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From Alligator Alcatraz to National Guard Patrols: What Is the Cost of the Trump Administration's Cruelty?
Cruelty is costly. You and I are paying the price.
Remember the old days, when here in America, you were innocent until proven guilty? Right now, a presumption of war is entering every corner of our land of the free, from trade wars to bloody wars in Ukraine to Gaza, and political wars between Texas vs. California and Illinois about illegal threats of gerrymandering.
Reserve forces of the U.S. Army, 800 National Guardsmen, and (for some reason) 120 FBI agents, are being newly assigned by El Presidente to patrolling our national capital. He cites crime as his motive, which has dropped by a third in recent (Biden) years.
He’s done this kind of deployment already in Los Angeles for the last 60 days and predicts other cities are on his list: Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland and New York City—all places that just happen to vote blue and elect Democrats.
Governor “Newscum”—yes, that’s what our nation’s top executive at his Aug. 11 news conference, called the top executive of our biggest state economy, the fourth biggest economy in the world—just requested on Aug. 6 that the federal government “provide the total cost to taxpayers for this unlawful deployment of 5,000 soldiers.”
Early on, the Pentagon testified to Congress that it would spend, oh, just about $134 million for the LA deployment.
Remember the old days, when here in America, you were innocent until proven guilty? Right now, a presumption of war is entering every corner of our land of the free, from trade wars to bloody wars in Ukraine to Gaza, and political wars between Texas vs. California and Illinois about illegal threats of gerrymandering.
Reserve forces of the U.S. Army, 800 National Guardsmen, and (for some reason) 120 FBI agents, are being newly assigned by El Presidente to patrolling our national capital. He cites crime as his motive, which has dropped by a third in recent (Biden) years.
He’s done this kind of deployment already in Los Angeles for the last 60 days and predicts other cities are on his list: Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland and New York City—all places that just happen to vote blue and elect Democrats.
Governor “Newscum”—yes, that’s what our nation’s top executive at his Aug. 11 news conference, called the top executive of our biggest state economy, the fourth biggest economy in the world—just requested on Aug. 6 that the federal government “provide the total cost to taxpayers for this unlawful deployment of 5,000 soldiers.”
Early on, the Pentagon testified to Congress that it would spend, oh, just about $134 million for the LA deployment.
https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/13/national-guard-dc-trump-economy-alligator-alcatraz-deportation-cost/]