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groundloop

(12,270 posts)
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:09 AM Monday

Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations

Source: ABC News

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday confirmed he would declare a national emergency to carry out his campaign promise of mass deportations of migrants living in the U.S. without legal permission.

Overnight, Trump responded to a social media post from Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, who said earlier this month there are reports the incoming administration is preparing such a declaration and to use "military assets" to deport the migrants.

“TRUE!!!” Trump wrote.

[.....]

"On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out," he said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in the closing days of the presidential race. "I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-confirms-plan-declare-national-emergency-military-mass/story?id=115963448

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Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations (Original Post) groundloop Monday OP
"Dictator on day one" . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Monday #1
"OH YOU KNOW TRUMP DOESN'T REALLY MEAN THAT; HE'S SPEAKING IN METAPHORS!!" Blue_Tires Monday #4
This does not bode well for anyone... NotHardly Monday #49
And we all know how many "dictators on day one" ever relinquished dictatorial power. patphil Monday #60
Better a national emergency to get rid of drumpf. greatauntoftriplets Monday #2
But not those from England or Western Europe? Sequoia Monday #3
Or South Africa?? Blue_Tires Monday #5
White ones from Africa are fine.. LiberalArkie Monday #33
I have to remind myself Blue_Tires Monday #39
The Asians and Indians will need to remember their place as the U.S. might be turning the way back machine LiberalArkie Monday #43
Not the engineers and computer geniuses AkFemDem Monday #63
Not necessarily. They have no problem at all sending them back where they came from and do a LiberalArkie Monday #75
In S. Africa, "Asian" was one of four classes of people Bernardo de La Paz Monday #81
It was in the U.S. also. Oh and Indian (meaning those redskins). At least in Arkanstan LiberalArkie Monday #93
This message was self-deleted by its author geardaddy Monday #67
Except probably cannabis_flower Monday #52
i was just thinking about this . AllaN01Bear Monday #78
45 months and counting republianmushroom Monday #6
You know what will happen jmowreader Monday #7
There will be a nationwide phone hotline for reporting "illegals"...... groundloop Monday #9
This time, Miguelito Loveless Monday #17
Which could be even more abusive jmowreader Monday #32
Same as is happening IbogaProject Monday #53
Don't even mention IBM... regnaD kciN Monday #108
And if you piss your neighbor off rambler_american Monday #79
Germany had the Great Depression to deal with VMA131Marine Monday #105
The more hubris they show off, the more inept they prove to be, the better off our democracy. Magoo48 Monday #30
Wishful thinking... regnaD kciN Monday #111
Resistance takes many forms; direct action is only one of them. Magoo48 Tuesday #115
One of the biggest maga I know is Mexican. louis-t Monday #51
Wait until Trump issues his executive order to ban "birthright citizenship"... regnaD kciN Monday #109
Oh don't worry about that just yet. OldBaldy1701E Monday #104
I've been telling my wife... regnaD kciN Monday #107
How will the US force other countries to accept these deportations? Eureka Monday #8
My guess.... if tRUMP can't deport people they'll be housed in concentration camps groundloop Monday #10
I guess this is "no pricetag" part of the solution. nt Eureka Monday #22
They will also alexjohn1965 Monday #35
...until they can come up with "the final solution to the immigrant question." regnaD kciN Monday #112
Potential mechanisms? Blackjackdavey Monday #15
Oh, slavery! Eureka Monday #23
They will take them back Miguelito Loveless Monday #19
So a new war for the history books... they'll have to start working on the branding Eureka Monday #27
Some will die in custody. Hope22 Monday #44
Well I suppose he will at least have the labor force to wield the shovels nt. Eureka Monday #55
It's crazy that we have to imagine these things. Hope22 Monday #73
He will sell the marketable ones. Hope22 Monday #41
THIS +1 Dan Monday #65
We already do this all the time- AkFemDem Monday #66
Interesting, thanks..... in pondering your response I had a nose around and found this article Eureka Monday #70
It may all just end at the camps. hadEnuf Monday #72
"accept the people back" PSPS Monday #99
Biden needs to call a preemptive emergency SupportSanity Monday #11
Yes! brakester Monday #91
or he should step down and let Kamala do it! SupportSanity Monday #102
Time to lay in plenty of popcorn. This is going to be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Vinca Monday #12
The Muslim ban failed PortTack Monday #76
Uh...actually, no, it didn't... regnaD kciN Monday #113
Trump will deputize the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Boogaloo Bois, Patriot Front and Atomwaffen Division sop Monday #13
You called it. Miguelito Loveless Monday #20
J6rs Traildogbob Monday #34
Just like Iraq! Hope22 Monday #48
Russia too Traildogbob Monday #50
Wonder, don't wonder! Remember when T crashed through Turkey leaving our bases and everything else behind for Putin. Hope22 Monday #82
The "Wonder" was sarcasm. Traildogbob Monday #85
I totally understand that! Hope22 Monday #86
Wow, I missed that Traildogbob Monday #87
The gun and ammo manufacturers are also looking forward to this. erronis Monday #36
How is Chump going to pay the new quasi-military groups? FakeNoose Monday #88
Mexico will pay for it. sop Monday #90
if this is truly what happens . . . people Monday #14
The orange monster uses the language of genocide & holocaust Hekate Monday #16
Here's what a CA farmer told ABC's Martha Raddatz people Monday #18
And for saying that Miguelito Loveless Monday #21
Thats a feature, not a bug..... getagrip_already Monday #28
I don't think you are wrong. It is part of the plan - maybe not in the official Project 2025 erronis Monday #38
The "survivalist" group is very very small, and just as vulnerable...don't kid yourself PortTack Monday #68
Really? getagrip_already Monday #103
Maybe President Biden should call a national emergency right now Wicked Blue Monday #24
Or taken into custody for safe keeping! Lol Hope22 Monday #89
Oh, goodie. liberalgunwilltravel Monday #25
By the time the economic devastation hits their beer cash the damage will be done erronis Monday #40
...and the consequences of refusal? EarthFirst Monday #26
Read Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts Easterncedar Monday #29
Will they also Traildogbob Monday #31
Is trumpty dumpty gonna put the Rittenhouse shitstain in charge of armed militia round ups? Ziggysmom Monday #37
Actually I don't think you need the sarcasm thingy. GoYouPackersGo Monday #46
Sad but true!!! Ziggysmom Monday #64
You should read this 2019 article from The Atlantic that lays out the scope of presidential emergency powers. LudwigPastorius Monday #42
Your papers please. D. Spaulding Monday #45
So he will declare martial law on day one. Kablooie Monday #47
You're one of the very few people who understand what's really going on. Frank D. Lincoln Monday #59
So he is ordering us to remove him by any means necessary, in other words. Orrex Monday #54
I worry that is what it may come to. hadEnuf Monday #80
Then he'll go after Muslims, Asians and LGBTQ people Owens Monday #56
Why this criminal lunatic is not incarcerated is a national disgrace Evolve Dammit Monday #57
My husband is waiting ... cannabis_flower Monday #58
"...without legal permission." J_William_Ryan Monday #61
Yes, he will have broad powers...not sure if it will be successful. Remember the muslin ban? PortTack Monday #62
Where will he deport them to? Mexico can refuse them at the airports and the border stations. keithbvadu2 Monday #69
Exactly...the newly elected FE president of Mexico said Mexicans are welcome, all others are not. PortTack Monday #74
it just never fails barbtries Monday #71
Blue governors will have the last word on THAT. SCOTUS won't overrule them in any way, shape or form. ancianita Monday #77
Our real problem is the J6 monsters that will be let loose. . Hope22 Monday #83
Grab the go-bags and head to the libraries! ancianita Monday #84
I'm in your corner about the blue Govenors, BUT i fear bluestarone Monday #92
Ain't gonna happen.The U.S. Military JAG will warn them that if they follow illegal orders they can be court martialed. ancianita Monday #94
Like i said i 100% hope your right. bluestarone Monday #95
Gotta trust in the righteousness of the ancianita Monday #96
Back at you. TY bluestarone Monday #97
It won't be long until some get shot, when it happens law enforcement doc03 Monday #98
WTF is he talking about? "Conquered"? maxsolomon Monday #100
Tesla sales would plummet, so Elon better make sure this doesn't happen. Doodley Monday #101
cf. Trump tells his MAGA base to be patriotic speak easy Monday #114
If you think, when Trump sends in the military, that he's only going to target "illegal immigrants"... regnaD kciN Monday #106
What emergency will he make up? travelingthrulife Monday #110

Blue_Tires

(55,787 posts)
4. "OH YOU KNOW TRUMP DOESN'T REALLY MEAN THAT; HE'S SPEAKING IN METAPHORS!!"
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:37 AM
Monday

I swear if I had a nickel for every time someone responded to me with that line...

NotHardly

(1,181 posts)
49. This does not bode well for anyone...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:04 PM
Monday
After they finish up on deportations, they'll start building the camps for women and girls they want to further control...MMW

patphil

(6,951 posts)
60. And we all know how many "dictators on day one" ever relinquished dictatorial power.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:19 PM
Monday

Zero.
The only way a dictator every lets go of absolute power is by force, or death.
We have Trump as president on January 20th, until the day he dies. And then, it's up to the next in line to carry on as dictator unless there is a "discussion" about who that next in line person is.
We are witnessing the death of the US Constitutional Democratic Republic.
It's being done by the enemies within, with a little help from the enemies without.
The real enemy here is the millions of brain dead zombie Maga's who put him in office.
These are the anti-woke, who would rather not think; who want someone to tell them what to think, what to say, what to do, how to act, how to feel, and who to hate.
Perfect mindless human bullets that the Republicans fired at the heart of the Republic.

Blue_Tires

(55,787 posts)
39. I have to remind myself
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:55 PM
Monday

that Melon Husk has OPENLY admitted that he's in the United States illegally and nobody gives a shit because he's the right skin color.... Same goes for the Donnie's past two trophy wives.

LiberalArkie

(16,504 posts)
43. The Asians and Indians will need to remember their place as the U.S. might be turning the way back machine
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:00 PM
Monday

on full. The fountains in segregated areas were "White" and colored. White meant white. I remember a Chinese laundry owner had to drink from the Colored fountain or be arrested.

LiberalArkie

(16,504 posts)
75. Not necessarily. They have no problem at all sending them back where they came from and do a
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:04 PM
Monday

"work from home". It costs them a lot less to pay them Indian or Pakistani wages than U.S. wages.

Bernardo de La Paz

(50,917 posts)
81. In S. Africa, "Asian" was one of four classes of people
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:17 PM
Monday
  1. White, which included rich Japanese.
  2. Asian, meaning Indians (subcontinent)
  3. Coloured, meaning mixed race
  4. African



Response to Blue_Tires (Reply #39)

jmowreader

(51,456 posts)
7. You know what will happen
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:52 AM
Monday

“You look Mexican. Out you go!”

“My great-grandfather was born in Cleveland and so was everyone else in my family. Dude, I don’t even like Mexican food!”

“Nope. You look like an illegal immigrant so out you go.”

groundloop

(12,270 posts)
9. There will be a nationwide phone hotline for reporting "illegals"......
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:58 AM
Monday

I always wondered how Germany could allow a madman to take power and ruin their country. It doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.

jmowreader

(51,456 posts)
32. Which could be even more abusive
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:43 PM
Monday

Your neighbor’s kids play soccer with their friends in the back yard and you’re tired of listening to it? “Hello Trump Department of Making America Pure Again? A family of illegals lives next to me. Can you come deport them? Thanks.”

IbogaProject

(3,652 posts)
53. Same as is happening
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:10 PM
Monday

Hitler was funded by Harriman Brothers, via Prescott Bush. Foreign money funded Hitler which was GOP and they helped launder some of the Nazi supporters loot after WW2.

regnaD kciN

(26,592 posts)
108. Don't even mention IBM...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:29 PM
Monday

...which was instrumental in developing a system for keeping track of Jews and how to hunt them down.

Magoo48

(5,353 posts)
30. The more hubris they show off, the more inept they prove to be, the better off our democracy.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:32 PM
Monday

All this shit they are starting will open huge holes where we can drive in the wedges of resistance.

regnaD kciN

(26,592 posts)
111. Wishful thinking...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:34 PM
Monday

Once you have the sort of power wielded by the White House, and no scruples about using it, all the wedges of resistance in the world will only give us a new crop of martyrs.

Seriously, don't you think that Trump will respond to the first provocation, even if it means a peaceful march supporting the undocumented in a west coast city, with Tienanmen Square levels of brutality? Leave enough dead bodies for everyone to see, and most people will just slink away into silence. (For reference, look at how the antiwar movement utterly crumbled after Kent State.) And that will be the end of that.

Magoo48

(5,353 posts)
115. Resistance takes many forms; direct action is only one of them.
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 07:38 AM
Tuesday

We resist. Direct, indirect, passive, creatively, stealthily…
If enough people participate, we survive him; If not, we’re fucked.

To roll over though, is to die inside. I’m 76 years old, and the neighborhood I come from most of the men were ww2 vets. They despised fascists. I guess it rubbed off. I will do what I can to toss a wrench into the works every chance I get. Anyway, it will do my spirit good.

louis-t

(23,717 posts)
51. One of the biggest maga I know is Mexican.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:08 PM
Monday

He was born here but his father is from Mexico. He loves to fight online and is on his 3rd name on fb. He keeps getting kicked off.

OldBaldy1701E

(6,349 posts)
104. Oh don't worry about that just yet.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 06:46 PM
Monday

There are far too many LGTBQ people, far too many political and social enemies, and far too many business competitors to lock up/deport before Miller's jackboots get to deporting people because they 'look' foreign.

regnaD kciN

(26,592 posts)
107. I've been telling my wife...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:28 PM
Monday

...who is a citizen from birth, with a father who was a citizen and a mother who was a legal resident from South America, that she better make sure to have a copy of her U.S. passport and U.S. birth certificate on her anytime she goes out in public.

And I'm not even confident that will be enough.

Eureka

(529 posts)
8. How will the US force other countries to accept these deportations?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 11:56 AM
Monday

I'm no expert in various treaties and agreements that may exist, but I don't understand how these "mass deportations" are supposed to work.....

The country these people are supposedly being deported to will need to accept the people back, and what if they don't?

Does the US Military invade Mexico and just dump them? I'm pretty sure the US invading a neighbor will not be welcomed by the rest of the world.

By rights Mexico doesn't need to accept anyone from (for example) Bolivia, so does the US need to invade Bolivia as well?

What if these people don't have passports? How is the country of origin ascertained or proven? I can't just turn up to my country of origin and say "I'm here, let me in!" without documentation.

I wouldn't be surprised if the incoming regime does something really stupid and for sure they aren't about respecting norms or protocol, but I can't see how this is anything except futile bluster because this can't be solved unilaterally without becoming the worlds largest international pariah.

If anyone can explain potential mechanisms I'd be super appreciative.

groundloop

(12,270 posts)
10. My guess.... if tRUMP can't deport people they'll be housed in concentration camps
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:01 PM
Monday

er, ahh, temporary housing.

The private prison industry is already salivating at all the money they'll make.

regnaD kciN

(26,592 posts)
112. ...until they can come up with "the final solution to the immigrant question."
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:36 PM
Monday

Just declare them an invading force. Easy peasy.

Blackjackdavey

(184 posts)
15. Potential mechanisms?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:13 PM
Monday

Surely you jest, there will be few, if any deportations. They will be rounded up and placed in camps. There they will stay. Eventually, houseless folks will join them. Then we will go back to where we started as local business people contract with the local "resettlement camp" to get the crops picked and the manual labor done. MAGA!

Eureka

(529 posts)
23. Oh, slavery!
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:21 PM
Monday

Silly me, I never thought of that. I assume the Maggats will be fine with it, very cost effective.

Miguelito Loveless

(4,667 posts)
19. They will take them back
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:18 PM
Monday

or ELSE. What the rest of the world thinks is no longer germane. At best, countries refusing take back its "citizens" will face economic sanctions, at worst, military invasion/bombing. Remember, 45 wanted to launch missiles against Mexico last time. This time, all the people who said "no" will be replaced with people who will obey without question.

Eureka

(529 posts)
27. So a new war for the history books... they'll have to start working on the branding
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:26 PM
Monday

If they go for "dump them all in Mexico" I guess it would be the "North American War", but so many brand expansion opportunities into "Central" and "South".

Either way, international pariah it is I guess.

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
44. Some will die in custody.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:01 PM
Monday

He’s probably itching to dig his first mass grave. I’m sorry I sound extreme ……well there is nothing more extreme thanTSF,

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
41. He will sell the marketable ones.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:58 PM
Monday

He practiced during his first term. Betsy DeVos and the Foster Care group….. he never misses a chance for coin. Many of these people have homes and assets……he said he was taking them all. He’ll clean them out but we are all next in line! How many threat’s until they take this sick sole away!

AkFemDem

(2,177 posts)
66. We already do this all the time-
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:25 PM
Monday

Our Coast Guard drops off boatloads of Haitian, Cuban, and Mexican migrants regularly back in their countries of origin. Not sure how they establish its fine to drop them wherever they drop them since surely many/most dont have passports, but it's pretty normal. I imagine such systems are not set in place for the scale of numbers that might result from new roundups landside, but I guess the precedence is there.

Eureka

(529 posts)
70. Interesting, thanks..... in pondering your response I had a nose around and found this article
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:49 PM
Monday
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/recalcitrant-uncooperative-countries-refuse-deportation

that goes into some depth about how these things are treated and goes someway towards a comparison of the US and EU in how they each deal with the problem.

It's quite murky, but I suspect there will be some political maneuvering (eg visa sanctions as discussed in the article), pig headed bullying and a decent amount of long term detention, dehumanisation, death and suffering (totally on brand for the Trump Party and Magats). And on top of all of that, I suspect it will be lots of propaganda about how successful they are while lining the pockets of the rich and torturing the less fortunate.

PSPS

(14,136 posts)
99. "accept the people back"
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 04:48 PM
Monday

The round up is intended to include brown people who were born here, so there's no "where" that they can "go back to" outside the country. Herr Miller said as much in one of his RW media circle-jerks recently. "America is for Americans!! Not those who have no part in our American culture or values."

SupportSanity

(1,122 posts)
11. Biden needs to call a preemptive emergency
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:02 PM
Monday

If he doesn't have the balls to do it, he should step down and let Kamala do it.

Do it now while we still can.

brakester

(115 posts)
91. Yes!
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:26 PM
Monday

When is President Biden going to save our country (using his presidential immunity) from this meddlesome perv?

Vinca

(51,041 posts)
12. Time to lay in plenty of popcorn. This is going to be a clusterfuck of epic proportions.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:04 PM
Monday

It's definitely worse than the "Muslim ban" which was his priority during the first reign of terror. It not only will be massively disruptive, it will cause prices to skyrocket.

regnaD kciN

(26,592 posts)
113. Uh...actually, no, it didn't...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:39 PM
Monday

It got shot down in the courts time and again -- until it got to SCOTUS, who ruled it constitutional. By then, everyone's attention had moved on to other things.

sop

(11,198 posts)
13. Trump will deputize the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Boogaloo Bois, Patriot Front and Atomwaffen Division
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:05 PM
Monday

to round up immigrants, granting them immunity when they gun down those who won't come peacefully. These nazis have been dreaming of this day for years.

Traildogbob

(9,981 posts)
34. J6rs
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:47 PM
Monday

That are Pardoned will be hired, paid for by us, and issued all the guns and ammo they ever wet dreamed of. And, they will make damn sure collateral damage will happen to those that cheered their convictions.

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
48. Just like Iraq!
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:04 PM
Monday

No lucrative deal goes down without criminals being busted out of jail. It was pretty effective in Iraq.

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
82. Wonder, don't wonder! Remember when T crashed through Turkey leaving our bases and everything else behind for Putin.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:20 PM
Monday

It was really annoying that no one seemed pissed about it. And Turkey made out as well and it was never clear about the nukes we still had there. I think we have all been slowly desensitized to the absurd actions of this monster. When we say he gives it away it’s the assets of our country. I’m sure he is raking it in behind the scenes. No one would believe it if a book were written with the real story. This reminds me. I need to resupply the emergency alcohol supply at home!😁!

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
86. I totally understand that!
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:43 PM
Monday

He probably isn’t going to be happy with Biden’s long range missiles out of Ukraine. Did you see the YouTube video of Ukraines attack yesterday. Advisors helping Putin were holed up in a cruise ship amongst war boats. Definitely made a mess of things. Surreal! Sorry I. Can’t give a better description.

Traildogbob

(9,981 posts)
87. Wow, I missed that
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:03 PM
Monday

Just like Hamas in schools and hospitals. 🍆🥔’s gonna do 🍆🥔ing shit, cowardly.

erronis

(16,844 posts)
36. The gun and ammo manufacturers are also looking forward to this.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:51 PM
Monday

The "prepping" will reach a fever pitch.

FakeNoose

(35,687 posts)
88. How is Chump going to pay the new quasi-military groups?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:11 PM
Monday

It's not going to come from US defense funds. Maybe Chump will pay them out of his own pocket?

Hekate

(94,665 posts)
16. The orange monster uses the language of genocide & holocaust
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:13 PM
Monday

“I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible."

people

(697 posts)
18. Here's what a CA farmer told ABC's Martha Raddatz
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:16 PM
Monday

According to the article cited, a CA farmer said this about T's plans:


"If you took away my workforce, you wouldn't eat. If you go into the San Joaquin Valley and you start doing what you're saying, it's over. The country will stop, literally stop because the food system won't move," said Manuel Cunha Jr., the president of the Nisei Farmers League.

getagrip_already

(17,436 posts)
28. Thats a feature, not a bug.....
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:30 PM
Monday

Why do you think the survivalists have been laying in years worth of food and ammo?

They not only wont care when there is no food, they will rejoice in it because they will have have theirs.

And so will the rich.

Its the poor and the cities that will starve. Riots that will get put down by the military.

Im hoping im wrong.

erronis

(16,844 posts)
38. I don't think you are wrong. It is part of the plan - maybe not in the official Project 2025
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:54 PM
Monday

but well understood by the privileged group.

Surprising that these sentiments haven't made it into the (RW-owned) M$M yet.

Wicked Blue

(6,655 posts)
24. Maybe President Biden should call a national emergency right now
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:23 PM
Monday

and have the orange traitor arrested as a traitor.

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
89. Or taken into custody for safe keeping! Lol
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:14 PM
Monday

My guess is that they are watching and listening carefully. In the end I would bet that Biden will be blamed for this and more.

25. Oh, goodie.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:23 PM
Monday

Consumer prices on all domestically produced foods will increase dramatically. And Social Security and Medicare funds will take a huge hit due to lack of incoming funds formerly provided by undocumented workers using bogus SS numbers. Combine that with their loss of Medicare and Food Stamps to fund tax breaks for billionaires, the MAGAts are going to find out just how much it costs to "own the libs." SUCKERS!

erronis

(16,844 posts)
40. By the time the economic devastation hits their beer cash the damage will be done
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:57 PM
Monday

and horrific.

Putin is actually the stable genius. trump is just the sagging old stallion.

EarthFirst

(3,151 posts)
26. ...and the consequences of refusal?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:24 PM
Monday

Are we just going to start arresting city council members?
Mayors?
Clergy members?
Civil Rights attorneys?

Anyone who stands in their way?

…and then what?

Detention?

Execution?

JFC.

Traildogbob

(9,981 posts)
31. Will they also
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:42 PM
Monday

Round up and deport those ”illegal Aliens”
Living under the sea, that Boerbert was ranting about at a congressional hearing last week?
Where do you send those illegals, will Space X and the Musty white man sell us rockets to send them home?
Yes, let’s end the department of education and outlaw science. And become a nation of Boebert/MTG brains.
Why I wear a mask still, everywhere. The Smell of Rotting Brains make me projectile vomit.
And that is what I tell the assholes that mention me masking.
“Because your fucking skull meat is rotting and you stink”.
Ya can’t call it brains anymore. It’s just filling up space with meat where a brain should exist. I’m

GoYouPackersGo

(134 posts)
46. Actually I don't think you need the sarcasm thingy.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:01 PM
Monday

Imagine the worst thing you can think of a President doing.

Then imagine something ten times worse. That's what Trump will do.

LudwigPastorius

(10,805 posts)
42. You should read this 2019 article from The Atlantic that lays out the scope of presidential emergency powers.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:00 PM
Monday
https://web.archive.org/web/20190107021614/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/

...the president has access to emergency powers contained in 123 statutory provisions, as recently calculated by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where I work. These laws address a broad range of matters, from military composition to agricultural exports to public contracts. For the most part, the president is free to use any of them; the National Emergencies Act doesn’t require that the powers invoked relate to the nature of the emergency.


This will give you nightmares.

Kablooie

(18,775 posts)
47. So he will declare martial law on day one.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:02 PM
Monday

That's how Hitler took control.
He declared a national emergency, promising it would be temporary, then never released it.
And so America will be run by a dictator for a minimum of 4 years and likely longer if Trump lasts that long.

Trump voters will get exactly what they voted for.
Unfortunately, so will the rest of us too.

Frank D. Lincoln

(606 posts)
59. You're one of the very few people who understand what's really going on.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:18 PM
Monday

But before Hitler could do that, he had to be enabled by Paul von Hindenburg.

There's still time for Trump to be stopped, especially when there's credible evidence that he cheated to win the 2024 presidential election.

Orrex

(64,105 posts)
54. So he is ordering us to remove him by any means necessary, in other words.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:11 PM
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Well, we knew this day would come.

cannabis_flower

(3,845 posts)
58. My husband is waiting ...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:18 PM
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For his Waiver of Inadmissibility. He entered the US in 1997 illegally. In 1998, he received Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Since he came illegally he can’t adjust his status without a judge granting the waiver. Then he needs to leave the country and return to Honduras to get his marriage visa and enter the country legally to get his status adjusted. We were told it would take 2 years but it was 2 years in August. His lawyer said it might be three years. I hope they don’t cancel his TPS and deport him before his case is resolved.

PortTack

(34,651 posts)
62. Yes, he will have broad powers...not sure if it will be successful. Remember the muslin ban?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:22 PM
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Mass deportation would cost 167 billion dollars. If you do a search, they all agree on the cost. Where’s that money going to come from?

Hey maga…you want this, start coughing up the money!

keithbvadu2

(40,120 posts)
69. Where will he deport them to? Mexico can refuse them at the airports and the border stations.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:33 PM
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Will he sneak them across the border?

PortTack

(34,651 posts)
74. Exactly...the newly elected FE president of Mexico said Mexicans are welcome, all others are not.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:02 PM
Monday

She also said she would start deporting Americans living there. She’s not just giving lip service.

This is gonna blow up in his face wildly

ancianita

(38,557 posts)
77. Blue governors will have the last word on THAT. SCOTUS won't overrule them in any way, shape or form.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:05 PM
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Nor will the military obey illegal orders even if given by the loyalist Sec Def and loyalist lackeys of the Joint Chiefs.

Hope22

(2,873 posts)
83. Our real problem is the J6 monsters that will be let loose. .
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:23 PM
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And all of the uncle papas joining them! I feel like they really want to kill!!!

bluestarone

(18,234 posts)
92. I'm in your corner about the blue Govenors, BUT i fear
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:37 PM
Monday

what the military will do. Remember he will install generals that will bow before him.

ancianita

(38,557 posts)
94. Ain't gonna happen.The U.S. Military JAG will warn them that if they follow illegal orders they can be court martialed.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:45 PM
Monday
... the Judge Advocate General is one of the few positions in the Army explicitly provided for by law in Title 10 of the United States Code, and requiring a distinct appointment. When officers who have already been appointed to another branch of the Army join the JAG Corps, rather than merely transferring branches, they are administratively dismissed and simultaneously recommissioned anew as judge advocates...

The U.S. Army JAG Corps was founded by General George Washington with the appointment of William Tudor as the Judge Advocate General on 29 July 1775.[2] The Army JAG Corps is the oldest of the judge advocate communities in the U.S. armed forces – as well as the oldest law firm in the United States.

The current (forty-second) Judge Advocate General is Lieutenant General Joseph B. Berger III, who was appointed in July 2024.

The almost 2,000 full-time judge advocates and civilian attorneys who serve The Judge Advocate General's Corps comprise the largest group of attorneys who serve the U.S. Army. Several hundred other attorneys practice under the Chief Counsel of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Command Counsel of the United States Army Materiel Command.

Judge advocates, legal administrators and military paralegals are deployed throughout the United States and around the world, including Japan, South Korea, Germany, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Qatar. They provide legal assistance to soldiers, adjudicate claims against the Army, advise commands on targeting decisions and other aspects of operational law, and assist the command in administering military justice by preparing non-judicial punishment actions, administrative separation actions, and trying criminal cases at court-martial.

In addition to the active component judge advocates, there are approximately 5,000 attorneys who serve in the US Army Reserve and the Army National Guard. Several hundred Reserve and National Guard attorneys were called to active duty to serve in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Judge_Advocate_General%27s_Corps

bluestarone

(18,234 posts)
95. Like i said i 100% hope your right.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 03:54 PM
Monday

Look what the retired generals are saying. They HATE the bastard, but they are no longer there. Not disagreeing with you, BUT i can't but fear it. We are in a whole new situation, that America has never in before (how this monster was able to do it is over my head)

ancianita

(38,557 posts)
96. Gotta trust in the righteousness of the
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 04:03 PM
Monday
Uniform Code of Military Justice. Civilian courts, too.

Just got a text that Chuck Schumer just rolled out the "No Kings Act" in the Senate. A ray of hopehope. Gotta use all the tools we've got in the next 63 days.

doc03

(36,705 posts)
98. It won't be long until some get shot, when it happens law enforcement
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 04:19 PM
Monday

will cover their ass claiming they were killers, drug dealers, terrorists and gang members. Law enforcement will treat
it as an open season. Families will be broken up, meat and produce
prices will go up causing shortages and inflation. It going to backfire big time.




regnaD kciN

(26,592 posts)
106. If you think, when Trump sends in the military, that he's only going to target "illegal immigrants"...
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:25 PM
Monday

...I have a bridge in Brooklyn Nüremburg you might be interested in buying.

And also, remember: "Bullets are cheaper than deportation. Or internment camps."

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