Did you know that no president has invoked the Insurrection Act without a request from the state concerned since Johnson did in 1965?

[goaded]

And that was to protect civil rights activists in Alabama marching from Selma to Montgomery.

The more you know, the easier it is to spot lies.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/insurrection-act-explained

Marchers arriving at City of St. Jude, in Montgomery, at the final encampment. James Barker

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rare-photos-selma-march-thick-history-180953874/

Updates

6 mo

To all the fascists who think shouting at authority is the same as physically attacking them...

Why do you think that?

[Sal_Monella]

Did you know that... The Insurrection Act allows the president to deploy military forces domestically under specific conditions. The law grants the president the authority to call forth the militia of other states to suppress an insurrection or to enforce the laws of the United States when state and local authorities are unable to do so.

It also permits the president to use military forces to suppress rebellion or domestic violence or to enforce the law in certain situations. A request from the state concerned is not a precondition o I don't know which guy he blocked. We'll see. f the President evoking the act. But you knew that because you are real smart. Aren't you, Fredo?

[goaded]

Trump's pretending it's been commonplace. It hasn't.

Remember: "under specific conditions", "when state and local authorities are unable to do so".

I'm smart enough not to post something like "o I don't know which guy he blocked. We'll see. f the President evoking the act."

[Sal_Monella]

I was transcribing. Somebody talked over my shoulder.

[Miristheiss]

I do not care.

I have watched the crime, untest, corruption and lawlwssness in MN for months.

It is disgusting what shit the MN idiots have let go.

Someone has to round up and PUNISH all that crime and corruption.

Amen.

[goaded]

Really? What "crime, untest, corruption and lawlwssness" before ICE was sent there, exactly?

[Miristheiss]

The SOMALIS stealing BILLIONS of tax payer dollars!!!
Law breakers setting vehicles on fire and stealing!!! Law breakers physically attacking and interfering with law enforcement while doing their jobs.

It is pretty obvious to anyone intellectually honest and who has common sense.

[goaded]

So, the people who were being investigated, arrested, charged and convicted already?

"physically attacking"? By shouting at them? Blowing whistles?

[NathanDavis]

I wonder if they are actually going to try that over here in Texas... are they?

have they done it yet? lol

[goaded]

No, because Texas, as a whole, is in the in-group. That's how fascism works.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-2026
Fascism, the U. S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.

Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”

[NathanDavis]

I don't do propaganda

[goaded]

Nor does she. She's a historian. Or do you mean the 1940's US government, explaining what fascism means?

[Kaneki05]

So? Is there some arbitrary time system you have so a president was only ever allowed to call it back then but today they aren't allowed? Because that does not make sense.

[WindAtMyBack]

In other words, Trump would be totally justified in invoking the act by sending troops to places like MN.

[beefcakebradybatson]

MAGANs don't care about spotting lies. They only want to blow Trump 24/7365/366 in Leap Year !!!

[goaded]

Oh, I know, but everyone else should know that Trump's lying when he says it's common. It just saves a bit of time later.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Trump's an uncommon liar!!!

[Hagar88]

Its time these protestors and rioters got jobs like the rest of us.

[goaded]

Maybe Trump should stop increasing the unemployment rate, then.

[Hagar88]

Plenty of jobs. I here all there are vacancies due to closed boarders.

[Ariesman81]

You should ready your gas chambers. There's gonna be a lot of illegal aliens coming your way soon.

[goaded]

Germany moved past that sort of thing generations ago. You want to repeat it, even knowing how it ends, which makes you worse than the original Nazis.

[Ariesman81]

You actually haven't moved past it. You're making the same mistakes you did back then.

[goaded]

You really have nothing but DARVO.

[Shiprex]

Trump wants Americans to see him as a king and that he should be worshipped

[exitseven]

I did know that. We never had such crazy politicians since forever

[Mike_Hum]

Guess Minnesotans need to stop attacking law enforcement.

[AngryCarl2]

The only insurrectionist here is Trump.

[goaded]

That's obvious to the whole world, but only 2/3rds of US citizens.