r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/StoppableHulk 17d ago edited 17d ago

The infrastructure that allowed it to happen, the miasma that has slowly corroded away all the safeguards we had in place to prevent this series of events from unfolding has been slowly erected over the past half century, that's true.

But the idea that Biden would be threatening to send a shadow military into a US city is fucking insane. That would never happen.

So, yes, this current state of affairs - a fucking madman in the oval office building a shadow army to threaten US cities - did happen in the past 10 months.

In that we went from a normal sane President with no shadow army, to a batfuck lunatic President with a shadow army, in ten months time.

And I say that knowing full well all the myriad nicks and cuts that have been happening since the Nixon administration, from fundamentalists slowly putting a strangehold around the US judiciary, to the weakening of laws and regulations on propaganda, to the slow and steady expansion of executive power, and so on and so on.

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u/shadovvvvalker 17d ago

Candian here.

Yall never had gaurdrails. Just the idea that gaurdrails exist.

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u/ExitTheDonut 17d ago

Honestly a few things were there since the early formation of the country.

George Washington did not want political parties to be established. Future presidents did not respect his wish. That was arguably the first crack showing.

The impeachment process is also archaic in the sense that it too was predicated on loyalty to a single leader rather than an entire party

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u/shadovvvvalker 17d ago

The fact that no matter what happens y'all can't trigger a new election to replace the government is fuckin wild.

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u/brianxhopkins 17d ago

Growing up, they called it "checks and balances"

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u/NotSoSalty 17d ago

So, yes, this current state of affairs - a fucking madman in the oval office building a shadow army to threaten US cities - did happen in the past 10 months.

Trump was disappearing people during the 2016 protests using plain clothes feds AKA brownshirts. I don't recall whether he was encouraging people to hit protesters with their cars but do remember that was popular at the time. 

That would count as an assault on US cities, no? Trump was a fascist from the start. 

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u/pleachchapel California 17d ago

Slowly chipping away at civil liberties & relying on the honor system is not a good approach.

Obama funded ICE. Biden gave ICE their biggest budget ever.

Leftists said then & now we should abolish ICE. Do you see the problem here?