More: The force would be made up of about 600 National Guards troops, half of which would be based on military bases in Alabama and Arizona, ready at all times to fly into any given city or state to lay down Trump's law. They'd have military-style weapons and riot gear, would dispatch from their bases in waves of 100 soldiers, and would cycle out after 90 days to "limit burnout."

Bread and circuses without the bread.

Will they be crucifying immigrants at this gladiator even or just feeding them to lions?

Many on "the left" are/were the military. I know more left leaning vets than I do MAGA vets. None of the Marines I keep in touch with from my old squadron are happy about what Trump is doing. One works at the VA and he had to switch jobs and work locations to avoid getting DOGEd and let me tell you, that Kentucky redneck is more anti-Trump than many of the people that post on this site that you call leftists.

More: Sure. The murder rate has been improving here recently. But the violent crime rate in D.C. is at a 30-year-low, and you are still helping them. So why not us?

Our situation is worse than numbers suggest. Our top cop, Attorney General Alan Wilson, has declared it is legally OK for men to get into a road rage incident, chase down the man they'd argued with for nine miles, get into a shootout and claim self-defense.

Not only that. A police department official in Horry County, one of our largest counties, helped the shooters afterward and one told the other the official had told him to "just be thankful that he wasn't Black."

Horrific. Just horrific.

You read that right, sir. Wilson has made it more likely for hot heads wielding guns to shoot at each other on our roads.

Sir, we are already a top 10 state for gun deaths. Save us like you're saving D.C.

Only seven states have a violent crime rate worse than ours.

Our homicide rate is nearly double the national average. Our aggravated assault rate is well above the national average " higher than that in the nation's capital. We are in the top 12 states for property crime. We suffer a high rate of drug overdoses, a scourge I know you are fighting by considering sending the U.S. military after Mexican drug cartels.

One analyst said aggravated assault, robbery, and murder "are common" here.

Our rate of rape is about the same as D.C's.

South Carolina's violent crime rate is higher than most blue states.

It's just not fair for you to be more concerned with the safety of residents of cities who voted against you than for residents who have repeatedly voted for you in overwhelming numbers!!

Sorry, sir, for sounding angry. I never want to disrespect a great man who has done so much good for this great nation. I just want fellow South Carolinians protected.

Even Rep. Nancy Mace, one of your most obedient foot soldiers, says it's too dangerous.

"In South Carolina, criminals are treated like victims " and victims like criminals," she recently tweeted in reference to disgusting dog fighting. "The attorney general is afraid to fight crime. He won't prosecute murder. He won't prosecute rape," Mace said in response to Wilson's declaration about self-defense laws, echoing criticisms he has denied as the two candidates embark on gubernatorial campaigns in South Carolina. "He won't prosecute human trafficking. He won't prosecute pedophiles."

I don't know how much longer we can hold on in a lawless, violent hellhole like this.

Only you can save us. I know we were the first state to secede from the union to try and destroy the United States. But that was so long ago. Send in federal troops. Now.

Please.

Sincerely, A proud (terrified) South Carolina native

We're going to lose the best and brightest of our military troops as they chose to leave the service rather than attack Americans. What's left afterwards will be terrifying.

More: Concerning as that seems, Guardsmen I spoke to regard the deployment as pointless political theater. (California Guardsmen made the same point to me about their deployment earlier this summer.)

"Huge waste of time and money when their focus is [supposed to be] saving money," a DC National Guard source told me.

If the nearly half dozen Guardsmen I've spoken to about the deployment are at all representative, frustration with the order is widespread. (The memo I obtained, along with other details, leaked almost immediately.) As in the case of Los Angeles, the soldiers seemed most incensed by how performative and unnecessary they saw the mission as. This opposition apparently led some but not all Guardsmen to decline other requests to deploy voluntarily.

"I said no immediately because it's like signing up for the Gestapo," the Guard source said. "But I'm sure people will volunteer because they need the money or benefits from being on orders over 30 days."

More: Trump's mouthpiece justifies it this way: "President Trump is rightfully enlisting his emergency powers to quickly rectify four years of failure and fix the many catastrophes he inherited from Joe Biden " wide open borders, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, radical climate regulations, historic inflation, and economic and national security threats posed by trade deficits."

Unpack that for a second. A failed previous presidency, wars fought by other countries in other countries, subsidies for green energy, 2.7 percent inflation, and a trade deficit not much different than in the past few decades: if this amounts to a "national emergency," then an emergency is a permanent condition, and the president can rule by fiat from here on out. And so here we are: with the Congress a sad rubber-stamp to the mad king, and with the lower-court checks on him stayed by SCOTUS, which is taking its own sweet time to adjudicate.

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The question, it seems to me, is how Trump might respond to a real SCOTUS setback, or to a House he doesn't totally control. And the answer to that we already know: he will assault the court's legitimacy, threaten the Justices with mob violence, refuse to end the tariffs, and " of course! " claim the 2026 elections are rigged. The same, I think, applies to his term limits. He will attempt to defy them along the lines of his beloved thug-tyrant, Bukele. And if that open assault on a clear Constitutional amendment doesn't fly, which may be a stretch even for MAGA vandals, it still won't be over.

If a Democrat wins in 2028, Trump will call the election rigged and illegitimate, and will re-stage 2020 on behalf of a successor " with the full weight of the federal government behind him. If a Republican wins, Trump will remain POTUS the way Putin stayed president after making Medvedev "president" in 2008. Trump is an instinctual tyrant, and once those characters have tasted raw, arbitrary power, as he has, they can never let go. He must either have a family member succeed him or a puppet. Don Jr or JD " Trump's Medvedev.

The stain of this will therefore be deep and permanent. It already is. Trump intends to use the 250th celebration next year as a Putin-style glorification of his reign. By then he'll be riding in the Qatari jet that the Senate just allowed him to keep permanently. Tyrants also demand permanent monuments to their glory. So having paved over the Rose Garden, Trump is now intending to add a massive 90,000 square foot gilded ballroom to the White House itself, forever cementing it as a palatial symbol for his new monarchy.

Some ------- kid who also happens to work for Trump got robbed trying to buy coke at 3 AM and all of DC will now pay for it.

He proved himself inept in his first term to anyone that was paying attention.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." " Benito Mussolini

Martial law is the wrong way to combat homelessness.

DC crime is currently at a 30 year low. Just another distraction from the Epstein fiasco at the expense of an entire city.

ThEy'Re WeApOnIzInG tHe DoJ!!!

If you've ever been to Japan or an English village you'd know how ridiculous this is. American pick-ups are simply too big for the streets there.

Another piece of their plan to rig the midterms.

"Trump Threatens Federal Control of DC After House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Epstein files"

FTFY

Still not enough water to cover up the Epstein scandal.

I'd call it career suicide if he actually had a career.

Hey boaz, shut the ---- up.

Sincerely,
Everyone from NC

It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated ...website," the Library of Congress said in a statement posted to social media. "We've learned that this is due to a coding error."

More: "Manufacturing is in recession. Construction is in a deep recession. Transportation and distribution is in recession. Wholesaling is in recession. Retail is holding on by its thumbs, it's very close," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

He believes that as much as a third of the US economy is already effectively in recession.

"The industries that are going to get nailed, they're the kind of working class, low-to-middle income kind of job," Zandi says.

In other words, Trump has succeeded in splitting the US economy in two: while Wall Street and Silicon Valley are booming, the rest of the country is suffering a redneck recession. The working classes who helped Trump return to the White House are now suffering.

"We have an economy with really just one dynamic sector, the tech sector," says Dean Baker, the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), a think tank.

Awesome! Hunting accidents are my favorite kind of accident.

More: Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that federal courts "are not equipped to apportion political power as a matter of fairness, nor is there any basis for concluding that they were authorized to do so."

In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan recognized that a crucial opportunity had been missed. She wrote: "Of all times to abandon the Court's duty to declare the law, this was not the one. The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the Court's role in that system is to defend its foundations. None is more important than free and fair elections. With respect but deep sadness, I dissent."

Bob Phillips, executive director at Common Cause North Carolina, said it was hard to push the argument against partisan gerrymandering to the top of the U.S. judicial system only to have it found to be "nonjusticiable."