Anyway, Musk bails, and then I think the really scary shit starts. Trump and Vance seem quite likely to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the US military against those they perceive as domestic threats. That is scary as -fuck-. 5/? www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/u... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

somershade.bsky.social • 10 hours ago

Anyway, Musk bails, and then I think the really scary shit starts.

Trump and Vance seem quite likely to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the US military against those they perceive as domestic threats.

That is scary as -fuck-.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/politics/trump-2025-insurrection-act.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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somershade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I’m proud of Mayor Wu for going to DC, looking straight into the camera, and telling the feds to fuck off.

It does, however, put a target on us. Boston and other sanctuary cities are absolutely going to be early targets for that militarization.

Shall we call it martial law? Probably.

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somershade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Did you catch the news from Syria today?

It was below the fold, easy to miss, but it sure does look like kill squads went house to house and shot about a thousand people over the weekend.

This is -absolutely- a thing that could happen here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/world/middleeast/syria-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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somershade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Trump is, fundamentally, a coward, bully, fraud, and cheat. I suspect that he'll slow roll the militarization to avoid too much culpability.

Vance and Hegseth though? They're way more into the ultraviolence.

We're in real bad shape when Orange Daddy is the moderating voice in the room.

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somershade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Also, the January 6th crowd knows what their job is. They all know why he let them out of jail: It's to do violence when he wants violence done but isn't ready to quite, you know, -order- it yet.

https://bsky.app/profile/somershade.bsky.social/post/3lgayslryi22j

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somershade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I'm reading a delightful book by Eric Siblin about the Bach cello suites. There's a section about how Pablo Casals - perhaps the greatest cellist of the modern era - fled the spanish civil war because he heard that his name was appearing on lists of prominent people to be killed.

It happens.

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somershade.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I think that the militarization and violence kicks off quite soon - likely in mid to late April.

My money is -right- around Easter Sunday (April 20).

If that was the case, waiting for the midterms and hoping for the best would be a pretty colossal mistake.

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nowwerise.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yes, I also expect implementation of the Insurrection Act.