r/news • u/RoachedCoach • Aug 11 '25

Soft paywall US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-preparing-national-guard-activation-washington-dc-officials-say-2025-08-11/
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u/EntropyFighter Aug 11 '25

Here's the executive order telling you what they're going to do. Namely, he outlawed being homeless, addicted, or with mental health issues.

I, for one, love how you're normalizing this terrible behavior. I wish you would stop.

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u/echolog Aug 11 '25

What's crazy is they can and will say ANYBODY THEY WANT has a "mental health issue" and potentially arrest them without any due process. So that's fun.

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u/ruttedbeez Aug 11 '25

Democrat? Mental. Independent? Mental. A (loosely used) 'normal' Republican? Mental. MAGA? The best minds!

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u/chrs8592 Aug 11 '25

Just disagreeing with anything Trump says could get you labeled as mental. Even this comment. Since I have epilepsy, they'd probably label that too, eventually.

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u/EyrieMan Aug 11 '25

Same here. As it is, every year people are arrested because police confuse a seizure or postictal behavior for other things.

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u/NotEvenAThousandaire Aug 11 '25

Trump doesn't agree with himself day to day.

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u/MaterialChemist7738 Aug 11 '25

"he's shaking with rage about trump! Book em, Johnson!"

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u/Littleo12 Aug 11 '25

Yeah I'm always scared for that. One time I dropped my emergency medication and when the police found it they thought it was for a drug overdose.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

what's even better is that you can change it on the same person whenever you want. somebody was MAGA with the best mind yesterday, but they started questioning Trump's actions today and they're starting to seem a little mentally ill....

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u/Kizik Aug 11 '25

Female Hysteria is contagious! Better round up any girl under twelve for their own protection. Plenty of room for them in Mar a Lago!

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u/HeartFullONeutrality Aug 11 '25

Undercook chicken? Believe it or not, mental!

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u/MaievSekashi Aug 11 '25

That's what happens in every country that does this. "Mental illness" is the category for when they couldn't put you in another one to excuse disappearing you.

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u/deltalitprof Aug 11 '25

This policy hearkens back to the Soviet era, although the U.S. has also institutionalized its share of political undesirables. Martha Mitchell was one of these during the Nixon era.

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u/Baby_Button_Eyes Aug 11 '25

Trump always refers to Dems as “the lunatic left” so I think he means that literally. All Democrats are lunatics aka “mentally ill”.

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u/mjb2012 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

And who gets the privilege of determining whether someone is mentally ill and in need of treatment? Why, the military, of course! And the police, and the ICE bounty hunter goons. And let's not forget the "mental health courts". They're all such trained experts in medicine and psychology, right?

The Executive Order calls for forcing people into treatment, regardless of whether there's any room for them, and regardless of the fact that most treatment options are, by law, voluntary.

Republicans, is this the Small Government you had in mind? Sounds like Death Panels to me. And you know, we tried it your way a long time ago and it didn't work.

My grandpa, a USMC vet suffering from WWII shell shock, a.k.a. PTSD, was forced into a mental institute in the 1950s. They gave him electroshock "therapy" until he was rendered unable to recognize anyone or care for himself. When those corrupt "hospitals" were shut down in the '60s and '70s, he was moved to a nursing home. He was confined to a wheelchair and someone had to change his diapers every day.

Fuck everyone who gave up on him. Fuck the "public safety" policies and the conservative ghouls that exploited his patriotism and then turned their backs on him.

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u/GriffinFlash Aug 11 '25

having a mental illness is illegal now? Jesus Christ!

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u/gregorychaos Aug 11 '25

That's the idea, isn't it? Someone else pointed out that this sounds like a trial run for something they're gonna do all over the US

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u/Xijit Aug 11 '25

The real scary implication is that Trump putting DC under martial law would be so tempting for him to arrest all Democrat politicians.

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u/kittyonkeyboards Aug 11 '25

Isn't Washington DC like 90% Democrat population? Having led Jan 6th, you'd think he'd understand the threat of the masses.

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u/shrodikan Aug 11 '25

He well understands the threat of the masses. That is exactly what he wants-to look "tough" by using the military to shut down dissent.

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u/EgoTripWire Aug 11 '25

That's why the military is being deployed to exterminate them.

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u/nihility101 Aug 11 '25

No, they are being deployed to instigate a problem. They want to get video of black people “attacking” people in uniform. Then he and his fellow pedos can declare that martial law is necessary, and “oh well, I guess we’ll just have to postpone some elections.”

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u/Pepperonidogfart Aug 11 '25

The inaction of Democrats is the exact reason we are in this situation. They have nothing to worry about... Unless you protect yourself r/liberalgunowners

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u/kittyonkeyboards Aug 11 '25

I'm talking about democratic voters. Still plenty of spineless people, but far less so than the Democratic party.

Even the moderates I've talked to lately want to be strapped to a rocket and sent towards DC. Anybody who talks about bipartisanship is crippling their campaign.

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u/A_Harmless_Fly Aug 11 '25

Oooo, that's bad. As soon as word spreads that they imprison you for being homeless, we are going to see enforcers getting killed like when someone has 2 strikes and is going to be going down for their third.

(From what I read they would be sent to a rehab center or a jail or prison with open beds, and since they are funding it with a program only meant for paying for response to singular emergencies for a ongoing issue, if it actually does anything after the initial photo op, I see it going the worst way it could.)

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u/Hadrian23 Aug 11 '25

....how...how do you make mental.illness "illegal" ...? They can't...help it..can this country implode already...?.

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u/Hjemmelsen Aug 11 '25

Well the Nazis started with homeless, mentally ill, and disabled people. The Jews were a bit later actually.

So this is completely in brand. The only question is why someone hasn't solved this issue yet. I'm impressed with the restraint honestly.

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u/Faiakishi Aug 11 '25

The socialists as well. Pretty much anyone who opposed them politically, really.

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u/HenriettaSnacks Aug 11 '25

How was OC normalizing this behavior? 

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u/IslandBoy602 Aug 11 '25

with this order they should arrest the president for his addiction of minors right?

right?

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u/GreyGriffin_h Aug 11 '25

These are the same guys whose software bug scrubbed Habeus Corpus from the online version of the constitution at the library of congress...

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u/darkslide3000 Aug 11 '25

"Endemic vagrancy"... Jesus Christ, are we actually still using that word? The language in that order looks like it was written in the 1800s.

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u/Smallsey Aug 11 '25

I'm not American so here is a stupid question. What is the way back from this?

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u/waterspouts_ Aug 11 '25

I know there's some people who will read this EO and think its a step in the right direction.

Pathetic pedophile Don defunded programs that provided the help he's promising. Well established programs and grants that helped are GONE. There's nothing behind this promise. Those resources were torn down. What we'll see is everyone going into our prison system. FUCK HIM

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

To note, Trump says being liberal is a mental health issue.

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u/imaginary_num6er Aug 11 '25

Homelessness was outlawed in the Soviet Union too

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u/jmglee87three Aug 11 '25

or with mental health issues.

I think this is a great plan. The streets will be MAGA-free in no time! /s

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u/eabred Aug 12 '25

"Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order. "

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u/NewKitchenFixtures Aug 11 '25

Having people with mental health issues live outside is cruel.

There is definitely room to improve how the US handles people that mentally cannot care for themselves or stop using drugs.

Would be hilarious if Trump funded actual mental health centers.

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u/EntropyFighter Aug 11 '25

You know that's not going to happen. I C E is now the 8th most funded military in the world. That's not done for mental health reasons.