@sickburnbro It's not my bag, and this is not a fedpoast, but to his point I do want to note that it wouldn't take much coordinated violence to throw the GAE state into a panic. The regime has gotten extremely lucky that, thus far, they haven't driven a half dozen dudes of a like mind together to give it grief.

The secret police seem powerful, but if sh!t goes sideways there's not nearly enough, not even 10% of enough. This site says that there's about 140K federal law enforcement officers, but it looks like it includes layabouts like the TSA (U.S. troop deployment in Iraq peaked at about the same number, for all the good it did):https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/federal-law-enforcement-officers-2020-statistical-tables