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.

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        Maybe you shouldn’t have anointed the most unpopular option for president running a status quo campaign against republicans running as reform, then blamed everyone else for not doing what they long made clear they wouldn’t do, vote for worthless status quo democrats perpetually. Not the least as Biden did NOTHING with his presidency.

        Still passing the buck, blaming everyone else. You knew she couldn’t win, forced her anyway, on a campaign you knew couldn’t win, and forced it anyway. Now blame everyone else to keep the same people that chose her in control to fail us all over again.

        It’s just unbelievable the arrogance of those of you that support the democratic party establishment. Disgraceful. You are the problem, not everyone else.

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          She was a sold out corporatist running a status quo campaign. Not a popular one either, never breached 30 approval the entire term pre anointment. Disliked by both blacks and woman, not that that will stop you blaming bigotry, as if that would excuse throwing the election.

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            Thank god you avoided that mess am I right?

            Look I have no horse in this other than the fact that whatever happens with your fucked up country seems to spill over the rest of the world. Was she perfect? Hell no. Was she liked ? Hell no. Was she crazy and surrounded by crazier people? Also no.

            So I am not sure what is it you are trying to say but what I am saying is, having her would have avoided us being on the brink of collapse into another world war.

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              They ran status quo against reform, with the most unpopular choice they could find.

              One of the few that had approvals even lower than the r candidate, never breaching 30%.

              I can’t make it any easier to understand than that.

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                Ok and as responsible voters it would have been absolutely disastrous to vote for her instead of letting this orange baboon get in with a vengeance. I understand! Thank you!

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                  So it’s everyone else’s fault except for the people forcing an unwinnable strategy, got it.

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                  …Wait, why are you expecting responsibility from voters but not the heads of a full-on political party?

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      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.

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        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.

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      It must be so much worse than we think. There must be photos and/or videos of Trump raping children in the files.

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          He’ll massacre a city to keep the evidence hidden at the DOJ. They are sitting on evidence that will end his life.

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            He literally invaded a country to stop us talking about them for a minute and threatening to do the same again and possibly start a war with Europe to keep us from thinking about them.

            There must be some bad shit in there. It is this part of the plan he’s been given by Putin to avoid the pee tapes being released.

            It’s only been a year so far (this term at least)

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        photos and/or videos of Trump raping children in the files.

        From what I’ve read, you’re almost there.

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      Dude, nobody in those files was ever gonna have consequences? You most know that??

      The files are the distraction, damnit. Every time people follow that lead, it’s another opportunity to “legally” step you of your rights. Another opportunity to loot the treasury.

      And, seriously, even in the very unlikely chance any additional files are “released”, they will have been tampered with. Dementia Donvict and Co names removed, and anybody who didn’t least at a chance to lick his greasy turds out of his ass crack will “coincidentally” be named in said files.

      But the simple fact the corporate media propaganda machine acknowledged the existence of the so called Epstein files all but proves it’s all fucking bullshit. And they love useful idiots who keep everyone else “on message” by bringing up the exact same shit over and over again. It’s the same fucking game they’ve been running my entire life. And, no, its not any fucking different this time around…

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        The evidence is overwhelming. Epstein was an Israeli honeypot. It explains a lot too. He palled around with Israeli bigwigs, took private jet flights with Israeli intelligence bosses to Israel and back, Maxwell’s dad was insraeli intelligence, it’s the worst kept secret in espianoge. The cia must have helped them too shamefully, a betrayal of their oaths they should all be brought to justice but that’s neither here nor there.

        Forgetting about Epstein just gives Israel, and whomever else now holds proof of these crimes as well, absolute veto power on the president and a critical mass of politicians, business leaders, and swells, in the UK and US.

        That is why Israel made the president look like a bitch multiple times, immediately violating ceasefires he publicly brokered. Then he had to pretend it was his idea or that it was logical for them to do that to not look like a bitch, but only to the sheep that don’t think for themselves that live under the media ecosystems of those that won’t tell them. Most of the rational informed world sees it for what it is, the president being humiliated time and again by Israel, even now gearing up for more Iran war he will be forced into because he can’t say no to Israel and they need forever war to forestall elections.

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        corporate media follows whatever they think gets the most veiwers for their ads, and which doesn’t expose them to legal liability. they have no more loyalty to the government than anyone else in the US, that is to say they’re loyal as long as it doesn’t threaten their bottom line.

        people do care about the epstein files, whether it’ll be enough to root out such entrenched corruption …eh…

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    They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare.

    So that one guy slipping on ice really sent a message, but not protests? Figures.

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      From experience, artic warfare is more about wearing snow shoes than walking on ice. The rubber boots and thick socks don’t do much for ice but they make walking back to Wheeler Sacks more comfortable after a week of sleeping in a snow drift.

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      You see, the majority of soldiers deployed will be guarding street corners, they will handpick the ones willing to open fire, bust heads, etc., then make special units of them for the wetwork type stuff. That is their plan, like they did in 2020 with that special unit they made to disappear people in portland, cherry picking assholes from the bureau of prisons.

      They will be nurturing paramilitaries too, no I am not referring to Ice which is a security service under control of the government and therefore not paramilitary even if militarized, but groups like the proud boys, 3 percenters, that they will nurture to attack critics and protesters and the like in ways they don’t want the security services’ goon squads to do directly. The police will go hard against anyone that fights back against them, give them a pass, share intelligence with them, etc.

      These deployments they are just testing the waters and setting precedents, with 2028 in mind. With permanently fixing elections in mind.

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      They have already murdered civilians in Venezuela. They have been trained to fight and kill, it’s not like they are having moral this time. This is what that orange turd is waiting on all the time. He would rise up martial law and refuse to let any votings happen.

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      People that comment about the civilians of Venezuela aren’t taking into account the psychology of those you know versus those you don’t. Firing on American civilians is going to be very different mind game, even for soldiers trained to kill. Being on home turf and having to actually destroy your own infrastructure and kill people you know have a culture the same as yours is different even if there are political differences. Hearing fellow soldiers screaming and crying for mom or help after being shot is a mind fuck in war, but then hearing civilians do it? Knowing you will go home and face people there that question whether you did it and then their treatment of you afterward is going to be a factor. Most are not career military…

      There will be those that do it, but I’m willing to put money on more soldiers that second guess, hesitate, or purposely miss if ordered to fire.

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      Like they complied with orders to shoot civilians in boats in the Carribean? Or do those not count?

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      Seeing as the troops (different units I know but still.) obeyed the very much illegal Venezuela Raid I think it’s obvious what they are going to do if mobilized

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      Could be; both are utterly illegal and any soldier who follows an order to attack either deserves to be prosecuted

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        Prosecuted? Maybe. Summary execution, definitely. They aren’t soldiers. Soldiers took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Anyone attacking civilians and protestors is just a regular old fashioned mass murderer.

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        I don’t think it’s so black and white. A lot of those soldiers are barely surviving and their money feeds their kids. Enlisted don’t have the luxury of disobeying orders blindly, that law is applicable to the officers issuing them.

        Having said that, as a vet, I would do malicious incompetence and sabotage our mission in “incompetent” ways as much as possible. Also, I would never open fire on innocent civilians no matter what.

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          Sorry but levying war against the United States is the one crime laid out in the Constitution. Don’t Do It.

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            Yeah, I was quite drunk last night. You’re 100% right that in this context, soldiers would have the ability to disobey these types of unlawful orders under the UCMJ.

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              They know full well they’re going to Minnesota to kill a bunch of people for…blowing whistles.

              Right move in that situation is ro refuse.

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                I don’t think they do know that. How many brainwashed people have you met yourself? Have you listened to any Fox News coverage - what would someone who trusts that outlet believe?

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                  I have met a lot of both active duty and retired service members. Not a single one of them would follow such an order.

                  Have you ever met a United States service member?

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      Donnie at it again

      Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness - Sun Tzu

      Art of the deal strikes again folks!

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      At this point I think it is distraction. Notice that if he actually intends on doing something he just does it (giving Russia edge over Ukraine, Venezuela etc).

      If that’s not his choice, but wants to distract media (hello Epstein) he just talks about it (for example aid to Ukraine, help to Iranians).

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        2 weeks. Those things will be done in 2 weeks.

        Always 2 weeks. Never ever done, but 2 weeks.

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        He telegraphed intent to attack Venezuela for months before actually sending the military to kidnap their president.