You're Missing The Point Of D.C.'s Permanent Troop Deployment

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Let’s be real about why there have been – for almost a year now – thousands of National Guard troops on the streets of Washington, D.C.: Because one of the boys who helped Elon Musk stage a coup against the United States government got wrecked by two teenagers in the nation’s capital. Edward Coristine, one of Musk’s more prominent DOGE hackers , otherwise known as Big Balls, was assaulted in the middle of the night last August during an alleged carjacking, and in response the Trump regime occupied D.C. with thousands of troops, many of them heavily armed. This was never meant to be a temporary measure. It is, by any definition, a permanent troop deployment within a major American city. Ten months after Big Balls was supposedly attacked by kids on a dark D.C. street in the wee hours of the morning, all of this has been normalized. It is a frog-in-boiling-water situation. It is part of our democratic decline. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .