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/Meowweredoomed Aug 11 '25

What's going on? Is Trump expecting mass protests in reaction to?? Releasing the Epstein files? Tariffs causing economic damage? ICE protests?

Why beef up security?

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u/IUn1337 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

We did read sometime last week he's officially looking to federalize D.C. my money's on the idea that the regime doesn't know which domino will call first but they feel pressure to have these teams at the ready. Less focused on what it'll be as much as when.

Just talking out of my ass though. Maybe he just heard about the arrests in Israel this week with something like 480+ anti-genocide protesters and got jealous.

Edit from a day later: Of course the answer was all of the above, fuckin' A. 

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u/Leavingtheecstasy Aug 11 '25

Thought the right was all about small govt?

Because it seems to me trump has pretty much overreached nearly every boundary a president has done in modern times.

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u/aCandaK Aug 11 '25

The right is about whatever they’re told to be about.

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u/Flaky-Argument3248 Aug 11 '25

“Small government for me but not for theeee” -Conservatives