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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)

Trump is salivating at the prospect of declaring a state of emergency. He is impatient to show off “his” military might, in California, the state he hates.

The train loads of army equipment arriving in DC for Trump’s birthday parade next weekend are extreme. This is reminiscent of Russia massing forces on Ukraine’s border, on the whims of the OTHER mad dictator Putin. Allowing Trump to inundate the nation’s capitol with the military he commands, may turn out to be the gravest error ever made by America. Trump’s third-world style authoritarian ambitions cannot be denied or downplayed. This threat is ominous and can’t be taken lightly.

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Semolina Pilchard's avatar

Let’s hope the military parade ends like the one in Egypt on 10/6/81

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Tamie Swain's avatar

Surely no ammo for the military parade!

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

A Blackhawk helicopter was filmed unloading boxes and barrels of weapons and ammo at the LA ICE compound yesterday. If that is any indication of where we are headed, it’s worrisome.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

This is madness and is utterly deliberate and intentional, meant to distract from Trump's failures. Trump wants martial law and to quash dissent before his big parade. What will happen in DC next Saturday? Will he use the military to attack Congress? The DC courts (not the Supremes, of course)? Will he invoke the Insurrection Act? How the hell are we going to stop this? The guardrails have failed and are gone. Welcome to the Fourth Reich and the new stormtroopers.

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Stephen's avatar

Remember that congress created the toughest bi-partisan immigration plan and trump quickly ordered the republicans to kill it. He doesn't care about immigrants. This is a wet-dream for his sick demented base.

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Bruce Jordan's avatar

This is a portent of things to come, folks. This is just a warm up. Trump is itching to unleash regular Army troops, not the National Guard, on American citizens using the Insurrection Act. Anyone who thinks otherwise is being naive.

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Punkette's avatar

JFC. I live in Southern California (NE of Los Angeles) and am furious, though we knew this revenge was coming. The Twitler regime is totally out of control. Crickets from our Republican congresscritters (including my own). Am worried for the safety of my family and friends in LA.

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Rick N's avatar

I’m can’t prove it, but I know it’s true that the rioters are j6ers mixed in with the protestors. The orange one is getting things set up for invoking the insurrection act (I hope he’s TACO on this one).

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Michael J McGee's avatar

"Illegally" should have also been in the headline, not just the first sentence of the article.

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Detroit Voter's avatar

This terrifying over reach is familiar, a sad reminder of the fire hosings, beatings, burned buses, and attach dogs used against protestors in the civil rights era. However this administration is PROVOKING the current protests with unjust, uncivil, unpredictable raids of outrageous cruelty, to justify the need for National Guard, and more. It is imperative that we all participate in NO KINGS DAY next weekend, same time as the parade. Document it, get it to THE DAILY, other independent news producers, and social media. Do it like the 1963 March on Washington.

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