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While some of this may be to deflect from Epstein most of it is driven by the knowledge of those in the administration that if in 14.5 months from now the United States is still functioning in the way it historically has in my lifetime that they are likely cooked.  

This is all to hold on to power at any and all costs....you know, what authoritarians do.  

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9 hours ago, ImNotMarkinson said:

i think it is just cro-magnon marketing.  go look at public issue polling on wanting someone that "gets things done" "cuts through red tape" "is a strong leader."  those always poll high.

It’s that, and it’s also a political W for the GOP to make blue state govs and mayors to go on TV and talk about crime rates and policing. 

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On 8/19/2025 at 11:25 PM, DalTxHornFan said:

Yep.  Carjacking is part of our heritage as Americans!  Go for the 80/20!

Yeah, im not reading the next four pages or whatever have been posted since this, but there is a big difference in mobilizing the militia to put down something like the whiskey rebellion and mobilizing the national guard to fight crime that is at a 30 year low and happens to manifest itself in one particular form of crime. 

And I'm not even completely sold on the justification of mobilizing the militia for the whiskey rebellion. We fought a war to rif ourselves of the kind of control that a colonizer uses to take control of the colonists, yet a lot of those same aspects were at issue with the whiskey rebellion. 

And now we are using the militia aka national guard to fight a surge in crime that is actually a statistical low point...

It occurs to me that maybe we shouldn't have passed all those gun control laws that were designed and used to keep undesirable people from bearing arms because it sort of puts some limits on our liberty. 

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5 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Yeah, im not reading the next four pages or whatever have been posted since this, but there is a big difference in mobilizing the militia to put down something like the whiskey rebellion and mobilizing the national guard to fight crime that is at a 30 year low and happens to manifest itself in one particular form of crime. 

And I'm not even completely sold on the justification of mobilizing the militia for the whiskey rebellion. We fought a war to rif ourselves of the kind of control that a colonizer uses to take control of the colonists, yet a lot of those same aspects were at issue with the whiskey rebellion. 

And now we are using the militia aka national guard to fight a surge in crime that is actually a statistical low point...

It occurs to me that maybe we shouldn't have passed all those gun control laws that were designed and used to keep undesirable people from bearing arms because it sort of puts some limits on our liberty. 

It's very literally an infringement of the 2A in that if the president can force a state's militia to act against the wishes of that state - then it is not their militia.

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6 hours ago, Captainant said:

It's very literally an infringement of the 2A in that if the president can force a state's militia to act against the wishes of that state - then it is not their militia.

The president can federalize the guard under Title 10. Eisenhower and Kennedy both did so during integration in Arkansas and Alabama, at a time when both states’ governors opposed desegregation and the use of the guard in that manner.

Title 32 is used when the president asks a state for use of the guard, and states can decline (several did when Trump asked in the 2020 DC deployment). Guard troops perform federal missions under state command and control at the request of the president. That’s how the state guards are in DC right now and how they can perform LE duties without violating the posse comitatus act. 
 

Sending non-federalized troops (Title 10) into a non-consenting state would violate the constitution, but not 2A. It would be one state invading the other. DC is special because it’s a non-state. 
 

 

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25 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Title 32 is used when the president asks a state for use of the guard, and states can decline (several did when Trump asked in the 2020 DC deployment). Guard troops perform federal missions under state command and control at the request of the president. That’s how the state guards are in DC right now and how they can perform LE duties without violating the posse comitatus act. 

DC is a special case in that it has no governor and is not a state - their license plates say "taxation without representation" for goodness sake! A president can request a governor release their state NG resources to the feds, but they still technically answer to their governor first - not president.

The thing is, the person charged with enforcing the law is the person who's breaking it left right and center. When you put a clown in charge of law enforcement as the chief of the executive branch..... It's no surprise it's circuses only and vanishingly little bread even

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2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

DC is a special case in that it has no governor and is not a state - their license plates say "taxation without representation" for goodness sake! A president can request a governor release their state NG resources to the feds, but they still technically answer to their governor first - not president.

The thing is, the person charged with enforcing the law is the person who's breaking it left right and center. When you put a clown in charge of law enforcement as the chief of the executive branch..... It's no surprise it's circuses only and vanishingly little bread even

I don’t disagree with any of this, but it’s just plain fact that the president can federalize national guards over the objections of state governors and not run afoul of 2A. Under Title 10 this is for insurrections, repelling invasions, or if regular law enforcement cannot enforce federal law.

Eisenhower, Johnson, and Kennedy all did this to enforce civil rights. 
 

I don’t see any case where DJT can credibly claim that Title 10 allows him to federalize state guards to do routine law enforcement. 

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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I don’t disagree with any of this, but it’s just plain fact that the president can federalize national guards over the objections of state governors and not run afoul of 2A. Under Title 10 this is for insurrections, repelling invasions, or if regular law enforcement cannot enforce federal law.

Eisenhower, Johnson, and Kennedy all did this to enforce civil rights. 

Those were all actions backed by acts of Congress and signed into law by the president - not unilateral dictations of action from the unitary executive. 

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22 hours ago, ImNotMarkinson said:

i think it is just cro-magnon marketing.  go look at public issue polling on wanting someone that "gets things done" "cuts through red tape" "is a strong leader."  those always poll high.

Who uses a machete to cut through red tape? WIth fingernails that shine like justice?

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Taking over the trains is just jumping the shark now, right? inb4 "at least the trains run on time"

https://apnews.com/article/trump-duffy-union-station-amtrak-management-8c1f5d00ab7591f3f021cf4a9ee8d8e2

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its power over the nation’s capital.

Duffy made the announcement in a statement before he joined Amtrak President Roger Harris at Union Station for the launch of the NextGen Acela, the rail service’s new high-speed train.

The secretary said Union Station, located within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol, had “fallen into disrepair” when it should be a “point of pride” for the city.

“By reclaiming station management, we will help make this city safe and beautiful at a fraction of the cost,” Duffy said.

At the event, Duffy said President Donald Trump has been “pretty clear” about what he wants.

“He wants Union Station to be beautiful again. He wants transit to be safe again. And he wants our nation’s capital to be great again. And today is part of that,” Duffy said.

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8 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Taking over the trains is just jumping the shark now, right? inb4 "at least the trains run on time"

https://apnews.com/article/trump-duffy-union-station-amtrak-management-8c1f5d00ab7591f3f021cf4a9ee8d8e2

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its power over the nation’s capital.

Duffy made the announcement in a statement before he joined Amtrak President Roger Harris at Union Station for the launch of the NextGen Acela, the rail service’s new high-speed train.

The secretary said Union Station, located within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol, had “fallen into disrepair” when it should be a “point of pride” for the city.

“By reclaiming station management, we will help make this city safe and beautiful at a fraction of the cost,” Duffy said.

At the event, Duffy said President Donald Trump has been “pretty clear” about what he wants.

“He wants Union Station to be beautiful again. He wants transit to be safe again. And he wants our nation’s capital to be great again. And today is part of that,” Duffy said.

Great. They're going to tart it up like a Moscow metro stop with a bunch of cheap, spray-painted bling-bling, like what they've done to the White House.

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26 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Taking over the trains is just jumping the shark now, right?

The thing keeps quacking louder and louder, but god forbid we call it a duck 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

Just talk football and stop worrying about such minor concerns.

Football season + Tay Tay engagement is the bread and circuses they’ve been waiting for to distract a population of idiots 

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53 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Football season + Tay Tay engagement is the bread and circuses they’ve been waiting for to distract a population of idiots 

Man, if Tay Tay would only ask where the Epstein Files are.  That'd set the world right again.

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I have never been so glad to live in a small town; nobody is getting either up about Podunksville politics, and sending in the guard to fix"problems". Just sitting on my porch, whittlin, sipping shine, watching the corn grow, and thinking about all those big city problems y'all have.

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On 8/26/2025 at 7:28 AM, TwiceHorn said:

Who uses a machete to cut through red tape? WIth fingernails that shine like justice?

Wearing a short skirt, and a looooooooooooooong jacket?

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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.

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I'm imagining the conversation those guys, walking with garbage bags in that last photo, are having, bitching about leaving their families and jobs 1000 miles away to come to DC and rake leaves, wondering if they'll be home in time for Thanksgiving.

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2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

Of the many, many things that amaze me about this regime and its rise and functionality is the absolute total debasement that otherwise proud and accomplished people (maybe disagree with that, but a senator is a senator, man) are willing to undertake.

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And continue this series ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

That so much of our "leadership" is actually soulless, gelatinous slugs with zero guiding principles other than "I want some power" still shocks naive Brisketexan.

I mean, sure...I want some power.  But it's ALWAYS been so I can use it to accomplish goals driven by my guiding principles and beliefs.  If you told me "Brisket, you can be a senator, and get the cool greeting of 'senator Brisket, your table is ready' at the Old Ebbitt Grill, but you'll have to vote for things you loathe that will hurt a lot of people to get and hold your seat, and you won't be able to accomplish any of the things you actually believe in," I'd fucking decline the offer.  And I LOVE the Old Ebbitt Grill, they have a great oyster selection.  But if I can't use my position to actually help people and serve my values, what's the point?

These spineless slugs?  They'll compromise everything, and turn themselves into knob-gobbling simps, and for what?  Seriously, for fucking what?

 

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8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Of the many, many things that amaze me about this regime and its rise and functionality is the absolute total debasement that otherwise proud and accomplished people (maybe disagree with that, but a senator is a senator, man) are willing to undertake.

You know there was at least one other person at that table thinking, "Dammit, Witkoff, I was going to use the Nobel Prize when it came my turn to kiss Trump's ass!"

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As a private your number one responsibility is policing up every surface of the base. We always joked about getting a mop or buffer cert medal to put next to our rifle and grenade qualification medals.

So seeing these troops on trash patrol makes me embarassed for them.

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Just now, Js1 said:

He wants that Nobel Prize so bad

He is never going to get it

Yet...I'd be willing to give it to him tomorrow, with the greatest fanfare the world has ever seen, in exchange for him immediately resigning from office and shutting his fucking mouth.

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21 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

They are missing the largest piece of trash in the city:

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This looks Commie as fuck.

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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yet...I'd be willing to give it to him tomorrow, with the greatest fanfare the world has ever seen, in exchange for him immediately resigning from office and shutting his fucking mouth.

Fine, BUT, he has to accept it from Obama, via shoving it up Trump's ass

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8 minutes ago, F250 said:

This looks Commie as fuck.

One would be forgiven for assuming that's the Pentagon if one didn't know better.

Nope, that's the Department of Labor.

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7 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

I sure that's happening on a cold April day, when the clock strikes 13 o'clock.

I'll take the alternative as well.

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If it happens soon enough, his death will be one of the most historically significant turning points of the last 300 years.

 

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

He wants that Nobel Prize so bad

He is never going to get it

Well he was pronouncing it as the Noble prize, so maybe he'll get that one.

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15 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

There's nothing more modern American than worshipping an illiterate, obese, rich Russian asset married to a prostitute

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