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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 38m

Anonymous = Constellis? Gotta get those sweet contracts for controlling ANTIFA...

Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 7h

When laws are not clearly enumerated or punishments specified, this administration will test the boundaries for its own aims every time. Walking that fine line until they push over it in a rush.

The worst people.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 7h

I like your optimism. I don't share it, but I like it.

When the shooting starts, no one really knows when it will end.

Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 8h

If the military were monolithic, I'd agree. MAGA is in the military. MAGA is some of the people making the rules. MAGA has a domestic army of thugs that can terrorize and harm citizens.

And "we" voted him in. After SCOTUS gave him immunity. It's not simple and it ends in blood.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 8h

True... but when was the last time (some parts of) the military went against the Constitution? The Civil War. Deposing Trump is tantamount to this, and it would be a LOT messier than North v. South this time.

The military stays out of it until there is no other recourse.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 8h

I would be bristling against everything if I were currently in (I served in the 90's). But the generals don't want to become Caesar. They don't want to upset 250 years of Democracy, as shattered as it is. And the heart of man is cowardly.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 8h

It isn't. Our military is non-partisan, and proudly so. But until given a treasonous order (even Kegsbreth and Stinky's meeting of leadership was just platitudes and no distinct orders), the military needs to stay out of it. It's a fine line they tread...

Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 8h

It's the ocean of shit we're all drowning in. Without removing him and his enablers... the courts and peaceful protests are the last recourse until John Brown starts coming into play.

Then it turns into an ocean of blood.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 8h

I agree with you entirely, and would love to see the NG stay home and not ramp up tensions, but they are following orders that are muddily legal up to this point. Certainly not moral or justified, but legal.

Unless violence occurs or they violate a ban order, their compliance is expected.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 9h

And... most courts are finding that. And... the JAG corps has been gutted so they can't advise NG groups.

The legality of posse comitatus is... less established law in the face of a President trying to break it than you think. It certainly isn't on the NG to determine it. It's all bad.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 9h

In which state/city has the guard deployed where a court order specifically barring them from deploying been in place? Most of these issues are still being argued in the courts, and SCOTUS hasn't weighed in per se.

I don't like it either.

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Westonhaus @westonhaus.bsky.social · 19h

I'm full up on bad news, thanks. But I meant the NG on American soil. Sorry for not disambiguating. Yeah, yeah, riot control.

But also, guard that took violent action largely were held to account. Showing up for the event, not so much.