So maybe armed black Panthers should show up to defend the voting stations?
Armed EVERYONE, panthers, housewives, mechanics, trans teens, latino families, truckers, the entire Village People stereotypical grouping, should be there armed and handing out cookies and coffee and making sure our communities are safe and that everyone, no matter their politics or identity or race or background has their say at the polls.
There are presently about 22,000 ICE agents. There will be somewhere around 100,000 polling stations in the US. Their math for “surrounding all polling stations” just isn’t working out.
Yup.
Saw a video a week or two ago. Cops roll up. Group of Black Panthers are heavily armed on a public sidewalk. The cops tell them to leave. They say “no”. The cops leave.
It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to oppress people who are heavily armed and in groups.
Panthers tend to known their rights too. Education and confidence are a powerful combination
Supported by White Panthers. Re-found the WPP!
I rather see the Rainbow Coalition ride again, let’s take specific colors off the agenda.
Surely the FBI won’t sabotage them again this time around.
Surely.
You know, for somebody so friendly with Epstein, Bannon sure does seem to be not in jail for some fucking reason?
Well, he was pardoned by Trump.
Only for defrauding trump supporters.
When Hitler was choosing his cabinet, he made Göhring Minister of the interior, which was head of the police. Then they put their SS inside of the Reichstag, when they cast the vote if Hitler should have absolute power (for a limited time, to solve a fake issue). The police, now under Göhring, didn’t stop them. The SS stood everywhere, shouting Nazi paroles and threatening the Reichstag-members to apply violence if the vote does not come out their way. Back then in the Reichstag, voting wasn’t anonymous. The deed was done. Some brave leftists still openly said they cannot vote yes, many were later captured and killed. Hitler obviously just cancelled the limited time part and kept the absolute power.
Many Germans later regretted, not having fought more, when they saw it all coming.
Guys, everything was alarming so far. Announcing to have ICE at the polls is even more alarming. You cannot have the Shitler get that far, where it is too late. You must act now!
Good luck over there, regards from Germany.
King of Wishful Thinking
I suppose but you can imagine how awesome it would be
We’re gonna need a bigger basket (for all the heads)
We can set up this as a reminder of where greed leads
Marchons, marchons…
Then we’ll surround ICE. Fuck em
Right. Show up and do the needful.
I’ve seen armed “guards” and my polling station before and it’s unsettling to say the least.
Say no words. Just vote.
I know that the Black Panthers have a history of protecting polls while armed, but perhaps it’s time we allow people of all colors to be armed and protecting the polls.
There’s a lot more of us than there are of ICE.
Someone pointed out in another thread that schools and govt buildings where polling stations are already dont permit guns. But if ther are 50 of us there, the 10 of them they can muster will run like the cowards they are.
That’s the issue with the government’s monopoly on violence here. It’s okay if they bring their guns to terrorize people, but it’s not okay for ordinary people to protect others.
Steve Bannon, the Epstein PR guy?
Yep. Does anyone know if he’s in the tRUMP-Epstein files?
Simple.
Everyone shows up to the polls heavily armed and stays until everyone has voted.
Actually, not even everyone has to be armed. Just enough to form a group. Do not try this on your own. Totally safe if you’re in a group that’s packing though. They’re cowards. They’re only going to mess with people who can’t defend themselves.
Fucking nazis.
Trump wants ICE to THREATEN NON REPUBLICAN VOTERS WITH GUNS? Wow! They probably need a LOT of Funding for That! Let’s give it to Them!
-Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries!
Spineless Israel lover Chuck Schumer and his lackie Hakeem Jeffries.
“Be sure to give them body cams so the destruction of the constitution will be well documented” - feckless Dems
There are far more polling locations than ice agents. Even if they selectively pick the purple ones and deploy every agent they’re unlikely to end up with more than a couple agents at each.
I guess that also means those agents either don’t get to vote or have to do early voting.
Imagine they lose the midterms by preventing ICE goons from voting by making them work all day
When a Republican tells you what they’re going to do, believe them. There will never be another fair election in the United States.
GET YOUR FUCKING GUNS, Y’ALL
If you can’t vote by ballot, vote by bullet.
A bunch of glorious revolutionaries with their squirrel shooters, against the United States military.
That’s going to end well.
I’m calling it: they’re going to have Palantir set them up with a database of likely Democrat voters paired with facial recognition and detain everyone who is a positive match on their way to the polls until the polling station closes.
And then they’ll have the mail-in votes thrown out.
I doubt facial recognition technology works well enough for that to be feasible, I think facial recognition technology using just cameras, esp. without high quality photos, is a bit like the polygraph/lie detector, it can give you some bullshit grounds to subject people to additional scrutiny basically on a whim, but has little practical application
Isn’t this exactly what ICE is doing today, all the time though? https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/ Maybe it’s not accurate but does it matter if they succeed in delaying or intimidating votes?
They’re trying to use it but I don’t think the technology itself is reliable. It could be reliable with LIDAR but I think photos alone are not enough, especially from blurry/low res images.
I think it’s mostly a scare tactic to dissuade dissent.
That’s the problem. They’ll round up whomever.
They’ll round up whoever they like and use facial recognition as justification. My point is I don’t think they can use facial recognition in a way that wouldn’t also get false positives (i.e. without preventing MAGA votes). I think it’s way more likely that ICE will just be used as voter intimidation in blue states.
The old SA playbook
Server architect? System analyst? Serial apologizer?
Sexual assaulter
Yes, but also Sturmabteilung
Sturm Abteilung (stormfront) precursor to the SS who were Hitlers thugs who beat people at the polls to get them to vote for Hitler.
Hitler later stabbed them in the back during the night of the long knives.
Truly the most accurate comparison to ICE on paper. Schutzstaffel (SS) is the one everyone knows about and for practical reasons in the public eye, it’s a good analogy, but it’d be beneficial for people be aware of Sturmabteilung (SA), because the SS were far worse following the Nazi party’s truly solidifying grip on power. History really does rhyme.
Also the SA where mostly thugs, like ICE. Only thing Hitler did far better was to praise them and stand behind them. Bovino was basically sacrificed without any honor (nor was he deserving), but Hitler made national monuments to the goons who died and memorialized them in song.
Until the night of the long knives, ofc, then he quite literally stabbed them in the back.
