r/pics • u/nbcnews But, like, actually • 13d ago

Politics OC: Members of the National Guard deployed on National Mall in Washington, DC amid Trump's crackdown

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u/Genillen 13d ago

If you want to give DC a hand, please contact your representative and tell them to vote against the expected request to extend the deployment past 45 days.

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u/CryptographerShot213 13d ago

We just took a family trip there with our kids and got home 1.5 weeks ago, thankfully. I can’t imagine walking around from monument to monument with the NG stationed everywhere like it’s North Korea.

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u/martycee00 13d ago

You don’t like seeing service members?

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u/dickWithoutACause 13d ago

Deployed on american soil presumably for the sole purpose of law enforcement against their fellow countrymen?

No I very much do not like seeing that.

Or maybe this is all just bluster and optics to drive a narrative and steer the news cycle.

In that case I also do not like seeing my tax dollars wasted doing that.

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u/martycee00 13d ago

More inclined to assume it’s smoke and mirrors to distract. It riles up the stupid.