@inthehands my wife has seen video and reports it to me as "bunch of agents surrounding a guy curled up on the ground kicking the shit out of him. One is repeatedly pistol whipping him in the face. When that gun goes off, another agent just empties his own gun into him. "

Not sure if this is the same ICE shooting you're talking about or a different one.

@ChrisMayLA6

There are a few triggers sitting on the mantelpiece right now, and most of them pivot around the regime refusing to seat a state's duly elected representatives.

A military revolt against illegal orders / domestic deployments would be interesting too, but we don't have a good model for that in living history in the US. Vietnam-era fragging is something only remembered by a generation who are well removed from the current volunteer force.

@ChrisMayLA6

Yes and no.

The regime has threatened large scale violence and military rule many times before, but this is a regime that talks big. Militarization of civilian federal law enforcement services will escalate, but I do not see armed conflict between federal and state power in our near future.

For it to happen, the US state governments will have to, at some point, put their money where their mouth is with regards to resistance. For now they've been content to wage a war of words and court papers.

When the regime's puppet Republican supreme court finally issues a ruling that enables full federal military rule over the country, only then will we know if our opposition/state level leaders have the stones to defy it with force.

Otherwise it's just waiting for them to try and overturn another election.