I was thinking a bit about ICE last night, and I was wondering whether this is just an excuse to arm and reward the most extreme trump supporters.
Are there any checks on who they hire? Are they just deputing extremist militia members and Jan 6th people?
It seems this is a military/police force entirely beholden to Trump.
That may explain the reason to pay exorbitant wages, another way to reward these extrmjsts.
You said it in the bolded part.
I don't think he cares about rewarded these losers; they're just a tool for seizing complete power.
All levels of military, police, legal system, medical, everything else are to be beholden to the administration. Game over democracy.
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You said it in the bolded part.
I don't think he cares about rewarded these losers; they're just a tool for seizing complete power.
All levels of military, police, legal system, medical, everything else are to be beholden to the administration. Game over democracy.
Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
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Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
Gestapo
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That exactly what it compares to. It won't be too long before they are the morality police rounding up anyone declared an enemy of MAGA. They will probably be supervising election polls and occupying the Capitol when the next transfer of power is supposed to happen.
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Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
SA (i.e. the Brownshirts) in the early days, then the SS (after Hitler agreed to disband the SA in return for loyalty of the Reichswehr)
No Brown Shirts, once you have absolute power you then create the Gestapo to slaughter the Brown Shirts, that comes in a couple of years time when you have gotten away with suspending elections
edit: just saw #22's post
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Dementia Don needs to get some fact checkers before he posts. Where did he get this idea? Oh, I dunno, probably trickled down to him from the ever popular hollow head, Joe Rogan's recent stream of scatology.
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American Patriot Joe Rogan claims federal government was responsible for Jan 6th Insurrection on recent pod with former CIA officer. Rogan states that inside agents were used as a way to demonize and criminalize Donald Trump.
