Posse Stupidtatus Redux

 The Second Fraudulency Administration begins the preparations for the Second Battle of Columbus:

"The soldiers from the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain have not yet been issued “prepare to deploy orders,” the official told Task & Purpose. Rather, they have been informed that if the secretary of defense orders the Army to send more troops to the southern border, they would be the next to go."

This has been baked in from the start of this idiot's second election, but it's not any smarter, and this is actually even stupider on it's face because of the forces employed. 

Using light and airborne units for this bullshit border policing is a complete waste of quick-reaction force elements as well as a dumb idea in general; paratroops, especially, are trained to be aggressive and active - that doesn't make good "peacekeepers". 

The 325th Infantry's trigger-happy "riot control" played a big part in the Fallujah Rising, and the Parachute Regiment was the Bad Guy of Bloody Sunday.

We tend to think of the whole "posse comitatus" prohibition as a civil liberty issue. But there's a good military reason for keeping soldiers out of civil law enforcement; it's better for the soldiers, too.

When Tubby did this before the GIs had a very bad time of it. It was simultaneously stressful and boring as fuck, so the guys did what bored, stressed GIs do; they got in trouble.

I see no reason that this nonsense will work better the second time. All the underlying economic, social, and geopolitical conditions haven't changed.

But this isn't really about geopolitics, or economics. It's about stoking the rage-fire of the MAGAts, which are the only "Americans" this President gives a shit about. For him if it's stupid but it does that? It's not "stupid".

Which is a seriously fucked up way to govern, but, well, Trump.

Which reminds us that the guy is really, really, REALLY stupid. Here's a glittering assortment of the stupid just from the one WaPo story fragment in the linked article:

1. Tubby thinks Spain is a BRICS nation.
2. He has no idea what percent of its GDP his own country spends on its military (it's about 3%) but,
3. He insists that the other NATO members spend 5% on theirs...
(FYI, of the top 15 spenders only four spend more than 5% - Ukraine [37%], Saudi [7%], Russia [~8%], and, weirdly, Algeria [8%] - and a cluster of three spent around five: Oman [5.4], Israel [5%], Kuwait [4.9%]. NObody spends more than about 2-4% outside of nations at war and oil sheikdoms...)
4. He announced a "...$500 billion joint venture regarding artificial intelligence." which was either a lie or just confusion; there's no funding for it or anything like it, and
5. He admitted he had no clue who he'd pardoned for January Treason.

So we're going to get it good and hard no JUST from greed and bile, Fatso's usual go-tos, but from pure fatheaded ignorance and stupidity.

Fuck but that's irritating.