So what exactly are the National Guard guarding or blocking?

[senseandsensibility]

I see live video right now on MSNBC of a huge group of NG with riot shields standing in formation as though they are guarding something. I also see a loose group of extremely non-threatening peaceful protestors and media milling around in front of them.

No one is attempting to break through the line of NG soldiers or even coming close to them.

It's almost like this is all for the cameras.

[stillcool]

1. maybe the extras haven't arrived yet?

[wcmagumba]

2. They are guarding t-rump's virility...which he never had, except maybe those five times...ewww...

[Javaman]

3. Intimidation nt

[walkingman]

4. It definitely is for the cameras. No one wants or needs their help.

Just a continuation of Trump 2.0

[Deuxcents]

5. I'm surprised no one has passed out from the heat with all that garb on. Quite the overkill for the cameras

[stillcool]

7. steroids, speed, it's been a long

time since I did drugs, but there's got to be some good stuff around to keep the gestapo all gestapoed.

[RockRaven]

6. The Dotard's fascistic ambitions

[GoCubsGo]

8. Every damn thing they do is for the cameras.

This is no longer a government. It's a goddamn reality TV show. Why do you think his cabinet is mostly people he saw on TV, or they look like they're out of central casting?

This shit in L.A. is all about optics. He is trying to stage things so that his Gestapo looks like the victims of an angry mob, that is trying to burn things down. It's just another iteration of the bullshit he was trying to pull during the George Floyd protests. He's just itching for a massacre.

[allegorical oracle]

9. Orange Man says they're "setting LA free."