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I don't even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This dumb bitch seems to think outright lying - when video shows a completely different story - is the way to go.

It's all she's got, so she's going with it, carefully reading the statutes, so she can make sure she hits all her bullet points.

Bottom line: This a manufactured murder, meant to inflame the citizens, and become a rationalization for Martial Law, and suspension of the Midterm election. MAGA cannot lose the House majority, or else Democrats will have investigative powers, with full subpoena and arrest powers. They are unlikely to squander the opportunity this time, like they did under Biden.

So MAGA almost have to stop the election, and this is the start of it. We have never missed an election in this country, not even during the Civil War, so suspending this one, at this point in our history must be a BRIGHT RED LINE. If he invokes Martial Law, and suspends the election, it's the end of American Democracy, and it's Civil War.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

manufactured murder

~~Yes. That's one of the most striking things I got from the video, that the murderer went from getting out of his SUV to shooting his gun in just a few seconds, as though that was what he got out of his car to do.~~

~~Also, I have gun experience but not with automatics, so I don't know enough to say with certainty one way or another, but I did not see him disengage his safety, meaning that there is some non-zero chance he already had the safety disengaged when he got out of his vehicle.~~

All of your points are excellent, and you're right. We HAVE to avoid violent response -- for now -- if we do not want to speed up the destruction of what is left of our democracy.

EDITED to correct myself: I watched the video again and the shooter was already standing toward the hood of her car; the individual exiting the SUV I referred to above was not the actual shooter.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

somehow, the DNC i cant trust them to not squander it. they only ever use as a campaign talking point and then drop the issue once in power, thereby achieving nothing. Plus the donors are both parties will insure nothing will happen. the only way things will change if there is more aoc, or bernie types in congress, not AIPAC SHIlls.theres at least 13 democrats in senate that is up for re-election this year, chuck shcumer is trying to shield them by using 8 sacrificial lambs that arnt up for re-election.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are no circumstances which would allow for the suspension of elections.

Stop spreading BS. People can fight back today and vote out fascism when elections come around.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you just wake up, Rip Van Winkle? These people don't care about "mechanisms." WTF? If he wants to suspend elections, he'll do it, make up some cockamamie excuse, and every MAGA will buy it.

All he has to do is declare Martial Law, and he can do anything he wants, or at least he will feel that he can, and he will exploit that illegitimate power mercilessly. When we're under Martial Law, suspending elections will be the least of our problems.

I was also predicting that he would definitely attack Venezuela for their oil, and plenty of people disparaged me for that, too, and here we are. I've taken a lot of heat for many of my predictions that have come true over the last decade. It seems that many people still don't believe that Donald Trump is far worse than we even know, and that however bad we think he might behave, he will always surprise us, and be worse than we expected.

He's already been "joking," multiple times, that he thinks they should suspend the Midterm. We have already seen many, many times, that's how he floats an idea in advance, getting people ready for it. He's going to try to suspend the Midterm Election. He has to. His life and freedom literally depends on it.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point is that elections are something that people can come together and have regardless of his will.

This is going to get violent sooner or later either way.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Elections are a state-managed process, and no Blue state is going to honor his suspension, and I'll bet quite a few Red states won't like it either, and defy that order as well. They have a lot more elections going on than Congressional Reps.

It will be an interesting and unique confrontation. And MAGA will likely lose the battle, and then they get desperate and dangerous.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jfc I can't believe anyone still clings to this hope.

Must be under 30 and/or failed History class.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just do what you’re told and shut up, right?

If he told you to stop breathing, are you ready to comply with that so easily too?

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Are you even human?