer rookies to make them try and pronounce Oconomowoc, Manitowoc, Lac Courte Oreilles, Muscoda and Waukesha. It's so bad we have a website for visitors. https://misspronouncer.com/

hodag1977.bsky.social•161 days ago

I'm sure Santa Monica Goebbels is poring over maps & pinpointing future swing state hot spots - maybe deploying covert advance teams of Proud Boys to soften up the targets.

cardine.bsky.social•161 days ago

I'm thinking about how Trump's vile escalation follows Kamala's successful nomination - all tied to Trump's fear of going to prison if he loses? I'm not American, but it makes me wish your system had dealt with him better after Jan 6. He would destroy America for himself, it seems 😞

tymcbray.bsky.social•161 days ago

The cause? Ohio US Senator JD Vance. Ohioans should be pissed.
I’m pissed on their behalf.

wheredafukarwi.bsky.social•161 days ago

He is just their useful idiot IMHO. Along with Trump. Neither one of them give a shit about this beyond the cruelty they inflict. Strokes their fragile egos.

tymcbray.bsky.social•161 days ago

These people have no business in public service. They serve only self, although Vance is so strange and creepy and scattershot- I think his vision is very dark. Like a circle of hell dark.

pearlofwisdom.bsky.social•161 days ago

It's basic divide-and-conquor. Locations and groups that are getting targeted by Trump will lay low and let the unlucky ones suffer his rage. It's no fun.

tomprogers.bsky.social•161 days ago

It's not (just) deportations. This kind of thing will be a pretext to send the Army to wreck blue cities.

Trump & GOP are still shopping around for an excuse to invoke martial law. And John Roberts says nobody can stop him.

kathleena.bsky.social•161 days ago

Ugh, I think you're right.

mxhrad.bsky.social•160 days ago

It will be a violent disaster that will lead to both immigrants and US citizens murdered. It would take the US decades to recover.

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