The non-monarch told U.S. troops stationed in Japan Tuesday that he was prepared to send “more than the National Guard” to American cities to safeguard and enforce his immigration agenda—a threat that could apparently involve any branch of America’s armed forces.
Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to South Korea hours later, Trump clarified that he would do whatever is “necessary” to tackle crime, even if that meant ordering the U.S. military onto American soil.
“I would do that if it was necessary, if it was necessary I’d do that, but it hasn’t been necessary,” Trump said on the plane. “We’re doing a great job without that—is necessary. As you know, I’m allowed to do that.
“And I’d be allowed to do whatever I want, but we haven’t chosen to do that,” he continued. “And the courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. I can send anybody I wanted.”
The president is typically prohibited from leveraging the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement purposes under the Posse Comitatus Act, though one law stands as the major exception to that rule. Trump could use troops to handle domestic issues if he invoked the Insurrection Act, but doing so would require a state of emergency.
The legal loophole has been used by 17 presidents but has not been invoked since 1992, when President George H.W. Bush used it to subdue riots in Los Angeles after the local police force brutalized Rodney King.
You’re so personally defensive when it’s clearly obvious the majority of America doesn’t even seem aware this is happening. Be mad at your American neighbors with their heads in the sand and up their asses, not with foreigners that are rightfully disgusted at America’s overall apathy toward its own destruction. Every Canadian has every reason to think we’re trash people because we keep showing them we are. It’s like, fucking congratulations, you personally aren’t part of the problem? You want a fucking cookie? America and Americans are still fucked and the goddamn least we can do is tolerate justified shit from countries we’re fucking. Get off Canada bros ass and get your head out of yours, be mad at the people that deserve it.
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Folks who are not members of a privileged ruling class have no real say about what their leadership does with the military regardless of the illusion of choice they’re given on election day. The idea that average, working class Americans are responsible for national guard troop deployments in US cities for stated political purposes can only come from a privileged person who has the kind of power and control to do anything to affect the situation. I know that’s not me.
If anyone wants a suggestion for something they can personally do to help America’s national situation, go to the food bank and move boxes around, and if you’ve got enough money to do it, go to the local megamart and buy all the clearance and donate it. Food stamps are gone starting Monday.
If we gave you the advice you need, we’d be flagged for inciting violence. That’s what is needed. Actual push back. Organize, deploy, resist. There is your advice. It’s gonna hurt, but so does starving to death. So does forced labour. Join forces now, before it’s too late. We ain’t coming to save you “bro”.
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Yup, and it’s going to have to happen too, so might as well get to it, eh. There is nothing gonna save you except yourselves, and it needs to get worse before anyone will get off their asses to make it better again. It’s coming. There won’t be another election at this point. There will be martial law before too long, there are already ICE and National Guard in cities for zero reason, so it’s only a matter of time. Why would I help you who willingly won’t help themselves?
I didn’t suggest it because it is the ONLY viable option. The courts won’t save you, politicians won’t save you, the police will certainly not save you and the military has already been compromised and also, likely won’t save you.
What are your options? Starve and die or rise up and fight together. You outnumber them significantly, and I doubt any institution outside of the highest office of politics has any appetite for mass murder of their fellow citizens. Unfortunately, it’s going to get to that point before any tables get turned. Welcome to the new world order.