GUNS AND/OR ROSES
The election is coming and, as mentioned in April, MassMiss is sure that Donnie BoneSpurs is going to lose in a landslide. Nominating some faux-Christian white lady to replace the Notorious RGB of blessed memory will not get him more votes — it’s a dick move and only the anti-choice base will approve. However, the election process is becoming extremely fraught: Mango Mussolini predicted insurrection and sedition which he promised to quash, with violence:
And, now today, he’s actually saying out loud that he’s not even going to count the ballots, he’s just going to extend his presidency indefinitely. He’ll just swear himself in, bigly, like Lukashenko in Belarus.
How to react to these threats? Trump is a cowardly wimp who would be afraid to get his hair mussed in an actual fight. However, he has lots of cops, mercenaries and (possibly) portions of the military to do his fighting for him. Not to mention the open-carry, gun-humping militia types.
A lot of smart people are getting very nervous about the possibility of armed conflict when Trump refuses to accept the results of the election, or when the count goes on and on with no clear resolution, or when the count is disputed and goes to the courts. Or on election day itself.
  Paul Krugman @paulkrugman 
Expect violence from Trump supporters, maybe lots of it, both to
disrupt voting on Election Day and in the days that follow. Is this
overheated? So far Trump and his party have borne out every prediction
by pessimists and made fools of optimists 5/ 9/23/20, 7:47 AM |
MAGAs have already tried to disrupt early voting in Virginia so, yes, it could get ugly. Members of the resistance will have to start thinking how we want to handle this and I suppose it boils down to non-violent civil disobedience vs picking up the gun? I’m not a pacifist by nature, but I think the Gandhi/Martin Luther King Jr. approach is right — strategically, tactically, politically and morally. It’s especially appropriate for facing off against the agents of an oppressive state. There’s no shame in getting roughed up by cops, been there done that! You do need to be very, very organized. And have lawyers on speed-dial.
Anti-Racism 
Anti-Imperialism
Community organizing is a long, painful slog, and also dangerous. Occasionally, if you are white and un-poor, you can be spontaneous and artsy/theatrical in your protest actions, and do the giant puppets and drumming and such.
Vietnam protest, 1968, the summer of love 
Belarus, now
In the absence of a really cogent, well-organized, civil-disobedience resistance ( because where do I sign up?) even mild-mannered liberals start to think about firearms training. I’ve always felt like I should know how to shoot. As an American — the constitution and all that. It seems like a general-competence thing, like knowing how to drive stick. Also skeet-shooting seems like it would be really fun, if you could ever actually hit anything. It’s possible to find gun ranges and classes that aren’t MAGA-infested: see the Liberal Gun Club, the John Brown Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association, Pink Pistols, and the Huey P. Newton Gun Club. Still, peaceful protest is the way to go. I guess. Although what is so peaceful about tear gas, water cannons, pepper balls, and rubber bullets? Jerks.
Anyway and in conclusion: November is coming and a hard rain is gonna fall. Knowing what to do is especially difficult in a moment of such cultural confusion combined with political rottenness. The enemy is us, in the sense that they are our countrymen, and when Donnie BoneSpurs makes his staff listen to Guns N’ Roses November Rain for hours despite the fact that Axl Rose hates his guts, one doesn’t know which way to turn. THEY used to hate OUR music and now they keep playing it at their stupid rallies…
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