Anyone who has seen how 47 dances on Putin’s command for the past 10 years. Why would Putin do it when he has an eager flunky to do it for him?

It’s a brilliant plan and it’s likely weeks, at most, from succeeding. It’s evil and I’ll forever hate everyone who voted for him or abstained from voting, precisely because our democracy died when he reclaimed the throne.

This regime is responsible for the tensions all right.

I’ve been saying this since before he returned to the throne. Didn’t know he would concentrate in one state the efforts to provoke the uprising that would allow him to declare martial law, but it was obvious since he ran again that this was the plan if we stupidly let him back into power.

Sadly, it ends when the empire collapses and Balkanizes. Our chance to get rid of the Gestapo was November 2024. Since we chose not to do so then, we’re now in the Fourth Reich for likely the rest of any of our lives.

I think it was leaked to be inflammatory. The MAGATS will be crowing about the cruelty, decent humans will be incensed. That footage is a lit match thrown on the powderkeg so they can blow up the last of our civil rights in this country under the martial law they’ll get to declare.

That’s who they’ve always been. Don’t Tread on Me was just bluster so better people would leave them alone.

He shot her solely for not being afraid of him

Walter Cronkite’s ghost is going to destroy him

Until the national guard gets deployed nationwide. Then active duty and reserve military. The still have a slight numbers advantage. Slight. But they obviously have most state governments as well as the federal government in theirs. We don’t have the advantage here that we wish we did.

Just deploy them already, Tim. You know the regime isn’t going to back down over just the suggestion the Guard may eventually be brought into play.