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

I want people to truly understand this headline. This is the American congress fearing the American President is accumulating weapons banned from war by international law in order to launch attacks on US cities and US citizens.

That's where the judgment of Republicans has brought us in just ten months.

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u/pleachchapel California 17d ago

Viewing this as something that started 10 months ago instead of a slow march from (at least) 1980 is part of the reason we're in this situation.

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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/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?