The Trumpists seem to have gotten what they wanted: a protest where they can call out the troops and have them bust heads. Here’s a thread about the legality of the whole thing from an expert.

This is a breaking news story, and how it’s going to shake out is still up in the air. I think we all knew it was in the cards. I don’t have anything smart or wise or incisive to say about it. This is what a good part of the nation voted for, and a lot of Trump’s base will be gratified to see the browns, blacks and libs hurt by the National Guard.

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Sepideh M1 year ago

Someone please tell the jerks in the White House to go work on their Big Beautiful Bill and cut out this nonsense. Take away Trump's stupid parade too.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Accompanied by a fierce work of art:

"With you in spirit, LA. ❤️ from Portugal."

https://bsky.app/profile/tanzpunk.bsky.social/post/3lr2cpodotc2z

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law a bill Monday that gives the governor authority to limit other states’ National Guard troops from deploying in Washington.

https://bsky.app/profile/seattletimes.com/post/3lneg7r57ax2w

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Marmot Pimpernel 1 year ago

This makes me think of that Wecomefest extravaganza yesterday extolling “moderate” Dems, and how once again they’ve kicked themselves in the balls. Just like with the Iraq War, but more quickly.

I mean, are they still gonna try to be middle of the road about whether the US should round up immigrants and deport them? Now that it’s clearly—not that it wasn’t before, c’mon!—a pretext for official bigotry and thuggery? Gonna just call out half the Marines on peaceful protesters?

The problem with never having principles is that when shit goes wrong, as it does predictably in these circumstances, you cannot say “see, doing the right thing was best all along.”

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Sepideh M1 year ago

They absolutely are.

Watch the stupid things they are asking Kat Abughzaleh on the "libera" MSNBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWNA0hwOPPA

Most of the panelists are just selling that we need stronger border protections when things were generally fine, and no one wants to do without their cheap labor.

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Scott H1 year ago

Dems have been leaking working class support for a decade across all ethnic demographics (not just white as the trench coat glibs at the other blog always reframe it) because they're seen as out of touch elitists & their response was to put the most ultraviolet white elitist yuppy faux-wonks out front as their AstroTurf "thought" leaders https://x.com/LoiteringIsGood/status/1904234182358011931

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Sepideh M1 year ago

It looks like Maxine Waters is down there.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Eddie Smith brings the receipts for Krusty Gnome when she spoke of federalizing the NG on the Dems' watch:

"The original post is still up, but I took a screenshot just in case the puppy killer decides to delete it."

https://bsky.app/profile/eddsmitty.bsky.social/post/3lr4axqx66c2g

There is always a tweet!

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

erinscafe on Bluesky:

"It sounds like some people are saying you shouldn’t protest because it plays into Trump’s hand and I’m not really sure what they think sitting at home is doing"

As well, Adam Kinzinger has most def not covered himself in glory today. Not gonna quote that fucking guy this time.