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Martial Law?

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When will Trump declare Martial Law?

  • Before July 2025

    Votes: 11 15.7%
  • Second half of 2025

    Votes: 10 14.3%
  • First half of 2026

    Votes: 5 7.1%
  • Second half of 2026, before mid-term elections

    Votes: 8 11.4%
  • After mid-term elections based on results

    Votes: 7 10.0%
  • Won't, but will threaten to do so

    Votes: 13 18.6%
  • Won't

    Votes: 13 18.6%
  • Already in progress, nobody notices, no declaration required

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Total voters
    70
Trump literally fired hundreds of thousands of government workers in the name of saving money, yet we have the money for something like this? He conjured up a fake economic emergency to enact tariffs on anyone and everyone, yet we have the money for something like this?
You must hate the troops and want to deny them the glory of sleeping in a warehouse and eating MREs for days.
 
Trump literally fired hundreds of thousands of government workers in the name of saving money, yet we have the money for something like this? He conjured up a fake economic emergency to enact tariffs on anyone and everyone, yet we have the money for something like this?
Shhh. You will cause the synapses of @Greenman and @pcgeek11 to misfire

They really think Trump wants to stop access spending in government while we needlessly spending on

Parades
Retrofitting a B747 when we have 2 working AF1s
Breaking records on golf spending in <1 year what it took Obama 8 years to amass

Those 2 are incapable of looking reality in the face without taking direction from Trump. When they are dead and the autopsy is performed, removing the tops of their skulls will reveal nothing but orange ooze. Explains everything
 
Shhh. You will cause the synapses of @Greenman and @pcgeek11 to misfire

They really think Trump wants to stop access spending in government while we needlessly spending on

Parades
Retrofitting a B747 when we have 2 working AF1s
Breaking records on golf spending in <1 year what it took Obama 8 years to amass

Those 2 are incapable of looking reality in the face without taking direction from Trump. When they are dead and the autopsy is performed, removing the tops of their skulls will reveal nothing but orange ooze. Explains everything

Well stupid people are stupid.. news at 11.
 
Dont throw fascist Pete(greenman) a bone, he will honker down on this parade issue and make an example of how the left overreacts to everything.
Observe how the usual suspect refrains from commenting on the big stuff but ankle bites on stuff like this. Its not in good faith - and if it is their minds are gone. Forever ever. Same result -> dont throw the bone
 
No, it will depend on how quickly this current episode lasts and if it spreads to other cities.

My guess is the sudden show of force quells any further resistance and ICE/DHS just try to wrap it up quickly so it doesn't drag out in the news
Trump wants it in the news, he thinks it shows him to be the powerful leader his ego says he is, plus it is a distraction from the Epstein files, the crashing economy, and the blowback from what is included in the BBB, etc.

You can't intimidate people into silence without his troops goose-stepping down city streets in America.
 
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I don't think people are ready to accept just how bad it's going to get this summer, and how different the world will look by the end of the calendar year.
 
Well I don't understand why they called in the National Guard
When Donald Trump is the one who belongs in the exercise yard
Trump views the American people as a problem with a military solution.
My own local MAGA demand that they just open fire and shoot to kill any protester on the streets.
White House officials are calling it an insurrection / rebellion.
Secretary of Defense is chomping at the bit to deploy active duty military to our streets.

What is there to not understand?
Nazis are going to Nazi.
 
I don't know what was planned as opposed to what's being done now, but overall I have no issue with a military parade. I have respect for the majority of people that join the armed forces and have no issue at all with throwing them a party.
You can't say you support both the military and this admins budget which is going to harm veterans.


This lady and her husband are both veterans.
 
We must maintain peace and security.

I agree. However you must realize that maintaining peace and security is not only reserved for people that agree with your brand of political persuasion. Having our security agencies turned into an aggressive brutish fear inducing entity on the orders of a cowardly draft dodging misogynistic narcissist is instigating the kind of response that Trump wanted to happen in the first place. There are other less confrontational more peaceful ways that Trump could have handled this terror campaign of his.

Your saying that peace and security must be maintained is the exact opposite of what Trump is trying to create with his brute force Big Brother Fear and Frighten Campaign.
 
At some point good and decent needs to give authoritarianism and repression a kick in the balls.
That's how you get a civil society.
You shouldn't live in fear of your government.
You shouldn't say "Don't make a fuss in case they come for us"
Or "Hopefully they'll take them and leave us alone"
I remember reading a story told by a primatologist eye-witnessing baboons in the wild. He saw a leopard stalking the troupe. Two young males broke from it and attacked the leopard. Both were almost intermediately slaughtered but not before one was able to fatally wound the leopard.
 
Shhh. You will cause the synapses of @Greenman and @pcgeek11 to misfire

They really think Trump wants to stop access spending in government while we needlessly spending on

Parades
Retrofitting a B747 when we have 2 working AF1s
Breaking records on golf spending in <1 year what it took Obama 8 years to amass

Those 2 are incapable of looking reality in the face without taking direction from Trump. When they are dead and the autopsy is performed, removing the tops of their skulls will reveal nothing but orange ooze. Explains everything
I still remember MAGAs calling Obama the golfer in chief and photoshopping pictures of him golfing in traffic trying to evacuate before a hurricane, yet total crickets as trump golfs way more than him and eliminates FEMA.
 
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