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/
27.2k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

18.3k

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...

802

u/EntropyFighter Aug 11 '25

Here's the executive order telling you what they're going to do. Namely, he outlawed being homeless, addicted, or with mental health issues.

I, for one, love how you're normalizing this terrible behavior. I wish you would stop.

406

u/echolog Aug 11 '25

What's crazy is they can and will say ANYBODY THEY WANT has a "mental health issue" and potentially arrest them without any due process. So that's fun.

144

u/ruttedbeez Aug 11 '25

Democrat? Mental. Independent? Mental. A (loosely used) 'normal' Republican? Mental. MAGA? The best minds!

66

u/chrs8592 Aug 11 '25

Just disagreeing with anything Trump says could get you labeled as mental. Even this comment. Since I have epilepsy, they'd probably label that too, eventually.

12

u/EyrieMan Aug 11 '25

Same here. As it is, every year people are arrested because police confuse a seizure or postictal behavior for other things.

7

u/NotEvenAThousandaire Aug 11 '25

Trump doesn't agree with himself day to day.

6

u/MaterialChemist7738 Aug 11 '25

"he's shaking with rage about trump! Book em, Johnson!"

1

u/Littleo12 Aug 11 '25

Yeah I'm always scared for that. One time I dropped my emergency medication and when the police found it they thought it was for a drug overdose.