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Politics The Troops Are Already Deployed at Home The left is yet again freaking out about a longstanding practice. Credit: Hayk Shalunts/Shutterstock Earlier this month President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Peter Hegseth met with over 800 senior military leaders. What happened afterward is a sign of our times. The media portrayed the meeting as unprecedented, when in fact such gatherings on a smaller scale are routine. The big takeaway created by the mainstream media was that American soldiers will be coming to invade your cities. The real news: It has already been done, by multiple administrations. Once again, libs have lost their mind over nothing new. Speaking of losing their minds, it is worth wandering through some of the media memes surrounding this meeting before most everyone settled on the hometown invasion one. As soon as the plan was announced, Twitter historians exploded, referring to some meeting Hitler once held with his generals, proof Trump was calling the leaders together to have them swear an oath to him. That did not happen, so the meme switched to what a waste of money holding the meeting was, those busy generals having to fly in. Anyone who has been near the military is familiar with such gatherings to hear a commander’s “intent” and so pass it downstream. People familiar with the military also might know how much the services spend everyday just existing: It costs well over $1.5 million a day to run a Nimitz-class carrier, but let’s clutch pearls over airline tickets for the brass. So that meme flopped. For a few days social media focused on showing photos of the leaders and adding sound bubbles to them about things like Trump being a draft dodger and thus not to be respected. Media outrage ignored the long bipartisan history of draft deferments. No bubbles were seen for Joe Biden, a lifeguard in high school who got out of the military on a deferment for asthma. Bill Clinton used a college deferment. George W. Bush avoided Vietnam after his dad got him a domestic desk job in the Air National Guard. Obama just said no. Never mind all the late-night TV jokes. The same comedians who thought Trump was Hitler last week will tell you this week it’s fascism to ask soldiers to do more push-ups. What the media settled on as the final narrative was a line in Trump’s remarks about the military needing to watch for “enemies within” and perhaps using American cities for training. The media ignored the line in every government employee’s oath of office, the one that for a couple hundred years has referred to enemies foreign and domestic. They’re pretending it’s a revelation when it’s been actual boilerplate for decades. They also treated the idea of training in American cities as something new and terrible, another step towards fascism. The problem with that is this: The military has for many years deployed to cities, and has under many administrations, Republican and Democrat, regularly used our cities as kinetic training grounds. We’ll leave for another time the details of the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 federal law prohibiting the use of the military to execute domestic law, except to note what libs bleat on about Trump violating has a sordid past. The Act was passed under pressure from the Southern states during the Civil War Reconstruction era to prevent the military from being used to oppose Jim Crow laws in the South. It is thus ironic that some of the most significant deployments (notice how things change when you write “deployment” instead of “occupation” or “invasion”?) were in the 1950s and ’60s, when the U.S. military and National Guard were sent to Southern states to enforce federal laws against racial discrimination when local law enforcement refused to do it. The growing drug problem in the United States and the inability of federal and local law enforcement officials to meet the challenge of massive drug inflows led Congress in 1981 to enact legislation providing for military cooperation with civilian law enforcement officials. Although recognizing the posse comitatus restrictions, the law opens the door for extensive use of the military in civilian law enforcement. The libs seem unbothered by this use of American soldiers on our soil. Looking back, troops were also used to suppress race riots in the 1960s and ’70s, and again in the ’90s to quell a multiday riot in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict. Trump more recently deployed National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles and elsewhere to respond to protests set off by the administration’s immigration crackdown. All of this took place, over a period of decades and with many changes in the Oval Office and Congress, without leading the U.S. into authoritarianism, fascism, martial law, or ending our democracy. Some would even argue putting down a riot that paralyzed a whole city might have helped restore democracy, not smite it. So that should clear up Panic Number 1, the idea that troops in our cities is unprecedented. That leaves Panic Number 2, that soldiers will use our cities as training grounds. Again, been there, done—actually currently doing—that. The military, primarily special ops, regularly trains in major urban areas. It’s a chance for soldiers to practice in a real city while still safely in the U.S. It’s referred to as Realistic Urban Training, or RUT. For example, in August 2022, black helicopters dove amid the buildings in downtown San Antonio as soldiers moved through parking lots wearing quad-lens night vision. Residents were told they may “hear low-flying helicopters, simulated gunfire, and controlled explosions during periods of darkness.” In September of that same year, police in Phoenix warned the public the city and nearby Peoria, Arizona, would be the scene of “air and ground operations” for “essential military training.” In August 2025, such training took place in Newnan, Georgia, consisting of “rotary wing and ground mobility operations and ground based close quarter battle training.” In 2019, U.S. Army Special Operations Command conducted an exercise near Raleigh, North Carolina that ended up being “louder and more disruptive to the nearby neighborhoods than the city anticipated.” That same year, an Army exercise over the Dallas-Fort Worth area had dozens of residents calling a local news station asking why so many military aircraft were flying over the city. Similar exercises took place in Los Angeles in 2019 and 2020, New York 2019 and Tampa the same year, Boston 2013, among other times and places. There is no master list but there are many examples. There’s also the more well-known Robin Sage exercise, held four times a year since 1974 across 15 North Carolina counties and cities. Special Forces candidates not only conduct controlled assaults, but also live, eat, and sleep in these civilian areas. There was also the somewhat infamous Jade Helm exercise in 2015, which deployed 1,200 soldiers in areas spanning from Texas to California. Elvia Kelly, a U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesperson, said units training in “real world” locations like cities provide invaluable experience. “Training off of a military installation allows an exceptional level of realism while enhancing training value. It is meant to enhance soldiers’ skills by operating in an unfamiliar and realistic environment,” Kelly said. “Training in unfamiliar environments provides Army special operations forces new and different training experiences that help ensure they remain at the highest state of readiness.” It must be exhausting to go through these kinds of freak-outs every week, no matter what happens large or small. So relax: There’s just nothing new to see here. The post The Troops Are Already Deployed at Home appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics MTG Goes in Search of the Real MAGA The Georgia firebrand is carving her own path on the right side of the New Right Marjorie Taylor Greene is many things. Unpredictable, unrelenting, and defiant are just a few terms that come to mind when describing the Georgia congresswoman. But the one thing MTG surely is not is scared.  “I’m not going to stand there and keep talking the talking points when my own adult children can hardly afford health insurance premiums,” stated MTG while wearing a big, bright USA-flag sweater during a Tuesday appearance on Real America’s Voice. “I don’t see why the government needs to be shut down. If Republicans learned to govern, they can open up the government and we can get back to work for the American people.”  While the majority of President Donald Trump’s best foot soldiers are busy casting blame on Democrats for the government shutdown that is now creeping into its second full week, MTG is finding her own, unique voice and pointing her finger at the two foremost Republicans in Congress. “I’m not putting the blame on the president,” MTG told CNN on Thursday. “I’m actually putting the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening.” Greene’s comments are just one of a recent string of critical statements regarding AIPAC, Jeffrey Epstein, and health-insurance premiums that have exposed a major, widening rift in Trump’s so-called populist political movement. As House Speaker Mike Johnson claims it is Democrats who refuse to reopen the government, Greene has used the shutdown as an opportunity to highlight the failure of Republicans to seek consensus and lead the way forward on a host of issues plaguing the American public.  Asked if she believes Johnson is stalling a return to Congress to delay a procedural vote on the release of the Epstein files, Greene said she couldn’t conclusively state whether that is the case. But MTG did condemn Johnson for refusing to swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva more than two weeks after her special election victory in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District. “If it’s to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out?” MTG pondered during her appearance on CNN. “That is going to have 218 signatures.” Speaking later with NewsNation, MTG admitted she has never received more pressure from constituents than on the push to release the Epstein files. “There has not been another issue where I have ever received more pressure than that one, and I’m pretty much shocked by it,” MTG said. “I think when it comes to women being raped, especially when they were 14 years old, that’s pretty black and white.” MTG’s support for the release of the Epstein files has ruffled the feathers of Trump who at one time was friendly with the convicted sex trafficker. Though Trump has argued he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-A-Lago estate upon learning of the late financier’s sex crimes, photo evidence of the pair living the high life over the years has done little to thwart suggestions that the two were closer than advertised.  Trump is desperate to keep the files from being released, a reality that became evident when Johnson recessed the House early in late July to avoid Democratic-backed motions related to the Epstein files. Instead of spending time in their districts, Johnson and a cadre of Republican Congresspeople then boarded a plane and visited Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, a vacation that did not go unnoticed by MAGA voters or Greene herself who is now among the loudest Republican critics of the Trump administration’s support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.  Greene’s decision to buck Trump’s desire to bury the messy Epstein affair has created a fault line with the White House. “What’s going on with Marjorie?” Trump reportedly asked two senior Republicans according to sources with direct knowledge of recent conversations. What’s going on with Marjorie is plain to see for anyone on the right who is willing to remove their MAGA-drunk goggles for even one second. MTG answered the president’s question in a recent interview. “I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be,” MTG said. “I serve in Congress. We’re a separate branch of the government, and I’m not elected by the president. I’m not elected by anyone that works in the White House. I’m elected by my district. That’s who I work for, and I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and, you know, I think that has served me really well.” Serving the people of her own district is what makes MTG distinctly different from the preponderance of Republicans and Democrats who line the lobby-ridden hallways of Washington, DC. MTG is taking calls from common people, the likes of whom inserted Trump into office in the first place with the hopes that he could break the impenetrable fourth wall of American government. Trump, so far, has failed to live up to those promises. As the 47th president drones on and on about how he’s vanquished inflation, and how gas prices are plunging, and how he’s making a dent in the prices of an “old-fashioned” term called groceries, the American people are on their last leg. Credit scores are falling at the fastest pace since the Great Depression. Google searches for “help with mortgage” haven’t been this high since 2009. As gold, silver, the stock market, and a plethora of useless cryptocurrencies continue to record record highs, the average Joe, the men and women in the trenches of America who are now using Klarna to purchase groceries with payment plans, are not seeing the returns on Trump’s promise to Make America Great Again. “Prices have not come down, that is a reality,” Greene told CNN. “People’s wages have not gone up, that’s another reality. So Americans are continuing to have a very difficult time getting by. I’ll go a step further, I’m a mom, so when it comes to what is affecting my adult children’s lives who are 22, 26, and 28, I’m going to be 1000 percent fighting for them over any politician and any party. I can tell you right now, they are barely making it and they’re very hopeless for their future.” Speaking of unmanageable prices for Americans, MTG also pointed to the raging debate around healthcare costs in the United States which threaten to leave many of our countrymen either without coverage or struggling to pay premiums on the care they do receive. “I’m getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren’t gonna be able to have health insurance,” MTG admitted to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. “They’re going to have to drop it.” As Johnson attempts to pin the blame on Democrats who he argues just want healthcare for illegal aliens, MTG is pointing to the real source of contention in our America—the high cost of living for legal Americans and the failure of Republicans, who were voted in to solve such a crisis, to address the widening gap between the haves and the have nots.  “I don’t think it’s good advice that Republicans ignoring the health insurance crisis is going to be good for Midterms,” Greene told CNN. “I think that not staying focused on America First policies is detrimental as well.” Losing sight of the America First message that drove Trump into the Oval Office for two terms is part of the reason the president is experiencing some of the worst polling numbers in the history of the American presidency.  As The American Conservative’s Executive Director Curt Mills noted during his appearance on Tim Pool’s podcast earlier this week, the bombardment of Gaza by Israel and Trump’s willing involvement, represents “the whole political capital of the administration right now.” As Americans, especially young Americans, drift further and further away from the ideological cause of Israel, Greene has also become more animated in her insistence that America’s disruptive role in Middle East affairs and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people is out of line with the messaging that delivered Trump the White House. “The relentless bombing of the Palestinian people,” MTG said on Wednesday, “many of them have just been innocent people. They’re not Hamas. They’re literally women and children. And you can’t unseen the amount of pictures and videos of children that have been blown to pieces and they’re finding them dead in the rubble, those aren’t actors, that isn’t fake war propaganda, it’s very real.” From her opinions on rising healthcare and grocery costs to Epstein and the chaos in the Middle East, Greene is carving out a voice that is uniquely her own and separate from the Trump Oval Office. Ironically enough, it’s Greene who sounds more in line with the concerns of everyday Americans than the sleepy president who promised he would be a vessel for their helpless cries.  “Let’s take off our Democrat jerseys, let’s take off our Republican jerseys, and do something responsible for the American people,” Greene told CNN’s Manu Raju this week. And it’s that very message of unity, for all the American people, that is the great driving force that can propel our country to live up to its greatest promises. The vast majority of Americans, the ones who don’t spend every waking hour trolling Democrats in the pain palace formerly known as Twitter, are desperate for the kind of policy that impacts their day to day lives. Greene, for all her missteps in the past, has found that lane—the lost highway of real MAGA. Here’s hoping she can steer Trump and his merry band of high pranksters in the right direction, the one that leads back to America, the heartland, and her people most in need. The post MTG Goes in Search of the Real MAGA appeared first on The American Conservative.

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Fall is here, and the weather is cooling down. If summer's high temps kept you inside, now is the perfect time to get outside and enjoy those fall temperatures. Even better? Getting outside with your grandkids. Kids love to be outside no matter the weather, so they will be glad to spend time with you.Let's talk about outdoor safety.Before we get into all the fun activities, let's take a minute to talk about outdoor safety. Here are some things to remember:Apply sunscreen. Even though the sun is not as hot, kids still need to wear it.Wear the right clothing. Make sure the kids are wearing comfortable clothes like long-sleeved shirts, pants, and sneakers. Closed-toe shoes are a must this time of year; the days of flip-flops are over.Make sure you spray them with insect repellant so the bugs don't attack.Keep a first aid kit on hand in your car or in your backpack if hiking or camping. You never know when someone will scrape a knee or a hand.Stay hydrated. Keep bottles of water and juice on hand.Disinfectant wipes. These will be very helpful if someone falls and gets their hands dirty or if they need to use them after going to the bathroom when a sink with soap and water isn't available.Light snacks. Keep packs of cookies or crackers or small pieces of fruit on hand for a snack.Your cell phone. Always make sure to fully charge your cell phone and add both emergency numbers and parent numbers to your contacts. If possible, keep a portable charger on hand.A camera. This is an extra reason to keep your cell phone charged. So you can take a lot of pictures. These outdoor activities will become cherished memories one day.Make sure you tell someone where you're going, who is with you, and what you are doing. We live in an uncertain world and you never know when your life will change in an instant. It's always good to let someone know where you are or are going to be.Photo credit: ©GettyImages/monkeybusinessimages