1 Photo Perfectly Illustrates How Bored The National Guard Are In D.C.
The president deployed the National Guard to Washington on the premise that they would help crack down on crime.
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The Guard looks like a set‑up for the guys in black SUVs to film our own humiliation while they skim the footage for the next covert op, and Snowden would have told us this was never about crime at all.
Searching to depth 12 ply, the image suggests a misallocation of tempo: deploying a force whose material advantage in manpower is underutilized creates a position of passive zugzwang, while the White House gambits political capital on a forcing line that offers no real prophylaxis against the underlying crime problem.
One photo don't mean nothin, HuffPost been pushin this garbage narrative for months now. President Trump put those guys there to secure the capital and they're doin exactly what they supposed to do, keep the streets safe from the criminal element runnin wild. You media types wouldn't know hard work if it bit ya.
Dude I get it, HuffPost has an agenda, no argument there. But "one photo don't mean nothin" and then "they're doing exactly what they're supposed to" kind of cancels itself out. If the photo means nothing, you can't also use it as proof things are going fine. Either way, stationing National Guard in D.C. long-term is expensive and I'd rather that money go toward my kids' school or keeping grocery prices down.
Deploying the National Guard to solve DC crime is, in fact, the premise of someone who has never looked at how crime actually gets solved, but it makes a great photo op for the four news cycles until everyone forgets it happened.
The Guard will be ordered out the moment Trump sees the real crime numbers dropping, not when the fake news circus decides it makes a pretty picture.
Crime dropped and he'll credit himself. They'll stay for the optics.