The Gestapo was the secret police. Hitlers private paramilitary organization was the SA and later the SS. So this development is more like setting up the SS. Especially if you then fold in ICE to run the camps.

Or maybe the Super Service

I was thinking Emplacement Protection Services for Tyranny Everywhere In the Nation

Cool acronym, bro.

They'll never think about it like that. Even though Ruby Ridge happened under Bush 41, the Weavers are all insane about Democrats. Even though most of them would suggest 9/11 was an Inside Job to pass the Patriot Act, under Bush 43, it was all Obama to blame for anything bad. Even though Trump banned bump stocks, it's the Dems that love gun control (which they rarely ever actually pass). Even though James Brady was Reagan's press secretary, the Brady Bill passed under Clinton right after Waco happened and the ATF made taking guns a national obsession with those people.

Knowing how Science works is now a death penalty crime.

They've been trying to spin literally any protests or even just token resistance as criminal, and rural voters, by and large, absolutely believe that cities are hives of crime and iniquity.

not to mention the Ludlow Massacre

Lol wut. That's why they were created. To gun down strikers and protect companies.

Then he proceeds to get hammered and accidentally add a dick pic on the official zoom slideshow presentation

That is a huge financial undertaking.

Congress gave ICE $75 billion over four years, approximately $18.7 billion each year because daddy Trump demanded it. Added to the $10 billion Congress already appropriated ICE for fiscal year 2025 in March, ICE now has $28.7 billion at its disposal this year. ICE alone now has more budgeted than the entire Department of Justice.

“Trump thinks cops are bad at their job” should be the headline going forward.

This whole thing isn't going to pass. Trump/Hegseth are only external expressions of the fundamental rot at the heart of America's social, political and economic systems. America is in terminal decline and putting guardrails around the presidency is too little, too late

We had a chance. Biden's administration should have been solely focused on preventing the return and acceleration of fascism. Instead, they cowed to their corporate masters and threw crumbs to the people.

As others have said, we've likely had our last free election as the United States of America. Whatever follows should absolutely have guardrails against this happening again.

This is likely the end of the road my friend, there is no "when this has passed".

That is why there is no reason not to fight with everything you have now.

Who's gonna put up guardrails? The useless democrats?

An inevitable goal in a dictatorship is disarming the opposition. The in-group can often keep their weapons to help oppress the outgroups.

This was also, as it happens, one of the real goals of the 2nd Amendment. Most of the founders weren't under any real belief that a militia based military was a viable treat to a regular army like the British model, they saw how poorly the militias fared in the Revolution.

The militia model that was the goal of the 2nd was about rapid reactionary forces for slave revolts and Indian exterminations.

Personally I think this is more about killing protestors but whatever they can do two things with one action

Sure. Use your guns to sieze the epstein files, hard drives, etc.

But do it before they are gone.

They will keep attacking and doing evil stuff while we want Files. They will give up power when pried from cold dead hands.

Huh. Sounds familiar.