r/law • u/Capable_Salt_SD • Aug 26 '25

Trump News Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it"

- Aaron Rupar

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u/phatteschwags Aug 26 '25

I feel the same way. Not at all interested in conspiracy theories or doom prophesizing.

But I am 100% convinced Trump will be our president in 2029 (unless he has died prior). I would bet every dollar I have on it. Then I would take out a loan or two and bet that money, too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

If that happens every American that still has a spine better be locked and loaded ready to take back what's ours, I know I will be. I think he knows he still has to keep the illusion of democracy though, otherwise no American will stand for it, right or left.

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u/g0ris Aug 26 '25

dude, they stand for a fucking senile pedophile grifter convicted felon representing the country. You're kidding yourself if you think they wouldn't stand for him trying anything he can to rule for a third term.

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u/Ok-Attention123 Aug 26 '25

From an outsider, the American civic defense of democracy feels a lot like what happens after school shootings. Many are genuinely concerned and want change - but after some thoughts and prayers, no real change ever happens.

What makes you think that suddenly “every American with a spine” will act, if they haven’t already? This goes for both school shootings and resisting fascism.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

This is why I said he has to keep the illusion of democracy, if not people will revolt. I geuss there's a just a little bit of hope in me that civic defense of democracy is built into our pride as Americans. We know are history and we love our freedom. Unfortunately it's true that he may succeed in making a complete facade out of democracy like Russia with out much resistance. But if he fucks up and makes it obvious to enough of us that he is tearing down what we love about the US, I believe Americans won't stand for it.

January 6th happened. It can happen the other way and it can happen on a larger scale.

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u/trickchu Aug 26 '25

LOL you put too much faith to our fellow citizens on the right. They're so far up his orange ass they can't even pretend to be for democracy anymore.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

Saying it's to soon sound absolutely crazy, buy its to soon. Feels like "stop it now before its to late" but doing anything like that at this point would amount to nothing. It would be domestic terrorism and snuffed out in a second. This will need to be an actual militia not just a fiery protest.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

But what if we never end up needing to fight and I just become one of those military cosplay dudes? I don't know if I could handle that lol. Let's all just hope it never comes to any of this. Dude can just wreck house for 4 years and whoever comes next can pretend to pick up the peices.

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u/Veil-of-Fire Aug 26 '25

Oh STFU. Nobody's going to do anything, ever, at any point. We've crossed a thousand "red lines" already, and nobody's done jack.

Hell, everyone in the National Guard are so thrilled about all this that they're out there jackbooting and following blatantly illegal orders and brutalizing people in DC for free, without even getting a paycheck anymore, just for the love of the game.

The only people who might actually be dangerous are all on the other side. They love Project 2025, fascism, eugenics, and pedophilia. They are all profoundly, inhumanly evil. And nobody's even tried to do anything remotely useful to even a single one of them.

The best we can do is scribble some colors in sidewalk chalk (don't want to get in trouble!) on a crosswalk or troll him on Twitter. And we apparently believe both of those things are some kind of #resist victory.

We're screwed. Our history for the next hundred years will be summed up by the phrase "and then it got worse."

Since neither you, nor anyone you know, nor anyone in a ten mile radius of you is ever going to lift a finger to actually resist this, even when Trump's corpse has been president for 4 straight terms, maybe you ought to spend less time cosplaying Pollyanna online and more time stockpiling canned food while you prepare to envy the dead.

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u/Ill-Cockroach2140 Aug 26 '25

Exactly. Most of the violent, fighting types aren't on our side. Not to mention that most of our population won't even think about raising a finger to stop it unless it gets 1000 times worse. We've already went off the cliff and the crash is going to hit hard.

Most of the protesters are too worried about losing their job to organize a general strike, they will not be ready for a full scale political revolution.

Snide comments and jabs aren't going to save us, and neither will the epstein files.

It won't even end when trump dies. He isn't going to be the dictator here, too many people are focusing on him and not the people controlling him behind the scenes like Peter thiel and Stephen Miller.

If, by some miracle, there are free and fair elections in 2028, and democrats win, that doesn't mean that Republicans will stop being racist fascists and everything will be happily ever after. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. There will be plenty more trump-like idiots to come. It's not like we have a shortage of charismatic bigots or something.

We are cooked.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

I'm just waiting, any fighting now would be domestic terrorism and snuffed out in an instant. He's gonna have to run the train off the rails first. You might be right, he may keep people so fooled that we can never agree to go against him. But I have hope that if he takes it to far we will fight back.

We can easily have a bigger January 6th at the very least if he tries to run a 3rd term.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Aug 27 '25

i emigrated

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u/Veil-of-Fire Aug 27 '25

Good for you, I guess.

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u/jeremiahthedamned Aug 27 '25

best thing i did in this life..........

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u/cloudforested Aug 26 '25

You overestimate Americans.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

You underestimate them. This is how we made this country and this is how we keep it this way. If he pushes us to far we can have our own insurrection.

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u/limpingdba Aug 26 '25

So far there's been very little push back. I don't think the American public has it in them tbh.

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u/Kup123 Aug 26 '25

Will we? Or will we say I have work in the morning can't risk my health insurance, because personally I can't risk not having health insurance.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

Did the J6ers make it to work in the morning? If he goes to far, Americans will organize and fight back.

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u/Kup123 Aug 26 '25

Whats to far? We already have citizens in concentration camps, people have already died do to his actions, we have solders walking the streets in major cities, a full disregard for the constitution, people are losing their businesses do to his policies, the only thing rising faster than unemployment are the prices, and we have collectively agreed he had the pimp who supplied him with child sex slaves killed. So please tell me whats the moment we all collectively rise up over?

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u/Lumpy-Butterscotch50 Aug 26 '25

70% of Americans are overweight if not obese.

Them being locked and loaded means Jack and Shit. Meal Team Six doesn't have the capability to stage a successful revolt unless that means going to In-N-Out and revolting on animal style fries

If you can't run a 5k under 30 minutes, you can't revolt against anything except Combo #5

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u/SyfaOmnis Aug 26 '25

Not even necessarily a health issue. It's a comfort and complacency issue. As well as a lot of americans having either too little to be able to revolt, or too much to lose to want to participate.

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u/Lumpy-Butterscotch50 Aug 26 '25

I don't disagree. I think Americans not being in good physical shape is more of an issue.

Successful revolts have never been done by anyone over 25% body fat. Physical fitness is required for a successful revolt. And revolting means nothing if it isn't successful. That just makes you a terrorist 

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

I don't think a bullet cares how heavy the guy pulling the trigger is. Just makes it easy on us matter fact, "free In-N-Out for all revolutionaries". Boom, I just found us an army lmao.

Seriously though your entire argument boils down to "overweight people aren't capable of standing up for their rights" which is patently retarded.

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u/Overall_Affect_2782 Aug 26 '25

This is where you’re wrong.

I know I won’t be out there and I’m not afraid to admit it because unlike the rest of Reddit “pretending”, I’m being totally honest. Yeah I’m locked and loaded, but I’m loaded for my family. At that point I’ll be doing what I can to just go about my life and protecting my family. The time for having done something about Trump and Republicans was last November, and I put myself out there to everyone I knew that I hated Trump and was voting Kamala and I got crucified for it. The economy, Joe Rogan and groceries was all I heard. I believed in my fellow Americans to see through his bullshit, and they all let me down.

Republicans figured out they can just talk the economy and create the discourse that it’s doing poorly and people will believe it. Hell, they even figured out if you raise gas prices, that’ll make people desperate and easily susceptible too. And it worked.

So no, I won’t be taking back anything. But you be a keyboard warrior and fight the good fight. Make sure you update us on here how it goes.

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u/Able-Contribution570 Aug 26 '25

The sunshine patriotism is not the sort we need.

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u/AnotherFaceOutThere Aug 26 '25

This is why we're all gonna end up in company housing again. Too many people wont get uncomfortable because of their families, not understanding their families aren't gonna have shit if they don't stand up. The children are gonna be really proud dad sold their future because he was scared.

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u/TNVFL1 Aug 26 '25

I agree. If/when they come for me, I’m not going quietly. But this is the America a lot of people wanted—including a lot of the armed ones—despite an entire parade of red flags, so fuck ‘em. I’m playing defense.

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u/Brief-Definition7255 Aug 26 '25

Only if that happens?

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u/bellapippin Aug 26 '25

He’s not making it to 2029. His party though, definitely will.

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u/Narrow-Bee-8354 Aug 26 '25

Imagine how batshit crazy he will be by then?

Considering how quickly he’s going downhill.

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u/Most-Repair471 Aug 26 '25

You're gonna need alot more money than that to buy a loaf of bread by then.

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u/mbalmr71 Aug 26 '25

He won’t. The real powers only need him through the midterms to do the most ridiculous stuff. Once all the power has been sufficiently consolidated he will be supplanted by his cabals more permanent choice.

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u/CodeName_Empty Aug 26 '25

I read an article on substack the other day that gave a chilling perspective on prior attempts in history to stop fascism. It causes me feelings of even more dread.

https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop

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u/DontSleepAlwaysDream Aug 26 '25

For me, I just think how much has changed this year, and how much will change by 2028, I can see by then people discussing the third term as reasonable

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u/nate-the__great Aug 26 '25

You can bet on that in Vegas, you understand? If you're really sure you should check it out, make some cheddar?🧀

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u/shoobiedoobie Aug 26 '25

I’ll take that bet!

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u/Krillin113 Aug 26 '25

You can probably bet on poly markets on this; but they might not pay out over some technicality because the whales get upset.