Sorry, were you expecting the former president to tell everyone to chill out?
    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      This one’s even better because he’s calling for state governors to support a treasonous one. What saddens me is that if this does break out into full blown civil war, a lot of national guardsmen are going to be in the area of operations. Using people as human shields for his political agenda yet again.

      • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
        6·
        8 months ago

        The idealist in me wants to believe that the national guardsmen would be unwilling to kill their fellow Americans because a tangerine and governer hot wheels said so

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          Well, even if all of them went off the reservation, there’s only 1500 of them. They’ll never disobey a direct order from the Commander in Chief but if they did, they wouldn’t pose too big of a threat.

  • Rufus Q. Bodine III@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    8 months ago

    Pathetic, to abuse national guardsmen like this. Its a big disruption to their family and their employers to send them on an idiotic,grandstanding boondoggle like this.

  • skozzii@lemmy.ca
    461·
    8 months ago

    Ok, so now he is literally rallying troops, we still gonna just sit around?

  • donuts@kbin.social
    432·
    8 months ago

    Trump leading another insurrection, but this time against the judicial branch instead of the legislative branch???

    SHOCKED fucking PIKACHU fucking FACE.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      111·
      8 months ago

      No no no! He means send the national guard to tour a government building, take selfies, and leave in an orderly manner. You’ve got the wrong idea. You must be Antifa.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        11·
        8 months ago

        Technically treason would require working with a foreign country or head of state. Things like selling state secrets to another government. While I don’t doubt that he’s a Russian agent, (we all agree Putin has some big dirt on him, right?) simply inciting a civil war would probably be considered an insurrection or coup, instead of treason.

        • kewjo@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason

          Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

          treason is more about declarations of war, a foreign party may be involved but it’s not required.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    301·
    8 months ago

    Given how much of a hard time as he has with pretty minor inconveniences, I think it’s safe to say he has no fucking clue what the real outcomes are that he’s trying to encourage.

    I’m old enough to have family and family-of-friends who were personally around in WW2 and the occupation right after. Long story short, war’s not fun for anyone involved. If you don’t like having people say things about you in the newspapers, having people shooting at you or losing your home or not having anything to eat is going to be a real drag.

    • MD756@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      War must be a lot easier when you know that you’re not going to be on the frontline, or something idk I’m not a general

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        4·
        8 months ago

        Yeah. I think part of his thinking is that the suffering will happen to other people, and he’ll be safely insulated, far away. I won’t say he’s crazy for thinking that. That said:

        1. A lot of the people who are in a position to support him will be squarely in sufferingtown.
        2. A lot of dictators meet with bad ends. E.g. Putin supposedly obsessively worries over what happened to Gaddafi in the end (and Gaddafi was a hell of a lot more capable at this game than Trump is.)
        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Not to mention he’s protected by the Sevret Service.

          I doubt very much that they’ve all gone full traitor. All it takes is one guy whose kept some tiger balm on his lip and kept his mouth shut to put a few rounds in his head.

          Or more likely, to arrange for not-traitors to scoop him on the way to some rally.

      • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        8 months ago

        Florida’s National Guard is target practice for the US military. They’d be on Trump’s doorstep in hours.

    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
      3·
      8 months ago

      Trump and his lackeys would never put themselves in actual danger, that’s what the poors are for

  • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    8 months ago

    This fucker literally encouraging states to fight the federal government… alternatively known as engaging in civil war.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    27·
    8 months ago

    Well, maybe we could ask Bush to call upon all willing states to tell their national guard to take up finger painting. Or maybe Bill Clinton could ask all willing states to give trump a wedgie.

    But that won’t happen, not because it’s silly, but because ex-presidents have no fucking authority to tell the states to do a damn thing.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
    23·
    8 months ago

    Very diplomatic and cool headed. He unites everyone with such poised insight that no one is able to see without his knowledge.

    /s

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      3·
      8 months ago

      He’s the old man with plenty of violent followers who hang on his every word. He’s not expecting any actual National Guard troops from other states to be mobilized. This is a call for the same people who invaded the Capitol to assemble in Texas and dare federal forces to try and move them.