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Apparently even the Pentagon does not know about Trump invoking the Insurrection Act.
He is spewing shit again and giving vague remarks, and scaring people.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)will decide, end America or dont.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)better listening to Jay Johnson. tRump should be arrested he needs to go to prison, he's a nothing who wants to be a something.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)knows what is legal and knows the seriousness of this. . Did you catch that? It was the part i really wanted to hear. The part i did hear of him made me feel better.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)to find something but maybe You tube, but maybe another DU'er can assist you.
spanone
(135,843 posts)paleotn
(17,930 posts)Look tough. Spew bullshit. Nothing happens. Donnie looks like an even bigger moron to 66.6% of the country. Others left to clean up the mess.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)she said would need to be made prior to invoking the Insurrection Act is being made by the police on the streets of Raleigh tonight.
I kid you not.
Our mayor established a curfew to take effect tonight at 8 pm. Shortly after 8, I heard what sounded like an announcement outside. Muted the TV and went to the window to listen and look. I saw two police cars and heard an announcement to the effect that we were under a state of emergency and you are ordered to disperse and return to your homes.
It makes me wonder if that sack of orange $hit is planning to set NC up to invoke the Insurrection Act so he can have his convention in Charlotte without regard to concerns of coronavirus by ordering more troops from Ft Bragg to Charlotte?!?
How's that for a conspiracy theory?
spanone
(135,843 posts)the constitution be damned
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Put him in a coma for six months for the safety of the nation.
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AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)its gonna come down to fed vs States... this is worse than a Consitiutional Crisis...
avebury
(10,952 posts)is an expert on the insurrection law issue having authored the last bill relating to it.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)I looked in my son's History book for both Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Act and came up NIL...
spanone
(135,843 posts)His ordering our military around has been seriously questioned by U.S. Rep. Gallego:
Dear Gen. Milley, Chair of the Joint Chiefs...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213526380
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)is calming me down. Al Sharpton was just on. Oh, the protesters are out, I wish Covid wasn't.
2naSalit
(86,643 posts)and they have Brian Williams on for a second hour to cover the mayhem in the streets and have a few interviews. I got a phone call and I missed it.