The Trump administration is considering plans to create a squad of 600 National Guard soldiers who would be ready to deploy into U.S. cities to tackle civil unrest, according to a report.

As part of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” troops would be equipped with weapons and riot gear, ready to deploy within an hour under the proposals, which could cost hundreds of millions of dollars, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

Troops would be split in half, with 300 stationed at headquarters in Alabama and 300 in Arizona, according to the newspaper.

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    part of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” troops would be equipped with weapons and riot gear

    So let’s see, a sort of protection squadron with weapons… Hmm, I wonder what we could call it…

    How about we use fancy German?

    “Schutzstaffel” sounds spiffy. And “Waffen” for the weapons.

    We could even shorten it to the even spiffier “Waffen SS”.

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      We could also give them a cool insignia, maybe a skull so you know they mean business.

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      This is why it’s important for the average American citizen to be armed.

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        Well, it’s why it’s important that everyone votes and has more than two braincells which they exercise regularly but sure, after the whole place has fallen to comically obvious bad guys you can have a civil war, I guess.

        Like, yea that’s where you are but it really is ridiculous(and telling) that the US feels like it is in constant danger from itself.

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      No chance Trump just arranged for Maxwell to get out on “work Release”

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        She’s going to be named Secretary of Education.

        Trump is also going to commute the last 5 years of Jared Fogle’s sentence, and name him press secretary.

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    Trump begins forming a unit of loyal soldiers who are willing to kill US citizens.

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    Wait until the $200 billion they put into ICE starts paying off. This shit is just testing the waters. By the midterms, they’ll be talking about “illegals” voting in elections and turning the ICE-enforced police state loose on the polls to intimidate voters.

    In Nazi Germany, the “legal” enforcers stood over you while you either checked voting for the Nazi party or not. Russia’s elections are similar. America’s elections have had problems over the centuries, but they’ve never been that. Not on a national level across the board. It’s the KKK burning crosses everywhere all at once.

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    Handmaid’s Tale level of dystopia incoming…

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    Let’s convince all those supporters of his who are 2A supporters that this is bad, and sit back with some popcorn

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    Oh god. The National Goons. Also, what about those Epstein files ( particularly photos and videos)?