National Guard from WV, SC and OH Heading to Washington DC

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Three states moved to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation's capital ...

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Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC -- where those states' governors are sending National Guard troops to "combat crime." www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl ...

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-- Philip Bump (@pbump.com) Aug 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM

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#6: What could we have done better in 2024 to prevent this cataclysm? mondoweiss.net

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-18 03:43 AM | Reply

The Army National Guardsmen at national monuments won't be armed; the others could be armed and empowered to detain people, according to the US Army. This would be a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Link: www.usatoday.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-18 04:49 AM | Reply

Release the Epstein Files

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-18 05:00 AM | Reply

"He famously stated, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither."

Benjamin Franklin

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-18 07:18 AM | Reply

Release the Epstein Files.

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-18 07:40 AM | Reply

Meanwhile at the Georgetown University bookstore the line of guardsmen is out the door, all of them seeking Hoyas shirts and caps. At the same time in Southeast DC the only national guard presence is on Oxen Hill road, which is taken from the Beltway to the National Mall, that part of DC being too scary for the out of state visitors to patrol. Anyway the people in Southeast are colored folks ...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-18 07:45 AM | Reply

So, it appears, more for optics and normalization than actually trying to resolve any issue that may exist?

Since they aren't in any high crime areas in DC, yes - this is all for Optics.

House Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana's 4th congressional district has Monroe LA in it - which has a much higher crime rate than D.C. Where's the Federal response?

In the meantime, Jackbooted thugs beat up a Food Truck vendor and arrested him. No ids, no names, wearing masks. Punching the guy in the face while he was on the ground. Refusing to tell anyone who they are. Finally one flashed an "ICE" badge. One of the "officers" was injured (concussion) from the other "ICE" agents scrumming and hitting and wrestling the food truck vendor to the ground.

---- Trump. ---- his administration. ---- the National Guard for not refusing to serve this fascist garbage.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW.

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-18 07:52 AM | Reply

What he is doing is clearing out the homeless encampments that surround and thread their way through all available plots of land surrounding the capital buildings. Beneath all the bridges, inside all the doorways, and overhangs providing the slightest shelter from the sky... you will find an American-born vagabond curled up on makeshift beds. During the daytime... all "the suits" bedazzled with security badges slalom past them on their way to and from work.

When Trumpanzee started painting everything gold... he was just measuring the drapes... to make the place permanent.

Expecting businessmen to agree to peaceful transfer of power after four or eight years... is libertaricl0wn insanity... that was never thought through.

#8 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-08-18 09:12 AM | Reply

-What could we have done better in 2024 to prevent this cataclysm?

Running Biden was a roll of the dice not knowing if he could make it 2 terms.

Then it was decided late in his first term he needed to step aside.....not criticizing these decisions because I didn't have a better one.

Made it much easier for a republican count on low voter turnout and win back some states lost in the last election.

so...not sure what could have been done better in 2024 to prevent this.

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 09:17 AM | Reply

These hick states already send their criminals and homeless drug addicts to our liberal cities so they might as well send their soldiers too. What a crock of ----! Time to divide up the country or at least have the rich cities/states decline to send their tax dollars to the federal government and quit subsidizing these horrid hick states.

#10 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-08-18 10:54 AM | Reply

#16
Tell us, Eb, what might the Republicans have done better in 2024 to prevent this? You know, those who have all the actual power.

Nice of you to tell the Dems what they 'could have done" better, and in so doing, you pretend that everything the Republicans have inflicted on Americans right is all right and proper.

How bout a few lines on What the Republicans could have done that would have been better for America.

You would rather eat a ---------- and wash it down with warmpiss than call out Republicans for destroying America.

#11 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-08-18 11:00 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

-what might the Republicans have done better in 2024 to prevent this?

I already said I don't know what could have done to prevent this. Democrats or Republicans

-Nice of you to tell the Dems what they 'could have done" better,
-you pretend that everything the Republicans have inflicted on Americans right is all right and proper

You're that unhinged you take from 1 post that I've said anything of the kind?

Why are you so angry with me? Did I insult you in some previous life? or....your previous handle? What was it, BTW?

Other than not be a republican...I'm not sure you'd accept any answer as to what republicans can do to please you.

and that diet you recommended......maybe rethink what you're consuming. It can't be good for you.

That and the unhinged rage you're displaying here with no justification whatsoever.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 11:06 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I already said I don't know what could have done to prevent this.
#19 | Posted by eberly

Let me hazard a guess:
You also don't know how all this happened.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 12:35 PM | Reply

Elections are the best explanation for why things happen.

Are you needing some other kind of explanation?

Much like a child needs to understand where rain comes from?

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-18 01:11 PM | Reply

"Elections are the best explanation for why things happen."

That's like saying guns kill people. The gun is the mechanism, that doesn't explain why someone pulled the trigger.

Why'd Republicans fall in love with Trump even harder than Democrats fell in love with Obama?

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-18 01:12 PM | Reply

If elections are manipulated and people are disenfranchised, then Beverly can go ---- herself.

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-19 09:09 PM | Reply