Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Trump is occupying LA with 4000 national guard soldiers and now 700 marines.

I don't think he's planning on holding free and fair elections

He's also threatened to arrest the governor of California for 'doing a bad job'

Democracy cannot operate under a tyrant like Trump

What do you think "Send in the troops" is about? Standard deflection tactics. Except now his deflections need to get larger and larger. If real evidence begins to emerge, he will begin preparation to take the Panama Canal.

He first has to provoke an uprising, then he can declare an insurrection.

Crack down on peaceful protests, mass arrests, a few deaths, mass deportations, bring people out onto the streets, then wait for some people to start lobbing moltovs or maybe take a few shots with live ammunition and kill a couple of ICE or NG personnel, and then he can declare the protests as some kind of organised 'Anti FA' uprising and invoke the insurrection act.

Trump said there's too much phony stuff on there

If you were to come up with the most daring plan to overthrow US democracy, and you didn't think the courts or police or military or media would stand in your way, here is what you could do.

Trump already controls both legislative houses in 26 states in America. These are lost causes, he will use his influence there to illegally lock those states down and retain control in the mid terms one way or another.

This means he needs 12 more states where he controls a majority in both houses. The states below are would be his likely targets given that they have the smallest margin needed to flip them to full GOP control.

• Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nevada, Arizona, Maine, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Illinois

How would Trump ensure that he retains the 26 states he has, and maximise his chance of flipping the 8 states he needs?

• Use widespread intimidation, purging and suppression in key states in order to flip control of the state legislatures in the 2026 mid term elections. https://truthout.org/articles/state-voter-suppression-bills-could-disenfranchise-millions-ahead-of-midterms/
• Arrest or deport opposition candidates on spurious charges
• Replace the regulators in election and media oversight committees so that they do nothing to prevent false and misleading campaigning.
• Utilising AI to spread disinformation about opponents.
• Fire anyone responsible for certifying elections who does not support the Trump mission
• Use mass surveillance and data collection (Palantir) to focus suppressive tactics on individuals. Identifying political opponents and using their voting history against them
• Use data aggregation to make people afraid to speak out against the regime, have ordinary people fired or arrested on trumped up charges, or deported or have their careers affected or their credit scores, or have previous 'skeletons' emerge to discredit them
• Declare political opponents to be 'terrorists' if they had been attending protests against mass deportation or other Trump activities
• Pack the courts with regime friendly officers and intimidate remaining officials with propaganda and smear campaigns against them, make them afraid to stand up to the Trump regime, threaten their friends and family with arrest and deportation.

None of this is legal, but that's basically the only barrier to him actually doing any of this. And guess what, Trump doesn't care what is legal or illegal. He will just do whatever he thinks will help his goals, and worry about the consequences later.

The courts are too slow to stop him, especially if he controls the FBI and the department of justice, and has no respect for political norms or precedents. We have already seen many of these things already happen on a smaller scale. Voter suppression is normal now, packing courts is normal. Mass firing of federal employees is normal now, nobody is stopping him from invading LA with thousands of heavily armed soldiers.

There will be elections in 2026. They won't be free and fair, but that is because Trump (and the psychopaths behind project 2025) want to change the constitution, so they need to control more democratic states.
Once they have that, there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to legally stop him from doing anything he wants.

If the US population do not rise up now, by 2026, it will be too late.

If commanders in the US armed forces and the National Guard do not recognise that the biggest threat to the US constitution is no longer foreign, but domestic. then it will be too late and democracy in the USA will be over.