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The military is  going to be asked to do some pretty crazy shit, from the looks of it.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-reminds-everyone-he-wants-us-soldiers-in-us-streets

"The National Emergencies Act is not what’s been keeping national security and military law attorneys up at night. Rather, it’s the Insurrection Act that has caused the most worry.

Under that law, Trump has broad, virtually unchecked ability to deploy troops domestically. He considered invoking it in response to the 2020 George Floyd protests, purportedly asking at one point why soldiers don’t “just shoot” protestors.

“It essentially lets you use federal military personnel to do anything that a federal law enforcement officer could do,” Joseph Nunn, a counsel at the Brennan Center, told TPM before the election.

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