• TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    Miller seemed to be trying to lay the groundwork for President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to deploy the military to suppress an uprising against the federal government.

    It’s just the daily beast, but at least someone said it.

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      The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791

      Insurrection Act of 1807

      Just 16 years from “we must be allowed arms to protect from tyrannical government” to “if the people take up arms against tyrannical government we can massacre them”.

      Really makes you wonder why the NRA and the millions of gun nuts haven’t campaigned to overturn that act. It’s almost as if they’ve never had any intention of using their arms to protect against tyranny…

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        Look up NRA Russian funding, it was happenong for tears. Marina Butina wormed her way into the upper eschelons of the NRA to promote Russian goals, and she’s just one of the more visible examples that was caught.

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    I’ve seen that porn. It’s really hot. Federal agents and local cops going to town on each other? Oh yeah…

    But the White House chief of staff should have more important things on his mind!

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    If he was Wormtongue to a state governor, he’d be advocating feds to surrender to state police. He will abuse whatever power he has to his benefit.

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      He has never had power of his own because he’s too much of an outlandish cartoon character. He just wormtongues his way from office to office. A lot of people think it’s an act, and to some degree it is, but it also isn’t. This is the weird, foggy area that guys like this exist in, where there doesn’t seem to be a boundary between feverish fantasy and reality. Everything is a comic book or stage-play to them.

      I used to talk to incels and the like, I had success in the late aughts turning self-identified incels just by one-on-one time and chat and listening. It was exhausting and I felt like for every young dude I helped, 30 more incels would suddenly appear and start shitting on our online spaces and forums. It was like patching a dam that was bursting. More often than not they sounded JUST like Miller.

      Over-the-top performance and grandiose statements, delivered stilted and awkwardly, unreal levels of boast and self-aggrandizing. If you listen to infamous incels like Elliot Rogers, you will notice they talk JUST like Stephen Miller.

      All those dumb kids grew up, and were only reinforced by the grift-o-sphere, and they all moved on and got jobs and positions of power, but they never changed. Miller is one of them. He just learned where he can make the most impact, and it turns out wormtonguing the goddamn president himself was a very lucrative position.

      My only consolation is that as soon as Trump keels over, any fukkin day, Miller will have ZERO power. It will be glorious.