US military CANNOT act as law enforcement on US soil--soooooo, those 5,200 military members

[niyad]

will be standing around doing nothing, but costing the taxpayers a boatload.

but, palpatine lite is talking about suspending posse comitatus and habeus corpus. let the tyranny grow apace.

[Bfd]

2. Maybe they can build the internment camps while they wait for their next mission

from der frump

[niyad]

7. shhhhhh. . don't give those fucking monsters any ideas.

[Bfd]

11. I actually read about this idea yesterday. The response was that THIS is not the job of our military

but for enough gov't contract cash from Trump, there's probably a few private cos already eyeing the job.

[niyad]

12. erik prince of course.

[Bfd]

21. Yup. First & only name that I thought of also.

Maybe they can also contract out the permanent residents of the camps to be used as laborers in the farm fields.
Like back in the slave days picking cotton.
The brilliance of MAGA, right? You know its probably already in the works.

Cripe they make me sick.

[anarch]

3. but it's an INVASION!!@!@!!#

I mean look at them, they are clearly a menace...we need to treat this like the fuckin' exomorph from 'Alien,' man! Call in an airstrike! Our nation is in danger!!1!!1

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[CrispyQ]

4. Is that a gun that young man is carrying?

Oh wait, it's a stroller.

I'm more afraid of the angry white men in our country than this group.

[niyad]

8. oww, I am terrified!!

[anarch]

19. I would venture to guess that if three of these "Horrid Caravans of Illegal Brown People" were

accepted one and all into the United States, with asylum status (or even perhaps under a new type of B1-style work-visa, if you wanted to be real capitalist about it, but with the chance to become U.S. Citizens, and accept all the responsibility that should come with that franchise), and allowed to move wherever the hell they pleased within the U.S....like maybe 2 out of 100 redhats who are so upset about this situation would ever even come into contact with any of them.

More likely, the bulk will just be turned away at the border, as usual. It is fucking disgusting that the Republicans would be making a campaign issue out of this. It's just completely unmasked racism/white fright.

Yes, I realize it's symbolic, but what the actual fuck is wrong with people?

[A DAY IN THE LIFE]

5. Except in the case of an invasion

Hence, why Trump and Repubs have been calling it an invasion. The Dems need to file suit now, claiming it violates federal law. Or next Wedesday.

[MineralMan]

6. Maybe they'll be ordered to invade Mexico.

And push the "invaders" back. If the President orders it, they can do it. And Trump is stupid enough to do something like that. Worse, Trump doesn't know what he can and can't do legally. He's fully off his nut.

[MiniMe]

13. Add to that his lawyers suck

So tRump could say "Can I do this?" And his lawyers will say Yes automatically. Just like they did when they said he could write an executive order to override a Constitutional Amendment.

[MineralMan]

23. Trump likes "Yes" men.

He only listens to those who agree with him and reinforce his viewpoint.

[lame54]

9. What happens when (not if) an soldier shoots a asylum seeker...

Seriously
Will anything happen?

[niyad]

10. no court martial, for sure.

[barbtries]

22. if (not when) that happens,

yes. pandemonium will ensue. i don't know about everyone on DU, but if the republicans steal the election in 5 days, or if anybody from the USA kills these refugees, splits up their families, refuses to recognize that these are asylum seekers not "illegals" - well i mean there are many things, many bad things, done by this administration without any checks from congress because of feckless republicans.
i'm struggling to get this out. personally i'm thinking general strike. in fact i've been contemplating the reality that it could cost me my job and thinking it would be worth it.

i was in LA during the Simi Valley (Rodney King) trial. A terrible outcome for a murdered 15-year-old's killer happened while the trial was going on - the shopkeeper who killed her was given probation. It was like the city suspended, holding its breath, waiting for justice from the trial going on in Simi Valley. When the police were acquitted, the riots commenced. I don't think very many people were surprised.

I feel as if the country now is waiting with bated breath for this election to be over. If it goes bad it bodes very badly for the future of our democracy, and if we can't change the trajectory with our vote we'll have to do something else. not riots, but massive marches and a general strike. that's what i'm thinking.

[marble falls]

14. But they will look sharp on photos and the videos.

[niyad]

15. passing out candy to kids, helping older people across the streets. . .

[marble falls]

16. I can seriously think of no better use for troops than that, except disaster relief. The US ...

military creates tooo many disasters, but they are the best natural disaster relief force on the planet.

[struggle4progress]

17. It's a military parade! You like parades! Everybody likes parades!

[malaise]

18. I'm beginning to think this was planned ages ago

Hence the cancelation of the military parade which was supposed to be next week.

[niyad]

20. now that is a very interesting, very scary, thought. is the orange virus actually capable

of long-range planning?

[MineralMan]

24. I'm pretty sure that a lot of this stuff will fade away after Tuesday.

It's all stuff that is designed to fire up Trump's base, really. Once that's no longer needed, I suspect that he's going to pull back on a lot of it. Suddenly, we'll hear that all those troops won't be needed, that the caravan is shrinking, etc.

If we get back control of the House, he'll have no choice. And if Mueller moves along the path he seems to be on, Trump may have other things to worry about. The Mueller probe has been very quiet leading up to the Midterm election. Again, once that's over, the gloves may come off and new indictments, a subpoena of Trump and other events may occur.

We just have to get through Tuesday and have a good outcome I think. Then, things will start falling a little more back into place.

So I believe, anyhow.

[malaise]

26. Agree

Please Mr Mueller

[MineralMan]

28. Oh, I'm sure work has been going on apace

in his offices. They're probably eagerly awaiting next week. Perhaps a big Friday news dump in the works...

[DFW]

25. Trump probably thought...

Hey, if the East Germans could do it, I can do it!

[niyad]

27. trump and "thought" in the same sentence??

[DFW]

29. Put it down to artistic license

After all, it's already a stretch assuming he knew there was an East Germany.

[niyad]

31. that was my second thought!

[UTUSN]

30. K&R

[tikka]

32. Report it to the government Fraud, Waste and Abuse Hotline eom

[Separation]

33. Here is but a few of issues

Obviously, our President has lost it, this is straight from the horse's mouth.

Official Website of the Department of Homeland Security

Who Is Eligible to Apply for Asylum? You may apply for asylum if you are at a port of entry or in the United States. You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within one year of your arrival to the United States. extraordinary circumstances relating to your delay in filing

This means they HAVE TO COME TO AMERICA!

I saw another post that he said something to the effect that if somebody throws rocks, Trump said our military will respond as if they had weapons. This is another heaping load of shit from the President. You will see cases of insubordination and Officers directly refusing to obey or convey those orders to the junior enlisted.