# Martial Law in Today's America - daily report **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 14, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021 "2025-08-14T02:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/181 "2025-10-09T23:35:44Z")
Geez, guy, being white is no guarantee. There’ve been white folks from Canada and the UK who ran into trouble with Border Patrol and wound up incarcerated. See, for example, this article about Jasmine Mooney: [https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5341465/jasmine-mooney-canadian-actress-ice-detention](https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5341465/jasmine-mooney-canadian-actress-ice-detention) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/182 "2025-10-09T23:53:51Z")
They’ll surely find some reason to hate you, because hate and fear are all they have. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/183 "2025-10-10T00:14:36Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > because hate and fear are all they have As Master Yoda presciently said: > [@](#): > > “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/184 "2025-10-10T00:22:59Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@scudsucker](#): > > > > Perhaps I should visit the USA. > > No! Please don’t! We don’t want you deep-sixed, incommunicado, into some ICE detention camp. > [@scudsucker](#): > > I’m white. > > No chance of that. Shouldn’t be a problem, provided @scudsucker is South African. Then he can claim asylum and actually get it. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/185 "2025-10-10T00:31:37Z")
Yeah, I forgot about that part. (I just won’t mention my UK citizenship) Yeehaa, Texas, here I come! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/186 "2025-10-10T00:33:13Z")
What can possibly go wrong? 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/187 "2025-10-10T01:19:23Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Yeah, I forgot about that part. > > (I just won’t mention my UK citizenship) > > Yeehaa, Texas, here I come! Given the way a certain segment of the British population, especially in England, are going, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if you could wrangle (hehehe) asylum too! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/188 "2025-10-10T02:03:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > Or more to the point, something that Fox “news” made up. > > I no longer draw a distinction between Fox News and White House communications. That info is flowing from the same handful of people. 1. Miller et al. tell Fox News to put up old pictures of Portland riots 2. They also cobble together some AI footage of Portland burning to the ground. 3. They prop Grandpa Trump up to watch the “news stories” 4. Whisper in Trump’s ear (picture Wormtounge) about how he needs to fix this 5. Viola! Trump blusters about sending the National Guard into Portland. It’s so obvious they are trying to provoke a reaction from somebody, ANYbody. They are desperate to invoke martial law and start the shooting. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/189 "2025-10-10T02:13:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s so obvious they are trying to provoke a reaction from somebody, ANYbody. They are desperate to invoke martial law and start the shooting. It’s absolutely disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/190 "2025-10-10T02:24:09Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’s so obvious they are trying to provoke a reaction from somebody, ANYbody. They are desperate to invoke martial law and start the shooting. Not only that, they’re doing their utmost to create a situation where they can convince congress to cancel the 2025 and future elections. Why 2025? Becaue of the redistricting referendums to counter the gerrymandering. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/191 "2025-10-10T02:28:23Z")
> **[Live Updates: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Troop Deployment in Chicago Area](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/09/us/trump-national-guard-chicago-portland?unlocked_article_code=1.sU8.D8iy.mibph2oXxsvU&smid=url-share)** > > The Trump administration’s attempts to justify a military presence were “simply unreliable,” the judge said. A federal appeals court is weighing a similar case regarding National Guard troops in Portland, Ore. (gift link) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/192 "2025-10-10T02:31:15Z")
“simply unreliable" Being Judge-speak for “complete and utter bullshit” ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/193 "2025-10-10T02:31:45Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > 1. Viola! Trump blusters about sending the National Guard into Portland. I totally misread that as “sending the National Guard into **Poland**.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/194 "2025-10-10T02:37:25Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “simply unreliable" Being Judge-speak for “complete and utter bullshit” Ha! Back atcha. Note that “it was not immediately clear…what would happen with the troops already mobilized and deployed in Illinois.” I will now drift off to sleep smiling to the fantasy of National Guard troops being arrested and thrown in jail. (Maybe send some of them to Guantanamo, and others to Ghana.) (No offense to Ghana, a wonderful country – for real). ETA: Sorry, that was rude. The Guardsmen themselves are just young folks following orders. Better to go the route as depicted in this famous photograph: [Flower Power (photograph) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power_(photograph)#/media/File:Flower_Power_by_Bernie_Boston.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/195 "2025-10-10T13:31:52Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > just young folks following orders. This excuse hasn’t flown since Nuremberg. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/196 "2025-10-10T13:33:08Z")
True. Okay, back to my first fantasy, then. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/197 "2025-10-10T14:16:18Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > - Miller et al. tell Fox News to put up old pictures of Portland riots > - They also cobble together some AI footage of Portland burning to the ground. > - They prop Grandpa Trump up to watch the “news stories” I’m unwilling to actually watch Fox to find out … have any of the media actually put a reporter on the ground in Portland? or Chicago? All the videos I’ve seen have been amateur cell phone videos. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/198 "2025-10-10T14:30:29Z")
Nahhhh. Why bother when you can just recycle old footage from Florida and pretend it’s from one of those war-torn liberal states? [Trump and White House Busted Using Florida Palm Tree Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-white-house-busted-using-florida-palm-tree-footage-to-show-chaos-in-chicago/ar-AA1O91vk?ocid=BingNewsSerp) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/199 "2025-10-10T15:30:20Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I’m unwilling to actually watch Fox to find out … have any of the media actually put a reporter on the ground in Portland? ARE YOU KIDDING!?!?! Its a war zone there, worse than Khartoum. You can’t expect Fox to needlessly risk their reporters lives like that. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/200 "2025-10-10T15:35:44Z")
I found evidence of Portland being a war zone. **(WARNING: Graphic content.)** . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [![](https://preview.redd.it/2-weeks-in-a-row-the-waste-collection-company-has-knocked-v0-p76zix1vp7sb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0c3c7d25dcaec41af8ad44a99989b735fc5709a6) ](https://preview.redd.it/2-weeks-in-a-row-the-waste-collection-company-has-knocked-v0-p76zix1vp7sb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0c3c7d25dcaec41af8ad44a99989b735fc5709a6) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021.md?page=11)