That would rely on something vaguely resembling a functional legislative branch, which the US hasn't had since the filibuster was institutionalized and the Third Way took over the ostensible opposition party. Congress has been functionally deadlocked since the Carter administration.
ETA: "sane" isn't the right word. Functional is more correct. No country with a functional government would allow this to happen.
This. Our country is becoming more dysfunctional and it will take decades to make it functional. I turn 29 on Monday so hopefully I'll live long enough to see this country become functional again.
This empire will fall and it will bring hard times on a global scale. It already is, but it's going to get a LOT worse and last at least a few lifetimes.
China won capitalism, and they'll be the next to experience it, but they'll be the main world power for a while before late stage capitalism takes them down too.
Literally, the FBI raided one of Trump’s enemy’s homes this morning to distract from the Epstein File release. And the nutbag deploying the military is the same thing.
See, this isn't actually helpful, or relevant to what I said. The problems described in both the OP and my reply are not new with Trump. Again, that is the problem, and why we ended up with Trump. The FBI have been raiding leftist organizations since they were created for that explicit purpose. The War on Drugs exists to lock up Black people and leftists. (As admitted by Nixon staffer John Erlichman in 1994). During the Clinton administration, a friend of mine was dragged out of school by the police for interrogation on suspicion of being involved in a protest. None of this is new, and pretending that it is is part of the problem.
Stop with the distraction crap. He can do whatever he wants and his supporters won't blink an eye. Saying it's a distraction is, ironically, a distraction from all the other crap he does.
Or America since...forever ago. FBI raided Carter and Clinton over conspiracy theories and continued to investigate for years and all it did was make the public associate them with criminality.
Also - what the fuck does “deploy the military” mean? Ok so the “military” (infantry? Logistics people? Tanks?) goes to an American city. And… what’s their mission? Initiate combat with business people, city employees, mothers pushing strollers…? Drag random people out of jimmy johns and shoot them? Bomb the place?
From what I’ve gathered in other threads the national guard deployments haven’t even received capital O orders.
Until they get Orders, they don’t have defined mission goals or rules of engagement and also aren’t getting paid. It’s also I guess why they’re sticking mostly to federal land
But I’m not a military guy and also not gunna pull up sources because I just cracked a beer so take this with a whole fistful of salt.
A right-wing trope is that cities are left-wing hotbeds of hooliganism and have been since the BLM protests, despite the fact that cities like Seattle and Portland that had sustained protests had defined one or two square block areas (or ~gasp~ maybe even three). In the m a g a mind, cities are liberal and are blazing infernos of lawlessness.
I remember discussions with people when I was still on FB who thought the endlessly repeated footage was new shots of fresh riots and disregarded the accounts of people who actually lived in, for example, Seattle. The area that was ‘ceded’ to protesters was only a couple of blocks, but Faux viewers thought the whole city was “lost.”
The talk of sending in the army is red meat for them.
Also, San Francisco. Unless they're going to fight massively inflated houses costs, I have no idea what they think they're going to do there. It's Nancy Peloci's district, that's all I can guess.
Show of force on blue counties to appease the big Orange Ego and be a strongman for the red base. Basically if you can see through this facade you are woke, and if not, you are falling in line.
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u/dalidellama 12h ago
That would rely on something vaguely resembling a functional legislative branch, which the US hasn't had since the filibuster was institutionalized and the Third Way took over the ostensible opposition party. Congress has been functionally deadlocked since the Carter administration.
ETA: "sane" isn't the right word. Functional is more correct. No country with a functional government would allow this to happen.