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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, August 29, 2025

The Atlantic: Even the men and women of the National Guard seemed flummoxed, at times, over what exactly they were supposed to be doing in the nation's capital. ... Their mission is ostensibly to stop violent crime, but many here and beyond fear that Washington is being used as a test case--the blueprint for Trump to deploy the National Guard across the country as a paramilitary police force--and that Americans are being conditioned to accept authoritarianism.

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There is also the concern that the Guard is not actually making much of a difference. To wit: On Wednesday around 3 p.m.--less than a week after Trump declared on social media that "Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN!"--a woman was stabbed near a major intersection along the city's H Street corridor. Guard members had been passing through the intersection all day, and a trio happened to be finishing lunch on the patio of a taqueria directly across the street when the stabbing happened. Still, the suspect managed to flee.

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authoritarianism can only be stopped by doing everything vocal minority leftists dictate.

#1 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-08-29 08:20 PM | Reply

Deflectors To Maximum!

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-29 08:22 PM | Reply

Why are the guardsmen in DC? Let me make a list:
-pick up trash on the Mall
-keep up business at local Starbucks and chipotle stores
-avoid parading in Southeast DC
-draw pay from their home state governments
-make sure Der Dotard has a woody every time he looks at them

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-29 08:38 PM | Reply

- distract from PedoGate

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-29 08:46 PM | Reply

- distract from PedoGate
#4 | Posted by Corky

Yep.

#5 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-08-29 10:33 PM | Reply

EasyMeat is an appropriate alias choice for the defender of a treasonous rich pedo con artist con man

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-29 11:10 PM | Reply

Presence.

I can't believe how dumb you Lumpers are.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-29 11:25 PM | Reply

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