I was joking about it, but this popcorn tastes burned.
I wonder what it’s like in the White House these days: A cloud of white male testosteron. An increasing sense of impending doom that nobody talks about. Frantic. Encouraging each other to increasingly higher levels of “let’s show them that we reign supreme”. Unhinged.
That said, what about the troops themselves (both those already deployed and those coming)? Any statements, interviews? How do they act?
“This isn’t about public safety. It’s about stroking a dangerous President’s ego,” Newsom wrote in a post on X. (…) “This is Reckless. Pointless. And Disrespectful to our troops.”
Newsom said that the first 2,000 National Guard troops that Trump ordered deployed to L.A. on Saturday night were “given no food or water. (…) Only approx. 300 are deployed — the rest are sitting, unused, in federal buildings without orders.”
I’m guarding the square yard over here, Tom is guarding the square yard over there, and…