Trump quickly sent National Guard troops to L.A. to calm immigration protests.
Trump refused to call in troops on Jan. 6 when his supporters stormed the Capitol.
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The US has been on this road for a while.
From 2020:
Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least Tuesday. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation about why they are being arrested, and driving off.
Steve
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Recall that Eisenhower called out the USArmy to enforce desegregation in Little Rock schools. This is nothing new.
Peaceful demonstrations are allowed but when violence is involved govt must take action to restore order.
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Right and James Rhodes called out the national guard on the Kent protesters 
But I do wonder why the national guard was not called out by Trump on 1/6. Why would a President that is so willing to use force refuse to call them out then? It’s baffling no?
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Posted last October, some would say it holds up well (sound in English)..
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So Trump called in the National Guard without consulting with Newsome. This is just a bid to take the feud with Musk out of the headlines and the shocking news that Trump was in the Epstein files. I wonder if it will work? LOL
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The authoritarianism has been underway since Trump’s inauguration. You know Trump has been looking for an excuse to declare martial law. He is an autocrat.
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That’s pretty much what I said in my original post, which has now been flagged.
Stay vigilant.
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It has been in progress at least since the #43 regime. The latest affront to USian “values”, ABC News has suspended one of their senior correspondents, for making comments about Stephen Miller, that TIG did not like.
Steve
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The former chief of U.S. Capitol Police says security officials at the House and Senate rebuffed his early requests to call in the National Guard ahead of a demonstration in support of President Trump that turned into a deadly attack on
Sund says he requested assistance six times ahead of and during the attack on the Capitol. Each of those requests was denied or delayed, he says.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser also wanted a light police presence at the Capitol. She reportedly wanted to avoid a similar scenario as last summer, when federal forces responded to demonstrators opposed to police abuses who assembled near the White House.
Congress.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/politics/miscues-confusion-national-guard-delay-jan-6.html
As a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the commanders and members of the District of Columbia National Guard waited in frustration for hours for the order to help put down the riot unfolding just minutes from where they were stationed.
What General Walker did not know as he fumed was that his superiors at the Pentagon had already agreed that the Guard needed to be deployed but, because of a huge miscommunication, hadn’t conveyed the order.
It was only through a bit of chance — and hours later — that the command made its way to General Walker, when a colleague who had heard there was an order from on high to deploy walked by a teleconference screen and was surprised to see General Walker still sitting and waiting at 5:09 p.m.
The colleague, General James C. McConville, the Army chief of staff, “came back into the call and said, ‘Hey, you’re a go,’” according to General Walker’s testimony.
On top of that, the military had adopted a particularly cautious approach to deploying the Guard, with several top commanders openly worried about the “optics” of such a mobilization in part because of concerns that President Donald J. Trump could misuse the Guard, and they approached the situation as akin to sending troops into an overseas war zone.
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I find this hilarious. So you are saying that they stopped the President from calling out the national guard because they were afraid that he might misuse them? So why are they allowing it now? Where are the optics now? I call B.S. the same people allowed him to walk down to Ashburton House and hold a bible while a protest was going on.
This all smells very fishy and someone is trying to blow smoke.
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Hegseth said he is calling out the active duty Marine Corps. They already have 2000 National Guard. Doesn’t that sound a little like over kill? Sort of like when I shoot gophers with my 30.06. Yes they are varmints, yes they need to be kept in control but a .22 would suffice. This is all for show and the base is probably eating it up.
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It would not shock me if Kegseth has his head up in a place where the sun don’t shine and is talking nonsense from there. Namely, that he doesn’t know the difference between the National Guard and active duty.
—Peter
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Could be Peter, but he was in the military and he did say specifically Active duty Marine Corps. Hard to say he didn’t mean it.
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Being as he served in the Minnesota Army National Guard, I suspect he knows the difference quite well.
DB2
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The USMC has about 40,000 troops based at Camp Pendleton, in San Diego County. Keeping Guardsman in uniform for an extended period would be a “burden” to the JCs, where the Guardsmen have day jobs. Active duty troops, can be kept on the streets for weeks, months, or years, because being in uniform is their full time job. So, speaking hypothetically, if TIG wanted to declare martial law in CA, usurping the authority of the elected state and local governments, he has the manpower in state to do it. There are other USMC, USN, and Army bases in the state with a variety of missions. But Pendleton is the one with a major concentration of combat troops.
Steve
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Steve the National Guard has been serving in Iraq and Afghanistan for years. So if what you were surmising was true they never would have been over there. Plus I know National Guardsman that serve just in the National Guard.
One of my coworkers at RS was in the Michigan Guard. He left RS for another job. He stopped by the RS, maybe a year later, talking about the issue he had with his new job. When he applied, he told the new “JC” that he was in the Guard, so needed to take off for a couple weeks, for training, every summer. The “JC” recited the usual line about “we support the Guard and Reserve”. But, when the guy said he needed to be off for Guards, the following summer, the “JC” said that if he left for Guards, he would no longer have a job at that company. I stand by my statement, “JCs” don’t like their employees leaving for extended deployments. Besides, using the Cali Guard would potentially mean Guardsmen poking their bayonets at their friends and neighbors. Remember a proposal put forward by the regime, some months ago, to use Guardsmen from “friendly” states, to suppress other states that were not so friendly?
Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s first-term immigration agenda who will return in a top White House role, said in an interview last year with a right-wing podcast that National Guard troops from cooperative states could potentially be deployed to what he characterized as “unfriendly” states to assist with deportations, which could trigger legal battles.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-trump-would-crack-down-immigration-second-term-2023-11-14/
Of course, using active duty troops, recruited from around the country, to suppress “unfriendly” states, would also largely avoid the issue of the troops poking their bayonets at their friends and neighbors.
Steve
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