That pig! He should have told them to take their helmets off and try to get hit in the head.Trump today encouraged our soldiers to respond with force if caravaners throw rocks. Setting the stage for bloodshed.
That pig! He should have told them to take their helmets off and try to get hit in the head.
That pig! He should have told them to take their helmets off and try to get hit in the head.
Trump today encouraged our soldiers to respond with force if caravaners throw rocks, setting the stage for bloodshed. His hate has really gone through the roof this week. Why not try to diffuse the situation?
Trump today encouraged our soldiers to respond with force if caravaners throw rocks, setting the stage for bloodshed. His hate has really gone through the roof this week. Why not try to diffuse the situation?
Because the caravan is over a month away, and the elections are next week.
Well you could argue he's doing it to rally his base for the election, but he probably sees this as a great time to float the most insane power trips just to test the blowback. Constantly testing.
What's gnarly is he's like a parent who teaches his kids(his base) aggression(hate); eventually the kids act out on that aggression. We're only two years in. He's not gonna stop after the election.
Trump would absolutely love a civil war should he lose the next election, if he makes it that far.
I am well aware of how preposterous that statement sounds. The man is DRNUk with power.
Holy **** these people look incredibly dangerous. Thank god for Donald Trump sending thousands of troops to protect us from this threat.
Dude i believe it or not trust in the ordinary decency of the American people. The country will survive Trump the question is what damage will he do to your institutions and political culture and who is willing on both sides to start repairing this? The right in this country have become wreckers, all they are capable and willing to do is wreck, it is doing an astonishing amount of damage to our society and country. They learnt these methods from the Tea party.
I agree about our decency, just meant Trump would burn it all down for his uncontrollable narcissism. We are in a serious conundrum; as you said, the damage will be difficult to repair. Wish we could start over with a clean slate in Congress.
You're talking about damage to your country too? They learned it from our Tea Party?
Apparently today Dump informed the press that the armed forces would mow down the caravan with machine gun fire if any of them dared throw a rock across the border. That elicited this response from the former joint chiefs:
So much winning, right repubs?
You must be talking about some order that has not been given.OK last one. Ordering soldiers to fire on civilians armed with rocks is a war crime, just an FYI.
Apparently today Dump informed the press that the armed forces would mow down the caravan with machine gun fire if any of them dared throw a rock across the border. That elicited this response from the former joint chiefs:
So much winning, right repubs?
It's fascinating how many different reasons the left can come up with that our border ought to remain porous.Those hyping the violence of members of the caravans have not always been honest in their claims. Which might come as no surprise from the folks that have also promoted so many crazy conspiracy theories for years now.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/graphic-photos-falsely-linked-to-caravan/
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/energize-base-trump-caravan
"Congressional Democrats claim the military forces would be of little help due to an existing law that prevents active-duty U.S. military personnel from acting as a police force on American soil. They say Trump is using the military as a political prop to rile up his base to limit Democratic gains in the House and possibly pick up Senate seats when voters head to the polls on Tuesday."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...63dbc6-ddf9-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html
"President Trump’s decision to send thousands of military personnel to the southern border to help turn back a group of 3,500 migrants violates a deep principle of Anglo-American law.
The principle is the prohibition of military involvement in domestic law enforcement. Its abridgement was prominent among the charges laid on King George in the Declaration of Independence — Jefferson wrote that the crown “has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” And its common law roots are far stronger and older, dating at least to Magna Carta.
The legal provision that encapsulates the principle is the Posse Comitatus Act. The law was passed in 1878, following widespread, heavy-handed use of Union troops to exercise typical law enforcement functions in the former Confederate states. In its current form, it provides criminal penalties for anyone who “willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus” — that is, as an auxiliary of law enforcement — “or otherwise to execute the laws.” There is an exception for circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress, which Congress invoked for example in authorizing limited military involvement in the war on drugs.
Its obscure name and rare deployment notwithstanding, the Posse Comitatus Act enshrines the bedrock democratic idea that civil society is separate from and superior to military force, and that regulation of citizens by military is antithetical to liberty.
Civil law enforcement is governed by constitutional protections and accountability to the court. Military force is governed by the law of war and the imperative of national defense against other militaries. They serve critically different functions, practically and morally; and they ought not overlap."