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In reply to the discussion: Minnesota is being baited. [View all]
JustAnotherGen
(37,624 posts)21. New Jersey
Is going to do whatever we want - including holding elections.
If he does this - he guarantees we gerrymander such that his handful of pubs don't get sent back to DC in January 2027.
We are a huge landmass.
50 States.
There are more of us than then.
We are a heavily armed country.
They can't tell us what to do. I need people to really reach down inside and say it.
They can't tell me what to do. If they want me to stop then come to my house and kill me.
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I hate the framing that the state hurting its own citizens is "bait." It's also state violence.
WhiskeyGrinder
Thursday
#2
You probably should use the term "federal government" or something along those lines rather than "state."
W_HAMILTON
Thursday
#9
Yep. Murdering, blinding people is a bridge too far. Instead of tamping down the rhetoric and violence,
Deuxcents
Thursday
#3
I agree with you Emile. He calls it an insurrection. We saw his insurrection-a true insurrection on Jan. 6. And what did
debm55
Thursday
#7
If he want's to invoke the insurrection act he will, regardless of what we do
MadameButterfly
Thursday
#30
It's not the cold - they're there because it's the site of the George Floyd murder
FakeNoose
Thursday
#20
Yes there IS a large Somalian population there. Why? Churches helped them getting there.
bluestarone
12 hrs ago
#46
Didn't Walz say a few weeks ago that he had the State National Guard on standby? Where are they?
Bev54
Thursday
#26
Yeah courts are doing nothing by allowing it to continue while they consider the case.
Bev54
Thursday
#43
Likely next step is to call on the cultists to start roving the streets and committing violence...
Thomas Hurt
7 hrs ago
#53
They also got good judges to put a stop to the nonsense, unfortunately not so in Minnesota
Bev54
Thursday
#28
The state tried to get a restraining order to get ICE out and the Judge has given the government
Bev54
7 hrs ago
#52