Opoponax
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-send-military-against-immigrant-onslaught-142822665.html
This stuff is fodder for his intellectually deficient base. However, the constant threat to use the American military to perform tasks it's not meant for, particularly on American soil, is an ongoing theme for Trump. See, he can't use a given state's national guard without the approval of that state's governor. However, whether he can deploy federal troops on U.S. soil for this purpose is really not known. Suffice it to say that it's complicated and cases can be made on both sides (blech).
Even if his words are empty, they're only empty until they're not. Is there any doubt the GOP would support whatever action he decided to take? Read the comments in the comment section; his supporters would support murdering people who tried to cross the border, and it doesn't matter if it was done lawfully or not.
The whole thing reeks of lack of compassion, racism, violence, and has the potential to put the U.S. Army in our backyards for any imagined/advertised threat. I'm all over the place with this. Sorry. This is one of those things that scares the shit out of me.
Referring to a so-called caravan of several thousand Hondurans that has departed in hopes of reaching the United States, Trump claimed Democrats were to blame for an "assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador" with a caravan "INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS."
Trump tweeted that he would stop aid to the Central American states and said: "I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!"
This stuff is fodder for his intellectually deficient base. However, the constant threat to use the American military to perform tasks it's not meant for, particularly on American soil, is an ongoing theme for Trump. See, he can't use a given state's national guard without the approval of that state's governor. However, whether he can deploy federal troops on U.S. soil for this purpose is really not known. Suffice it to say that it's complicated and cases can be made on both sides (blech).
Even if his words are empty, they're only empty until they're not. Is there any doubt the GOP would support whatever action he decided to take? Read the comments in the comment section; his supporters would support murdering people who tried to cross the border, and it doesn't matter if it was done lawfully or not.
The whole thing reeks of lack of compassion, racism, violence, and has the potential to put the U.S. Army in our backyards for any imagined/advertised threat. I'm all over the place with this. Sorry. This is one of those things that scares the shit out of me.