Oh this seems fine thenhttps://twitter.com/royalpratt/status/1285639172116697088 …
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Any resemblance between these armed federal agents reinforcing an ongoing police crackdown against popular dissent and The Troops is purely coincidental, and that's all that matters
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Judging by what we've seen in Portland and DC, the distinction here runs the other way. The troops - meaning actual military and national guard personnel - behaved with a lot more restraint and professionalism in most cases than these federal agents in Call of Duty cosplay.
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Of course, but I still think that's a semantic nicety in this case - we already knew that the guys in Portland were not active-duty military as such, and what people wanted to know was whether *those* guys would be coming here. "Yeah but they're not technically troops" is nothing
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(Not saying the difference between these guys and the US military is irrelevant *in practice*, just that it doesn't apply much to the terms of this conversation)
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I'm guessing the White House and mayor are both pretty cynically using the lack of clarity about the distinction? When people say 'no troops' they mean 'no camo-guys' They are not cheered to learn that the camo-guys are lawless fed agents instead of more disciplined soldiers.
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Yes, exactly. I mean I'm not excited about a military occupation of my city no matter how well they behave but the point is to have no coercive federal presence here at all
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