Hey, Confederates! They're putting the band back together!

All this happening as Trump calls Putin for further instructions 🤔

What's Ohio's excuse...

Small dick power. This is on you, small dick, John Roberts

they’re getting the band back together

Where is the Alexander Stephens for this moment?

Well, why don’t they just drop the pretense and re-occupy Fort Sumter? It’s not like Trump would defend it. (He would not even get this joke.)

It’s the latest loyalty test. What a waste of resources and tax money.

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This is just sad. Like a neglected child desperate to get their father’s attention.

Ohio?

Possibly the only Union state to wish they'd picked the other side.

Which is really bizarre in the context of so many Ohioans forming the cream of Union leadership, including (of course) Sherman and Grant.

The last decade has explicitly been about the dregs of American society throwing off the oppression of the "cream".

Taste, humor, class, style, talent, wisdom, learning? Bah!

Yet Grant was buried in NY. He must have had a premonition of what a shit hole Ohio would become.

My wife's family is from the state. She reckons you can measure the success of its famous figures by how far away they managed to get, hence Neil Armstrong.

This is sounding very Civil War-esque

They hate DC so much.

How big is DC, for Christ sake? Where are all these people staying?

Especially interesting considering there was nowhere to house the National Guard deployed to Los Angeles, so they all slept on floors in the basements of federal buildings.

they will set up homeless encampments aka tent cities for the poor part-time soldiers.

Jumping into the thread to remind people that many, many people in all of these states loathe what the neoconfederates are doing, and that in many cases, those people would control their state governments were it not for a history of oppression stretching back to antebellum days

This is what the end goal is:

This time the Confederacy seizes the capital & expels the Union.

Caligula said he already fixed DC.

This seems to be the time for reviving all the old bands - the Confederacy, the Russian Empire...

Red States. No Blue States will.

This whole charade becomes illegal in about 3 weeks.

This is just a test run before they send out of state troops to NYC or Chicago... and then I have no clue what the offramp is.

Rising Again!™️

Can they please just secede again?

Where is the mayor in all this?

Being a f**cking doormat. She thought placating Trump this term would be good for her city. How did that work out for you, Ms. Bowser?

Tennessee has just committed, too. I am ashamed.

We shoulda let them Go

They still mad they lost. 🙄

An obvious loyalty test for the states.

...and this time, the President commands both the Union and the Confederacy forces.

During hurricane season, no less🥴

They should send their National Guard to their OWN cities. IIRC, Shreveport and New Orleans both have higher per capita violent crime rates. But oh well, a 15-y-o girl punched "Big Balls", so here we are.

I live in WV. Living in a red state sucks.

Why be on the wrong side of history once when you can do it 2x.

What the FUCK is going on? Is the plan to make sure there are more members of the National Guard in DC than actual people who live there? And I wonder how these members of the National Guard feel about being used as props? This is vile.

They are going to test the 3rd Amendment.

Let the quartering of troops begin! Every DC resident within a mile of Chevy Chase Circle must provide room & board for 3 soldiers!

Did anyone happen to tell Trump the ratio of Indian security forces to ordinary Kashmiris in Indian Kashmir and so he now wants to try to do an American version of that in DC with US security forces? DC already had a very high ratio of law enforcement officers to the population.

Civil war in 5…..4……3…..

So embarrassed Mike DeWine would agree to this. I emailed him this morning. Voice-mail was full. All the people in Ohio that want to pretend we were part of the confederacy can move south.

This is the start of it.

You ain’t whistling Dixie.

White Supremacist Christian Nationalism is what David Duke always wanted.

This will come in handy when the next presidential election comes. These people are not acting like there are going to be any more elections.

“ONE MORE TIME! AND GO!”

I mean, they kept saying that “the South shall rise again.”

Reverse Reconstruction.

Glad Vermont said no.

" ... Be proud you a rebel cause the South gon' rise again!" Shit.

Just as hurricane season is getting underway. Brilliant!

This is called tipping their hand. It's good we know who's complicit as quickly as possible.

WV is a shameful addition here.

Thankful that NC has a Dem governor. Otherwise, I’m sure we’d be in in it, too.

I guess they are prepping for the third Battle of Bull Run

Not like it’s hurricane season or anything.

Anything to distract us from the Epstein files.

I guess they're all just going to mill around some federal buildings. Any idea if there is housing for them anywhere?

They failed to reach the Capitol in 1864. Taking another crack at it.

Hey now, WV specifically wasn’t part of the confederacy!!!!

Well they sure as hell have changed that in the past 150 or so years.

They are now

So is Ohio. The state of Ulysses S Grant.

If the stage is being set for red states vs blue states, the outcome will be the same as last time.

Yes, the Klan is back in the saddle, commanded by the president of the United States.

It appears that perhaps they may want to restart the Civil War they never recovered from losing now that they have a dictator on their side who lets convicted criminals out of jail all while putting hard working immigrants in concentration camps and calling them the criminals!

It’s looking more like a US “domestic conflict” (not unlike other “conflicts”). 🙄

Let them come to NYC. We'll see how that shit goes over.

Time for the blue states to invade.

I doubt NC will join in with a Democratic governor in the state house. (If we follow our history, I suppose we'd be the last to send in the guard but would send in more members, and then try to have it both ways in the history books about being last and most.)

Theyve been waiting a very long time to beat northerners in Washington DC

We need actual journalists to talk to the soldiers and ask what they think…

I assume Tennessee is next?

Oh, nevermind. They have committed too. Time to summon General Sherman.

He's getting ready to declare martial law . It's laid out in Project 2025 What part of that Dystopian Handmaid's Tale Republican Wet dream don't the Democrats understand?

The War of Southern Aggression.

They are so excited to be relevant again.

Will Washingtonians have to quarter national guard members in their homes?

The 1st, 4th, 8th, and most of the 14th amendments have been gutted already. Might as well add the 3rd to the list.

How'd that go last time

📌

Just wait until they are defenseless when California flanks them

So glad Chuck Schumer made sure they didn't shut down the Government.

Once they lose again, Re-Reconstruction is gonna be lit.

Hopefully it will not be Reconstruction, but burn it down and tell it to fuck right the fuck off.

ConferderDC? Sorry.

So begins the soft start to trumps civil war

Time to raise trouble in the South

They're still mad that they didn't get to set fire to DC like Canada did 50 years earlier

Blue state National Guards should start invading Red states. All their troops are harassing homeless people in DC. LETS TAKE THEIR FUCKING CAPITALS! 😂😂😂

Ohio & WV weren't part of the Confederacy

They are now.

At least this time it’s not about slavery. Or is it?

It is a party of losers so that checks out

Now’s the time, blue states should send their national guards into the red states and liberate them.

Time to defeat the South again.

Great timing for hurricane season.

During Hurricane season I might add

Living their generational dream?

They can all stand around in the stifling heat, being bored, and jerking it together.

Reconstruction revenge shifts into high gear.

Jim Crow for everyone!

They didn't manage to get in DC in the summer of 1864 so they thought they might try it now.

Yeah “they gotta get those blacks in order”

I just can’t.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Can NJ deploy troops to N.O.?

I'd pay to see one of these goon's grandma walk up to them and say " 'Jimmy' - is that you?" ... and then just start beating on them with her handbag.

Even the Ohio Copperheads are represented.

Confederacy of dunces.

Not true. 160 years ago Ohio was Union. My how we have fallen.

So, most of the troops are coming from states that don’t even know what the District of Columbia is.

I wonder at what point y'all will realize this whole "greatest nation on earth" was a huge LIE you kept telling yourselves, and realize you're not even a GOOD nation. Just look how you're behaving towards each other!

Louisiana would be better off sending the troops to Shreveport, Mike Johnson’s town, where the crime is worse than DC.

Better yet, his house.

so many of these asses represent cities with more crime and violence than DC. it has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with intimidation of those thinking of resistance.

Better yet, send the troops to the White House, Mar-a-Lago, the Supreme Court, and Republican Congress, the crime hubs of planet Earth.

Maybe the south will rise again. Leave it to a New York weakling to try leading the charge. Seems the confederacy isn't all that picky.

Redeemers finally getting their day.

Jody Brigades activating nationwide

They want a Civil War do-over.

Exactly.

Looks to me like the do-over is done. Confederacy currently controls all three branches of the US government.

I'm good with that as longa as every politician in office does not survive. All of them.

If at first you don't succeed, try try again... Robert Lee would approve.

Red state governor's hate their troops.

*governors* autocorrect sucks

😡

Maybe this is what they meant by, "The South will rise again."

A true Confederacy of Dunces.

A Lucky Dog cart guy is getting disappeared for sure.

It took 160 extra years, but the Confederacy is finally marching its troops into the nation's capital, after first taking the White House.

Losers love to lose

They'll be canceling school trips next.

At this point, I expect Confederate flags and unironic Gardens from these goons.

the feds will be paying for their guard so yeah they are all going to cash in on that

It’s reverse reconstruction

How many troops does DC need?????FFS

Hey now, Ohio only wishes it was part of the Confederacy

Some days it sure as hell feels like the confederacy in Ohio…

As someone who grew up in North Carolina, yes

Zombie Clement Vallandingham is finally running the show maybe?

Stop supporting red states! They can’t cut federal funding if they receive no federal funding

Of course betcha Florida and Texas too?? Then Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas…

Louisiana doesn’t deserve New Orleans.

The rest of Louisiana pretty much hates New Orleans, so there’s that.

Shreveport loves y'all, but the rest of the state can't stand us, either. I feel ya

When this ends in three weeks, when his 30 days are up, then what? What does it prove? that if your city has soldiers all over town people stay indoors ipso facto therefore no crime? He's doing real economic harm to the city. This is worse than covid-19 shutdowns which also happened under him.

I am so embarrassed to live in the south.

A confederacy of cuntses

But I thought Trump was a Yankee?

New Yorkers don’t accept him. He’s a Floridian to us. That’s why he fled NYC to live with the palmetto bugs, aka American roaches.

I’m aware

Worked out well for them the first time

Republican Party = 21st Century Confederacy

You're not wrong. This seems to be "the South shall rise again" component of the Grabby Old Predators party trying to get revenge on the city that took them down. Y'know, many of that ilk still call the Civil War the "War of Northern Aggression." Asshats.

Mississippi: 50th in income 50th in life expectancy 1st in homicide rates West Virginia: 49th in income 49th in life expectancy 50th in educational attainment Louisiana: 47th in income 47th in life expectancy 2nd in homicide rate Tennessee: 41st in income 45th in life expectancy

Doesn't Louisiana have, like, way more crime and violent crime than any other state?

Yeah like 8x over

It’s also the peak of hurricane season, often a time when we need our national guard here, and when their families need them here.

Glad to see videos of them in a few days walking around giving people tickets for Jay walking or smoking a cigarette too close to a building

"areas hit by Texas floods were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021. They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with. California"

"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates" Crimes per 1M trips * NYC: 1.3 * Dallas: 38.0 "Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians" "being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence" "Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"

As a Californian, I'm thoroughly sick of subsidizing red states.

That's what happens when your local gov is so wildly corrupt that what should be one of the richest states in the country is one of the poorest.

It also means they're distracted, they're busy sending their forces over to D.C. means they have less defenses back home.

Just in time for hurricanes.

yeah they're trying to pull a Chamberlain i think let's see how it works out for them lmao

Fuck all these racists. I know for a fact that they all have way more crime than DC. Maybe they should take care of that. And the incest in their smaller towns.

That frame makes Ohio participation somehow even more embarrassing

It's been embarrassing since 1861. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperh...

holy shit

I expect Glenn Youngkin to send his tithe sometime this week. I might need to go to a protest in RIchmond soon.

I think that's a big part of it for them. Of course, Ohio wasn't part of the confederacy, but I suspect a lot of Ohio residents regret that.

Shame!

Sure there’s some Telegram channel where all these governors are literally laughing about finally having their troops takeover DC and they’re kind of right.

Time for blue states to fiscally secede and stop supporting fascism in red states!

So if any blue state or big blue city steps out of line, this is what we should expect: other red states sending in their military to bully the blue entity into submission with threat of force and arrest and other ????

DC is under direct supervision of feds. States aren’t. Governors should be able to tell National Guard to fuck off, esp from other states. So that gets interesting.

What about what we saw happening in CA? Newsom didn’t want them there, but was he at all effective at stopping them while they were in the process of coming?

Trump mobilized the CA guard, iirc. No Guard from other states. There’s precedent for feds to mobilize a state guard, like segregationist governors blocking schools. But not to send one state to another without a specific request from that state’s governor.

Thanks for the explanation!!

Damn

This is what happens with the sickness of white supremacy. They should have been crushed and never allowed to rise again.

They all want a free vacation in DC. All they have to do is walk around and look scary.

Then, sir, if they weaken themselves so, take them in flank with your cavalry and do not stop rolling them up until General Sherman lights your cigars.

Is it possible for meteorites to be selective? This is just nuts

FFS there will be more damn troops in DC than there are residents.

they've only been waiting 160 years to march in DC

We knew this would happen when they brought the confederate flag to the capitol on Jan 6.

The troops from Ohio who marched with Sherman are spinning in their graves...

Can California send some to protect us from the Confederate guards?

Are they putting on the gray uniform yet? That would be too easy!

I for one welcome our necromancer Sherman overlord.

The south will fall again

They finally took Washington just like Lee planned.

I know necromancy has a bad rap these days, but I really really think if we brought Sherman back...

Mr Roger’s too plz

Sherman = great against the South. Sherman was also a virulent racist against Native Americans, so he'd need a lot of tweaking.

Better bringing John Brown back, but to be fair I don't know his opinions on native americans

@johnbrownstan.bsky.social is all over it already and an excellent follow.

Trying to look into the accuracy now, but...

Bowen sounds like an awesome person and now I want to read more about him.

*Brown. Stupid bad typing (I can’t blame autocorrect this time. This was me being an idiot)

www.history.com/articles/joh... He remains an example against the argument that bigotry was "just a product of their time"

John Brown was the only white man that the leader of the Black Panther's said he would accept. Brown walked the walk. Even the soldiers at Harper's Ferry saluted him for this bravery even as they took him to his death.

Awesome. Definitely diving in to him soon.

Miniseries a few years ago with Ethan Hawke as John Brown. The Good Lord Bird - well worth watching

Seems to be on the up and up with accuracy of the quote.

John Brown forever.

That thing where no one bats an eye at the suggestion of using necromancy, but concerns about the recently raised from the dead's view of native americans.

We might not know how to do necromancy yet, but we might as well have a plan for if and when we do.

Hey we're in unprecedented times

Oooh! Or how about Joshua Chamberlin?

Then maybe Grant?

We can rebuild Sherman to be stronger, faster, less racist…Better than he was before.

That was John Brown.

What if we rebuilt both? It’s a big country these days. Could use both.

Yeah, you really had to point Sherman in the right direction, because hoooo-boy, once he got going.

George Thomas is a good choice in these instances imho! Or Benjamin Butler (especially relevant with his occupation of New Orleans!)

Not one damn reporter is asking the cost of this and who is paying to turn DC into a police state 🤬

I love that our president says things like "show of force". Totally normal thing for a us president to say about the capitol city. Also the state of these people, not just capitulating but actively offering to help with the military coup.

Well, I'm glad they ended crime and homelessness once and for all.

Shame. They could use the help. Their murder rate is higher than DC.

Check them for Confederate flag tattoos

😡🤬

It's like Medieval times. The lords sending their armies to please and gain favour with the king.

www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2...

It took 160 years, but the Confederates finally conquered DC.

West Virginia was explicitly formed to be NOT the confederacy, but they seem to have forgotten that

And Ohio provided US Grant and Sherman and Garfield among others and nonmilitary leaders like Chase, but now we're joining the confederates

Ohio was the most pro-Union state of them all! Around 70% of Ohio's adult male population *volunteered* for the Union Army, an insanely high ratio.

Ohio was also home of the Copperheads (so-called Peace Democrats) who were Confederate sympathisers.

thank you as an Ohioan who has also read a great deal about the Civil War era, I was indeed aware of Clement Vallandigham and the ilk

Boy good thing hurricane season isn’t serving up early Cat 5s. 😳

our governor, is a trump-wannabe. he's terrible for our state. #JeffLandry

lol. If it wasn't such a waste of taxpayer money it would just be funny. Thousands of redneck militia parked in the national mall

They couldn't take it during the civil war, so giving it another go. Where is Cump Sherman when we need him?

They told us they’d rise again.

Why are red states amassing troops in our nation's Capitol? Feels like some weird, slowly unfolding coup

Blue states shouldn't offer to send their national guard on disaster relief to any state whose guard went to DC.

That’s literally why they’re “excited to help.” Anti-Lincoln here, is inviting them to invade the North.

Not sure what they think they will accomplish with this. D.C is mostly under federal control in the first place. Which in turn makes it a bad testing ground for Trump's future ideas of invading Illinois or New York and keeping Troops there. More taxpayer money wasted while others starve.

Bizarro World Voltron forming

Which is why the “who” liberation needs to also get involved

Lee's dream of marching into DC finally fulfilled

This is bonkers.

They're getting the old gang back together and will be declaring the Articles of Enslavement of All Blue States shortly.