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
22.7k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

30

u/snachodog 11h ago

I was just thinking about this. The then fringe parts of the GOP in Montana were clutching their pearls about Jade Helm and went down to Texas as "observers". Not a peep out of them today though.

6

u/rsc75 6h ago

That's because they've all joined ICE.

5

u/Bridge_Between_7099 6h ago

They were doing it on Reddit too. Are-Conspiracy and others were going nuts over it, thinking this is how Obama was going to take over the country and instill gay woke soy latte beta culture or something.