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Showing Original Post only (View all)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.
Thats the day Donald Trumps 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 wont 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 wont 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 lets suppose its 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
Heres 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 wont 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 couldnt disagree with them more about the cure e.g. Trump and letting billionaire anarcho-
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RESIST!!
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Part 1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No Return. [View all]
littlemissmartypants
Wednesday
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And if that happens then Musk's "bullet points" will likely need to be used.
Callie1979
Wednesday
#3
Yes. This group is working to have more clarity from lawmakers so they can stop him in court.
Passages
Wednesday
#34
even if he does, I don't see how they can effectively institute martial law in this huge and diverse country
LymphocyteLover
Wednesday
#13
Citizens around the county are getting more angry each day with what they are seeing. This is literally his trump card.
jalan48
Wednesday
#17
Seriously, how does this unsourced "probabilistic forecast" help us? Even the footnotes have no sources.
ancianita
Wednesday
#27
I think I read it through right down to the footnotes, because I was looking for source links.
ancianita
Wednesday
#38