The Trump administration reportedly plans to mobilize up to 1,700 National Guard troops across 19 states in the coming weeks to support its immigration and anti-crime crackdowns, a dramatic expansion of the controversial operation that’s seen federal agents and Guard troops carrying out activities across Washington, D.C.
The troops, who will largely be activated across Republican-controlled states, will serve in support of the administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, as well as other law enforcement priorities, according to comment from unnamed Pentagon officials and documents obtained by Fox News.
It’s embarrassing that the news media just repeats his “anti-crime” lie.
Yeah, “The Independent” has never lived up to its name, but if you had asked me a decade or two ago, I’d have thought it would draw the line at or before blatant fascist suppression of all dissent…
It wasn’t too bad when it started, but now it’s owned by Lebedev and some Saudi frontman, and it has become increasingly erratic.
It’s not a “crime crackdown” or a “law and order crackdown”. Why does the Independent have to sanitize what he is doing? This is an authoritarian intimidation tactic.
The media is either complicit or already intimidated depending on the outlet.
The Independent is a UK paper. They’re complicit.
It’s paint by numbers dictatorship. They’re literally going through a checklist of how to instill a dictatorship.
Military coup, you asslicking fake journalists.
I don’t know what it originally said, or what you edited, but this is clearly still not quite right…
Yay mobilization against the civilian population was never a bad sign for a government!
President is using American military to invade America as per putin’s instructions.
There is no crime problem (relatively). Just like there is no migrant problem.
But you know what would bring crime down? Equality.
The crime is coming from inside the (white) house.
Not to be paranoid but I have a strange feeling that he’s not leaving after his term is over. This national guard thing might go wrong with people fighting against it then someone will get shot/die and it will be used as a way to gain even more control (like what happened in South Korea minus the better outcome). Or he is going to start a war as a way to stay in power.
That’s been obvious for a long time now. He incited an insurrection the last time he didn’t want to leave office. He’ll do anything and everything he needs to stay in power.
Mark my words, they are hoping and expecting reactions, from this especially, but from everything they do.
The actual accelerationists, the ones who mean it, who aren’t cosplaying on the weekends, and who actually have the means to achieve it - are in the White House. Every new instability they cause, and every single violent act from anyone of any stripe, contributes to the chaotically ramped up, militarized, unhinged climate that they precisely want for the next election cycle.
It’s been less than a year. You’re not being paranoid - naive, if anything. You and everyone else should start preparing for the worst - they are really going to try it, and we’ve seen very little opposition from the rest of the US government(s).
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FASCIST FUCKING PIG - why is this mother fucker still alive. Diet Coke, fast food, and hate apparently will sustain you longer than imagined. Never wanted anyone to die more in my lifetime.
That is a lot of power and money being used to avoid talking about the Epstein files and the young girl rapes that went on.
This is all part of was planned to be done all along, regardless of the Epstein files.
Child rapes*
Young girl is too ambiguous.
Where’s the fucking epstein list donnie? People aren’t going to forget no matter how many distractions you try.
Hitler gives the order to invade Poland
Liberals on lemmy: it’s just a dIsTrAcTiOn!
Fucking for real… I also want them to keep it in the news cycle, but not everything is a fucking distraction when you’re country is literally in the midst of a fascist takeover
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If anything, Epstein is the distraction. Not one piece of new information has come out in years. People made fucking jokes about lolita island 20 years ago. His supporters do not care. At all. All this does is fire up the conspiracy folks, who all support him and will continue to support him.
Trump takes over a police departmment and sends national guardsmen, with weapons now, to police the streets. ‘But what about the thing everyone on this planet has known about forever?’ Motherfucker has video of him talking about his good friend who ‘likes girls on the younger side.’ We already know. Shut the fuck up with this distraction shit.
Well his ilk seem to be ok with the militarization of US cities. They don’t seem to be cool with trump diddling kids so let’s keep the news cycle focused on the one that may drive him out of office. Trump sending troops to stand around and be photographed is bad but not end of the world bad.
If people just sit around and let him impose martial law then it doesn’t matter what anybody remembers.
Since noone is posting it, here’s a list of the states:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming
So almost entirely red states that went for trump. I live in one of these states right next to an Air Force base. It’ll be terrifying if I go to some places this or next weekend and happen to see National Guard. Fucking nuts.
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Red states so another yard for Krasnov.
You gave him an inch, then a yard, next a mile.
New mexico is not exactly a red state but its quite a list.
Glad but shocked Oklahoma isn’t on that list. Let’s hope this fails miserably and instead expands to my state. Exactly what’s his plans on feeding and housing these guards? In LA they had to sleep on the street and had no food. We need to call our Congressmen and demand they put a stop to this bullshit.
I am in one of those too. It is great how literally everyone is broke or has job insecurity and they are just wasting money.
When the smoke clears and the casualties are tallied by all the respective news outlets,…. Remember that this was all avoidable.
None of this had to happen.
Trump wasn’t inevitable but fascism coming to the US was. Both parties were committed to a dance that only ends one way.
bOtH siDeS! aMiRiTe?
Surely Kamala would have built even bigger concentration camps on American soil. And I’m sure she’d have sent even more ICE agents to deport legal citizens and sick children. Oh and let’s not forget all the military she would be sending to fight the false crime rates she fabricated to distract from the pedophile ring she belongs to.
Both sides are completely the same!
Oh, fuck off with that “both sides” bullshit. Of fucking course there are things that Democratic and Republican politicians have in common, but we can’t fucking talk about it without some wise-ass pulling this thought terminating garbage.
For the record, I never even said they did anything the same. They have different roles in the same dance, and that dance brought us closer to the cliffs edge with every repetition.
I never even said they did anything the same.
Both parties were committed to a dance that only ends one way.
lololol….
If you read my whole comment I’ve already answered that. Being part of the same dynamic doesn’t mean you are doing the same thing. It’s not that hard a concept to understand.
I believe in you.
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Of course it’s not a hard concept to understand- which is why I was so easily able to point out the ridiculous notion that you’re somehow not trying to say that both sides are the same.
It’s pretty plain as day.
A man beats his wife on the regular. Cops get called, wife lies and defends husband, cops go away. Rinse and repeat until the wife is dead. They both contributed to that outcome. They both danced the dance at the cliff’s edge until the inevitable happened. Am I saying they are both the same? Hell no. The guy is a monster. That doesn’t mean the wife didn’t contribute to that outcome.
I’ve been saying this for a while. You can’t continue to increase the income inequality gap without taking people’s rights away. This was going to happen one way or another. I have seen it coming for 20 years, but wasn’t educated enough to realize populism and demigogary (spelling?) would be a part of it.
Yep, that’s a big part of it. Even the good things Democrats did like the ACA were also designed to funnel more wealth upwards.
The liberals stopped worrying about the little guy and soon after stopped even talking to the little guy. Then the little guy stopped voting for Democrats. Fascists however are always ready to fill that vacuum. They don’t do shit for the little guy, but they do make him feel heard.
But it was still avoidable…
Yeah, like the entirety of human history. However, the course was pretty clear and America was pretty committed to it - despite a whole lot of work done by a whole lot of people to change it. Hell, most of the country is still committed to it. All the Democrats who want to get past Trump so things can get back to “normal” haven’t learned a damn thing.
When the smoke clears and the casualties are tallied by all the respective news outlets,….
Someone’s optimistic
When the smoke clears and the casualties are tallied by all the respective news outlets
If, not when.
Every fascist regime falls eventually. The question is how much damage will be done before it does.
Well said.
Most horrible things are avoidable… That doesn’t mean horrible people aren’t going to create horrible problems, though.
The reality is that enough evil people all in one place tends to create problems the rest of us can’t resolve without an extraordinary amount of planning and effort.
America is fucked.
Do you know what they called the law that gave legislative power to Adolf Hitler’s newly formed executive in 1933? “Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich” so roughly “Law for the remediation of distress to people and reich”. It strikes me that by rhetorically elevating the normal levels of crime to the level of distress to the people and country, and then activating emergency powers, Donald Trump is following in the same footsteps.
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He’ll probably miss, even if he tries it.
