As I mentioned in the WDT, I was in the DC area last weekend getting the kid settled in for her last year of college. Prior to our trip I was wondering what kind of military presence we’d run into. Turns out we saw it almost immediately. The Americans on this board will be happy to hear that our tax dollars are being used to house military personnel in local hotels. There were maybe two dozen soldiers (MPs) at our hotel. We saw them in the lobby, loading into vans for transport, having breakfast, etc. They looked young and bored, for the most part. If you didn’t know better you would have thought they were there on vacation, if a tad overdressed. Saturday night we went into DC. We saw no National Guard in any of the Metro stations , including those stations named in news reports as being specifically targeted . Which was fine by me- I’ve been going to DC for 40 years and the Metro there is one of the cleanest and safest systems I’ve ever seen. We headed to an area in south DC that has tons of bars and restaurants. It was a great area, and there we saw a cluster of three NG, looking even younger than the ones at the hotel, talking to each other and watching the musicians. I didn’t see them interact with anyone. We also saw three DEA agents ( it seems counter productive that they wore clothing identifying themselves as such) and they were just hanging out and eating. Going back to the Metro station we did see another cluster of DEA and National Guard at the entrance ( but none actually in the station). They didn’t interact with anyone, just stood around looking bored. All in all it was pretty low key. You could tell none of them were interested in being there and were just killing time. Aside from the obvious constitutional and political implications it wasn’t threatening or imposing. Maybe I was jaded because of my post 9/11 experiences. For years you couldn’t move around New York city without seeing military personnel holding rifles and ready for action, so it really didn’t seem odd to me.
When the joke doesn't land: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lxussdw7ua25 Probably the only time I've felt a twinge of sympathy for Doocy.
He's moving Space Force from Colorado to Alabama. Real earth-shattering news. I wonder if the Epstein files are in Alabama?
We're relocating Space Force Command from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. It was something Trump tried to do in his first term, and got reversed by Biden because it's a waste of money when everything is already set up in Colorado, and forcing servicemembers to live in Alabama is cruel (technically it was subjecting them to Alabama's abortion laws, but same difference). Trump also stated this was at least in part because Colorado has mail-in voting, which makes me wonder if that violates the ol' "you can do it for no reason, but you can't do it for a bad reason" rule and could be enough to get an injunction. Like the Commander in Chief can move it just because he wants to, but he can't move it in order to coerce a state out of its 10th Amendments rights. We'll see.
He also announced they shot at a drug ship from Venezuela. Easier target for the Dept of War than Greenland or Canada.
He also stated that the video of stuff being dumped out of the White House window was AI, after the administration said it was just a contractor removing trash.
All the more reason to bankrupt their tourism industry. Fuck that place entirely. Canada should step in— right now— and ban any Florida resident from entering the country.