Tom Cotton just called on Trump to use the Insurrection Act

[highplainsdem]

As I posted yesterday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213513271

there's been a RW chorus calling for this, as a way to get around Posse Comitatus.


Cotton's tweet, with video from Fox News:

Link to tweet

The president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support local law enforcement and ensure this violence ends tonight.

[sfstaxprep]

1. Watch Any Chance Of A Recovery Go Down The Drain

I think that any chance Drumpf has of even a mild recovery in the economy, will disappear if he does this.

People are going to want to go outside, and get their lives back to normal, if there are armed military all over the streets?

Not me.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Aptly named Insurrection Act

They're down to their last and only hope of winning. Just steal it all.

[42bambi]

15. They're digging their own hole a little deeper every day. I'm fine with that.

[SKKY]

26. How does that Chinese proverb go? "When your adversary is making a mistake...

...don't interrupt them."

[Aristus]

36. I think that was Napoleon.

But it sounds consistent with Lao Tzu, too.

[SKKY]

39. Yea, probably more related to Napoleon than Lao Tzu...

...thanks for the correction!

[Pantagruel]

3. Step one

Step Two is internment camps for protesters.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Tom is trying to make a name for himself among the rw nutjobs. He wants to be President someday.

I can't believe this POS is running unopposed this year.

[highplainsdem]

6. I'd think he was just grandstanding if there weren't other calls from prominent RWers for Trump to

do this.

Seems to be a chorus almost certainly directed by the White House.

[genxlib]

5. This guy scares me

Just as big of an evil nut case but hidden beneath a professional veneer and good resume.

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. Walter Shaub tweet:

Walter Shaub ✔ @waltshaub

It's odd, I can't seem to find examples of Tom Cotton saying anything like this when armed right-wing terrorists seized a government building in Oregon and forcibly held it for 40 days while federal authorities twiddled their thumbs. Oh wait, did I say "odd"? I meant predictable.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[samsingh]

9. so a Democratic President can do the same against right wing zealots.

these repug morons should realize that whatever they establish will be used against them in the future.

[shockey80]

10. Cotton is a fucking idiot.

[uponit7771]

11. How would this affect Nov elections? tia

[Hortensis]

12. Good question. Disorder makes many yearn for strong,

even anti-democratic, leaders, including on the left, including all racial groups. If it was seen as effective, it'd help.

But what could go wrong?

The kind of violent LW extremists Trump/Repubs are claiming are almost nonexistent compared to the RW extremists we know are out there setting fires. If the RW terrorists pulled back as the RW-controlled military came in, leaving AA demonstrators for justice, who'd get hurt?

[uponit7771]

13. Trump holed up in a bunker while Biden out meeting with people doesn't look strong at all.

[Hortensis]

16. Yeah, but nobody knows it, or makes the same thing of his

being moved to the bunker for an hour if they do. It's a favorite theme here, but that's all.

Tanks with machine gunners rolling down city streets would be unmissable. And Trump's bloviation, chest puffed out strongman style, would, of necessity, need to be covered by every news service.

[NewJeffCT]

22. Like his yelling at all the governors

is making the headlines, even though he's doing it while hiding in his bunker

[Hortensis]

25. Lol, that was good. I'd bet my unspent cash, and give odds,

that he's been insulting them similarly during every call. He's not one to waste a captive audience, though I wouldn't bet a nickle that a bunch of them don't have assistants tell them when and if to start listening again either. They're kind of busy all the time.

[roamer65]

14. Cotton is a piece of fucking shit.

[sarisataka]

17. I call on Tom Cotton

To shut the fuck up

[lame54]

18. End the violence with increased violence

[jmg257]

19. They better come up with something - a week of the rioting BS has to be gotten under control.

10 U.S. Code § 252.Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority
U.S. Code

Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.

[LiberalFighter]

20. The act should be used against him.

[2naSalit]

33. +1

[jrandom421]

21. The Republicans

couldn't muster enough military force to pacify Iraq. What makes them think they can muster enough forces to pacify a country with over ten times the population?

[NewJeffCT]

24. different situations different people

Iraq had been involved in direct wars with both the US and neighboring Iran before Bush invaded. With the US, it has been the military involved in wars overseas

[jrandom421]

34. Not really

If they intend to use the military to enforce law, America is FAR too big an area to do it with the Armed forces, even if they federalize all the Nationsl Guard units. They'll be playing "Whack-A-Protester" all over the country. They couldn't do it in Iraq, a country much smaller in size and population. And it's an unknown how zealously the military pursues this mission, when it's going against their own neighbors, friends,and family.

[roamer65]

23. Cotton is proof we ended Reconstruction way too soon.

[dalton99a]

30. +1

[irisblue]

32. Welcome to DU SAMSON05

You have a newish discussion group correct?

[Midnight Writer]

28. Tom Cotton will be the next top fascist in power, and he will be more dangerous than this one.

[dmr]

35. That's a scary thought, but

the man is ambitious. He's gonna try. Lie, cheat and steal his way to the top.

[crickets]

29. Ah. Another bloviating idiot takes the stage... :facepalm: nt

[Renew Deal]

31. The "cities" would go to war with these guys.

Even if it's a losing battle. This is a really bad idea.

Protesters have left soldiers and their property alone so far. But that can change.

[JCMach1]

37. Even worse he's calling for War Crimes now (No Quarter)

[Rhiannon12866]

38. This traitorous joker is never on the "right side"

I've been horrified by him ever since he undermined the Obama administration by sending a letter (also signed by his fellow Republicans) to the leaders of Iran!