The president said he was considering invoking the Insurrection Act to assume emergency powers and send federal troops to Chicago and Portland, Ore., over local objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois called the mobilization “an unconstitutional invasion.”

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    I think it’s good to be vigilant like this. But I don’t see a path yet that leads to martial law. Maybe I’m confused about what I watched in 2016-2020, it’s like a spicier fart of that period. They are waiting for an ‘incident’. Unfortunately for them the news cycle is so fast that literal nazi rhetoric doesn’t really work. Charlie is all but forgotten already, and that shit was insane imo.

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      I really hope this is just Trump’s shatting period but I’m pessimistic. I really think he is going to try to go full dictator and do whatever he wants. Crush his dissenters and give money to himself and his cronies, and persecute anyone that doesn’t fit his image. Of course he’s already been doing this. I really hope I’m wrong but I think there’s worse things to come.

      As far as Charlie is concerned I think since it didn’t line up with his narrative it fissled out. He tried to get rid of Jimmy Kimmel but we stood up. Only when a big corporation was effected did something get done so food for thought when our rights are attacked again.