Trump Threatens to Use the Insurrection Act to End Protests

Thursday, January 15, 2026

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis ...

Posted by qcp at 11:30 AM | 20 COMMENTS | permalink

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

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-- The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) Jan 15, 2026 at 8:57 AM

Comments

Donald Trump intends to murder us.

In batches.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 09:37 AM

Whelp, this is looking like it will be the final test on whether or not the military will uphold their oath to the Constitution.

I'm not holding my breath that they'll refuse this blatantly illegal order.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 10:35 AM

this is looking like it will be the final test on whether or not the military will uphold their oath to the Constitution.

Most won't. Ask a "drug" fisherman about that.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 10:43 AM

Most won't. Ask a "drug" fisherman about that.

#3 | Posted by Alexandrite

I'd like to think they would view a fellow citizen in person in front of them differently than foreigners seen from a drone camera.

But I honestly have zero hope of the military living up to its ethos.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 10:46 AM

I doubt it. I read they made the attack planes look non military.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 10:48 AM

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter. The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.

From the NYTimes

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 10:50 AM

"they made the attack planes look non military."

We did that. The aircraft Sitzkrieg identified in the attack is a P-8 Poseidon. which is basically a 737 with military stuff where the luggage goes. It looks like a cargo plane to the casual observer.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 10:51 AM

Currently ICE is outnumbering the Minneapolis police by 5x. 3000 ICE vs 600 cops.

We are fucked. Lock and load.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 10:52 AM

"a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane"

I'm not sure I really buy all that. But it's completely possible it wasn't a P-8. We're always looking for ways to test our latest weapons platform. Even as blowing up a dinghy worth less than the fuel it cost to fly in and bomb it, is not a very thorough test.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 10:53 AM

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave the U.S. Justice Department until Monday to file a response to a request for a restraining order.

Too little, too late. Monday will not be soon enough.

www.huffpost.com

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 10:57 AM

Tennessee is next.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 11:25 AM

The pentagon sent 20 lawyers to Memphis last week.

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 11:26 AM

He is so transparent...

Send the gestapo to shoot people with guns, rubber bullets and pepper balls. Drag US citizens out of their work, beat them and leave them eight miles away in sub zero cold. Toss flash bang grenades into cars with children.

All this was designed to cause mass protests so he could use the insurrection act to cancel the mid terms because he is tanking so badly in the polls.

It is just starting.

#13 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-01-15 11:53 AM

Liberals lost any clout they had in this fight when their hypocrisy causes them to refuse to support and empathize with those killed by illegals. Once liberals get a heart and stop thinking that pandering along ideological lines for votes, THEN they can enter the conversation. As it stands today, their protests are nothing more than succumbing to a sheep mentality by their party.

You can support illegals without holding illegal protests. You can ALSO support those killed, raped, etc. by illegals without claiming you are against illegals. Come to the table as adults and the country will back you 100%.

#14 | Posted by humtake at 2026-01-15 12:08 PM

- those killed by illegals.

You are just repeating TRUMP'S LIES:

"Research consistently shows that immigrants, including undocumented individuals, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. This trend has been documented across various types of offenses and has remained consistent for decades.

Key Findings on Crime Rates

Incarceration Rates: According to studies through 2025, native-born Americans are roughly 267% more likely to be incarcerated by age 33 than immigrants. In 2023, the incarceration rate for native-born citizens was 1,221 per 100,000, while it was 613 for undocumented immigrants and 319 for legal immigrants.

Violent Crime: In Texas"the only state that systematically tracks criminal history by immigration status"undocumented immigrants are arrested for violent and drug crimes at less than half the rate of native-born citizens.

Homicide: Data from 2012 to 2018 in Texas showed a total homicide arrest rate of 4.8 per 100,000 for U.S.-born citizens compared to 1.9 per 100,000 for undocumented immigrants."

www.google.com

You can admit it now.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 12:24 PM

illegal protests.

#14 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

We aren't under martial law yet, you nasty fascist sumbitch.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 12:28 PM

Oh, protests are now illegal because Trump and Humtake say so. Too bad snatching American citizens off the street, dragging them into vehicles and taking them away to be detained isn't illegal.

#17 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2026-01-15 12:31 PM

#17

Freedom of Speech and We the People... is SO pre-4th Reich.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-15 12:33 PM

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 12:38 PM

I'm not sure I really buy all that.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 10:53 AM |

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

#20 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-15 01:30 PM

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