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.

  • @[email protected]
    74•2 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      7•1 day ago

      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.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]English
      28•2 days ago

      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.

        • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]English
          1•49 minutes ago

          I’m not a troll account. I’m just sick of good people getting played over and over again by the Democratic Party and liberalism on the whole.

          But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this.

          …

          Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.

          — Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Chapter 7, Lesser Evils; italic emphases his, bold emphasis mine.

          The previous passages were about the Gaza genocide in particular, but for me personally, they apply equally well to the Epstein files, the climate crisis, police brutality, and a whole host of other issues where the Democrats are just a “woke-coded” version of obstructing progress.

          Like for Christ’s sake if the people who wrote Saturday morning children’s cartoons made the villains as evil as American politicians actually are, we would have laughed at how corny the writing was. And obviously the Republicans are making things worse at record pace, but none of that seriously changed when the Democrats were in control last time or the time before that (Obama) or the time before that (Clinton, who’s an Epstein associate!), even when they had control of all three branches of the federal government.

          So forgive me for being irritated, forgive me for being spirited, but I don’t know how people can look at American politics in 2025 and be like “It’s literally trolling to be so disgusted by the Monster Party System that you don’t want to have anything to do with it.” They’re all monsters, and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.

    • @[email protected]
      4•2 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        12•2 days ago

        Red states can still do that right now, but don’t. Let’s focus on what to do right now, instead of the past.

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]English
        5•2 days ago

        Because the Dems are trash too. Whole system needs to be literally burned to the fucking ground 🔥🔥🔥🏴🏴🏴🏴

        • chonkyninjaEnglish
          13•2 days ago

          Russian talking point designed to convince you to be hopeless.

          • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]English
            5•2 days ago

            I want to burn the Russian government to the ground too! There’s enough fire for every world government! 🔥🔥🔥🏴🏴🏴🏴