Literally who is surprised by this? Folks on the left knew he wouldn’t stop, folks on the right hoped he wouldn’t stop. Not a single person should have been blindsided
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All of the "centrists" who make it a point of pride that they don't watch or read the news.
Los Angeles was the test case.
If it failed, it was at the other end of the country from him, and functionally no one voted for him there so its no loss to him or his cult
As it succeeded, he now gets to juanta up the US knowing the place most likely to resist him in a major capacity was conquered first without an issue.
Exactly. It was an impotency test, in the home of the opposition.
The opposition failed at basic protections guaranteed by the constitution.
The opposition needs new blood, these current bunch of hand-wringers are not going to cut it.
I think Portland will put up more of a fight than LA ever would. I'm wondering how many of them will be shoved into unmarked vans by the end of next summer.
Is he mobilizing them to protect pedophiles?
The US Constitution is more like a set of suggestions for him, easily ignored.
“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,”
The memo was authored by Philip Hegseth—the younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—who is a senior adviser to Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison
For fucks sake, there's two of them?
“It sounds like DHS and Secretary Hegseth are trying to compel the military to agree to operate much more directly inside U.S. territory,” Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told me.
Palantir is already making a shitload of money via ICE, and this past week the army gave Palantir a $10 billion contract. I would be more surprised to learn that is completely unrelated at this point.