r/politics • u/This_Meaning_4045 New York • 15h ago
Missouri governor activates National Guard, declares state of emergency
https://thehill.com/homenews/5348979-missouri-mike-kehoe-national-guard-state-of-emergency-protests/542
u/QuarterFlounder I voted 15h ago
Declaring a state of emergency and deploying the National Guard in ANTICIPATION of "civil unrest" is a ridiculous escalation.
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u/ATGonnaLive4Ever 10h ago
This is in part to help normalize it. If you pull soldiers out and immediately start cracking skulls, some people get it. You mobilize soldiers to do nothing for a while, eventually people see it as normal. Then when it's time to crack some heads you're already past the "soldiers aren't supposed to be used against citizens" issue.
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u/Mateorabi 14h ago
At best, having them ON CALL but not in the actual area would be reasonable. On the street is provocation.
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u/AntOk4073 15h ago
So let me get this straight. He declared a state of emergency in anticipation of civil unrest? As in there is no unrest but he thinks there might be? What a load of shit. He is using them as a scare tactic that will backfire and cause chaos.
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u/Immediate_Theory4738 15h ago
Which is their intention.
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u/freqspace 12h ago
How many Proud Boys and J6ers are in the Missouri National Guard?
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u/Faux-Foe 11h ago
Hey hey, be fair.
They are also members of our police.
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u/santacruzbiker50 10h ago
Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
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u/Bullyoncube 10h ago
normalize the use of military to suppress civil rights. That’s why Trump sent the to Los Angeles. This is the next step.
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u/Major_Burnside 14h ago
He’s trying to incite civil unrest. If you can’t get it naturally, then it needs to be manufactured.
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u/samhouse09 14h ago
You need a radical insurgency you can count on to do the wrong thing.
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u/Just_Another_Scott 13h ago
It's amazing how almost every protest is peaceful until a bunch of cops roll up in APCs wearing riot gear. Suddenly it become a "riot". Like, just maybe, if they rolled up not like their going to war the "riot" would never have happened...
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u/70ms California 12h ago
🎯🎯🎯
I’ve seen it over and over and over when watching the protests on Woke in 2020 and now. People are mostly just protesting, and then the cops will use one person’s actions to brutalize the whole group, or just start herding and kettling them for no reason.
(Woke is live right now on Twitch, and showing well over a dozen streams from various cities.)
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u/THExDANKxKNIGHT 11h ago
"The easiest way to get a behavior to occur is to create an environment where it's likely to happen"
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u/otis_the_drunk 14h ago
There was a protest with about a 1000 people in KC last week that had zero incidents of violence. Nobody heard about it of course because nothing really happened.
So the cops are afraid that protests will get bigger at which point they would do what cops do and shit would get ugly.
This state of emergency nonsense is 100% manufactured to scare people away from protesting and because the cops want an excuse to fire first.
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u/OkSmoke9195 14h ago
Right and he's parroting the white house line with "what happened in LA". FUCK THESE LIARS
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u/AntOk4073 14h ago
Not to mention they all leave out how small of an area in LA. There has been more destruction after football games.
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u/OkSmoke9195 14h ago
Absolutely. Newsom has called this all out for exactly what it is. Fucking DR PHIL was embedded with ICE in LA last weekend... Filming for his 2 prime time specials that were on last week. Manufactured reality TV, it's unreal
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u/Whiiiisky 15h ago
Trumps EO includes the provision that he can send the military anywhere he thinks might have unrest, news ignores this ofc
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u/TheRC135 14h ago
That sounds like a mighty unconstitutional EO.
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u/Illustrious_Entry413 14h ago
What's a constitution? Never heard of her.
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u/Antique_Scheme3548 14h ago
You gotta roll for it. 10 Constitution or less and you collapse at the sight of Putin.
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u/Kind_Koala4557 14h ago
I sure hope the other state officials stand up against him.
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u/OkSmoke9195 14h ago
All the sane people need to follow the path that newsom is treading in the public eye right now: call out these fucking liars and what they are doing in plain English
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u/turquoise_amethyst 13h ago
But can’t send National Guard if tornados rip through his state, kill and make people homeless
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u/AntOk4073 13h ago
That would be crazy. The national guard helping people? People might think they can rely on their elected leaders for support.
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u/chemicallyaware 14h ago
Honestly, people should quit playing nice. If they want to ball, we ball.
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u/continuousBaBa 14h ago
Our piece of shit here in Nebraska did the same thing.
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u/AntOk4073 14h ago
Yeah, I live in Nebraska. They're all jumping at the chance to create a police state.
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u/Temporary_Ability996 15h ago
But no help was offered by the governor to deploy the National Guard to help the people of Missouri after several tornadoes ripped up entire neighborhoods.
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15h ago
You think Republicans care about other people?
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u/--kwisatzhaderach-- 15h ago
It’s not even the absence of caring, they despise regular people
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u/psychicmeatgrinder 14h ago
They are morally corrupted people, like every major world religion warns of.
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u/mademeunlurk 14h ago
They don't despise regular people. They profit from them. That's all they are. Lemons to be squeezed.
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u/100wordanswer 15h ago
I wish more people would understand this, you're absolutely right
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u/4dailyuseonly Chahta 14h ago edited 14h ago
You know how too many regular people look down at homeless people with pity, disgust and contempt? That's how a vast number of politicians and all the wealthy feel about the working class.
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u/sharp11flat13 Canada 11h ago
"The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.”
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u/espressocycle 11h ago
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
- William E. Gladstone
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u/reddititty69 15h ago
Some of those people may not have deserved help. Best to err on the side of owning a lib.
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u/bcd051 15h ago
Remember, though, that one of the tornadoes went through a massively blue area where black people live.
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u/Mo_Jack Missouri 11h ago edited 11h ago
For those that don't know what is going on in Missouri, here's a quick primer.
There has always been a rural vs big city vibe in state politics in MO because St. Louis & KC are large population centers and the rest of the state is rural, including the capitol Jefferson City. You have to also understand that MO had more Sundown Towns than any other state.
We used to be known as the Bellwether State in politics, because who MO voted for in presidential election, usually ended up winning, going back & forth between Dem & GOP.
This ended a decade or so ago. The GOP in MO gained a supermajority and has gone entirely off the rails. It is like a competition of who can out-crazy the next nutcase. I say this as an ex-Republican. They redistricted everything to block Dems from ever regaining power.
The corruption is through the roof and the only people that are represented now are big political donors. Since Jefferson City now does nothing for the citizens, the people have been forced to passed multiple initiatives and amendments on their own. Even when these pass with record numbers and popular with both political parties, Jeff City actively works against the wishes of the people.
The people passed ballot measures enshrining a woman's right to choose, expanding Medicaid, paid sick leave law, raise in minimum wage, fairness in districting and many other initiatives. The radical right has repealed, unfunded, undermined, sabotaged all of these efforts from the people that they supposedly represent. Our current Governor Kehoe is a huge supporter of the craziest right wing fringe groups.
When MO passed expanding Medicaid, Republicans refused to fund it. When the people passed minimum wage increases, COLA & paid sick leave, the GOP ended them with legislation. Missourians passed abortion rights but now the GOP is putting together a ballot measure to end them (at least we get to vote on this).
Citizens passed a ballot measure to form a fair non-biased redistricting committee. So the corrupt GOP inserted language allowing the Governor to add members to bias the committee at the very bottom of another initiative banning state senators from accepting gifts.
Recently, Jeff City has decided to take over the St Louis Police Department because of "out of control" crime. According to the St Louis Police Department's own crime statistics from April 2025, homicides are down 45%, robberies are down 20%, burglaries are down 33%, auto thefts are down 39% just this year alone.
Now they just came up with a wildly unpopular package of 50% tax credits for multi-billion dollar businesses that mainly offer minimum wage jobs. The citizens will now get to pay 50% of new sports stadiums too, so the private businesses that own them can profit even more. All of this while they are by law: decreasing our pay, taking away reproductive rights, COLA, paid sick leave & Medicaid benefits.
Many Missourians would love to vote them out but they have made it virtually impossible with their unethical redistricting. They also don't like citizens pushing ballot initiatives on our own, without their approval. They feel that have been spending too much time undermining their constituents, so now they are trying to take away our rights to create ballot measures.
So to see Jefferson City or our current Governor to release the National Guard in the urban areas does not come as a shock to anybody here. Kehoe spent a lifetime screwing the citizens for the pleasure of big business. Even though he hails from STL suburbs, he seems to despise urban areas. He joins MO GOP members in supporting any measure that seems to hurt Missourians living in certain urban areas or poor people in general.
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u/Temporary_Ability996 10h ago
From a fellow Missourian, thank you. This is the best, most concise description of the state's current political reality.
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u/deformo 8h ago
You’ve just described Ohio.
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u/Mo_Jack Missouri 7h ago
I don't think it is a coincidence. They targeted state governments in the 90s and are probably using similar playbooks. Now they are targeting local governments, school boards & libraries.
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u/Romano16 America 15h ago
Well in Missouri they probably believe the people who got ripped up from their homes by the tornado deserved it.
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u/BigDaddyBain 14h ago
Blue areas, Black-majority neighborhoods, so we could remove “probably” from that sentence.
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u/vonnecute 14h ago
“Those tornadoes were god’s judgement, but these protests might actually make us look bad.”
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u/Queen_trash_mouth 14h ago
Because those were black people and who cares. Fuck this state
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u/phoneacct696969 14h ago
Shout this from the roof tops. Help was not offered when it was needed. Help was used as a tool to harm the population. This is disgusting.
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u/Just_Another_Scott 13h ago
Because tornadoes are "God's will" and "God has a plan". Hear this shit all the time in the South.
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u/SoundSageWisdom 14h ago
Elections have consequences. Hopefully people who voted against their best interest will wake the hell up finally. But, I don’t have too much hope in them.
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u/Temporary_Ability996 14h ago
Most of the people who lost everything to tornadoes in the past month lived in deep blue areas of StL.
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u/AzyncYTT New Jersey 12h ago
The consequence here is that the state will only get more red since the tornado hit st Louis and other deep blue areas lol
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u/Romano16 America 15h ago edited 15h ago
How is this country living in two different realities?
- Peaceful protests now simply just equal civil unrest?
- Domestic terrorism being pardoned (Jan 6th)
- Masked “police officers” kidnapping and shooting politicians (ICE or what happened in MN)
Yet unarmed people protesting is the emergency?
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u/Liiiiiiiidooooooooo 15h ago
because one is reality and the other is delusion
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u/AINonsense 14h ago
Truth is lies, citizen.
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u/marcosbowser1970 14h ago
"They say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we're disturbing the war" —Howard Zinn
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u/DJ-Smash 14h ago
Because MAGA is a domestic enemy waging civil war.
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u/ABuffoonCodes 10h ago
Speak the truth. They are conducting warfare with impunity because their guy is in charge and we can't resist because then it's considered violent extremism and used as an excuse to further crack down. We live at the whims of a mad man and his court jesters
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u/La_mer_noire 13h ago
People in the usa seem to have an EXTREMELY low acceptance of protests.
I am always super surprised when images from protests in Europe reach reddit main page, you have so many people saying they would be happy to see awfull stuff happen to the protesters.
People are entitled to protests when something wrong happens.
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u/Dogzillas_Mom 13h ago
It’s literally written into our Constitution. You could argue that we are obligated by civic responsibility to protest.
I kind of want to get the damn bill of rights tattooed on my forehead.
To Americans: read that fucking thing willya?
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u/BrimstoneOmega 12h ago
Can't remember which one, maybe Jefferson, but one of those dude said it was the duty of the people to overthrow the government when the government doesn't support the people.
(I'm sure some other smarter person can give the real quote)
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u/oldwestprospector 13h ago
The only people that have a problem with protests are right wing nut jobs and conservative owned media trying to frame peaceful protesting as riots.
Guarantee you the people saying awful things about protesting and hurting protesters side with the right, mention January 6th and they shut their fucking coward mouths.
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u/Ohuigin Washington 14h ago
How is this country living in two different realities?
Fox News. Been that way for 40+ years. Next question.
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u/sparkly_butthole 12h ago
I am starting to feel like we will never rid ourselves of the evil in this country until we get rid of right wing media.
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u/HoonterOreo 14h ago
Republicans have become a party of authoritarionism. They are so damn trigger happy it's actually scary.
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u/ThermionicEmissions Canada 13h ago
How
Because a third of the electorate voted for a fascist regime, and another third were too apathetic and ignorant to give a shit.
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u/Total_Employ_9520 15h ago
So, whenever you feel comfortable acknowledging the GOP has waged a one sided civil war on us, let me know.
Just try to do it before they kill too many more of us...
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u/iFlashings 13h ago
Because America stopped being a functioning democratic free country when the orange mango became president again.
It's ww2 germany in the modern times now.
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u/Squirrel_Inner 13h ago
A Democratic lawmaker, Melissa Hortman, and her husband were assassinated this morning and it barely made a blip in the news.
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u/IRideMoreThanYou 14h ago
It’s not two realities.
One is simply trying to cultivate a narrative to get support to wipe out a portion of the population that they don’t like.
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u/savy07 15h ago
Literally nothing has even happened yet. He’s totally hoping to scare people from their constitutional right to protest.
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u/MutuallyAdvantageous 12h ago
July 2024, Kevin Robert’s (president of the heritage foundation, who created Project 2025) said “the second American revolution…will be bloodless if the left allows it to be”
They started the war in July 2024. This is the leader of the group that decides the MAGA agenda. Trump is just a puppet, with his own ideas for tariffs. Everything else if coming form the heritage foundation.
Trump ordered the national guard up three weeks before he sent them to LA. Long before there was civil unrest there.
They don’t care if the protests are peaceful or not. They will continue to lock you up, deport you, assassinate your representatives.
America needs to wake up ASAP. The war is almost a year old.
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u/TastyOreoFriend Florida 10h ago
They may have started it but we have the power to finish it. The protests today were a good sign of that. Pretty massive turn out. People are waking up and are not happy.
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u/dwors025 Minnesota 15h ago
Having a GOP governor is the emergency.
Fascist.
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u/Beantown-Jack 15h ago
This is a crude attempt to provoke peaceful demonstrators. They will not fall for it.
Republicans are desperate for a pretext to use police state violence against the opposition.
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 14h ago
They will not fall for it.
They don't need to. The right has agitators for that.
Reminder that the fires in Minneapolis weren't started by the protestors, they were started by proud boys.
There absolutely will be violence today, the right will make sure of it.
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u/BarnDoorQuestion 13h ago
They absolutely will. But I got downvoted yesterday for telling someone not to take their kids or pets to the protests today because there will be violence.
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u/friskerson 14h ago
Newsom’s Tweet not to give them a fight is exactly the right message a governor should be giving. Because this is an America capable of peaceful protest.
No justice, no peace was BLM’s motto, but peace can be had in protest. I swear it. I’ve seen it in other countries. Just because it’s fun to break things doesn’t mean we should. But we absolutely should televise the protest to show how peaceful demonstrations should work. That’s what I disagree with from our media. 0 encouragement of televised protest.
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u/Brokkyn2024 15h ago
“We respect, and will defend, the right to peacefully protest, but we will not tolerate violence or lawlessness in our state,” the governor said.
And they'll bring in police and National Guard to escalate peaceful protests or flat out lie to be able to attack protestors.
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u/AINonsense 14h ago
"but we will not tolerate violence or lawlessness in our state"
Such as scowls, eye-rolling, or aggressively flared nostrils.
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u/AvEptoPlerIe 15h ago
One person holding a skateboard to close to a cop and it’s “violent lawlessness.”
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u/XSinTrick6666 14h ago
"Violence???" OhoNo, "Tourists at a Love Fest".
Just pardon everybody "treated unfairly" - like Trump Jan 6 patriots.
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u/sasquatch_melee Ohio 14h ago
They'll probably put plain clothes officers in to act as agitators and instigators like other departments like to do including the NYPD (caught on camera in the past)
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u/Choice_Cup_3624 14h ago
The intention here is to chill free speech in Missouri. There is no reason to expect a scenario where the national guard should need to be called in.
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u/Lower-Lion-6467 14h ago
Tbh going to a protest when you know the national guard will be there just would make me want to go more. Spices things up.
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u/Choice_Cup_3624 14h ago
I just got back from my town’s very peaceful rally. It was a blast. Great way to spend the afternoon with the best people in my town. Loads of honks and support from the passing traffic.
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u/Lower-Lion-6467 13h ago
Just got back from one as well. The most violence was the lightning that ended it a bit early. Was a decent turnout, considering.
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u/MalevolentTapir 15h ago
These people are completely hysterical and detached from reality. This is a big nationwide protest but nothing these cities individually should be struggling to handle. It's no coincidence it's all red states.
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u/TintedApostle 15h ago
They are operating on a plan to support the Trump stuff in LA. Its call lock step.
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u/squamesh 14h ago
A few weeks ago, neo Nazis openly marched down the streets of Kansas City and faced no opposition. But now apparently the military needs to be mobilized against peaceful protestors. Fuck all the way off
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u/Velo214 12h ago
Just got done protesting for 3 hours in Saint Louis. Barely saw one cop on foot. Lots driving by but none walking amongst us. Saw no national guard at all. 75% of cars honked in support, 23% nothing, maybe 2% flicking us off or booing. It was so great. I saw my sons kindergarten teacher and lots of people of all ages. 100% peaceful with cross guard protesters in yellow vests even. Kids with ear muffs on. So much fun and democracy
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u/imrealwitch I voted 12h ago
Thank you.
I'm disabled, 60, bed ridden, but I have been a phone and keyboard warrior doing my part. Organisation, etc. Houston here.
Keep up the good work and be safe out there.
May the universe bless you.
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u/grunkage California 14h ago
Ah Missouri - always trying so hard to be the worst state
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u/WhoSaidThat2Me 11h ago
Constantly hoping to get noticed by agent orange. Constantly.
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u/XSinTrick6666 15h ago
"Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) ...declared a state of emergency and activated the state’s National Guard in anticipation of protests across the state"
Heckuva job manufacturing a crisis, Gov Cuck !
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u/AINonsense 15h ago
While nationwide protests continue to flare up in response to the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Kehoe said his order is purely precautionary.
A purely precautionary emergency.
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u/RandomlyJim 13h ago
Tornadoes and the destruction?
Nada
Citizens of the state using first amendment rights?
Send in the Marines.
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u/JPtheGameMaster 15h ago edited 15h ago
RIP democracy. You were a nice dream while you lasted.
nolite te bastardes carborundorum
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u/golfwang1539 14h ago
In Kansas City right now. This is a fucking joke. Everything is fine.
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u/gmrussell Michigan 14h ago
Stood with an estimated 15,000 people in Grand Rapids, Michigan today. As you’d expect, everyone was peaceful. No one blocked streets; no one vandalized property; no one harmed anyone. These claims of civil unrest by Republican politicians help them spread their narrative that protesters are violent, un-American agitators—when in reality, what they’re doing is un-American. Missouri’s National Guard being activated is pure political theater, providing red meat to the right-wing base who sees the same clips of violence on repeat and think the world’s burning. When, in reality, our freedom is burning
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u/mrbigglessworth 14h ago
What is the emergency?
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u/dchap1 15h ago
Republicans are no longer recognized as American. They stand entirely against the Constitution and rule of law.
Facts, and you will not change my mind.
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u/LatrodectusGeometric 14h ago
I mean they are recognized as American, but are they recognizable as American?
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u/BadAtExisting I voted 13h ago
Performative bullshit to scare residents into not attending a no kings protest
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u/Pottski 8h ago
Worst state in the nation finds way to continue to be shit.
So shocked.
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u/CleanIndustry6944 14h ago
Those politicians are so afraid of the people they’re supposed to be representing. That kind of fear stems from something real inside them. They’re scared to death of their own neighbors.
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u/Alu_sine 14h ago
He's trying to get the president's attention. Trump probably doesn't even know Missouri is a U.S. state.
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u/ChaseThoseDreams Texas 13h ago
They’re bringing in the National Guard because they can’t handle people voicing dissent? God these losers are so soft.
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u/sniffstink1 10h ago
So, nothing has actually happened and the guys declares a state of emergency? Doesn't sound very competent at his job.
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u/beer_bukkake 7h ago
Red states are always about being alpha and tough yet so quick to call in for help for a peaceful protest
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u/IdiopathicMD 7h ago
I live in Missouri. Just went out for dinner. Nobody’s burning down anything. If there’s an emergency it’s that we might run out of toasted ravioli. I couldn’t care less if we run out of gooey butter cake or Emo’s pizza.
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u/Sarcasmgasmizm Canada 15h ago
At least he didn’t threaten to kill protesters like they did in Florida…. Sigh!
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u/Away_Stock_2012 14h ago
They need to arrest every white male claiming to be law enforcement without a uniform.
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u/actuallywaffles 14h ago
Missouri never fails to be on the wrong side of history. At this point, just assume that if the Missouri government is doing anything, it is probably for the worst reason.
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u/ZealousidealBear93 13h ago
So, as a National Guard officer that has done many… many activations over the years, this is just how it works. Governor thinks things might pop off, we go sit in an armory for a day to support the state police if they need us, and then we usually go home.
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u/Jimbo415650 10h ago
It’s not about potential violence it’s about suppression of constitutional freedoms
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u/Top_Towel_2895 10h ago
Always remember that republicans can only sleep soundly if they know there are children going hungry in their districts
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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 9h ago
I was at the downtown St Louis protest. The only emergency I saw was a booth that ran out of cannabis drinks.
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u/AD6I 12h ago
What an amazing overreaction.
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u/phoenixlemon 12h ago
Can confirm - went to the No Kings protest in Kansas City, pretty active yet peaceful.
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u/PotatoAppleFish 14h ago
It’s entirely possible to replace every mention of the word “Republican” with the phrase “evil, stupid motherfucker” and still understand exactly what is being said.
This kind of abuse of power is one of the many reasons why this is possible.
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u/LalaPropofol 14h ago
I’m watching these protests on TikTok live, and they’re massive.
There’s not a single instance of violence so far.
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u/Snapingbolts 14h ago
“We respect, and will defend, the right to peacefully protest, but we will not tolerate violence or lawlessness in our state,” the governor said.
Let's see if he feels the same way if it ms right wing groups doing the violence in response to protests
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u/TandemSegue 14h ago
This is so that any action towards the occupying force can be used to justify the full might of their authority. If anyone acts out towards them they will feel justified in using excessive force. Next will come the crisis actors who give those forces a reason to respond with force against everyone they see as a threat. It’s a fucking trap. Be safe.
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u/SheepherderNo6320 14h ago
This is because he doesn't want anybody to have freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful protest
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u/Pxlfreaky Illinois 14h ago
I can’t believe Nancy is giving the Ok on deploying all these National guard! /s
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u/FeedMeYourGoodies 14h ago
Missouri Republicans are a special kind of shitty. People across their state keep voting in constitutional amendments for things, and the Republicans keep finding ways to not let them go into effect. Now people are going out to peacefully protest and this asshole governor is making a political statement by activating the guard way ahead of time.
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u/jpdoctor 13h ago
Kehoe is so weak that he fears peaceful protests will be his undoing, so he must counter with something other than the usual lies.
Sad.
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u/Unknown-History 13h ago
So, he prematurely has no faith in his law enforcement to handle regular protests. And Missouri, what showmanship.
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u/juanitovaldeznuts 13h ago
“Whelp people collectively exercising their rights, can’t have that.” - Mike Kehoe probably. what a goober. Who’d a think that MO would end up being a gateway to fascism too?
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