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Cake day: January 21st, 2026

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  • I’m not saying that people shouldn’t do this, but it’s exactly what Trump wants people to do.

    He wants everybody to be armed so that the odds of someone killing an ICE agent go up. Trump believes conflict between the government and citizens will allow him to use the Insurrection Act to mobilize the military against us, and then as he continues to escalate violence, he believes that he’ll be justified in canceling our elections moving forward.

    People need to keep this in mind as they decide how to act going forward. It is practical to arm yourself, but you should go out of your way to avoid using a weapon.






  • Legal scholars have said the strikes, launched against civilians in boats far from the US, are violations of domestic and international law. The Trump administration maintains they are legal, under a secret opinion written by the justice department that argues the US is in an armed conflict with cartels and that the laws of war apply to the strikes.

    Let’s see about this “war.”

    War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.

    Obviously, Wikipedia isn’t the absolute authority on defining what “war” means, but it does a great job at checking your common sense. Like, a war isn’t always between established states, but it’s also distinct from enforcing laws in places where they don’t enforce their own laws or where their own laws don’t suit you.

    Even if you assume that everything the Trump administration has said about these people is true, these boats were not carrying out anything like a military operation. Drug running isn’t a military operation. They’re not supplying front lines with drugs for battle.

    These people were accused civil offenses, not military operations, and we in the US do not give the death penalty for running drugs.

    And of course, the Trump administration lies as naturally as it breathes, so I have no reason to think the men from this article were running drugs in the first place. This is all just showing that even the lies Trump has told are not sufficient to justify the military actions he’s ordered.