Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict

May 31 - Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.

After Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a Reuters review of comments on three Trump-aligned websites: the former president's own Truth Social platform, Patriots.Win and the Gateway Pundit.

Some called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection. “Someone in NY with nothing to lose needs to take care of Merchan,” wrote one commentator on Patriots.Win. “Hopefully he gets met with illegals with a machete,” the post said in reference to illegal immigrants.

On Gateway Pundit, one poster suggested shooting liberals after the verdict. “Time to start capping some leftys,” said the post. “This cannot be fixed by voting."

Threats of violence and intimidating rhetoric soared after Trump lost the 2020 election and falsely claimed the vote was stolen. As he campaigns for a second White House term, Trump has baselessly cast the judges and prosecutors in his trials as corrupt tools of the Biden administration, intent on sabotaging his White House bid. His loyalists have responded with a campaign of threats and intimidation targeting judges and court officials.

With our overseas military commitments, the availability of Army and Marine units is compromised. What would Poland say if we withdrew 30,000 troops for domestic duty? They would likely make a deal with Russia, as would Romania and Finland. The number of Federal officers is less than that of state and local officers. If state governors like De Santis, Abbott, and Noem decide to resist imposition of martial law, state National Guard commanders, who are appointed by the governors, may decide not to obey Pentagon directives. In other words, 1871 revisited. Even with state cooperation, imposing martial law will be difficult in places like downstate Illinois, the Central Valley of California, and northern and western Michigan.

I suspect our rulers have wargamed a martial law scenario. Imposing military rule over more than just the blue cities in the blue and purple states will take well trained military. Many of the military age men illegally entering the country have military training. The drug cartels have large numbers of enforcers. More importantly, a faction of our rulers may troops in league with the Communist and radical Islamic powers. In a Red Dawn scenario, massive foreign troops from China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and other Communist nations will invade America while most of our troops are overseas.

Ummmm…
Our side has all of the guns.

Which means less that you might hope. Their side has organization, access to weapons, and the firm backing of the government. For now.

On the bright side, that will change. The Leftists cannot allow their minions to be too well supplied or too well trained, as that creates an obvious threat to the patrons. They will cripple their own forces, lest they turn against them. Which they eventually will.

This is a conflict in which less than 5% of the population will take forceful actions. The sides with the better organizations and most ruthless directions will prevail.

About 50% of the population will actively support the combatants on all sides. And they will see the hostilities as an opportunity to settle old scores if they get the chance. Keep that in mind when assessing your neighbors. A low profile is best. Read the stuff by "Selco" if you want an explanation of how this works. He actually lived through it.

Most of the rest of the people will quite sensibly try to stay out of the splatter. They will go with whoever wins. The losers will be mostly strangled economically, rather than perishing to kinetic actions.

If we were as unhinged as the left and decided to get violent, we’d have done it by now.

That is not a point in our favor.

The Leftists are counting on the fact that we haven't forcibly resisted them and never will.

They also have chosen to believe they can win every violent conflict up to and including a civil war. It is a bad bet - even so, we aren't going to talk them out of it.

However, that’s not who we are.

Which is why we keep losing.

The conflicts in which we find ourselves can only be resolved by force. That is because our enemies have denied us the lesser measures of civil society and they are willing to use unlimited force to keep us obedient to their orders.

We are really going to have to go through with all the stuff we keep blustering about. Or we can perish in slavery. The Leftists are not going to ever stop imposing new conditions which make our lives impossible. Not merely difficult. Impossible.

You. Will. Die. When you are disqualified for medical care because you violated some new regulation.

You. Will. Die. When an offhand comment at your workplace gets you a prosecution for "hate speech", the legal defense bankrupts you, and the civil action takes all of your remaining assets.

"White, Male, Christian"? The outcome was decided the instant the complaint was filed. But even "Black, Female, Voodooist" will not be safe if they antagonize a Muslim or other member of a higher-ranking protected class.

You. Will. Die. When your home is seized to provide housing for illegal immigrants, and you are fined six years income for "hoarding excess living space".

Solzhenitsyn's comments about "How We Burned in the Camps" is pertinent guidance here.

We work every day trying to scrape by. There are no organizations out there offering to pay us to go on rampages like the left has.

This is a key reason for the successes of the Left. And it is a key reason why we cannot duplicate their methods. We must find other methods.

One thing we can still do is refuse to support or cooperate with Leftist-dominated organizations. And as opportunities present, we can sabotage them. Remember that as "diversity" becomes the key staffing requirement, organizations become incompetent for any purpose and more vulnerable to even a small push. And they will make plenty of critical mistakes all on their own, which we must exploit.

Anything that happens will be a false flag op. No question.

This is particularly important.

The first violent incidents (or even plans for such) will positively reek of false flags and anybody foolish enough to be involved will be rounded up with great fanfare and carted off to jail, most likely along with many of their friends and family members. And they will die in jail. That will be publicized too.

That ought to show the peasants their places.

Don't be "that guy".

The people who will be successful with counterforce projects do not post here or in any other online forum. There will be pushback. It won't get any publicity. A sudden increase in visible security forces will be the indicator that "something happened, somewhere, to somebody". Watch for these kinds of things.

The wheels finally come off when various Leftist factions get shorted on the swag and decide on "voting" with an unapproved riot or other "direct action" against their patrons. That is when Law Enforcement and Military grind to a halt amid conflicting directions from the factions. They will still be dangerous if attacked, but they won't come out to patrol or enforce anything.

The power of the Leftists depends on their control of police and military forces. They are going to lose both to internecine conflicts.

The government will suppress the first rebellion, and the second and the third. Things will get very dicey after that. They will continue to suppress every rebellion - except the last one.

Wait for it.

The latest employment numbers from the FBI shows approximately 36,000 people of whom 13,000 are field agents. The field agents are the ones who have guns. They are the only ones permitted to have guns as part of their job.

Homeland Security and 85 other "civilian" agencies have approximately 137,000 armed agents who are authorized to make arrests and use guns in their jobs. (And just why does the Department of Education have armed agents? A question for another day).

What can all these people do? A historical precedent is available from the Mongols.

A single armed Mongol could control about 100 unarmed civilians. Of course they had absolutely no restrictions on what they could do, including killing all of them if they were too inconvenient.

Supposing the same "rules of engagement" today, the entire population of the United States is about 360 million and would take about 36 million men-at arms to subjugate that population.

The Federales come up short. Even with the military forces (about 450,000 men-at-arms) they come up short.

And people have not been disarmed. They have weapons, in many cases just as good or better than the small arms used by police and military forces.

There are about 8 million invaders (illegal immigrants) who are men of military fighting age. Even if the government could recruit all of them for police and military forces, they would come up short. And the Mexican cartels can outbid the Federales. The government will never recruit sufficient numbers of foreigners to make this work.

This could be a much more difficult project than it sounds.

The Federales need to come up with better plans other than unrestricted use of force to subjugate the population as they steadily destroy their image of a legitimate government and wreck the economy.

I expect they will fail to do so, and the country will break up into regional hegemonies controlled by various criminal organizations. There might still be something calling itself the Federal Government, but it won't have any writ outside a narrow strip of the east coast.

It is not about conventional politics. It is about putting together a wrecked economy and culture with 40 million invaders who will never assimilate to any form of American culture. That sorting out will be - untidy, as poster "Subotai Bahadhur" likes to say.

I am sentimental though, and still fantasize about an honest election won by Donald Trump, and a restoration of what we imaged to be the American government. The Democrats would not be any part of that government. Neither would most of our current Republicans.

I would be very happy with that future pathway, and it would not require violence to follow it.

Hey, a guy can dream.

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