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Fascist things Trump used the military for during his first term:
I'm sure I'm missing many other points as this list van just keep going.
Those thugs in vans were prison riot police, since the regular police just had sactions placed on them and the military had to follow the uniform code of military justice. The prison riot police have exceptions from some of the laws.
Also why DeSantis was looking at forming a State milita, because the national guard has to follow federal laws.
Plan 3 was just hold up all military promotions and fill them with people willing to ignore the law - which also failed. Got to stay vigilant, all it takes is one success.
100% any successes for them equal a loss for the rest of us.
Remember that time Federal marshals shot a man to death in broad daylight and nothing came of it? Fun times.
Wasn't the guy a nutty Trump supporter threatening people? I'm also pretty sure the guy was armed and got way more time than any black dude would have.
If I'm recalling the right instance that is.
This is the one i'm referring to.
(Though don't trust the details there, the whole story fell apart as soon as scrutiny was applied. The NYT (i think, it's paywalled) did a follow up where they basically determined federal marshals just rolled up on the dude in the middle of the street and shot him in cold blood.)
Thanks for the follow up.
Okay yeah i remember this one, honestly I'm not surprised this one played out how it did, Reinoehl was a highly aggressive dude, especially towards cops, he'd been suspected of murder, and then you have the Orange asshole in the white house saying dumb shit and as usual, throwing gasoline on the already inflammable situation.