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Trump Floats Deploying National Guard to New York, Chicago, and LA After DC Crack Down
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Getting the military in place for the coup.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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He's getting everything prepared for when he denies the next election. He doesn't want to lose power to a pesky thing called democracy.
"Trump floats the idea of starting a civil war." FTFY.
I saw that movie. Loved the ending.
Yo, try that shit with NYC and see what happens. The city is a breath away from mass protest on a GOOD day.
Ah yes, the dog days of summer. When cities are known for being especially peaceful and compliant. What better time of year to deploy armed thugs to intimidate the local populace.
This is gonna be great. I'm making the popcorn.
Look, the Epstein shit is important, and it's important that we keep it in the conversation, but this isn't a fucking distraction. Do people seriously not understand how dire this is? This isn't a fucking joke. We are deep into full-on fascism now.
As someone watching from out side, no shit. The us has crossed the Rubicon a while ago, no longer a nation based on laws, no longer a place that people have rights, no longer a place with free elections (well this one has been around for a bit with the stupid 2 party system) and no longer a place other nations want to do business with.
The most infuriating part of this has been watching americans (and more of the rest of the world then I would have liked) act like this is all potentially bad and then normalizing just flat out dystopian shit. Like shit this is not even the first place troops have been deployed to put down political "wrong speak".
How will this shit end?
How will this shit end?
Some prisoner with a life sentence will never be out of commissary funds.
They'd never allow him to live. He could be on fifth avenue with his hands behind his head and the cult would summary execute him on live TV to send a message.
Is that a promise ?
Suspension of the constitution and President Trump for life.
Even worse because when he dies we’re stuck with a techno facist dictatorship for the foreseeable future
Martial law is next! I tell ya.
Martial Law was one of the last steps in Project 2025.
This is damn near the same thing, without all the fancy steps.
Those "fancy steps" are the only things that would make this legal. Without them, all he's doing is violating the Constitution. DC presents a unique loophole for this. Anywhere else, and he's breaking the law.
Surely this time he’s done for.
Hate to break it to you man but the law does not matter. It really never has for the rich and powerful but he has laid it all bare
I've said time and time again we let the entire Bush admin off the hook for war crimes... Trump hasn't even hit war crimes levels yet. Did anyone think we were ever going to hold him to account when we wouldn't even do anything about that?
I think it started sooner, with Nixon being pardoned and all the senior Reagan White House officials getting away with Iran-Contra
Even farther back. The mishandling of Reconstruction of the South after Lincoln's assassination.
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He’s breaking the law all over the US, when you’re rich… they let you. This is no different. Let’s see some consequences somewhere.
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SCOTUS:
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Normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
We changed people saying "Trump fucked kids" to "Trump rapes kids" in just a few days.
Phrasing matters, and it especially matters to him. Once we call it the Trump/Epstein files, news orgs will too.
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Trump rapes little kids.
FYI - He tried this in Portland last time:
Bonus: The guy in charge of it, Chad Wolf (not making that up) had been illegally appointed and had no authority:
https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/dont-shoot-portland-v-wolf/
How quickly people forgot that unmarked vans with unmarked personnel were kidnapping people off the streets of Portland during BLM
Did we forget? I kinda feel like this is an extension of the BLM persecution. It worked so well they decided to keep using the same techniques.
"No the billionaire owned news told us they were l00ters!"
Nevermind the exact same rhetoric being used to suppress civil rights 40 years ago
Fascists traditionally leave office in body bags
The most free country on the planet is now the most fascist.
Way to go America, yer fuckin’ winning.
The most free country on the planet...
Well you see that is the neat part, the us was never that. They like to say that they are, but no.
Now its just so blatantly wrong that no amount of rah rah usa will work.
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Helicopters have been flying low over Houston every couple hours all through the day for the last week.
I hope y'all liked our hard work in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Yemen, cause it's coming home
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You mean like when he wasted shit tons of money deploying the national guard to those places so they could sit on their ass, sleep in hallways, and then eventually leave because they weren't needed and no one asked for them in the first place?
Don't frame it like it won't turn out to be a big deal. That's a bad idea, intentional or not. Deploying military assets against American citizens should be considered a serious escalation every single time it happens.
How did an allegedly civilized country allow one of the worst people imaginable to become their leader?
Because he embodies American values. Greed, ignorance, show-boating and self importance.
The Republicans have been waging war against our education system for 50+ years, and brainwashing their constituents. It's a literal cult.
I’ve been asking that a lot lately too. I think a lot of people are extremely susceptible to the kind of propaganda that the right wing media peddles and they’re too dumb to know or don’t care to know the difference between opinions and news. Add to that the fact that the right wing has been politicizing everything and waging war on entertainment and there’s a lot of people in this country that only seem to get their news and entertainment from places like Fox News.
Trump will disovle the states quickly from here in my opinion. He doesn't like any executive authority except his in my opinion, and the Trump administration will make the country out of a few hundred corporate counties run by the richest fascist in each corporate county in my opinion.
I'd say by the end of September in my opinion.
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