Pentagon official confirms plan as House minority leader Jeffries says president is ‘playing’ with Americans’ lives
Planning is underway to send national guard troops to Chicago, an official at the Pentagon confirmed to ABC News on Sunday.
“We won’t speculate on further operations. The Department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel,” a Department of Defense official said, according to ABC.
Earlier on Sunday, Hakeem Jeffries, House minority leader and New York Democratic congressman, said Donald Trump has “manufactured a crisis” to justify sending federalized national guard troops into Chicago next, over the heads of local leaders.
Why aren’t all blue controlled states viewing this as an act of war? The federal government is literally invading states against the states’ will. First LA, then DC, now Chicago? Where the fuck is the line drawn?
Politicians waiting for the public to get riled up. Public waiting for the politicians to start something. Classic bystander effect at work.
I notice a lot of people on lemmy shaming others for not doing anything while they themselves clearly aren’t doing anything either
Depends. Are they American to begin with? If not, the rest of us are just watching this particular shitstorm, if you don’t mind.
The weird thing is, is that the people criticizing the people who criticize those not doing anything are themselves not doing anything either. Not an American btw. It’s bystanders all the way down!
I assume the majority aren’t Americans.
But they tend to assume whoever they’re talking to is American
They’ll draw the line when it’s too late to stop it
What are the national guard going to do? What do you think they’re going to do? They’re there to provoke and instigate, they’ll lay around in public buildings and twiddle their thumbs and life will go on as normal.
It’s questionably an invasion, but they aren’t going to actually do anything because that would require someone to give the orders to do something, and the GOP is spineless as shit when it comes to putting their names on things.
They want to illicit a response, let them waste their time.
Ummm, how about it’s setting a super fucked up precedent? Even if they don’t do anything, it should absolutely not be something that’s tolerated and normalized to have armed military roaming our streets.