How MAGA Is Already Justifying The Use Of Military Force At Home If Trump Wins

[struth]

I'm sure you recall as I do trump's demand that police "dominate the streets" in response to protests. What happened in Lafayette Sq. is what that looks like.

You mean when the brownshirts Burnt down a church, broke in the Dept of Tres and attempted to over run the White House? Yes I do.

 

[Kondor3]

You Dems are willing to rig elections to see that happen.

How did Dem election-rigging decide the 2020 election?

You jokers had sixty-two (62) chances to prove that in the law courts.

Oftentimes appearing before Republican - and even Trump-appointed - judges and justices.

And with one minor exception amounting to mere accommodation in one (1) of those sixty-two cases...

You got laughed out of court, 61 out of 62 times... and that 1 time never really amounted to anything...

Your Orange Baboon-God's wild, hairy-a$$ed claims were viewed as ridiculous, from one side of the country to the other...

Democrats do, indeed, rig elections...

Hell, in my neck-of-the-woods... metropolitan Chicago... Democrats have ruled for 90 years and are infamous for it...

But those rigged elections are for mayor or alderman or trustee or judge or dogcatcher... not for Federal offices...

And that's in one of the most corrupt Democratic strongholds in the country..

No... four years of your boy's profoundly flawed character and ignorant overnight tweeting are what killed his re-election...

A larger percentage of Americans repudiated his flawed personality than were willing to look the other way to hold power...

But your boy's hyper-fragile ego could not accept his legitimate loss so he invented his Big Lie and sold it to you suckers...

And you've spent the last four years trying (and failing) to defend the indefensible, at the expense of credibility and soul...

The Dems stole the November 2020 general election from your boy?

Bull$hit...

You lie...

So does your Orange Baboon-God master...

Tell a Lie big enough and often enough until it becomes the Truth?

Herr Doktor Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of all of you.

But the rest of us are not willing to let you get away with it.

After January 6, 2021 vast legions of your fellow Americans would rather vote for a fence post than vote for your boy.

You will understand the Reality of this on the morning of November 6, 2024.

 

[lafayette]

MAGA will not be violent or else.

 

[lafayette]

You Dems are willing to rig elections to see that happen.

Why? MAGA will not get 43% of the vote.

 

[Obiwan]

Many MAGA influencers have an apocalyptic story to tell about the country, the political divide, and where we’re all headed, and they’re already using it to lay the groundwork for crossing what has long been a red line: deploying the military for domestic law enforcement purposes.

In this MAGA fever dream, everyone has their part to play. They believe that they’ll be caught up in it; you might be, too. It goes something like this: If Donald Trump wins in November, people will protest. Riots will break out. The left, they theorize, will go all-out to stoke organized violence around the country, clearing the way for a newly inaugurated Trump administration to step in and make unprecedented, widespread use of the U.S. military to restore law and order.

This dark vision of the future draws on deeply pessimistic theorizing, on lectures about Marxist anti-government ideology seemingly ripped from the Cold War, on memories of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, and on claims that Democrats and the left will be unable to accept a Trump victory. It all comes against the backdrop of senior officials around Trump and Trump himself reportedly having been eager to invoke the Insurrection Act while he was in office, and mulling its actual use if he’s re-elected.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/...e-use-of-military-force-at-home-if-trump-wins

He will take whatever extralegal steps he needs to take in order to suppress protests against him. Something there's no need to speculate about. He's already planning on it.

Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails​

Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails

Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers suggest they would have wide latitude to call up units.

apnews.com

Didn't Tampon Tim call in the National Guard after the Democrats looted and burned Minneapolis for 3 days? Doesn't that make Walz a DICKTATER???

 

[lafayette]

Obiwan's photo

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

How did Dem election-rigging decide the 2020 election?

You jokers had sixty-two (62) chances to prove that in the law courts.

Oftentimes appearing before Republican - and even Trump-appointed - judges and justices.

And with one minor exception amounting to mere accommodation in one (1) of those sixty-two cases...

You got laughed out of court, 61 out of 62 times... and that 1 time never really amounted to anything...

Your Orange Baboon-God's wild, hairy-a$$ed claims were viewed as ridiculous, from one side of the country to the other...

Democrats do, indeed, rig elections...

Hell, in my neck-of-the-woods... metropolitan Chicago... Democrats have ruled for 90 years and are infamous for it...

But those rigged elections are for mayor or alderman or trustee or judge or dogcatcher... not for Federal offices...

And that's in one of the most corrupt Democratic strongholds in the country..

No... four years of your boy's profoundly flawed character and ignorant overnight tweeting are what killed his re-election...

A larger percentage of Americans repudiated his flawed personality than were willing to look the other way to hold power...

But your boy's hyper-fragile ego could not accept his legitimate loss so he invented his Big Lie and sold it to you suckers...

And you've spent the last four years trying (and failing) to defend the indefensible, at the expense of credibility and soul...

The Dems stole the November 2020 general election from your boy?

Bull$hit...

You lie...

So does your Orange Baboon-God master...

Tell a Lie big enough and often enough until it becomes the Truth?

Herr Doktor Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of all of you.

But the rest of us are not willing to let you get away with it.

After January 6, 2021 vast legions of your fellow Americans would rather vote for a fence post than vote for your boy.

You will understand the Reality of this on the morning of November 6, 2024.

Only the White Vote Counts

 

[Kondor3]

Only the White Vote Counts

In your mind or in the Real World ?

 

[scruffy]

Obiwan's photo

How old are you? 12?

 

[berg80]

You Dems are willing to rig elections to see that happen.

trump tried to steal one after it was over.

BTW, you have no evidence to support your assertion.

 

[berg80]

You mean when the brownshirts Burnt down a church, broke in the Dept of Tres and attempted to over run the White House? Yes I do.

Pulling that deflection out of your ass as you did signals the difficulty you're having dealing with what happened to the protesters in Lafayette Sq. that day.

 

[scruffy]

trump tried to steal one after it was over.

BTW, you have no evidence to support your assertion.

Neither do you.

 

[lafayette]

Neither do you.

The court has sorted yours, and the courts will sort out Trump.

 

[scruffy]

The court has sorted yours, and the courts will sort out Trump.

No they won't. Courts can't hear statistical evidence. If they could, half you leftards would be in jail right now.

 

[lafayette]

Courts handle such evidence all the time.

You don't have any such evidence.,

 

[ThisIsMe]

MAGA Looks to Notorious War On Terror Lawyer For Trump II Inspiration​

As Trump allies seek to justify deploying the military at home — be it to round up undocumented immigrants, quell protests, or simply make an aggressive point — they’re looking again and again to the early 2000s. The nation is in crisis. An invisible enemy has attacked, requiring a powerful presidency to confront a novel threat.

These Trump allies are looking towards the work of an attorney who was stationed at the time in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. It’s John Yoo, the lawyer best known for authoring a series of 2002 memos that gave legal justification to the use of torture during the War on Terror.

The most striking example of Yoo’s current influence comes in a March 2024 policy brief that made an extensive argument for why the military could be deployed domestically in order to protect the southern border. The memo was written by Ken Cuccinelli, the Trump-era acting DHS deputy secretary, and was published by a think tank run by Project 2025 associate and former Trump OMB chief Russ Vought.

But Yoo’s influence in Trumpworld extends beyond his justification of domestic deployment of the military in an emergency situation. He’s also engaged with the MAGA concerns of the day: after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts, Yoo demanded tit-for-tat prosecutions of Democrats by Republicans. He’s popped up at various points in Trump’s defense against accountability: he testified for John Eastman in his disbarment proceedings; a longtime Yoo co-author also appeared as a witness for Trump in a Colorado proceeding over whether he should be disqualified from running for office due to his 2020 coup attempt. According to texts obtained by TPM, in December 2020 Trump legal aide Boris Epshteyn asked fake elector attorney Ken Chesebro if he had Yoo’s number; the next day, the messages show, Chesebro told Epshteyn that he hoped he would be able to “woo Yoo into being involved.”

MAGA Looks to Notorious War On Terror Lawyer For Trump II Inspiration

As Trump allies seek to justify deploying the military at home — be it to round up undocumented immigrants, quell protests, or simply make an aggressive point — they're looking again and again to the…

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I see no reason to share your optimism when it comes to trump and his desire for authoritarian style rule.

The author made an opinion, and then tried to write an article to support that opinion, but at the end of the day, it’s an opinion.

Trump isn’t going to get the military and start rounding people up.

 

[scruffy]

Courts handle such evidence all the time.

Bullshit.

You don't have any such evidence.,

Overwhelming amounts of it

 

[struth]

Pulling that deflection out of your ass as you did signals the difficulty you're having dealing with what happened to the protesters in Lafayette Sq. that day.

what deflection? Those things happened,

 

[lafayette]

Bullshit.



Overwhelming amounts of it

Nope.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

In your mind or in the Real World ?

Not in Your Hole Whirled