No troops deployed.
So does this do anything meaningful?
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Stand by means they are contacting all of the soldiers and making sure everything is good to go.
Also It makes trumps threat of sending the Army look like even a more bad Idea.
Hopefully not just getting them ready for a federal takeover
Let's hope their mandate is
- no one masked
- no weapons
- no kidnapping
So, like, protecting the people from this rash of kidnappings.
I dont know how you expect to protect the people from ice without weapons anymore
Would love to see federal troops come in, lay down arms and surrender.
Would love to see them turn the guns around and fight for freedom and human decency
If they surrender to national guard, I will expect that next.
It takes time for an army to show up.
"Assemble the troops!!!"
"Eh.....we'll get there by Tuesday. Maybe Wednesday if we pass a Dairy Queen."
I talked to a mn guardsman I know this morning about it. He said that the way they do the activations is in phases starting with MPs.
My understanding is that it's basically a warning and a plan for where you're at on the list of getting called up, so you know what to expect as the situation changes.
It's a threat.
In a Facebook post Jan. 17, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said that at "Gov. Walz's direction," the Minnesota National Guard was mobilized and was "staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies."
Hmm, nothing there about supporting the people of Minnesota. Just up to 13,000 more soldiers to add to the 3,000 ICE agents already in the Twin Cities, the 1,000 local cops and the 1,500 US soldiers Trump wants to send in.
This guy loves doing that
Its like 60% - 70% of his personality, get a life Tim Walz
Can we do national guard vs immigration custom enforcement?
Honestly have no idea how that would work out legally.
Closest thing I can think of is Governor Wallace's stand at the schoolhouse door, when Kennedy called in the national guard to escort a black child to class after integration and for all the theatrics, there was no violence. (And if a state/federal confrontation can achieve that in this case, I think that's the best case scenario.)
I'm sure others in this sub-lemmy know way more.
When the next American civil war starts this is what it will look like. He will push until he gets to declare martial law.
When?
US doing what they accuse China of doing #69420
But do enlighten me on how this is totally different and how no matter what the US does China is still worse by definition, libs.
The difference is that in China, people are generally getting a good standard of living with their authoritarianism. If Donald were giving us prosperity along with his Gestapo, his poll numbers would be sky high.
Here in the US, they're getting poverty. (Morally though, you're right, we're as bad as they are.)