All these people in tactical gear vs Postal workers in short sleeves and shorts?

[pwb]

Postal workers visit every part of every city in America six times a week relatively safely every day.
I am guessing the only reason all this military type gear is all over the place is because a 1 percent trump donor makes it all.

Making people wear all that gear in this heat with no apparent threat is just mean (pukey). IMO.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. It's cosplay intimidation w real weapons and excuse to hide the abductor's identities. . . . . nt

[peggysue2]

2. Yup, these soldiers ain't going to be happy

All that gear. In DC. In August.

In LA, I read the troops were sleeping on the floors without adequate food or water. They, too, were hot, bored and grumpy.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Hot, bored, and grumpy

makes for very unhappy troops. Sooner or later there will be mutiny, particularly among National Guardsmen. They don't appreciate the cosplay. They didn't sign up for this shit.

[Gimpyknee]

4. We can only hope so.

[lame54]

8. Make them miserable and...

Any confrontation will be more violent
The way Trump likes it

[erronis]

5. But the ICE thugs can make some big bucks if they bring back scalps.

The more people shoved into vans, holding cells, airplanes, foreign jails - the better. Quotas gotta be met!

And I'll bet there is bonus pay if you get injured in the line of duty. Like someone throws a subway sandwich in your direction.

Nice thing about this is that most of the "overtime" and "bonus" aren't sent to the tax authorities (such as they still exist.) Tax-free thuggery!

Imagine a 16yo boy who is tired of shoot-em up games in his parent's basement. Now he can be a patriotic hero and make big bucks! Not sure that will help with his incel status, however.

[relayerbob]

6. Not about safety, it's about intimidation

[AZ8theist]

7. I stopped playing "Army Man" when I was 5.

[FadedMullet]

10. Dan Quale actually used that term, once, in a press conference. I think.....

.....it was in reference to sending troops to Central America, you know, America comparing dick size with the rest of the world.

[2na fisherman]

9. Imagine ICE filled with Kyle Rittenhouse wannabes

And how many of them will be crying to juries that they were only following orders when they kill unarmed civilians?

[FadedMullet]

11. I always hear "I was only following orders" in a German accent.