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They've already lost. One Home Depot raid and they had to FEDERALIZE the guard when 100 unarmed neighbors protested? This regime is in trouble. Big trouble.

And another thing:

I’m seeing all these debates here about whether violence can be justified in some circumstances. That’s not helpful. It is beside the point. This is a battle over legitimacy and the field of that battle is public opinion. This is a flagrant abuse of power. It is a crisis entirely of the Presidents..

2/ making. He created the crisis and now he’s trying to exploit it. This is an attack on the self government and sovereignty of the state of California which has all the tools it needs to maintain civil order. Everyone has the right to protest this brazen abuse of power. Any acts of violence …

3/ just play into Trumps hands. And this comment isn’t directed to the people who were the protesting today and yesterday, the vast majority of whom as far as I can tell were doing so peacefully. It’s directed at people here encouraging acts of violence.

All very sound, but if you’re going to worry about “acts of violence,” again, take a lesson from Kent State 1970.

The violence there came entirely from the NG troopers. They justified it later because “Those to whom violence is done/Do violence in return.” And consider themselves in the right. Except the NG started it with the tear gas. Just like ICE did in LA. And ICE used flash bangs, apparently against themselves as much as against the protesters. And when all else failed they rammed protesters with a vehicle. And wore their masks and their military-law enforcement cosplay gear, because that makes them fearsome. And they still had to be saved by the Sheriff’s deputies and the NG.

Pointing and laughing are the rule of the day. 

Trump/Miller/Hegseth want to say this was a violent uprising? Trump went to the UFC, Miller and Hegseth were on the other side of the continent. And the LAPD called the whole thing “peaceful.”

Pointing and laughing is very definitely in order. This is not the Reichstag we’ve been promised. This is little boys with little dicks thinking this is how men behave.

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

Feed them nothing but mockery.