... forces of colonialism turned inward etc....

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"Wait, it's just sanctions all the way down?"

America, no longer content to just sanction the rest of the world, has decided to also sanction itself

That is a war.

It'll be an odd war. Fascists on one side. The people (leftists and some liberals) on the other. Meanwhile the democratic party will be in the stands watching doing fucking nada to help. Yet they'll be lecturing the people "violence is not the answer" and nagging people endlessly to donate as they proclaim the next election is the most important of our lifetime. Centrists will openly lurch to the right as they assume a massive victory for the fascists. Matty will have a unpaywalled article setting the tone. Fascism: Different places have different forms of government and it's OK.

In all seriousness - Schumer and Jeffries won't even discuss cutting ICE's budget.

It's the official start of the bleeding Kansas period, at least.

Eh I doubt it.

Look to history. As much terrorism and violence as the right did over the civil rights era when the US federal government used some level of strong-arm tactics including deploying troops, siccing the FBI on them, etc, etc the people murmured and murmured in rage and then exactly nothing happened. Their politicians raged at the podium, they raged in the papers, they raged on TV and then nothing happened.

That's exactly what will happen this time. Trump will beat down Democratic opposition while at least half of Democratic voters cry foul for their party not standing up to him and the liberals and ourselves will seethe and rage. And there will be teeth gnashing and fiery speeches in the press and protests. But nothing will happen.

This isn't going to cause the US to break apart. It's not going to be civil war 2.0. It won't cause alliances of states. It won't result in challenges to federal power. It'll result in Trump bowling over opposition to implement what he wants and then Dems once back in power refusing to use those levers of power he just used so effectively because of muh norms and need to rebuild civility and blah blah blah. Democratic voter-base rage and anger will simmer but not boil over. Not over this.

The war spreads further and Maduro breaks out of prison to lead the revolution. The empire finally collapses.

I fucking hope so. Get it over with and then maybe China can come in and modernize my region. I want HSR between the major cities around here so I can visit friends more and local trains so I don't have to fucking drive. Each city has middling transit of its own and there is technically a rail line connecting them but it's abysmally slow (worse than driving) and only has 2 departures per day. Meanwhile, tier three cities in China are getting like a hundreds kms of rail built in under 5 years

That moves requires +0 in materialist thinking, I assume most US governors have -6

My bet is that Walz tries as hard as he can to do an Obama by giving a "This is not who we are" speech. It's filled with emotion but it is not impassioned. After all - he needs to appeal "moderate" GOP voters. It's full of soaring yet entirely empty rhetoric. Of course - it has zero actionable plans. In fact - he doesn't even hint at what his state and the dems could do.

Bluesky libs are furious with him so he retreats to Twitter. His Bluesky activity becomes an autopilot afterthought. Some months later he tries to do a Clinton by appearing on a talk show with a winning yet consolatory vibe. Slick Willie was unctuous but he had winning charm and could play the saxophone. Unslick Timmy tries to capture that magic by "surprising" his host by bringing out a melodica and the host - don't you know - asks the audience "Do you wanna hear him play? Dontcha? I do!" Somehow the house band already perfectly knows the parts of the song he plays. It's some current crappy and generic pop hit. He makes a few flubs. The mistakes are supposed to be endearing. The applause is surprisingly tepid.

He says both of his kids love the song. Actually they don't love it at all. It was picked by his consultants as being most "appropriate". His second effort at capturing old-school and dated dem glory is also a big failure. Reddit sleuths discover his kids don't even know the name of the singer they are suppose to love. Walz is roasted all over social media as a ginormous phony. All his social media account posts become mechanical and stale.

Daily he checks in with his consultants who are forced to tell him his metrics are "challenging". They are lying to him and he knows they are but he thanks just the same for every update. His numbers are in the effing toilet! For months on end he is not seen in public anywhere. He's too busy crying into his soup about his nearly non-existent 2028 presidential nom chances. How did thing go so wrong? Why didn't his consultants' advice work? They sure get paid enough - hand-over-fucking-fist.

They truly do not care at this point

I mean, all minnesotans will hurt from this, the poor especially

If by YouTube video, you mean the video of George Floyd being murdered by a cop, then yes. That situation was the beginning of the Trump-Walz vendetta. Then Timmy had to go and run for VP which really pissed Donny off. This whole situation is retribution.

Don’t forget, many people in Trump’s inner circle currently are from Minnesota (Hegseth) and the upper Midwest in general (Noem). Easy for Trump to hit ‘em where it hurts.

The video was a big turning point, but they had been railing against Minnesota and somalis for a while before that.

Citations needed did a short ep on it this week. I was out of the loop on it entirely

Been idly wondering if I was gonna see the United States balkanize in my lifetime. Didn't think it would start this decade...

(by the way, keep an eye Colorado River water rights)

The technical term would be municipalization, although in the us this can also mean the creation of a sub-county level municipality where their previously was none.

I am 99% sure I have seen that design of swastika used on temples in East Asia.