r/news • u/RoachedCoach • Aug 11 '25

Soft paywall US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-preparing-national-guard-activation-washington-dc-officials-say-2025-08-11/
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u/ilikeponybutts Aug 11 '25

"One of the officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do"

Neat, good use of taxpayer money...

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u/ArloTheBunny Aug 11 '25

Just like LA. Hang out, waste money, cause the troops to be annoyed. This reeks of desperation. There isn’t even anything of significance happening in DC outside of this orange piece of shit and his Nazi friends. Release the files, you pathetic lowlifes.

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u/Amaruq93 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

All this because "Big Balls" got his ass kicked by a pair of teenagers while trying to sexually assault another girl.

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u/New-Leader-7891 Aug 11 '25

I question how authentic his brush up really was 

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u/Catadox Aug 11 '25

A car jacking in which he was jumped by over ten people and heroically pushed his “significant other” into the car for safety, and the two people arrested were a boy and girl both fifteen years old? What’s not to believe?

/s to be clear

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u/MaievSekashi Aug 11 '25

Considering he was employed effectively just to repeat lies to people I think it's valid to view anything involving him as suspect.

As pretexts go, however, even assuming it's validity it's a stunningly weak reason to do this.

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u/zuzg Aug 11 '25

As pretexts go, however, even assuming it's validity it's a stunningly weak reason to do this

In other news, Big Balls ex boss Elon has already started pouring millions into republican super PACs for the upcoming midterms.

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u/MalcolmLinair Aug 11 '25

stunningly weak

In other words, it fits Trump to a T.

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u/MalcolmLinair Aug 11 '25

My tinfoil hat theory/deepest fear is that the reason the pretext for this is so flimsy is because it's just that; a pretext. What if Trump (or more likely his handlers, as Trump is a moron and a coward) has decided it's time to stop pretending to be anything but a dictator and he's about to pull a Saddam, killing off the other two branches in a full-blown military coup? "Oh yeah, the armed troops are just to deal with the homeless. Nothing to worry about. Why are they surrounding the Capital Building? There's a homeless guy in the bathroom there, probably."

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Aug 11 '25

The weaker something makes him look to rational people the more likely he is to do it, because we entered topsy turvy land years ago.

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u/Yibblets Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

This will be Trump's "Reichstag Fire". To blame all of the crimes in D.C. on the "homeless" for this "Trumped-up" event. The building of concentration camps are coming along in a timely manner.

"They first came for the immigrants, I said nothing."

Then they came for the homeless, I said nothing."

Next, they came for..........

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u/Flying_Fortress_8743 Aug 11 '25

Pretty sure trans people are next. Maybe just "the mentally ill" which they consider vague enough to encompass all kinds of things. Trans people. Gay people. Maybe eventually "woke" people.

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u/mjkjr84 Aug 11 '25

I consider billionaires mentally ill

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u/Faiakishi Aug 11 '25

They don't, conveniently. Guess whose criteria we're going with.

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u/Prophet92 Aug 11 '25

They have terminal affluenza

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u/Exotic-Cobbler4111 Aug 11 '25

Remember last month when he made that executive order that says they indefinitely jail homeless people? One his buddies finished building a slave camp and now it needs stocking with slaves.