Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

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    Sure, go after the builder while your house is on fire. Sounds smart.

    The Democrats fucked up the campaign, there’s no doubt about it, but Trump said he was going to do this. They literally published their plans and they’re following them.

    The people who didn’t vote to stop him made a decision, and because of that choice we’re here now. The voters were last line of defense.

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      In your dumbass analogy here we are setting up to build more houses, paid by us, built by them, with the same faulty electronics.

      You didn’t answer my question, you just repeated your slander. Didn’t answer whether that is something you do consciously or not either. So I guess that means I win, logically. Enjoy your new house!

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        The only thing you win is more paste to eat you fucking kumquat. What debate bro bullshit rotted your brain into thinking if someone doesn’t answer a stupid question it somehow means you “win”. Have fun burning alive while you’re trying to find the contact info of your electrician.

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        You’re still ignoring the fact that the house is on fire with you trapped in it. You can’t go after the builder if you’re dead.

        People who fail to comprehend the very simple concept of prioritization are responsible for handing Trump the presidency. Plain and simple. Trump would not be causing the damage he promised to cause if they had made a different decision, full stop.

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          Your dumbass analogy is way off base. The election is over, anew one is closer than the previous.

          You still trust unpopular aristocrats in league with the super rich fervently opposed to “the left,” they cannot win elections without running the party.

          You, and they, slander the subject of how they are the enemy, with whatabouts and victim blaming, and personal attacks without merit to put people on the defensive and change the subject.

          You will doom us all, and have helped the republicans more than most everyone, and maga is amplifying you to ensure beatable candidates.

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            The election is over, anew one is closer than the previous.

            Since we’re discussing the 2024 election, you’re the only dumb ass here.

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              Says the tool of moderate democrats lobbing ad hominems to distract from losing the election against the most hated president ever.

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                Says the person with no concept of nuance or prioritization.

                It’s alright to admit that you’re wrong, you know.

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                  Ah yes, the nuance of nominating unelectable candidates running as the status quo throwing elections to fascists fully intent on fixing elections.

                  But those fascists help those unelectable candidates get chosen, help shout down calls for winnable candidates and platforms. You are a valuable maga player whether you know it or not, a Generally Important Maga Player, or gimp for short.

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                    Harris wasn’t nominated, which is part of the problem, but that’s ultimately on Biden.

                    Harris ran a shit campaign, but she basically got thrown into it at the last minute. Campaigning against trump was expensive, so she shifted her message to try to secure more funding and reach across the aisle to win people away from trump. That ended up being a mistake.

                    But, as VP she pushed for an official investigation into Israel’s actions in Gaza that would have been required to negate the law requiring us to fund them. And if you look at her Senate voting history, she was the closest to Sanders out of everyone.

                    Often in life you don’t get perfect choices, or even good ones. There will never be a political candidate that will check all of your boxes, but when the choice is between getting a cavity and getting curb stomped, only an idiot would bite the curb.

                    Letting Trump win isn’t punishing the Democrat leadership, it’s punishing the entire country and then some. The right move would have been to elect Harris, then spend the next 4 years working on primarying the neoliberals. The MAGA movement would have lost a ton of steam if he had lost, which would have given some breathing room to do that.

                    But now everyone’s efforts are going towards fighting back against Trump’s promised fascist takeover of the country, a genocide on our own home soil, a looming great depression, and the start of WWIII.

                    Progress is slow, and choosing the 2024 election to make a stand was really fucking stupid timing, as evidenced by the current state of affairs.

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          You use libel to obscure the issue, as you cannot answer the undisputable facts that the establishment was always going to fail.

          Dumbass indeed. But maga forces amplify you to get beatable opposition, assuming you are a misguided sheep and not a cynical manipulator of well meaning people into throwing the elections.