On day 1 of the 2nd term, Trump signed an executive order that asked for a report due 90 days in on additional actions on the southern border. It specifically asked them to write if they thought the Insurrection Act should be invoked.

They aren’t going to recommend invoking it. If you heard people concerned about April 20th, this was the report they were talking about

Keep the pressure up. They’re starting to feel the pushback. Join the nationwide protests tomorrow April 19th

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    It is not an eventuality, it is a possibility that he tries

    Thinking that everything is 100% certain to happen is how we get ourselves too paralyzed to act. We can reduce the odds of many things from happening by showing up and building pressure

    Join protests, boycotts, strikes, etc.

    EDIT: or maybe I apparently have misunderstood how the word eventuality is supposed to be a synonymy of possibility. My bad on that one

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      Even if the probability is less than 100% it is a good idea to prepare while there’s still time to do so. Its not about paralysis, its about emergency preparedness and taking necessary precautions.

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          Here are some examples that come to mind:

          • Having enough food/water/essentials to make it through 3 days without electricity or gas (like what was recommend in Europe recently)
          • having a plan of how you’ll to keep in contact and meet with people you care about if there’s no internet or cell service
          • making sure whatever social media you use to voice dissent cannot be easily linked to your identity via email, photos, location data, etc.

          Basically the same sort of disaster preparedness you would have normally, except the last bullet point

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      It is not an eventuality, it is a possibility that he tries

      That’s literally what “eventuality” means:

      eventuality | əˌvɛn(t)ʃəˈwælədi |
      noun (plural eventualities)
      a possible event or outcome.

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        Oh hmm, maybe I had just heard people misuse it in the past? Had only heard it being used as a synonym for possibility in the context of “every eventuality” but other times meaning something definitive. Looking it up I see that it’s supposed to just always refer to possibility

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          I think people get confused because it sounds so similar to “eventually”—i.e., something bound to occur given enough time.

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          Found these two, which seem to cloud the issue. These don’t say “possible”, the first even says “eventual”.

          the state or fact of being eventual; contingent character

          The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.