Gee … if I’d wanted to live in a military dictatorship, I could have tried moving to NK or someplace.
dubphonics on
Wow. A blatant crime and a clear indication he just doesn’t give a shit what the courts say or deem illegal: he’ll do whatever he wants.
Rude-Strawberry-6360 on
The republicans will let him.
The democrats don’t have the numbers to stop him.
This is the reality of having almost half of our voting eligible citizens checked out. I wonder what it will take to get them involved.
TheTownOfMyDyck on
I really hope all left leaning Americans are taking notes for if they can shift the political needle again.
These people are not your countrymen. They literally view and want to treat you all as enemies of the state, not political opposition.
feed_me_tecate on
We’ve kind knew this was going to happen when trump got back into office. Also, all that gold shit in the oval office is tacky as fuck.
BTRCguy on
Trump: Does something illegal
Judge: You can’t do that
Trump: Does something even *more* illegal
repeat and escalate *ad infinitum*…
blues111 on
We are like 2 steps away from Martial law
squintytoast on
>The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.”
ICE has killed more than that dallas shooter.
HiImDIZZ on
How is preventing the president from deploying other states national guard to other states an insurrection? By definition that is not an insurrection.
sinktheirship on
We are so fucking doomed.
OptimusSublime on
If anyone knows a thing or two you insurrections it’s this guy.
MoonlitHunter on
His incompetence doesn’t make us insurrectionists. Dial back the unconstitutional psychotic DHS, go after actual criminal immigrants, and I’m sure things will calm down.
spacewithoutstars on
So now we’re at the part where the rule of law is insurrecting his feelings.
2HDFloppyDisk on
To the surprise of no one
Responsible-Pain-620 on
Oh hey remember when people said that Trump was going to turn into a dictator and then he said that he would turn into a dictator and then MAGA called everyone else alarmist? Cool well MAGA can you please explain whatever the fuck this is?
Choice-of-SteinsGate on
These authoritarian measures are not intended to “reduce crime.” No, they’re being used to legitimize the military’s occupation of areas around the country where Trump’s political opposition is strongest.
Places where federalized troops have been mobilized to crackdown on protestors, crush dissenting voices, restrict civil liberties and arrest or detain anyone who meets the regime’s vague criteria of a “domestic terrorist.”
These are also specifically areas of the country that Trump has condemned over and over again with cruel, dehumanizing and inflammatory rhetoric in the past.
Keep in mind that Republican governors of their own statistically high crime states were sending troops to D.C. to bolster Trump’s authoritarian takeover of US cities. But at the same time, these Republicans were hesitant to ask Trump to send the military into *their* cities.
And like every other step Trump has taken towards consolidating power and control over the country, these actions do absolutely nothing to confront the underlying, root causes of crime, political violence and other systemic issues.
Mobilizing and sending the military into US cities for the express purpose of punishing your enemies does not even begin to remotely address the economic inequalities and socioeconomic factors; the lack of community support structures; the problems within law enforcement; the systemic injustices within our legal system; the dismantling of social safety nets for the poor and underprivileged; the historical neglect of marginalized groups; and the segregationist and racialist policies of the past that have had lingering impacts on our vulnerable, minority communities to this day—all things that have gone fundamentally unaddressed; persisting as root causes to many of the widespread issues that Republicans complain about but have no intention of actually fixing.
Outside of being an effort to centralize authoritarian control over democrat-run, or “Antifa infested” cities, these measures are also meant to produce the *illusion* of safety
And as elections roll around, there’s always the strong likelihood that Trump will use this military presence to suppress the vote in urban areas.
“Law and order” has been a conservative dog whistle for decades, and we know that Trump and MAGA don’t care all that sincerely about the law because they believe they are above it—that the law applies disproportionately to their “enemies” and not to them.
Their law and order rhetoric is rife with these thinly veiled dog whistles meant to incite violence and hostility towards minorities, immigrants and marginalized groups. This language is also used to justify the Trump administration’s descent into authoritarianism. To them, “law and order” means punishing their enemies.
Their obsession with crime and punishment is reflected in their support for federalizing troops and local law enforcement to subdue the political opposition. It’s reflected in this administration’s militarization of domestic policy, in Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ, in the Republican party’s blatant disregard for the basic constitutional rights of the people they’re targeting and detaining, in Trump’s attacks on law firms and judges, and in his pursuit of vengeance against his critics and anyone who has ever tried to hold him accountable.
The cognitive dissonance really is baffling. While Trump and his supporters are demanding that he receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his feckless efforts at “negotiating” an imaginary peace around the world, he is simultaneously waging war against the American people—people he is tasked with protecting.
These tactics are taken directly from the fascist playbook. Including the current use of divisive rhetoric from Trump and his allies who are trying desperately to justify the occupation of cities around the country by broadly designating Democrats and all left-leaning political foes as “terrorists.”
They’re also using this opportunity to stigmatize and scapegoat minorities and immigrants while spreading fearmongering messaging that appeals largely to conservative grievances and fears. It’s likely that they will not stop until every so-called “blue city” or hotbed of “Antifa” violence is under their occupation.
And let’s make something perfectly clear, the Trump administration has been politicizing and exploiting the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk to escalate these kinds of authoritarian measures while calling for swift, and sometimes violent retribution against their political enemies.
It’s also obvious that the Trump administration is hoping to provoke an incident. They’re desperate for an escalation—for a violent response so that Trump can continue to push the limits of his power and so his supporters can try to justify more military incursions across the country.
None of it is sincere. All of their rhetoric and their responses to tragedies and political commotions of the past were really just rallying cries.
They couldn’t care less about the root causes of crime, political violence or domestic extremism. Their chief priority throughout all of this has been to construct a pretext to declare war against “the radical left.”
And now that the Trump administration gets to dictate who or what conforms to the vague definition of a “domestic terrorist,” they will continue to use this label very generously to suppress civil liberties, to crush dissent and to arrest anyone who gets in their way.
Dexx009 on
Fuck Trump. Criminal, racist, rapist, pedophile. Fuck his deplorable sorry ass and all who support him.
postconsumerwat on
Let’s not pretend that he knows how to invoke anything aside an election, invoken-sir… grab em by the bushel … this is like John Henry beating off that pipe laying machine and winning handily
Crankenstein_8000 on
Go ahead and send your troops to a city where people are just moving about living their lives, what could possibly happen? Maybe nothing, maybe they just pack up and go home?
jhbjr63 on
What a Putz
ExtensionIcy2104 on
I predict that he will invoke the insurrection act before the Mike Johnson reopens the House because if he reopens he has to swear in the newly elected Democrat which gives them all the votes they need to release the Epstein files. I think we will see Martial law before we see Epstein files. Also Ghislaine Maxwell will get pardoned by him.
Knightly11 on
I think this really opens another conversation aside from Trump. Supreme Court justices should have term limits
Ready_Fee2700 on
Only Congress can.
RynheartTheReluctant on
Trump wants civil war.
patrickisgreat on
well bring it on I guess. Let’s see where the chips fall for him.
Stunning_Concept_478 on
Insurrection…that’s rich.
Th3FinalStarman on
*Convicted Felon Trump. Y’all keep forgetting that piece of information. Guess electrons are in short supply or something.
ShrimpieAC on
I’m so tired of this piece of shit.
ViolettaQueso on
This confirms to me his cabinet is in charge, they know he’s not capable but they feed him crazy shit or encourage him to tweet at night or speak off the cuff with his crazy talk publicly as often as possible. They implement all they can of project 2025, let him show everyone how badly he’s wrecking everything in his crazy.
Then, they 25 him, Vance is pres, Thiel involved we will all be too broke and weak and exhausted and desperate to fight the big money coalition.
thistimelineisweird on
Dear troops, you’re about to be directed to do something even more illegal than before. History won’t be kind to you.
mikeg040 on
This guy just needs to stop
Charlesavanhorn53 on
I have been screaming this for months!
No_Helicopter905 on
JFK
AccomplishedBrain309 on
Americans against americans, Russia, Trump wins, we loose.
CthulusLittleAngel on
Boy it’d be nice to have well regulated militias right about now. Because I’m not too sure about the ones I’m hearing about
b_tight on
Okay.
But what about the Epstein files
yagonnawanna on
Dear USA
Fuckin figure it out eh? Seriously, fuckin… figure-it-out!
-Canada
miz_mizery on
We all know what happened to the mad king in game of thrones.
drklordnecro on
Balance of power bitch! You don’t get to be a fucking king in our country. Judge says no doesn’t mean it’s an insurrection.
MarqSleep on
Big orange baby throwing a tantrum because judge told him no
CobraPony67 on
All because of what he saw on TV? The man is insane and people are letting it happen.
belisario262 on
aaand that’s the moment he was waiting for. after that I guess there’s no way back from being Russia 2.0?
Beforemath on
For… what insurrection?… the only insurrection in the last 100 years was his.
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Gee … if I’d wanted to live in a military dictatorship, I could have tried moving to NK or someplace.
Wow. A blatant crime and a clear indication he just doesn’t give a shit what the courts say or deem illegal: he’ll do whatever he wants.
The republicans will let him.
The democrats don’t have the numbers to stop him.
This is the reality of having almost half of our voting eligible citizens checked out. I wonder what it will take to get them involved.
I really hope all left leaning Americans are taking notes for if they can shift the political needle again.
These people are not your countrymen. They literally view and want to treat you all as enemies of the state, not political opposition.
We’ve kind knew this was going to happen when trump got back into office. Also, all that gold shit in the oval office is tacky as fuck.
Trump: Does something illegal
Judge: You can’t do that
Trump: Does something even *more* illegal
repeat and escalate *ad infinitum*…
We are like 2 steps away from Martial law
>The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.”
ICE has killed more than that dallas shooter.
How is preventing the president from deploying other states national guard to other states an insurrection? By definition that is not an insurrection.
We are so fucking doomed.
If anyone knows a thing or two you insurrections it’s this guy.
His incompetence doesn’t make us insurrectionists. Dial back the unconstitutional psychotic DHS, go after actual criminal immigrants, and I’m sure things will calm down.
So now we’re at the part where the rule of law is insurrecting his feelings.
To the surprise of no one
Oh hey remember when people said that Trump was going to turn into a dictator and then he said that he would turn into a dictator and then MAGA called everyone else alarmist? Cool well MAGA can you please explain whatever the fuck this is?
These authoritarian measures are not intended to “reduce crime.” No, they’re being used to legitimize the military’s occupation of areas around the country where Trump’s political opposition is strongest.
Places where federalized troops have been mobilized to crackdown on protestors, crush dissenting voices, restrict civil liberties and arrest or detain anyone who meets the regime’s vague criteria of a “domestic terrorist.”
These are also specifically areas of the country that Trump has condemned over and over again with cruel, dehumanizing and inflammatory rhetoric in the past.
Keep in mind that Republican governors of their own statistically high crime states were sending troops to D.C. to bolster Trump’s authoritarian takeover of US cities. But at the same time, these Republicans were hesitant to ask Trump to send the military into *their* cities.
And like every other step Trump has taken towards consolidating power and control over the country, these actions do absolutely nothing to confront the underlying, root causes of crime, political violence and other systemic issues.
Mobilizing and sending the military into US cities for the express purpose of punishing your enemies does not even begin to remotely address the economic inequalities and socioeconomic factors; the lack of community support structures; the problems within law enforcement; the systemic injustices within our legal system; the dismantling of social safety nets for the poor and underprivileged; the historical neglect of marginalized groups; and the segregationist and racialist policies of the past that have had lingering impacts on our vulnerable, minority communities to this day—all things that have gone fundamentally unaddressed; persisting as root causes to many of the widespread issues that Republicans complain about but have no intention of actually fixing.
Outside of being an effort to centralize authoritarian control over democrat-run, or “Antifa infested” cities, these measures are also meant to produce the *illusion* of safety
And as elections roll around, there’s always the strong likelihood that Trump will use this military presence to suppress the vote in urban areas.
“Law and order” has been a conservative dog whistle for decades, and we know that Trump and MAGA don’t care all that sincerely about the law because they believe they are above it—that the law applies disproportionately to their “enemies” and not to them.
Their law and order rhetoric is rife with these thinly veiled dog whistles meant to incite violence and hostility towards minorities, immigrants and marginalized groups. This language is also used to justify the Trump administration’s descent into authoritarianism. To them, “law and order” means punishing their enemies.
Their obsession with crime and punishment is reflected in their support for federalizing troops and local law enforcement to subdue the political opposition. It’s reflected in this administration’s militarization of domestic policy, in Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ, in the Republican party’s blatant disregard for the basic constitutional rights of the people they’re targeting and detaining, in Trump’s attacks on law firms and judges, and in his pursuit of vengeance against his critics and anyone who has ever tried to hold him accountable.
The cognitive dissonance really is baffling. While Trump and his supporters are demanding that he receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his feckless efforts at “negotiating” an imaginary peace around the world, he is simultaneously waging war against the American people—people he is tasked with protecting.
These tactics are taken directly from the fascist playbook. Including the current use of divisive rhetoric from Trump and his allies who are trying desperately to justify the occupation of cities around the country by broadly designating Democrats and all left-leaning political foes as “terrorists.”
They’re also using this opportunity to stigmatize and scapegoat minorities and immigrants while spreading fearmongering messaging that appeals largely to conservative grievances and fears. It’s likely that they will not stop until every so-called “blue city” or hotbed of “Antifa” violence is under their occupation.
And let’s make something perfectly clear, the Trump administration has been politicizing and exploiting the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk to escalate these kinds of authoritarian measures while calling for swift, and sometimes violent retribution against their political enemies.
It’s also obvious that the Trump administration is hoping to provoke an incident. They’re desperate for an escalation—for a violent response so that Trump can continue to push the limits of his power and so his supporters can try to justify more military incursions across the country.
None of it is sincere. All of their rhetoric and their responses to tragedies and political commotions of the past were really just rallying cries.
They couldn’t care less about the root causes of crime, political violence or domestic extremism. Their chief priority throughout all of this has been to construct a pretext to declare war against “the radical left.”
And now that the Trump administration gets to dictate who or what conforms to the vague definition of a “domestic terrorist,” they will continue to use this label very generously to suppress civil liberties, to crush dissent and to arrest anyone who gets in their way.
Fuck Trump. Criminal, racist, rapist, pedophile. Fuck his deplorable sorry ass and all who support him.
Let’s not pretend that he knows how to invoke anything aside an election, invoken-sir… grab em by the bushel … this is like John Henry beating off that pipe laying machine and winning handily
Go ahead and send your troops to a city where people are just moving about living their lives, what could possibly happen? Maybe nothing, maybe they just pack up and go home?
What a Putz
I predict that he will invoke the insurrection act before the Mike Johnson reopens the House because if he reopens he has to swear in the newly elected Democrat which gives them all the votes they need to release the Epstein files. I think we will see Martial law before we see Epstein files. Also Ghislaine Maxwell will get pardoned by him.
I think this really opens another conversation aside from Trump. Supreme Court justices should have term limits
Only Congress can.
Trump wants civil war.
well bring it on I guess. Let’s see where the chips fall for him.
Insurrection…that’s rich.
*Convicted Felon Trump. Y’all keep forgetting that piece of information. Guess electrons are in short supply or something.
I’m so tired of this piece of shit.
This confirms to me his cabinet is in charge, they know he’s not capable but they feed him crazy shit or encourage him to tweet at night or speak off the cuff with his crazy talk publicly as often as possible. They implement all they can of project 2025, let him show everyone how badly he’s wrecking everything in his crazy.
Then, they 25 him, Vance is pres, Thiel involved we will all be too broke and weak and exhausted and desperate to fight the big money coalition.
Dear troops, you’re about to be directed to do something even more illegal than before. History won’t be kind to you.
This guy just needs to stop
I have been screaming this for months!
JFK
Americans against americans, Russia, Trump wins, we loose.
Boy it’d be nice to have well regulated militias right about now. Because I’m not too sure about the ones I’m hearing about
Okay.
But what about the Epstein files
Dear USA
Fuckin figure it out eh? Seriously, fuckin… figure-it-out!
-Canada
We all know what happened to the mad king in game of thrones.
Balance of power bitch! You don’t get to be a fucking king in our country. Judge says no doesn’t mean it’s an insurrection.
Big orange baby throwing a tantrum because judge told him no
All because of what he saw on TV? The man is insane and people are letting it happen.
aaand that’s the moment he was waiting for. after that I guess there’s no way back from being Russia 2.0?
For… what insurrection?… the only insurrection in the last 100 years was his.