I’ve tried and tried and tried to hammer this in to Libs; It wasn’t Trump who sent the US Army in to my city to crush democratic organizing and political unrest, to protect a white cop and uphold white supremacy, to hold the population at gunpoint while the deeply corrupt and illegitimate judiciary did it’s thing.

It was Tim Walz.

He deployed thousands of US Army soldiers throughout Minneapolis in the days surrounding the reading of the verdict of one of the George Floyd murder cases. If the judiciary let that cop walk free he was going to maintain order no matter how many (black) people he had to murder to do it. I was trying to reassure my friends that the feds probably hadn’t issued ammunition to all the National Guard pukes marching through the streets, that the armored cars didn’t actually have machine guns fitted, but idk what the fuck they would have done if people had risen up in the aftermath if what’s his ass had been allowed to walk. I assume they brought in a military occupation because they intended to use it.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    It is possible to do that, but to my knowledge it’s only happened once

    Warned about the size of the force Bowers was raising, Governor Davis Hanson Waite interceded again in the strike. He issued a proclamation on May 27 in which he called on the miners to disband their encampment on Bull Hill. In a development unparalleled in American labor history, he also declared the force of 1,200 deputies to be illegal and ordered the group disbanded. He also ordered the state militia to be on the alert for a possible move on Cripple Creek. On May 28, the governor visited the miners, who authorized Waite to negotiate on their behalf.

      • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        Oh, I agree completely. I meant to emphasize that your option hasn’t always been unthinkable in this country, even if we know no governor in 2020 ever had that thought.

      • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        4 months ago

        The next Cripple Creek strike scared the mineowners so much they invalidated the 1904 gubernatorial election:

        Peabody ran for a second term in 1904, but was vilified by his opponents, who declared “Anybody but Peabody!” and felt that he was in league with the mine owners. Peabody’s opponent, Democrat Alva Adams, ripped into his handling of the Cripple Creek strike and insisted that he could handle Colorado’s vicious “industrial warfare.” After the election, it appeared Adams had won, but Republicans, who still controlled the state legislature, insisted that significant fraud and corruption had conspired to steal the election from Peabody (in reality, both sides had committed major violations of election law). On the day that Adams took office (March 17, 1905), the Republican-controlled legislature voted to remove him from office and reinstall Peabody, on the condition that Peabody immediately resign. He did so,[1] and at day’s end it was Peabody’s lieutenant governor, Jesse McDonald, who occupied the governor’s mansion in Denver – thus making Colorado the only state to have three different governors (Adams, Peabody, McDonald) on the same day.