I'm only thinking "Oh great, a convenient way for them to round up all the "undesirables" (liberals, not-whites,critics,etc), execute them if they resist, and send them off to a war unprepared and unequiped so they can be purged in a far less messy way than concentration camps"

I bet if they can they will only be conscripting Democrat voters, black people, Hispanics, etc.

If only those people listened fucking ever.

they would do this is if they knew that there weren’t going to be anymore elections

Ballot box or bullet box.

You'd get street protests from sea to shining sea that would make BLM and Occupy look like the Macy's Day Parade.

The US is enormous, authority is devolved, and a lot of what keeps the wheels moving is voluntary compliance. Elections help people to believe that government is popular and their own stupid opinions are just in the tiny minority.

When you try to force these systems of power through brute strength, you break them. It's a recipe for balkinization and civil war. Same as what happened in the run up to the Civil War, when slavers and abolishionists came to a head.

You had low key insurrection all through the North long before Buchanan left office. Southern states effectively denying Lincoln a ballot line only fueled his popularity in response.

Wait would that just be training and arming a potential rebellion? That makes no sense.

Wait they're going to give us all weapons? And training! And they're starting some sort of big ass war?

Y'all have fun, I'm old and my back is broken with lots of bone spurs. I'll like a pea shooter though. I'm going to setup some chickens in the backyard and I gotta fend off some foxen.

If my back was good, I'd be out there, but this is my daily pain I gotta deal with.

DOGE was part of the data gathering scheme for things like this.

Fragging

I wonder how much this actually happens though. Does no one ask, "wait...should we really be giving our political opposition access to and training with heavy weaponry?"

ICE repurposed to chase down draft dodgers and press gang anyone under 40 into the war effort

Everybody’s son needs to get a case of the bone spurs.

Because sending people who hate war to go to war is going to work out absolutely swimmingly, I'm sure. You definitely won't have people constantly going AWOL or refusing orders or, god forbid, organizing as a unit after they've been given weapons and training to kill their superior officers and take the base on home soil for their own.

These people are fucking morons asking for the worst possible outcomes.

What a fine bunch of people you work with.

Have you thought about a new job?

Many black veterans of WW2 went on to support the civil rights movement or to oppose the Klanners in their homeland. I wouldn't be surprised if gay furry drone operators would be the next wave of militant activists if conscription is a thing.

We should send Debbie's fat ass from accounting. Fuck her, and the rest of her magat friends.

they will just put you into a work concentration camp where people will beat you to do those things for free

slave labor is on the table as it has always been here in the usa

Oh, they'll draft him. In fact, they'll draft him, and he'll rise up the ranks with record speed! All his assignments will be positions like "Army Special Liaison to Customs and Border Patrol." Any role they can find that can puff up his resume while putting him in absolutely zero direct physical danger and requiring next to no actual skills or duties. He'll do photoshoots in uniform. And Trump will solemnly say, "I'm sorry we have to bring back the draft. But I believe this is so necessary that I have drafted my own son into this conflict." Or they'll find a way to fabricate a story of military heroism around him.

Be careful what you wish for. That's what Baron being drafted would actually look like. The only way Barron would actually be drafted and treated as a common conscript would be if he miraculously developed a conscience and publicly denounced his father. That might get him drafted for real.

Don’t get too excited about the pot-out-of-draft card. If this regime doesn’t hand you a shitty rifle with a coffee can for a helmet to get rid of their lib opponents by throwing them at the meatgrinder they’ll just send you to a work camp and starve you to death.

“It has been, and it will continue to be, and President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table,” Leavitt said.

Newspeak for “We don’t have a clue what the moron will do next, so ‘The lord moves in mysterious ways…’”