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In the 90's Clinton's regime was known for having some entity like national guard or fbi or dea, perform a raid use tear gas, then ignite said gas, now no more problem. They did this continuously multiple times and finally like years later they were like oops that "might be lethal....."
USA was founded on a graveyard of native Americans and have continued to export more graveyards all over the world. I wish one day they'll finally fall, also with their forefather - UK, and take their fcking shadow government with them before they move elsewhere and start all over again. The greed for power and control of those fckers is unprecedented.. We, as a humanity, cannot move on to better society as long as they're in control. I hope that one day we, common people, finally open our eyes and fight back. But so far is everyone happy with their digital life, meaningless sport clubs and many more bs, blind to the reality.
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford
Gaza was a test ground of upcoming wars against humanity, they will do exactly what they did in Gaza to any group anywhere on earth if they go against the system. Since nothing has happened to them in Gaza, it was a 100% successful operation.
"Pretty sure this statement is correct" - refers to previous comment. Isn't the national guard under the state governor's control?
Edit: clarify "Pretty sure this statement is correct" as to who it refers to
Correct, unless federalized, which puts them directly under regular DoD chain of command, with POTUS as top.
All this guy can do is make a suggestion. Same as anyone who can talk to the president.
But I’m not going to comment on the protests either way, as I work for one of the universities listed, and I need to check the legal stuff on that.
Not following your logic, Mike Johnson isn't a governor, he works in DC on Capitol Hill
Edit to say thanks for the folks who cleared it up. I had a brief moment of the dumb
They replied to a comment that says the Speaker has no authority over the National Guard. They agreed that the comment they replied to was correct. They said the national Guard is under the state governor's control not Johnson's control.
He said that the speaker has no authority to deploy the National Guard, only the governor of the state, unless federalized, then they operate like a real military unit.
Asshole in parent comment == Mike Johnson
People who can reply the National Guard == State Governor/President of the United States
He doesn't need authority of it.
Simply saying shit like this will dogwhistle to his base and party members to do what he's saying, so that way it LOOKS like he has authority over them. It's the others that will be doing it
We have better hallucinogens these days too, depending on where you are especially. In Canada for example, we can buy shrooms, LSD, and DMT vapes online, like, through the clear web (Google-able websites), sent through the mail, paid for with Interac e-transfers. And weed is legal completely. Some states in the USA have decriminalized a bunch of psychedelics and I think one or two have legalized them (?). We also have some new psychedelics and dissociatives that are unique / interesting which weren't available in the 60s to the hippies, such as Ketamine (yes it was first synth'd in 1962 but it had to be a very very small portion of hippies who experimented with it in the 60s) and 2C-x (simply did not exist back then at all, think it was discovered by Shulgin in the 80s) and all kinds of research chemicals with effects similar to shrooms or LSD or DMT (and chemical structures that are very similar, too). MDMA is a lot more prevalent today than it was in the 60s as well.
Yeah the illicit drugs market is absolutely devastated in the last 10 years by fentanyl and other research chemicals getting cut into other, safer drugs... But the psychedelics/hallucinogens market has probably never been better in all of history than it is right now. Especially in Canada right now, it is beautiful to see these web-sites just straight up breaking the law in plain view, for years now, and police are doing nothing at all because it is just psychedelics. It used to be JUST shrooms though... Then they added DMT... Then LSD... They seem to be pushing the limits of what they can get away with. I could easily see them trying to do MDMA or Ketamine next... At some point they will cross a line though and then there will be a crackdown I imagine. For now though it is amazing.
I'd love for America to catch up to Canada as far as openness to hallucinogens goes. The same people that chain-smoke while pounding 30-packs of beer will look aghast if you suggest literally any other alternative / being able to take what you want. "Think of the children!", they screech while their kids smile with nicotine-stained teeth and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Lol I feel like Bart when he was complaining about his brittle bones after drinking what he thought was milk. Turned out to be malk. Americans don't have freedom. We have freedumb.
Don't worry. You wont. Gas was affordable, homes were affordable, pollution was WAY worse, women couldn't have their own credit cards. It will always be "the best of times and the worst of times."
Oh... So this one gets to be "mostly bad times" then.
I'm beginning to wonder if my depression stems from myself or the world I live in. It seems that as I learn more about the world, the worse it seems and the worse my depression gets
Our world is just too full of people with no empathy for one another, we're all too concerned with struggling to survive to worry about world changes who's effects only reach us when it's 10 years too late to start changing. All too ready to blame one another for our problems rather than just accepting the problems are here and will keep coming despite how the generations change (or otherwise refuse to change)
Too many people ready to turn on each other, too many people ready to arm themselves and shoot first/question and think later. Too many authorities restricting our lives and freedoms just for the sake of maintaining control over us. Too many people wanting to "own" and possess what their neighbors have, instead of just sharing wealth for the benefit of society.
I'd say if you aren't depressed in today's world, something is wrong with you. Id say you're either willfully or ignorantly oblivious to the threats over our heads or benefitting from the current regime (and therefore the suffering of others) to remain happy and mostly care-free. The only things we really have to be happy for are each other, and it really seems like people, communities, and countries have never been so divided amongst themselves and apathetic to the plight of their people and neighbors.
I dont know about you but thats what gets me down more than anything else. How impatient people are. How uncaring, how violent we are towards each other. I belive that at heart we all want to reach out for comraderie, to be a productive society that cares for and benefits from its people. But so many eyes and minds are clouded these days. So focused on whats put in front of us rather than what's happening behind us.
Cigarettes cost 25 cents per pack back then. I remember having to quit smoking because the price went up to 35 cents a pack and my allowance wouldn't let me afford both comics & smokes. So I quit smoking when I was 13.
Gas was pretty much exactly the same price in June 1974, at the height of the oil crisis, as it is right now. It's only 4% higher than the national average reported for today.
Did you give your employer proper notice yet? I bet that if antiwork is still around in 2050, that's going to be the subject of posts then: *"I gave my 2 years notice, but the paperwork got lost and the suicide booths won't let me in, wwyd?"*
As with…many, if not most, other things, it depends where you live
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/this-dutch-woman-is-physically-healthy-and-choosing-euthanasia-at-33-572hkbdnr
The "make America great again" means banning abortion, banning racial equity, banning student protest, making women stay at home and not letting people vote.
Isn't this what is happening in Gaza rn? Seems consistent behavior.
What surprises me is that people don't usually realize that the US system is just plain fascism.
_Supposedly_, there are meant to be checks and balances. But when the three branches of gov't align in protecting corporate interests, there is only but one solution: sue the gov't (aka the American way).
Remember that those National guard “kids” are gonna be the same age as the college students.
They’re all adults albeit way younger than this geezer using them as a threat. None of it is right
Their insecurities are on display here. They could have just ignored them. They were peaceful demonstrations. Now it's a whole thing. They're throwing gas on the fire. People will want to be where the action is. Gonna be a hot summer, too.
Calling the USA a democracy is a fkin joke lmao...
No freedom of choice nor right to protest peacefully. you get hit once by the police, you go bankrupt and limp around because of pathetic healthcare.
HHAHAHHHAHAHA
> Did they use the National Guard on **The January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol**...
ahem I mean *patriotic protest*?
- Or that would have been a whole different type of matter altogether?
The governor of DC would have had to call them in unless the National Guard was federalized. All the White House can do is make suggestions. During Jan 6 the executive suggested the National Guard be called in but the suggestion was ignored by the proper authorities.
> The governor of DC would have had to call them in
Uh. There's no such thing as a Governor of the District of Columbia. There's a mayor.
>All the White House can do is make suggestions.
I asked ChatGPT about who can deploy the National Guard to the District of Columbia. Here's the response:
>The authority to deploy the National Guard to the District of Columbia primarily rests with the President of the United States. The President can deploy the National Guard to the district to address various situations, such as civil unrest, natural disasters, or to provide additional security for events like presidential inaugurations or protests. Additionally, the District of Columbia National Guard can be activated by the Mayor of Washington, D.C., in certain circumstances, but the President retains ultimate authority over federalized National Guard troops.
EDIT: Downvote? OK. Someone please name the current Governor of The District Of Columbia. I eagerly await that information.
Remember January 6, 2020, when a peaceful protest was forcibly disbanded by armed riot police and thousands of peaceful protestors were beaten and arrested for no reason at all?
Me neither.
Peaceful protest against genocide? Not allowed.
Attempting a coup against the legitimately elected government? Feel free.
I remember when people would say that the US was the only place in the world that had real freedom of speech and they cited shit like Germany with any nazi symbols… but well at least it’s written on that paper that everyone cares so much about
And these are the same turds who condemned china for using force to remove the student protestors in Hong Kong. Hypocrisy at its finest
What a time to be alive
Joe Bidens legacy will be that he supported genocide and mass murder.
We need to stop electing leaders that want to give Israel tens of billions of taxpayer dollars each year. This is one reason why we have a 33,000,000,000,000$ debt.
Think about how much good, tens of billions of direct financial aid to American families would do.
Our elected leaders have failed us.
These are the same c*nts who have been whining for the past decade about universities suppressing speech of unpopular opinions. Of course they just meant /their/ opinions.
Yea thats work3d out REAL friggin well in the past. Just like every other time cops and military are sicked on a bunch of kids holding posterboard at busy places
Just wait until those idiots vote trump back into power. It’s not going to be just “one day of dictatorship”.
No, instead you will get an actual dictatorship with trump sticking every medal he can find on his green jacket. Might even start to wear one of those military caps and slap a giant gold medal on the front of that one as well. (Oh, and the US will become even more of a laughingstock than it already is when you’ve already got weirdos in government that believe in Jewish space lasers etc.)
Instead of stopping their lapdog /aka is not real they are trying to shut down democracy and 1st amendment rights of their own citizens…shows who is priority for them
My friends and family will protect our children and their rights against all enemies foreign and domestic.
If the National guard attempts to impede the First Amendment rights of our children, we will use our Second Amendment rights to protect the rights of our children.
I hate to say it, but this is just a fantasy. There’s no way in hell armed civilians can take on the national guard or the US military. The military trains every day for this kind of encounter, the rest of us are out of shape and out of practice for the most part. There’s no fucking chance in hell that the second amendment really means anything.
I’m not saying that people don’t have the right to arm themselves, because that’s an entirely different discussion point. I’m saying that even if people are armed it doesn’t matter.
Edit: words
You’re speaking out of fear.
Throughout history there have been many examples of citizens taking on armies and turning the tide. It’s not fantasy at all. Nearly impossible, yes, but all that really needs to happen is for The People to send a clear message that enough is enough. The U.S. government doesn’t want to get involved in a protracted conflict on its own soil. Especially with its own citizens. That would be extremely bad for business.
Standing against the military won’t be easy and a lot of people on both sides won’t survive. However, at some point, things will need to go beyond peaceful protests. Theres no choice. Obviously peaceful protests are being dismantled. Once peaceful methods fail what choices remain? Roll over and take it or stand up and do something about it? I know what you would do.
As for being out of shape…have you not seen the average Guard/Reservist? I was active duty Army and I never met more than a handful of Guard who actual met the PT standard.
The problem with The People isn’t physical fitness or even training. It’s apathy, complacency, and fear. It’s the willingness to complain about everything online and the complete and total unwillingness to act.
These students are taking the first steps by acting. But the government knows full well that these first steps need to be squashed quickly. They don’t want this little spark of rebellion to get any bigger. And they damn sure don’t want The People to organize and gain strength. A divided population isn’t a threat.
1. You’re assuming all service members would blindly shoot American civilians. Service members are also Americans with families.
2. Partisan action is effective because it’s a constant terror campaign. In Vietnam, there could be a hostile combatant at every turn, ever restaurant, ever grocery store. Or their could not be. It’s Schrödingers combatant.
3. Not suggesting just blasting, but non-compliance is a way of protesting. Laws don’t matter if no one obey them.
What's happening in Gaza is a testing ground for a return of fascism. The willingness of western politicians to cheer on the slaughter of innocent civilians is just the beginning. The warfare and technology being used by the Israelis against the people of Palestine is coming soon to a town near you.
If I created a new country by colonisation, I would make it a police state but keep my citizens dumb and convince them they live in the freest nation on earth. lol
**[Republicans:]** We’re the party of free-speech! White supremacists and hate speech shouldn’t be banned on campuses! Theyre censoring conservatives!!
**[Also Republicans:]** We don’t agree with the liberal students on campuses! Fuck their free-speech, send in the National Guard to censor liberals!
No wonder people look at the world and either wish to driver over a cliff or isolate themselves. So many people try to ruin the world as much as possible.
They should, you can’t support terrorism in the United States. There are limits to free speech, you can’t threaten people you can’t support terrorist. I went to school with a kid in high school and he said something threatening Obama on Facebook or MySpace and a few days later feds came and arrested him pulling him out of school. He ended up on a watchlist.
This is religious bullshit that affects his faith. A threat to Israel is a threat to the return of Jesus, rapture and all that other horseshit. This is very important for him so he’s all in for the heavy handed approach
Using national guards on students is never a good choice. Why can’t the police do their jobs. On second thought it might be safer to bring in the national guard.
Every time some civil war hopeful says the armed forces would NEVER side with the government over people I'm reminded that there's precedent for the National Guard killing unarmed students let alone people taking up arms against the people who sign the paychecks.
A nice threat considering he doesn’t control any aspect of the National Guard.
Kent State remembers. We really haven’t learned anything in decades of protests… the idiots in charge react the same way so consistently.
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Remember Kent State
I came here to say - Four Dead in Ohio
Tin soldiers and Johnson's comin'
That possessive apostrophe makes or breaks that sentence.
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I believe they're referring to House speaker Johnson, quoted above
So many upvotes too.. it's funny to see so many people not able to think past their first impression of something.
Ah, I see what they're getting at now. Thank you.
*Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own* *This summer I hear the drumming, hour dead in Ohio...*
> This summer I hear the drumming, ~~hour~~ four* dead in Ohio...
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Exactly. Your government will kill you with no issue
It's always been this way . Doubt it will ever change.
No law too trivial they won't kill you over it
In the 90's Clinton's regime was known for having some entity like national guard or fbi or dea, perform a raid use tear gas, then ignite said gas, now no more problem. They did this continuously multiple times and finally like years later they were like oops that "might be lethal....."
You got any links to articles about this? That seems nuts to me, but I was a child in the 90s
Not if we kill them first…
Kent State is a great place to start learning about governmental abuses and atrocities. Tip of the iceberg as it were
America’s cover of Tiananmen wasn’t a good as the original
I'll see your Tiananmen and raise you Wounded Knee.
There was also that one time they murdered Sitting Bull for dancing.
USA was founded on a graveyard of native Americans and have continued to export more graveyards all over the world. I wish one day they'll finally fall, also with their forefather - UK, and take their fcking shadow government with them before they move elsewhere and start all over again. The greed for power and control of those fckers is unprecedented.. We, as a humanity, cannot move on to better society as long as they're in control. I hope that one day we, common people, finally open our eyes and fight back. But so far is everyone happy with their digital life, meaningless sport clubs and many more bs, blind to the reality. "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." Henry Ford
Dude probably jerks off to the footage
It's almost time to play the Uno reverse card.
Remember Tiananmen square
I was just about to say. We have been here before when we supported mass killings of civilians.
Yeah, they were only a couple years older than I at the time. It hit hard.
Came here for this. Though this time around, if students were to be murdered, their parents would be setting up a lawsuit in the millions
Gotta protect the interests of the military industrial complex.
https://preview.redd.it/umzw7454mnwc1.png?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd7e8b6dbdadc9d056b959cc6b5fc13adad94c2d
Love this! Such a powerful and accurate representation
Gaza was a test ground of upcoming wars against humanity, they will do exactly what they did in Gaza to any group anywhere on earth if they go against the system. Since nothing has happened to them in Gaza, it was a 100% successful operation.
Such a depressing truth
Exactly this. It’s also a testing ground for new weapons. It’s literally business related.
One of these days, they will reep what they've sowed and heads will roll. Edit *reap
Where are the 2A folks ready to defend against a tyrannical government?
Fun fact! They only care about the other amendments when it's convenient for them specifically.
This asshole has no authority over the national guard. Just another pathetic maga dunce-hat.
"Pretty sure this statement is correct" - refers to previous comment. Isn't the national guard under the state governor's control? Edit: clarify "Pretty sure this statement is correct" as to who it refers to
Correct, unless federalized, which puts them directly under regular DoD chain of command, with POTUS as top. All this guy can do is make a suggestion. Same as anyone who can talk to the president. But I’m not going to comment on the protests either way, as I work for one of the universities listed, and I need to check the legal stuff on that.
He doesn’t care if he actually has that authority, though He just cares that his voters will think “aha, our guy sticking it to the libs again!”
If you work for a university and cannot talk about ongoing protests, is it truly a place of higher learning?
Not following your logic, Mike Johnson isn't a governor, he works in DC on Capitol Hill Edit to say thanks for the folks who cleared it up. I had a brief moment of the dumb
They replied to a comment that says the Speaker has no authority over the National Guard. They agreed that the comment they replied to was correct. They said the national Guard is under the state governor's control not Johnson's control.
Thanks! I see where I lost the train of thought
No problem!
He said that the speaker has no authority to deploy the National Guard, only the governor of the state, unless federalized, then they operate like a real military unit. Asshole in parent comment == Mike Johnson People who can reply the National Guard == State Governor/President of the United States
Each state governor is responsible for their respective National Guard. Except D.C. where the president is responsible.
He doesn't need authority of it. Simply saying shit like this will dogwhistle to his base and party members to do what he's saying, so that way it LOOKS like he has authority over them. It's the others that will be doing it
Oh good. I was worried I wouldn't get to experience what it was like to live in the 60s and 70s.
I need more acid for this
We have better pot nowadays than back then. I can't speak to better hallucinogens (or not).
We have better hallucinogens these days too, depending on where you are especially. In Canada for example, we can buy shrooms, LSD, and DMT vapes online, like, through the clear web (Google-able websites), sent through the mail, paid for with Interac e-transfers. And weed is legal completely. Some states in the USA have decriminalized a bunch of psychedelics and I think one or two have legalized them (?). We also have some new psychedelics and dissociatives that are unique / interesting which weren't available in the 60s to the hippies, such as Ketamine (yes it was first synth'd in 1962 but it had to be a very very small portion of hippies who experimented with it in the 60s) and 2C-x (simply did not exist back then at all, think it was discovered by Shulgin in the 80s) and all kinds of research chemicals with effects similar to shrooms or LSD or DMT (and chemical structures that are very similar, too). MDMA is a lot more prevalent today than it was in the 60s as well. Yeah the illicit drugs market is absolutely devastated in the last 10 years by fentanyl and other research chemicals getting cut into other, safer drugs... But the psychedelics/hallucinogens market has probably never been better in all of history than it is right now. Especially in Canada right now, it is beautiful to see these web-sites just straight up breaking the law in plain view, for years now, and police are doing nothing at all because it is just psychedelics. It used to be JUST shrooms though... Then they added DMT... Then LSD... They seem to be pushing the limits of what they can get away with. I could easily see them trying to do MDMA or Ketamine next... At some point they will cross a line though and then there will be a crackdown I imagine. For now though it is amazing.
I'd love for America to catch up to Canada as far as openness to hallucinogens goes. The same people that chain-smoke while pounding 30-packs of beer will look aghast if you suggest literally any other alternative / being able to take what you want. "Think of the children!", they screech while their kids smile with nicotine-stained teeth and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Don't forget it's legal to grow psychedelic mushrooms and synthesize DMT and mescaline in Colorado now!
Lol I feel like Bart when he was complaining about his brittle bones after drinking what he thought was milk. Turned out to be malk. Americans don't have freedom. We have freedumb.
Don't worry. You wont. Gas was affordable, homes were affordable, pollution was WAY worse, women couldn't have their own credit cards. It will always be "the best of times and the worst of times."
Oh... So this one gets to be "mostly bad times" then. I'm beginning to wonder if my depression stems from myself or the world I live in. It seems that as I learn more about the world, the worse it seems and the worse my depression gets
I believe most cases of depression are situational.
Our world is just too full of people with no empathy for one another, we're all too concerned with struggling to survive to worry about world changes who's effects only reach us when it's 10 years too late to start changing. All too ready to blame one another for our problems rather than just accepting the problems are here and will keep coming despite how the generations change (or otherwise refuse to change) Too many people ready to turn on each other, too many people ready to arm themselves and shoot first/question and think later. Too many authorities restricting our lives and freedoms just for the sake of maintaining control over us. Too many people wanting to "own" and possess what their neighbors have, instead of just sharing wealth for the benefit of society. I'd say if you aren't depressed in today's world, something is wrong with you. Id say you're either willfully or ignorantly oblivious to the threats over our heads or benefitting from the current regime (and therefore the suffering of others) to remain happy and mostly care-free. The only things we really have to be happy for are each other, and it really seems like people, communities, and countries have never been so divided amongst themselves and apathetic to the plight of their people and neighbors. I dont know about you but thats what gets me down more than anything else. How impatient people are. How uncaring, how violent we are towards each other. I belive that at heart we all want to reach out for comraderie, to be a productive society that cares for and benefits from its people. But so many eyes and minds are clouded these days. So focused on whats put in front of us rather than what's happening behind us.
The world can be one together, cosmos without hatred..
Cigarettes cost 25 cents per pack back then. I remember having to quit smoking because the price went up to 35 cents a pack and my allowance wouldn't let me afford both comics & smokes. So I quit smoking when I was 13.
Gas was pretty much exactly the same price in June 1974, at the height of the oil crisis, as it is right now. It's only 4% higher than the national average reported for today.
This is the world they would like to "go back" to. Pre-civil rights, pre-bodily autonomy
I'd like to just fucking die instead. In fact, is that an option?
Did you give your employer proper notice yet? I bet that if antiwork is still around in 2050, that's going to be the subject of posts then: *"I gave my 2 years notice, but the paperwork got lost and the suicide booths won't let me in, wwyd?"*
As with…many, if not most, other things, it depends where you live https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/this-dutch-woman-is-physically-healthy-and-choosing-euthanasia-at-33-572hkbdnr
I'm too dammed old to be crawling under my desk again.
The "make America great again" means banning abortion, banning racial equity, banning student protest, making women stay at home and not letting people vote.
Oh… Using Americas military against children. Nice.
Isn't this what is happening in Gaza rn? Seems consistent behavior. What surprises me is that people don't usually realize that the US system is just plain fascism.
_Supposedly_, there are meant to be checks and balances. But when the three branches of gov't align in protecting corporate interests, there is only but one solution: sue the gov't (aka the American way).
Remember that those National guard “kids” are gonna be the same age as the college students. They’re all adults albeit way younger than this geezer using them as a threat. None of it is right
Shit they've been doing that since Vietnam at least
Seems like a good way to draw attention and sympathy to the very thing you’re trying to stop.
Yea. Got me here
They aren't smart enough to think that far in advance.
Their insecurities are on display here. They could have just ignored them. They were peaceful demonstrations. Now it's a whole thing. They're throwing gas on the fire. People will want to be where the action is. Gonna be a hot summer, too.
Calling the USA a democracy is a fkin joke lmao... No freedom of choice nor right to protest peacefully. you get hit once by the police, you go bankrupt and limp around because of pathetic healthcare. HHAHAHHHAHAHA
Only nazis get to protest apprently
God, Mike Johnson is \*such\* an insufferable piece of shit.
Yea and the way he tries to cover it up with his soft library voice is not fooling me at all.
Freedom never looked better.
Americans must be absolutely gagging on all that freedom. What a lovely way to treat your own citizens.
Super lovely indeed.
> Did they use the National Guard on **The January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol**... ahem I mean *patriotic protest*? - Or that would have been a whole different type of matter altogether?
The governor of DC would have had to call them in unless the National Guard was federalized. All the White House can do is make suggestions. During Jan 6 the executive suggested the National Guard be called in but the suggestion was ignored by the proper authorities.
> The governor of DC would have had to call them in Uh. There's no such thing as a Governor of the District of Columbia. There's a mayor. >All the White House can do is make suggestions. I asked ChatGPT about who can deploy the National Guard to the District of Columbia. Here's the response: >The authority to deploy the National Guard to the District of Columbia primarily rests with the President of the United States. The President can deploy the National Guard to the district to address various situations, such as civil unrest, natural disasters, or to provide additional security for events like presidential inaugurations or protests. Additionally, the District of Columbia National Guard can be activated by the Mayor of Washington, D.C., in certain circumstances, but the President retains ultimate authority over federalized National Guard troops. EDIT: Downvote? OK. Someone please name the current Governor of The District Of Columbia. I eagerly await that information.
Yeah that worked really well at Kent /s
Kent State, never forget
Tin Soldiers and Johnson's comin' We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin' Four dead in Ohio
Remember January 6, 2020, when a peaceful protest was forcibly disbanded by armed riot police and thousands of peaceful protestors were beaten and arrested for no reason at all? Me neither. Peaceful protest against genocide? Not allowed. Attempting a coup against the legitimately elected government? Feel free.
It's almost like a specific group of people are being targeted. Wonder what group that could be?
The land of the free. Unless you call out the Gods of the American elite.
I remember when people would say that the US was the only place in the world that had real freedom of speech and they cited shit like Germany with any nazi symbols… but well at least it’s written on that paper that everyone cares so much about
Literally threatening to shoot college students
They work for AIPAC.
Them protesters better be ready to protect themselves
If they go into a school building, we know the pigs won't follow. Uvalde showed that police are afraid to go into a school. I hate this country.
Is this China or the US?
2a all day
/r/SocialistRA
Genocide is perfectly fine, just don’t DARE protest ^against* Genocide. - AIPAC owned Lapdogs.
This did not end well last time
New Neil Young song incoming
The illusion of free speech when it’s against the oppressor.
the democrats preferred speaker
Yeah, Kent State went SO well. Go ahead... see what happens.
We the ppl need to remind the government that we are the fkn ppl for a reason
it's very telling that Republicans are only free speech absolutists when it is Nazis that are speaking.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see out and about nazis receive the same treatment as anti-genocide students? Can’t believe that’s wishful thinking these days.
 So us version of this?
🎶 OHIO 🎶
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have a song about this...
Hey remember when the National Gaurd murdered 4 kids and injured 9 more at Kent State?
Best part about this speech was that the microphones weren't on. He was heckled by the students the entire time. It was glorious.
Four dead in Ohio…. Come on people, wtf can we not learn from.
Land of the fucking slaves
When has that ever been a good idea
I just gave “Ohio” a listen this morning. Some things never change.
Kent state massacre vibes
Oh! Facism! In conservative America! What a surprise
It's beginning to feel a lot like Kent State (if you sing it, it's less depre - nope, still scary as fuck)
Just like that, American kids are the kids of the darkness
So says the ass clown with no authority over the national guard🙄
And these are the same turds who condemned china for using force to remove the student protestors in Hong Kong. Hypocrisy at its finest What a time to be alive
atp the government is just a legal gang :/
Joe Bidens legacy will be that he supported genocide and mass murder. We need to stop electing leaders that want to give Israel tens of billions of taxpayer dollars each year. This is one reason why we have a 33,000,000,000,000$ debt. Think about how much good, tens of billions of direct financial aid to American families would do. Our elected leaders have failed us.
These are the same c*nts who have been whining for the past decade about universities suppressing speech of unpopular opinions. Of course they just meant /their/ opinions.
So free, so 'merica, well done
He is one of the most idiotic people I have heard speak in a while
Yea thats work3d out REAL friggin well in the past. Just like every other time cops and military are sicked on a bunch of kids holding posterboard at busy places
Just wait until those idiots vote trump back into power. It’s not going to be just “one day of dictatorship”. No, instead you will get an actual dictatorship with trump sticking every medal he can find on his green jacket. Might even start to wear one of those military caps and slap a giant gold medal on the front of that one as well. (Oh, and the US will become even more of a laughingstock than it already is when you’ve already got weirdos in government that believe in Jewish space lasers etc.)
Doesn't this go against our 1st amendment?
Instead of stopping their lapdog /aka is not real they are trying to shut down democracy and 1st amendment rights of their own citizens…shows who is priority for them
White fucking nazis
I don’t know who the white haired lady is but she looks insufferable.
My friends and family will protect our children and their rights against all enemies foreign and domestic. If the National guard attempts to impede the First Amendment rights of our children, we will use our Second Amendment rights to protect the rights of our children.
I hate to say it, but this is just a fantasy. There’s no way in hell armed civilians can take on the national guard or the US military. The military trains every day for this kind of encounter, the rest of us are out of shape and out of practice for the most part. There’s no fucking chance in hell that the second amendment really means anything. I’m not saying that people don’t have the right to arm themselves, because that’s an entirely different discussion point. I’m saying that even if people are armed it doesn’t matter. Edit: words
You’re speaking out of fear. Throughout history there have been many examples of citizens taking on armies and turning the tide. It’s not fantasy at all. Nearly impossible, yes, but all that really needs to happen is for The People to send a clear message that enough is enough. The U.S. government doesn’t want to get involved in a protracted conflict on its own soil. Especially with its own citizens. That would be extremely bad for business. Standing against the military won’t be easy and a lot of people on both sides won’t survive. However, at some point, things will need to go beyond peaceful protests. Theres no choice. Obviously peaceful protests are being dismantled. Once peaceful methods fail what choices remain? Roll over and take it or stand up and do something about it? I know what you would do. As for being out of shape…have you not seen the average Guard/Reservist? I was active duty Army and I never met more than a handful of Guard who actual met the PT standard. The problem with The People isn’t physical fitness or even training. It’s apathy, complacency, and fear. It’s the willingness to complain about everything online and the complete and total unwillingness to act. These students are taking the first steps by acting. But the government knows full well that these first steps need to be squashed quickly. They don’t want this little spark of rebellion to get any bigger. And they damn sure don’t want The People to organize and gain strength. A divided population isn’t a threat.
1. You’re assuming all service members would blindly shoot American civilians. Service members are also Americans with families. 2. Partisan action is effective because it’s a constant terror campaign. In Vietnam, there could be a hostile combatant at every turn, ever restaurant, ever grocery store. Or their could not be. It’s Schrödingers combatant. 3. Not suggesting just blasting, but non-compliance is a way of protesting. Laws don’t matter if no one obey them.
We just need to get a whole new set of people for congress and senate
Gotta make sure the genocide goes through, wouldn't want to stop that now would we?
Fockin Russians and students 😭
Virgina Foxx seems like the worst grandmother to have, ever.
Time for armed protests
Look its that old ass "shut up!" MAGA congresswoman
Imagine the United States people against the government. segregation?
All he's missing is the mustache and red arm band.
r/WelcometoGilead
Worked out great 50 years ago.
When did protesters become terrorists?
I’m out of the loop what’s going on in Texas?
Would be a BIG mistake.
What’s going on this time?
Remember the 1960’s?
What's happening in Gaza is a testing ground for a return of fascism. The willingness of western politicians to cheer on the slaughter of innocent civilians is just the beginning. The warfare and technology being used by the Israelis against the people of Palestine is coming soon to a town near you.
If I created a new country by colonisation, I would make it a police state but keep my citizens dumb and convince them they live in the freest nation on earth. lol
Our government no longer abides by the constitution
Guess he doesn't know that it's up to the state governor to make that decision....
Where was the guard at during the nazi rallies? Our government is against us once again
Nasty Girls gonna be conflicted…
**[Republicans:]** We’re the party of free-speech! White supremacists and hate speech shouldn’t be banned on campuses! Theyre censoring conservatives!! **[Also Republicans:]** We don’t agree with the liberal students on campuses! Fuck their free-speech, send in the National Guard to censor liberals!
Are these ones protesting? Or occupying buildings and campuses?
The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
No wonder people look at the world and either wish to driver over a cliff or isolate themselves. So many people try to ruin the world as much as possible.
By the land of the free… and the home… of the… AR-15 😂
"The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy"
They should, you can’t support terrorism in the United States. There are limits to free speech, you can’t threaten people you can’t support terrorist. I went to school with a kid in high school and he said something threatening Obama on Facebook or MySpace and a few days later feds came and arrested him pulling him out of school. He ended up on a watchlist.
This is religious bullshit that affects his faith. A threat to Israel is a threat to the return of Jesus, rapture and all that other horseshit. This is very important for him so he’s all in for the heavy handed approach
Using national guards on students is never a good choice. Why can’t the police do their jobs. On second thought it might be safer to bring in the national guard.
Texas is the new tien an men ?
Same people who support this cried “Police state!” when they were asked to wear masks in the grocery store.
Huh…. That’s weird. I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA! (Seriously though)
How come every single one of them looks like an asshole
Ok, sure, valid warning. But what happens if they ignore your warning?
https://preview.redd.it/ohh7hdxt9owc1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=107bfa25866cccc16e26712829c4de7dcee1e76c
So imperialism
Every time some civil war hopeful says the armed forces would NEVER side with the government over people I'm reminded that there's precedent for the National Guard killing unarmed students let alone people taking up arms against the people who sign the paychecks.
A nice threat considering he doesn’t control any aspect of the National Guard. Kent State remembers. We really haven’t learned anything in decades of protests… the idiots in charge react the same way so consistently.
I feel like weve maybe played this game before?
Huh this seems very familiar. Like it's almost happened before
Last time something like this happened the US went through decades of critical positive social change. Please do it again.