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Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests

apnews.com Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned 'No Kings' protests

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, along with more than 2,000 state police.

The No Kings protests on Saturday are national. There is probably one near you.

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So in protests where there are no police officers getting killed or no civilians being attacked we’re gonna go ahead and deploy the National Guard, but in national weather emergencies we’re not gonna give money to California or Arkansas? I think that tells me everything I need to know about this current administration.
- It's theatre. Plain and simple. They just want the spectacle of unruly violent riots and the whether that happens or not, they will make it look like it happened. Nothing makes a protest look like a warzone like the literal military being there.
  
  This theatre is exactly why it’s so important to fly American flags during the protests. Put away the Mexican and Palestinian flags, so the news can’t spin it as a foreign invasion. Fox News has been cherry picking footage of burning cars with Mexican flags in the background, and going “look how dangerous these Mexicans are! It’s a foreign invasion, and Trump is using the national guard to defend America.” That “foreign invasion” is extremely specific wording, because that’s how Trump is going to justify all of the crazy despotic bullshit.
  Make it abundantly clear that this is American troops, deployed on American soil, against American protesters. MLK Jr was extremely particular about American flags being in the crowds whenever he marched. There are American flags somewhere in the crowd, because he ensured that his protests were full of them. He wanted to be sure that history wouldn’t get spun to make it seem like the protesters weren’t American citizens. He wanted the world to know that America was repressing its own citizens, and he didn’t want the government to be able to handwave it away with the “that’s not me” defense.
  
  What people believe is more important than what actually is.
- Also, that time we had a literal insurrection with people threatening to hang elected officials

America is beyond fucked. I said in November after the rapist won that there wouldn’t be an America by the end of his term.
I think he’s accelerated it and there won’t be an America at the end of 2025.
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
Fuck you Trump, die already.
- White is not as inclusive as it sounds. Don't worry they'll find reasons to round up them folk too.
  
  Bro they put a white Canadian woman in custody without access to the outside world.
  https://globalnews.ca/news/11080371/canadian-woman-detained-ice-example-immigration-border/
  
  Is whiteness a stack and they'll pop Irish and Italian off the top?
- Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
  So like America has always been?
  
  Don't pretend it can't get worse
- @remindme 2026-01-01
  
  Does that actually work?
  @remindme 2025-06-13
- Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
  Im most of these things but also gay so I'll be in a camp before most especially after the Southern Baptist convention votes
  
  Fuck, the only thing on the list I'm not is rich and I'm fucking scared of the Southern Baptists.
  
  Camping does sound nice in the summer months at least.
- American protests tend to die down after a few weeks unless there is constant new irritation applied.
  Continuous mass roundups of people with indefinite detentions, in harsh conditions will probably help keep this protesting active.
  But I don’t see how it can get much worse. The police and federal agencies are pretty much at maximum limits for being evil for them. New people will have to be recruited to do worse.
  And while there will be mass beatings and the occasional death, and tens of thousands of kidnappings. it’s not enough to tip things over to the next stage unless people in the administration try very hard to achieve that. And I think they are too incompetent to succeed making things worse.
  Something unexpected would have to happen first?
- You're assuming the power structures survive, the US is a shit tonne more fragile and weirdly over extended than one would expect. Mind you that over extension only really comes out with authoritarian action but still it is notable. I expect a bunch of MAGA Khmer Rouge to pop up and then an extended series of campaigns by various factions to destroy them. Also calling it now the great planes are going to devolve into a bunch of city states.

Remember don't all protest in one place. Multiple protests in a city are harder to control.

National guard are gonna be the new homeless because no one will employ them knowing they are gonna get called off work every other week on some bullshit
- When I read this, I thought you were being naive with the first half, thinking that any employer would give a shit, but then you gave me new hope by citing the grim rationale of the corpocrat. Thank you for this breath of fresh, cynical air. A much-needed, realist break from the glitter-bomb hope porn I expected
- My last employer had a policy of giving paid leave for National Guard duty. Up to two weeks. After that, maybe you can supplement your income by stealing wallets off some protestors.
  
  I think they mostly get paid regardless because of the optics, and cant get fired for missing days. People used to take pride in hiring national guard. I think they will start to see lay offs which will be an interesting dynamic for the maga crowd.

Abbot vs Waltons fight fight fight!
- Key context
  
  Oh man, but the statement of Abbot vs Waltons.
  She's not even one of the actual inner circle Waltons, a married in one, has no real share power to Walmart, just rich as fuck. But I can't stop laughing at the idea of Abbot getting confused and going after the likes of Alice and such as well.

Drag Abbott from his chair across the road. Preferably one with lots of dust. Let the maggot crawl home.
- I hope he gets stuck on the 10th floor of a non-ADA compliant building. After all, ADA is just "red tape" for these fucks.
- Someone should tell him that fascists really don't like people with disabilities
- He won't be anywhere near Americans, hell be staying home watching the fascism do its things.

"NO GODS OR KINGS, ONLY MEN"
- Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!

Of course he did. He'd tell em to shoot em with live rounds if they'd listen.

Deploying the military domestically to crack down on free speech

Nothing cowards like a republican.

land of the free
- We were never free, we just kept telling ourselves that. It is all made up, The rich gotta fall.

I doubt there is a need for any of them in Texas.
- There is no need; the point is to create a riot so as to provide an excuse for a broader crackdown

Pansy.

Republicans are the biggest scared snowflakes of them all. They throw gasoline on embers and blame the embers for becoming a fire.

The Deregulated Texas Oblast is red, wtf are they worried about? But hey, go ahead and waste your money on BS.
- They're worried that people might get organized enough to vote them out

Are all the troops fascist too?
- I wouldn't be surprised if it was enough to not matter if some aren't

Defending our freedom to get beaten and tear-gassed.

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