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(1,384 posts)
1. Yes, but...
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 03:46 AM
Yesterday

Shitler is looking for an excuse to declare Martial law. If he does, the Republic is not just dead, but dead and buried.

Wiz Imp

(4,789 posts)
11. Why does he need an excuse? Almost everything he does has had zero justification.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 11:25 AM
17 hrs ago

This has always been a stupid argument. If he's going to declare martial law, he will do it regardless of anything else happening. He needs no excuse.

Martin68

(25,563 posts)
15. No, if he declares martial law without grounds, he will get no support for it. Not from the Supreme Court and not from
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:38 PM
14 hrs ago

the military.

Skittles

(163,655 posts)
2. according to some DUers it is fine to ambush offensive people and shoot them in the back
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 03:54 AM
Yesterday

rioting seems pretty tame compared to that

ibegurpard

(17,047 posts)
4. For those who didn't watch
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:21 AM
Yesterday

And just react to the headlines... she says no and that people who advocate for violence are self-defeating and suspect.

Response to ibegurpard (Reply #4)

elocs

(24,119 posts)
9. The point of a headline is to inform. This one infers and misleads. I come here to read,
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 09:31 AM
19 hrs ago

not to watch videos. So save your scolding of those of us who did not watch.

ibegurpard

(17,047 posts)
12. If you clicked on the thread
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 11:43 AM
17 hrs ago

And saw it was a video and didn't watch it then chose to offer your opinion anyway then how is that informed?

AZJonnie

(759 posts)
5. If there's going to be a riot, it better be like 500,000 people showing up at Mar-A-Lago and trashing the joint
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:34 AM
Yesterday

You know, like a January 6, part 2? Not hurting anyone, but maybe smearing feces on the walls, putting their feet up on Trump's desk, that kind of thing.

Hell, we already know that people who do that sort of thing are heroes and patriots, and even worthy of pardons, right?

But aside from that particular scenario ... I agree with her. Rioting is a bad look.

AZJonnie

(759 posts)
13. Hence the 500,000 people and Mar A Lago parts of the equation
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 12:42 PM
16 hrs ago

That's too many to jail everyone, and also such an overwhelming number that perhaps there wouldn't need to be any fight, the people protecting it would more likely just walk away. Also there's no 'official proceeding' there to obstruct, it's not Federal property, etc. I'm not 'encouraging' it, nor would I be there. But if 500K other people did something like that, and it went down as I described? Let's just say I'd not be calling the attendees out for having done so

elocs

(24,119 posts)
8. So much of life is about choices & consequences. Are we ready for the consequences of rioting?
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 09:17 AM
19 hrs ago

Because riots are never clean and pretty. Criminals will take advantage of a riot to loot and steal. It's not unlikely that people will be hurt or even killed. Most of all it will give Trump exactly what he hopes--the excuse to declare martial law. Then it will be all over but the shouting, or rather, the wailing.

Martin68

(25,563 posts)
14. Riot too soon and Trump will declare martial law with the support of a majority of Americans.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 02:36 PM
14 hrs ago

It would be a stupid move at this point.

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