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ancianita

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7. Not yet. Just two places are.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:23 PM
Aug 13

But if this Judge Breyer in San Francisco rules that the administration criminally violated the Posse comitatus Act, the military has more grounds to refuse being turned inward, and LA will be de-occupied.

The worst case is if Breyer rules against Trump, and then Trump proceeds to deploy the military into cities anyway. There could then be civil unrest that he would love to use as his pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act, which bypasses the Posse comitatus Act and so begins his militarized occupation of the country -- or at least the blue states he'll try to control.

If that happens, then I'd join you and say "we are occupied by a military dictatorship." But even then, the military could itself refuse to abide by what it might consider unconstitutional order, in that every last person in US military swears an oath to uphold the Constitution, not the commander-in-chief.

Since none of that has happened yet, you're too soon.

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