Just got done posting this for the Professor, but it deserves a proper thread. About the protests and no one showing up: Everyone I asked said "its a setup!" Of fucking course it was a trap, in case on the off chance the FUD they spread failed. Contingencies for everything. The point was to spring it in a big way, show up with guns, but no ammo, so if the feds pulled something, surprise!, it couldn't have been us protesters. Give the state enough rope, and bait it into its own trap. Instead, everyone accepted the fear and didn't show up. And while it would have probably sucked for all of us who did, it would have immediately put the lie to the now cemented narrative of "right wing terrorists, sedition, and traitors did NINE ELEVEN 2.0!" And now we will be stuck fighting that narrative, and lost the high ground. They will first paint us as an insurgency, long before anyone on our side even fights, and when that fails, they will manufacture terrorism to pin on the right, and when the cat gets out of the bag, they will divert and censor, and use their fog-of-war influencers/podcasters with their "insiders told me xyz" bullshit to string us along. And then, with the experience of fighting insurgents via COIN in the middle east, they will treat dc as a trial balloon and ramp that playbook up but times 50, and the initial narrative they established is what will make the public swallow it all. Following that they will purge the military properly where they can, and turn the same 'insiders-told-me' podcast disinfo warriors inward on the military itself, offering up a false 'do-nothing' resistance to track down and weed out any dissenters in the military over the next 2-4 years, and then, like trump leaving office now that he helped round up anyone in government who would have helped, whatever idols they raise up as our 'resistance leaders' will turn tail and betray all those who they strung along in the military as well. At that point both government institutions and the military will have been fully purged, or at least sufficiently purged, to kill any chance of resisting the final takeover. This election wasn't the final takeover, no, its just the start. You will start to hear about 'shadow military elements' who are "still fighting for you", perhaps based on Q, perhaps based on "trump working behind the scenes", etc. Understand, and you probably all do, that all of those rumors are psychological operations, some of them military in nature. It started a long time ago, but the source of the slow-slide-into narco-terrorism, and the follow-on "anything goes, everything is relative, professionalism and my job are more important than my oath" started with the merger of CIA units and military psychological warfare in the middle east, used to smuggle heroin for "freedom". And the best example of that is pete buttigieg and his cia/military involvement doing just that. They move now over the next 2-4 years to demoralize, name, and purge or neuter any soldiers in the military who might oppose them later on. And it will start with the equivalent of "there is a resistance patriot soldiers. trust the plan. Our d-day is coming, but trust the plan." And how they will sell this to those soldiers inclined to follow such a movement is "if we don't all move as a unit. All act as one. On one final push, then they will pick us off, boot us out, or remove us from the military, one by one. We have to wait, and 'move in the dark' until enough soldiers are ready." And they will believe this because it piggybacks on the core tenet that teamwork is everything, that surprise is everything, that you don't go off half cocked, that you wait for a command--never knowing that the command they wait for from 'the resistance' will never come, until it is too late, and the final battle they will be setup for will be a setup for their crushing defeat, capture, or worse. A SOLUTION I offer all of this not to say you're doomed, but to explain to you what will happen. To inoculate you against the weaponized psychological operations soon turned against the military, so you can see it for what it is when it ramps up. I can't offer real solutions because first, that may be, however lawful, construed as illegal. And second because the solutions you come up with will be better, and will best fit each respective unit that makes the hard decision to work against this massive treason our federal agencies are engaged in. More broadly, one size does not fit all, and even if I did offer solutions, it would be out in the open where any plan could be co-opted, diverted, or front-ran. So I won't offer a solution. Thats up to you. Trust your fellow soldiers, the ones you personally know, the ones you've known for years. Talk to them. And however decorated, however likeable, however "like one of us!", whatever the rank, experience, or reputation, call bullshit on anyone spreading rumors of a resistance and telling you to stand down and stand by. If you don't personally know them, and they're telling you in any way shape or form to stand down or do nothing, then they are the enemy. We lose if you trust some shadowy 'others' plan, or some dipshit with a microphone who conveniently hasn't been shut down. The guys who aren't shut down, but get "shutdown" (to legitimize them) but manage to come back up? Yeah, those are psychwarfare stooges too, fed a steady diet of disinformation from "anonymous sources". The only way we lose is if you trust others who tell you to stand by and stand down. The only way we lose is if you choose to do nothing. There are no 'shadow others' or 'resistance' You are the resistance. And it is up to you now.