Padilla's assault & handcuffing is getting all the attention, but what Noem said is perhaps more terrifying.

"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Admitting they're not here for violent criminals, they're here to overthrow our elected officials

@SrRochardBunson They're trying to enact their purge, a civil war is their desire.
@SrRochardBunson This observation needs to be boosted.
@SrRochardBunson "Socialism" like
Acts 4:32–35
>There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.”
>"Jesus answered, 'If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'"

@MisterMoo @SrRochardBunson

According to the bible, if you're not a communist, you're not a real Christian.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A44-46&version=NKJV

Bible Gateway passage: Acts 2:44-46 - New King James Version

Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

Bible Gateway
Bible Gateway passage: Acts 4:32 - King James Version

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

Bible Gateway
@SrRochardBunson
I'm not from there, or a constitutional expert, but isn't that what the second amendment is about?

@midgephoto First ammendment, yes. For sure.

The 2nd ammendment was what the NRA clung to to flood our country with guns in hopes of stopping the very thing that's happening now.

This is unprecedented in my country's 250 years.

@SrRochardBunson @midgephoto

Did you forget about the first American civil war?

@midgephoto @CorvidCrone @SrRochardBunson Not quite seeing the parallel. In terms of US Civil War 1.0, this is as if Sherman had marched through Georgia before any at Fort Sumpter had even unholstered their weapon.

@Gorfram @midgephoto @SrRochardBunson

I am referring to the Confederacy taking up weapons against a legitimately elected government because it conflicted with what they wanted.

@midgephoto @SrRochardBunson @CorvidCrone Oh, okay. I’m just not used casting people from Washington DC in the role of the Confederacy.

(To have been raised in the US is to have a number of fixed ideas, and often a shortfall of flexible knowledge, about the US Civil War. At least in my case, anyway 😉)

@Gorfram @midgephoto @SrRochardBunson

I was blown away when I learned that schools south of the Mason Dixon line still teach the civil war as "The War of Northern Aggression". 👀

I grew up in a state that never had legal slavery (my God, Iowa, how low you've fallen).

@midgephoto The 2nd was about wearing a wife-beater, and driving a pickup, wasn't it? @SrRochardBunson

@Tooden @midgephoto @SrRochardBunson

No, it is most certainly not.

Disabled elder here. The troubles that come from gun culture are *far* outweighed by the benefits. Guns make us equal. Without guns, the old, the weak, the small and the disabled are at the mercy of the the young, the strong, the big and the able-bodied.

@LevZadov Sorry. I should have added the /s.
Gun culture has been around for as long as guns have existed. Seems to me that in the past 13 years, the need for weapons has been fed by deniers of Sandy Hook, devolving into hysterical amassing of private arsenals. Waco didn't even engender the same hysteria.

Still not an equalizer by any means. Just means that reflexes matter more than strength.

Us oldies are still gonna be at a disadvantage.

I'd rate my chances of survival much higher if neither me nor my attacker have guns, than if we both do!

@LevZadov @Tooden @midgephoto @SrRochardBunson

@LevZadov @Tooden @midgephoto @SrRochardBunson The young, the small, the weak, etc are only safer if the ownership of guns, their storage and the sale and storage of ammunition are strictly controlled - compare the USA and Switzerland for proof.

@LevZadov @Tooden @SrRochardBunson

As I wrote, I'm not from there, but I understood the 2nd Amendment to be an expression of the need felt by the States to be able to resist a federal government should it overstep, and try to recreate a monarchy of the sort some of them had revolted to escape.

(Some: they'd all escaped, but some of them wanted to evade copyright royalties or taxes and routes on trade, and no doubt others had their own aims.)

@SrRochardBunson Someone here made an argument that the ICE should be treated as a foreign army, invading the US. The argument seemed a little stretched to me, but it's not my country, só what do I know. Well, this declaration gives a lot of weight to the argument

@lffontenelle @SrRochardBunson

That seems like it might be reasonable honestly and I'm in the US.

The problem is more of a country torn in two in terms of what it believes in. Unfortunately, I believe one side believes in propaganda, and the other is split between well meaning idiots and people trying to keep the country from going under from it's own stupidity.

It also seems Israel has infiltrated our country through Christianity. (somehow)

@SrRochardBunson

yes
and consider this
if #Trump #fascist #goons
feel free to assault an #American #Senator
what will they do to the citizens?
do Americans feel safe? in a country of law and right?
America is a full Fascist State.
All of this was already predicted to happen if Trump did came back to power
and do NOT think you can "vote" these fascists out of government
Now that they are in power they will NOT leave.
It will go way worse than this
this is just the beginning.

@SrRochardBunson if the city chooses the burdensome leadership, fuck it, the city chooses the burdensome leadership. like you're one to talk...
@FishNamedDog @SrRochardBunson Classic example of every accusation a confession.
@SrRochardBunson Well bless their little socks

@SrRochardBunson This is just a trial run to iron out the kinks. mid terms will be when they pull the real trigger in multiple Dem states. Martial law and elections called off as it’s dangerous to vote.
Not much civil unrest when it comes to him breaking the laws and disregarding the paranoid, conspiracy laden Constitution, trampled underfoot by the rise of the right.

Ich Bin Ein Auslander

@Gracchus @SrRochardBunson

Not sure about that. If, say, for instance, some group of people stood in front of Trump's daddy issues parade of tanks, giving the US a Tiananmen Square moment, it'd probably trigger the toddler so much he'd start right then and there.

@obscurestar @Gracchus @SrRochardBunson The networks will love it. More $$$ they can charge for Chevrolet and Farxiga ads.
@SrRochardBunson Stay tuned for "In order to save California, it was necessary to destroy it"

@SrRochardBunson

Pure fascism. They need to be liberated from governing and be put on trial…

@SrRochardBunson He wasn't arrested.
@cassolotl Thanks, you are correct. He was assaulted and handcuffed without being charged. IMO, that actually makes it worse, because that means a sitting US Senator was assaulted for no good reason. I edited my OP to reflect this.
@SrRochardBunson
This post needs to be boosted again and again.

@SrRochardBunson

#CivilWar2 is igniting. Present tense.

Not obvious to everyone I guess?

Stay the duck away from #mairikkka

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #ice #losangeles #california

@Maxfieldripken

Civil War? Israel just bombed Iran, this is the day World War 3 started. Friday, June the 13th, 2025. Easy to remember.

@SrRochardBunson
@SrRochardBunson Also, Padilla was not charge so that begs the question of why he was removed?
@SrRochardBunson
Why are we socialists? I mean that it right out of Hitler’s Germany.
@SrRochardBunson This is what years of deifying their own cherry picked authority has done to these poor souls. Fits of rage when their world view is challenged is all that we've come to expect from them.
This particular group has overthrown the former United States of American, and turned it into a display of admiration for the iron fist of the criminal foreign enemy of Russia; copying the playbook he sent the creepy-old-grandpa now at the helm of lil-Russia. Fascists. *spits*
@SrRochardBunson Anyone who works for DHS, the military deployed to LA, or the rioting cops--she said it out loud. If you're still in the streets after Noem said this (or if you work for DHS and haven't resigned), you are a member of an armed insurrection against the State of California. Be ready to be treated as one.

@SrRochardBunson Calling Newsom a socialist is a dog whistle for sure. California and Los Angeles are being targeted because we are the largest economy in the US, the agriculture capital, tech, media and more. They want to make our state an example.

If that’s what they want I want all of my elected officials to fight just like Padilla and Newsom have been lately.

@SrRochardBunson it's not terrifying...fuck. it's pathetic.

@SrRochardBunson

That could have come right of Hitler's mouth.

@SrRochardBunson American city is getting "liberated" from their democratically elected local government. This actually will decrease the price of eggs.
@SrRochardBunson Note that they’re now using socialists as a fear monger tactic. Socialism: providing essential services equally for all, no matter social or economic class: healthcare, education, higher education, like many countries in Europe where the standard of living exceeds that of the US.

@SrRochardBunson

Every single one of these ratfuck RepugnantCunts needs be made to bite the curb

@SrRochardBunson

Does need amplifying, just the idea of it!: 'what Noem said is perhaps more terrifying.

"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."

Admitting they're not here for violent criminals, they're here to overthrow our elected officials.'

Who does she think she is? This is the dog-killer who bragged about killing her dog because it wouldn't do as she told it, right? (Was it her Thump was talking about: "They're killing the dogs! They're killing the cats!" etc?).

Elsewhere I've read the theory that Newsom is seen as best Dem contender for next Pres... why Thump wants to invade California... 😐

@SrRochardBunson They want to strip LA and all the cities with Black mayors and large Black populations of their democratic power.

Put them under government control. With Hegseth and his like minded racists running the city,and appointing whites to govern the areas of color. Taxation without representation.

@SrRochardBunson "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."

Check

@SrRochardBunson It’s clear they no longer see Democrats as a lawful political opposition but treat anyone who does not serve Lord Trump as «counter-revolutionaries». Trump as the new Castro, which would be ironic to Rubio if he understood it.

@SrRochardBunson Bullseye. Not just the content either, but also the nuance.

”Liberate” is army slang for capturing territory.

Since quite a large part of Maga has military aspirations, I’m sure using the expression wasn’t incidental.

Many would likely associate this kind of speech with an act of war, or declaration of such.

@SrRochardBunson Oh, and I didn’t see the video, just a still frame, but she’s wearing jeans? Where’s the “respect” for the office (remember Zelensky?)?