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The new American police state. Brought to you by people in uniform that were just following orders. Sounds so familiar.

You couldn't find a more flaccid headline?

are we starting to sense that Gestapo feeling yet?

Think of the more effective uses there are for billions of dollars.

Interesting end-date, eh? I'm sure nothing untoward about that, right? Right? Er... r i g h t ????

"challenging democratic norms" Masked thugs are kidnapping people off the street and shipping them to concentration camps. They are murdering people who protest.

For what exactly?! This is a con.

Fascism

I remember when NPR was a trusted news source, and a place journalists clamored to work for. Getting a job at NPR meant that you were at the top of your game How sad that they are nothing more than stenographers repeating propaganda.

You guys are just…ugh, man. Pitiful.

"No one in the park seemed to take note" is revealing but not in the way it sounds. We do take note, because they're *armed troops* in our city, but we also make a point of *not being obvious about it* because they are OCCUPYING ARMED TROOPS looming and we'd prefer not to draw attention from them.

“Challenging democratic norms”. Fucking, really? That’s what you choose to call an occupied city? NPR is a fucking joke. Literal propaganda. You deserve to go out of business. Coward ass pathetic journalism.

@npr.org - “challenging democratic norms” is so weakly worded it loses the meaning of what is happening. At best it is piss poor writing. Reality is it sides with a power grab to end democracy.

Because the ballroom bunker won't be finished until then.

Because it’s all part of Trump’s plan to Bankrupt America! (It’s the only thing he’s good at)!

Clown ass soldiers working a clown ass job. The troops can get wrecked.

Is that what it’s doing

I am super curious, what is your source for these quotes?

You actually mean illegal

The pathetic headline "challenging democratic norms" was certainly a choice

wimpy-ass headline.

He wants the guard there to make sure that the moment that he decides to go full dictator he’ll already have the guard there. Also why he is turning the White House into a tacky gold covered military installation. The guard ain’t leaving.

Washington is now a military district, home to an autocrat

There needs to be a national reckoning for all those that have driven our country to this historic shameful depth.

When Trump completes his military coup and installs himself as president for life.

No, it’s not “challenging” democratic norms. Having armed thugs illegally occupying my home town is shattering democ norms.

“Look at these beautiful national parks! Who wants to start the bidding?”

"Challenging democratic norms" SERIOUSLY??!!?? This is blatantly unconstitutional, undemocratic, and un-American. @npr.org - please show us you understand and take seriously the role you play in this moment Your reach and influence is vast This is the moment for integrity

Not 'challenging' - *against* democratic norms. That's what fascists do, and dare anyone (especially the press) to call them on it. And when they receive no pushback, no call to defend democratic norms, they make another step against the norms until there's nothing left.

“It” isn’t an “it.” It is a “he.” Deployment doesn’t just pop up like mushrooms after a spring rain. It is Trump that is challenging, changing, breaking, attacking democratic norms. His name deserves to be in the lede.

oh no, not democratic norms!!

"It's challenging democratic norms" is some weak ass shit. They're fascist shock troops and NPR pretending it's something less than that is a failure of journalism.

I recently heard a suggestion that they should at least be building or maintaining infrastructure or actually doing something that benefits the nation’s capital

They should all go home to be with their families and work in their own communities.

"Challenging democratic norms". Half-assed cowardly reporting like this is why I ignore you assholes every pledge drive.

If they’ve been misrepresenting the nature of all American conflicts abroad since at least since I served, they’ll happily misrepresent the deployment of NatGuard domestically

“Challenging democratic norms” 🤮 Here, let me help Your editors and headline writers, it’s ; “Violating democratic norms” Please stop being enablers of Trump with your milquetoast editorial choices

No, it's blatant fascism.

We won’t even get that far. He’s gonna do something wild at the midterms and shit I’d gonna get real dicey. Mark this.

*fat.

as we saw with the catering truck incident this is all because HE is afraid.

They are assigned to guard his unwanted boondoggle projects.

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"Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth want to spend billions of dollars to continue their illegal & unconstitutional deployment of the National Guard against the public." Do not pretend this is anything less than the crime it is.