The orange utan can't wait to do it. He's been exciting the population with his ICE goons for the very purpose of having an excuse to go full dictatorship.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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It's been literally the point since the very start. Clearly and obviously. I can't wait to hear what justification the courts come up with to defend him.
Orangutans are gentle and intelligent creatures, don't let Futurama or some wannabe painted apes fool you.
Well, I hate to diss them, but they happen to possess two very unfortunate characteristics that make them ideal to refer to the shitstain currently defiling the White House without needing any explanation: they're apes, and they have 5/6th of the word "orange" in their name.
One trick pony.
I almost believe that he will enact it anyway to prevent the midterm elections. I would rather prefer he do it now and stop blue balling us. Or worse he pulls this shit in Oct.
Honestly, I wonder what is keeping them back? Public opinion? Some surprisingly resistant remnant of checks'n'balances?
MAGA has been building up to & drooling over this final chapter for... IDK, ever since Jan 2025 I guess.
They don't have the military, or rather the critical mass of support within the military that it would take to ensure the new fascist regime's power, and never did. But he's decided to test it anyway.
History proves that, unequivocally, there is NEVER a successful coup without either the tacit or overt support of the military and the secure understanding that if the ruling power wants boots on the ground willing to fight their fellow countrymen, that will happen.
He does NOT have this, but he's decided to call for it and see if it sticks anyway. He's speedrunning this on steroids because he knows it's now or never.
What evidence do you have that he does that's this? Most military people I know support Trump. I have to assume the leadership in the military has been gutted like the IRS, FBI, etc.
I have zero reason to believe the military isn't in lock step.
The military is not the FBI or the (well gutted) IRS, it is a worldwide operation with bipartisan leadership that has come up through the ranks. He's come after dissenters at the top, general rank, but I haven't heard of much going on lower than that. In reality the relatively short length of time involved and the vast scope of necessary purging that would be required to remake the military like other government offices suggest that it's just not possible, and instead of hearing about turnover in military leadership what we're hearing in the news is stagnation, and at one point approvals for promotions were not even being processed at all.
I don't know what military people you personally know, or when the last time you asked what their level of support was, but not only is the military full of men and women who have never fired upon their own countrymen, it is full of brown and black people who are now seeing with their own eyes that US citizens who look exactly like they do are being scooped up right along with the undesirables.
I think you forget that he has already threatened the Insurrection Act in multiple instances to post the National Guard, such as in LA, and gotten shot down by the courts. And let's not forget that he was talking about invoking full martial law before the inauguration. He wanted to have this done by last spring, yet it's not. It's not even near, because judges have already thrown the National Guard out of Portland and Chicago, and even more suits are in the works.
To be clear, believe what you want. I do not care about changing your mind. If your own evidence comes down to "you know people" then by all means rely on that. But I do not believe the wider facts support that conclusion at this time.
That's the Project 2025 plan.
Our city streets are looking more and more like what we did during GWOT. Going door to door kicking them in. Cordon and search has become the SOP of the federal "officers" in our own cities. They shouldn't be surprised when our citizens act like the terrorized Iraqis that were beaten and humiliated. I recommend we start versing ourselves on the Iraqi resistance, IRA, and asymmetric warfare.
I mean, the other IRA also had some useful methods of "civil disobedience".
Only need to be lucky once
Why can't the school shooters just switch to ICE? Smite someone who deserves it for once!
And when the states cut off tax revenue or go on general strike?