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Team Trump Mulling Deploying Military to Streets on Day 1 if Elected: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.

According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.

In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”

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[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 35 points 7 months ago

for the next 50 years we’ll have to hear about how the blue states “stole” an election from Republicans

STOP trying to get ahead of their whining idiocy. They will be saying this no matter what. Even if he wins...

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

STOP trying to get ahead of their whining idiocy.

That's a funny way to say "stop worrying about giving fuel to the next wannabe that will rise up in Trump's stead"

This problem didn't end when Biden won in 2020, and it won't end when Trump loses in 2024.

If a by the books court proceeding can disqualify him from the ballot in (checks notes) "the democratic states", then by the books court proceedings should get him off the ballot in at least some red states too.

It would be very myopic to support an outcome where only the blue stats take him off the ballot. It would be taken by the maga crowd (and sympathizers) of "proof" of what he was saying all along.

[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago

My point was intended much more generally here.

You see it everyday where people are saying things like if we do X, Y, or Z, the maga crowd will do some horrible thing.

My point was that it doesn't matter if you do those things. The horrible shit is still coming. Might as well do the things that might help because no matter what the maga idiots are going to maga.

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

Ah - on that we can agree!

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The point is that they are a large group of abusers who only seek power and will never be happy unless they get a separate society of their own or take over this one.

The only way to definitively resolve the conflict is warfare at this point. The U.S. is irrevocably broken and always has been.

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