From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 8, 2026 at 8:48:07 PM PST, "shawn"    
   wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 02:48:06 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Jan 8, 2026 at 6:31:36 PM PST, "Rhino"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  On 2026-01-08 9:16 p.m., super70s wrote:   
   >>>>   Trump is also deploying forces against his own protesters.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   Looks like things are tough all over for authoritarian leaders lately.   
   >>>>   
   >>>  Incredible. Iran is literally shaking off nearly 50 years of Islamist   
   >>>  occupation and you are seeing close parallels with   
   >>>  democratically-elected Trump. If the protesters are successful, this   
   >>>  will be as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall and you have to try to   
   >>>  score partisan points....    
   >>   
   >> Not only that, he's not even getting the points right.   
   >>   
   >> It's Tampon Tim Walz that's spinning up the Minnesota National Guard and   
   >> threatening to deploy the military against federal law enforcement officers   
   >> for the egregious sin of enforcing valid, democratically passed and   
   >> constitutionally tested immigration law.   
   >   
   > That's the message of the far right but it's not what is happening as   
   > the National Guard gets called up in cases where there's a potential   
   > for large scale protests. Protests where some people will turn   
   > violent.   
      
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