Kamala Harris will receive protection from the California Highway Patrol after Trump revoked her Secret Service protection, law enforcement sources said Friday.

California officials put in place a plan to provide Harris with dignitary protection after Trump ended an arrangement that gave his opponent in last year’s election extended Secret Service security coverage.

Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday ending Harris’ protection as of Monday, according to sources not authorized to discuss the security matter.

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    I mean, the FBI is totally compromised at this point anyways. I wouldn’t count on them protecting me if I was the political opposition to Mango Mussolini.

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    Imagine being a member of the secret service, and following this fucking idiots orders to not protect his political opponents… The absolute shame across the board of those in any form of LAW enforcement, and following out the most unamerican orders seen this side of Russia… You are all scum. Because of people like you, dictators are allowed to be dictators. Because you, their right and left hands, do the their evil bidding. Shame on you. Shame on you all.

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    Hm. Wouldn’t the State Guard of California be more suitable for military-adjacent things like bodyguards?

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        I am of the mind that America is headed into a civil war. I bet a chunk of the Union army in the 1st American Civil War was dedicated to guarding politicians and commanders from Confederate assassins.

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          Wrong!

          It was the Fucking Pinkertons!

          Allan Pinkerton’s one saving grace is that he was an abolitionist. He volunteered his company’s services as both PR and ideological motivation. This would pay off for him in the end as the Union politicians remembered the favor and awarded his company lucrative contracts in both Reconstruction and the last of the Indian Wars… And of course, union busting.

          Permanent protection services like Secret Service wouldn’t be formed until McKinley’s assassination, until then it was generally a mixture of private guards and yes, sometimes military units, but it wasn’t common for them to be permanent details.

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        She would’ve continued the slow slide into fascism that brought about Trump in the first place. She would’ve been better than Trump, sure. But after her, we would’ve gotten another figure like Trump.

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          Right so by your own words… when given the option to slow the slide versus jumping head first into accelerating it…

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          It feels morally wrong to say I would have liked to have kicked that can another few decades down the road, but I would really have liked that as opposed to personally watching the downfall of my nation live and in color.

          But I suppose so would any who live to see such times.

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    It’s kind of weird how the CHP has become a hammer for things distinctly not about the highway. Got crime in Oakland? Send in the CHP with video cameras. Got homelessness? Send in the CHP to do a sweep. Need security? Send in the CHP. That being said this is the least offensive unorthodox use Newsome has used the CHP for.