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Klarkashton
(4,068 posts)Stupid bullshit. Go the fuck back where you came from you idiots.
NJCher
(41,485 posts)that they have to go if they're told to, otherwise there are risks to their Guard record. There are other consequences, too, but I can't remember them. I heard this on my local public radio.
I'm sure that if they could go back home, they'd be happy to.
Klarkashton
(4,068 posts)And why the masks?
They aren't wearing masks. You seem confused.
Klarkashton
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ornotna
(11,352 posts)There were no masks on any of them.
NJCher
(41,485 posts)I haven't seen them wearing masks elsewhere, but then, I rarely watch cable news.
I feel for these people. They are pawns in trump's power ploy. They would be happy to do their job if there was one, but there isn't. The fact that they are picking up garbage as much as says they're wasting their time. D.C. has people to do that.
Furthermore, put yourself in their place. How would you like to be taken away from your regular job, home, and family? There are costs related to that, and not just economic. Their spouse has to take care of the children alone, handle household tasks alone, and who even knows what happens at their regular job?
Klarkashton
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Hekate
(99,502 posts)They are not free to go home. They are not free to leave their posts.
Klarkashton
(4,068 posts)No matter who the fuck sent them, is the masks now part of the fucking uniform?
Gaugamela
(3,006 posts)said that overwhelmingly the NG members don’t want these deployments. They signed up to help their communities during natural disasters, not to be Trump’s praetorian guard. Resignations are spiking.
The National Guard is not ICE.
ybbor
(1,674 posts)It appears you didn’t watch the video. No masks anywhere.
Cirsium
(2,881 posts)They aren't J6 rioters. They are National Guard.
Norrrm
(3,009 posts)
slightlv
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Johonny
(24,709 posts)To deploy to DC for the cost of millions and millions to do a job the city already pays others to do.
Trump wastes resources like a guy that bankrupt a casino.
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trash, dishes, laundry. some jobs never end.
hildegaard28
(780 posts)There's so much crime in DC he has to make the National Guard pick up trash. A real emergency.
C_U_L8R
(48,126 posts)Now they should resign in shame. There its no honor serving as Trump's errand boys, bootlickers, trashpickers or brownshirts.
Hekate
(99,502 posts)Wonder Why
(6,208 posts)Hekate
(99,502 posts)Wonder Why
(6,208 posts)My older brother was wounded in Vietnam. I served during those years but was never sent there (1968-1980). I was always a troublemaker then. Still am.
NJCher
(41,485 posts)that's why they didn't say no.
LetMyPeopleVote
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calimary
(87,879 posts)Just a guess on my part. Can’t help but assume that, because nobody’s misbehaving and requiring some sort of police action.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,750 posts)Like each of the main branches of the military?
If not, I suggest this:
I remember that cartoon song from when my kids were little. They would laugh themselves silly singing it.
It certainly is appropriate for this thread.
ret5hd
(21,800 posts)mcar
(45,358 posts)Could it be, possibly, that the DC cops are already doing that? Could it be that they're not going into the high crime areas in DC?
Why yes, yes it could be.
pfitz59
(11,880 posts)Arrest the offenders!
Oeditpus Rex
(42,750 posts)where Officer Obie will take their shoelaces and belts because he don't want any hangins...
Harker
(16,890 posts)
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,133 posts)
KPN
(16,921 posts)That’s all.
70sEraVet
(4,913 posts)and which troops will only be trusted to carry garbage bags?
No clue? Really?
MrWowWow
(1,309 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:32 AM - Edit history (1)
The Polack MSgt
(13,653 posts)The Commanders and 1st Sergeants were probably looking for something - ANYTHING productive to keep their troops occupied.
Fuck Trump
RazorbackExpat
(609 posts)Maybe their commander said, "OK, men, you heard Trump, we're gonna be policing DC. So grab a trash bag and let's get started!" 
Aviation Pro
(14,790 posts)“I didn’t sign up to do fucking police call.”
MichMan
(15,962 posts)Blues Heron
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Abolishinist
(2,761 posts)I totally agree!
JI7
(92,663 posts)is in the white house or did they temporarily move it to maralago ?
thought crime
(798 posts)These are the whims of an idiot king.
LetMyPeopleVote
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BlueSpot
(1,194 posts)Pick up that garbage.
Apologies, of course, to Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Ms. Toad
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riversedge
(77,895 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
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Ping Tung
(3,680 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(170,053 posts)Service members say they’re glad to help the National Park Service. But some question if trash removal and groundskeeping are an appropriate use of the military.
National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties
— Greg Hernandez (@ghnarrator.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T11:39:28.200Z
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Link to tweet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/27/dc-national-guard-trash-removal-trump-takeover/
More than 2,200 troops, some from as far away as Mississippi and Louisiana, have been deployed in D.C. since Trump’s declaration of a “crime emergency” here. Ostensibly, they were mobilized to support federal law enforcement and local police, but in recent days those orders have expanded to encompass “beautification” tasks such as trash removal and groundskeeping around the National Mall and other federal property. Service members may work on removing graffiti, too.
Typically, custodial work like this falls to the National Park Service, which was already facing staffing shortfalls when the Trump administration this spring directed additional cuts as it gutted the federal workforce. The service used to have 200 people assigned to maintain thousands of acres of trees and gardens in D.C., and now there are 20, a Park Service official told The Post......
Joint Task Force-D.C., which has overseen the Guard’s activities in Washington since Trump declared the crime emergency Aug. 11, said that service members will be working on more than 40 “beautification projects” throughout the city that were identified with input from local and federal agencies. Though the Pentagon has authorized those participating in the deployment to carry weapons, for now troops on cleanup duty will not be armed, an official with the task force said. ......
Pulling Guard members — civilians often with full-time jobs who report for duty once a month and then for two weeks a year — for such missions comes with a trade-off. The time they would have spent focusing on training in their military specialty or participating in battle drills may be spent on groundskeeping or urban foot patrols instead.
LetMyPeopleVote
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(170,053 posts)Why has the Trump administration assigned troops to garbage duty in the nation’s capital? The closer one looks at the answer, the worse it appears.
As the Trump administration has National Guard troops picking up trash in DC, consider
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-27T18:05:24.557Z
- why they’re picking up the slack for laid off Park Service employees
- how this contradicts Hegseth’s “warrior ethosâ€
- and what the reaction would be if a Dem did the same thing www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/national-guard-troops-are-now-picking-trash-dc-rcna227554
To that end, locals are suddenly seeing something unexpected and unusual: National Guard troops on trash duty. The local NBC affiliate reported:
Members of the National Guard deployed to D.C. will pick up trash and work on dozens of ‘beautification and restoration’ projects, the military task force overseeing all troops in the District said Monday. ... Officials said the effort is part of a broader ‘beautification’ operation aimed at community restoration and improvement and that members will complete more than 40 tasks at sites around the District.
The report added that task force officials “wouldn’t offer details about how often troops have been asked to clean up areas in D.C.”
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) 2025-08-26T22:22:56.505Z
.....Instead, let’s consider a different line of questioning: Isn’t the Park Service usually responsible for this? The Washington Post reported on the answer:
Typically, custodial work like this falls to the National Park Service, which was already facing staffing shortfalls when the Trump administration this spring directed additional cuts as it gutted the federal workforce. The service used to have 200 people assigned to maintain thousands of acres of trees and gardens in D.C., and now there are 20, a Park Service official told The Post.
Ah. So, the National Park Service used to have all kinds of employees, including groundskeepers, but the Trump administration laid them off......
The Post’s report added, “Representatives for Hegseth did not address questions about the new beautification assignment, or whether it was in line with the secretary’s lethality push.”
Imagine that.
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(170,053 posts)The perfect gift for the holidays
