Posted on 01/15/2026 11:40:01 PM PST by SmokingJoe
Some fun facts:
1. The Insurrection Act has been invoked 30 times by 17 different presidents.
2. In fact, 37% of American presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act.
3. It was invoked to deal with rebellions and uprisings.
What are rebellions and uprisings?
Examples:
- Armed groups openly defied federal law
- State or local authorities could not or would not enforce federal law
- Violence or organized resistance threatened the authority of the federal government
- Courts were blocked, taxes couldn’t be collected, or officials were attacked
Look I just described Minnesota.
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Democrat President Lyndon Johnson deployed the in Michigan with orders to “shoot anyone seen looting”.
Media is still saying no one sent the National Guard or the troops to quell anything. After the Eisenhower school integration, LBJ Watts Riots in LA in 1965, LBJ Detroit 1967 Riots, Rodney King riots, a number of others later.
But dimwits will believe no President has been such an out of control tyrant as to ask for help to quell urban unrest.
After seeing those thugs steal the guns and paperwork out of the ICE vehicle, that’s the last straw. Time to bust some heads. Feck em!
But that would take legwork and reading. They prefer emotion, not recounting the news in its true historical context.
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