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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov Newsom warns as Trump moves to take over the California National Guard
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The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moments notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need.
The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery.
This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.

Johonny
(23,781 posts)Over and over
dchill
(42,515 posts)They're brewing martial law. ("Marshall law" for you Republicans.)
ImNotGod
(708 posts)flamingdem
(40,455 posts)and that it would cool down by itself.
What a lot of BS.
TomSlick
(12,440 posts)flamingdem
(40,455 posts)Kind of says something about their competence - or lack of it..
travelingthrulife
(2,499 posts)They must be bored out of their gourds waiting for the random immigrant to meander by.
senseandsensibility
(22,324 posts)"purposely inflammatory".
zorbasd
(416 posts)Trump is getting an authoritarian hardon and testing you to see who has the bigger dick ....your state is slowly being taken over be rogue facsistic elements of the federal government.....CA is his testing ground..
He wants so badly to challenge your authority as governer.....are you just a tough bullshit talker, or walker. We shall see, the time has come for America....
BComplex
(9,442 posts)Of course, trump will just call out the military. It doesn't get more fucked up than this.
flamingdem
(40,455 posts)to distract from the Elon debacle and please the base.
Rinse and repeat!
I guess Newsom can't stop him.
We need 2000 guards for some turned over shopping carts!
Iamscrewed
(361 posts)Krasnov is hunting for a way to use the insurrection act.
Figarosmom
(6,100 posts)This guy trump is in charge because he wants it. It was quite and calm the last four years, trump comes in and boom, it's bad again.
HE LIKES IT THIS WAY, HE GETS TO ACT LIKE MR. TOUGH GUY.
magicarpet
(18,405 posts)Like above said,...
It makes him feel like a tough guy thug alpha male macho man.
Then he runs and puts on his makeup, spritzes some hairspray, then drowns himself in Jean Nate' because he shit his diaper and the odor is rank.
Tarzanrock
(1,000 posts)Newsom will suck up to the Turd because Newsom wants to run for President.
flamingdem
(40,455 posts)But not sure he can do more than talk.
My guess is that Trump is all talk and won't deputize the guard.
DiverDave
(5,111 posts)I don't think that's going to happen.
Jack Valentino
(2,218 posts)chowder66
(10,645 posts)I'm so sick of law enforcement agencies and the military going after people who are trying to protect their constitutional rights and yet they fucking coddle nazi's, white supremacists, anti-choice activists and their domestic terrorists.
Law enforcement agencies need to clean up their fucking houses before trying to tell Americans and law abiding citizens what to do.
The guard should stand with the people and not the fucking criminally riddled agencies.
Tarzanrock
(1,000 posts)DET
(2,037 posts)That looks scary as hell.
flamingdem
(40,455 posts)All bunched up listening to a woman chant?
Jack Valentino
(2,218 posts)moniss
(7,415 posts)declare a national security emergency in California and send in troops. Yes he might lose in court but he may not back down. I think he's gone further around the bend than we even realize. He and Stephen "Himmler" firmly believe there are tens of millions of undocumented people here sucking up benefits and voting. It is an obsession with them.
usonian
(18,098 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160
Alice Kramden
(2,642 posts)K & R
Tarzanrock
(1,000 posts)I said this on another thread. People can take only so much of this illegal Fascist totalitarian shit before they fight back against it.
Tarzanrock
(1,000 posts)all caused by his insane fucked-up economics tariffs policies. That economic mess is quickly spiraling out of anyone's control in his inept administration. Cutting the interest rate is not going to change the downward spiral of his failed economic policies. The next step is martial law to keep control of power as the aggrieved masses of the American people will demand his impeachment and removal from office.
Jack Valentino
(2,218 posts)
Tarzanrock
(1,000 posts)Bring it on! Let's roll.
Jack Valentino
(2,218 posts)been a hell of a long time since I've seen 'Animal House'! Used to have it on VHS...
Tarzanrock
(1,000 posts)Justice matters.
(8,410 posts)while his brainwashed mob was desecrating the Capitol building and threatening to hang his VP...
So NOW he wants them??
Initech
(105,101 posts)That fucking asshole got the martial law scenario he wanted. It's time to fight back with everything we have. This is the tyrannical government we've been hearing about our whole lives. It's here.
Nigrum Cattus
(595 posts)And another reason to deny fed funds to Cali.
Traildogbob
(11,263 posts)up and firing canisters, all decked out in their SEAL outfits.
One of them was about 49 tall. My guess is that was deputized Rittenhouse. Seems we will be paying that murderer to kill more of us.