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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs The Day Of Death Approaches For US Beginning To Feel Like Doomed Titanic Passengers.
As we pass through the final days of the Obama presidency where so much hope has led to today's despair I am beginning to understand how the doomed passengers of the Titanc felt once they understood they were going down. We may yet rescue this ship of state but it looks worse every day.
The GOP is the real villain and they are the true terrorists. I do not know how we will survive the coming chaos and government anarchy that looks like it is coming. The only thing that seems that might work is open revolt and protest for the next 4 years. There is no guarantee that we can move forward in 2018 because the GOP will be more able to run completely fixed elections.
There will be open hostility between Trumpers and protesters and the GOP will find a way to use our security system to crack down and suppress protest. I do believe they are capable of much more evil than we imagine.
I do thing the MSM will help the GOP just over run or ignore all protest no matter how loud or large. It will be just like the Iraq war protests that were blacked out.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I think we can expect a wide ranging war against protest in the US. We really have not seen the GOP for what it really is.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Saying in the old days that protester would be taken out on a stretcher or he'd pay the legal bills if somebody got punched. Screaming in his gravely voice, "Get that protesting bum out of here!"
It's coming, I know it.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)exactly what's coming our way...
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I'd tear up playing it then and just now playing the video, I teared up again. Seems like just yesterday.
had returned from Vietnam now so long before this happened. Knew then that the PTB will stop at nothing to keep that power and control and I fear with this current upcoming racist-in-chief, WE AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET.
Generator
(7,770 posts)martyrdom is the only thing that people respect. Whose life is gonna be taken? You know this is coming. Either THAT or we all submit. Which is it America? Death or silence? Trump is just dying to kill us-you know making up funny names for him isn't working like it did with Bush. Trump-use his rightful name-is a sociopath. I really am not committing hyperbole. When they kill us they will say it was deserved but the anger over it may be the only way to turn this around. (I know I am a few months or years off of the timing-but who knows January 20th-maybe martial law if Trump wants the protests stopped-people are really angry this time)
I don't want ANYONE to die. But I have been thinking about this since the election. Am I willing to possibly die-be hurt-arrested for this? Am I willing to stand with the Latinos in my community, The Muslims? Is it all just talk-or will I be there with something to lose? This is a defining moment in everyone's life.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Makes me wonder. My year in Vietnam seems like a waste now.
mreilly
(2,120 posts)... as they break any law they can in order to run this country with an iron fist and attempt to claim dictatorship, suppress protests, jail liberals and Muslims, make it illegal to criticize the President they will continue to yammer with a straight face that THIS is EXACTLY what Obama did for eight years!
That's how they attempt to justify their crap: lying it was done to them first. Or at least that Obama WOULD have done such a thing if only they could.
Generator
(7,770 posts)So when Trump does-we will know there is a difference and the lies will not stand unless this becomes a goddamn communist fascist country and then who give a fuck? Burn it down.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)None of us are safe,am sure the DU hack was to get information on posters here.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
"10 U.S. Code § 332 - Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority"
"Open revolt"? Good luck with that.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)They always said they needed their guns to prevent tyranny but where are they when it finally arrives?
Kind of twisted, isn't it?
We are facing a ruthless opponent
Republicans