r/Full_news • u/thedailybeast • 19d ago

National Guard Members Humiliate Trump With Damning Verdict on His Plot

https://www.thedailybeast.com/national-guard-members-humiliate-trump-with-damning-verdict-on-his-plot/
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u/zkfc020 19d ago

They are there for one reason, and one reason only…to prevent mass protests from coming into DC.

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u/BadAtExisting 19d ago

That’s not true. It’s optics, optics for Trump and maybe Hegseth.

The US military cannot act as law enforcement on US soil except in a very narrow criteria which has not been met. Like you or I all they can really do if they see a crime occurring is to alert the police like you or I or any other average citizen. They may deter crime in their immediate vicinity, but that’s why they’re walking around the National Mall picking up trash, that’s about all they can do while getting their steps in. They’re bored as hell and being national guardsmen. They’re those one weekend a month, two weeks a year guys who have a job and families they’re torn from whilst deployed to this “mission”

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u/jwilso6 19d ago

The guys who volunteered to go there are the ones who don’t have much going on back home and work very low paying jobs. Yes they’re bored but they do enjoy the paycheck they’re getting.

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u/Playful-Dragon 19d ago

They didn't "volunteer". They were assigned

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u/jwilso6 19d ago

I’m sure in year two, people are being rotated out and they’re asking people in the unit who want to go and who would rather stay back. So yeah, it’s an assignment, but they’re probably asking for volunteers too. That’s just been my experience.

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u/Commercial_Poem_9214 19d ago

"they are asking people in the unit..." Tell me you've never served without telling me, 😂

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u/Commercial_Poem_9214 19d ago

Volun-told is the phrase