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Tue Jun 10, 2025, 05:12 PM Tuesday

Olivia Troye - From L.A. to D.C.: This Is How Martial Law Begins. Don't Take the Bait.

I've seen the signs abroad, in intelligence briefings, crisis war rooms, and inside Trump's White House. The raids in Los Angeles weren’t about immigration. They were a televised warning, a declaration not just of Trump’s return to power, but of his intent to rule by force.

Days after the raids sparked protests, Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops, claiming they were needed “to ensure law and order.” White House hardliners like Stephen Miller are branding demonstrators “insurrectionists,” deliberately reframing peaceful action as criminal uprising. Then Trump escalated again: dispatching more Guard units and U.S. Marines. Secretary Pete Hegseth stated during Congressional questioning today that the Guard troops will be there for sixty days, costing taxpayers $134 million.

When your government is acting lawlessly, it’s the height of hypocrisy to accuse the American people of disorder. Trump keeps invoking “order” while operating outside the very boundaries of our Constitution. And now, we brace for the next act: a military parade in Washington, D.C.—funded, staged, and weaponized by a White House that dreams of autocracy.

Let’s call this what it is. These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re steps in a sequence. The mass ICE raids, the armored vehicles, the media spectacle, they were the rehearsal. The parade is the performance. Martial law is no longer theoretical. It's coming.

https://www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/from-la-to-dc-this-is-how-martial

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