How long until Trump declares Martial Law?

[JoeWeber 3,021]

In his mind we're being invaded from the south by gangs and drug runners, by anti-american college students, by the deep state, by Blacks at home and who knows who else. With his level of paranoia, executive powers, and his firm belief that he and he alone can save the nation it's easy to imagine him deciding there is no other choice.

[nigel99 682]

5 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

In his mind we're being invaded from the south by gangs and drug runners, by anti-american college students, by the deep state, by Blacks at home and who knows who else. With his level of paranoia, executive powers, and his firm belief that he and he alone can save the nation it's easy to imagine him deciding there is no other choice.

If he senses that he’s going to lose the midterms or if the courts get any teeth.

[gowlerk 2,303]

How long? Probably about 2 months before the mid term elections.

[JoeWeber 3,021]

8 hours ago, nigel99 said:

If he senses that he’s going to lose the midterms or if the courts get any teeth.

I thought that but then thought that his protective bubble of sycophantic bullshit peddlers, who all know the penalty for telling Trump what he doesn't want to hear, would likely keep the negative polls separate from his daily feed. Now afterwards........

[olofscience 495]

In the Philippines in August 23, 1971, President Ferdinand Marcos suspended habeas corpus. On September 23, 1972, he declared Martial Law and ruled as dictator for the next 21 years

Trump's already trying to suspend habeas corpus...so give it a year after that? Perfect for the midterms.

[gowlerk 2,303]

9 hours ago, olofscience said:

Perfect for the midterms.

One of the strengths (which can also be seen as a weakness) of USA politics is the fact that there is no federally controlled electoral system. 

It would be hard for a POTUS to stop or control 50 independent state systems like Marcos, or Putin.

[kallend 2,216]

Well,it happened!

[nigel99 682]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/s/NAt8x0wXHR

This is an interesting rant about the second amendment and liberals lack of backbone to take action. He also talks about Jan 6 with a few interesting points.

[BIGUN 1,520]

14 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

This is an interesting rant

Just another shit-talking redneck on TT saying what should be done, but prolly will have other things to do when the SHTF. 

Edited August 18 by BIGUN

[normiss 916]

32 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

Just another shit-talking redneck on TT saying what should be done, but prolly will have other things to do when the SHTF. 

While being completely oblivious to the Chinese government platform he's on.

[nigel99 682]

9 hours ago, normiss said:

While being completely oblivious to the Chinese government platform he's on.

In reality how much worse is a Chinese platform than a US one?

The US platforms are taking every bit as much info and selling it on for consumption. There’s a fair amount of evidence that the US government is consuming that data. 

[normiss 916]

1 hour ago, nigel99 said:

In reality how much worse is a Chinese platform than a US one?

The US platforms are taking every bit as much info and selling it on for consumption. There’s a fair amount of evidence that the US government is consuming that data. 

Algorithms used for disinformation has been pretty bad, although it appears most of that has been Russia IIRC.

 

[nigel99 682]

2 minutes ago, normiss said:

Algorithms used for disinformation has been pretty bad, although it appears most of that has been Russia IIRC.

 

I’m conflicted over keeping a FB account and don’t have Ticktok. In Australia FB are in the process of requiring government ID to maintain your account, due to recent legislation changes. I’ve had identity theft before and I don’t just hand out my ID. 

The problem is that I’ve got FB friends and relatives around the world where I’m interested in their major life events that they post, but it’s not like we phone or text each other. 

[wmw999 2,639]

10 hours ago, nigel99 said:

The problem is that I’ve got FB friends and relatives around the world where I’m interested in their major life events that they post, but it’s not like we phone or text each other. 

That’s the only reason I have FB too. I nearly always regret doom scrolling, it only ever makes me think worse of people.

Eventually fewer and fewer people will post there, too, as it’s taken over by commercial and generated content, and it’ll get to be a medium for 6 old farts to discuss stuff

Wendy P. 

[dogyks 30]

2 hours ago, wmw999 said:

That’s the only reason I have FB too. I nearly always regret doom scrolling, it only ever makes me think worse of people.

Eventually fewer and fewer people will post there, too, as it’s taken over by commercial and generated content, and it’ll get to be a medium for 6 old farts to discuss stuff

Wendy P. 

Isn't this forum pretty much given to geriatrics?

[normiss 916]

27 minutes ago, dogyks said:

Isn't this forum pretty much given to geriatrics?

GET OFF MY LAWN WITH THAT NONSENSE!

[wmw999 2,639]

1 hour ago, dogyks said:

Isn't this forum pretty much given to geriatrics?

I think that was kinda my point… 

that said, the one thing FB does well is provide a format and a means to share something quickly and easily with someone you want to. As in jokes with my friend M (who curates and posts a lot of jokes in marginal taste — that’s what I love about her), and quips and comments to my friend L (now passed, but we were sharing within days of her unexpected death). And that’s a good thing. It can be done with email or snail mail or the phone, but FH removes one level of complication; that of remembering which is now the correct email address, or buying a stamp and actually putting pen to paper 

Wendy P. 

[johnhking1 105]

2 hours ago, wmw999 said:

It can be done with email or snail mail or the phone, but FH removes one level of complication; that of remembering which is now the correct email address, or buying a stamp and actually putting pen to paper 

I think a hand written letter sent through the mail has more effect than something sent electronically.  It is somethin physical you can hold on to and don't need some electronic device to read. 

I have a collection of letters that my uncle wrote to my grandmother during world war II.  I have erased most of the emails that I have received.

[normiss 916]

30 minutes ago, johnhking1 said:

I think a hand written letter sent through the mail has more effect than something sent electronically.  It is somethin physical you can hold on to and don't need some electronic device to read. 

I have a collection of letters that my uncle wrote to my grandmother during world war II.  I have erased most of the emails that I have received.

Good luck passing that on these days.

I can't even get thank you notes from the next generations - unless I text them to verify they actually received the card/gift.

Then it's IF they respond.

[gowlerk 2,303]

6 hours ago, wmw999 said:

I nearly always regret doom scrolling, it only ever makes me think worse of people.

FB for me has become mostly endlessly watching "reels". Which of course is their version of Tic Toc. And the algo gives me lots of skydiving, music, aircraft and trucking stuff. Along with some physics. Because it knows what I have clicked on.

Edited August 19 by gowlerk

[Phil1111 1,260]

On 8/18/2025 at 7:15 AM, BIGUN said:

Just another shit-talking redneck on TT saying what should be done, but prolly will have other things to do when the SHTF. 

Tic Toc still faces a federal sell‑or‑ban law that required ByteDance to divest U.S. operations or see the app banned, a measure enacted by Congress and signed into last year. Which doesn't mean much for Trump. But since there is something in it for himself. 

Great news: The WH has opened a Tic Toc account. So much for national security, the law and the will of congress. But at least Trump can expand the base in a compromised security medium.

[BIGUN 1,520]

15 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

The WH has opened a Tic Toc account.

Sooooooo . . . Trump threatened to ban TicTok for national security reasons in 2020. Congress passed a bill to ban it. Biden signed it. Now, the WH is opening a tiktok account. 

I can't even fucking keep up anymore. 

[Phil1111 1,260]

1 hour ago, BIGUN said:

Sooooooo . . . Trump threatened to ban TicTok for national security reasons in 2020. Congress passed a bill to ban it. Biden signed it. Now, the WH is opening a tiktok account. 

I can't even fucking keep up anymore. 

Thats how magicians operate. Wave a hand over here when something disappears over there. Others call it distraction.

National security in on the back burner anyway. FBI agents with their training and college degrees are chasing jay-walkers in Washington D.C.

[billvon 3,170]

1 hour ago, BIGUN said:

Sooooooo . . . Trump threatened to ban TicTok for national security reasons in 2020. Congress passed a bill to ban it. Biden signed it. Now, the WH is opening a tiktok account. 

I can't even fucking keep up anymore. 

He's hoping you forget about that Epstein list.

[normiss 916]

1 minute ago, Phil1111 said:

Thats how magicians operate. Wave a hand over here when something disappears over there. Others call it distraction.

National security in on the back burner anyway. FBI agents with their training and college degrees are chasing jay-walkers in Washington D.C.

Good to see them focusing their efforts on the major crime issues there.

At the speeds people can travel in the congestion there, it is critical they enforce the seatbelt law.

We need to mobilize the Special Forces when the crime reaches the epic levels of JAYWALKING!

Somebody must have made Goebbels aware.