I 'member. The best thing was that the nut bags were all afraid of a FEMA "army", not even the literal army that Trump is trying to send.

Well, TBF, Obama is black.

This idea keeps coming up and while it sounds great it has the slight problem that states don't pay taxes, people do. Basically your suggestion is then that people living in blue states should stop paying their taxes. Now, the majority of those taxes are collected for them by the companies they work for. You can reduce (maybe eliminate I'm not actually sure if you can opt into 0% withholding) how much is collected by your employer by filing out a new W-4 form, if they let you. But even setting that aside there's the problem that none of that will matter in the slightest when the IRS comes for you with an arrest warrant for unpaid taxes. Or they might just start garnishing your wages, I'm honestly not 100% sure how that would play out. I just know that number 1 rule is you don't fuck with the IRS.

Blue states should stop paying taxes.

States don't collect taxes on behalf of the federal government.

They should’ve stopped the second the evidence of the election being stolen was revealed. It sickens me that they aren’t doing anything about either the election being stolen or the Nazi regime being implemented.

So I always pay taxes, extra, I like funding the government but I also like the refund at the end of the year. I'm thinking starting January I'm changing my tax form to 0. And won't pay in anything until April 2027. Have to starve this beast

Makes it clear why he wants a new bunker under the white house...

Troops are not trained law enforcement personnel. They are trained to threaten and kill.

Also, civil rights weren't solidified into law until about a century later.

I do agree that this kind of threat is very American, though.

Which is even more on the nose coming from him

There's another way to look at this. Fascism has often been defined as "Imperialism Returning to the Core". A great deal of the ICE buildup and the arming of Sheriff's Deputy Gangs with military surplus is coming from the surplus men who came out of our Iraq and Afghanistan occupations.

Even before you get into using the explicit military (rather than the paramilitary) on US soil, you'd do well to recognize that we're employing the same tactics against LA and Chicago that we had once employed in Baghdad and Kandahar. The escalation of troops into cities matches Bush/McCain era "Surge" rhetoric, with many of the same rationales and objectives.

the idea that using troops as law enforcement is “Un-American” or tyrannical is Confederate propaganda

Might be worth remembering that the original Confederate Army was composed of rebel officers from the Mexican-American War. You can draw a straight line from the annexation of Texas and California, through the failed filibuster of Cuba, and on to the First Battle of Bull Run. Future Confederate soldiers cut their teeth in Bleeding Kansas and suppressed the slave revolt at Harper's Ferry.

Using troops as law enforcement was their whole game, until the got punted out of Gettysburg and torched straight through Atlanta on to Savannah.

And the turn in rhetoric somehow didn't extend to the Battle of Blair Mountain or the suppression of Civil Rights Marches in Selma, much less the gunning down of anti-war protesters at Kent State.

The world has learned a lot about the separation of police and military in the past 100 years or so. If you don’t prefer the term “Anti-American” how about “Anti-human rights”?

Whoa, don't threaten him with a good time. 🤣