The rubicon has been crossed...

[pbmus]

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[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Who was it said

"If they mean to have a war, let it begin here'? I think someone is itching for one, and it ain't me.

[taxi]

5. Captain John Parker says it was Company Sergeant William Munroe,

but if they don't really know, do they?
Here's some fuzzy history with a nice picture too.

“…and if they mean to have a war, let it begin here” ?? —The Real Words of Captain John Parker

Located today on the Lexington green is a monument to the minutemen who stood on the green on the morning of April 19, 1775. On the monument is inscribed words attributed to the minuteman commander Captain John Parker – “Stand your ground, don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” But did Parker really say these words?
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Located today on the Lexington green is a monument to the minutemen who stood on the green on the morning of April 19, 1775. On the monument is inscribed words attributed to the minuteman commander Captain John Parker – “Stand your ground, don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” But did Parker really say these words?

https://emergingcivilwar.com/2015/02/18/and-if-they-mean-to-have-a-war-let-it-begin-here-the-real-words-of-captain-john-parker/

[Jack Valentino]

13. Those few 'minutemen' should not have been standing there on Lexington Green at ALL...

They had absolutely no hope of stopping the force that the British had mounted---
they SHOULD have all been on their way to Concord, to help hide and protect the arms stored there...

Why they weren't is somewhat of a mystery now--
except maybe responding to the impetus to try to protect their own homes and loved ones....
Almost all the militia from other towns headed to Concord...

[taxi]

15. Media darlings even then. Quelle surprise

I agree without exception, failure to be at appointed place of duty. It goes to show that those who run to the front of stone age parades have their names carved in stone.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. All these MAGA cops and soldiers

have been all dressed up, with nowhere to go for four long years............They can hardly wait to be told to go for it by Trump and his CABAL.....

I vote for taking all these MAGAots that love to play dress up in battle gear with their assault weapons, being put on planes and air dropped into a war zone..............Let's see how tough they are when they face a group that shoots back..........rather than un-armed, helpless, peaceful demonstrators.......

[magicarpet]

2. Like Fallujah, Iraq,.... the Gestapo has landed on our shores.

Some are so proud that djt has embraced Fascism and will gleefully bring it to our streets. His private goon squad is willing, ready, and able to follow Team trDUMP's marching orders.

USA,.. USA,... USA.
God Bless MAGA's AmeriKKKa.

[taxi]

3. The imagery is there.

Pick a place, search for 'photo [place]', eg, 'photo aleppo', 'photo fallujah'. Soon to be 'photo LA' will be no different.

[magicarpet]

8. Even Eric Prince has been kicking down djt's door trying desperately to get a piece of the immigration,..

.... crackdown action ($$$$$) Team trDUMP wants up and running - fucking yesterday not next week.

Djt has a goal he wants desperately to beat. Between 2009 to 2017 Obama deported over 5 million aliens back to where they came from. The Tangerine Traitor is adamant to beat Obama's total deportations. The deranged djt will not take a back seat to Obama in any way, shape, or form. This is the cause of all this urgency to deport - to show the world trDUMP is a far more effective presidunce than Obama could ever hope to be, [as if].

[taxi]

10. They will never be satisfied. Here are some numbers from the recent House Bill

What is not mentioned is what you mention above - additional government funds being paid to Prince. This is bound to end up like tsarist Russia.

Under the House Judiciary bill, ICE would be given $45 billion to spend on detention through September 30, 2029. This would be a staggering 365% increase on an annual basis over ICE’s current $3.4 billion detention budget, putting ICE’s annual detention budget at $12.4 billion. By contrast, the federal Bureau of Prisons currently has a budget of $8.3 billion, meaning that Congress could give ICE a budget for detention that is nearly 50% larger than the entire federal prison system.

The budget would also provide ICE $14.4 billion for transportation and removal operations, an astronomic 500% annual increase from the current $721 million provided in the current budget. Along with this funding would come eight billion dollars to hire 10,000 new ICE officers over the next five years, as well as $858 million for retention and signing bonuses and $600 million to hire sufficient human resources personnel to carry out that level of mass hiring.

At the same time as Congress seeks to ramp up detention, arrests, and removals, it would give a measly 30% increase to the immigration court budget. This raises the serious possibility that ICE would build detention centers faster than judges could come on board to reduce backlogs. As a result, people would be held in detention for longer periods of time without any hearings, as the courts could not keep up with the rapid growth of the enforcement system.

https://immigrationimpact.com/2025/05/05/house-reconciliation-bill/

[misanthrope]

4. I've seen similar on American streets throughout my life

And in Southern California, too. But I was born just over 60 years ago.

I think the Rubicon is when the military begin using live rounds on protestors with little provocation.

[Javaman]

6. I agree and it's just a matter of time

Someone in the maga bunch of NG will claim they were shot at… and the rest, as the saying goes, will be history

[Zorro]

7. The entire Republican Party crossed the Rubicon

and embraced fascism some time ago, and Trump is their agent to destroy American democracy.

They plan to rule, not to govern.

[PufPuf23]

9. GOP stole the 2000 election and here we are now.

Don't believe the other elections were stolen except indirectly like biased MSM propaganda and voting accessibility.

[Jack Valentino]

12. Can't wait for our own von Stauffenberg to show up

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/germanic-collections/about-collections/spotlight-archive/operation-valkyrie

[William769]

14. K&R

[Heidi]

16. That he'll follow this up with a self-congratulatory

military parade makes me wonder when they’ll announce the official coronation date. and re-