Gaslight. Obstruct. Project
SoleInvictus 9 points 10 months ago
I can't help but wonder if this is how they beta test their plans. Accuse the other party of doing what they intend to do, see how people react, then adjust strategy accordingly and deploy.
prole 13 points 10 months ago
That is part of it. It also helps muddy the waters. If you accuse the other people of doing the thing, and people recognize it's bullshit, then those people are going to think it's bullshit when they hear about them doing it.
QueenHawlSera 1 point 10 months ago
"Pfft.. martial law? No that's what you guys are doing." - MAGA
TankovayaDiviziya 2 points 10 months ago
Classic Nazis.
Montagge 77 points 10 months ago
That was the whole point. Now dipshits can counter with, "Oh when we warned you about Obama it was stupid. Now that it's our guy it's a problem." It was meant to create a mess in a country without critical thinking.
GlendatheGayWitch 70 points 10 months ago
Yes and so strong was the belief with Republicans that Obama was going to hold citizens prisoner in Walmarts in Central TX that Abbott ordered the TX National Guard to oversee the Jade Helm training exercises. Insane that he is still Governor after taking action on such a ridiculous story.
The CIA later confirmed that the conspiracy theory came from the Russia and its propaganda machine.
Tollana1234567 5 points 10 months ago
wouldnt surprise you, if they all came from russia. qANON specifically was from russia the last i remembered. remember how social media got quiet when the ukrain invasion began, or last nov and december(luigi). and who funds the gop, right wing supremecist groups, and other far-right govt all over the world.
acockworkorange 49 points 10 months ago
MARSHALL
Edit: so cursed I didn't even register they spelt it with a single L.
SeductiveTortoise 10 points 10 months ago
Marshmallow law
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 9 points 10 months ago
Marshall, Marshall, Marshall!
JimVanDeventer 2 points 10 months ago
I just went searching for a Brady Bunch squares screenshot with Obama in all the squares. It doesn’t exist yet.
takeda 37 points 10 months ago
This protest was 3rd biggest in US history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kings_protests
Yet media didn't Twitter or showed crowds before it even started.
Foreign media seems to also not cover it. Seems like all those billionaires owning media are this time on it.
Darkassassin07 10 points 10 months ago
Aftermath
Another nationwide series of protests, described as "No Kings 2.0" and "Free America", was set for July 4, 2025
'Stop, or we'll say stop again.' (except we didn't even do that much)
That'll definitely end the fascist dictatorship that's taking over America.
I'm glad that many people managed to get together and speak up, but it's woefully insufficient.
takeda 14 points 10 months ago
That's how communism was overturned in Poland.
That's also how color revolutions happened, including orange revolution in Ukraine and Euromaidan. That forced Russia to proceed with actual invasion.
The thing that absolutely doesn't help is apathy and "activism" on social media.
Nalivai 3 points 10 months ago
It is absolutely not how euromaidan happened, kind of the opposite of that actually.
Euromaidan had two very distinct characteristics that helped them to succeed - self-organisation and persistence. They had tangible achievable goals, demands that everyone knew and agreed upon, and they didn't stop the protest ever, not when the fighting started, not when the police snipers started shooing at them.
What the US is doing is more of what Russia was doing from 2012 to basically 2022. Series of more and more numerous protests where some random people said some vague platitudes and tried to shame the dictator into disappearing, and despite every protest being bigger than the last, in the end it achieved absolutely nothing. Just like random protests in US achieve absolutely nothing, mainly because there isn't even something to achieve by them.
A protest is a tool in a toolbelt of people's resistance, but alone it can't do shit, you need all the other tools, and more importantly you need a metaphorical builder to actually use the tools.
queermunist -5 points 10 months ago
Or maybe your read on the history is wrong.
Doesn't it seem strange?
Zirconium 10 points 10 months ago
What's insane is the organization isn't calling for any more nationwide protests. The city next to mine has had no calls for protests since then. Just dead silence. I was hoping there would be a protest that size every Saturday to get people comfortable with going out and organized. But no, we get to happily go to one protest once every 3 months if we're mad enough.
takeda 8 points 10 months ago
There are next big one is this Monday. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
There are also local ones that are happening all the time, you can't find them on https://mobilize.us/
homesweethomeMrL 4 points 10 months ago
Which is why your suggestion iiiiiiissss . . . ?
Darkassassin07 5 points 10 months ago
Well, on the calmer end of the spectrum there's things like a general strike or Federal tax boycotts. On the more extreme end you haul out the gallows and support civil war. None of these are fantastic solutions, they all have their own issues, but it's not exactly a 'neat and tidy' problem you're facing. Things are going to get messy either way, they already are.
I'm not going claim to have all the answers to Americas problems, but I can at least recognize what's not working. Something needs to change, because the current trajectory is catastrophic.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 0 points 10 months ago
Certainly not to brag about your failure and act as though a few weekend sign-waving parades means that you've done all you can.
homesweethomeMrL 8 points 10 months ago
Ironically, fox news created the “tea party” out of the OP hullabaloo and that went on to be MAGA. But billionaire media properties FOR democracy? Mmmno.
GlendatheGayWitch 6 points 10 months ago
The tea party had already joined back up with Republicans by the time of the Jade Helm panic. The tea party movement started around 2009 and Ted Cruz (who was prominent in the movement) won a seat in the senate as a Republican in 2012. The Jade Helm panic was in 2015.
Tollana1234567 3 points 10 months ago
as far as protests going, its much less efficient than when other countries do it. its too spread out to matter to people like trump, plus republicans wont do it, they would had a bigger impact if they protest with everyone else, but they love the "follow the leader, put your head down, dont ruffle feathers" type. nobody is willing to STRIKE over this, if at all, the country is too divided care.
the best way this wouldve matter, was quashed last year, with the railroad strikes.
pedz 2 points 10 months ago
August 25, 2025 : Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests
President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the National Guard in each state to create a quick-response force to quell protests and deter crime after using troops to assist with security during immigration protests in Los Angeles and patrol in Washington, D.C., as part of a crackdown on crime.
Good luck with your next protests.
EDIT: I just... fascism is taking root and encroaching more and more in every facets of the US every day, but you had a big protest once.
TheOctonaut -3 points 10 months ago
Organizers estimated
Apart from this, the issue is also that that's not that many and it was very clearly controlled opposition. Most events even in big cities were smaller than the attendance of a high profile sports match. Much fewer than you might find at a music festival. Combine that with the compliance with pathetic protesting rules and utter lack of outcome, what exactly do you think was going to be publicised? Literally 10 times the largest No Kings protest attended a Lady Gaga concert a month earlier.
Spending six weeks trying to organise 2000 simultaneous protests, with an average attendance of 2,500 people at each, while Trump spent that six weeks absolutely ravaging the US democratic system, is the most US Democrat nothingness possible.
takeda 4 points 10 months ago
BS I was in a smaller city and was so many people that few blocks of street were blocked.
And this was during the time trump deployed troops in LA, and assassination of politicians on the same day.
WraithGear 1 point 10 months ago
which amounted to nothing but being used as the conflict against trumps parade for engagement. it was dropped out of the news cycle two days later. No leader, no goals, no demand, no threat, no leverage, no outcome.
it was the epitome of virtue signaling, and feel goods. but accomplished nothing, and i worry it accomplished worse then nothing because it placated a bunch of people who thought they made a difference. i was there and i participated in the hope i would be proven wrong about my doubts only to have them proven.
tallricefarmer 30 points 10 months ago
Marshal law or martial law?
roguetrick 35 points 10 months ago
Marital law.
tallricefarmer 20 points 10 months ago
Maritime law
Rivalarrival 2 points 10 months ago
Tree law.
sin_free_for_00_days 2 points 10 months ago
Ah, a fellow traveler.
LoafedBurrito 10 points 10 months ago
I don't know how they keep up with all the conspiracy theories.
homesweethomeMrL 6 points 10 months ago
Heck with Qanuts it doesn’t even have to be understandable!
Tollana1234567 1 point 10 months ago
more like startled by thier own fart, like a dog would.
InvalidName2 7 points 10 months ago
Me me me me me. I do. I remember.
Tollana1234567 4 points 10 months ago
this is the face that broke the minds of every conservative and liberterian voter out there.
masterbaexunn 1 point 10 months ago
It's the fact that he is black man.
Tollana1234567 1 point 10 months ago
that is the only reason. aside from the fact they will never accept a women as well.
WhatGodIsMadeOf 3 points 10 months ago
It's so wild that Americans are just letting this all happen. I'm surprised we don't have more blatant suicide bombers yet. We have the ones they play out as mentally ill but they haven't been labeled as insurgents yet
brucethemoose 5 points 10 months ago
TBH most people are clueless, or at least “distracted” by more mainstream feeds and news. The panic you see online isn’t really representative of the average citizen here, but neither are MAGA diehards on Twitter.
Same with a lot of Republicans, specifically. I know some who don’t ‘like’ Trump and the more visible antics, but really hate Democrats, and everything is just kinda ho hum. They think I’m nuts when I start pointing out some of the more drastic signs.
Others do, unfortunately, watch a lot of Fox and would say he’s doing thinks ‘for the good of the country’ albeit very reluctantly.
In other words, I’m not surprised.
Tollana1234567 1 point 10 months ago
people are too CONTENT,a nd complacent with thier tiktok, youtube, and influencer feeds to care about politics.
0_o7 1 point 10 months ago
Propaganda. This is why they're using a war criminal to feel better about themselves.
https://harvardpolitics.com/obama-war-criminal/
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1350&context=flr
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/...
It's all fine when your team is winning. All includes war crimes and acts against humanity.
Tollana1234567 1 point 10 months ago
gop thrives when nobody is paying attention the details.
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