Thursday, January 15, 2026

Trump Threatens to Use the Insurrection Act to End Protests

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 | 59 COMMENTS | permalink

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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

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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 ------. 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 people of Minnesota are expecting Trump to send in the troops. They are also expecting him to fabricate a reason if one isn't provided him.

The resat of us see our fates in what's happening in Minneapolis. Time to hold fast.

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

The pentagon sent 20 lawyers to Memphis last week.

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

Trumps Sturmabteilung continue to beat, harass, and kill.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-15 11:38 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.

#15 | 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%.

#16 | 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.

#17 | 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.

#18 | 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.

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

#17

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

#20 | 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."

#21 | 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

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

Democrats have caused all of this by letting in 10 million++ illegal immigrants and the Dem leadership calling for protests and riots

crazy, but Dems are actually defending criminals over the US citizen!

#23 | Posted by Maverick at 2026-01-15 02:05 PM

No, idiot, they're not.

Our country is too stupid to deserve survival.

Maverick here is a prime example of why.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 02:16 PM

#21 Last I heard it was 4,100,000,000 let in.

Your numbers keep changing.

#25 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-15 02:24 PM

Democrats have caused all of this by letting in 10 million++ illegal immigrants and the Dem leadership calling for protests and riots
crazy, but Dems are actually defending criminals over the US citizen!
#21 | Posted by Maverick at 2026-01-15 02:05 PM

You are intimating that this is the Democrat agenda, not Trump's? To have ICE protests legitimize the insurrection act?

First, you give them waaaay too much credit - there are no corporate paid legislators protesting ICE in the street.

Second, what a stupid pretzle you are - just insultingly dumb. What is their logic? To make Trump so unpopular that he crushes their own constituents? KMA.

#26 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-15 02:34 PM

#21 | POSTED BY MAVERICK

ICE isn't law enforcement any more.

They have the badges; they don't have the legitimacy.

They are untrained goons.

Honest citizens hate them.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 02:56 PM

"Democrats have caused all of this by letting in 10 million++ illegal immigrants."

This really makes no sense at all.
If they were allowed into the country, their entry was legal.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 03:01 PM

one reason is because there is a state senator broadcasting the location and identity

of ice agents.....now I fully understand that you despicable trash would LOVE

for an agent to be killed...but this guy is a traitor to whatever he swore to do

when elected....but hey.......he's a democrat soooooooooooooo..you don't care..

do you ?

#29 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-15 03:32 PM

Liberals...refuse to support and empathize with those killed by illegals.
#14 | Posted by humtake

Only in your demented mind.
BTW, do you support and empathize with those killed by ICE?

#30 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-01-15 07:45 PM

No responsibility for provoking cities.

Always someone else's fault.

Despicable.

#31 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-15 10:35 PM

#21 | POSTED BY MAVERICK

ICE isn't law enforcement any more.

They have the badges; they don't have the legitimacy.

They are untrained goons.

Honest citizens hate them.

#25 | POSTED BY ZED

Someone here said it so well.

When a police force keeps their identifies secret (and they are no longer accountable to the People) then they are The Secret Police.

By definition.

#32 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-16 10:48 AM

Secret Police are INCOMPATIBLE with Freedom and Accountability.

The Gestapo,The Stasi,all Secret Police are part of Authoritarian,or Totalitarian Regimes.

Trump's America is an Authoritarian State,in the process of becoming a fully Totalitarian Regime.

Shooting Back is the American thing to do.

Why have 100,100,000, guns on the street?

Why put up with massacres of kids by crazed Loonies?

For just this moment....

Words you'll NEVER hear uttered by the Republican Lovers of Individual Freedoms.

Now they are the Quietest,most,"Law Abiding" defenders of Police POWER,around.

What happened to "Don't Tread On Me?

Lol.

#33 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-16 11:22 AM

#25 Maverick gelding isn't honest.

I'd say even his citizenship is in question.

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-16 11:27 AM

No responsibility for provoking cities.

Always someone else's fault.

Despicable.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-15 10:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

So now, deporting illegal immigrants is "provoking cities" ?

Remind us what the nomenclature was when Obama was in office...

The lunatic left hate it when they begin losing that voting base they hauled in during the Biden administration.

#35 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-16 11:50 AM

it's going to happen. Better now than when people start voting. If it's done now, the courts will have time to weigh in without jeopardizing the vote. If he does it while votes are being cast, some people may be unwilling to turn out and vote.

#36 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2026-01-16 11:59 AM

So now, deporting illegal immigrants is "provoking cities" ?
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You really have no idea why people think it's bad that ICE is flash-banging American children.

You really cant figure that out.

Hey, I believe you.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-16 12:06 PM

It's always someone else's fault when the trump administration ----- up.

That's his "moral high ground".

#38 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 12:09 PM

Remind us what the nomenclature was when Obama was in office...

"Due process". Something the golden idol you worship doesn't understand.

You're welcome.

#39 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 12:10 PM

You really have no idea why people think it's bad that ICE is flash-banging American children.

You really cant figure that out.

Hey, I believe you.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-16 12:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Flash-banging" Sounds like something that goes on at the bath house.

What I have figured out is how to interact with law enforcement and not get shot or gassed.

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-16 12:36 PM

What I have figured out is how to interact with law enforcement and not get shot or gassed.

POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Being white does not take a lot of figuring out.

#41 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-16 12:37 PM

"Flash-banging" Sounds like something that goes on at the bath house.

There he is. The real lfthndthrds.

#42 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 12:37 PM

"Flash-banging" Sounds like something that goes on at the bath house.

Does it? I would not know.

It's interesting that you do.

#43 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-16 12:39 PM

Ask a "drug" fisherman about that.

You mean the ones with $50K worth of engines for speed or the ones that only "fish" at night? Or maybe the ones that never have any "fish" catch on them...

#44 | Posted by boaz at 2026-01-16 12:42 PM

Hey boaz, what "drug" boat has 11 people on it?

Uh, none.

#45 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 12:43 PM

Being white does not take a lot of figuring out.

Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-16 12:37 PM | Reply

That why most white people can do it, even though they're mid.

#46 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 12:45 PM

"fish" at night?

31 | Posted by boaz

So you never fished at night.

#47 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-16 12:50 PM

"fish" at night?

31 | Posted by boaz

So you never fished at night.

#33 | POSTED BY ZED

The biggest catfish I ever caught was just after dark.

Catfish are nocturnal and become more active after dark, moving into shallower waters to hunt for food, using their excellent sense of smell, and avoiding daytime boat traffic, making it a prime time for anglers to find them and catch larger specimens. While you can catch them during the day, night fishing offers more aggressive bites, especially in summer when they seek cooler, deeper water during the day and move shallower to feed at night.

#48 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-16 12:53 PM

And as I think about it. I'd much rather be fishing.

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-16 01:02 PM

I guess boaz has never been on a deep sea fishing trip. You leave early in the morning so you can be at the fishing grounds by dawn because boats are slow.

#50 | Posted by qcp at 2026-01-16 03:14 PM

That ------- liar's never been out of his Mama's basement. Fat bald midget coward

#51 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-16 09:54 PM

... President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act ...

Pres Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act because of citizen actions his actions have caused?

What's his next step? Cancelling the 2026 election?

Trump Gripes About 2026 Midterms, Saying, 'When You Think of It, We Shouldn't Even Have an Election'
people.com

... Faced with the looming threat that Republicans might lose control of Congress, President Donald Trump suggested America should call off its upcoming midterm elections.

The president, 79, sat down with Reuters for an interview on Wednesday, Jan. 14, during which he addressed new polling numbers. The Lincoln Project reported this week that 18 House races have recently shifted in the Democrats' favor, and the Senate is thought to be up for grabs as well.

"It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms," Trump said.

He even went so far as to boast that the first year of his second term had gone so well that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." ...

#52 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 10:12 PM

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DE1n4VrbwxS9LjWR8KUF_aPAryCWQ0hc6rgr44p4UxhbrlfZl8VD8HJJ1DH&slof=1

#53 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 10:27 PM

BREAKING: Federal judge severely limits what ICE can do in Minnesota effective immediately. In a nutshell...no tackling, spraying, dragging, shooting, bombing, beating, or even interacting with anyone they don't have a warrant or reasonable suspicion for. Failure to adhere will be considered contempt. The judge especially stated no arresting people who are filming at a safe distance, no pulling people from cars who aren't interacting with ICE, and no menacing peaceful protesters either.

#54 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 10:28 PM

@#54

I'm not sure if this event is what you referred to, but here's what I found ...

Judge rules feds in Minneapolis immigration operation can't detain or tear gas peaceful protesters (Updated 10:08 PM EST, January 16, 2026)
apnews.com

... Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can't detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren't obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez's ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists. The six are among the thousands who have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers enforcing the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since last month. ...


#55 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 10:34 PM

@#53

The link provided, when I clicked on it, opened up my email client to allow me to write an email to "//www.threads.com/@adamparkhomenko/post/DTl8b_vDMp7"

Yeah, the "at" sign in that URL may have caused that unwanted occurrenc.



#56 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 10:39 PM

Yeah im not sure what i did there. *shrugs*

Thanks.

#57 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-16 10:52 PM

Doesn't the Insurrection Act require that there be an actual insurrection?

Like on Jan 6th?

If that was not an insurrection then nothing is.

#58 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-17 08:08 AM

The only real insurrection in the United States since the Civil War was instigated by Donald Trump on national TV when his mob invaded the Capital. The demonstrations in Minneapolis are relatively tame and the violence is manipulated by Trump and Noem's hiring of ignorant, untrained, racist thugs but even then the violence has been minimal compared to riots during other times
of our history in ten the past fifty years. Right here in Miami we had riots that make the demonstrations in Minneapolis look like the photo ops they were intended to be by showman Trump.
And Trump's "tough guys" (ICE) would have gotten seriously hurt by the rioters only a few blocks from my Dad's house. The National Guard was therechecking every car going in or out of the riot zone for months after the riot. People were dragged out of their cars and mirdered right in the intersection . Those I.C.E. thugs would have run and hid in that riot. And. That wasn't the only violent riot back then, there were others but I don't remember the President using the Insurrection Act to quell them.
That one Insurrection was caused by the same President we have today just because he couldn't deal with the FACT that he LOST his reelection to sleepy Joe Biden!

#59 | Posted by danni at 2026-01-17 09:54 AM

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