Governor Jeff Landry has requested up to 1,000 troops to be distributed across several cities, including Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, and New Orleans. While the exact number coming to the Crescent City is unclear, the question of their placement is a significant concern for residents.
Superintendent Kirkpatrick emphasized that while the Guard would partner with the NOPD, the soldiers would maintain their own chain of command and would not report directly to the New Orleans police.
Superintendent Kirkpatrick emphasized that while the Guard would partner with the NOPD, the soldiers would maintain their own chain of command and would not report directly to the New Orleans police.
I feel like there’s a lot of stuff completely breaking down behind the scenes of the United States government right now, but maybe I’m too much of an optimist
I cannot begin to imagine how much they’re already spending on the task force for Memphis. It seriously includes:
National Guard
Department of Defense,
Department of Treasury
Department of Justice
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban development
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
U.S. Marshalls
FBI
ATF
DEA
Homeland Security Investigations
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of TN.
As well as
Memphis Police Department, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the Memphis Area Transit Authority, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, the Tennessee Alcohol Beverage Commission, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the Tennessee State Probation and Parole Office, the Tennessee Department of Corrections, the Arkansas State Police, the Mississippi State Police, the Shelby County Attorney’s Office, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office, the Memphis City Prosecutor’s Office, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, Shelby County Pretrial Services, the Shelby County Probation Section, and other Federal, State, and local officials as appropriate.
Prime time for crime apparently.
a couple more dollars than they spend on education and social services it seems.
Why would it be optimistic? Between the firings, the general stupidity of those at the top, and folks quiting its probably pretty damned ruff on the back end, thats not even getting into the damage done since Reagan and folks doing subtle sabotage or just sitting on their hands.
Much like Mango’s brilliant ability to destroy every business he touched over the last 40+ years, destroying the US Federal government makes it quite difficult for them to continue to perpetrate evil. The blue states tend to provide all the Federal money for the red states, so a Federal collapse just means the blue states survive, and the red states get to see what life is like without their Federal socialist handouts.
Not as big a win as America fixing itself right away, but much more optimistic than Mango and Company successfully executing their Nazi plans.
Personally I suspect such a situation would still be better for the American people long term, much like how the collapse of the Western Roman Empire resulted in its stagnant rotting systems being overhauled. Though it’s hard to say how the red states would react, I could definitely see a couple defacto genocides occuring because some Evangelicals and/or Mormons go nuts and tried doing a Justinian only for it to be a Francisco Solano López.