• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    Why are none of these articles saying, “Trump breaks the law, by deploying active military personnel on US soil, in clear violation of the Constitution”?

    How fucking hard is it for them to simply tell the truth?

    • Blaster M
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      9 days ago

      Because part of a bill that was voted into law many years back actually had a provision to allow deploying the military on US soil

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        9 days ago

        That’s the Insurrection Act. The only way Trump could invoke it, would be if the protesters were armed and attacking the government. That’s the entire reason why armed protests are a very bad idea in the US.

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    9 days ago

    Y’know I am getting some deja vu. A government labeling protesters as rebellious to crush them for speaking out which caused them to become revolutionary and sparking a little war we in the colonies like to call the revolutionary war. Here’s a pop quiz, how did it go for the redcoats?