National Guard members and Marines, called to Los Angeles by President Trump to prevent violent protests, can otherwise only serve in support roles.
“If there’s an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it. We will see,” he said.
We have not even seen “actual military violence” at this point. Keep that in mind when you argue that it doesn’t matter if this escalates further bc what else could Trump do, the answer is this.
What I love about this is all the republican, far right gun totting idiots that said that electing communist democrats would lead to the country breaking down and authoritarian government taking control of everything with military force … and how right wing idiots would be the first to fight back with their guns.
The country is being taken control by a dictator … and I’ve yet to see second amendment morons taking the lead on anything.
Because it was always hiding the reality that they didn’t care about any of that shit as long as people they don’t like are getting hurt. The 2A canard is almost exclusively used by angry scared idiots who just want to shoot their neighbors and get away with it.
It’s fine when it’s their tyrant taking control.
They could put the entire state under martial law and completely and illegally replace CA leadership with his own cronies with lengthy records of corruption and conflicts of interest and Trumps supporters will say, “Finally a President had the guts to crack down on that lawless hellhole of a state. The Nations healing begins!”