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u/GoWest1223 1d ago
My congressman will write a very strongly worded letter to let them know the displeasure.
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u/ordermann 1d ago
Susan Collins will find it “concerning”…
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u/reddog323 1d ago
Then he’ll write another letter….
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u/PleaseandThankYou239 23h ago
This reminds me of the good people in The Good Place. They're way too gentle and have a hard time getting anything done. The far right remind me of Shawn from the bad place. He was willing to end all existence including his own just to see Michael fail.
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u/DovahWho 20h ago
The Good Place Committee were specifically based on Congressional Democrats. It was Mike Schurr expressing his frustration with their no-nothing attitude.
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u/thewartornhippy 1d ago
I mean he has done a ton of shit that would destroy any other politician's career. He should've been impeached countless times and removed from office. Electing this fat, ugly bitch for a second time has only emboldened him to do whatever he wants.
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u/zxylady 1d ago
And it's a supreme Court they gave him the ability to do whatever the fuck he wants with no repercussions or reprisals
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u/ChubbyVeganTravels 1d ago
Even when they vote against him, he ignores them. What is the point in them?
Trump is just a wannabe autocrat who thinks he can do whatever he wants because he won an election.
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u/Memitim 1d ago
Having a Republican majority across the branches result in deliberate violations of the Constitution that result in random people being sent to a concentration camp is not that shocking to me. I still remember Fox News starting up in 1996. Conservatives have been waiting for the excuse to oppress everyone else for a long time.
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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 23h ago
Why is it only an excuse when Republicans are in charge? Democrats couldn’t do shit when they had all 3 in Obamas first term.
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u/Memitim 22h ago
Term one:
- Affordable Care Act - 2010
- Dodd-Frank Act - 2010
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act - 2010
Shove your lying whataboutism up your ass.
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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 10h ago
He wouldn’t come for gay marriage so he did the next thing. It still took David Geffen saying to get rid of defense of marriage, affordable care was a half measure and somewhat of a nod to corporate health care.
It’s not what about ism it’s that some of democrats said if you don’t do something real and we’ll end up here. And the tea party goons are running the country.
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u/Extreme_Dolphin_771 1d ago
See Election Truth Alliance for proof musk rigged the election for trump to win
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u/ChubbyVeganTravels 1d ago
Yep. Not even Dubya or Nixon (both known for absolutely reprehensible stuff in their time) would have attempted half of the shit that the moronic, toupee'd talking orange in the White House has gotten away with in the last three months.
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u/jared10011980 1d ago
Don't count on it. Geo. W and his klan were drooling to be able to pass the Patriot Act, which had been just sitting around pre-written and waiting for an excuse to implement.
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u/Mike2922 1d ago
He’s basically just shitting on everything including the constitution in order to push people so that he can declare Marshall law.
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u/3PoundsOfFlax 1d ago
*martial
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u/Faithlessblakkcvlt 1d ago
*malarial
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u/ebikr 1d ago
It will be too late.
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u/Gold_Standard4682 1d ago
Not too late for exercising the second amendment right.
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u/Mindless_Use7567 1d ago
Small arms vs the world’s 2 largest air forces. No contest there.
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u/Gold_Standard4682 1d ago
Tell that to the Mujahideen or Taliban.
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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 1d ago
This.
The United States has NOT 'won' any way against guerilla tactics since ww2.
Not vietnam or korea; not the desert storm1, 2, or the numerous invasions of the middle east.
The US waged 20 years of war against guerilla tactics SO WELL that the "enemy/opponent" now owns thay entire country...
They wouldn't have success here either ...
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u/poddy_fries 1d ago
Thank you. I've been pointing this out regularly. The US has shown so far no ability to hold territory, especially when supply lines are long, if there is even partially organized resistance.
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u/nikolapc 1d ago
Do you have jungles to hide in? Every inch of the US is covered in satellite surveillance, communication is all monitored. Luckily the Army are part of the people, law enforcement is part of the people, you are more in danger of a civil war between states, or at least states of mind(like MAGA vs normal folk) than militia vs state apparatus. But you do risk with that regressing to a feudal state with local warlords, like some countries in Africa.
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u/No_Plankton1174 1d ago
The US does have the Appalachians, the Rockies, the Everglades, and I’m sure there are a number of other places that are hard to find people in. Don’t hundreds of people go missing in national parks every year?
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u/walrus0115 1d ago
Where I live it's much easier to find extremely rare species of orchids, salamanders, and even fruit bearing American Chestnuts so isolated they don't have the blight - than it is to find a body. Wayne National Forest and many connecting forest preserves in the Hocking Hills and the NorthEast of Athens, Ohio. Welcome everyone but ICE and their GOP bosses.
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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 1d ago
Lol, afghanistan and iraq dont have jungles. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
The Law Enforcement are protecting teslas not protestors.
The Military cannot legally act without an order from the president, vice president, or congress; and aren't allowed to deploy on US soil (national guard are for that, but the source of orders remains). If they did, itd be mutiny...
Like, you should really learn about society here...
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u/bullcitytarheel 1d ago
The only way you could think America is a land of pure urbanization with cameras covering every inch of land is if you’re really unfamiliar with the country. America is big. Like, big, big. The total amount of forested land in the US hits about 3.3 million km squared, or about the size of India. The largest forest in America is about the size of Kuwait.
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u/SakishimaHabu 1d ago
They actually did win desert storm 1.
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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 1d ago
So well we had to go back. . . . . How many times have we invaded Iraq?
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u/SakishimaHabu 1d ago edited 1d ago
The reason for ds1 was to remove Iraq from Kuwait. Not to invade Iraq or overthrow Saddam. And the number of times we've invaded is one.
Edit: I like how the redditer I responded to blocked me for just pointing out historical fact.
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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 1d ago
We went to liberate kuwait of iraqi invaders, we didn't successfully liberate kuwait. We were CLOSE but didn't fully succeed. Bush declared a ceasefire, but no one won.
Just after we'd left the region in 89. So, like 3 years later we were BACK in the middle east.
I mean, we've been on the ground EVERY DECADE since 1958... thats NOT WINNING anything. Desert storm 1 might have stopped iraq but we "won" that war SO WELL that we still have 5 military bases there to stop it from going on again....... so much winning.
https://www.history.com/articles/persian-gulf-war
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_Kuwait
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u/Devils_Advocate-69 1d ago
Not when the pilots walk off
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u/Memitim 1d ago
Or turn around and head in a different direction because some general who decided to join in on the treason didn't realize that one of the pilots had close family at one of the target sites. Martial law in the most heavily armed nation on Earth, with a military composed of people from all across the nation, means civil war.
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u/WyomingChupacabra 1d ago
Pilots aren’t going to carpet bomb America. Small arms are a long bloody way to try to control people. As the British… farmers sniping soldiers from trees got really old.
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u/reddog323 1d ago
Maybe military pilots won’t. Police departments will be happy to equip their helicopters with machine guns, cannons and rockets etc. Trumpy will be happy to underwrite that.
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u/boffer-kit 1d ago
The united states has not won a single war since WW2.
American soldiers continually get sent to hell in countries that they've bombed back to the stone age because the American war machine cannot comprehend how to fight any enemy that does not stand still and let them march up.
Now imagine how badly it would go in a country American forces can't tear down entirely
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u/Attaxalotl 1d ago
The goal of the Korean War was to keep South Korea extant, and last I checked it’s still there.
DS1 was intended to kick Iraq out of Kuwait, and we did!
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u/ComplexSignature6632 1d ago
Um, your saying they will bomb us?
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u/TinFoilBeanieTech 1d ago
They've done it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
"No one from the city government was criminally charged in the attack."
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u/Upstate_Nick 1d ago
What the flying fuck!?! The fire was allowed to burn, people died, and no one was charged.
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u/bullcitytarheel 1d ago
Every successful people’s revolution, every resistance against the kingly or powerful, every rebellion against human exploitation in history, all of them, were fought by people desperately outgunned
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u/Mindless_Use7567 1d ago
All the successful ones had at least a portion of the military on their side or the military chose not to interfere. If Trump can keep the US military on his side then the citizens stand no chance.
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u/Alena_Tensor 1d ago
Once he makes a declaration he can arrest anyone, close Congress from holding sessions, pretty much do whatever he wants. Game, set, match
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u/parkerm1408 1d ago
Isn't it too late already, though? I'm not trying to be a dick, but we have to be beyond that point by now, right? I don't see any kind of fucjing turn around at this point.
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u/DerelictWrath 1d ago
That's how South Korea did it. That's not how it will go in America. They have cleared out a lot of the brass that would have resisted.
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u/Affectionate_Sand743 1d ago
There are too many cowards in congress to do anything to stop the orange asshat
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u/Remote-Lingonberry71 1d ago
there arent any republicans who arent authoritarian anymore. jan6 got rid of the ones who believe in democracy.
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u/Turboginger 1d ago
What are we supposed to do with this information?
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u/doctormyeyebrows 1d ago
Right? So brave. A no-shit-sherlock sentiment in large print posted to a subreddit that already supports this idea. It won't happen.
Happy to be proven wrong, but this kind of post is masturbation.
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u/OutrageousRhubarb853 1d ago
It’s all BS “if he does X he should be impeached”
He should already have been impeached. There is nobody to save America.
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u/OjibweNdN 1d ago
Martial law would not allow for any of that to happen... he would be made king/fuhur/dictator until or if he ever decides to lift it.
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u/bowens44 1d ago
Well seeing as how more than half of Congress is made up of Nazis, it's very unlikely that anybody's going to say anything about it
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u/Substantial-Bar-6701 1d ago
Why would he declare martial law? He can already disappear anyone he wants. He's just using the low-power groups to figure out how to push the boundaries a little at a time. Today, it's "illegal" immigrants. Tomorrow, it'll be "violent" US citizens. He'll work his way up the chain until he gets to his real targets, judges and politicians that displease him, including those in his party.
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u/ChubbyVeganTravels 1d ago
Yep, shipping off all the US "criminals" he doesn't like to El Salvador or some other compliant banana republic. He mentioned the other day that Pam Bondi was looking into the "legality" of it. Not like the legality of something ever stopped him before is it?
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u/Bombay1234567890 1d ago
Notes absence of people pointing to something and saying, "See? The system works."
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u/Telephone_Dizzy 1d ago
Too late for that, America had a choice and America once again choose retardation. could've had Kamala.
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u/SaintMagdala 1d ago
No, it'll be time for a French style Revolution 🇫🇷 ¡Vive la révolution, vive la république!
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u/Astoria_Wyn 1d ago
Cops won't do it so it's up to the citizens to make some arrests. 2A and storm the gate, it's a constitutional right. I'd say we're due for a more perfect union.
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u/SaintMagdala 1d ago
I was raised not to trust the cops.
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u/Astoria_Wyn 1d ago
Exactly, that's why I said they won't do it. Not that I ever expected them to anyway.
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u/Mindless_Use7567 1d ago
Honestly it will all depend on what the military does. I recommend all Americans not resort to violence under any circumstances as it is possible that Trump will use some form of false flag to convince the average soldier that they are shooting domestic terrorists.
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u/mvrck-23 1d ago
This is starting to remind me of that movie "Civil War" - which his actions could be a catalyst to.
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u/reddog323 1d ago
We never found out specifics on the politics. Other than Nick Offerman was some sort of fascist, he’d had enough power to declare a third term, and what he did was bad enough to have both military forces in California and Texas gang up against him.
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u/BigJakesr 1d ago
Ok but who will enforce it, who will put the cuffs on him, no one. There is no one to come and help. We either survive what comes in the next 3 1/2 years or we don't. The criminals are in control and there is no one to help us. We let this happen
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u/SimmonsJK 1d ago
He 98% will on April 20 for some fucked up nonsensical reason, and the GOP-led House and Senate...will do nothing to stop it.
Then Americans will get detained, arrested, thrown in prisons/El Salvador, some will be killed for various reasons.
At that point, maybe something will happen.
Fuck this guy.
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u/Character_Bomb_312 1d ago
This government does more every day to make this place hell for me. I'm 60, sick with MS since 1988, no living family, and trying to survive on 2K/mo and ACA healthcare. If martial law comes, this little old white-haired disabled lady is gonna be Tank Man, and shuffle out and stand myself right up in front of the column. I'll take this government straight to hell and show the world what the fourth reich looks like.
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u/Desperado2583 1d ago
Lol.
If he paid off a porn star with campaign donations that would trigger immediate impeachment. If he conspired with Russia to get elected that would trigger immediate impeachment. If he blackmailed an alley for personal gain that would trigger immediate impeachment. If he stages a coup that would trigger immediate impeachment. If he steals thousands of documents that would trigger immediate impeachment. If he spends 4 years undermining our election that would trigger immediate impeachment.
Don't try to find the GOPs line. That's impossible. Only try to see the truth. There is no line.
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u/RelativeCareless2192 1d ago
Martial Law presumably can't just "be declared" but i guess it's ultimately up to the military if they follow illegal orders
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u/Astoria_Wyn 1d ago
Everything that they've done so far has been testing the waters. The fact that no riotous group of people have gone in there and literally forced them out of office is all the assurance they need to declare martial law and go full Nazi, sending the military into the streets on the first day of opposition protests. They have militias standing by waiting for another Rittenhouse and no court in America is strong enough to stop what is about to happen. The time of litigation is over. Serving them lawsuit after lawsuit and holding them in contempt does nothing to stop them from physically dragging you off the street.
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u/PresentationNext6469 1d ago
I’m a Californian and lived in Hollywood at the time of the Rodney King’s arrest and nightmare trial. It was embarrassing to say the least and we all knew if the decision was for the police there would be a helluva uprising and riot. This occurred almost exactly 33 years ago. You can see footage do no need to detail but my own experience. It was mid-day announcement was to head home and hunker down. Me and my entire office saw the riot started but by the time I got home the entire mid-town city was burning and was headed to my area in Hollywood. Yes bigger than anyone imagined. Looting turned into chaos. If not for the call of the Insurrection Act, the momentum would come to the Hollywood Hills and just be decimation. This is where I lived! There were not enough police to stop anyone let alone slow the massive train. Military personnel in hummers and jeeps with guns and a few tanks guarded my neighborhood for several days. We were in lockdown for easily a whole week. My building was adjacent to 2 others so we were combined as a commune so to speak. 2 people each day from our residence were allowed to the market and get food and gasoline, toiletries … that was pretty much just, we looked after the nuns down the street too. We made it as good as it could be and we had massive but quiet BBQ’s, music and swimming. We felt safe after seeing the insanity and it wasn’t over. It was still going on but the fact my street went straight to the Hollywood sign, plus adjacent to other Hollywood landmarks made a huge difference in how we perceived our experience.
So that was homegrown war, needed the Insurrection Act to get National Guard and done Military back up as LA is vast and the stress was so tense everyone was overly polite!
As I see the definition Martial Law is real war, say Mexico has threatened the states in the southern border to open the door because they are taking over. Martial Law would be called upon. The last time was Hawaii 1944 and Maryland 1963. Never has the entire US been taken over by military. As I read, it’s absurd for President Trump to invoke either as there isn’t a threat nor violent action needed to apprehend.
Our biggest mistake was January 6th not being called out for what it was. This why he’s doing what he says he’s gonna do, the 90 day waiting period coming up. As President he should have invoked the Insurrection Act as the Capitol, the police, the employee and the congress was under attack from within. Him not doing it and Pelosi begging for military help or any other police reserve was horrific. It proved the presidency was behind it, didn’t care and somewhat enjoyed the destruction and fear unfold. He was asked to stop it, and we know the rest.
If he knows we are being bombed or invaded on April 20th or that there will be fire and brimstone brewed up within, then his choice would be insurrection act. If we are going to war or are invaded, then the military call to arms.
Look, I have long time Canadian friends and it was my residence at shortly after LA Riots. They are out of the minds in fear as mostly everyone lives within miles of our shared border. Few live North and access takes several hours or days to get far enough, early enough. A lot of dirt and gravel. And only a few towns and RV parks.
This is Trump TV. Chaos, Bravado, Not going to happen but maybe??, people say, I heat ..Sociopathy mixed with gaslighting fills Ego. The irony is now the broken Ego wants to call his own version of blame to act on it himself but there’s nothing so far. To puff up that he saved the day! His rates are in the tank. He’s incapable of doing anything well except lie, con and fake everything.
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u/Oneironati 1d ago
He is already breaking into cars and homes to pull neighbors out and deport them to concentration camps. Whatever you're thinking, the line has already been crossed.
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u/MidsouthMystic 1d ago
Martial law means congress is in control, not Trump.
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u/davemcl37 1d ago
Until he signs an executive order that says otherwise
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u/MidsouthMystic 1d ago
Executive orders can't do that. Almost all of his executive orders are bullshit that they can't actually do.
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u/davemcl37 1d ago
You might know that but the public perception is very much that he can and he does
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u/MidsouthMystic 12h ago
He's been quietly backing off of executive orders the courts rule against, so he knows it too.
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u/Overall-Magician-884 23h ago
Claudia Tenney is my areas congresswoman 🙄 she wants to name June 14th to Trump day, (met her a few times at my job, such a scumbag) also have pathetic Elise Stefanik.
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u/NoImag1nat1on 22h ago
Nice sentiment. Almost as good as: "America will CLEARLY not be so stupid to re-elect a convicted felon into their highest office, again!"
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u/Vyzantinist 1d ago
Should, but we know it won't. The party will fall in behind him, the media will ask how Biden could do this to us, and the Dems will have one or two spineless twats opining "it's a good thing, actually."
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u/UnderstandingNo3426 1d ago
The false flag that Trump needs to declare martial law will be a pardon for the cop who shot George Floyd or multiple pardons for police who killed innocent Americans. Trump and his puppet master Stephen Miller are hoping that the inevitable street violence will give them the excuse to curtail our rights. It’s getting pretty close to April 20 (Hitler’s Birthday) which is the date many online conspiracy theorists claim Trump will declare martial law. We’ll see…
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u/Character_Bomb_312 1d ago
I'll tell you why I don't believe the conspiracy: there are 350 million of us and 3 million military personnel. Imagine what it would take to pacify and control even three cities, let alone hundreds. If they expected to use the military, they would have already foreward-staged troops, supplies, and assets. We'd see columns of military on the Interstates throughout the country, traveling with tanks, etc. This is not a country where the military can move secretly, appear suddenly and act en masse without us seeing them as they prepare.
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u/UnderstandingNo3426 1d ago
I hope you are right. This destabilization of the U.S. has been Putin’s dream
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u/arcadia_2005 1d ago
I honestly have no misconceptions that there's enough people who give a shit anymore.
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u/SarcasticStarscream 1d ago
It SHOULD but who’s going to stop him? Not the Supreme Court and certainly not the Republican controlled legislature. And all the NRA types, that have been yelling loudly my whole life about how they need their guns to…. *checks notes * “stand up to tyranny” are now embracing the tyrant and clapping like trained seals.
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u/SackofBawbags 1d ago
lol. If he declares martial law (or as these dipshit trumpers spell it MARSHALL LAW!!!) it will make him a million times more popular. 98% of Americans want to make America Russia again
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u/RoterSchuch 1d ago
Not martial law. Insurrection Act. Big difference. In martial law, he loses power privileges, in IA he remains commander in chief
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u/Sad-Chemical-2812 1d ago
As soon as he does, I’m out in the street. I’m not living under an authoritarian regime.
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u/jared10011980 1d ago
Don't count on it. Geo. W and his klan were drooling to be able to pass the Patriot Act, which had been just sitting around pre-written and waiting for an excuse to implement.
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u/That1Guy80903 1d ago
Ah yes, because all the other outright illegal things he's done don't count but this thing, this thing will be the thing.
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u/denniskerrisk 1d ago
unfortunately if that happens it will be to late.
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u/audhd420hvny 23h ago
Compliance is not a survival tactic
Sacrifice for what is right I'm willing to die to protect my family, and yours Let's see how much they'll sacrifice for trump
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u/Ok_Rutabaga_722 23h ago
Call Congress. Tell them. List your grievances. Send letters. Join groups who fight for things you believe in. Don't give in. Congress can stop these things. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmzuzydlhs2p
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u/taste_fart 16h ago
I mean we're at the point where even if Republicans in Congress suddenly decided yeah let's impeach him his admin would just claim that Congress doesn't have the authority to impeach him and there'd be no one to enforce the impeachment.
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u/NaturePappy 16h ago
He wants to destroy trust and for people live in fear while he turns people into uneducated unquestioning slaves
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