Trump Could Send 75,000 Federal Agents Into Cities

[applegrove]

Trump Could Send 75,000 Federal Agents Into Cities

July 23, 2020 at 11:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/23/trump-could-send-75000-federal-agents-into-cities/

"SNIP.....

President Trump said that he’s willing to send as many as 75,000 federal agents into American cities to quell violent crime, a recent campaign theme for the President, CNN reports.

.....SNIP"

[TreasonousBastard]

1. We've got 75,000 agents sitting around with nothing better to do?

[applegrove]

2. I thought that.

[uponit7771]

17. +1

[ProfessorGAC]

18. And Remember...

...PINO cut things like the Chinese virology liaison, and epidemiology preparedness, because we couldn't have people on the payroll sitting around "in case something happens".
Now, we can have 75,000 people sitting around in case something happens?

[C_U_L8R]

3. Cities just may have 75,000 jail cells.

These paramilitary goobers are paunchy political stormtroopers. Governors need to protect our neighborhoods and families from these overarmed underskilled fucks.

[BGBD]

4. 75k agents?

From where?

He's full of it.

[EarlG]

5. At some point this is going to start making some of the die hards feel queasy

Tens of thousands of federal troops occupying cities?

It’s so weird, it’s like his entire campaign is designed to fire up Democratic voters to the max while simultaneously peeling off slices of the GOP electorate. No wonder his poll numbers are tanking.

[applegrove]

6. He's going for the big lie. People who don't despise him and may have voted

for him before will say to themselves "he wouldn't make a whole national emergency up". And it is easier to stay relatively pollyannaish ( or rosy coloured eye glassed) and deny that it is a huge lie, than it could be to say "the world can be a vicious place and people are vulnerable to being duped and their country destroyed by someone they thought had their best interests at heart".

[EarlG]

11. Agreed

I just think it's a bad strategy. The further he goes down this authoritarian rabbit hole, the more he risks scaring off Republican voters. The ones who have had "states rights good, federal government bad" drilled into them for the last 40 years. I'm sure A LOT of GOP voters are perfectly fine with the sight of Trump's camo-clad stormtroopers patrolling American city centers, but not all of them. I think he's quietly bleeding support over this.

Around this time 10 years ago we still had 75,000 troops in Iraq. Now Trump wants to put 75,000 troops into American cities? I seriously doubt they're even going to do it, but just having the suggestion out there is going to be a bridge too far for some Republicans.

[applegrove]

12. I think it may disgust the ones who have a memory of those

states' rights and big government is bad GOP policies you are right. But low information voters may be engaged by the drama of troops fighting 'liberals' in cities and forget that Trump tried to kill them by ignoring covid.

[LeftInTX]

13. The Atlantic had an article

I think since he can't have rallies, this is his campaign.

He's going to Seattle: Reactive protesters, black bloc.. He's trying to get a reaction. He will show a bunch of anarchy and say that Dems support it.

I don't know how Oakland is.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/trump-putting-show-portland/614521/

[JHB]

19. There's a solid core that will be queasy with delight, like a sugar rush

The ones who've hated protesters since the 60s and will break out the popcorn to watch thugs beating the crap out of them. Or shoot them.

He may not notice the less-crazies sidling toward the exits, but the MAGA core would be cheering him for finally giving him what they've wanted for 50 years, and he'll eat up those cheers.

[lpbk2713]

7. He's admitting we're not living in America any more.

That's not how a democracy does things.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. There aren't even 50,000 agents between CBP and US Marshalls

He’d have to abandon every border crossing and release every ICE detainee.

He’s talking out his ass.

[Captain Zero]

20. unless he is contracting them from Eric Prince for 6 months

I wouldn't put anything past Eric Prince and his hiring process.

[pdxflyboy]

9. He may augment them with

Thousands of Blackwater mercenary maggots .

[Mme. Defarge]

10. Does their native language happen to be

Russian?

[Thekaspervote]

14. Per usual he's failing at this too! If he wanted to take over the country b4 the election he

Should have started long ago.

Just like covid, his businesses and everything else he touches there’s no plan, just very base reaction. That kind of strategy is doomed b4 it even starts

[TeamPooka]

15. I knew Trump would invade a country to win the election but I didn't think it would be the USA.

[Straw Man]

16. I think he's going full Gotterdammerung ...

... or "Götterdämmerung." (Title text editor apparently doesn't like umlauts.)

He knows he's toast, and he wants to go out with loads of extra drama and violence to feed his malignant and embittered narcissism. He needs a comforting alternative narrative to stave off any hint of recognition of his abject failure at a job for which he was pathetically unsuited. He wants to at least give the appearance that he went down swinging, even though it's against a colossal straw man.