I really fucking hope the current administration is taking it seriously.
Like, despite the optics of it, if trump has any kind of advertised gathering anywhere near DC, NYC, or other densely populated important place that could be a target…
We need the National Guard out in full kit. Not just day of, posted up in advanced with fences and people in elevated positions.
This shit isn’t a game, even hitler failed his first attempt and had to try twice. Germany didn’t take the threat seriously and we aren’t really either.
Instead everyone wants to act like smug assholes.
Too many people live such privileged lives that they really forgot at the end of the day what is allowed to happen is just what the people in a close distance most capable of violence in the moment want to happen
There’s is a giant gulf in “what can they do?” between “what are they legally allowed to do” and “what they can do before anyone physically stops them”.
So if trump is going to hold a large rally in DC or NYC, then when we need to make sure there are a lot of law abiding military members with the equipment and capabilities to commit violence in the same area.
This ain’t some shit where we can just throw a couple cops in right gear out front and call it a day.
There’s literally been corrupt sheriff’s caught ordering military hardware like a 50cal machine gun designed to be fitted on a helicopter…
Then selling it to militias.
This shit tends to get real, really fucking quickly historically.