Well now I know what I'm going to say to the guardsman I see at Gallery Metro tomorrow, lol

You know we keep telling you that Trump stiffed his subcontractors when he built his buildings! That’s what he does!

Also: lol lmao, roflmao even

oh I knew they'd do this shit.

Absolute cheap ass bitch.

its really impressive how they're alienating basically every part of the american security state

like even ICE, who they are just dumping money on, is the middle of a giant morale crisis because everyone fucking hates them

They forgot that half the reason you put HVAC in holding facilities is for the staff too lol

Honestly the most effective kind of protest to direct at guards and federal law enforcement (particularly non-ICE) is shouting "YOU CAN CALL IN SICK AT ANY TIME" at them

Gotta wonder how much of that money is actually trickling down to the lower-level public-facing schmucks, too. I would bet that a significant quantity of the funds are going into the pockets of whoever owns the various contracted facilities and services, rather than the minions working at them.

They're assuming that the American security state has not got that dog in it. I'm not sure they're wrong...

American institutions, localities, ethnic/religious groups and the public as a whole don't have the same constant vigilance and readiness to defend their prerogatives as do their counterparts in other countries that were historically more dysfunctional.

Passivity is the norm for every institution and organization, from the Senate all the way down to your mom's book club.

After such a long period of success and security nobody has the plan or the mindset to deal with any of this. It's like immune debt for civil society...

On brand Has he ever paid ANYONE fairly, ever, in his life??

'Enrich the soldiers, scorn all others.' Except scorning the soldiers too. Sounds like a good plan for an aspiring dictator.

Really, the Trump administration seems to be a giant socio-political experiment to see if you can consolidate an authoritarian state on negative polarization alone.

My favorite part of all this is that Trump‘s policies are micro targeted to fuck over his voting base and I’m here for it. I derive great joy in these dark times from it.

They're trying to build it by atomizing the public instead of uniting it.

I felt like they would make exceptions to their deportations for service members/wives/etc and the fact that they're not is just surprising. Like do you guys think things through at all, ever?

was talking to a blue-state National Guardswoman over the weekend who said that, this time of year, the time is fully unpaid for her if she gets called up. Just two weeks or a month where she has no income. I'm sure lots of people will deal with that easily.

Does this mean they’re picking up trash and spreading mulch for free?

No, just at a lower rate than if it were for 30 days.