It probably was fake. I'd imagine the people who are selected for these assignments are borderline or complete sociopaths who don't have problems putting their mission above their entanglements.
If these kids are old enough to have any sense they aught to flee the first chance they get.
I worry that they felt confident laying this out because they believe the fix is in, and that no popular resistance is going to stop it.
I feel like there's a followup with that fucking dragon as the giant hologram, and I'm trying not to imagine it.
Conservatives believe that childless people, but childless women in particular, are shirking their moral duties as good citizens and good children of God. They are therefore of lesser value in the social hierarchy.
Factories need their servants, armies need their fodder. And don't forget about reversing the Great Replacement...
These days, look for any family in America with 5 or more minor children and find a "devout Christian" as the patriarch.
Mormons are famous for this, and they support their breeder mentality by tapping into the same government resources they say they despise, sometimes venturing into fraud.
Reading the article he also said that parents should be able to cast votes on behalf of their minor children, which is much more alarming to me.
"Other Emergencies" is a euphemism for liberal/non-white protests. The idea of their home town being overrun by "leftist" mob violence occupies both the nightmares and the fever dreams of the kinds of gun owners who would respond to this call-up.
DeSantis reactivated the Florida State Guard on similar grounds of "disaster relief" then started training them like soldiers. Now he has a force of 1500 or so that reports directly to him and cannot be federalized. He even sent a few of them to the Texas border to test the waters.
Expect to see more of these yokels try to muster up armed thugs in the coming months. I fear the worst no matter the outcome of the election.
He got fucking dragged by Trumpworld after he resigned over Trump's stance on Afghanistan (or was it the Kurds?), it was probably one of the most severe about-faces I've ever seen from conservatives about one man. Went from a Marine's Marine, a warrior-scholar, to a complete disgrace to the Corps as far as they're concerned.
Really cemented my view of Trump as a cult of personality when I saw that narrative, and the base eating it up, in real time.
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