# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/81 "2025-09-12T13:54:11Z")
“Inadvertently”? Thank you, “inadvertent” person. Hope they don’t catch you. And thanks for posting, Monty. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/82 "2025-09-12T22:36:12Z")
Kind of reminds you of the [Pentagon Papers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers), doesn’t it? And I honestly and truly wish there was no occasion, for cause of this thread to even be here, but, alas, it’s needed. Desperately. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/83 "2025-09-13T00:05:10Z")
Should this thread be morphed into “American Cities Under Martial Law” now that Chicago, Memphis, and probably Boston will be seeing troops invading soon? With other blue cities down the road? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/84 "2025-09-13T01:25:33Z")
I’d have to say not until such deployments actually happen. The felon got away with it in DC (which I am now calling _Washington, Dictatorship of Columbia_) because he’s in charge of eh DC National Guard. If he does dispatch NG troops to other cities and the SCOTUS upholds that, I’ll request such a change to the thread title. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/85 "2025-09-13T01:33:40Z")
Fair enough, and I hope (without much hope) that no thread title changes will be required. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/86 "2025-09-13T02:10:41Z")
My hope is the current SCOTUS will finally have an epiphany regarding the felon’s current war on Aemrica and its constitution. In my dream, it will dawn on them that their permission to him to violate our constitution will also include an actual physical attack on them by the dictatorship they’ve been enabling and abetting. And, then, finally, they will take the appropriate action. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/87 "2025-09-13T02:28:06Z")
[sigh] I doubt the ideologues on SCOTUS will realize their personal danger until their backs are to the wall and they’ve been offered the obligatory cigarette. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/88 "2025-09-13T02:56:19Z")
Yep. I actually did consider typing _pipe dream_ instead of just _dream_. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/89 "2025-09-15T05:38:59Z")
[TACO’s next battle in the Second Civil War is not going to be Chicago.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-said-hes-sending-national-120104889.html) > NEW YORK (AP) — President [Donald Trump](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tag/donald-trump) said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor. > > Trump, a Republican, said on Fox News “the mayor is happy” and “the governor is happy” about the pending deployment. The mayor is a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican. > > He said the city is “deeply troubled” and “we’re going to fix that just like we did Washington,” where he’s sent National Guard and surged federal law enforcement. > > Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, Trump has [openly mused about sending troops](https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-troops-democrats-cities-chicago-988a659d9d13deb1e7a8f52cf47efef8) to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — claiming they are needed to crack down on crime. And he even admitted he’s chickening out! > Trump said he “would have preferred going to Chicago,” where local politicians have fiercely resisted his plans, but he suggested it was a “hostile” place with “professional agitators.” ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/90 "2025-09-15T05:48:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Trump, a Republican, said on Fox News “the mayor is happy” and “the governor is happy” about the pending deployment. The mayor is a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican. As usual, Trump is lying. Our mayor is not happy but knows he has no power over this since the governor is doing cartwheels to kiss Trump’s ass. I’ll have more to say about it if it actually happens. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/91 "2025-09-15T07:01:09Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > And he even admitted he’s chickening out! > > > Trump said he “would have preferred going to Chicago,” where local politicians have fiercely resisted his plans, but he suggested it was a “hostile” place with “professional agitators.” Good turn of phrase, @Monty, and I agree with it. When there’s threatened resistance, Trump backs down. When the Chicago mayor and Illinois governor don’t want Trump’s military, and Chicagoans oppose Trump’s military (and I guess that for now, we won’t find out how exactly, but I’m sure it wouldn’t be pretty), and it’s a “hostile place” with “professional agitators,” it’s far easier to back down and go after the low-hanging fruit: Memphis. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/92 "2025-09-15T07:49:40Z")
I have relatives in Bartlett, TN. I wonder how they’re going to enjoy it when this happens just up the road from them. I might even mention that one of my current mantras is the following: > This is what you wanted _for others_. > > This what you voted _for others_. > > This is what you got _for yourself_. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/93 "2025-09-17T03:34:04Z")
[The felon’s going to declare a national emergency for Washington, Dictatorship of Columbia.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-declare-national-emergency-093835221.html) > President Trump has threatened to declare a national emergency in Washington, D.C., to ensure his [controversial crime crackdown survives](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-tin-pot-takeover-killing-155923868.html). > > He railed against Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision to end the cooperation between the district’s police force and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [officers he sent in](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-d-c-takeover-just-022059429.html). Didn’t the felon say he obliterated all crime in the dictatorship? Why, then, does he need to declare a national emergency for such a peaceful law-abiding locality? Anway, there’s much more at the article. I can’t bring myself to quote the felon’s gibberish, mostly because it’s gibberish but also because what is understandable is bullshit. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/94 "2025-09-21T10:21:38Z")
[There is a new hero in Washington, Dictatorship of Columbia.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/man-follows-national-guard-around-200000414.html) > [@](#): > > The National Guard’s deployment into Washington, D.C., has been highly controversial, to say the least. But one person’s method of dealing with it is drawing particular attention online. > > So far, nine videos have been posted to TikTok in which [@freedc20009](https://www.tiktok.com/@freedc20009) follows various members of the National Guard around the city while blasting “The Imperial March” from _Star Wars_. If you’re even remotely familiar with the films, you’d recognize the music even if the name itself doesn’t immediately ring a bell. It’s Darth Vader’s theme song, a musical cue that evil has arrived and everyone around must fall in line or risk punishment. The hero should mix it up some and play anthems from other totalitarian countries besides the USA. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/95 "2025-09-21T12:32:53Z")
It is not quite as recognisable, but Shostakovich’s symphony number 7 seems appropriate. (It was written during the Siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich was in the city) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/96 "2025-09-21T14:19:28Z")
On a lighter note, “[The Cuckoo Song / Dance of the Cuckoos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZBKJOY4fwk)” (better known as the _Laurel and Hardy_ theme). ---
**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:** [September 28, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/97 "2025-09-28T07:46:38Z")
[The felon’s war on America shall continue.](https://www.aol.com/trump-says-hell-send-troops-144134139.html) (The **bolding** is mine.) > [@](#): > > PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — [President Donald Trump](https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump) said Saturday that he will send troops [to Portland](https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ice-protest-portland-oregon-ebc5df5a6b6e6d106dbeaf5af0f339ab), **“authorizing Full Force, if necessary” to handle “domestic terrorists”** as he expands his deployments to more American cities. > > Oregon Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek responded by saying [Donald Trump](https://www.yahoo.com/people/donald-trump/) is abusing his authority by ordering troops into a city that she said is doing “just fine” on its own. She was joined by other government, police and business leaders who all said soldiers are not needed and Trump is presenting a patently false picture of the city. > > Trump made his announcement on social media, writing that he was directing the Department of Defense to “provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland.” Trump said the decision was necessary to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he alleged are “under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” I’m fairly certain he called it the Department of War because that sounds just so much cooler when you’re violating the constitution. The rest of the article lays out his playbook for this. Do you remember that song with the refrain \*Next verse same as the first"? Yeah, that’s the playbook. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/98 "2025-09-28T08:27:13Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Do you remember that song with the refrain \*Next verse same as the first"? Looks like it showed up in a Herman’s Hermits song, but I remember it as “Third verse, same as the first” in a Violent Femmes song. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/99 "2025-09-28T08:29:52Z")
Second verse, same as the first. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-law-in-todays-america-daily-report/1022021/100 "2025-09-28T13:04:51Z")
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