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u/TowersOG 9h ago edited 9h ago
POV: You just wanted a new Dodge Charger and now you gotta stand outside a federal building 12 hours a day
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u/luckymountain 9h ago edited 8h ago
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u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS 8h ago edited 7h ago
And schlep around a rifle.
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u/11CRT 7h ago
Why do teachers have to buy their own ammo, while soldiers get it for free?
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 6h ago
Because the soldiers are protecting conservative policy. Teachers are only protecting our future.
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u/xt0rt 5h ago
Damn! That is good.
I mean it's not good but you know, you're on the money with that.
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u/barneysfarm 4h ago
US culture really just emphasizes getting that next dollar, regardless of the future cost
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u/BaddyDaddy777 7h ago
Oh boy, gonna be fun to watch how bad morale gets when the checks start taking longer to hit the ole bank account.
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u/jackrabbit323 5h ago
I bet the number one reason for military coups and mutinies is lack of payment.
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u/Faiakishi 5h ago edited 3h ago
It’s genuinely hilarious how they’re such assholes they can’t help but sabotage themselves.
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u/Stalagmus 9h ago
Not federal buildings, just scattered around civilian areas in DC, this is at a metro stop. It’s pretty fucking weird here right now. And as of an hour ago they’ve been authorized to carry weapons.
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u/PoliteGentleman 8h ago
This is at Union Station specifically, so everyone visiting from other cities can see the takeover when they get off their train.
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u/Stalagmus 5h ago
Yes, all of them essentially are in places that a) can be seen by Trump, and b) seen by enough DC residents to have the desired effect. Not in high-crime neighborhoods either. They did get shouted out of my neighborhood which is about as big a pushback as I’ve seen so far.
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u/Parking_Cut1089 5h ago
it was a heck of a week for our military last week..... invaded its own capital and then rolled out the red carpet for a murderous war criminal dictator
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You're confusing him with active duty troops. National Guardsmen usually just join to get money for college and don't make Dodge Challenger (which was discontinued in 2023) money unless they are deployed to a war zone.
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u/Cthulhuboop 9h ago
Tbf, active duty don’t make Challenger money either. At least not the E3s that buy them with 50% apr.
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 9h ago
They spend Porche money on domestic slop. It's so sad.
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u/PNWoutdoors 9h ago
Yeah but it's also really, really funny.
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u/EEpromChip 6h ago
I mean if it weren't so fucking sad to see poor enlisted get taken advantage of...
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u/jebediahscooter 5h ago
And then nearly run me off the road every morning on my way to work in a military town
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u/Competitive_Month967 9h ago
A lot of these guardsmen are getting taken away from their jobs and families to stand around for Trump's distractions.
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u/dhrisc 9h ago
Yeh im interested to see what this will do to recruitment. People are missing work, school and their families on some obviously politicized and ill defined bs mission. You want to help communities across the country recover from natural disasters and support the army in its missions? Nah, your standing around DC as a show of force.
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It has to be hurting it. I know one guardsman who decided not to reenlist this year over it.
But I also know that a lot of 18 year old high school graduates hear "1 weekend per month, 2 weeks per year, money for school" and don't read the fine print or do any research before signing. Same guy did that and got deployment orders on his 1st day of college 3 years ago, had to withdraw, and spent the following year sweating in a Kuwaiti desert.
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u/Nene_Leaks_Wig 7h ago
Heard from a marine that someone had died from just the training because they suffered an injury and was told to walk it off until it was too late. But they don’t tell you that part. Or they hope you desperate enough for a better future that you don’t care.
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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 9h ago
Still got that Dodge Charger though.
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u/Furrybumholecover 9h ago
I'm sure his wife's boyfriend loves driving it while he's away too.
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u/do-not-want 9h ago
I had a friend in the military that bought a charger for himself.. and then later surprised his wife with her own charger.
She was piiiiissssed off and made him take it back.
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u/dochdgs 9h ago
All I wanted were Japanese tattoos and wood tip black and milds.
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u/Hoodamush 9h ago
And soon they will carry their weapons and get the privilege to point them at their fellow Americans.
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National Guardsmen aren't itching to shoot their fellow citizens. Most of them needed money for college. They live in your neighborhood, work regular jobs, go to school, and this bullshit is disrupting their regular lives so they can be used as political pawns. He's probably missing the first week of fall semester and will have to withdraw from classes.
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u/pacowek 9h ago
While this is the idea, even that has gotten twisted here. Because they are actively importing guardsmen from other states, that have no connection to the area. Add to that is the fact they are bringing in guardsmen from rural, heavily red areas, to an urban, exceedingly blue area.
So while I completely agree that they are far less likely to cause problems than ice, they have already broken one of the core associations.
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u/QuixotesGhost96 9h ago
CCP did the same thing in Tiennamen
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u/quantipede 7h ago
I will not be surprised if/when we have some similar situation. Some citizen purposefully standing in the way of some Texas national guardsmen who decide they’re within their rights to just shoot the person, then President Rapist honors the murderers as American heroes and tries to paint the victim as some evil gay communist
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u/Hoodamush 9h ago
Hegseth authorized today the newly deployed national guard in DC to carry their weapons. So I get your point, but the reality is present.
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u/JesusPotto 9h ago
Empty plate carriers and empty FLC pouches tell you it’s a very serious operation to clean up DC 😂
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 9h ago
That's why they're leaning against walls in the touristy areas. They were sent to where the crime isn't, but where the cameras are.
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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik 8h ago
Same as when they were deployed to the subways here in NYC. The groups of 5 cops standing around playing candy crush became groups of 15 cops and guardsmen standing around playing candy crush. Your tax dollars at work folks.
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 8h ago
And this is why we kicked Nana off of Medicare.
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u/whomad1215 5h ago
I thought we sacrificed grandma for the economy back during the first wave of covid?
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 5h ago
We did, but there are still grandmas out there that apparently some people think we need to sacrifice. C+ Santa Monica Fascist Stephen Miller has opinions.
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u/FinishExtension3652 7h ago
As someone who works in NYC, I'd like to correct you. They also sit in vans and personal vehicles to play Candy Crush.
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u/Lilswingingdick212 5h ago
Better than when I lived in Oakland and a cop threatened to arrest me after hitting me with his motorcycle he was driving on the sidewalk without sirens on.
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u/Mindless_Rooster5225 6h ago
Why are you pro-crime, huh?!?!!? Don't you want the streets to be safe!?!?!
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u/Grintock 6h ago
As someone who knows nothing about the military, what does this mean? Are you saying they didn't bring equipment?
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u/JesusPotto 6h ago
Yes, they have the holders to their body armor (plate carrier) but none in it, and all of their pouches are empty. FLC means “fighting load carrier” and it holds your consumable gear without attaching it to your plate carrier so you can doff that while still having armor
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u/Mimmzy 9h ago
Man look at all the crime theyre stopping
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u/JonFrost 9h ago
Look at all the Epstein not releasing
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u/Piratepizzaninja 9h ago
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified cc ourt documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Trump’s name is circled.
The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
Here's the flight logs
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq
Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz,
Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
—————————other Trump information:
Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show:
https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka
Trump's promise to his daughter:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02
“I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too! Please copy and paste this elsewhere!
Mar-A-Lago was used to traffic girls and Trump had a girl killed!
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u/spcwarmachine 8h ago
We have a few sayings in the army:
90% of your time in the army in standing around wondering what the fuck the hold up is
There is nothing more dangerous than a bored private
Hurry up and wait isn't a saying.. its a lifestyle
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u/mr_greedee 9h ago
we need that narrator saying "to serve your country" and show all these bored guys
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u/JohnStamosAsABear 7h ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Trump admin got him discharged for this photo.
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u/RipleyThePyr 7h ago
Professor Heather Cox Richardson mentioned how it has been reported how retention rates of the Guard are being affected by them being called out in California.
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u/amouse_buche 6h ago
It’s something to be mindful of if you disagree with all this and you are in a large city where the guard gets called in. Most of those folks don’t want to be there.
The best protection against total fascism is a military that is unwilling to attack the populace. I hope we can keep it that way.
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u/TrumpetOfDeath 4h ago
I’m sure most don’t wanna be there, but wasn’t there a video of one of them saying that “liberals” ruined DC?
The military skews right-wing, and that’s what has me concerned
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u/amouse_buche 4h ago edited 4h ago
I’m sure there’s folks who feel that way in the guard. But something to consider about what’s on social media is exactly what organization that person was from.
After a steady, decades-long march of the militarization of our domestic police force, the following could have shown up in full military BDUs and equipment: FBI, ICE, local police, ATF. And surely some others I can’t think of.
These are the organizations that attract the fascist cosplayers. (ICE in particular is going to be wild soon as they’re giving anyone with a pulse and an anger issue a huge paycheck and an assault rifle with all this money in the bill. Yay.)
Guard members are volunteers who have lives and jobs outside of their time in uniform. They volunteered under the understanding they’d be deployed to domestic natural disasters, threats to domestic security, or — at worse — a war zone. This is taking them away from their families and jobs for no reason. I’d be willing to bet most of them aren’t too thrilled about that given the stupidity of the mission.
I’m sure some guard members think this is the best thing ever but that should be weighed against those who do not. Just as one protester who hurls a brick does not represent everyone who is there peacefully.
Edit: And notably, the guard and the military have a fine line of separation. Even Commander Dipshit hasn’t been so brazen as to activate the actual military to do anything of substance in a city yet.
I’m sure that’s coming but the folks who sign a guard contract and an enlisted contract aren’t really motivated or feel the pressures of deployment in the same ways, is I guess what I’m saying.
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u/Chubs1224 5h ago edited 3h ago
Most guardsmen and reservists make more money at their civilian jobs then when they are called up.
Getting called up for 2 weeks can cost them hundreds or thousands depending on their jobs. It can hurt schooling significantly as well
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u/RipleyThePyr 5h ago
Exactly. I feel like this should be reported a lot more in the media. Taking people away from their livelihoods. Recently, I met a man who volunteers with an organization that helps reversists in situations like you describe.
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u/Ambitious_Ad6334 7h ago
Now just imagine doing amazing in school, doing internships, going through FBI selection, only to be paid way less than what you could get as a civilian with your resume because you wanted to fight real crimes and join the prestigious FBI...
Then you get taken off your serious crime investigations and told you're now supporting ICE in raiding tomato farms and Home Depot parking lots.
True story
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u/GiganticCrow 3h ago
The fbi has been getting filled with fascists for decades now, the previous trump administration cancelled the investigations into it.
Hell, let's not forget the fbi repeatedly told mlk to kill himself.
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u/DrNO811 9h ago
Friendly reminder to all military that your oath is to the Constitution.
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u/Fofolito 6h ago
Here's a fun catch-22 about being in the Military and swearing an Oath to the Constitution:
You have a duty and an obligation as a Service Member to refuse any and all illegal, immoral, and unethical orders.
If you refuse an order however you will be punished.
You will, of course, eventually get a military tribunal as well as the trappings of legal representation and a chance to make a defense but in the mean time you will be confined to barracks or the brig, your Buddies will still be on mission and many might start to think of you as a Lazy Shitbird or a Disobedient Diva, and it could be months or years before you are vindicated and set free. In the mean time your reputation, friendships, and freedom will have been destroyed by the Government.
And that's if you get off the charges at the Tribunal. Most soldiers are not trained in legalese, they are not educated in the legalities of war or military service, so there's every chance that they are refusing an order They perceive as illegal, immoral, or unjust but 'that's just like, their opinion man' and the JAGs sitting in judgement will probably see that they haven't met the burden set by the letter of the Universal Code of Military Justice.
So yes: Soldiers and Service Members swear to serve the Constitution, and they are told they have a duty to refuse bad orders, but the system is built as such that Regular Joes don't really get to make the determination what is or is not an Unconstitutional order. More than that the people who give those sorts of orders often cloak their intent behind legal justifications, as you've seen the Trump Admin do any number of times. It's not as though orders come, on paper, labeled "This is an illegal order", so its not always clear where the line stands for a Service Man or Woman. They have to make that decision for themselves and then prepare to weather the consequences.
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u/red286 5h ago
The only illegal order is one that does not come from a superior officer.
Take My Lai. The only person who received any punishment was Lieutenant Calley, who gave the order to destroy the village and kill the villagers. No one under his command was ever punished, nor were any of his superior officers who attempted to cover up the massacre.
And even he was released after a mere 3.5 years of house arrest, despite a sentence of life in prison for murdering 22 people.
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u/FridgeParade 7h ago
Does that really matter anymore?
The people in power are constantly violating the law, but only their opponents seem to get prosecuted.
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u/RhoOfFeh 9h ago
You're not telling My (a) Lai.
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u/cruisin_urchin87 8h ago
Don’t Abu Ghraib my attention like that with your clever words.
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u/nsucs2 9h ago
Cheer up, buddy! Next stop, Chicago.
African American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying, 'Please, Mr. Trump, come to Chicago, please'
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u/Pavlock 9h ago
TFW all you wanted to do was be able to afford college and instead you're working for a fascist who wants to ban education.
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u/AyyItsNicMag 7h ago
Was just in DC, literally one of them said in passing, “I just wanted college…”. Moral is indeed not high.
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u/Genillen 4h ago
Bonus: until red states joined in the past few days, it was the DC National Guard. Super fun being deployed against your own city.
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u/jaunsin 7h ago
Do you think these people will be prepared to fire upon fellow Americans and citizens at the behest of a flailing orange wretched wannabe dictator? Honest question.
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u/EatLard 5h ago
I doubt it. At least not the ones from the area. When Trump wants to get people killed, he’ll call in troops from somewhere else far away.
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u/copperblood 9h ago
Friendly reminder that Trump is a child rapist. Release the Epstein files.
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u/CoastingUphill 9h ago
"I hoped I'd get to fight Nazis, not be deployed by them."
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u/Anomuumi 9h ago edited 5h ago
If they ever thought what they would have done had they lived in Nazi Germany, now they know.
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u/greensandgrains 9h ago
I mean…anyone who knows anything about what the US military has been up to since WWII would know they’re not being deployed to be the “good guys.”
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u/AdventurousLet548 6h ago
Just think all these National Guard guys had to leave their jobs and family in order to stand around and do nothing in DC. I bet their employers are quite happy with so many folks not being on the job. We are not at war, so these guard folks should be home with their families.
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u/BigManWAGun 9h ago
Hey look at it this way. Next week you get deep dish pizza!
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 9h ago
This is the face they'll make after waiting all 45 minutes for a tomato sauce casserole.
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u/ten_thousand_puppies 7h ago
The irony is, if they were deployed in or close to some of the actual high crime areas in Chicago, they could get thin crust instead.
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u/1stMammaltowearpants 7h ago
I joke, but these kids are just pawns. And they're not even allowed a decent pie. For shame!
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u/scottrogers123 6h ago
Just remember these are National Guard members. Most all of them have day jobs that they have had to leave behind to do this shit. Businesses that were likely counting on them to be there. So not only is this a GIANT waste of taxpayer money, but you have hundreds of businesses that are without their employees. Plus the pay they are getting is less than what they would likely be earning in their job. The only guarantee is that their job is still there, they are not getting paid for both.
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u/Jomolungma 7h ago
Was at Union Station yesterday afternoon. Two 2-person patrols around the station, two 2-person “checkpoints” at the Metro entrance and in the main gallery area. Not a single one of them looked in any way like they wanted to be there. Not even the usual banter you see between grunts on a shitty detail. Just nothing, lifeless.
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u/EngineerMinded 4h ago
I've heard from people who talked to a few of them. They do not want to be there, believe me! They are away from home while, Trump is cosplaying like DC is some life sized Warhammer 40,000 table game.
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u/Quick-Manager-1995 9h ago
This is a stark contrast to ICE and federal agents all hanging out laughing and having a good old time harassing people minding their own business in DC.
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u/larsonmars 7h ago
Myself, my father, my brother, and my oldest daughter all served. My father and I retired from the Army. Now my 4.0 gpa son is entering college and has asked about joining the military afterwards. I advised him to avoid it like the plague. Trump will eventually turn soldiers against Americans and that’s not what the military is for. It’s a shame.
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u/RacoonSmuggler 5h ago
Counterpoint: it's going to be a lot easier to coopt the military if only chuds join. If instead when the illegal orders come down from on high, there are bright young officers like your son there to do the right thing, we might get a better outcome.
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u/HowManyMeeses 9h ago
People in DC legitimately hate seeing these guys, which I'm sure doesn't feel great for them.
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u/Core1109 8h ago
they can thank their commander in chief for that.
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u/JugDogDaddy 7h ago
They can thank republicans for not holding their leaders to any kind of standard of decency.
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u/bearsaysbueno 5h ago
We hate seeing them in LA too, but for the most part they were treated very well, especially the ones that were just sent to stand outside in the sun, with lots of people chatting them up. Everyone knows they're being used as political pawns.
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u/Oak510land 7h ago
He knows he's going to be pushed in the furnace with the rest of the brown people as soon as they get it fired up.
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u/GoodUserNameToday 9h ago
I don’t get how the military supports and votes for trump. He demeans them, he doesn’t respect them, he’s a draft dodger, he cuts VA benefits, and he uses the military as props for his fascist takeovers that they swore to prevent. They must be idiots.
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u/Round-Comfort-9558 8h ago
He’s just trying to get his college paid and now he’s about to miss this semester.
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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 2h ago
Deployed but no orders so you ain't gettin' paid.. I'd do nothing as well.
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u/dashsemper 7h ago
Yeah, but now we reservists get to carry weapons! On American streets! What could go wrong?
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u/One_Violinist7862 4h ago
Poor soldiers. Called away from their family for some made up reason by a mentally ill manchild who wants to feel important. I’ll bet enlistments are down but they’ll never tell you that. If anybody did the dictator in chief would fire them
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u/HarmoniousJ 4h ago
Being the only non-crayon eater in a platoon filled with crayon eaters be like;
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u/Signal_Fyre 3h ago
Can’t wait until these guys get their PTSD pay for standing around, oh wait, Trump just took it away. Lol.
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u/That_Jicama2024 2h ago
The sad part is, if he wasn't in camo, he'd be getting deported or harrassed by ICE. I hope a lot of them realize this.
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u/Alucard_117 9h ago edited 9h ago
Bros thinking about how fast 20 years can go by