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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Trump Administration Setting Scenario To Declare Martial Law?
On Hayes right now guest just called Trump a racist who does not know a Sikh from a Shia from a Sunni. That we have to understand that we have an avowed racist in the White House.
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Is Trump Administration Setting Scenario To Declare Martial Law? (Original Post)
TheMastersNemesis
Feb 2017
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)1. Are we just understranding that now?
He campaigned as a racist?
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)5. Trump, is the same now as when campaigning, all the same. I can't understand why anyone is
surprised at anything he is doing. Next week, he will probably start grabbing crotches as an executive privilege.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)2. No. That would crash the economy and flip the whole shit show overnight
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KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)3. Thete is no Constitutional provision for any president
to declare martial law. If Trump did, who would enforce it?
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)4. I AmSure You Are Right.Who Knows?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)6. No problem. The American people will handle this one.
No fear.
moondust
(19,972 posts)7. Nazis acted fast.
Germany had the Reichstag fire, the Enabling Act of 1933, and suspension of most civil liberties all within a couple months of Hitler being sworn in as Chancellor.
Richard D
(8,752 posts)9. My nightmare . . .
. . . is another American Reichstag-type event.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)8. Please - the right said the same thing about Obama - numerous times.
Along with his plan "to confiscate all guns".
Bull shit then, I'll call BS now.