There is literally no constitutional or legal provision for a president to declare martial law.

All a president has is the Insurrection Act, and I would be shocked if it were not struck down almost immediately if invoked because people were actively voting or an election was lost.

He's not on the ballot you fucking nincompoops.

To those that didn't see that coming, I'm sorry. To those that did, I know you have the supplies to ride the storm, and I'll see you on the other end of this. Hopefully it's over reasonably soon and we can rebuild better.

And this at a time where neither Congress nor the Supreme Court seem willing to provide checks and balances on the executive.

If they declare martial law I think we should all go outside and violate it in overwhelming numbers.

Feds are already crawling all over the place, no more free press, supreme court is pocketed, congress has fucked off.

What would martial law do? Make a cerfuw or something?

Second amendment cucks are so hard rn

Those allies should be put on The List for arrest, investigation and imprisonment.

If they truly care about voter fraud, they should override Trump and ensure external election observers are present at all polling stations and throughout the counting.

If they truly want martial law until the election is confirmed, to ensure the election wasn't 'rigged', they should invite a UN peace keeping force to administer it.

But, somehow, I suspect their motivations aren't based on any concern for legality, justice or democracy.

It's become a meme to ask Americans at what point they will use their supposed 2nd amendment rights to start shooting at magas. And it has become similarly a bit of a meme to laugh at the ignorant non-americans for suggesting it.

But let's be real. When the magas are threatening to abolish your democracy, you yanks need to make a counter-threat of violence to keep it. It doesn't even need to be "serious". That drunk "we have guns too" lady is actually a fantastic start. But it needs to be followed up by more senior Democrats and I'm not talking about chuck schumer, just someone above "drunk candidate in Fayette county". Someone needs to say that if the Republicans enact martial law there will be blood. Say it jokingly. Say it in wacky wink wink way. But fucking say it. Get your wackiest weirdo politician to actually put the gun on the table.

If you don't, then at some point it becomes a matter whether you actually care about your democracy. Like, fuck, maybe you don't.

This whole thing smells like a long running plot leading to a coup. A whole bunch of rich conservative men are seeking to overthrow the US constitution and take the reigns themselves via proxies. All this is supported by Russia and China and anyone else that wants a bigger share of the world for themselves.

Traitors.

It’s very telling they they say if “he” loses the midterms. HE is not running. But they all know what it means. If THEY lose, he’s either being put IN a prison or UNDER one.

Fingers crossed it’s the latter.

And since that's absolute bullshit, we can expect our police and maybe even the military to step up and do the right thing, yeah? They'll be on our side, right???

Trump isn’t running in the midterms; he’s supposed to not have a horse in the race.

Congress though? THEY could lose the midterms. Congess isn’t supposed to be a bunch of presidential yes men. Trump isn’t supposed to be the party leader.

These people are literally American Nazis.