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Ocelot II

(129,150 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:08 PM Friday

Minnesota is now being treated as if we were a hostile foreign country

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 (Original Post) Ocelot II Friday OP
This is their plan for blue states. pandr32 Friday #1
You mean "heel?" RussBLib Friday #2
Yes, thank you! pandr32 Friday #6
here ya go RussBLib Friday #7
On it! TY! pandr32 Friday #8
You mean "comply" durablend Friday #3
State oppression. State being the federal government. All autocratic regimes do it. Solly Mack Friday #4
This is how it felt when they hit Ohio. Irish_Dem Friday #5
The good old days. Marcuse Friday #9
Just like King George III treated Massachusetts. bronxiteforever Friday #10
The framers of the Constitution foresaw this situation and had lengthy debates about how to handle it... AntiFascist Friday #11
The Republican party has become the tyrannical government they always warned about. n/t Beartracks Friday #12
Yes, By Neo Nazis Inside the WH. They Cha Friday #13
All because that asshole is pissed off those states didn't vote for him. valleyrogue Friday #14

pandr32

(13,805 posts)
1. This is their plan for blue states.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:14 PM
Friday

Last edited Fri Jan 9, 2026, 01:47 PM - Edit history (1)

They intend to force us to heel, or put us down.

RussBLib

(10,425 posts)
2. You mean "heel?"
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:17 PM
Friday

Doubt if The GOP wants to “heal” Minnesota, unless that means throw out (or jail?) all Democrats.

RussBLib

(10,425 posts)
7. here ya go
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 01:39 PM
Friday

1) click on your post with the wrong word in it
2) click on "Options" at the bottom of the post
3) Select "Edit this post"
4) make your correction
5) click on "Update"

Easier than it looks

Solly Mack

(96,374 posts)
4. State oppression. State being the federal government. All autocratic regimes do it.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:28 PM
Friday

They're mainly coming after blue states, especially blue states they feel have defied them and their beliefs. That they see as liberal bastions that can't be tolerated.

Trump (and Miller and the rest) are still mad about protests after the murder of George Floyd. Still mad about BLM. Still mad Chauvin was convicted.

Portland is viewed as the enemy as well. As is the District of Columbia.

Irish_Dem

(79,914 posts)
5. This is how it felt when they hit Ohio.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 12:54 PM
Friday

The federal govt is at war with the American people.

Yes we are in a civil war now.

AntiFascist

(13,732 posts)
11. The framers of the Constitution foresaw this situation and had lengthy debates about how to handle it...
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:21 PM
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The citizens and founders at the time were concerned that a president of the United States as Commander in Chief of a standing militia might abuse his power and attempt to invade a state against the will of its citizens, acting as a tyrant. It was decided that the Constitution should grant the citizens of a state the right to defend themselves by being armed and to form a "well-regulated militia".

The military is constitutionally barred from domestic invasion until such time that martial law is declared, and thankfully the Supreme Court has decided that the National Guard under command of the president cannot be used for domestic law enforcement. However, Trump has been recklessly using ICE agents to stir the pot to the point that martial law may in fact be declared, while Vance illegally declares that ICE agents have "absolute immunity".

Blue states need to be prepared for the time, if and when, they become treated as hostile foreign countries, and act accordingly under the Constitution. Trump is taking the position that he has absolute power, limited only by his own failed morality. We know that TACO will always back down when there is sufficient push back and readying for such a defense is the ultimate way to push back.

Cha

(316,905 posts)
13. Yes, By Neo Nazis Inside the WH. They
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 07:17 PM
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are the Hostile Fed Gov Occupying out Country.

Many knew this was coming and now we're living it in real time.

Fervently Hoping Desperate Times are Going to Materialize Desperate Measures, to Stop the Deranged Fucking Monster.

valleyrogue

(2,595 posts)
14. All because that asshole is pissed off those states didn't vote for him.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 07:35 PM
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It is vengefulness writ large and plunging right into insanity.

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