From this side of the Atlantic (the UK side) it looks like the US is slipping towards civil war, goaded on by a President wanting to invoke the Insurrection Act as a way of militarising his political power.

@fgbjr

I just watched a long but engrossing video by Will Stancil driving in a small Honda Fit doggedly filming and tailing and reporting on two ICE vehicles in Minneapolis. He is live on the phone with a centralized coordinating base where he gives constant updates on location and movement while honking his horn in repeated beeps to warn others and rip anonymity from ICE. Apparently the Resistance has separate districts covering the city with 24/7 coordinated volunteer observers in cars (over 200 drivers in each district) and on bikes and on foot (over 1000 observers in each district with whistles and phones) all following, reporting to a centralized bank that is notifying and coordinating citywide coverage to protect their city. At one point he hears someone else following ICE who reports there is a car between her and the ICE vehicles she is tailing and reports his plate and car description. He happily exclaims "That's me!" The two ICE appear to split up, and he follows the first (she warns him of an ICE tactic to try to shake him) and she says she'll stay on the second. ICE gives up trying to shake them, as the two spotters work together to tail.

They can mask, but they can't hide.

Resistance is alive, coordinated, volunteer, and growing. Resistance is NOT futile.

The next ICE target will learn from Minneapolis, which learned from Charlotte, which learned from Chicago, which learned from LA.

We're getting better at resisting. This is teaching a whole generation of patriots practical creative, clever, necessary tools for defending our democracy. Don't count us average Americans out.

@ChrisMayLA6

@TimWardCam @econproph @ChrisMayLA6
because most of the triger happy gun toters, either joined ICE or are supporting them.

@TimWardCam @econproph

That may yet come - at the moment I imagine people are feeling out-numbered

@nini @ChrisMayLA6 More guns in the USA per person than pretty much anywhere else in the world. I reckon there comes a point when people will fight back - using the abhorrent doctrine of ‘defending their castle’

@2legged @guardeddon @d_a_n_a @ChrisMayLA6
Trump risks the kind of economic collapse that should significantly reduce both massive military spending and silly-con valleys economic dominace. At least temporarily.

@HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 Depending where you're located, yes. There's a reason that ICE rolled into places that don't have a high gun ownership level, they are not going where there's a high chance they will be fired at.

@Npars01 @ChrisMayLA6
…and Palantir owns everyone.

@TimWardCam @econproph @ChrisMayLA6 There's a reluctance to escalate - once the shooting starts trump will go all in citing 'emergency powers'.

@TimWardCam @econproph @ChrisMayLA6
Perhaps because the resistance is smart enough to realise that escalation by shooting ICE agents is exactly what MAGA want? The more that peaceful innocent protesters and bystanders get murdered, the more the opposition grows.

@ChrisMayLA6 I've nothing to add other than to say: Holy smokes - this thread.

@AlexanderVI

It's against the law in most states to put a tracking device on someone else's car.

If there was a coordinated effort to put illegal tracking devices on government vehicles I am sure there would be federal RICO charges and mass arrests for unlawful conspiracy.

While it would be "easier", it likely would simply gut the ability to resist.

@fgbjr @ChrisMayLA6

@nini @HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6

I disagree on the guns.

The Americans with more than a single dusty gun in a closet/drawer are loving this MAGA power trip. They're the ones getting the $50k ICE signing bonuses. And they're absolutely silent about Renee Good (like they're always silent about women and minorities under American fascism).

No, the ongoing civil war won't be violent when the other side has tanks and planes. As always, it will be disobedience - let the #GeneralStrike begin!

@d_a_n_a @guardeddon @ChrisMayLA6

A US state seceding is not viable.

The federal gov would nationalize the state militia (splitting it) and send in masses of federal troops.

It didn't work against cannons and rifles. It certainly won't work against tanks and jets.

@Morgawr @Crowsinger @ChrisMayLA6 @lukeryanps

Of course, there will be American elections. Even Russia has elections.

The questions are who can vote and who counts? Republicans have been rigging all three for years.

Even if the House of Representative flips (likely), Trump has made Congress irrelevant. It won't matter. We are now in a monarchy.

Dems MUST flip the Senate too, and stop his horrific appointments, to even start towards a "self-correction".

@Flisty @ChrisMayLA6 @lukeryanps

Agreed

The basic restoration of American democracy will require a new US Constitution that removes dirty money, reduces the power of the presidency and ensures a fair and easy election system.

It will also require a major deMAGAfication of the judiciary.

We are talking a generation-long project, at the earliest.

@lukeryanps @ChrisMayLA6

Putin and Kim have done very well, and are very secure, by taking an ever larger portion of a shrinking economy.

Trump idolises them. And much more clever people around him are watching how they do it.

@ChrisMayLA6 this is an accurate a assessment. The president has grifted and raped himself into a corner: either remain in our till he dies or go to jail for a lifetime of grifting and rapping.

As it appears another election cycle will curtail his power and open him to responsibility for a life of crime he needs to stop these elections from happening. This narcissistic asshole keeps lighting fuses hoping for an explosion big enough to justify suspending the Constitution.

We're already at war

@robparsons @kaiser_franz @ChrisMayLA6 #ClassWar knows no regional bounds. And it's the inevitable conclusion to our founding. Americans have been taught to worship the oligarchs that liberated us from the tyranny of monarchs. But you can't worship freedom and capital without tearing yourself apart. Capitalism requires slavery/an exploited caste to function and that's antithetical to the freedom and liberty at the core of American ideology.

#RefreshTheTreeOfLiberty #WithTheBloodOfTyrants