President Trump has announced the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime, testing the limits of presidential power by using military force in cities.
    • wuphysics87@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I moved from memphis a few months ago. I have a lot of friends there. It’s pretty fucked and there’s nothing I can do about it

  • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    He’s still sticking to something resembling the law which is odd in a way. Why bother? He already violated it with LA. The liberals have all collectively bent the knee or committed mass suicide since January, so why bother pretending to care that the Illinois governor said “no.” Yeah it would result if a possibly insane situation and “constitutional crisis” but is that not what these guys are purposely doing anyway? They’re just breaking all the institutions without much of anything seemingly planned on the other side. Nothing beyond lofty meaningless rhetoric anyway. The dumbest thing possible.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I think the simplest answer is just that they’re a pack of grifters out to do as much graft as possible and get away with it, and understand that what they publicly do is just kayfabe albeit a brutal one that crushes the innocent beneath it constantly and by design. The may understand that just declaring “there’s no law that says a president can’t do crimes!” with a shit eating grin while their frenemies splutter in indignation and insist there is such a law may be working out for them so far but if they actually just ratchet up the violence then regardless of what their opponents do their own internal rivalries for position and graft opportunities are going to turn deadly and they’ll get eaten alive by their own.

      They seem earnestly terrified of the idea some of their would-be victims might fight back as well, but at least some of them have to be aware that it’s their own followers who are doing all the violence and that there are these deep conflicts between their internal factions and bitter interpersonal rivalries between everyone with an ounce of power. Like if they set the standard of open roving death squads, then suddenly they’ve got to be worried about what their coworkers are going to do when there’s an argument over who gets a specific share of the graft pie.