Days after the presidential election, U.S. intelligence warned of “significant violence or civil unrest between now and Inauguration Day.” Unlike similar intelligence assessments in the past, this one singled out opponents of president-elect Donald Trump’s agenda. Alluding to “extremists” who “viewed the election outcome as an existential event,” the report could have been describing any number of liberal pundits on MSNBC calling Trump an existential threat to democracy.

Amusing as it is to imagine the likes of Rachel Maddow, Jen Rubin or any of their fans bum rushing the capitol, one’s imagination is the only place that’s ever happening.

The report, produced by Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis, is light on the intelligence and heavy on the analysis. Dated November 8 of last year, the report consists of three entirely “hypothetical scenarios of violence or unrest,” as the first paragraph says. Despite the lack of a shred of specific evidence, the report cites the following political issues as potential catalysts for violence:

Abortion rights

U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts

LGBTQIA+

Environmental regulations

Gun control (“firearms access”)

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  • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Hundreds of liberals gather outside the White House, chanting "SIR HOW DARE YOU SIR" for thirty minutes.

    In response, hundreds of Trump supporters gather to defend their president, resulting in six accidental firearm discharges, three heart attacks, and eleven cases of a newly-discovered condition which has been informally named "slurry gut."

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, sure. Their "attack" will involve a peaceful protest 2 miles from the capitol building and they will be corralled by cops even further away, which they will comply with completely. Nothing interesting or exciting will happen and they won't even bother to come up with a funny slogan.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Having a good chuckle imagining what liberal stochastic terror would even look like

  • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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    2 days ago

    liberal here. don't tell agent orange but we do have something big planned. you'll all see, come inauguration day. once that orange velveeta voldemort fascist takes office and starts enacting his dangerous antidemocratic fascist hitlerite agenda he's gonna fucking pay. the whole world will know, once we sit by holding hands and letting him do whatever he wants, we, the liberals, are the bigger person. so in that respect we're the winners, not him. not blompf.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 days ago

    nah they are all utterly resigned and mad that the voters failed the democratic party

    somehow also every liberal is completely insulated from the coming economic collapse and are all going to sit back, unaffected, and eat popcorn or whatever

    • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      You see it in all their scornful comments about "leopards eating faces". "Enjoy the next four years, tanky. You could have had the friendly genocide, but now you'll get the mean one."

    • gramxi [they/them]
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      2 days ago

      reverse of the 2020 protests so now it's a confused black bloc lost in a sea of pussy hats

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    2 days ago

    what are the current whereabouts of the liberal driller?