Armed Polite Society

    Rep. Pramila Jayapal:

    "Let's be clear, Donald Trump has been using all of these trials — trying to incite further violence, further undermining of our democracy..." pic.twitter.com/dUEx7RJnQz
    — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 22, 2024

And who keeps putting him on trial?
And where is all this right wing violence?

Dem Rep. Jayapal Says Trump's Using Left's Attempts to Throw Him in Jail to Undermine Democracy
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/04/22/dem-rep-jayapal-says-trumps-using-lefts-attempts-to-throw-him-in-jail-to-undermine-democracy-n2395386

For the ethernet modem and phone, I wouldn't think you would need much.  However, I am always bad at sizing the things. 

For the phone, I would just get a couple of external phone battery/chargers and keep them charged. 

Here in St. Louis, when they have their little protests, they are almost always in neighborhoods/places where the white suburbanites feel safe and comfy... Entertainment districts, etc... The looting tends to start on the peripheries, and will ebb and flow from there.
 
They'll have a protest in the Central West End, but won't go up to Kingshighway and MLK or Natty Bridge, Hall Street, etc...

UPS - NOT the package delivery company, but rather an uninterruptible power supply.

I'm not looking for something to run major appliances, but rather something that will give me enough power to shut down my desktop PC in an orderly manner in case of a power interruption (or keep things running during a short, transient power interruption) and allow me to use my landline phone (soon to transition to some form of VOIP) or recharge my cell.

Budget? Given my modest requirements, I'm thinking a couple of hundred bucks, tops. Best Buy lists several in that range, as does Amazon. But even after wading through the specs (which at BB and Amazon often contain errors) and the user reviews (which sometimes are for entirely different products or models) - I still don't know what I should get.

What feedback or suggestions can the APS collective offer?

I guess that might work in some areas, but I question how many would keep at it once bullets start flying.

Antifa shenanigans are very regional, sometimes down to the neighborhood.  That's why, as you mentioned, when they head to other places they get turned away with guns very quickly.  They will stay in their little victim disarmament zones, and prey on the people foolish enough to come to them.  If it goes sideways (and that's still an "if" for now, I think) you'll se the little "Autonomous" or "Occupied" zones they got going on widen to encompass chunks of cities that will become EU style No-Go zones for cops and people with any sense.  Inside those, they will be pretty deep into Lord of the Flies mob mentality and violence.

We've already seen it in Seattle's CHAZ, and Occupy Wall Street.  Beatings and rapes were common inside those leftie controlled areas.  I'd be shocked if the same thing doesn't happen at Columbia University this week.  Let those Antifa run zones simmer a little longer and you'll get full on struggle sessions and beatings, and then they'll start killing people.

Bullets won't start flying (AT them anyway) because they'll keep the worst of it in areas they control.  And if you and a bunch of buddies go into a University or Blue city center with enough force to clear them out, YOU'LL be the bad guys in the narrative.

So, in short, they'll do what commies always do:  Keep their violence in times and places that they have overwhelming force superiority, and leverage existing structures against their foes.  As they gain more power they will ramp up both violence and reach.  Eventually, they will attempt to take over the armed governmental functions, and if successful, they will leverage the government against their foes.  There will never be a fight where Antifa stands and fights against their opponents.  They would lose that.

Or at least that's their plan.