WASHINGTON — White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump’s invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the United States for law enforcement purposes, five people with knowledge of the talks told NBC News.

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    5 days ago

    basically his buried lede and dog whistle here is that he is setting up a manufactured consent: he wants an attack on an ice agent to happen so he can have an “excuse” to do this.

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      4 days ago

      That’s how it reads to me too, accidentally saying “hurry up and riot already, something’s gotta piss some of you off enough to do it”.

      Wild that this is where we are - our president trying to bait us into helping him justify massacring us.