In cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and New York, he has threatened similar deployments, citing “crime and immigration”. Beyond these high-profile cases, the administration has mobilized Guard troops across 19 states under Title 32 authority, using them to support federal crackdowns.
This isn’t a series of one-off threats, it’s a systematic escalation designed to normalize the military’s presence in American cities. Each deployment or threat builds on the last, conditioning the public to accept something that should never be routine in America.
By stretching the limits of the Insurrection Act and skirting the protections of the Posse Comitatus Act, the administration is pushing the boundaries of presidential power in ways that are unconstitutional. And when has this administration ever cared about legality or the Constitution? Never.
It's going to get worse
Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership,” lays out this exact playbook. It openly calls for expanding presidential control over the military, weakening civilian checks, and using
armed forces for immigration enforcement and domestic policing. What we are witnessing now isn’t improvisation it’s the real-time rollout of that plan.
Correct. And if we're being honest, it's our collective fault. We the People, enough of whom are too lazy, too self interested, too uneducated and too "it can't happen here" is what makes this all possible
Every time soldiers are sent into our streets, ordinary citizens lose another piece of their freedom. Communities are left wondering if they’re being “protected” or targeted. This is not what “public safety” looks like it’s what creeping authoritarianism looks like.
If we don’t draw the line, there may be no line left. The American dream was never about soldiers patrolling civilians, forced curfews, or military crackdowns it was about freedom.
Links: calmatters.org/politics/202... apnews.com/article/dona... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.pbs.org/newshour/nat... static.heritage.org/project2025/...
enforcing immigration policies is totally normal. every nation on earth does. its also normal for fed officials to negotiate funding. whats not normal is dems gleefully allowing millions of undoc every year. this eventually will make it impossible for US workers to buy food or pay rent
its also not normal for dems to rob womens right to safety by allowing men in their spaces. its not normal for dems to harm vulnerable ppl incl kids and gays by promoting quack gender "care". theres no evidence this helps. dems are robbing the civil rights of women and kids and gays
The chant to them should be "JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS, JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS"
All ACTIVE DUTY AND VETERANS KNOW what felon donnny is issuing are UNLAWFUL ORDERS!
NEVER going to happen while VMI is the pipeline to 4 stars
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power." — I read this once but can't remember where
Possibly mein kampf
Drumpf‘s Kampf.
Unfortunately, I believe we're stuck in .. "mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed".
There’s a psychopath in our White House
The National Guard could be a great help fighting fires in places all over the US. This would be a much better use of their resources and our tax dollars.
www.salon.com/2025/08/24/w...
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Troops are not welcome in American cities. They should be pushed out.
Aren't those soldiers really ashamed?
Nazi fucks
We still have the 2nd Amendment
I think it’s high time we begin organizing our own “presence patrols” within our communities when masked, jackboot thugs are roaming our neighborhoods in unmarked vehicles and abducting our neighbors. Time to borrow a page from the Black Panthers.
Yes, and we have the DNC still up in their Ivory Tower twiddling their thumbs.
In times of war, the law is silent. Think you can beat A-10's? Because nothing will prevent tRump issuing those orders.
Remind these Jack Booted Thugs of what happens if they lose their war against the American public. #Lawsuits
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Freedom, the rule of law & balance of power, all now under threat. Rising fascism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on its perils: unjust war; failed democracy; race-based oppression. Get The Antunite Chronicles at Libby/Hoopla/Kobo, bookstores or amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?
A quick reminder that Trump does NOT have a mandate to do this. The majority of Americans do not want it, did not vote for it, and will eventually succeed in suppressing it... won't we?
As long as we say no. But more people need to actually say it out loud.
Military should not serve Trump! The courts should not serve Trump. Politicians should not serve Trump!
generalstrikeus.com/strikecard
Your American Dream always turned out a nightmare for the rest of the world. To us nothing changed. US export No 1 is still violence and dictatorship, but this time you're hit too, because Gringos do nothing meaningful about it. We watch you suffering what you brought over everybody elsewhere.
How does this line get drawn?
…if we dont draw the line… what line? The one to bear arms against an invading militia? Who has a line? Is anyone in DC holding a line? Are the guardsmen and guardswomen holding that line? What fucking line? It was drawn when the election was not challenged.
THEN. DO SOMETHING. Draw the damn line! Get in front of every big network and start screaming this is not okay and not the purpose of the military to be terrorizing civilian life!
There it is. Freedom. That's it. They want us to pay for it. This will fall under the "Freedom isn't free," bullshit."
I'm not sure what some Americans believe they're gaining by accepting troops policing our streets. Do they expect zero crime? That’s unrealistic. What’s more likely is a loss of freedom and privacy—being treated as a suspect without having committed a crime. It’s a troubling & disgraceful trade-off.
Unfortunately the “American Dream” has been a myth and a lie built on a nightmare of abuses.
Soldiers approaching people at a bus stop to ask them their citizenship status… reminiscent of a country at war asking people for their papers. The Right has fought a federal id program for decades… yet now, be default, your passport is an id card to be carried at all times.
EXACTLY!!!
As an antifascist author, I prefer the term totalitarian! Rising fascism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on its perils: unjust war; failed democracy; race-based oppression. Get The Antunite Chronicles at Libby/Hoopla/Kobo or find at bookstores, or: amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?
I seen this in Nicaragua a rifle on every corner i didn't feel safe i felt intimidated had to have college kids guide us through the shopping center for a tip to keep us from being ripped off or harassed is this the country America wants i hope not
Communities aren't wondering if they're being protected. They know they aren't. It's full on authoritarianism. The entire lot of them are absolutely taking over this country per Project 2025. Trump is just an easy puppet because he gets off on feeling powerful. Weirdly, he's not in charge.
There was no 'creeping'. This is Jack Boot authoritarianism. 7 months to troops deployed within the US is a full force assault. Calling it 'creeping' implies that it was somehow sneakily growing while no one noticed. It has been quick, targeted, and LOTS of people saw it coming. #Resist
We MUST STOP p-2025 #Resistance of this #CriminalRegime #Occupation Release the #Epstein files ALL #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinMaxwell Files #Resist this #LawlessRegime #Impeach #arrest #prosecute #JailTime #DemocracyMatters #DefeatRussia #SlavaUkraine @electiontruthalliance.org #VerifyTheVote
Good thread. But from where I’m sitting across the pond: What civilian checks? The 3 branches of govt were supposed to check each other. Instead you have a 2 party system where 1 has captured all three branches & there is no role for an opposition party, which is why it has no leader.
Erm... Project 2025 is a terrible thing & Heritage Foundation a deeply treasonous organization, but I think they assumed halfway competent adults for many key leadership roles, even if the goal was to run the agency into the ground from the control suite. It's Not Idiot Proof, and they are IDIOTS.
Using Military in domestic disputes is an illegal act, violating Posse Commitatus. The Uniform Code of Military Justice requires individual Soldiers to refuse illegal orders. Also usurps State powers under 10A. Lying (crime is up) to justify it is fraud-a crime in any state. Charge under State law
Yes, the operative is "by Congress!" No by or for the president! Especially, in the case of Trump, aka, ##Felon47
Well, look at NY, they nailed him with 34 crimes and because he won an election they let him off the hook. We're no longer a nation of laws and seems no state will prosecute him or anyone around him now for any new crimes either. I hope someone decides to and stick with it, not not holding my breath
All made possible by a complicit Republican majority in both houses of Congress. Traitors to our Constitution.
AND the corrupt Roberts Court.
Using Military in domestic disputes is an illegal act, violating Posse Commitatus. The Uniform Code of Military Justice requires individual Soldiers to refuse illegal orders. Also usurps State powers under 10A. Lying (crime is up) to justify it is fraud-a crime in any state. Charge under State law
Are the military leaders going to stand for this BS?
All the military leaders were fired and replaced by people Hegseth likes.
Yes.
Nobody as far as the top brass has said anything. It's going to take the military to defy his illegal orders and drag his treasonous fat ass out of the White House, along with his entire administration.
