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Randall Gillispie's avatar

Mary, I am writing to discuss April 20th, when DJT can use the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. If this is allowed to happen, and he can use the vast powers of the Presidency unencumbered, the world is heading into another dark age. Why are none of our leaders screaming about this? Why are lawsuits not being filed to stop him from using this power during peacetime?

I know you are already working on this or will know who to turn to prevent this.

God bless you, Mary.

Randall Gillispie

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Robot Bender's avatar

I think we're getting to the point where lawsuits aren't going to be enough. He's already ignoring court orders. If this isn't stopped soon, I fear far worse than a dark age. With three authoritarian regimes fighting over the Arctic's resources (and a poor record of honoring treaties), I see global war.

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Rikhard Ravindra Tanskanen's avatar

Russia and China will be too weak for years to go to wat, but judging by China's five year plans, Russia being supplied by China and India, Putin no doubt purging the pro-American oligarchs in the future and also forcing HIS oligarchs to hand over more of their fortunes to him as capo di capo di tutti, and Russia becoming a total war economy by next year, I would think they would be ready to fight by the end of 2030. Since Great Powers do not attack each other, I would think geopolitical interests in the developing world (after the developing world stabilizes after the War on Terror, the fall of rogue states, and the Ukraine conflict) will result in a war which will escalate to include all the Great Powers by early 2033 (but the U.S will not get involved due to becoming isolationist due to pre-2030 Russia and China being weak: we can assume it will get involved in early 2036).

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Rikhard Ravindra Tanskanen's avatar

I forgot about that, but he will only declare martial law when extending the state of emergency fails to kick out migrants, thus I think he will "only' declare martial law on January 20th, 2026 (and to be fair, since there will be a recession by then martial law could theoretically end it by cracking down on crime and encouraging the militarization of labour).

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