A few protests can be handled by cops, what they’re scared of is a repeat of the BLM uprisings. They’re trying to get ahead of the problem before it spreads to every city.
BLM spread because of police brutality and overreactions. If they are trying to “get ahead of it” by escalating into extreme violence quickly it will only escalate the protests faster.
The way to “get ahead” of BLM and actually subvert it is to do what Joe Biden and the Democrats did. Coopt the peaceful elements of the movement into the corporate, NGO and DNC controlled sphere, alienate and isolate the radicals, give promises of reforms and then never do anything. Every heavy handed thing the Trump administration did only made the protests in 2020 worse for them.
Some of the cities are sanctuary cities and the mayors have ordered the local PD to stand down and not join ICE/DHS.
Bringing in the National Guard is a way to circumvent that and get ICE reinforcements without having to do the slow legal confrontations to dismantle what’s left of sanctuary cities
They know that as the empire continues to fall and their overreach begins to affect more lives, protests will grow.
The standard pigs can handle what we have now, they can’t handle what is to come.
Whether this move is to pre-empt a coming change of the “big beautiful bill” that guts medicare/medicaid and other social programs, an even broader “sweeping net” policy on immigration, direct hostilities with Iran/China, something else, or all of the above…
They are predicting a broad national outrage over something.
Because they’ve been slowly sounding out how much they could get away with for a long time: pushing the envelope a little bit further, seeing what the response is, and then pushing it some more then they see they can get away with it.
God damn it, its not about controlling protests. Its about squashing resistance. They know that in LA county the cops are not going to help them detain people. They want to send people who DONT live there and have NO connection to the people and the place. So they are INDIFFERENT and follow orders. They are going to make an example of LA so no other city gets inspired by LAs resistance.
And? Liberal goldfish mind can’t remember all the nonviolent protests crushed in just the last couple years alone?
Making this out to be “Lil Donnie’s personal revenge against LA and California, and I’ll bet it’s just the start” is why im calling you a lib. Like you think idf trump dies today that’s it? You people are out of your fucking minds when i see you say shit like it’s “about” “making him king” like jfc
Remember! They wouldn’t do this if they didn’t think they had to - this government action comes from a place of weakness, not strength.
They don’t have to, though. There’s a vast army of pigs in California. Way more than enough to handle protests of this scale.
They’re doing this because they want to.
A few protests can be handled by cops, what they’re scared of is a repeat of the BLM uprisings. They’re trying to get ahead of the problem before it spreads to every city.
BLM spread because of police brutality and overreactions. If they are trying to “get ahead of it” by escalating into extreme violence quickly it will only escalate the protests faster.
The way to “get ahead” of BLM and actually subvert it is to do what Joe Biden and the Democrats did. Coopt the peaceful elements of the movement into the corporate, NGO and DNC controlled sphere, alienate and isolate the radicals, give promises of reforms and then never do anything. Every heavy handed thing the Trump administration did only made the protests in 2020 worse for them.
I didn’t say it would work, I’m just saying that this is their plan. Make people too afraid to protest.
That’s clearly their plan for the anti-genocide protests, after all.
Some of the cities are sanctuary cities and the mayors have ordered the local PD to stand down and not join ICE/DHS.
Bringing in the National Guard is a way to circumvent that and get ICE reinforcements without having to do the slow legal confrontations to dismantle what’s left of sanctuary cities
Well, it implies they don’t think they can trust the vast army of pigs in California to carry out their plans, right?
They know that as the empire continues to fall and their overreach begins to affect more lives, protests will grow.
The standard pigs can handle what we have now, they can’t handle what is to come.
Whether this move is to pre-empt a coming change of the “big beautiful bill” that guts medicare/medicaid and other social programs, an even broader “sweeping net” policy on immigration, direct hostilities with Iran/China, something else, or all of the above…
They are predicting a broad national outrage over something.
No it comes from long experience of knowing they will get away with it.
Then why didn’t they do it before? Or sooner?
There’s a reason they delayed doing this.
Because they’ve been slowly sounding out how much they could get away with for a long time: pushing the envelope a little bit further, seeing what the response is, and then pushing it some more then they see they can get away with it.
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God damn it, its not about controlling protests. Its about squashing resistance. They know that in LA county the cops are not going to help them detain people. They want to send people who DONT live there and have NO connection to the people and the place. So they are INDIFFERENT and follow orders. They are going to make an example of LA so no other city gets inspired by LAs resistance.
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Guys, guys, did you know THERE’S A DANG CHEETO! IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
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Shitlib instance checks out, can’t wait to never see a lemm.ee poster again
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careful, if you do that you might learn something
Unironically you would be happier and I would be happy for you
Nah we have standards here
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They need to do this to maintain authority and control. I don’t mean they need to do this for public safety or anything.
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inciting a civil war isn’t what a government that is in control tries to do
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…for reasons that don’t bear explaining, apparently
Ok liberal
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And? Liberal goldfish mind can’t remember all the nonviolent protests crushed in just the last couple years alone?
Making this out to be “Lil Donnie’s personal revenge against LA and California, and I’ll bet it’s just the start” is why im calling you a lib. Like you think idf trump dies today that’s it? You people are out of your fucking minds when i see you say shit like it’s “about” “making him king” like jfc
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And then what? Did they immediately follow it up with a threat, in true cop fashion? They did? Nice, I feel safe and appreciated already
This is likely a part of the Authoritarian plan, as opposed to a response to loss of control.
It’s not about a loss of control, it’s about maintaining control to prevent a loss of control. They don’t want another BLM summer.
I still think that they have been looking for an excuse, in order to change the paradigm in a fundamental way.