Triumph

They have been radicalized by Democrat Party rhetoric ...

lol no. I've been radicalized by the fascists who have taken over the entire federal and many state governments.

Their faces: "Ha ha! Serious threats to democracy are so funny!"

Yup, and the side that loses is the side that wasn't violent enough.

Violence works, otherwise there wouldn't be any. We've put up a whole system of laws and police and investigators and courts and prisons in order to provide an alternative to violence. And even then, that system is itself backed up with a real threat of violence as well as its occasional localized deployment.

Yesterday's "pep rally" where none of the military leaders dragged in had anything good to say about it suggests that there is not the overwhelming military support that Trump wants there to be. There are plenty of examples of far less powerful local forces successfully standing up to superpowers. Afghanistan is one. Wallachia is another.

When the entire federal government and many state governments have wholly abandoned the systems put together to avoid violence, and are in fact using the husks of those systems to apply violence to their opponents, we've already crossed the Rubicon.

I'll get my pikey.

"Close enough."

That last bit reveals something important.

Be yourself unless you’re too weird. There will be no elaboration on what “too weird” is.

So here we all are, every day wondering “Am I too weird?” and not daring to find out lest we be shunned.

This is the way.

There’s a section in the IL constitution that creates a “state guard,” which can be activated by the governor, separate from National Guard.

Get ready for the coup.

Oh you want my password? Okay, ready?

F ... U ...

No that's it.

This is easy (read: privileged) advice to follow if you're entirely self-sufficient. Most people aren't. Most people need things from other people, which means that they have to tailor their words and actions accordingly, so that they're not cut off from resources.