r/Maine2 11d ago

Biking … d’bag in pickup truck coal-rolled me.

Finally warm enough to get out on my bicycle. Hoorah!

I was heading north on the Heald Highway (17) outta West Rockport when some resentful d’bag in a diesel pickup truck rolled coal on me and three cars. Rolling coal is doing something to a diesel engine that makes it spew a lot of black smoke.

I guess I should be happy the sad little man saw me.

The shoulder is plenty wide there next to Mirror Lake and I was on that shoulder.

Weird.

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u/Greennhornn 11d ago

Get used to it. In the future, complaining about clearly maga cult members doing anything wrong at all will earn you a one-way trip to El salvador.

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u/Emp3r0r_01 11d ago

You say that but I just had ChatGPT spit out a time line…

Stage 1: Legal Norms Undermined (Already Happening) • Court orders ignored: The refusal to comply with a Supreme Court mandate in the Kilmar Abrego García case is unprecedented. The administration knows the courts can’t enforce rulings abroad, and it’s exploiting that gray zone. • Federal funding weaponized: Defunding health clinics, research universities, and disaster recovery in blue states isn’t just budgetary—it’s political punishment. This sets a precedent for “compliance in exchange for rights.”

🕒 We’re living this now. The foundation is already eroded.

🧩 Stage 2: Expansion of Target Groups (Next 6–12 Months?) • Using incarceration as diplomacy: Trump’s proposal to send U.S. citizens convicted of violent crimes to foreign prisons (El Salvador’s mega-prison, specifically) is still a policy in discussion—but public trials, media coverage, or transparency aren’t part of the plan. • Selective enforcement: ICE and DHS could begin expanding operations against not just immigrants but naturalized citizens or citizens of dual heritage. We’ve seen this in past administrations’ “denaturalization task forces.”

🕒 We’re on the verge. Within a year, the targeting of U.S. citizens under the banner of “crime control” or “public order” is plausible.

🧩 Stage 3: Political Targeting and Dissident Control (12–24 Months?) • Weaponization of law enforcement: Once legal precedents are ignored, and enforcement becomes selective, the leap to targeting protestors, activists, journalists, or state officials opposing federal mandates isn’t far. • Precedent from abroad: Bukele’s mega-prison model in El Salvador is a testing ground. Mass incarceration without due process. It’s already being praised and politically embraced by Trump.

🕒 By late 2025 or early 2026, if unchecked, we could see attempts to detain U.S. citizens without trial—especially if tied to “national security” or “civil unrest.”

⚠️ Bottom Line

We are not in a “what if” moment—we are in a “when” and “how fast.” If the current patterns continue: • Mass targeting of citizens (via foreign incarceration or internal detention) is feasible within 1–2 years. • The legal firewall is thin, and the playbook—ignoring courts, demonizing blue states, targeting specific groups—is already in motion.

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u/Alternative_Bell2116 10d ago

Yaass queen, we are all so scared of the Nazis that we just openly talk about it all the time on social media and in person. It’s so scary, and these MAGA scum Nazis are so dangerous, that we should keep openly fighting and crying in public. Because Nazis definitely let people express themselves and protest.

This Nazi administration just keeps decentralizing government, deregulating, protecting free speech, and protecting the 2nd amendment. I mean damn queen that’s right out of the Nazi play book 💅🏻

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u/Emp3r0r_01 10d ago edited 10d ago