April 20 has become a national day of celebration for the hedonistic cannabis subculture [15], but it has also long been marked by the radical right and Nazi-nostalgists around the world for unsavory reasons [16]. It now emerges that Trump's Inauguration Day executive order [17] declaring a state of emergency [18] on the southern border also set a deadline of April 20 for a joint Pentagon-Homeland Security recommendation on whether to invoke [19] the Insurrection Act [20]. This has sparked much speculation [21] that Trump will immediately do so, declaring martial law and consolidating a dictatorship... this weekend. How likely is this, and is the date a mere coincidence [22]? In Episode 274 of the CounterVortex podcast [23], Bill Weinberg breaks it down.
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