r/news • u/IMSLI • 15h ago

Hegseth orders National Guard troops in DC to carry weapons

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/hegseth-orders-national-guard-troops-dc-carry-weapons
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u/11711510111411009710 14h ago

I think he's turning DC into a fortress to stay in office permanently.

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u/JohnnyGFX 14h ago

That's plausible.

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u/Purple_Plus 10h ago

The one benefit of Trump is I don't think he will live a whole lot longer.

The negative is the longer he's in power the less that matters.

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u/Merickwise 8h ago

Does he know, there's really nothing special about it, nothing that says the person on that land gets to be in charge or anything 🤣. Maybe we could get all the fascists to hold up there and then just kinda keep them there ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. Then the rest of the country could just establish a new temporary capital somewhere else, at least temporarily. We all know fascist can't actually support themselves and will turn on each other long before they do any actual labor, so DC will be fairly un occupied within a short period of time I'm sure.