Trump is the national emergency we need ceda An emergency funds to deal with him
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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States should declare emergencies first and protect themselves from the fed. Elections are handled by each state, not the government.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections. If they just jump to suspending fair elections anyway, then there will be nothing to stop the gloves from coming off. The billionaires and Congress creatures better run for their bunkers. Anybody that the people perceive as having a hand in getting us to this point, either through direct action or failure to react, won't be safe.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.
The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.
There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn't vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.
All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn't immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.
Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.
“…duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.”
Sounds like an excuse, no dictator has ever been held at bay by lack of action and this regime is not shy of pulling stuff directly from their asses.
All-in on Nothing
Bold move in a nation with more guns than people.
I'm not against a Gaddafi or Mussolini ending at all.
The ending is OK. It's the journey there we all want to avoid.
we held elections during a literal civil war. What "emergency" could trump that with all our modern life improvements and.... checks notes. No civil war in America...
What "emergency" could trump that with
He has no trouble pulling random excuses out of his ass.
And on the rare occasion the courts eventually tell him to stop, he will have been doing whatever he wants for months and moths before he is told to stop.
You're the first Republican President since the civil rights act passed to have negative approval among white voters.
You won the popular vote because for the first time in memory, high propensity voters are going for the Democrats and low propensity voters went for Republicans.
Whatever you're planning won't be enough.
if this happens it’s over They are limiting who can give passports, some states are cancelling driver licenses of certain groups… they will choose who can vote or not
What will the US military with their oath to protect the US Constitution?
Probably not.
I would love to be proven wrong, but the evidence of the last year tells me I won't be.
The only way the US military would ever -MAYBE - intervene is if Trump openly and unambiguously violated a direct order from the Supreme Court. If SCOTUS directly prohibited Trump from seizing control of elections, and Trump just ordered the military to intervene, that might be enough to make them refuse orders.
But that's unlikely to happen. First, SCOTUS will likely just slow walk this until after the election, refusing to rule on it while also not allowing any injunctions. Three months after the election they rule against it.
Or, even if SCOTUS does strike it down, Trump can rely on ambiguity. The court strikes this one down? Three weeks before the election, Trump issues a new executive order. This does much the same thing as the one the court struck down, but it's based on a completely different legal authority. The military then no longer has a clear unambiguous ruling from the court on how to act.
The only way the military might refuse to follow orders is if Trump openly and clearly violates a direct SCOTUS ruling. And Trump can simply engineer things so that such a clear unambiguous case never happens. It's one thing for a group of soldiers to cite a direct court ruling in their refusal to follow orders. It's another for some 19 year olds to decide the constitutionality of a presidential action by themselves and refuse to intervene.
Prediction: None of this so called evidence will ever make an appearance in a court room.
And even if it does it will be a Trump Crony Judge that just goes... yeah sure, be a dictator buddy!
Unfortunately we have been boned since the immunity ruling.
His lawyers don't exactly have high hopes.
If he starts the civil war by ending our vote, do we get to start hitting Ice agents with our cars?
Also make sure to be going 40 or over or they get back up.
You already can! Are you worried about repercussions? They aren't.
Or just don’t forget to backup yourself
By Wikipedias count there are presently 51 on-going national emergencies in USA, 19 of them have been declared by Trump.
The oldest still active one was made by Carter in 1979, it's a sanction on Iran.
we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes
Of course he is, he benefitted from it. America ain't coming back until the people take it back, and that's gonna be done the hard way.
Donald Trump is the national emergency.
If this happens and civil war doesn't break out than I fear good people will have lost.
"They say evil wins when good people do nothing. I disagree, it should just be 'evil wins'."
So I'm of the opinion that it should be as costly a victory for the bastards as possible.
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The Chinese government hates the US and, if they interfered successfully, would have done so to get Trump into office, since that would cause the most damage.
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