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      Red states, but they are going to be showing up in the blue cities in those states

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      they’ll start with red states and go after blue counties/cities within them. the conservatives will be fed propaganda about how the liberals are protecting criminals in their own state and blah blah, this will further entrench MAGA and conservatives in general, and resistance will be used to justify spreading the deployment to more states, namely blue ones.

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      Its a power consolidation move.

      One - as other commenter said he’ll go after blue havens in the red states

      Two - it normalizes troops in the street for “his people” leading to greater complacency.

      Three: when the red states don’t balk at the deployments, he can use that as ammo when he sends them to a blue state and they resist.

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      They will hunt immigrants in red states. If blue states start protesting they will be deployed there to fight it. Once it’s normalized they will be deployed anywhere it benefits the government.

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      I assume it’s because he’ll receive the least resistance, or even affirmative assistance, there. Once that’s been normalized he’ll move to do it in blue States and point to his “successes” so far to sell it.

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      Here’s my understanding, though I could have missed something while trying to navigate the law. In order for Trump to be able to pull this with the national guard, he needs the consent and authorization of the Governor. He would never get this from blue states, so I imagine the goal is to have red states hand him free power, then target the blue areas within that state. Once we’ve normalized it a bit, it’s easier to force it on the remaining states.

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      In DC? That is where the most crime is. 1700 people with oaths sworn to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic should start in the White House, then move onto The House of Representatives and then the Senate and Supreme Court.

      Edit. Once that is done, then you can sweep the red states.

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      Workin the mean streets of Salt Lake City, De Moines, Boise, and Cheyenne

      They might even need to bring a water gun

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    I’m getting extremely angry at these fash headlines.

    Chairman Trump is going to trample 19 sovereignties in order to make his tyrannical dreams come true.

    Like fuck, it’s not hard.

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    This is purely for show. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. His bullshit is unscaleable.

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      No shit…

      IT IS 90 per state… what the fuck will it do.

      There are 30,000 police officers in Illinois and about 2500 Police Departments in Texas…

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        The Trump administration reportedly plans to mobilize up to 1,700 National Guard troops across 19 states

        You’re right. I deleted a comment I wrote earlier because I thought I read that wrong but yep, that is across states, not per states. Yeah, the numbers are just half-ass bullshit. Ineffective by design. It’s how he approached building the wall. What they did was a con job, poorly implemented, failing by definition, the work of charlatans.

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        The cost of things. He will bankrupt his own craven ambitions, just like everything else he ever touches. There are already issues along these lines such as he’s spreading National Guard budgets thin, etc. He just doesn’t have the resources he thinks he has. There isn’t a bottomless fund. He overplays his hand on this in every venture.

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          We just gave ICE a hundred billion dollars. I don’t think funding is going to be a problem

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    It is irresponsible, and arguably downright evil to uncritically regurgitate what the dictator says in your headlines, The Dependent. Fuck you, you’re part of the problem.

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      Most of the Independent is owned by Evgeny Lebedev and by Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel. To the extent that it has an editorial point of view at all, it aims not to offend oligarchs and Saudi royals.

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    Where are the trump/Epstein documents and why aren’t journalists asking him about these every single day?