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The president said he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to assume emergency powers and send federal troops to Chicago and Portland, Ore., over local objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois called the mobilization “an unconstitutional invasion.”

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[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I still don't understand what they think a few hundred national guard troops deployed to million plus population cities are going to do. I'm saying this outside of the "it's civil war" or "portland is burning" rhetoric. They couldn't do fuck all if either thing were true. A few hundred national guardsman is pissing into the wind if any major city in the US is even getting out of bed.

[–] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Test run for martial law is my guess. Once he has a proven way to do it he will probably go bigger.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's good to be vigilant like this. But I don't see a path yet that leads to martial law. Maybe I'm confused about what I watched in 2016-2020, it's like a spicier fart of that period. They are waiting for an 'incident'. Unfortunately for them the news cycle is so fast that literal nazi rhetoric doesn't really work. Charlie is all but forgotten already, and that shit was insane imo.

I really hope this is just Trump's shatting period but I'm pessimistic. I really think he is going to try to go full dictator and do whatever he wants. Crush his dissenters and give money to himself and his cronies, and persecute anyone that doesn't fit his image. Of course he's already been doing this. I really hope I'm wrong but I think there's worse things to come.

As far as Charlie is concerned I think since it didn't line up with his narrative it fissled out. He tried to get rid of Jimmy Kimmel but we stood up. Only when a big corporation was effected did something get done so food for thought when our rights are attacked again.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Trump hopes the soldiers will massacre protesters and start a new Civil War

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

That won't happen. Civil war will be incredibly hard to kick off because we as 'mericans are extremely apathetic. We aren't suffering enough yet. Portland is also a dumb city to try to start a civil war in. I was raised there, the people protesting will hold donuts in the faces of cops shooting them. The most that will happen is some random CC person will shoot at an unmarked cop, just like last time.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

ICE is doing a good job maiming and killing in the chicago area soooo.....

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago

Here again the NYTimes can't even write an accurate headline. It's called martial law. Say it. Write it.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

In La-la land where I like to spend my moments imagining what anything other than Hell must be like the Governor would use whatever state powers he actually has to transfer the members of the national guard to the State Guard.

I seem to remember that some states retained that ability but I don't know if Illinois was one of them.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

The irony is not lost…

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well, what's he waiting for?