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
Experts in constitutional law and the military say the Insurrection Act gives presidents tremendous power with few restraints. Recent statements by former President Donald Trump raise questions about how he might use it if he wins another term.
Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states.
Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination told his audience, “The next time, I’m not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we’re going to show how bad a job they do,” he said. “Well, we did that. We don’t have to wait any longer.”
Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he and his advisers have suggested they would have wide latitude to call up units. While deploying the military regularly within the country’s borders would be a departure from tradition, the former president already has signaled an aggressive agenda if he wins, from mass deportations to travel bans imposed on certain Muslim-majority countries.
A law first crafted in the nation’s infancy would give Trump as commander in chief almost unfettered power to do so, military and legal experts said in a series of interviews.
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I think people are forgetful of the daily hell his presidency was. Every day was stressful, and we discovered "outrage fatigue". He keeps warning us that he plans to be even worse, and corporate news is champing at the bit for those angry clicks. My personal aims at the ballot (aside from any policy preferences) will be to keep politics boring.
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St. John's Church, his bible upside-down
Temba, his arms open
Shaka, when his Diet Coke flat.
it still fucking is ~ every goddamned day this fuckers insurrection gets closer to success ~ exhausting slow motion train crash
“This jackass doesn’t have a chance in hell of winning.”
Which is what many people thought in 2016. Get your ass out there and vote. And bring your friends and family with you.
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Congrats, you effectively voted for Trump in 2016. Good work 🙄
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Until weighted voting is possible, the system is really only setup for two parties.
A third party might, MIGHT have a chance if any of them bothered to run at the local or state levels. Since none of them ever DO, they have little chance of communicating their party's values to the rest of the country at large, or building the broad base of support necessary.
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At some point you have to play the game by the rules in order to dictate future rules. This is why I vote Democrat while being one of the largest critics/protesters of democratic choices
The only nonsense here is this tired old broken shitty logic that if you throw your vote away, that it could ever for a moment have a snowball's chance in hell of helping anyone but the Republican
Low info voters keep saying that, but Duverger's law still stands.
You realize you're agreeing with me, right?
You're right. Pre-coffee reading comprehension failure.
Happens to the best of us :)
You are both not wrong.
Tell me you don't understand game theory & math without telling me you don't understand game theory or math.
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Grats on voting in a fascist, no one gives a shit about your morally correct vote
Edit: the GALL to bitch about him gassing citizens when you helped get him into office
If he does, the country is truly broken and I will be looking to flee…
By then, it could be too late to flee.
Just remember, due to the electoral college the election is going to be decided by a few hundred thousand people in just a handful of states. In reality it is not a very high bar to cross. Do not take his loss for granted.
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The guy is pretty good at speaking up about himself and was a well known real estate grifter for years. Then the things he talked about on the campaign trail weee completely off the wall ….. I don’t see how anyone didn’t know. Granted the continuous outrage machine was a lot more stressful than I expected
I did everything I could to stop him in 2016, but after he was elected I'd hoped that maybe his tariffs on China could do some good.
I have no such hope for a single positive thing this time.
You make it sound like China was meant to pay those tariffs. It's Americans who pay. China doesn't give a fuck.
And yet you won't stop helping to vote him in
The country is ABSOLUTELY broken.
Even now there are people who look at a close election between Biden and Trump and genuinely think "Well, I don't like Biden, so I won't vote / will throw my vote away instead of voting against Trump."
You have racists, morons, and fascists voting for Trump.
You have irrational moron progressives who will refuse to ever vote for anyone with a D no matter how bad the alternative and no matter how much good that democrat has provably done.
And you have dispirited progressives just trying to get their peers to show up to the polls and do the minimum possible effort. We're seriously fucked because of this.
He's the bookmaker's favourite to win, which blows my mind.
Interestingly enough, the most fervent Trump supporters that I know are non-voters. I asked several of them if they planned on voting in the presidential election and they all said no. They Don't want to register with the government.
They Don’t want to register with the government.
Let them keep thinking that this is the way to stay "off the grid" from the government.
His supporters with past felonies say that.
I heard the exact same things in 2016.
- Posted Oct 2016