> From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 06:59:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Let's work on getting Scenario 3 going.
There don't seem to be any concrete action items here.
> > From: Kirk Bangstad <http://www.minocquabrewingcompany.com/~info>
> > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 18:40:56 +0000
> >
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> > https://mailchi.mp/minocquabrewingcompany/americas-literacy-crisis-and-the-gullibility-gap-8274272?e=6ee753d46f
> > )
> > Kirk Bangstad here, owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company, Founder of the
> > Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC, and member of the "Fighting Oligarchy"
> > coalition that has been formed to resist authoritarianism in Wisconsin.
> >
> > After reading about Trump calling up Ca's national guard to quell
> > peaceful protests yesterday, I scrapped my original essay this week and
> > conjured up three scenarios that I envision for a post-martial law
> > tyrannical America.
> >
> > The first two are completely plausible and completely horrific. The third is
> > also plausible and unbelievably wonderful.
> >
> > Here they are:
> > Scenario 1
> > * June 2025: Trump calls National Guard to quell peaceful protests in LA.
> > * July-August 2025: Military incites violence but blames protesters.
> > * September ’25-September ’26: Trump invokes martial law in United
> > States, violent protests are now constant, and U.S. citizens are killed
> > daily.
> > * October 2026: Trump cancels elections—claiming it’s the only way to
> > keep people safe.
> > * January 2027: Trump pressures a now-illegal Republican majority in
> > Congress to give ultimate power to him and pass laws that render our
> > judiciary powerless.
> > * March 2027: Supreme Court blocks Trump, but by that time Trump has filled
> > military, FBI, and DOJ with enough corrupt sycophants to block enforcement
> > of SCOTUS ruling.
> > * April 2027: Trump throws SCOTUS and Democrats in jail for breaking new "
> > Patriotism Laws" that his illegal congressional majority passed specifically
> > to imprison his opposition.
> > * July 4^th, 2027: U.S. becomes a dictatorship.
> >
> > Scenario 2
> > * June 2025: Trump calls National Guard to quell peaceful protests in LA.
> > * July-December 2025: Military incites violence but blames protesters, U.S
> > citizens die.
> > * January 2026: Musk, Thiel, Andreeson, Yarvin (
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html?mc_c
> > id=1aadd9f995&mc_eid=UNIQID) , and others tech oligarchs in Thiel’s orbit
> > bribe Republicans in Congress to remove Trump using 25^th amendment, citing
> > government military overreach and killing of U.S. citizens.
> > * February 2026: Trump is impeached. World rejoices and calls these men
> > heroes. Tesla stock reaches all-time high.
> > * March 2026: J.D. Vance becomes President of the United States, gives Peter
> > Thiel’s Palantir huge government contract to monitor dissidents —which
> > it can do because DOGE’s attacks on Social Security and IRS gave Palantir
> > all of our information (
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.h
> > tml?mc_cid=1aadd9f995&mc_eid=UNIQID) .
> > * April 2026: Professors, artists, and progressive political organizers—
> > the leading voices telling us that Palantir has created a police state, and
> > who can now be easily located with universal face-recognition technology—
> > disappear in black vans.
> > * May-August 2026:
> > + Unrest and violent protests occur in all major cities throughout the U.S.
> > + Trump-supporting militias and progressive militias fight against the
> > government and each other.
> > * October 2026: Vance cancels elections—claiming it’s the only way to
> > keep people safe.
> > * January 2027: Vance bribes a now-illegal Republican majority in Congress
> > to give ultimate power to him and pass laws that render our judiciary
> > powerless.
> > * March 2027: Supreme Court blocks Vance, but by that time Vance has
> > co-opted all of Trump's corrupt stooges in the military, FBI, and DOJ who
> > already promised Trump that they wouldn’t enforce any SCOTUS rulings that
> > took power away from the executive branch.
> > * April 2027: Vance throws SCOTUS and Democrats in jail for breaking new "
> > Patriotism Laws" that his illegal congressional majority passed specifically
> > to imprison his opposition.
> > * July 4^th, 2027: U.S. becomes a dictatorship and enters the “Dark
> > Enlightenment (
> > https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-autho
> > ritarian-ideas?mc_cid=1aadd9f995&mc_eid=UNIQID) ” envisioned by Yarvin and
> > embraced by Vance, where tech companies run the world and the working class
> > are treated like cattle.
> >
> > Scenario 3
> > * June 2025: Trump calls National Guard to quell peaceful protests in LA.
> > * July 2025: Military incites violence but blames protesters.
> > * August 2025: Trump invokes martial law in United States, violent protests
> > are now constant, and U.S. citizens are killed daily.
> > * September 2, 2025: A new citizen’s movement--lead by Indivisible,
> > Project 50501, leftist labor unions--join the Working Families Party to
> > announce plans for a General Strike on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, until the
> > following condition is met:
> > + Ensure that the November 2026 elections are held fairly
> > * November 2025: Structure Test #1: Millions of workers wear buttons that
> > say “On 9/8/26, We’re Taking America Back.”
> > * January 2026: Structure Test #2:
> > + Millions of workers take an extra 15 minutes of their lunch break—
> > showing that they are able to disrupt companies around the country.
> > + Churches/Synagogues/Mosques of all denominations form a mutual aid
> > coalition and make a call to start collecting canned food for strikers.
> > + Democratic Party, late to the game as usual, joins the movement but also
> > tries to take ownership over it.
> > * March 2026: Structure Test #3:
> > + Millions of works call in sick, thoroughly scaring the oligarchs who
> > realize that an organized working class can bankrupt their companies.
> > + Working Families Coalition creates a strike fund, raising millions to pay
> > striker’s bills while they’re on strike.
> > + Democratic Party is infiltrated by Working Families Party, Chuck Schumer
> > is removed as minority leader and replace by Bernie Sanders.
> > * May 2026: Structure Test #4:
> > + Millions of workers take Friday off.
> > + America’s doctors and nurses sign up for the strike, saying they’ll
> > provide healthcare free of charge to strikers while on strike.
> > + Democratic Party votes to dissolve and join the Working Families Party,
> > Alexandria Ocasio Cortez becomes Minority Leader in the House.
> > * July 2026 Structure Test #5:
> > + Millions of workers take off Thursday and Friday the week before July 4^th
> > + “Take Back America” July 4^th parades, organized by Working Families
> > coalition in every major city, take place and promote upcoming strike.
> > + Strikers are told where they’ll be able to get free food, free
> > healthcare, and their bills paid while striking.
> > * September 8, 2026—the day after Labor Day.
> > + Millions of workers commence a General Strike
> > + Stock market hits all-time low after a week of striking.
> > + Tech oligarchs are outmaneuvered by finance oligarchs who are seeing their
> > portfolios vanish. They bribe Republican congress to overrule Trump/Vance’
> > s cancellation of elections.
> >
> > * November 2026: Working Families Party wins a majority in the House of
> > Representatives and Senate.
> > * January 2027: Congress impeaches Trump and his entire administration,
> > including JD Vance.
> > * February 2027:
> > + Congress invokes Article 3 of the 14^th amendment, which prohibits anyone
> > who was part of the 5-year insurrection against our country to ever run for
> > federal office again.
> > + Congress passes a constitutional amendment that overturns "Citizen's
> > United" and takes dark money out of politics.
> > + Nation starts its long healing process
> >
> > Let's choose Scenario 3, because our families and children depend on it.
> >
> > Kirk Bangstad
> > Owner, Minocqua Brewing Company
> > Founder, Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC