Trump Says He’s Sending Troops To ‘War Ravaged’ America City — Authorizes ‘Full Force’

Except you will actually lose a significant number of your military force to do that. Who is going to replace the ones who leave? The majority of MAGA die-hards aren't actually physically fit enough or able to stop using meth long enough to actually cut it in the military. To keep troop levels what they're at (which is definitely not enough to wrangle the whole nation) they'd have to drastically reduce physical fitness and drug abuse standards.

Germany took Europe with about 18 million soldiers throughout the entire war, and Europe had about 540 million citizens overall before World War 2. US has around just over 2 million soldiers (with only 10% in "boots on the ground" combat roles) with about 350 million citizens, all of which are far more spread out over the US than they were in Europe.

The ability for the US military to occupy and hold it's own nation is absurdly low, honestly, imho.

Evidence to support my assertion: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/28/new-pentagon-study-shows-77-of-young-americans-are-ineligible-military-service.html

Pentagon study from 2020: "A new study from the Pentagon shows that 77% of young Americans would not qualify for military service without a waiver due to being overweight, using drugs or having mental and physical health problems."

Incidentally, Hegseth is requiring all US military generals to meet with him in person next week.

A retired general has directly compared it to when Hitler's fuckups forced the german generals and admiralty to re-swear their oath of service, in person, from the original oath to the country and new oath directly to Hitler.

make being a member of the armed-forces ideologically untenable for those who aren't worshipping orange

Hegseth was talking about using Kirk's murder for recruitment.

Trump doesn't give a single fuck about the constitution.

Yeah it's way more likely ICE will be used to occupy cities in general. For one, they don't have the same rigorous health standards that the military does, and for two, they just massively ballooned the budget of ICE for the specific purpose of recruitment. A lot easier to get dumb easily controlled thugs that way then trying to get the military deeply involved. The military being sent out is just Trump trying to pretend he's swinging his big dick around when it actually shows how weak he must be to be doing it.

This is the obvious way to so it, no new power and you get to have elections you cam trick liberals into believing they're forced by philosophical principals to honor

Apparently during the American occupation of Haiti, the occupation government wanted to pass a new, wildly unpopular constitution via a referendum. To do this (and ostensibly to get around most of the population being illiterate) they implemented the following system: In the polling station there would be two cards, a white card and a black card, meaning yes and no respectively. The white cards were already on the table, but you had to ask for the black card. From the US marine standing guard to "keep order." The new constitution passed.

Or Maritime law

I work with people in the software engineering field that have mentioned wanting to visit Portland but ask me if it's safe.

I can't even.

Plus, that was a long time ago. I drive by the Seattle "snowflakes beware" area a lot. It's just Seattleites doing their thing.

See, there’s a fourth option: The people with the power need to take action and I don’t mean a “strongly worded letter.” I’m talking about the leaders with the knowledge and the levers to move this along.

If they don’t the inevitability is that No Kings becomes more than the nice picnic it currently is for citizens.

Me? I’m a citizen just like you. I have no power unless you and I become a team.

You left out the General Strike response

You should ask "who's telling you this?" The follow-up is "you should ask yourself 'why are they lying to me?'"

I see this online about Seattle all the time. (Plus hyperbole about the fent/homeless prob) People will be ranting about how awful Seattle is and how you can't go anywhere near it and I'm like "Really, I was there last month and had a lovely afternoon"

Ask them why they believe mainstream media. Then watch them get an aneurysm.

I'd see certain commenters repeating that last sentence as just something that was an assumed truth.

Every single time I saw them doing it, I'd ask the usual suspects to show me exactly which cities "burned to the ground". These same people would basically scamper off, providing no evidence, only to make the same claims again in a few hours/days.

Doubtful. Donnie only cares about Donnie.

After a juried trial of the entire administration

Portland OR is 118 on that list? I assume you're not talking about Portland ME.

How old was Hitler when that happened?

Edit: Looks like he was 56 and trump is 79. You're probably right, the hamberders will get him first.

The very best thing Portland can do is leave them be. Let them stand around aimlessly. Taking the bait and engaging with them will only provide the Fox News crowd with validation. It will further trump’s goal of drawing the us into civil war so he can truly become king.