I'm watching and trying to process what is happening in Minneapolis from afar - from Adelaide South Australia, where our only problem is surviving the weather - it will be 45 Celsius here Monday and 41 on Tuesday! It was 42 on Saturday.
Minneapolis is only going to get worse. More are going to die because that is what is required. I can see the videos of summary executions as well as anyone and then read and listen in disbelief to how ICE, Homeland Security and the Administration are lying to script about what they will declare is an insurrection and invoke the Act. Bovino laid it all out in his defence of the latest murder and critique of local officials, who he basically accused of siding with the insurrectionists who are assaulting law and order officers. My fear is that this has a way to go on the streets of US cities before Trump moves. He needs more executions in different cities, with the same lies from the same script read by Bovino, Noem and Vance etc. Whether demonstrations are violent or non-violent is moot because the murder of non-violent protestors is not a problem for ICE, nor for the Administration's insurrection narrative, which doesn't depend on facts, nor fear of being found out lying.
I don't know enough about imposing martial law and what that could mean for the mid-terms, but that's clearly the strategy here. It explains why the White House doesn't give a rat's arse about Republicans fearing losing control of the Congress. You need an election for that. It's why Bannon is blase about going to jail. I thought the US had Congressional oversight, the rule of law not of man, and all these clever checks and balances to prevent bad things from happening when citizens exercise their constitutional rights. Why is all the fact checking by the mainstream media and all the hand wringing by the liberal-left on cable news on mute? And your markets react by going up and up. I think Adelaide will be a fine place to be over the next few days.
Yes, that’s broadly right. The balance of forces on a terrain of violence does not favor the people; only the military can bring a decisive force, but they’re indoctrinated to follow orders, so that force is bound to be on the wrong side. The people’s best chance is some form of non-violence--at least a nationwide strike, shutdown the economy and withdraw labor. But oligarchs have mostly insulated themselves from the pain of making the economy scream. And so even in the best case we’re left with a much worse version of what’s happening now (with much higher unemployment and inflation) as the optimal scenario
Hi Van,
I'm watching and trying to process what is happening in Minneapolis from afar - from Adelaide South Australia, where our only problem is surviving the weather - it will be 45 Celsius here Monday and 41 on Tuesday! It was 42 on Saturday.
Minneapolis is only going to get worse. More are going to die because that is what is required. I can see the videos of summary executions as well as anyone and then read and listen in disbelief to how ICE, Homeland Security and the Administration are lying to script about what they will declare is an insurrection and invoke the Act. Bovino laid it all out in his defence of the latest murder and critique of local officials, who he basically accused of siding with the insurrectionists who are assaulting law and order officers. My fear is that this has a way to go on the streets of US cities before Trump moves. He needs more executions in different cities, with the same lies from the same script read by Bovino, Noem and Vance etc. Whether demonstrations are violent or non-violent is moot because the murder of non-violent protestors is not a problem for ICE, nor for the Administration's insurrection narrative, which doesn't depend on facts, nor fear of being found out lying.
I don't know enough about imposing martial law and what that could mean for the mid-terms, but that's clearly the strategy here. It explains why the White House doesn't give a rat's arse about Republicans fearing losing control of the Congress. You need an election for that. It's why Bannon is blase about going to jail. I thought the US had Congressional oversight, the rule of law not of man, and all these clever checks and balances to prevent bad things from happening when citizens exercise their constitutional rights. Why is all the fact checking by the mainstream media and all the hand wringing by the liberal-left on cable news on mute? And your markets react by going up and up. I think Adelaide will be a fine place to be over the next few days.
Yes, that’s broadly right. The balance of forces on a terrain of violence does not favor the people; only the military can bring a decisive force, but they’re indoctrinated to follow orders, so that force is bound to be on the wrong side. The people’s best chance is some form of non-violence--at least a nationwide strike, shutdown the economy and withdraw labor. But oligarchs have mostly insulated themselves from the pain of making the economy scream. And so even in the best case we’re left with a much worse version of what’s happening now (with much higher unemployment and inflation) as the optimal scenario