Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

  • pigup@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 hours ago

    cocaine+ultra-rich,+malignant narcissism = killing and raping for fun, torture. Remember that ring of freaks that were into videos of great apes getting tortured? That’s for poor people. When you’re the richest people in the world, you get to do it for real without consequence.

    The lack of empathy runs extremely deep.

    The way I think about it is: it’s so bad that Putin can use it to blackmail a comfortable billionaire into upending his whole life and running for president and winning and following through with all that insane shit. Believe me, that fat lazy piece of shit would much rather sit back and keep fucking children and snorting cocaine at Mar-a-Lago. He’s doing this because he has to, Elon Musk is doing this because he has to. They fucking know.

    • hector@lemmy.today
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I think in Musk’s case, while putin and netanyahu’s people are both blackmailing politicians, and the president himself is a lifelong blackmailer with quite a collection from leaks to his fixers in his terms as president, that Musk was made an asset by Peter Thiel.

      These tech guys have a lot of information, thiel knows how to use it to, he certainly got exported data from all government agencies from the so called doge, which were kids they groomed at drug and sex fueled parties with thiel and yarvin and their faction.