Today Trump signed an Executive Order that directs a barrage of federal agency action to escalate his dictatorial takeover of the District of Columbia. But embedded in the EO is a deeply chilling provision that orders Hegseth and the DOD to create specialized military units for rapid deployment across the nation for "quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate." 1/ #USDictator #LawFedi https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/additional-measures-to-address-the-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia/
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@heidilifeldman
They are getting ready to gave armed soldiers at the polls, just like Hitler.
They are getting ready to gave armed soldiers at the polls, just like Hitler.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 is a federal statute that generally prohibits the use of the Army and Air Force to enforce domestic law, except when specifically authorized by the Constitution or a separate Act of Congress. Enacted to prevent the military from acting as a domestic police force, it has exceptions and has been supplemented by other laws, such as the Insurrection Act, which can allow the President to deploy the military in cases of rebellion or insurrection.
@heidilifeldman Trump exhibits all the extreme traits of past dictators, but unfortunately the people who voted for him know nothing about history.
America’s got the president it wanted, and may pay dearly for it.
America’s got the president it wanted, and may pay dearly for it.
@heidilifeldman
This is day 218.
@heidilifeldman#PolPotbelly working towards Emporer status.
@heidilifeldman So transparent ‘made up crime emergency’ to take over DC, a trial run. Watch 7 Days in May (movie) but here The President is engineering the coup.
And the country has yet to arrive at ‘uproar’. 😔 Waiting to see some state resistance. Then the country might split as all red State leadership are apparently good with the coup. 🔥
@heidilifeldman America had the chance to stop this in its tracks early on. They didn't have the nuts to do it. #2A my arse. Ability to 'fight a rogue government', my arse. A country that saw a dictatorship coming, could have stopped it, did nothing. FUCKING PATHETIC.
@heidilifeldman all of his projections from the past tens years are coming true
i didn't see that coming 😜
@heidilifeldman In other words, the 'Trump Gestapo'
@heidilifeldman If Democrats take control of the House in 2026 then they NEED to strip these agencies of funding.
@heidilifeldman So, TLDR, a new paramilitary force he can deploy anywhere he wants regardless if the state or city wants it.
Cool, cool. Nothing to see here folks. 🙃 😬
@heidilifeldman
so, ummm
when are people who took the oath going to stand up to this shit. Their oath was to support and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States against ALL enemies foreign and domestic.
I'm guessing now the oath has been rewritten to something along the lines of "lick the boots of the narcissistic temper tantrum throwing toddler in charge"
@heidilifeldman Is it too late for an emasculated Congress to put a halt to this?
@bouriquet Not too late, but with the Republican Fascist Party in control of both houses of Congress, I don't think they will.
@heidilifeldman @bartt Ah. The USA is rapidly tuning into the 4th Reich with their own SS...
@heidilifeldman The United States of America is no longer a free nation.
Period.
@heidilifeldman Its a dictatorship, and he won't step away in the next elections. Democracy is dead
@heidilifeldman You’re on the way!
@heidilifeldman
Mutter, murmur..4th Reich.. something something Nazi blah blabber....
Mutter, murmur..4th Reich.. something something Nazi blah blabber....
@heidilifeldman
We know where this is going...
@heidilifeldman
What Trump intends with his demand that the Secretary of Defense create "specialized troops" for rapid deployment across the United States, they are NOT intended to ensure "public safety and order."
Next thing you know, Pete Hegseth will name the umbrella command for them, ECOMCON, and move Trump's press briefings room to Mt. Thunder.
@heidilifeldman Are they signalling to us that it's time to burn the whole thing down or
@heidilifeldman What crime emergency in DC??!
@heidilifeldman
If the midterms don't deliver what he wants, and even if they do, the next storming of the Capitol is going to have even less of an organised response.
@heidilifeldman quell or cull? 😉
@heidilifeldman This is what the beginning of a dictatorship looks like!
He is trying to deflect from this 👇🏽
He is trying to deflect from this 👇🏽
@heidilifeldman
Last October Kamala told us this would happen if Assolini was elected again. She was right. She was right about everything.
Last October Kamala told us this would happen if Assolini was elected again. She was right. She was right about everything.
@heidilifeldman @gleick Its a shame more people aren’t comparing this fascist to Hitler.
He's ordered the creation of standing army units to occupy states across the country. "In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment." 2/
@heidilifeldman
In Germany we used to call this 'SS'.
Just waiting for a 'Leibstandarte Donald Trump'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_SS_Panzer_Division_Leibstandarte_SS_Adolf_Hitler
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibstandarte_SS_Adolf_Hitler
In his press conference, he announced that he is prepared to deploy the National Guard throughout the country regardless of whether that state's Governor consents. Although the EO references a provision of the law that authorizes some domestic activations of the National Guard, the part of that law he has replied on to take over DC explicitly leaves states in control of Guard troops. .... 3/
The relevant law is Title 32, Section 502, particularly 502(f). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/32/502.
This law is deceptively bland. On its face, it creates a mechanism by which the federal government can fund training of National Guard troops in the states while keeping the Guard under the control of the states. But Trump has used this law to ignore local control in DC and he plans to use it to ignore gubernatorial authority throughout the country. 4/
For an extended, excellent of analysis of 32 U.S. Code, Section 502, see https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/presidents-power-call-out-national-guard-not-blank-check.
Bottom line, I, along with many other lawyers and legal scholars, know that Trump's use of his ordered "specialized units" is unlawful. But that makes no difference, because by the time any challenges to their deployments happens, the military will already be in U.S. streets. ... 5/
@heidilifeldman Where is the judges decision in LA? That may guide the rest of this ridiculous coup.
@heidilifeldman wow is this actually for real
@heidilifeldman Maybe someone can tell #scotus ?
Furthermore, the current rogue Supreme Court might well, through some combination of shadow docket rulings and an eventual substantive opinion, ignore the plain meaning of the provision in the context of the overall statute and simply green-light Trump's ordering the National Guard for purposes of law enforcement throughout the country.
That's a military dictatorship accomplished. 6/
@heidilifeldman
But will the military comply? It's their posterior that is hanging on the wind for the illegal orders. The pedo in chief is immune. They are not.
But will the military comply? It's their posterior that is hanging on the wind for the illegal orders. The pedo in chief is immune. They are not.
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