700 Marines ordered to assist in Los Angeles

This took less than 3 days.

Less than 3 days of mild protest in one city and Trump is saying the governor needs to be arrested and is using the military against civilians.

This wasn’t even classed as a riot.

Officially using the military against civilians. Yup we're cooked

The president deploying the national guard, let alone the fucking MARINES, to “assist police” is a direct violation of the posse comitatus act, which was written to SPECIFICALLY PREVENT ANY PRESIDENT from using the military as law enforcement

Did Trump declare martial law while I was asleep? Because last time I checked, he can't deploy the military on US soil unless the country is in a state of emergency. And peaceful protests don't count.

Congress could end this immediately, by revoking Trump's emergency powers. Spineless traitors the whole lot of them.

Every military and law enforcement member needs to understand right now that attacking protesters for exercising their First Amendment rights is crossing a line that they can never come back from. I, for one, will always hold it against any MAGA for the rest of my life. They deserve to be mercilessly shunned, ridiculed, and discriminated against for the rest of their miserable, stupid, treasonous lives. I own a business, and I will never hire a MAGA supporter, ever.

RIP America July 1776-June 2025.

"I was just following orders."

ILLEGAL.

as if it even matters.

So this is what freedom looks like? Where are all the 2nd Amendment fanboys when they’re needed? Probably sitting in the parents basement surfing the net for manga.

The Silver Lining: Media coverage of the extensive protests in every city in America has been so light, that some people are asking why nobody is doing anything. Meanwhile Millions of people are protesting across America. Some protests have been higher than 5 million nationally, and they are growing. At 12 million, we reach 3.5%, which experts say is the threshold for a "tipping point," which leads to trends like revolutions.

But since the media isn't covering it, most people have no idea how much is happening. That is, until HitlerPig and The MAGA Morons hit the stage and start puking all over everybody. THAT makes the news, and now EVERYBODY knows about the protests.

Somebody should explain the Streisand Effect to these jokers.

Kinda seems like the US has gone to war with her citizens: what with the deploying of troops against them and all. Maybe her citizens should start acting like they are at war.

Too bad there are no cases in history of a guerrilla force standing their own against the "undefeated" US military. /s

# The Posse Comitatus Act

Assist with what, motherfucker? Continuing denial of due process rights?

Assist with WHAT?

Posse Comitatus:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/posse-comitatus-act-explained

What does the Posse Comitatus Act say?

The Posse Comitatus Act consists of just one sentence: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

In practice, this means that members of the military who are subject to the law may not participate in civilian law enforcement unless doing so is expressly authorized by a statute or the Constitution.

Plot twist: they round up ice and throw them in the brig

Which they are not allowed to do.

Did he suspend the Posse Comitatus Act and no one reported it?

what stops a member of the armed services from denying a command or order if it is unlawful? what about if it may be unlawful? (ie needs to be proven as such but “right now” just smells unlawful?)

Piece of shit traitor. America will swallow him whole when this is over.

Isn't there a law against this? Not that Cheetoface cares about those...

Right... Because you need 700 highly trained military personnel to deal with civilians.

Cool and normal! 😬

Traitor president.

The sooner Americans learn to accept this is the historical event currently unfolding, the sooner we can take care of him and his enablers.

"Assist" is doing some heavy lifting there...

From what I've heard about the high integrity of the U.S. Marines, I wouldn't be surprised to see them on the civilian side of the line.

Not American so could be wrong, but there's a law that they can't do police services unless activated by the state not the president so that will be interesting

I hope their always faithful to their country, not their dictator

I keep seeing people talking about the Marines and the National Guard being deployed, and this is certainly egregious and the blame for it rests squarely on Trump's head... But I have not seen many people mention that the LAPD are not being deployed by Trump. They are being deployed by Californian Politicians, and from the livestreams and videos I've seen, the police are the ones shooting LTL rounds and flahsbangs at civilians and reporters. Let's not lose sight of the fact that the police response has been unacceptably violent, national guard or not. It is the violence from the police that has historically, and will in this instance as well escalate the situation.

shithole country

This makes sense because establishing a beachhead on Iwo Jima and managing a rowdy crowd are similar skills

Trump left his tinydick phylactery in Los Angeles and sent the people who would have been correctly convicted at the Nuremberg Trials to try to find it, but he has to keep sending more because it is so small.