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Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

sfchronicle.com

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Related and you will need it:

https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival...

If you are not disposed to read this and think it is hyperbolic, let me introduce the author

Brett Wagner, now retired, served as a professor of national security decision making for the U.S. Naval War College and adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The important part is

The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending "whether to invoke the Insurrection Act."

This would be April 20.

This would be April 20.

The birthday of Adolf Hitler.

More importantly, it's a date that Elon Musk would think is funny

Everyone I know is trying their best not to see this for what it is: Blitzkrieg. And this is only the beginning. It's only a matter of time before we have our own military policing the streets, your thoughts, and your words.

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If the military is not on your side, your pop-guns aren't going to do squat.

If the military is on your side, they don't need your help. People wandering around with guns, and without uniforms, get civilians killed, which is why it's a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: we've had to ask you this more than once already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42064637 (Nov 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852627 (July 2024)

April 22nd is Tesla's earnings call, that won't be so funny for Musk...

You think the stock market will matter?

Question for those who flag these kind of topics, do you not believe the threat is real and it's just partisan politics as usual? Because I used to think that and then I started to pay attention to what's actually going on. You should be worried.

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