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AverageOldGuy

(2,884 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:17 PM Aug 10

TRUMP TO ORDER NATIONAL GUARD INTO D.C.

Source: Reuters

QUOTE
Aug 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.
The officials, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a final decision was still to be made by U.S. President Donald Trump but the troops were prepared to deploy.
END QUOTE

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-preparing-national-guard-activation-washington-dc-officials-say-2025-08-11/



I'm so pissed I don't dare comment.
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TRUMP TO ORDER NATIONAL GUARD INTO D.C. (Original Post) AverageOldGuy Aug 10 OP
Where are the Epstein files? truthisfreedom Aug 10 #1
Gosh BOSSHOG Aug 10 #4
🏆 underpants Aug 10 #14
Mitch has secured a prime spot in Hell. CentralMass Aug 11 #35
Gosh are you people still talking about Epstein IronLionZion Aug 10 #25
DEFINITELY ANOTHER DISTRACTION vapor2 Aug 10 #2
And I simply can't help it, but it raises my blood pressure slightlv Aug 10 #22
Just saying, myself and MANY others are having those same dark thoughts. bluestarone Aug 11 #39
The horror is always worse when it's coming slightlv Aug 11 #40
THAT, my friend is the TRUTH! bluestarone Aug 11 #42
I will swear to anyone claiming to be a "christian" that slightlv Aug 11 #48
Hell, just watch The Left Behind movie. bluestarone Aug 11 #49
More AverageOldGuy Aug 10 #3
Administrative Tasks? BOSSHOG Aug 10 #9
Yeah! What police admin tasks are military folks trained for? Norrrm Aug 10 #10
National Guard is no more suitable for policing Seinan Sensei Aug 11 #34
I think he will attempt to declare martial law regardless Metaphorical Aug 10 #11
I read that as cover for the two parts that followed. underpants Aug 10 #16
Or some undercover MAGA goons will do it IronLionZion Aug 10 #26
He failed in California, so he's trying in DC, but I smell a rat: they have something planned this time. C Moon Aug 10 #27
LA is still occupied! BidenRocks Aug 11 #31
Will the National Guard kindly remove that SQUATTER in the White House? Jack Valentino Aug 10 #5
Like I said in the first thread about this: johnnyfins Aug 10 #6
If so, thats a real bad look for a shitweasel johnnyfins Aug 10 #8
But he didn't on Jan 6th...... Historic NY Aug 10 #7
Typical tourist behavior IronLionZion Aug 10 #24
Republicans turn US military loose on US city nt msongs Aug 10 #12
What the hell for!? 2MuchNoise Aug 10 #13
He has to look STRONG for the meeting with his boss. underpants Aug 10 #17
Stand around bored like in LA. Silent Type Aug 10 #15
Big meeting next week. Gotta look STRONG for the boss. underpants Aug 10 #18
Christ Almighty! LudwigPastorius Aug 10 #19
Any idea why??? Bayard Aug 10 #20
Okay, here we go Bayard Aug 10 #21
Hostile Government Takeover song from TikTok IronLionZion Aug 10 #23
DC 30 year low in crime Eliot Rosewater Aug 11 #28
Is This the Sequel to 💩's Birthday Parade? MrWowWow Aug 11 #29
remember Reuters is Russian owned now... n/t SonOfNebanaube Aug 11 #30
Huh? muriel_volestrangler Aug 11 #36
That is not true IronLionZion Aug 11 #38
I checked. brakester Aug 11 #50
EPSTEIN!!! BidenRocks Aug 11 #32
And exactly what is the pretext for this one? Warpy Aug 11 #33
Crime is way down in DC LetMyPeopleVote Aug 11 #37
Another myth exposed, "Land of the free". republianmushroom Aug 11 #41
It bears repeating: the President of the United States openly lies in executive orders about easily verifiable facts. LetMyPeopleVote Aug 11 #43
A January memo from the Department of Justice LetMyPeopleVote Aug 11 #44
He keeps going on that fucking roof. Let me guess,a FAKE assassination attempt? Bengus81 Aug 11 #45
Maddow Blog-Trump to deploy the National Guard to D.C., place local police under federal control LetMyPeopleVote Aug 11 #46
Federal law allows Trump to control D.C. police only for 48 hours LetMyPeopleVote Aug 11 #47
I expect that brakester Aug 11 #51

BOSSHOG

(43,627 posts)
4. Gosh
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:25 PM
Aug 10

After tomorrow no one will ever mention the Epstein files again. No one will opine about the evil of rich guys sexually abusing young girls on an island because the rapist and convicted felon has decided to occupy a majority black city. Thanks Mitch mcconnel, thanks John roberts.

The blame your enemies for what you do, a nazi strategy, will fail on the land where Ellis Island greets all.

IronLionZion

(49,762 posts)
25. Gosh are you people still talking about Epstein
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:54 PM
Aug 10

that is really not what Trump wants you people talking about for some reason. hmm....

slightlv

(6,489 posts)
22. And I simply can't help it, but it raises my blood pressure
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:26 PM
Aug 10

for whatever reason they're doing it. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but damn! How can it not? I gave up some of my best years to serve this country, first in the military and then in DoD. What he's doing is illegal. It's unconstitutional. It's against our civil rights and liberties. It's shoving the idea of a police state into our face so as to normalize it. Somebody take out the entire regime we're living under, because the death of one man only ain't gonna do it. I tell ya, I've got some deep, dark thoughts rushing through my brain right now. These are so painful to me... but no more painful than seeing our country turned into a Russian satellite country. Why doesn't trump just go ahead and rename the country? He's already ruined the United States of America. We definitely aren't that any longer. He killed that entire concept and ideal. And if and when we ever get these fascists out of our government again, I never want to hear anything again touted that comes from the Heritage Foundation or any of the other traitor right wing think tanks. In fact, I want to see every single one of them declared a terrorist organization! And maybe, once the great orange savior is dead and gone, we could maybe then get the guts to name him "traitor."

bluestarone

(20,170 posts)
39. Just saying, myself and MANY others are having those same dark thoughts.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 10:39 AM
Aug 11

He maybe the chosen one, BUT not by whom the religious right believe he is. Sad that our great country is being invaded from the inside.

slightlv

(6,489 posts)
40. The horror is always worse when it's coming
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 11:30 AM
Aug 11

from inside the house. Outside, you can generally gather others to help kill it. But from the inside, there's too much dissension and division.

bluestarone

(20,170 posts)
42. THAT, my friend is the TRUTH!
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:05 PM
Aug 11

Hard to believe Americans would even think about attacking Americans. Sad to say, that's where we are at, Good Americans against evil Americans.

slightlv

(6,489 posts)
48. I will swear to anyone claiming to be a "christian" that
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:04 PM
Aug 11

trump IS the Anti-Christ. According to Nostradamus, he is AN Anti-Christ; but according to Xtian scripture, he is THE Anti-Christ. I once found a website that listed all the ways trump compared to Revelation scripture. Going through my enormous saved docs folder the other week, I found it again. If it weren't so long, I'd post it. The way he fits their scripture is absolutely mind-blowing. If I were a Christian, it would sure have me denouncing him every chance I got. And to think, the Dominionists, the NAR, the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals all bow down and worship this devil. Although it was foretold by John, I still shake my head at the audacity to go so far astray from scripture, and be proud and loud about it! I truly hope there IS a god of their own making after their death. And I want to be a butterfly in the wind when they approach their pearly gates, only to be turned away!

bluestarone

(20,170 posts)
49. Hell, just watch The Left Behind movie.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 06:10 PM
Aug 11

Mind boggling how in that movie is exactly how i see what's happening now. Totally unexplainable.

AverageOldGuy

(2,884 posts)
3. More
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:24 PM
Aug 10

My DC-lawyer 50-something-yr-old daughter just called me in tears -- she and several of her friends have heard this news.

Sadly, there is not a single Flag Rank officer -- General or Admiral -- with the balls to tell SECDEF Hogsbreath and Trump to GFY.

The claim is that they will perform "administrative tasks" to free up cops. And if you believe that . . . .

IF YOU HAVE FAMILY OR FRIENDS IN DC -- you need to call them NOW, tell them the news, tell them it is CRITICAL THAT NO ONE DO ANYTHING STUPID -- NO RIOTS, NO THROWING ROCKS AND BRICKS, NOTHING TO GIVE HIM AND EXCUSE TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW.

DC Mayor Bowser needs to get on the tv now and tell everyone to stay calm, don't do anything stupid. All it will take is one person throwing a brick and Trump will declare martial law.

BOSSHOG

(43,627 posts)
9. Administrative Tasks?
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:30 PM
Aug 10

Write fitness reports? Critique the chow at the galley? Inventory supply to ensure proper requisitions on hand throughout the fiscal year? Adjudicate report chits? Approve leave requests? Check medical census? Review Awards Submissions? Make sure non white people behave themselves?

Seinan Sensei

(1,125 posts)
34. National Guard is no more suitable for policing
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:10 AM
Aug 11

than Jeffrey Epstein was suitable for managing a talent agency

Metaphorical

(2,514 posts)
11. I think he will attempt to declare martial law regardless
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:42 PM
Aug 10

Everything is beginning to fall apart for him, and he's now reacting by trying to take over the country as Emperor Trump.

He's putting a figleaf of justification on it, but that's been his intent for a while now. I don't see this as the action of a man confident in his power, but one who's desperately trying to keep the wolves at bay.

C Moon

(13,128 posts)
27. He failed in California, so he's trying in DC, but I smell a rat: they have something planned this time.
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:58 PM
Aug 10

Jack Valentino

(3,131 posts)
5. Will the National Guard kindly remove that SQUATTER in the White House?
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:25 PM
Aug 10

'Thank you for your attention to this matter.'

johnnyfins

(2,731 posts)
6. Like I said in the first thread about this:
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:25 PM
Aug 10

What else will be "announced" tomorrow. You dont call up the NG to move homeless people.

IronLionZion

(49,762 posts)
24. Typical tourist behavior
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:53 PM
Aug 10

the kind that results in deaths, injuries, property damage, criminal court cases, evidence, prison time, and then blanket presidential pardons. So typical of tourists

Bayard

(26,738 posts)
20. Any idea why???
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:17 PM
Aug 10

He has no excuse there of riots. Maybe he's planning on doing this in every majority Dem city.

Eliot Rosewater

(33,769 posts)
28. DC 30 year low in crime
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 12:09 AM
Aug 11

He needs civil unrest a civil war, to solidify his base and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

MrWowWow

(949 posts)
29. Is This the Sequel to 💩's Birthday Parade?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 12:14 AM
Aug 11

...or a prelude to Martial Law? Looks like a Fourth Reich moment. Is the U.S.'s Reichstag Fire soon to follow?





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muriel_volestrangler

(104,475 posts)
36. Huh?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:59 AM
Aug 11

Collectively, the Thomson family is the wealthiest family in Canada, and some members are included on the list of Canada's richest people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Thomson_family

In 1984 Reuters became a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and also on the NASDAQ. In 2008 it merged with Canadian electronic publisher Thomson Corporation to form Thomson Reuters, though in its reporting capacity the company was still commonly referred to as Reuters. The unified company withdrew from both the LSE and the NASDAQ in 2009 and became listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. In addition to maintaining its traditional news-agency business, Thomson Reuters is now a major provider of financial information, both historical and current, to businesses, governments, and individuals worldwide.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/news-agency

IronLionZion

(49,762 posts)
38. That is not true
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 09:23 AM
Aug 11

Reuters is owned by the Canadian company Thomson.

You may be referring to their brief partnership with Russian company TASS for news content, which ended when Russia invaded Ukraine. Reuters stopped allowing TASS content in March 2022.

Warpy

(113,867 posts)
33. And exactly what is the pretext for this one?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:09 AM
Aug 11

Someone needs to remind the NG about the necessity of refusing illegal orders.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,962 posts)
43. It bears repeating: the President of the United States openly lies in executive orders about easily verifiable facts.
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:06 PM
Aug 11

Bengus81

(9,248 posts)
45. He keeps going on that fucking roof. Let me guess,a FAKE assassination attempt?
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:38 PM
Aug 11

He suddenly hits the deck,smears more phony WWE blood on his face and jumps up point in a "direction" the supposed shot came from.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,962 posts)
46. Maddow Blog-Trump to deploy the National Guard to D.C., place local police under federal control
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:13 PM
Aug 11

If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?

Fascist Trump to deploy the National Guard to D.C., place local police under federal control.
If crime rates in the nation’s capital are already at their lowest levels in decades, why is the White House launching yet another power grab?
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

hateGOP (@hategop.bsky.social) 2025-08-11T17:57:53.893Z


https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-deploy-national-guard-dc-place-local-police-federal-control-rcna224303
As for how, exactly, he intends to do this, NBC News reported, “Trump announced this morning that he will federalize the Washington, D.C., police and deploy National Guard troops in an effort to fight crime.”

Trump announces he's placing the DC police department "under direct federal control" and deploying the National Guard in the city

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-11T14:42:53.334Z


As far as the White House is concerned, this is apparently the first in a series of related steps. After referencing New York City, Baltimore and Oakland by name, the president told the White House press corps in reference to his new gambit, “This will go further. We’ll starting very strongly with D.C.”

Crime rates in New York City, Baltimore and Oakland have already sharply improved, and while Trump has repeatedly insisted that crime in nation’s capital is “out of control,” in reality, crime in D.C. has dropped..
...

As for the latest announcement, Trump also took the opportunity to share some related thoughts about how his newly deployed forces would treat criminal criminal suspects.

"You knock the hell out of them. It's the only language they understand ... you spit and we hit. And they get hit real hard ... now they are allowed to do whatever they want" -- Trump on the police response to crime in DC

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-11T14:50:56.398Z


As for whether any of this is legal, The Washington Post reported, "Under the Home Rule Act, President Donald Trump can assume control of D.C. police for 48 hours if he 'determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes.' The takeover may be extended with approval of the members of Congress who oversee D.C. affairs. Any request of over 30 days must be passed into law."

The presidential announcement, in other words, was the first step, not the last, and the legal and political disputes that will soon follow are likely to be dramatic. Watch this space.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,962 posts)
47. Federal law allows Trump to control D.C. police only for 48 hours
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:59 PM
Aug 11

trump cannot control D.C. police for more than 48 hours with congressional approval and congress is in recess



https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-congress-dc-police-home-rule

President Donald Trump announced the federal government is taking control of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department. A White House official told NOTUS that the takeover “is expected to last 30 days,” but added that “is subject to change.”

Per federal law, the president can federalize the metropolitan police for 48 hours on his own. To extend that to a maximum of 30 days, the president needs to notify the congressional committees with jurisdiction over Washington, D.C. Anything longer than 30 days has to be authorized by Congress......

The White House has 48 hours from the moment it officially declares control of the D.C. police to notify the four members’ offices. If it fails to do so within that time frame, federal law prohibits the president from keeping control of the department for more than two days.

The politics get more complicated the longer Trump wants to control Washington police. A joint resolution to authorize the federalization of the D.C. police force beyond 30 days would require two-thirds of both chambers to pass, and it’s highly unlikely that Democrats would support it.

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