Okay. Breathe. All of You.
You may have seen this post or article running around about 'what if the insurrection act is invoked' I'm not even reblogging it because its too long to trust that most people will read to the bottom.
It is not wrong, in that its speculation, so maybe yes, it will come true. If Trump invokes the insurrection act, and then oversteps its bounds by sending military to places where local authorities have not called for assistance, then calls general martial law, oversteps those bounds, and throughout all of it, the military - not his sycophants - decide to follow along, then yes, this article is a decent breakdown. But that's a lot of big steps. The source is an anonymous blogger on Medium.
Here's Snopes being detailed about it.
Potentially terrifying as fuck? Non Zero chance of happening? Both yes.
But as much as this fucker loves swinging around his dick, he's also a goddamn coward. This would be a breach of states rights if he did what's outlined in the article. The local officials have to request help. If they don't, it's a federal overreach of monumental scale.
That said, prepared is good.
Panicked is not.
I'd be more worried that he gets the recc to do it, and then graciously declines to do so, because then he can use it as a constant threat against anyone he wants, while eroding the vigilance that will be present for the next month or so. It's more in his playbook.















