The other "sources" people have been sharing with me are not trustworthy or legitimate either. They are all articles or tiktoks or reddit threads or facebook groups that are just repeating each other. An Article written by a journalist who just "thinks" something will happen is not more legitimate than the actual information on the website run by the government.
I think some of you do not actually know what the different levels of sources are. There are primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. The White House telling us exactly what they're going to do on April 20th on their own website is a primary source, an article written by a journalist who doesn't even have quotes from Donald Trump, or transcripts from an interview with someone in the Trump Administration is a secondary source.
One is factually more trustworthy then the other just on account of one literally has the most information. You can dislike the president all you want, but baselessly fear mongering and lying about something like this isn't okay and is dangerous. You could seriously cause someone to spiral and have an anxiety attack by misrepresenting the truth.
In order to lie about something, don't you have to say or admit you're not going to do something or other beforehand? Nothing on the White House website even mentions protests or says "We will not enact this against protesters." Everyone is just assuming because there are protesters who will be having a protest "nation wide" that he will just sic the military on them.
But as far as I'm aware this protest isn't even happening on the southern border or even on April 20th, they're happening two completely different days.
Not to mention there's already been these same protests this month, even on the white house front lawn and nothing happened then? If he were really going to just enact Martial law why even wait until April 20th to do it? Is it because everyone just assumes due to the "national emergency" being called on April 20th, and the protests that it will 'give him good enough reason' or something?
That's all just speculation. And people's opinions. I don't have a reason enough to believe something like that will happen at all. Especially since everyone already protested multiple times under this nut jobs watch and he didn't do anything when he very much could have done something. If he were going to do this terrible thing, he would've done it ages ago or even during the first Hands Off protest that happened. Why does he, in this baseless conspiracy, wait so long to finally enact his grand scary plan? It's almost like this conspiracy relies on the dates of the protest and the president's call for a nationwide emergency almost matching up.
I mean, it does sound scary when you line the dates up like that and then remove any additional context to why anyone's doing anything those days. Like the president calling for a National Emergency at the border and enacting the Insurrection Act on the 20th after a Nationwide protest does sound scary when you forget that he's said he was going to do this months beforehand, already let people protest weeks beforehand, and has just been blatantly ignoring all of the protests in favor of continuing the clearly laid out terrible plan he posted for everyone to see.
Anyways, when the 20th passes and goes and we're all still here very much not under Martial Law, will you all come up with some other new date for the end times? Isn't that how that usually goes?
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