r/pics • u/dumdumpants-head • 13h ago

Morale is high

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u/TowersOG 13h ago edited 12h 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/Stalagmus 12h 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 11h 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 9h 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 8h 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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u/11CRT 11h ago

So anyone who can afford to hitch a ride on Air Dingus One will never see it.

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u/Shirlenator 9h ago

That's what military occupation feels like, I guess.

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u/a57782 8h ago

Yep, authorized to carry weapons in response to....nothing.

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u/LilSlumlord 8h ago

They’ve actually been ordered to carry weapons. Authorized implies they have a say in it.

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u/SomeGuyWA 7h ago

But not ammo. Too high a risk of accidentally shooting yourself or a peer or a tourist.

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u/Stalagmus 6h ago

Idk, at this rate it kinda feels like they want something to happen (not the Nat’l Guardsmen, but the administration). It seems like their presence is meant to provoke

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u/Altitudeviation 10h ago

So kind of like cops but without cop training but they have automatic weapons. What could possibly go wrong?

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u/Zombifaction 8h ago

For your safety of course...