Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
E-fucking-xactly
I think we already tried and failed at all those things. The more money is thrown at these problems, the worse they get.
That's cute that you think they're paying for hotel rooms for the NG. There are pictures of them sleeping on the hard, cold floors of federal buildings with bright lights on.
I think they gave hotel rooms in Pasadena to ICE. Because what, they're not local?
Every dollar spent on repression is a dollar stolen from compassion. We were told there’s no money for healthcare, housing, or food—but there’s always funding for boots, bullets, and barricades. Priorities aren’t broken; they’re perfectly cruel by design.
well-said. You should keep saying this. It's a concept people need to understand at a deep level. MAGA pols probably believe we're too dumb to have noticed that they're not cutting anything, just shifting it away from anything that helps people to stuff that will hurt people.
Tx for writing this. It's a sad truth, extremely well-crafted.
“Every dollar spent on repression is a dollar stolen from compassion” is a BAR. Powerful wording.
There's a spider man vs Sauron comic on this subject.
Who came up with “less than lethal?” Sounds like someone trying to make it sound less horrific. They’re still fucking bullets intended to injure.
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While what you said is absolutely true, let’s be honest and look at reality: every flash bang would have paid for more corporate welfare, every hotel room would have been at a trump hotel for the secret service and his buddies… But that’ll happen regardless. There is no winning with MAGA in charge
You’re not wrong
Except that the Guard weren't given hotel rooms. They're sleeping on floors like they're in Gitmo. Turns out Trump doesn't give any more fucks about the people serving in our military than he does about anyone else who's not rich, white, male, and kissing his ass.
That might turn the whole thing around. Suppose the Ntl Guard changes sides?
It's not impossible. We could see lots of guard members refusing to follow Trump's orders and sitting down with protestors. We should put some resources into making sure service members who do this have legal counsel.
There's a hotline being spread across social media for just that purpose 👍
Fantastic.
ICE agents had hotel rooms and were harassing the maids and hotel room service staff and cooks.
Source?
Thank you. That tells me the ICE personnel in question are almost certainly J6ers or part of the same groups—Proud Boys, etc. I can't see professional law enforcement officers going out of their way to be assholes and terrorize domestic staff like this, but the Gravy Seals? 100%.
Thank you for saying this-choices have consequences. The choices this administration-and its gang of cruelty - make impoverish our country more every day & tell us all we need to know about what they think of the American people - especially those who are poor & powerless. It's truly disgusting.
Would make a great t-shirt.
Exactly 👍
Too bad genocide joe hired 100,000 more stormtroopers of addressing the poverty and homeless crisis. Instead it worsened under his "watch". Watch lol
Source?
Do you not have google? Do you not remember him saying "fund the police" before increasing their budgets further?
source?
here's another one www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/u...
thehill.com/homenews/adm... 5 second google search lmao
Red MAGA or blue MAGA, starving and murdering children is perfectly acceptable to these cultists.
$134 million is the price tag so far. How many school meals could that provide? I guess it's fine since the bailout billionaire bill provides an extra 1/4 trillion to the armed services. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/t...
That’s an initial estimate, for a planned duration of 60 days. But I agree - way too much, for a “fake” mission.
Reports are the National Guard is not getting paid by the Trump administration 🙄.
No let's just give our money to the antichrist so he can spend it however he wants
You're severely undervaluing the cost of those grenades, it's much worse.
Not to mention all of the lawsuits which will come out of these illegal activities. Cannot even imagine how many millions, possibly billions, we taxpayers will be paying out! What an enormous waste of our resources.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” - President Eisenhower, 4/16/53
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You’re missing the point. Feeding the poor doesn’t help make the US into Trump’s dictatorship. It might even empower them. What you do, after getting the government to be obedient, is test out the Army’s loyalty to you over the constitution. Then you’re set.
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The tRump administration is scum.
US spends 4B on Israel every year
Thank a Muslim terrorist
Since 1948 dumbass
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Hmm. trump gets to make choices that literally kill and harm millions of people, but women don't get to make choices about their own bodies? This does not look remotely like democracy.
But all that helps people and the gov is about hurting people
Did you misspell "Republicans" as "government?"
You are a moron if you think the Dems are trying to help anyone
Some democrats are good, some are just politicians who chose a side. It's important to not think of people as two groups of people, because that's basically the problem with the U.S. government. However, republicans are mostly stupid, selfish idiots and sheep at this point.
Gavin himself the great resistance leader right now was openly courting fascists on his podcast Schumer was collaborating with trump And half the dems are in lockstep in wanting to push the democrats to a more “maga” position for the next election They hate you too
Aye Newsome had Steve Bannon on his show like 3 months ago? Dems would run into a window in their rush to shake hands with a fascist.
They're not trying to help anyone but they're also not doing *this*. Absolute trash heap of a party but at least it's not chernobyl
GTFOH dude.
Both the Biden and Obama administrations were fine with police violence against left-wing protesters that opposed their policies. For Biden it was Gaza, for Obama it was stuff like the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Man, you are going to shit yourself when you find out who makes up the government right now.
Republicans control all three branches of the government.
Yes. That was the point.
It apparently sailed over my head. Sorry about that.
Does that mean you’re on board with restoring Indigenous sovereignty or you just want a nicer colonial occupation of Turtle Island?
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A choice for evil. For destruction. For causing harm and pain. Taco made it clear that this is what he was seeking, and still people chose to support it.
“Still lethal” “Less lethal” isn’t cutting it anymore. Tear gas has long term cancer risks. Impact rounds kill and disable at close range. This is “less.” This is justification for more violence under the cover of the perception that these “aren’t so bad.” I invite anyone to go get gassed.
This isn’t* Love it when a typo ruins a good rant
The consequences can still destroy a life. This article is about a journalist shot in 2020. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
I think "This is 'less'' still works tho, pointing out the hypocrisy of the word. I didn't think anything of it before I saw your followup
I'm with you, Bex. I have cptsd from different stuff, but I have real problems with people's cavalier attitudes to state violence. This isn't football on tv. This is mental, emotional, and physical trauma. By our government and "safekeepers," that we paid for, against ourselves.
Absolutely right.
This is a planned attack not only on our democracy but on our economy. Between Tarriffs ,deportations & healthcare we are headed for a sick,bankrupted nation. More people living in poverty provides better control.
These solutions do not lead to the final solution trump has for this country. Only fetuses have rights.
And every military parade could feed thousands of hungry people.
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. They aren't coming out of El Trumpo's exorbitant golf budget,
Better comparison: the estimated cost to have the National Guard and Marines deployed to LA: $134 million- enough to provide 44 million lunches for school kids .
I agree.
This inventory was already purchased. Those assets aren't liquid. Are you proposing we feed flashbangs to hungry children and heal the poor with used less-than-lethal bullets?
The choice has been made by this administration that democracy is dead. Equal opportunity is dead, family planning dead, public education dead, clean water dead, air we breathe toxic, America land of the free, no more, 1st 4th 10th 14th Amendments, this administration crushed them
Only- the national guardsmen don’t get hotel rooms either. Capt Taco Bonespurs hates the military as much as anyone that isn’t rich or white. He just uses them as disposable tissues.
It's all theater
it’s fascism, it’s actual harm to people, but some of it is spectacle
They’ve already spent over $130 million dollars on the barbarity of attacking an American city. That’s enough to house 1900 families of 3 for a year.
it's the friends we *could have* made along the way
Even Mr. Military Industrial Complex himself said it out loud. They know what they're doing and they've long since stopped caring.
AMEN. I'm so sick of all of us treating this like a spectator sport. These are real people with lives and families. Most of us (me included) can't even process the decisions immigrants have to make. WE ARE ALL HUMANS
www.politico.com/news/2025/06... All for show! Every American should be outraged. Our tax dollars thrown away to no good purpose.
They are not supplying hotels for the national guard.
When I was in the military (awhile ago) flashbangs were $200 ea in a case of 12. So I’d bet you for $200 you could feed a lot more than one kid.
No hotel rooms for the Guard. They're sleeping on concrete floors in a warehouse.
Every military parade could fund Medicaid. Republicans priorities are wrong. It's all about cruelty.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms…is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Ike was the first president I was aware of. Lived him. Still do.
He was a good man who rose to the challenge of a very difficult time. He ordered men into combat and sent letters to the families of those who would never return. He saw fascism, death, cruelty, and hatred. He let it all forge him into an even better man. We were fortunate to have him.
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I rescind my statement in the face of new information. Why must so many people be so wildly disappointing? How ‘bout: “He didn’t suck as much as Trump does.”
You must really hate Harry Truman. And Lincoln.
Honestly? I struggle to think of any President that hasn’t made calls that don’t hold up to the moral scrutiny of historical retrospect. Maybe Carter? I’m just worn down by the shit show happening right now, the stress of being on one of this regime’s lists (autistic), & fearful for my children.
Eh, i think one should balance the good thing with the bad when it comes to statesmen But eisenhower overthrew a latin american government at the behest of fruit companies, thats madness. Not a good person by any means
The last decent Republican.
No representation . No taxation.
Every Waymo car burned to the ground could be a home for the homeless. Every police car destroyed could feed a family for a year. All of this is also a choice
Nazi Germany on steroids as the world watches in horror!
inb4 the wave of "look what you made me do" abuser defenses "if the protesters were peaceful those wouldn't be needed!" meanwhile they shoot reporters in the back
It’s the wife beater apologist who says, “If you’d just kept your mouth shut, he wouldn’t have done that.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers..." - Dwight Eisenhower
This was a fucking republican President 70 years ago. It’s not like he was a good guy on the whole, or loved by these words, but it’s fucking crazy how far the level of political discourse in the country has fallen.
Last decent human they elected to the office. And from 1968 onward, an unceasing parade of monsters.
In retrospect, maybe more people should’ve noticed when they stopped electing war heroes (Grant, Ike) and starting electing people who negotiated secret deals with foreign adversaries (Nixon, Reagan, that thing in office now), but hey.
Eisenhower murdered democratically elected leaders across the entire global south & was also one of the architects of the Lavender Scare. he was not a decent human, he was an opportunist who knew he had ideological competition from the USSR.
yep, Eisenhower kicked off decades of US presidents letting (or even encouraging) the CIA to overthrow the leftist leaders of other countries and install new ones who more closely aligned with US interests
He also had a partnership going with Norman Vincent Peale (the guy who wrote “Power of Positive Thinking”). Trump’s pastor in NY and big proponent of prosperity gospel, lots of radio/TV shows that pushed a lot of the template for WCN starting back in the Depression era.
Okay, while Eisenhower was not a good person, I don't feel it is accurate to say he was one of the architects of the Lavender Scare. The 1950 Democratic controlled Senate was the actual architect of the Lavender Scare. He just sort of went along with it. Just like he did the Red Scare.
showing true courage, he just sort of went along with it
What terrible secret beats at the heart of the Neutral! “Tell my wife I said Hello.”
the traits of a powerful leader with a strong moral compass: passivity, indifference, & compliance.
Oh don't worry, there are sources that claim he secretly sort of subverted McCartney a little. A very, very, little. Bravely holding up the lynch mob that he doesn't agree with, while he ties his shoelaces for a second.
... Before joining in with the mob, I mean, that was obvious, what can you do, it's the lynch mob, and he's just the presidenty guy.
okay i now understand your vibes & think you’re cool . sorry again for hissing lol
if you are the president of the United States & you don’t fight against the Senate purging the entire public sector of suspected faggots, then i am going to say you were one of the goddamn architects of that atrocity.
*pushes up glasses* "well actually he was less of an architect of the lavender scare and more a building inspector who made sure the lavender scare was built to code"
> “He just sort of went along with it. Just like he did the Red Scare” Eisenhower was a rabid anticommunist. He ordered the murder of Patrice Lumumba, as just one example. You can talk about what Ike did well (eg infrastructure) without trying to lick all the blood off his rotting bones.
I will admit to having done little study into the Eisenhower administration. That said, the civil rights movement happened in part due to things that went down in said administration, so it couldn't have been *that* good of one.
Yeah. Eisenhower was a white moderate (derogatory), with all that entails.
anyone who gains control of The State is going to be deeply flawed at best. it is a machine that seeks to organically filter out anyone who would dismantle it. otherwise it would have already collapsed. when you look at leaders, you should hold them fully accountable.
i can like Eisenhower’s rhetoric around de-escalation & his warnings about the Military Industrial Complex. i can also condemn him for helping to build that MIC system. i can criticize him for a long list of victims & countries that he destroyed like the rabid dog of war he was.
Ike was a moderate in the face of a racial apartheid system. he hesitated & dragged his feet, ignore the suffering of Black people throughout the entire country. he did better than others might have despite that, but he also did worse than he should have. both of these statements are true.
Yes, he was an incredibly rapid anti-communist. He also knew that the Red Scare was not real and that McCartney, who he hated, was simply manipulating the public. But he did not oppose what McCartney was doing, and mostly caved to it, because he felt the risk of opposing him was too high.
I think you think I'm trying to defend Eisenhower, which I'm not. All I was saying is that the origin of the Red Scare and the Lavender Scare were politicians in Congress, and Eisenhower mostly sort of did the bare minimum nodding to avoid political attacks. That isn't praise, that's cowardice.
Eisenhower was actually in a pretty unique position to be able to stop the Red Scare, his anti-communist views were pretty well known, if he had stepped forwards and said something, said that was all bullshit, people would have listened. He did not, he can go to hell.
Fair enough.
Ike? Sure, he said that when he was on the way out the door, but he'd spent years letting the Dulles Bros attack democracy and start wars in Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, bunches of other places, mostly in the name of helping their capitalist buddies.
yeah, Eisenhower was a raging anticommunism & queerphobe. it’s more of a “look at how even Republicans talked about class when they had a strong far left ideological rival (the USSR)”
i genuinely mourn living in the world so solely dominated by the usa, the world without the soviet union. it's weird to feel that way, but i can't shake it.
i don’t think it’s weird at all. the cold war didn’t have to end with the collapse of one sphere or nuclear war, it could have also ended in a stalemate and/or mutual cooperation. capitalism inherently needs competition to thrive. our country benefited from having the USSR as an ideological rival.
for reference, i am an anarchist. my preferred structure for a state is “none”. with that said, it is still clear to me that despite its many flaws, the USSR was a net benefit to the world. (especially given the rotting capitalist oligarchy that Russia was then twisted into by the US.)
Move there
The Soviet Union? It literally doesn’t exist anymore.
The post they're replying to literally mentions that part
anticommunism rivals transphobia in its ability to absolutely nuke a human’s critical thinking skills
most of the world's great post-wwii atrocities were done in the name of anti-communism. if only the usa had embraced anti-fascism with a fraction of that gusto
again, i am an anarchist. i just know which direction the enemy actually is (right), unlike some folks.
I agree. This is the actual “sensible moderate” political position.
This you ??? youtu.be/dm_q9dtXOeU?...
fun fact: i now associate this song with @erinyes.diy to answer your question tho, yah it is.
Unrelated to the thread, but I want to add in that I'm a communist getting deeper into the underlying philosophy, and I appreciate a lot of the things more principled anarchists have to say. We only grow in a unity of contradiction, mutual critique and change. Take what works, leave what doesn't.
No gods, no masters, as they say. You don’t have to commit yourself to being any particular ‘Old Dead Guy’ist.
Not an expert, but both appear to be tied to "but that means I wouldn't have to live like this!" Causing a fear response.
I weep for this generation of americans somehow even more ignorant than my own
Sure I'll just go hop in my time machine.
the USSR hasn’t existed for 30+ years, dipshit.
people do just say anything on this webbed site
One thing I took away from the Oppenheimer movie was how well it portrayed the 1930s sense that communism was the inevitable wave of the future.
that feeling fueled a ton of the advancements & concessions that the American Government gave to us as citizens. it is very much worth remembering that correlation as our conservative politicians flirt with Sinophobia & a second cold war against China.
Idk... feeding the hungry... sounds like socialism
We could have had a great society 😪
I was about to say, calm down Eisenhower
I believe our present was to some extent inevitable by design. We entered late stage capitalism a while back & cuts on education worked as planned BUT of the 31% that voted for this, 6% was not white & many others are dependent on the Gov. Minus online cult, I’m starting to witness a lot of regret.
All of this became of a lamebrain president.
Very true!!
Fuck Drumpf and fuck EVERYONE who supports him!
How much you wanna bet Trump stiffs LA for the hotel bills?
A Trump never pays its debts.
The good news is that we will be able to hold rubes accountable for their hatred when they are old enough to know how stupid they are.
And why are you involving penguins in this? What part we play in there s plot? I demand you to remove the penguin 🐧, this is giving bad image to the penguin 🐧 nation. First Trumpo the clown 🤡 with tariffs, and now you. This is a relentless attack on penguin 🐧 kind. Penguins of the world unite!
After the US tariffed an island populated solely by penguins they became resistance symbols ✊🏽 (Your people are being honored not besmirched)
Mmmm, I'm a penguin, proud of his land, his kind, and his belly, and I'm approve this message. We will fight to the end to defend our right to sell our guano without tariffs of any kind. Our commerce minister Hon. Mr penguin 🐧 McPenguin is now in Washington having a conversation at the highest
level to defend our interest. We reject firmly, clown 🤡 anti president Trumpe de Dee to use smoking in a public event, over his wet diaper. Nothing that remember a penguin should be used by such a fart bag. We're elegant, round and proud, that's why we reject Melanoma's Trump dry mummy
to use of our colors in her bad taste attire. Sincerely, Pengüino pingüinolis, Plenipotentiary ambassador of pengüiland in Mexico.
This plot. Automatic spell check is hell
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Great idea! (But one picky design comment - Your "NO" symbol is backwards. The red circle with a diagonal line through it meaning "no" was designed by putting the diagonal center line from a letter "N" across a letter "O," so the diagonal angle goes from top left to bottom right. 🚫=NO.)
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Amen.
Sixteen Million Dollars alone to fix the roads in DC that will be destroyed by the tanks.
Trump is playing to the media
Trump is playing the Media and those suckers are on bended knees licking it up
And they’re lapping it up.
Well as of now I'm sure you know the National Guard is not receiving housing. Hell I hear they haven't been paid.
Maybe they will get sick from that hardship 🤷🏽♀️ That would be a shame
Yes. And this administration will take away their healthcare.
and maybe then they'll protest
But healthcare isn’t sexy (unless you need it) like a flash-bang.
Do we want flash bangs and military poseurs on parade or do we want decency?
Yes, but have you considered that those things don't make them $ but the images of them "owning Liberal CA" will?
Where are all the people who said this could never happen? That the military would not follow unlawful orders? Military needs to look in the mirror. They are also fascists if this madness continues.
they haven’t shot anyone yet. marine commanders are standing down. when the marines actually gun down american citizens on United States streets i’ll relent but until then we have to have faith that they’ll honor their vow. there’s nothing else we can do. if they break it’s over for all of us
Kent State.
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When the bar is that no one’s been shot yet, we’ve moved into a scary place. I agree but still very scary.
F*ck!
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I agree. It’s just hard bc they all disappoint us daily.
i don’t think people really get the severity of this. if the marines capitulate and start shooting americans, it’s over. the death star already fired its shot before it could be blown up
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I’ll be on the street on Saturday BEFORE they starve more kids.
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...and that is why we can't have nice things... 😔
From a thread over here: bsky.app/profile/thim... Scraps for families needing FEMA. Banquets for force upon citizens and communities. We need to remind people that these folks care about their authority, not you. They care about 'their' country, their demographics. They don't care about people.
Don't let @hankgreen.bsky.social be proved right. youtu.be/9ChIo3Ubdbo
Trump has nothing but cold water running in his disgusting orange veins. He’s using the military as the new shiny object because of his disgusting despicable Bill in the Senate and his deplorable falling numbers every day he’s one hated man👿👿👿
No worries. I read no funds were allocated for food, housing, transportation, or, indeed, anything for those who are being charged with terrifying peaceful protesters.
No truer words….all of this is nauseating!
Seriously. None of these people (well, very few) do any of this without getting paid. BY US. I demand a refund.
Imagine how many tiny homes could be built with the $200 million he is squandering on the deployment of all these troops and his military parade.
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Every hotel room for a National Guardsman?????? BS! There certainly will not be any federal dollars spent to house any National Guard, they will be sleeping on a cold piece of concrete somewhere in the city!
They are ... Good trouble assignment if you wish to accept it: Go set up a coffee stand to feed those poor bastards breakfast as they get up in the morning to ... stand guard near government buildings watching empty streets. Might deter them from shooting innocent people in the legs later on.
All the food rotting in warehouses instead of being shipped out to USAID could feed all the people going to food banks! Trump doesn’t care about any of us including his Maga cult. He is starving them as well!
Yes, and the choices being made now were inevitable, once we allowed our nation's media, social media, podcasts, youtubes etc. to be created/bought/controlled by Right Wingers who immersed the nation in lies. upine.medium.com/the-vast-rea...
Some ppl or groups need to step up to the plate & spread truth further & wider than the lies are being spread. upine.medium.com/time-to-solv...
We are our choices. We forgot how fragile the freedom to choose can be. Poor and careless choices got us here. Better choices may let freedom ring once again. Let's keep to the high road the best we can, it's the road to honor, and the way of freedom, equality, and justice for all.
I don't say this lightly the DNC should hire you to be their messaging director. This is so clear and precise of a message!
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The last report on the National Guard showed them basically camping on the street- effectively homeless.
And they are making horrendous choices at every turn. Every choice is to fuel hate, division, lies, and greed. And against empathy, compassion, and love.
The rich do not know how to use money. They just collect it.
We need someone to stop the idiots meme coins and credit and money flow. Not hard. And he needs eldercare
Solid ‼️ We need Leaders We Deserve, not ones we have to BEG to do their job.
Hotel room? They were sent without food or water and are sleeping on Fed building’s concrete floors.
Well, they did pay for hotel rooms for ICE. Until the hotel kicked them out due to public protest.
Well service members are losers and suckers so they get the floors while his insurrectionist NAZI goons get hotel beds.
All of this is a stunt and a distraction.
Take this in, the cost of Trump bailouts after bankrupting thousands of farmers in 2017, could have solved 99% of our homelessness problem. Message that democrats, I dare you.
Don’t forget the price tag for that ridiculous military parade Donnie will get to stroke his ego. All that money could help vets.
Absolutely—this really hits hard. It’s powerful to be reminded that budgets reflect priorities. The cost of force is not just financial, it’s deeply human. While different people will debate the "how," we shouldn’t lose sight of what we could be choosing instead: dignity, care, and basic humanity.
Wait until you see the "parade" on Saturday ... figure SNAP and a number of other programs paid for that ...
Every illegal in USA is taking up Housing space, adding to food demand, increasing Education costs where their non-legal kids in a school, taking jobs from low skilled and disabled citizens paying illegals under table pushing out like deaf that would cost Min Wage as dishwashers,etc Illegals COST
Exactly nothing you said is remotely true.🤡
Watched live not some edited shortened Clip, instant security interposed he should have stopped he did not he kept trying move in that triggered a big security response being a senator doesn't make him more then anyone, Instant he was stopped he should have stopped moving.. instead he FOUGHT
Poor attempt at deflecting. Nothing you said that I replied to is true. Probably why you post anonymously.
No Idea why think I'm anonymous, I use a handle, Blue Sky knows my Name
I find those first two items to be particularly ironic considering that two of the industries that employ the most undocumented immigrants are construction and agriculture.
Oh, you didn't hear? The military has no place to stay! They're sleeping on floors because the administration is incompetent. Nobody thought to make arrangements for them to have food or beds. So, no hotel rooms to pay for anyway.
It's not incompetence. They were deployed on a 29 day rotation specifically so that no payments would have to be made for meals or anywhere to sleep.
So, where do they sleep? The govt is trying to get out of paying for something to take care of them w our defense budget?? Apologies, this is a subject Idk much about, tbh.
Right now they are sleeping inside of federal buildings because they can't bivouac on state property without violating many laws and likely the third amendment prohibition on quartering of troops.
Well, Trump is violating the constitution by sending them there, so I guess he's the "do as I say, not as I do" type. This is all drama & they're stuck in it. I couldn't do it. I was never good with "do as I say, not as I do." So, this is totally normal procedure?
I mean real soldiers have to do worse. My vet partner told me about having to go to an off-site to guard military families out in Iraq and they had to sleep in the gutters. Nat guard and reservists see that kind of shabby treatment way less often.
And they need to stay on federal property while bivouaced bcz. they are US troops. The federal building is the obvious choice--location, size, security.
thank you!
Time to Impeach and Remove. No joke folks. Call your House Representatives to support House Resolution 353. Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Except the NatGuard is being made to sleep on concrete floors. Your overall point is good, tho😁
remember all the people bleating about how the money we're spending on illegal immigrants should be going to homeless vets
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Don’t feed flashbangs to kids!
Every day not deployed is a day of full time work at home and a boss that doesn’t need to cover for a missing NG employee protecting property but not lives
And all these in aggregate may be breakthrough cancer research. This is fraud waste abuse.
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troops are sleeping in parking garages.
It's "less lethal," meaning not quite as lethal as regular bullets, not "less than lethal," which would imply it is below any level of lethality.
They rather spend it than mend it.
You make an excellent point. It's so true. This is the true waste the govt. needs to be eliminating. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it helped me understand the many costs we pay for stupidity.
And none of that is funny. It's so obvious and logical and we seem to be able to do nothing about it. What happened to representative democracy?
We need turnout this Saturday. We need protests populating the whole country. It may not seem to be enough, yet there's real power in numbers.
Inept TACO threatens citizens that if they protest during his narcissistic ego driven parade. he will release hell on them. Is he talking about a legal peaceful protest?Sounds like it! I’m so tired of this worthless vile human! I hope millions will be protesting peacefully! Near his circus. Be Safe
Saturday is the day of the Revolution! Since geography prevents ne from joining any of the protests in America in solidarity, I will be shit posting derogatory Taco pics and Obama appreciation memes all day on truth social. Via an account I'm going to open especially for that purpose!
Every child, every one of my people in the cages, could have been a neighbor, a doctor, a new family member. And this country has chosen violence against our dignity for decades.
I absolutely love the way you think. I wish I could vote for you for President!
Are they putting the guardsmen in hotels now? Last I heard they are sleeping on the floor of federal buildings…..
What makes you think a National Guardsman is getting a hotel, and not being forced to sleep on the floor of an office building piled up with fellow Soldiers? This government doesn't care about the military, we're just tools to use and throw away. Remember, DJT calls us 'losers and suckers'
Useless spending for a non-existent riot. LA is not on fire, but protests against the Gestapo, aka ICE, are happening in all parts of your country. Wasn't it supposed to be the criminal migrants that were deported? A sick 4 years old doesn't quite fit the bill. 🤬😤🖕
Oh, so now we're paying for hotel rooms for the people brought into LA that no one asked for? WtF
Technically, no. Trump and Hegseth are stiffing them. They’re sleeping in piles on concrete floors, and then standing around bored out of their skulls.
This deployment must be a real morale booster for the troops, although they're probably relieved they weren't sent to the DC parade instead.
I’m guessing the troops are hyper-pissed at how expensive eating is because they’re all having to deliver in (no meal stipends so it’s just out of pocket for them)… but better weather than DC.
The estimate I read is that it cost about $130 million dollars to bring the national guard to LA.
Its not his money so what does he care?
Trump and his fear tactics The Mayor and the Council members need to get out in front of this better than they have In no uncertain terms condemn all rioting and looting and vandalism and support the peaceful civil protesting PD have been filmed firing rubber bullets at Reporters and civilians
The cruelty is the point
HEY YOU WRITE FUNNY NEWS ARTICLES STOP BEING POLITICAL SATIRE AND POLITICS ARE NOT TO BE COMBINED YOU SUCK
A choice supported by mostly old white people that have made bad decisions their whole lives and are actively trying to destroy everyone else's before the devil calls them home.
Far left extremists chose to do this. The left chose to enable mass illegal immigration. This is on the left.
Several meals
They solved that by not reserving hotels for anyone.... Coz -- efficiency
The waste of money from a party that has marketed itself as “fiscally responsible” infuriates me the most. And - how the hell the Democrats aren’t screaming about the Drunken Sailer Administration is yet another example of the Democrats’ longstanding inability to message and fight.
If it makes you feel any better, he's treating our troops like trash, too. No hotel rooms for you.
They aren't given a per diem for food, either.
Or cots or blankets. The absolute disrespect he has for the armed forces. A military birthday parade throwing, draft dodger using our family members as props. I hate it here.
My 2nd husband, dad, brother, stepdad, cousins, and other family members served. His blatant disregard for our troops is disgusting. He makes me sick to my stomach. If it were just me, I'd hightail it the fuck out of here. I won't leave my family, though. We need each other to get through this.
My my father, his father., his father's father... Two of my sons. My father in law.
Well said 💯
There is plenty of money to oppress the working class. Power to the people, down with the man.
When you realize that Republicans believe the job of the government is to enrich themselves rather than to help fellow Americans, every decision makes perfect sense.
Thankfully, Trump doesn't own any hotels in Los Angeles because if he did, the National Guard troops would be probably be staying there. The American taxpayers would be charged top dollar by Trump and the money would go right into his pocket. Our money.
It's a tragic choice. We can do better as a people.
Every hotel room could be used by people losing their homes due to massive storms and tornadoes.
The national guard men don't get hotel rooms. they have to sleep on the floor like dogs. This is how the current admin is treating our military.
Legal Eagle's Liz Dye said an hour ago that only the ICE agents were booked hotel rooms. That no logistical consideration has been made for the Guardsmen.
and nor should there be. Volunteer babykillers deserve far worse than sleeping on the floor.
To be clear, they volunteered for the National Guard. Which primarily serves as a disaster relief force. They did not volunteer to guard ICE. They were ordered to. They haven't even engaged in any overt acts.
lmao the national guard sent over 200,000 volunteer babykillers to iraq to brutalize the population there. they "primarily" serve as the thugs of empire, the same as the standing army. And lmao at "they didn't volunteer to shove jews into the ovens, they were ordered to."
Prevention always costs less than the cure Compassionate freedom costs less than careless freedumb
Wasteful!
Not to mention forthcoming lawsuits from said journalists
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the National Guard & Marines staying in hotels, but no cement floors, parking lot hallways and their vehicles. They can thank their commander-in-chief!
Thank you for your noble stance, Ben. I kindly ask if you could consider sharing my campaign—even just once. It’s been verified by Molly Shah, and your voice could truly make a life-changing difference for my little children 😕
Every reporter not shot with a rubber bullet could be a reporter that could report the truth of what they are witnessing.
Nothing is more powerful than righteous dissent against tyranny.
The things we could do for this country if we could stop turning the state on its residents
righteous
... A choice made by the convicted felon who sits in the White House ...
They are not even housing the Guardsman. They are sleeping on warehouse floors. Are they feeding them? All this money could be spent in so many better places. But the Republicans are kind of winning cause we're talking about this instead of the Big Ugly Bill.
Two things can be true at once. There are people talking about the bill, and there are people talking about fascism. This is not a distraction. This is a test run.
I don't care how uncomfortable they are. If they would do their jobs, they would leave LA and go to DC and take Trump into custody and put an end to this madness.
If DJT is to be taken into custody, it should be by civilian law enforcement after being impeached by Congress. We're not supposed to have the military remove political figures. That's called a coup.
It's ALREADYa coup by this regime, they've taken all power for themselves from US Congress, the courts, and now state governors. Stopping a coup is not the same as committing a coup.
At this point a coup may be our best hope. Congress is siding with him.
But they are housing ICE agents, since most aren't from the area. I agree, it's a minor change.
Not sure if you saw he pic....They didn't get them hotel rooms or food....They slept on the floor and were given water from time to time.
Hotel for guardsmen? Aren't they making thrm sleep on the floor?
Marines are (or were IDK current status) sleeping on the floor in the federal building. ICE is holed up in local hotels. I'm unclear on where National Guard soldiers are located.
They are not even PAYING them! They are not even getting a per deim to eat.
“Could be lethal.”
Every free meal that illegals get could feed an American family. Every free doctor visit and dentist visit illegals get could be used for a struggling American family. Every free hotel room illegals get could house wounded vets or abused women and children. Every $1500 EBT card. We can go on...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. " - Dwight D Eisenhower
Yeah but who’s going to think of the poor forgotten military-industrial complex? Won’t somebody think of the robber barons?
How will they feed their shareholders? Put a roof over their collection of classic sportscars?
Elite private school isn’t gonna pay for itself.
The end of that quote is one of the hardest lines in any Presidential address, full stop. "...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Here is a better quote that rings the truth… “You have no rights in USA, Just temporary privileges”…
I was hoping someone would notice this is a paraphrase of the Ike classic.
"To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun." - Iron Maiden
How about this? Protesters in LA and everywhere, get a MAGA hat to keep on your person. When the authorities come to stomp all over your 1A rights, put the hats on, and start chanting pro trump stuff. They won’t know who is who and they will not molest anyone in a MAGA hat. Spread the word. Repost.
Fair to say Trump and followers are ruining EVERYTHING great about America.
Vets have more programs than anybody. And I don’t mind that. what I do Mind is some moron trying to make good people think they’re taking away from vets.
Vets were fired by DOGE.
Framing it as a choice implies there is another road for authoritarians to take. There is not, the only alternative is their forcible removal. You cannot negotiate, plead or convince these fascists to leave power.
Folks expecting a ramp up should enlist more friends to attend. They can't be everywhere all at once. Join us SATURDAY #50501 www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=5...
America will spend an inordinate amount of money to punish people and zero dollars to support them .
It really is abhorrent.
Welcome to all out fascism. Before this, we just didn’t help people so we could quietly help billionaires. Now we just use our money to outright hurt people. Maybe it is time to rethink all of it and all of our “leaders”.
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*Trump will. But it's that or he goes to jail / the chair probably.
the last guy just spent 4 years dismantling every social safety net enacted during covid. There's no "trump" here, there's only the corporate party and suffering.
It’s not just Trump. It’s been this way my entire adult life.
Yes! And what is needed in Congress & the Senate is for these lawmakers to stand up to the ding 🛎️ REGIME RUN BY THE SYCOPHANTS & the 🍊 🎪 🤡 sociopath in the WH
Well said … Thank you
They've already spent $135 million on that illegal operation. They're going to spend $100 million or more for a parade for the guy who ordered the illegal operation. That's a lot of Medicare, Medicaid and veteran's support being wasted.
Where is DOGE?
Where was all this ferver during the election? Dems seem like they slept in and glossed over the fact that TRUMP was running for a second term and now they've been flashbanged into consciousness or something
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Cruelty hate racism greed. #GOPDeathCult
Not taking a stand is a choice as well. This regime must be resisted.
To house a homeless person. Stop giving two-tiered citizenship to people just because they are willing to murder for the government. Plenty of people serve this nation in far better ways.
“If the protesters were peaceful, the police wouldn’t have to use force.” This shit is exhausting.
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Very important to remember and to emphasize this point.
Truth
this is what happens when empires collapse
Made for TV movies like this are expensive. 🤷 Someone aptly called it protest porn for Fox News.
All a Choice made freely by Law Enforcement and Military personnel.
All to satisfy SDE PEDO PINO TACO's insecurities, megalomania and other delusions.
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Yup. Idiots decided to FO and they found out. If they would stop rioting and just peacefully protest without blocking roads or assaulting people we would have more resources for those who need them.
The guard is living in a gymnasium 🤷♂️
You had me at the first sentence. No need to go on, but please do.
Trump is the biggest creator of Waste, Fraud and Abuse! Is there any doubt? How long must this go on until America at large realizes this?
