"Trump is trying to normalize the militarization of our country. This is where it starts, not where it will end. Trump is dropping the pretense of abiding by the rule of law. ...
This manner of operation makes it clear that it’s not about democracy and the American people; it’s about Trump and protecting Trump."
~ Joyce Vance
"must be his bad ear, let's say it again in the other, WE WANT A DEAD DICTATOR" - a lot of people
"Thus far, President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard members in two major American cities. He’s not going to stop there. ...
Every city he has alleged is a crime-ridden hellhole that must be fixed by military occupation is a sanctuary jurisdiction."
~ Lisa Needham
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-red-state-national-guard-chicago
"If the deployments were really about crime, he would be threatening to occupy cities with rates much higher than that of DC, like Memphis, Cleveland, and Hattiesburg, but instead those GOP states have sent their guard members to DC. ...
DC is just the beginning, an appetizer before the main course."
"Something shifted between last week and this one. Almost overnight, a growing chorus of political elites became comfortable calling America under Trump a fascist state or an authoritarian state. Trump’s escalation is terrible, but it’s an objectively good thing to see more elected officials and public figures acknowledge what’s happening and sound the alarm."
~ Melissa Ryan
https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/video-how-to-organize-in-an-authoritarian
"This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections."
~ J.B. Pritzker via Heather Cox Richardson
Pritzker was on fire yesterday and his speech brought tears to my eyes with the confirmation that Im not the only one that knows Trump is out of his fucking mind.
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
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