The Post is reporting that more troops are being prepared to send to cities.

[Jbraybarten]

"Civil unrest" aka not being a supporter of donnie.

The total size of the force will be 23,500 troops across all 50 states and three territories, excluding the District of Columbia, the documents say. Most states will supply 500 personnel for the reaction force, with the rest falling between 250 and 450. Those forces are typically used for emergencies like disaster relief, not on call troops for civil unrest.

[link: _ Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens|https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/pentagon-national-guard-quick-reaction-force/]

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Reminder: nationwide martial law is a physical impossibility

23,000 troops will never control 340 million people.

[Jbraybarten]

2. Nope, but they want to intimidate certain people and they hope to get violence

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Another reminder

Crispus Attucks was the first to in the Revolution at the hands of Crazy Man's Army.

It's only a matter of time before these Autocrat's soldiers face the 2nd Amendment.

Also - I'm the 92%. Burn it down so we can rebuild.

[bluestarone]

4. I hear you, BUT

Seems like they are doing a pretty good job of controlling us today?

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Are you controlled?

Who is controlled?

Not the frogs in Portland.

Not the millions in the streets on No Kings day.

I see very little actual control.

[bluestarone]

9. Well i consider seeing Americans being hauled off into a car going who knows where as being

Controlled. I personally am not at this MOMENT, but i cannot honestly say they wouldn't take ME or my family away given that opportunity. So yes i feel more controlled today than i've ever felted before!

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. I don't see that as being controlled

I see that as being terrorized.

They only sustain control if, after being terrorized, we submit .

So, yes, using terror, intimidation and physical violence, they can control small numbers of people for generally short periods of time.

But they will never control the entire nation, unless we let them.

[bluestarone]

16. All i can say is I'm 78 years old and i have NEVER felt like i do today

call it terrorists or controlled, i don't care.

[Celerity]

8. Trump is saying he has the right to send in the US military anywhere he wants in the US, Posse Comitatus be damned

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. He doesn't have enough troops to control the entire country

10,000 troops couldn’t shut down LA.

His dick simply isn’t big enough.

If he invokes the insurrection act to circumvent posse Comitatus, his approval numbers will drop into the teens.

In an election year.

[durablend]

14. You're WAY too optimistic

If he invokes the insurrection act to circumvent posse Comitatus, his approval numbers will drop into the teens.

Keep dreaming. A good portion of the country wants it.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. Got any data to support that assertion?

Trump is underwater in specific polling on every issue, including crime, deployment of troops in cities, immigration, inflation, etc.

There is no data showing “a good portion” want the country to be under martial law.

About 15% max - the MAGA cult die hards, would support martial law - in somebody else’s city.

[lark]

5. Civil unrest opposing trump stopping the election because of problems he creates for this purpose/

He intends to stop the elections and this is how he'll do it.

[gab13by13]

6. Yes that may be the reason,

There is another possibility; there is a law that prohibits sending in the military during the election but if the military is already there they won't be sending them in.

Sounds good enough for John Roberts to agree.

[Torchlight]

10. I'm not sure where this will all take us

We're hitting some pretty serious precedents and blowing over them as though they're nothing. Seems damned naive to bury our heads in the sand and pretend his actions and behavior are little more than some treatable and temporary distemper.

[House of Roberts]

11. Make sure there are plenty of rakes available.

This is when the leaves need getting up.