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Fiendish Thingy

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1. No it's not

Reply to the_liberal_grandpa (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 10:41 AM

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This is just a change to automatic registration.

The draft has not been reactivated, and no one is going to get an induction notice.

That would take an act of congress with allocated funding for draft boards etc. (Barron couldn’t get his deferment without a draft board).

If Trump attempted to reactivate the draft, Dems would win supermajorities in both the house and senate in the midterms.

It’s not going to happen.

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