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Ocelot II

(129,372 posts) Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:08 PM Jan 9

Minnesota is now being treated as if we were a hostile foreign country [View all]

subject to occupation and conquest. Now it looks like something similar is happening in Oregon. Is it civil war when the federal government treats a state as an enemy?

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Minnesota is now being treated as if we were a hostile foreign country [View all] Ocelot II Jan 9 OP

This is their plan for blue states. pandr32 Jan 9 #1

You mean "heel?" RussBLib Jan 9 #2

Yes, thank you! pandr32 Jan 9 #6

here ya go RussBLib Jan 9 #7

On it! TY! pandr32 Jan 9 #8

You mean "comply" durablend Jan 9 #3

State oppression. State being the federal government. All autocratic regimes do it. Solly Mack Jan 9 #4

This is how it felt when they hit Ohio. Irish_Dem Jan 9 #5

The good old days. Marcuse Jan 9 #9

Just like King George III treated Massachusetts. bronxiteforever Jan 9 #10

The framers of the Constitution foresaw this situation and had lengthy debates about how to handle it... AntiFascist Jan 9 #11

The Republican party has become the tyrannical government they always warned about. n/t Beartracks Jan 9 #12

Yes, By Neo Nazis Inside the WH. They Cha Jan 9 #13

All because that asshole is pissed off those states didn't vote for him. valleyrogue Jan 9 #14