Here's what I believe what this Cal/Nat Guard deployment is all about

[JPK]

It is a test run. Trump is looking for an excuse to declare martial law BEFORE the mid terms. He will do anything he can to provoke the people into some kind of confrontation. Then declare ML, activate the US military for deployment on US soil to arrest any citizens he feels is a threat to his rule. Once the troops are deployed he will suspend the mid term elections indefinitely. The spineless republicans in Congress will do nothing. The Democratic leaders in Congress will be arrested as enemies of the state.

However, controlling 330 million people that is armed to the teeth might prove to be a difficult tiger to subdue.

[elocs]

1. Trump is doing this in CA, the biggest Liberal state because if he succeeds there,

the rest of the states will fall and midterms will be no problem.
None of this, all that Trump has been doing, has just happened but has been planned for years. If only we had been more vigilant and prepared rather than now reacting to his actions, but we saw Trump as an idiot and moron and not a real danger to our democracy. He may well be that but he is a useful tool for those who are really pulling the strings on ending our democracy. Let's hope that what has happened here will be a useful lesson for the other free nations of the world.

[Nigrum Cattus]

13. the planners you are talking about are white christian nationalists

https://www.statementonchristiannationalism.com/
Here is just one of the docs you refer to.

[KPN]

22. And our aristocrats, particularly the southern aristocrats have long been behind these "plans".

[JPK]

35. Trump and the Xcian Nat's

Trump is using them. If Lenard Leo thinks that he will control Trump once he secures what he wants, they are in just as much danger as the wokes LOL. I'm sure he will jail them and the whole staff of the Federalist Society as soon as they have worn out their usefulness.

[ananda]

18. By "we" I guess you mean people who voted Republican.

It certainly wasn't us or anybody who's remotely been
paying attention for the last 8 years.

[hadEnuf]

27. There were those of us who saw this coming like a freight train in the night.

But we're often ridiculed and told to take the high road.


Just sayin'.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. It would be un-Constitutional for Trump to declare martial law.

Not that Trump cares about the Constitution, of course.

We’ll see if the military obeys Trump’s unlawful orders.

The states have the authority to conduct elections, not the Federal government.

[bdamomma]

3. Your

last 2 comments give me hope.

[JPK]

6. Insurrection Act 1807

Gives the president the authority. I would guess one man's riot, could be considered another man's insurrection. It is all a matter of viewpoint.

[allegorical oracle]

11. Being paranoid, djt may also be testing his limits in LA because of his upcoming June 14

military parade.

Two things that he despises waay more than people being harmed are: a) disruption of any event that is honoring him (rallies, parades, inaugurations) and b) destruction of property -- he's obsessed with "buildings."

[mwmisses4289]

17. Unless it's his minions doing the destroying.

See Jan 6.

[Kaleva]

26. Ike and JFK both used it

[choie]

31. You're comparing the violence of Jan 6th

with what was going on in Los Angeles?

[John Farmer]

36. One man's demonstration is another man's riot.

[COL Mustard]

20. Remember, he did say that

We’ll never have to vote again. I hope he wasn’t literal.

[KPN]

23. He was literal.

[GiqueCee]

4. Your analysis...

... aligns closely with mine. The Sinister Six on the SCOTUS are all in on the side of the treasonous fascists, so they're not to be trusted now, if they ever were.
If Trump was actually human, he would endeavor to avoid harming civilians exercising their Constitutional right to peaceful assembly, but one of the main reasons for this escalation is to satisfy his innate bloodlust. That is, as long as he can watch it onTV; by his own admission, he hates the sight of blood in real life. Another factor is his insatiable craving for absolute dominion over the lives of others. He loves to humiliate people, even those who willingly submit to his malicious control.
This is not going to end well. That he is, for all intents and purposes, historically illiterate, means that he has not benefitted from the lessons that Mussolini had to learn the hard way: Tyrants ALWAYS end up losers, SUCKAH!

[ShazzieB]

16. I'm not sure...

The Sinister Six on the SCOTUS are all in on the side of the treasonous fascists, so they're not to be trusted now, if they ever were.

We certainly can't count on SCOTUS to do the right thing, but I'm not convinced all 6 conservatives are all in with him 100% these days. Thomas and Alito? Absolutely. But there have been some surprising 7/2 verdicts, in cases where he's done such wildly unconscionable things that only the Treacherous Two (or should I say the Gruesome Twosome) were willing to rule in his favor.

I'm NOT holding my breath, but I'm not giving up hope yet, either.

[Kaleva]

28. Let's not forget the Supremes didn't help Trump try in overturn the 2020 election

[Hugin]

5. It's revisiting Portland from Trump 1.0.

A made for Fox TV confrontation. Just like the “assassination attempt”, damn the collateral damage.

[KPN]

24. Yup, and like Portland, the rightwing are labeling it "insurrection" -- but J6 was just a bunch of enthusiastic tourists

visiting our Capitol.

[SSJVegeta]

7. Liberals are not armed to the teeth. But that can change.

[mwmisses4289]

19. Depends where they live.

They may not be in your face about it, but plenty of liberals in my red state are armed and know how to use their weapons. A lot of magas may find themselves shocked when they find not all "them dam libruls" are unwilling to defend what they hold dear and believe in.

[Kaleva]

29. Unless they are organized, they won't last long

History shows that lone wolfs have a short life span

[GiqueCee]

33. This old Liberal...

... is not "armed to the teeth" at the moment, but I know my way around firearms, and I'm still an expert marksman. I hope no one has to find that out the hard way, but things are getting WAY too ugly, WAY too fast.
Trump and his bald psycho-buddy, Miller, have already demonstrated just how evil they can be, and they haven't even hit 3rd gear yet.
Watch your six; these fuckers mean business. They know that if they lose, it's all over for them, so they won't hesitate to burn it all to the ground so they can die on a hill of ashes, rather than leave us anything to rebuild. And don't kid yourself; they ARE that evil.

[SSJVegeta]

34. Same

[twodogsbarking]

8. Remember when all of those people attacked the Capitol and the Natl Guard was called up?

Me neither.

[Mtnmama]

12. Right, trump is a hypocritical

COWARD who, according to Miles Taylor, has "magical powers", i.e , deploying the military, the same military he wouldn't serve in because of bone spurs, to "protect" him, keep him in power against the people's will.

[PatSeg]

9. Yes, that is what it looks like to me

I figured it was only a matter of time before he found an excuse to call up the National Guard and then use violence as a reason to declare martial law. If protests are basically peaceful, he will hire instigators to provoke violence. It is in his playbook, the same one all dictators use to gain power.

[Nigrum Cattus]

10. Yes, they always "test" things first, but

we are testing things as well. Our responses
and tactics are evolving too. Presume some-kind
of cyber battle soon.

[loquacious]

14. Agreed 100% 👍

It's just another example of how desperate Mango Mussolini is to stay in the White House so they won't send him to the big house 🤬

[IronLionZion]

15. Target blue areas of swing districts and states to discourage voter turnout

Unless enough GOP voters turn against him to make a difference

[Tranquil72]

21. Trump definitely needs some kind of conflict to distract from his other problems, such as the tariffs

And that silly Bill. But I think it would be wrong of us to to view his decisions as part of anything resembling a formal plan. His pattern is to make things up as he goes along, and sometimes that works and others, it simply makes a mess. But I believe that he feels if he can just get the public thinking and focusing on what’s happening in LA rather than in DC, it’s to his benefit, personally and politically.

[McKim]

25. Trump Gives MAGAs CULTURE WARS INSTEAD OF LOWER PRICES

Since Trump will not lower prices or support a stable economy, he can give them dramatic culture wars events like this one. So look for more drama and less financial help for his supporters..

[usonian]

30. On plan and on schedule

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160