Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by throwaway5752 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:51PM (#43276541)

If you are not disposed to read this and think it is hyperbolic, let me introduce the author

Brett Wagner, now retired, served as a professor of national security decision making for the U.S. Naval War College and adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The important part is

The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending "whether to invoke the Insurrection Act."

This would be April 20.

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by liqu0rice on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:13AM (#43276647)

This would be April 20.

The birthday of Adolf Hitler.

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by clipsy on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:20AM (#43276679)

More importantly, it's a date that Elon Musk would think is funny

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by spl757 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:28AM (#43276716)

Everyone I know is trying their best not to see this for what it is: Blitzkrieg. And this is only the beginning. It's only a matter of time before we have our own military policing the streets, your thoughts, and your words.

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by beretguy on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:11AM (#43280380)

That's what 2nd amendment is for. Need to start buying guns and ammo.

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by jfengel on Thursday March 06, 2025 @10:00AM (#43280982)

If the military is not on your side, your pop-guns aren't going to do squat.

If the military is on your side, they don't need your help. People wandering around with guns, and without uniforms, get civilians killed, which is why it's a violation of the Geneva Convention.

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by dang on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:54PM (#43283804)

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: we've had to ask you this more than once already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42064637 (Nov 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40852627 (July 2024)

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by sschueller on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:37AM (#43276772)

April 22nd is Tesla's earnings call, that won't be so funny for Musk...

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Re:Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs ... by muddi900 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:59AM (#43276869)

You think the stock market will matter?

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