So which agency is going to be doing something about it?
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Militias are mostly made up of police, FBI and CIA members, so no agency is going to interfere.
Local police, maybe. The other two have task forces that regularly take these clowns down, so if there are some mixed into the group, they're really fucking bad at their jobs.
The worst thing the CIA does is hookers and blow. They're not looking to get caught up in a right-wing coup.
You dropped the /s, you are describing the number one cause of regime change globally in the last hundred years.
My bad. I meant here. They're not trying to start shit in the US.
I do think they've mostly stopped in the last 40 though.
Maybe, they did sell crack domestically just forty years ago, and no one really knows where the fentanyl crisis got most of its start, or who manufactures the majority of the supply.
we know exactly where the fentanyl crisis got its start: Over prescription and aggressive marketing of opioid painkillers by the pharma industry. And we know exactly where most of the fentanyl is manufactured: China.
Fun fact, we know how it gets into the states.
The fentanyl, or the precursor chemicals are shipped to Mexico, and then white Americans drive across the border and pick up one or two brick sized packages that then sell for millions.
The packages are easy to hide, and racist border control doesn't search the white guy crossing the border with nearly as much enthusiasm as they do the brown guys crossing the same border.
The CIA focuses on international, uhh... "activities". If you want their domestic counterpart, you want the NSA.
While there are a somewhat decent amount of police, the vast majority of people in these militias are middle management, to low level office workers, blue collar workers, and service workers.
NSA - no such agency
RTFA - far-right militias are. And they're doing a bang up job.
A trove of leaked internal messages and documents from the militia American Patriots Three Percent—also known as AP3—reveals how the group coordinated with election denial groups as part of a plan to conduct paramilitary surveillance of ballot boxes during the midterm elections in 2022.
You mean those nutjobs that showed up to stand around ballot boxes with rifles weren't all acting alone?
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I assume the problem is the following:
If there is dirt on a Democrat, the Republicans read it to feel backed up on their opinion and the democrats read it to see if it is true and if they need to demonstrate for a change in leadership
If there is dirt on a republican, the Republicans ignore it because they don't believe it, and many democrats ignore it because they allready know it3
I’m probably gonna go as offline as possible from election day until the inauguration.
I really should as well. I'm insanely depressed about it all. It really feels absolutely hopeless.
Everyone still needs to vote, but I'm convinced they won't even need to ratfuck this one. I really believe he's just going to outright win if the polls are the same kind of fucked as they have been for the last decade... Midterm polling is more accurate, but any poll with Trump on it seems to be wayyyy inaccurate :(
Highly encourage turning that election anxiety into action
Find opportunities to volunteer for dems around you and online
Write letters to voters in swing states or in competitive downballot races
On the flip side, Trump was overestimated in the Republican primaries this year. Pollsters have dramatically altered their polling this year in ways that are going to be more favorable to trump this year.
For instance, about 2/3rd of polls are now using recall polling which has historically not been used by pollsters because it tend to overstate the losing party of the election and underestimate the winners. Even non-recall polls have made changes like much more heavily sampling rural voters. Not to mention that the numbers of polls from partisian republican pollsters has been increasing which skews polling averages
Could he still be underestimated with all those changes, maybe, but at the same time I wouldn't assume that's anything given
It's almost like the professional pollsters are also aware of all these common knowledge facts and try to correct.
I was massively depressed about it in 2020. I'm less depressed about it now (I started taking an antidepressant since). I am afraid, but also have some hope that I didn't have previously because his bullshit is very known in a way that it wasn't before. I hope you're all right. Seek help if you can. I plan to leave this country if he gets re-elected, so it's not like I'm dancing on good vibes with the antidepressant.
So what was the “little incident in Arizona”?