Fascism is here. Make no mistake about it.

[Botany]

Six Republican governors sending National Guard troops to D.C.

Six GOP governors are sending National Guard troops to assist in Trump's D.C. crime crackdown, even though crime levels in major cities in some of those states are higher than in the U.S. capital.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/20/nx-s1-5507080/six-republican-governors-sending-national-guard-troops-to-d-c

[Irish_Dem]

1. The ass kissing never stops.

Makes me sick to my stomach.

What bastards.

[dalton99a]

2. America is in the full grip of tyranny - as promised.

[Wednesdays]

3. The Soviet Union boasted about their low crime rates.

You couldn't look up on the street without getting bashed in the head by a militsiya thug, but hey, they didn't have much crime!

[2naSalit]

4. Really can't...

Say what I'm thinking but I'll bet I'm not the only one thinking it.

[thought crime]

5. That's a thought crime.

[2naSalit]

6. Discovery and...

Proof will be fun!

[Hornedfrog2000]

7. No no just wait

Our leaders are cooking up some real zingers for social media. That should take care of it.

[hadEnuf]

8. 5 of the 6 states sending troops to DC were former Confederate states.

Tell me there isn't some symbolism in that.

[Botany]

9. And aren't the mayors of Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and Chicago all black too?

Trump making America “white again.”

[hadEnuf]

14. Of course. It goes with the Confederate thing and war that they lost 160 years ago.

[Martin Eden]

10. It's a CRIME, not a "crime crackdown."

If their real intent was to reduce crime in cities, provide better funding & training for year-round law enforcement, not this authoritarian theater of national guard troops.

Long term, make public schools, mentoring, and career opportunities a higher priority.

[Botany]

12. School lunch and school breakfast programs help with crime too

This is just fascism.

[Martin Eden]

13. Exactly. It's fascism, not actually trying to help The People.

Any adult of normal intelligence who is not deluded or willfully blind can see that.

Plenty of stupid MAGAts, but many who can see what this is are cheering it on. They hate the same people, and won't see beyond their deplorable gratification to the day when they themselves are on the wrong end of fascism's insatiable need for power and control.

[ashredux]

11. It's all just a test to see who Trump can count on.

This could get really nasty…