In a Facebook post Jan. 17, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said that at “Gov. Walz’s direction,” the Minnesota National Guard was mobilized and was “staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies.”

Hmm, nothing there about supporting the people of Minnesota. Just up to 13,000 more soldiers to add to the 3,000 ICE agents already in the Twin Cities, the 1,000 local cops and the 1,500 US soldiers Trump wants to send in.

Is the US military by now really, as some want to imagine, populated by courageous conscience-torn patriots with a rock-solid allegiance to the constitution, prepared to take the huge personal risk of disobeying orders out of love for the laws and people of the USA? Or is it a bunch of young people who are bored until they see some action, who’d rather do as they’re told and get through in the hopes of better opportunities later, commanded by the remaining generals Trump has picked for their loyalty to him above the country? Probably somewhere in between, but some journalists’ hope that the military’s moral sense and commitment to their oaths will lead to mass disobedience of illegal orders seems highly optimistic. The US military has a long history of invasions and atrocities, and although it messes people up and they may struggle to live with what they have done afterwards, they still tend to do it.

https://archive.is/plLB2

It’s not clear how long Canada can fend off the far right, both internally and from the USA. I hope we can survive but there are too many damn Conservatives around.

Americans want all kinds of extreme and crazy things, like healthcare and education and housing and food and not being shot in the face. Unfortunately the best the government can do is shoot them in the face.

What will you pay us to take it?

He might be better in being harder for MAGA cultists to like. But I’m not sure how much they care about being liked, when they’re talking about simply cancelling elections.

There’s this talk, where researchers found major US cellular networks decrypting people’s conversations at the tower then broadcasting them unencrypted to the entire continent via satellite:

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-don-t-look-up-there-are-sensitive-internal-links-in-the-clear-on-geo-satellites

It wasn’t that long ago that being a fascist was absolutely unacceptable in mainstream society, and the idea that the USA and other wealthy countries could fall to fascism seemed fantastic.

You don’t get that rich by being honest or caring about your world.

So what’s the movie? The Empire Strikes Back?

Boycott US products and services in general too. Switch your online accounts to non-US companies. If you have investments, pull them out of the USA.

They conserve small-mindedness and bigotry.

Unfortunately, we’re going to be feeling less keen to let Americans in while Trump is actively threatening our country.

So is Poilievre’s enthusiastic praise for the US invasion of Venezuela, and his pandering to fascists.

Hey look, a photo of Hitler and Stephen Miller.

Doesn’t sound fun to me.

You’d also have to dismantle the machinery behind him, such as the Heritage Foundation. And incapacitate multbillionaires like Peter Thiel. But without Trump as the leader there would be some hope that MAGA could lose its appeal to a number of its supporters.

Canada’s southern border is huge and almost its entire population lives very close to it. The USA could occupy our major cities very quickly and our military is far from a match for theirs. The whole system has been designed on the assumption that the USA will not become an enemy and can be reasonably expected to help defend Canada from other enemies, and Canada can manage with relatively small forces since it’s geographically quite well protected except on the southern border. It was not designed to anticipate a rapid takeover of the USA by Nazis who immediately decide to attack all their former allies. We wrongly assumed the USA had its shit together even just a little bit.

CPC supporters are contacting her saying this isn’t what this party represents,

Remember all the US Republicans who said “this isn’t us” and then supported it anyway? I don’t trust these people as long as they continue to identify as Conservative voters. All it means is they know fascism is shameful, but they still want it.