Already looking ahead to the turmoil his re-election could cause, Donald Trump and his allies are reportedly circling an idea to invoke the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, deploying the military to act as domestic law enforcement.

According to a Washington Post report on Sunday, the drafting of such plans has largely been “unofficially outsourced” thus far to a coalition of right-wing think tanks working under the title “Project 2025.” It was identified as an immediate priority for the hypothetical resurrected Trump administration, internal communications obtained by the newspaper showed.

In response to questions from the Post, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung provided a statement: “President Trump is focused on crushing his opponents in the primary election and then going on to beat Crooked Joe Biden,” he said. “President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution.”

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    2 years ago

    This is so fucking stupid. Deploy the military to the streets. Why? Who is the enemy? Who are they there to fight, traffic? This isn’t Haiti. There is no enemy. They gonna go to the local colleges and massacre people? Check for registered democrats and extrajudicially murder them? Yeah right, what a fucking joke.

    Furthermore the money that pays the bills for the military (which is the nations largest employer) come from blue states. They’re gonna kill the workers paying their salary ? Or paying their welfare checks?? Seems like the dog chasing a car, just look at the speakership debacle. These slack jaw yokels are morons, with leaders entirely out of their depth. Can anyone explain even the outline of the plan ?

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      2 years ago

      Shoot POC and trans people on sight ofc. They are responsible for unemployment, crime rate and gay frogs.