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LOL inSuRrEcTiOn is anything they don’t like.
Did anyone else see that weird interview on CNN with Steven Miller clamming up à la Mitch McConnell after he mentioned that Trump would have "plenary authority" i.e. dictatorial powers?
Unless I'm mistaken, plenary authority is granted to the president when the Insurrection Act is invoked.
So... Is this an attempt to push that through quickly now that the cat is out of the bag?
Their incompetence is as mindboggling as how they are getting away with it.
Tell me you want a General Strike without telling me you want a General Strike.
The irrational behaviour of ICE and the deployment of national guards is clearly setting up to agitate and provoke the ordinary Americans into drawing first blood to justify invoking the Insurrection act. Don't fall for this my American brothers and sisters. You don't want to be the Southerners this time who attacked Fort Sumter.
To the Trump admin it won't matter if the reason to invoke it is real or fake. The federal government is corrupt to the core and using the shutdown to prevent congress from losing the MAGA majority until the insurrection clause is invoked. There is no ideal solution, it's just that if you aim for the king, you best not miss.
The MAGA base is not suddenly going to be turned around and convinced unless you are able to puncture their Sinclair echo chambers, the federal is increasingly going to deny funding to Democratic states, SCOTUS is still going to overturn any impediments federal judges try to throw at Trump, ICE is still going to be ignoring any and all laws since they know they get to eat pardon cake if it ever becomes an issue, ICE is still going to get the biggest slice of the federal budget ... "Drawing first blood", you lose. Hoping a system rotten to the core in all three branches of government turns around and becomes semifunctional when no matter what you will still have Republicans and MAGA at the end of whatever solution comes up, you don't lose, but at a cost that's going to be comparable or greater than losing.
"first blood"
Insurrectionist traitor skirts punishment for treason against the United States, becomes president. Again ffs. And proceeds to invoke the Insurrection Act as a prelude to implementing martial law and becoming a full fledged dictator.
All because the Dems didn't want to "seem political". Mmmmkay.
The world is laughing at us.
Laughing is the wrong word. The world has lost all respect for us. But also, most Americans have lost all respect for their government as well.
Nah, the dems are complicit. Anyone with 2 neurons to rub together saw this coming. The reason they didnt prosecute is because theyre busy trying to find ways to secure themselves in the new regime, not antagonise the new god-leader. The Dems are straight up evil, only differentiated from the fascists by the fact that theyre too scared to actually do anything impactful.
Oh, we're not laughing.
Well a bit in the beginning because of the absurdity, but yeah, now it's just sad and terrifying.
Are you taking refugees?
I'm Canadian and I'm quivering in fear
Because the Dems are just the same billionaires but in blue.
People need to realize that Trump is 50 years in the making. He was not the first to put "undesirables" in camps and arrest people based on racial profiling. He's not the first to give tax cuts/subsidies/bailouts to the rich while the cost of living gets progressively worse. He's not the first president to bomb countries without Congressional approval.
These trends are accelerated by Trump, but will continue after he's gone because they are systemic.
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The White House expects that any potential invocation of the act would be met with swift legal challenges and ultimately land at the Supreme Court.
So, an unsigned 6-3.
Or more likely bumping it back to a lower court while only addressing one small part of the issue, while making no stay on the behavior so they can continue while it takes years to wind through the courts and eventually not matter when they have already usurped power.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
That said, the opening battles of the revolution were five years later.
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And that's how the 2025 US Civil War will begin.
Americans won't do shit (they are currently being fucked and are cheering this on). You are delusional.
Civil war is looming more and more everyday. If I was American I'd be so scared and angry right now.
Looming? It's already happening. National Guards have invaded blue cities.
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This gives me such revolutionary war vibes. The "fathers of the revolution" were not revolutionist, they did not want independence from Britain, but wanted thier legal rights upheld. The monarchy feared what they might do and so sent soldiers after them labeling them as revolutionist. Thier message then became one agianst the monarchy, tensions continued to escalate and well, revolution.
There is not an insurrection, there is not armies of rebels fighting to bring down the federal govermemt.... but start a war agianst people and eventually they will stert defending themselves, then we will have a war.
I'm pretty sure Trump is going to use it by 2028 or just before it, in a prelude to declaring martial law. Right now they are trying to escalate conflicts in order to have justification. When they don't have it, I assume there will be false-flag operation to trigger one (see January 6th).
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