Interim chief: Austin Police Department in 'dire crisis' after defunding

Last summer, the Austin City Council voted to defund the police department by $150 million, which resulted in canceling multiple cadet classes and disbanding multiple units responsible for responding to DWIs, domestic violence calls, stalking, and criminal interdiction.

Instead, the council redistributed the money to other city programs and suggested that community organizers respond to 911 calls, instead of the police department.

The Austin Police Department is currently losing 15 to 20 officers a month, the chief said, with many quitting and retiring and not enough new recruits to replace them. The department is projecting 235 vacancies by May 2022, and 340 vacancies by May 2023.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/interim-chief-austin-police-department-in-dire-crisis-after-defunding/article_f1cf3332-e8b2-11eb-a76c-afc3b5f2ca55.html?

(Personal KEK)

Beto O'Rourke, Willie Nelson financially back Texas Democrats in elections bill fight

According to the Dallas Morning News, O'Rourke, whose national profile soared in 2018 as he campaigned to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), has helped raise more than $525,000 to cover the Texas Democratic legislators' expenses during their stay in Washington, D.C.

Nelson has also donated $5,000 to the cause, the paper reports, while encouraging others to donate.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/563088-texas-dems-who-fled-state-to-block-gop-backed-elections-bill-get-funding?

>>14160307

Because he's a liberal dope head. Always has been. Love some of his music, btw.

>>14160320

>Is everyone in the music industry a Clown in America?

I would say every high-dollar, high-recognition person of any persuasion is controlled by [them]. It's the only way to reach that level of popularity.

>Is everyone in the music industry a Clown in America?

If we truly want our nation back, anons and normies alike are going to HAVE TO become brutal in their assessment of personality figures whether they are sports, entertainers, Hollywood, mega-pastors, etc.

If we don't, then all of this "plan" will be for nothing.

If a person is successful and high-profile, then the immediate assumption should be made that they got there by cooperating with [them].

>>14160358

I'm thinking it will be all 50, as well, anon. I just really don't like that. That being said, doesn't matter whether I like it or not. My like or dislike has no bearing on "the plan." It will happen no matter who stays on this board, or who goes, so nothing to be done but dig in our heels, put down our heads, and press forward.

Anon is here for the long-haul, but I just ain't lovin' it right now.

>>14160340

In the states, liberalism means communism.

>>14160483

could be, could be, anon

haven't thought about Pence being re-instated if Trump is.

Six Scenarios for Military Intervention After January 20

(Written Aug 2020)

Six Scenarios

Six scenarios come to my mind in which the military may, nevertheless, reasonably be forced to act in contravention of all law and good order in order to ensure that law and good order are restored.

Scenario 1: If Biden is perceived as having won and is sworn in by legitimate authorities, but the passage of executive authority (and the nuclear football) is not acknowledged by the federal agencies or some faction therein´..

Scenario 2: If Biden is incapacitated and someone else is sworn in over the objections of Trump and his allies, questioning the passage of executive authority.

Most likely and troubling would be if the general public and key legitimating institutions are incapable of coming to an agreement on who wins the election by January 20. If so, then two other risky scenarios arise.

These next scenarios may seem unlikely, since the Presidential Succession Act would be triggered, which notably would make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the commander in chief. However, as we have seen recently during Trump’s impeachment crisis, a series of legal arguments have already been voiced in the public sphere regarding the legal authority of the act. However spurious these may seem, the fact is that Trump already has a legal justification for a refusal to hand over power to Pelosi, and might reasonably use Pelosi’s negative perception among his base as a wedge to force a constitutional crisis.

Scenario 3: Trump may be sworn-in as a stop-gap measure. Here, the integrity of the democratic process will be sacrificed in order to mitigate damage to the Constitution, but the red line will be pushed back.

Scenario 4: Trump may maintain de facto power and dispense with the symbolic act of being reinstated, in effect denying that a breach of the 20th Amendment took place.

In scenarios 3 and 4, the particular danger is that Trump will be emboldened by this de facto coup and will follow his usual method of slowly degrading institutions. He will replace democratic loyalists with his own allies, gradually gaining control of the federal agencies through appointments, forced retirements, and firings.

Finally, there are two additional scenarios that may overlap with any of the four above, although these appear less likely and would be easier to recognize and counter.

Scenario 5: Trump takes active steps to suspend the normal functions of government through manipulation of the War Powers Act, Insurrection Act, or some other seemingly lawful cover.

Scenario 6: Trump uses loyal security agencies to commit acts of violence and intimidation in a traditional, bloody coup. This is the worst of all outcomes but seems least likely of all, and here military intervention would in all likelihood be authorized by Congress.

In all six scenarios, the military has a role it can choose to play or not to play. Choosing inaction will not be any more legally or morally justifiable than choosing to act, since the premise of all six scenarios is that the American experiment in democracy is suspended.

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/08/six-scenarios-military-intervention-after-january-20/167777/