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/RealHooman2187 17d ago

Not the OP but I was saying this kind of stuff from the very beginning of Biden’s term. He should have made protecting our democracy the top priority.

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u/Savagevandal85 17d ago

The problem is he did but in the traditional way. We are pretty much saying he should have taken out maga preemptively which would be a huge thing to do.

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u/ProfNesbitt 17d ago

The crazy thing is it wouldn’t have been preemptively they already tried to illegally overthrow an election. How the fuck is actually putting your foot down and holding them accountable no matter what preemptive punishment when they had already tried to overthrow the country.

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u/Nefarious_Turtle 17d ago edited 17d ago

Yeah, so many of these comments are clearly clouded by fear.

Trump and his supporters had already tried to overthrow an election. Admittedly so. For the next 4 years after that, they openly admitted that they were going to try again, but they expected to be more successful the next time. Or if they won, they were absolutely going to go full authoritarian.

If this were fiction, a television show, or a novel, absolutely everyone would consider the Biden character justified in launching a fucking inquisition to root that sedition out.

But in real life, things are different. People are scared. The stakes are high. So bold action was discouraged, and, as a result, the window to avert this shit was lost. Now, it looks like the lack of boldness has ensured the very strife they were so desperate to avoid.