Current Events > Senator says Trump is plotting a fake riot to invoke the Insurrection Act

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Tomorrow's when the No Kings protests are happening. I'd hate for this to end up being true but it's something this administration would totally do.

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1o9h2zl/senator_jeffrey_merkley_says_trump_is_staging_a/

I feel like if they tried that it would be incredibly obvious not that it would stop them.

stuff like this is rapidly becoming the equivalent to QAnon

Conspiracy theorists are on da case...oh wait no, everything dey shouted dat Obama was going to do, trump is currently doing

Dose fucking frauds

Why put any effort into that when he can just do whatever he wants? Did they stage a warzone in Portland? No he just said shit and did what he wanted.

For what it's worth I don't think this is new. Does no one else think it's suspicious that now days every single protest has something set on fire so the media can just play stuff burning on a loop instead of letting the message of the protests come out?

BlackScythe0 posted...

For what it's worth I don't think this is new. Does no one else think it's suspicious that now days every single protest has something set on fire so the media can just play stuff burning on a loop instead of letting the message of the protests come out?

"OMG LOOK AT THAT!!! THE CITIES ARE BURNING DOWN!!!!!"

*shows single burning trash can*

MAGATS: How dare those damn liberals burn that poor city to the ground!!!!!

I mean, that obvious af. That's why they are attacking Chicago, it's why they are attacking Venezuela. Etc.

Why would he do this when for a decade he's just declared things happened when they didn't and Republicans accepted the new alternate reality

One things for sure is that theyll use ANY opportunity they can to cement their control and paint "radical leftists" as villains and enemies of the state

Question is ..how many will actually believe them? The Epstein files has burned some bridges in the maga world, then theres the farmers debacle, gov shutdown, the ECONOMY....etc. Id say were way past half the country opposing him and invoking an insurrection act wont help him win back people.

But of course, you dont have to win over people when youre a dictator with totalitarian control.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

One things for sure is that theyll use ANY opportunity they can to cement their control and paint "radical leftists" as villains and enemies of the state

Question is ..how many will actually believe them? The Epstein files has burned some bridges in the maga world, then theres the farmers debacle, gov shutdown, the ECONOMY....etc. Id say were way past half the country opposing him and invoking an insurrection act wont help him win back people.

But of course, you dont have to win over people when youre a dictator with totalitarian control.

Actually you do. Trump and co don't have complete control and this is a big country. Plus Trump has that fixation on being liked

I mean he almost surely is.

Will it work? Maybe not.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Question is ..how many will actually believe them? The Epstein files has burned some bridges in the maga world, then theres the farmers debacle, gov shutdown, the ECONOMY....etc. Id say were way past half the country opposing him and invoking an insurrection act wont help him win back people.

You say "Half the country opposing him" but they don't.

They just sit back and say they don't like it but then do nothing.

There's no army of 20 million citizens bursting into concentration camps and freeing everyone.

There's no groundswell of every anti Trump/MAGA politican winning their elections with 80% of the vote.

If Trump started firing misiles at Cali, no one would do shit. America surrendered and rolled over.

BlackScythe0 posted...

For what it's worth I don't think this is new. Does no one else think it's suspicious that now days every single protest has something set on fire so the media can just play stuff burning on a loop instead of letting the message of the protests come out?

It even happened during his first term. A police department was set on fire and cops murdered, and MAGA was screaming that BLM did it. Then it came out that the guys who did it were with the Boogaloo Boys (MAGA group), but that didn't stop them from lying and continuing to blame it on BLM.

https://www.police1.com/george-floyd-protest/articles/man-sentenced-to-4-years-for-minneapolis-police-station-fire-nKd5RboPPFKRy53f/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_murders

Strider102 posted...

"OMG LOOK AT THAT!!! THE CITIES ARE BURNING DOWN!!!!!"

*shows riots in another country from 3 years ago*

MAGATS: How dare those damn liberals burn that poor city to the ground!!!!!

ftfy. they've already showed that they will use footage of other countries to try to pathetically paint liberals as burning entire cities to the ground. next they'll probably use the destruction from ukraine as "evidence" that a city has been completely destroyed and not even crop out the large foreign letters since their audience can't even read

KnightofShikari posted...

ftfy. they've already showed that they will use footage of other countries to try to pathetically paint liberals as burning entire cities to the ground. next they'll probably use the destruction from ukraine as "evidence" that a city has been completely destroyed and not even crop out the large foreign letters since their audience can't even read

My "favorite" was the 2020 campaign warning about what "Biden's America" would look like, using footage of 2020 America. You know, Trump's America.

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

My "favorite" was the 2020 campaign warning about what "Biden's America" would look like, using footage of 2020 America. You know, Trump's America.

Why shouldn't Republicans lie? Their base loves the lies, and the morons in the middle don't give a fuck about the credibility of politicians and political parties.

sure, everyone can see that, but at this point its pretty much a foregone conclusion that its going to happen and the branches of government that are supposed to pump the brakes will instead jump for joy.

https://youtu.be/Q5383szgkXU?si=LbLlayEGxlwWKJQW

Delirious_Beard posted...

stuff like this is rapidly becoming the equivalent to QAnon

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