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littlemissmartypants

(27,080 posts)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:21 PM Wednesday

Part 1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No Return. [View all]


"Aletheisthenes"
Mar 21, 2025
On April 20, 2025, the United States may initiate its final steps into authoritarian rule.

That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically and allow Trump to impose martial law. (San Francisco Chronicle). Given Hegseth and Noem are the main “advisors”, the conclusion is foregone.

And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.

Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.

Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.
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If the Shit Actually Hits the Fan
5 days ago
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But let’s suppose it’s April 21st, 2025… and Trump has just invoked the Insurrection Act.

What then?

Recap: The Scenario I Laid out is Not Original: It is the Classic Method for Overthrowing Governments
Here’s how it goes:

On or slightly after April 20th, 2025, Trump will most likely sign an executive order invoking the Insurrection Act.

The excuse will be to secure the border and deport violent gang member illegal aliens, and possibly bring order to out-of-control cities, but it will actually be the first step to eventually fully declare martial law across the United States, and suspend civil liberties, and the US Constitution.

To most it will come without warning. The press might not even report on it until the last minute. When it happens, expect confusion, misinformation, and panic. Many will be caught off guard.

(But a few of us won’t be, at least not entirely — because we saw this coming.)

The ultimate purpose is to eventually fully overthrow the United States government, put Trump, his billionaire co-conspirators, and people who share the values of his very fuzzy reactionary political coalition fully and permanently in control. I personally find the billionaire techno-fascists (Musk,Thiel, Andresseen, Yarvin, Land, Vance — see my post about these folks in my earlier Grok Papers series) of even more concern than the run-of-the-mill conservative reactionaries. The latter group, truth be told, do have some very legitimate grievances about how our country has treated them. But while we agree on the diagnosis, I couldn’t disagree with them more about the cure e.g. Trump and letting billionaire anarcho-
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RESIST!!

❤️pants

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I hope you are as dead wrong as the 2000 predictors were 25 years ago. Srkdqltr Wednesday #1
These aren't my predictions. But I agree with the sentiment. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Wednesday #4
Well whoever than, good information Srkdqltr Wednesday #7
The 2000 predictors were not dead wrong. Susan Calvin Wednesday #15
year 2000 was a real issue Skittles Wednesday #39
It's not a coincidence The Wizard Wednesday #2
It is also, conveniently, DENVERPOPS Wednesday #18
And if that happens then Musk's "bullet points" will likely need to be used. Callie1979 Wednesday #3
I'm not familiar with his bullet points LymphocyteLover Wednesday #12
Remember the justification of your Fed job? Callie1979 Wednesday #36
Expect the internet to be shut down or severely curtailed. erronis Wednesday #5
I thought about some of these things, too. ... littlemissmartypants Wednesday #9
I'm not sure I'll survive (well) without my internet communities... erronis Wednesday #11
❤️ littlemissmartypants Wednesday #14
Just because you are paranoid DENVERPOPS Wednesday #19
I use that one often, lately. n/t yellow dahlia Wednesday #32
More and More DENVERPOPS Yesterday #41
Yikes. And let's hope you're wrong. yellow dahlia Wednesday #31
Some very good people are worried too. Passages Wednesday #6
Do you recall when DENVERPOPS Wednesday #21
President Psychopath... littlemissmartypants Wednesday #24
Trump and his RepubliCONs DENVERPOPS Wednesday #25
Haven't troops already... littlemissmartypants Wednesday #23
Yes. This group is working to have more clarity from lawmakers so they can stop him in court. Passages Wednesday #34
On Hitler's Birthday, no less. Midnight Writer Wednesday #8
Exactly. littlemissmartypants Wednesday #10
even if he does, I don't see how they can effectively institute martial law in this huge and diverse country LymphocyteLover Wednesday #13
Well, he's done a lot of things people said he couldn't do already. Susan Calvin Wednesday #16
Citizens around the county are getting more angry each day with what they are seeing. This is literally his trump card. jalan48 Wednesday #17
let's hope for a full et tu Wednesday #20
Well, a lot of us ARE armed. And some are well trained. Callie1979 Wednesday #37
Could he be impeached and removed on April 22nd? Escape Wednesday #22
Here's some additional information on that... littlemissmartypants Wednesday #33
Thank you, Pants... Escape Wednesday #35
Urging trump not to do something means he'll do exactly that Bayard Wednesday #26
Seriously, how does this unsourced "probabilistic forecast" help us? Even the footnotes have no sources. ancianita Wednesday #27
I understand... littlemissmartypants Wednesday #29
I think I read it through right down to the footnotes, because I was looking for source links. ancianita Wednesday #38
Thanks for sharing, pants. yellow dahlia Wednesday #28
My pleasure. littlemissmartypants Wednesday #30
Dictators will do ANYTHING to sieze power and hold onto it Martin Eden Yesterday #40
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