Our proud soldiers fighting crime in Washington

[TimFitz]

I don't disagree with that. Nor have I.

Do you have any thoughts regarding the actual content of the broader scope of my thoughts on the topic which you've quoted?

I went far beyond that and touched on the operation and clearly observable intent behind the operation in the broader scope. And it's playing out precisely as I stated.

What. You haven't seen the threads and dialogue on here demanding the feds police states and localities ever since they were solicited to do so by way of this clearly psychological operation? Shit. They fell in line like ants. Problem. Reaction, Solution. Same as it always is. And people eat it up lke candy and just go along with it.

The Framers who warned us about standing armies have to be rolling over n theor graves.

I'm not interested in having a pecker waving contest with you about DC, you can do that with the wingers, they love that dumb shit. As I said, I haven't disageeed with that because, whether legitimate or not, they do have that jurisdiction on paper.

But there's a much, much more insidious intent at play here in the broader scope of the DC operation. The DC operation wasand is clearly intended to be a psychological operation with the longger term intent being to run a stalking horse to solicit demand and the illusion of justification for usurp and a more powerful central government over the states.


Although, I do have some thoughts on the very notion of ''Federal lands'' but that's an entirely different conversation.

“But there's a much, much more insidious intent at play here in the broader scope of the DC operation. The DC operation wasand is clearly intended to be a psychological operation with the longger term intent being to run a stalking horse to solicit demand and the illusion of justification for usurp and a more powerful central government over the states.”

Correct. They’re hardly trying to hide it, either.

 

[TimFitz]

Please tell us what they were concerned about and how that has happened in D.C.

The framers had a natural fear of a central govern,ent having a large standing army. The US was little more than an unsteady collection of former colonies then. None of then could afford, or wanted a standing army.

They didn’t want the federal government to have one either, for fear that it might be used as an instrument of tyranny.

In short, the framers feared what your beloved fuhrer is doing right now.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Odd though, for all the years I ran gun gangs I never once heard them break out in song.

 

[TimFitz]

I can only go by what the linked ArmyTimes article states...

“I think it’s nice, as a D.C. resident,” one Guard member told the Washington Post. “But there are different things we could be doing.”

That might be the case for many of the D.C.-based troops here, or those who came from Tennessee, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, West Virginia or Ohio, some of whom are spending their first days ever in the nation’s capital tending to patches of dirt.

It wouldn’t be lost on anyone that most of these National Guardsmen are being drawn from former Confederate states.

I doubt that Trump’s white supremacists missed it.

 

[initforme]

These brave soldiers should receive veteran police pay. Perhaps $80 per hour on top of their military pay.

 

[Old Rocks]

Yeah, i saw them picking up trash the other day....They should make the illegals and criminals they catch pick up the trash.....Sorta like the old shotgun gangs i used to work.

I think it would be better if those undocumented were picking fruit and doing the other jobs they have been doing the whole time I have been alive. We are going to see the results of the idiocy and bigotry of the MAGAts very soon now at our grocery stores, and you fools will try to blame Biden.

 

[Old Rocks]

Please tell us what they were concerned about and how that has happened in D.C.

 

[1srelluc]

I think it would be better if those undocumented were picking fruit and doing the other jobs they have been doing the whole time I have been alive. We are going to see the results of the idiocy and bigotry of the MAGAts very soon now at our grocery stores, and you fools will try to blame Biden.

Not many fruit trees in DC.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Not many fruit trees in DC.

Don’t need them. The federal government is the fruit tree and collected tax money is the fruit.
Shoulda been an alternative version of The Grapes of Wrath where the Joads go to DC instead of California and help build Greenbelt, MD in the New Deal and never experience any great depression.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

These brave soldiers should receive veteran police pay. Perhaps $80 per hour on top of their military pay.

Methusaleh, you must be a Democrat because you are always so free with other people's money!

 

[konradv]

This isn't how I pictured it...

The National Guard, DC landscaping and the great pursuit of lethality

Few training methods guarantee a better fighting force than boredom-induced annoyance.

www.armytimes.com

View attachment 1157030

I wonder what the resignation rate is going to be after this.

 

[initforme]

Methusaleh, you must be a Democrat because you are always so free with other people's money!

I do see theres plenty of $ in the defense budget.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I do see theres plenty of $ in the defense budget.

You do know that National Guard units are paid by their states. My son-in-law is a retired E-7 from the Air National Guard in Kentucky.

 

[Blisterfinger]

MAGA doing work democrats wont do.

Democrats would rather wallow in their own filth and allow criminals to run rampant and free.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Democrats would rather wallow in their own filth and allow criminals to run rampant and free.

Only the black ones. The white democrats will always live in isolated, insulated areas and when the blacks encroach, they move. Too much diversity. They’d be overwhelmed by altruism.

 

[Seymour Flops]

I don't disagree with that. Nor have I.

Do you have any thoughts regarding the actual content of the broader scope of my thoughts on the topic which you've quoted?

I went far beyond that and touched on the operation and clearly observable intent behind the operation in the broader scope. And it's playing out precisely as I stated.

I would like to address that

What. You haven't seen the threads and dialogue on here demanding the feds police states and localities ever since they were solicited to do so by way of this clearly psychological operation? Shit. They fell in line like ants. Problem. Reaction, Solution. Same as it always is. And people eat it up lke candy and just go along with it.

The Framers who warned us about standing armies have to be rolling over n theor graves.

But would they not have already been spinning like gyroscopes at our nearly half million troop Army, as well as the enormous Navy and Air Force?

I'm not interested in having a pecker waving contest with you about DC, you can do that with the wingers, they love that dumb shit. As I said, I haven't disageeed with that because, whether legitimate or not, they do have that jurisdiction on paper.

But there's a much, much more insidious intent at play here in the broader scope of the DC operation. The DC operation wasand is clearly intended to be a psychological operation with the longger term intent being to run a stalking horse to solicit demand and the illusion of justification for usurp and a more powerful central government over the states.

What do you see as the motivation of those conducting this psyop? Are they projecting power for its own sake, or do they really want to reduce the murder rates, as they have already in DC?

Or some other motivation?

It was largely a psychological operation anyway, a stalking horse in effect, to see how eagerly the modern electorate would demand when prompted to be policed by the feds at the state level

Which they did, predictably...

Yes, when something works, people believe it should be replicated.

The fundamental fabric of our Republic just isn't going to survive unless the modern electorate regains some semblance of the good sense that was possessed and maintained by the early American, constitution aware electorate.

Donald Trump, like many who came before him as they pass the baton off to one another, consistently demonstrates himself to be the type of politician, much like those others, that the Bill of Rights was adopted to protect against. The type of politician who is observably committed to unilaterally increasing the power of the central government at the expense of Individual and states’ rights.

As they pass the baton off to one another, running the problem, reaction, solution gambit, the traditional philosophy of 1776 American governance continues to erode, faster and faster while more and more power is illigitimately acquired by the central government.

To his credit, I think he has very little knowledge or understanding of these things, and likely has little, if any, genuine regard for them, and this shortcoming has allowed the slithering swamp creatures, both foreign and domestic, whom he has again surrounded himself by and whom he has appointed to continue to grow and to lead him around by the nose, fulfilling their desire for a more powerful, more authoritarian centralized government.

What I'm not sure about is that you seem to be suggesting that there is a long-standing and widely agreed upon principle that posits that using federal power to assist state and local law-enforcement is counter to our republican form of government.

Is that your contention, or did I misinterpret what you said? If that is your contention, do you have any references of this being talked about?

Is there any evidence that these National Guard troops have usurped the rights of any honest citizen? Has one peaceful protest been prevented? Peaceful protest, not "peaceful protests" that involve burning, looting, raping, and shooting.

How would you explain to a person like myself, living in the Houston area, who believes it would be a good idea for the Texas National Guard to be federalized in order to give assistance to HPD, that this is antithetical to our Democracy?

Would the same objections be valid if it were the Texas governor who activated the Texas National Guard?

 

[Unkotare]

...The white democrats will always live in isolated, insulated areas and when the blacks encroach, they move. ...

IM2 too.

 

[my2¢]

As for the political aspect of the matter, it certainly is a relief that the matter is merely about soldiers being used as landscapers. It's nothing in comparison to the anger I felt with the administration 20 years ago and their policy of sending our people overseas into harm's way to establish Islamic Republics.

 

[Blisterfinger]

As for the political aspect of the matter, it certainly is a relief that the matter is merely about soldiers being used as landscapers. It's nothing in comparison to the anger I felt with the administration 20 years ago and their policy of sending our people overseas into harm's way to establish Islamic Republics.

This is typically what soldiers do when they're not busy. They clean