The move suggests Donald Trump is doubling down on his claimed crime emergency in the nationās capital after the election.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized the National Guard to begin using boats, several dozen marked police cars, humvees and light medium tactical vehicles in the nationās capital ā an escalation of the troopsā presence that could further blur the line between their military and law enforcement role.
Itās not clear why the Trump administration is making the move now. The Oct. 29 memo obtained by POLITICO detailing the expansion doesnāt provide any further details beyond doubling down on Trumpās plan to use the National Guard to crack down on what heās called a ācrime emergencyāin the nationās capital.
The beefed-up presence, which will be in place through the end of the year, would see members of the National Guard driving vehicles typically used by U.S. troops on battlefields like Iraq and Afghanistan on city streets to support law enforcement officers making drug busts, though they are not allowed to pursue suspects or make arrests.
They just put Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff. They are gonna try to do another fash.
Miller: The Senate will no longer be of any concern to you. Trump has dissolved the council permanently. Fear will keep the local systems in line.
And what of the Rebellion?
āI can work with the Democratsā
Fills the streets with troops and arms.
Just to put this into perspective, 1 of every 70 people in DC were armed agents of state violence, before this latest āenhancementā.
To be honest, Iām a little worried that Republicans arenāt denying election results. This is their entire MO, theyāe still kind of at the height of their power, and they are the most rampantly criminal administration in history and have done everything in their power to avoid accountability so far. Narcissists and dictators donāt just give up, they will do whatever they can to avoid accountability.
And theyāre just taking this lying down? Being normal about it? Iām getting a little worried they have a plot behind the scenes to keep power. Whether it be not seating reps on the 3rd, or something even worse.
Please assuage some of my fears.
It was such a bad trouncing that it left no room for anyone to shout āFraud!ā. The proof was gigantically mountainous and you canāt lie and propaganda your way out of that.
Please assuage some of my fears.
Fair enough. And a good point. To that I would only point out THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY WENT BLUE including, no shit this is not a drill Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina.
Okay, not Florida, or Louisiana, but even there it was really fucking close. With that kind of vote presence I donāt think theyāll be as interested in swallowing whatever batshit deranged treason the orange rapist has in his Roger Stone file.
THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY WENT BLUE
except for south dakota for some reason, which merits some investigation
Shouldnāt be hard to ask three people who they voted for?
Low hanging fruit, dude. Try harder. Also Sioux Falls has like 200k people
I hope Democrats arenāt being lulled to sleep with how accepting Republicans have been so far. I know theyāre aware they donāt really have wide public support anymore, but I donāt trust them at all. Iām not sure this is even an option, but I would want a contingent of state troopers to come with all of the Senator/House Rep elects to come with them on the 3rd. I would not for a second find it too hard to believe they could try to arrest them all. They will not just sleepwalk into life sentences
Florida is highly concentrated racist boomer soup. I tried.
I was really really surprised when Trump didnāt immediately call the election āstolenā. I figured that it might have been because heās so narcissistic that he didnāt care because it wasnāt an election for him specifically.
But, with all the military mobilisation Iām thinking along the same lines as you: whatāre they up to? Obviously a coup, but how and when?
To me itās the Victor Orban problem. Election denying works when the margins are thin. Itās really hard when a million more people in Texas vote against you.
ā¦and thatās AFTER they gerrymandered and tried to purge voter rolls.
They cheated a ton but still got rolled over, and they fucking know the population is not happy.
They have til January 3rd
Yeah, but the tangerine buffoon canāt think ahead, plan, or even follow a plan for that matter. Heād have blabbed already, unless heās been kept in the dark this time.
I think it was too big to rig, plus Bibi just cried stolen election, it would be ridiculous to do the same, especially given how heās lied about it before. Im a little nervous too though.
Bibi and the Brazilian fuck
One of my guesses is that claims of cheating would result in investigations that might actually find cheatingātheir cheating. They just underestimated the margins theyād have to cheat by to win, but might have still left some evidence.
Another guess is they saw how baseless claims did more to hurt their position than to help last time (tbh I suspect they only made the claims to try to put their opponents in a corner where they couldnāt accuse them back the next time without looking like they are just doing the same thing to all the people only half paying attention). They might be looking for cases where such a claim might be plausible instead of just making noise and sacrificing some lawyersā reputations.
Guess 3 is that winning the elections was just plan A but they are ok going with plan B, and increasing the national guard presence in Washington is a part of that. It might be prudent for his political opponents to not all be in DC at once, or try spending time with the troops there to form bonds and/or guage their sentiments.
Guess 4 is that they were surprised at the sheer amount of opposition that showed up to vote and might have lost confidence they can get away with pushing it too much right now, especially with how things are escalating in France and they can see that the usual big block of āif thereās any bad behaviour at all during a protest, that cancels out whatever position they haveā is eroding.
Do you really think that the party that just spent $500 million on campaigns and lost would have a 4D chess plan to take over the military to install their fascist regime?
Marco Rubio just floated qutting, Jimmy Vance just threw Donald under the bus. DeSantis called this āan extinction level eventā. They donāt have the pull to convince anyone that it would be beneficial to help Trump at this point.
100%. A good one? No. A plan? Yeah.
Hegseth, Trump, Vought, etc. are willing to do anything to stay out of prison. They didnāt fire more than half of military leadership/generals for nothing. There is a 0% chance theyāre just gonna fade away, let themselves get impeached, investigated, etc without doing something. I donāt think itās going to work, but when have they ever just accepted something bad happening to them?
Theyāve now been reminded of their actual numbers, not what they thought they had in their echo chambers.
They have had friends. When the rats jump ship, they are going to need a scapegoat.
Also, I donāt mean this in a rude way, but looking for consolation from your fears on the internet it NOT a good idea. Especially Doomy. Oops, I mean Lemmy.
plan to take over the military
They donāt need to take over the military ā theyāre already in charge of it. A coup isnāt really 4D chess, either. Itās a well-tread, brute force tactic by fascists, including many of trumpās friends. Thankfully itās been failing a lot lately, but these lunatics have, until January, nearly unfettered control of the biggest military in the world.
Trump already tried a coup once and got away with it, so he really has no reason not to try again to avoid a power shift that might result in accountability. And he doesnāt need to rely on an ad hoc smattering of fringe militias this time. Heās got the full weight of the US military.
I really hope this is alarmism and theyāll go out with a whimper, but their own history would suggest not.
Considering they almost let a violent revolution start back when they murdered alex pretti, I donāt think theyāre going to do anything too crazy since theyāre MORE unpopular than before.
Theyād be 100% uniting us peasants against the Epstein class. You might not think enough people would join in, but once people started losing family members to a tyrannical government, public opinion changes rapidly.
You are giving them more credit than you should. Trump is stupid. Like BIGLY stupid. How many of these people are willing to follow him at this point just to be thrown under the bus.
Trump is a figurehead for the Heritage Foundation and a few other accelerationist dominionist groups who will remain in charge even if trump drops dead tomorrow.
Compare their list of names to the ones that show up most often in the Epstein files and think about how motivated they are right now.
e: Do you think Vance of all people will oppose them, who they handpicked for that job?
Yep, rampant, scared spending that increased the closer we got to the midterms, Trump apparently trying to hide evidence heās a felon (???lol???) all the conservatives scrambling to save their own hides alreadyā¦
I definitely expect them to try something. I just donāt think it was plan A-E, so itās probably a last-minute Hail Mary plan F. Still could be something awful and dangerous, but these peoplesā plan A is almost always a clusterfuck, and the American people just showed that we are tired of their fascist shit and are done with them altogether, so theyāll have a massively uphill battle no matter what they do
Republicans hate Trump rn, I doubt they will do anything that matters.
Well, democrats may have won the election, but they havenāt been seated yet. If there were to be some fuckery around seating them, there would be a lot of protesting in DC, and a fascist regime would make sure they have their military power in place to quell the uprising.
Iāve been feeling uncharacteristically optimistic the last few days. I just have a feeling things are turning around for the better and America will go back to normal.
The election results show Trump doesnāt have the political influence I thought he did and, now that they see he doesnāt have the political influence they thought he did, his own party may start turning on him
But there is still a part of me that fears this is too good to be true and itās gonna come crashing down soon
My phone autocorrect randomly corrected wwiii to WWIII the other day. Normally, it autocorrects to WWII. And I rarely use WWIII.
But more likely, I think weāre staring down the barrel of an economic collapse bigger than 2008 in time for christmas, since with the midterms going the way they did, AI bros can stop pumping the bubble and blame Democrats.
What even the fuck?
I so want this piece of shit to rot in prison.
āFree countryā
Someone shoot stephen miller before its too lateā¦
My conspiracy theory on this is that a major escalation is coming with the Iran war. So major that they feel the need to beef up military defense capabilities in both maralago and DC.
It seems pretty clear to me that Trump feels one of the ultimate flexes of his power would be a nuclear strike, so it will probably be that.
My heart weeps for the Iranians, the Palestinians, all all the Arab peoples shackled under the weight of imperial conquest. As well, for the rest of us, because this Pandoraās box would change everything, forever.
My heart weeps for the Iranians,
Iranian citizens are being shackled just as much by their own government as by the impact of Trumpās illegal war. Two wrongs donāt make a right, and Iranians deserve liberation from both.
Mostly the ones working with the Mossad and CIA to further destabilize them.
Also the ones running the country torturing and murdering protestorsāalong with women as an entire social classāfor deviating from traditional values.
This is just their test run. Iāve never been fooled that whoever is actually pulling the strings thinks trump could ever be ātheir guyā. Iām sure their surprised by how far things got, but this is just a battle, the war still goes on.
Thatās my conspiracy.
Between the SAM missiles being placed at mar a largo and this, this all seems like they are getting prepared for an attackā¦what do they know and what are they planning
There has been multiple reports of a massive strike coming on/after the midterms. His fortification of Ped-o-Lago, reports to based to prepare for 90-days of independent sustainability, a lot of word trickling down for citizens around the world to have 3-to-10 days of supplies, and donāt forget Chris Murphy (who was briefed on the plan) stating itās āinsaneā, ālead to devastating escalation and our commitment to the rule of lawā.
the orange diddler is probably still reeling from getting his proverbial clock cleaned the other day, but either he sees the writing on the wall or otherwise thinks heās still invincibleā¦but I donāt have any doubt he wants to go out in a blaze of glory
Yep you saw all the same warning signs I sawā¦my hunch is he is being egged on by Miller and Hegseth to go out in a blaze of glory since they are all truly psychopaths.
Hegseth especially believes this is the final battle, death cult shit
That tracksā¦reminds me of the greta thunberg quote about andrew tateā¦small dick energy
Yep, and this had already been planned and set in motion in the weeks leading up to the mid-terms. Tankers from Russia have already been turned around, Hegseth knows heās fucked because even repubs have turned on him filing for impeachment.
Ohh hadnāt heard about the tankers, wonder if they still paid the Russians. Yah hoping for stability and happier days ahead, but it certainly looks like itāll get worse between now and January.
That would truly be a feat if IrƔn has weapons with that reach.
I just saw trump yesterday on TV saying he cleaned up D.C. That ppl would go see the monuments and their families would get calls theyād be killed. That all crime is almost not existent since he got there.
Same. I thought women were thanking him that they could āfinally walk the streets againā or some horse shit like that
