Hey, uh, if you’re the Governor of the state in which you know there are federal agents committing crimes maybe YOU should do something.
You can literally do the bare minimum. ICE are driving recklessly, trespassing private property of American citizens and businesses, etc. They are doing it constantly. Maybe start there. Can we get the first “ICE agents ticketed for reckless driving” at the very fucking least?
Like, something? You can use your state and city power to at the very least make things inconvenient to them.
I’m so tired of this “they want us to resist so they have a reason to escalate”. THEY ARE GOING TO ESCALATE NO MATTER WHAT! That’s how we fucking got here!
Seriously. We’ve got wine moms driving around and using whistles to slow them down and get attention. But the only thing the state governor can do right now is tell people “film the crimes, because we won’t do anything about them right now”.
He could deploy the national guard.
Edit: I made the assumption on which person using the national guard commenter was talking about. Should have clarified their pronoun usage before responding. Original below that assumed the “He” referring to Trump.
He’s already going to do that! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. It’s like each escalation that occurs we have liberals saying “well, yeah, we didn’t do anything to resist and he still escalated; but we should still not resist because then he’ll escalate even MORE! Surely, if we keep doing nothing they won’t escalate to the next step”
Do people have the memory of a gold fish? What is your line? Like, please write it down so you remember. Because the line has been crossed 100 times already.
There is always another step of escalation. Pointing to it, in fear, as a reason to do nothing is what you are doing.
I think that dude meant Walz could deploy the guard.
Eh, yeah. Maybe. Bad time to use a pronoun since it could be either. I should have not assumed.
Your entire post was in the context of Walz and how he could do more. Of course I meant Walz could deploy the National Guard. He could even use the state police. But yes, point is I agree he should be doing more. Liberals should be doing more. Trump is a much larger threat than they are treating him as.
Yeah. Sorry, I’m use to liberals responding with “don’t poke the beast” as they’re alone in a cage with it. So I jumped to frustration. I agree. He could absolutely deploy the national guard and create a constitutional crisis. We need a stand to be taken.
Yep, bullies back down when confronted. ICE is too dumb to be cops and too much a coward to be military. When people like Mark Kelly fight back, they back down. Those Epstein files are going to be insane
When is he going to do that?
This is simply not a good enough answer. Justice for another season. Walz, like most Democrats, is misreading the moment to such a grave extent there will be no future for this country. This is not an age for consigliere.
The American way of doing things is over. The advocates and defenders of process handed the reigns of power to someone who doesn’t believe system and they will not be handing those reigns back. Why would they?
Walz might feel like they’ve got their hands tied. If they activate the national guard, Trump can effectively take them over too. Police, Sheriff departments, we see them in the live streams with the backs to ICE and batons ready to put even more violence against the residents and protesters.
The answer is for Walz to conscript every day Minnesotans into a civil defense force. If Trump is going to turn ICE into a paramilitary force to brutalize and oppress everyday citizens, it’s time to take those who show up and turn them into a force to oppose ICE. Waiting too long to take a significant enough action which will actually make a difference is how we got here.
This isn’t a both sides issue. It’s time for a change.
The problem is complex:
ICE has all the intel to know where they want to show up. Hard to direct masses if you have no prior knowlege where, and one can bet on ICE escalating into shooting at protesters (they’re not national guard nor army but trump’s personal armed forces and can do what they want basically).
Everyone of them counts and is sure of his orders being above any law because trump says so. A good chunk of the police and judiciary system also is fully under trump’s thumb so the only ones to be prosecuted will be the protesters.But on top of it all, at least half the country, on both sides, thinks its best to let trump have his hissyfit of a regime and “all will be fixed when the midterms come” … well the year of the midterms is here and things are only heating up more … soon it will be “we’ll hold out 'till 2028 or when trump dies and there will be peaceful elections to calm the country”…
The majority is so brainwashed about internal workings of the USA as told in school they can’t see it has turned into a full on fascist country now, with a dictator on top, including the razzia’s like the Nazi’s used to do in WW2 …it is all already here!
This IS what Anne Frank was hiding from on that attic!And it will NOT go away peacefully. Not now, not at the midterms and not in 2028, not even upon trump’s death.
Not just trump but every single person currently working for the trump regime will try to avoid the regime’s collapse because it will not bring good things…
“I was only following orders” was not a valid excuse in 1946, nor will it be if the regime falls so those involved will forcefully keep it on course.
The time will come where membership lists of the democratic party will be confiscated and those on it will be targeted for punishment.
I like this idea! Show them the meaning of “a well regulated militia.”
The American way of doing things is over.
LMAO. Sure, bud.
Why, so you can preach “unity” and “looking forward, not backward” while you decline to prosecute?
Call in the State National Guard or admit you’re part of the controlled opposition already.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Order your state police to arrest these law-breaking ICE agents, fire any who decline to do so, and appoint new people who will.
Stop relying on your voters to do your job for you.
