The announcements on Saturday of troops from hundreds of miles away in West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio came a day after D.C. officials and the Trump administration negotiated a deal to keep Mayor Muriel Bowser’s appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, in charge of the police department after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit to block the federal takeover of the department.

If I keep destroying the country and get people worried about a civil war, maybe nobody will talk about all the pedophile stuff, or all the tariffs stuff, or all inflation stuff, or all the Russia stuff.

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    Blue states need to unleash their national guard in their own cities, but help the homeless, feed at soup kitchens, feed kids at school. Show who really cares for the people.

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      If blue states cared, these wouldn’t be issues they’re dealing with in the first place, much less would there be any need to deploy the national guard to solve them. Blue states are blue due to NIMBY democrats, not progressives. My prediction is, once the republican party has fully rotted away (likely in response to a crisis coming to a head), NIMBY democrats and more centrist MAGA will make up the center-right conservatives. It’s where the wealth will be concentrated.

      Turns out, deploying the military to address systemic issues is never a good choice. We need to be figuring out how to employ democracy to solve these issues.

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      I mean there were concerns that the California national guard wasn’t going to be available to prepare for wildfire season, so I assume at least that is one good thing they do for the community.

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      Show who really cares for the people.

      Yeah that’s why they’re never gonna do it, because the Democrats don’t care either and they know no one in power does. We won’t feed the homeless, we won’t feed kids at school, but we will fund the wars.

      They had four years recently and generations of power previously to nip these issues in the bud. It’s intentional. The Democrats like the violence.

      The child-murdering machine cannot and should not be reformed. It should be destroyed.