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maddow.msnbc.com • 17 hours ago

"In effect, the move would turn the buffer zone into an expansive military installation..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/19/trump-border-military-buffer-zone/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Comments

raido8.bsky.social•17 hours ago

They are preparing for war without declaring it. The writing is on the wall.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Correction…there is no “they” in this situation. Unfortunately he’s your president as well because America elected him. The United States is preparing for war with allies who have been declared enemies by chuckles the clown. Let that sink in.

raido8.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I understand what you mean, but I'll tell you with the utmost seriousness. He is not my president and never will be.

dm-author.bsky.social•14 hours ago

😡

devilldoll.bsky.social•17 hours ago

These are human beings just like your brother Mother sister dad these are human beings and you guys are all talking about them like they're cattle i can't handle this shit anymore what the hell Have We Become if we can't accept others in this giant world of diversity. It just makes no sense

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

“What the hell have we become” …You are falling under authoritarian rule and are becoming a fascist country.

devilldoll.bsky.social•16 minutes ago

I live in Canada that's not happening here

herbo3.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Temporary?

hot-dog-water-too.bsky.social•17 hours ago

When will the first Auschwitz open?

phoebe1313.bsky.social•17 hours ago

🤬🤬👎

razth.bsky.social•14 hours ago

This is scary allowing him to use the military but what is more concerning is allowing him to load up these poor people and shipping them off to hell knows where like Russia or North Korea where they could be imprisoned or worse.

jaredgannon.bsky.social•17 hours ago

A buffer zone? Presumably on the US side of the border. Placing it on the Mexican side would require an invasion. That means that the US government will most likely be seizing land from American citizens who live right against the border. Those folks are going to be loosing their homes and land.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•7 hours ago

They are happy to oblige. They think it makes America great again to keep any one of colour stepping on US soil (unless of course that person is rich…then they’ll make an exception)

rxdavid.bsky.social•17 hours ago

How many billions will that cost? 🤔

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rkbrown2230.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Mexico should respond by building great cities along the length of the Rio Grande, then build large military installations in all of them. Align with the EU for trade and weapons.

patfeb55.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Maybe a refresher course on what a "buffer zone" is. Or maybe it depends on what the definition of what "is" is. Memories of Bill.

nolanteter.bsky.social•17 hours ago

All dictatorships have militarized borders. Nobody is safe in a police state.

mrgrumpeepantz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Temporary? Hopefully not in the summer. They'll bake.

dlfdew.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Extralegal zone.

detoxthegop.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Canada & Mexico ensure US National Security. US would never experience anything like the military Russian invasion of Ukraine Crimea or terrorist attacks in Israel from Gaza. The MAGA response w/b gaslighting & spin about immigrant crimes, even when less than homegrown. Border w/b more insecure.

flyingidget.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Huh. Like the Zonengrenze? When I was a kid there were a lot of movies and literature about how that was bad.

ecoprairiepainter.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It’s insanely hot there! It’s just another insane wall project that Trump can steal from.

nifftycydonia.bsky.social•5 minutes ago

https://bsky.app/profile/nifftycydonia.bsky.social/post/3lktrz4xx6s2p

lyndawall.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Oh goodie, our own DMZ, but with bonus concentration camps. YUCK. NO!

twoforscuba.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I really think this is his excuse to enact the insurrection act.

leifpdamtsoft.bsky.social•16 hours ago

SCHUMER IS A TRAITOR! TAKES RUSSIAN MONEY! https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/03/russian-oligarch-made-political-contributions-to-sen-schumer-and-the-oligarchs-associates-spent-millions-on-u-s-influence/

princessjane57.bsky.social•13 hours ago

NO UNACCEPTABLE!!

magstarshine99.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Private prison stocks jumped when he was elected bc private prisons = concentration camps…

The Musk’s and Trump’s of the world want to destroy civil rights FOR EVERYONE for a reason.

catmint3.bsky.social•17 hours ago

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dsg-rr17.bsky.social•17 hours ago

missatlanticcity.bsky.social•17 hours ago

That’s got to be illegal without congressional approval 🧌🧌🧌

socalnette.bsky.social•8 hours ago

We need to be up on these things. Americans, many of us, care about the dignity and welfare of people. They are not cattle or all evil. What is being planned seems evil and not at all respectful of others dignity

nrg10.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I knew this was coming, they have a couple of huge detainment camps here in the Texas border! They are extremely huge!

soleadyonis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

First part of moving troops further and further into Mexico.

justnews4you.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It’s akin to driving a Tesla and spending show discussing Elon and Tesla like you do. Hope you don’t also have one.

justnews4you.bsky.social•17 hours ago

No links to this paper please

meanjin01.bsky.social•39 minutes ago

What else is the military good for. Yep Stasi-type border guards and nothing else.

annleftwapo.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I don’t want to hear a single whiny rancher complain when they lose their property to eminent domain.

aiwrd.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I have a question. If Trump gave the order to invade Canada, Panama or Greenland, would the US military follow the order or refuse to follow an illegal, immoral, and potentially self destructive order? This would be the ultimate test of the USA's experiment in democracy.

bark-ages.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Pres has war powers for 60 days without congress approving. If we have a treaty in place, the order would be unlawful and officers are trained not to follow. …but we got loyalists in the ranks.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The ultimate test is what he’s doing domestically so I do believe the military wouldn’t hesitate. He’s yapping about taking the USA out of NATO for that reason. Can’t attack a fellow NATO member but you can if you aren’t in NATO.

blueskypja.bsky.social•17 hours ago

When we take it all back let’s do this instead https://green.nd.edu/events/2019/09/09/an-energy-corridor-on-our-southern-border/

lungbiscuit.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It’s a direct violation of the constitution to deploy the military within the states, but here we are, on like the 300th direct violation of this regime.

cocainedecisions.bsky.social•12 hours ago

3 years 10 months to go. I feel so bad for young people today.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Republicans have tabled a bill to allow him to run for another term. It’s two terms in America but they say it should be two consecutive terms. If you guys don’t oust him now you’ll be under his dictatorship for a very long time. All authoritarian countries have long term leadership.

cocainedecisions.bsky.social•2 hours ago

3 years 10 months to go. Period. Don't believe anything else you read on social media. This is nothing more than an echo chamber for both parties.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

So far…russia 12 years, China 12 years, n Korea since 1949, Hungary 14 years.

fuzzysoft.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Maybe, or maybe it'll lay a giant turd like his big beautiful wall, or his plans to expand Guantanamo Bay. I'm beginning to believe it's all a tale told by an idiot, filled with sound and fury, signifying nothing.

finitewakeups.bsky.social•13 hours ago

You think recruiting was hard enough??? It’s getting drafty in here…

shipperxphile.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Concentration camps

theresistanceat.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Let's waste money on this SH*TE.
NOT on Healthcare, NOT on Food, NOT on Housing and Definitely NOT Veterans!

theresistanceat.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Rumpty Drumpfty & Crew are pure EVIL!
Their view that the "Maggot" race is the distinct and superior racial group which is entitled to rule the rest of humanity. (akin to Adolf's, Gobineau's & Vacher de Lapouge's Aryan race).
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ffa1984.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You mean like the Berlin Wall.

revocsid682.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Just imagine the misinformation that our young military troops are being fed on a daily basis. I'll bet its mind blowing.

michab3.bsky.social•17 hours ago

This is so true. I once dated a young man in the army. After he came back from a deployment in Afghanistan, his political stance was opposite and he had become incredibly conservative. It was crazy.

revocsid682.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Sad

paulhbaker.bsky.social•15 hours ago

More seized property. Even the dessert is owned by someone. What would get done in that zone will horrify Americans when we find out, and we always do.

halgregory.bsky.social•17 hours ago

escape form new york vibes

idrinkmagatears.bsky.social•1 hour ago

That sounds like anything but cheap to operate. What’s the tab on this exercise?

jaydeedouble.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Important to note

The reason Humanitarian Parole was utilized for decades is that it is very expensive/complicated to hold civilians in detention

By releasing non-violent civilians into the U.S., it satisfies Federal Law and puts the cost and responsibility off govt

This is how bad things happens

jaydeedouble.bsky.social•17 hours ago

There’s a name for a military facility holding people in indefinite detention… isn’t there?

sue1000.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Is it concentration camps? I wonder what names they give them…

jlm1981.bsky.social•17 hours ago

A for profit correctional facility, where corruption is rampant and human rights are trampled upon.

jaydeedouble.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Not to mention cost cutting, to “boost stockholder returns”

And knowing that the government would willingly help conceal deaths to avoid criticism.

jlm1981.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Like when Aramark got the contract to feed the State prisoners in Michigan.
Added protein in the form of maggots in the food. And I'm sure it was more expensive, less efficient and the workers had crap pay and benefits compared to those replaced
This is going to be maximum greed, profit and horror

annboyd14.bsky.social•14 hours ago

"There is no immunity for unofficial acts."
By order of SCOTUS 2024
I don't see trump's ruination of the federal government & unraveling of our Constitution & the Rule of Law as part of his official duties.
How could a president's dismantling of democracy be within the scope of his official acts?

lafollette1960.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Send Musk and Queen trump back where they came from!!!!!

theeagles.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It will look like we are at war with Mexico! We don't need a DMZ! We are not like North and.South Korea! We are not at war with Mexico!

luvieh.bsky.social•11 hours ago

"...the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that prohibits active-duty troops from most law enforcement missions."

but don't let laws stop ya🙄
#RogueNation #BananaRepublicans

zanrus.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Hopefully we Americans can still get out.

bbow75.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Don’t let them use our military like this. There is no emergency that requires their presence.

redmonarch3.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Updated Berlin Wall but is it to keep someone in or someone out?

sweetpjeb.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Yes

kproud.bsky.social•17 hours ago

in Texas they'd probably let him do it even on private land.

andiewags.bsky.social•11 hours ago

They just keep throwing money at ideas that they haven’t even figured all the way out 🙄 seems super efficient & not at all wasteful or susceptible to fraud & abuse.

jm4469.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Wow wow wow!!

wjc1542.bsky.social•17 hours ago

In military parlance it is called a kill zone

gregdiamond16.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I live 60 miles from the boarder with Mexico. There is no security threat at that boarder. I called the WH to state my views. The operator hung up on me. Fuck Trump.

elizabethpgraham.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I've never been to a welcome station that was so hostile to visitors!

chiefballs.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Go get contacts or LASIK now because these motherfuckers are eventually going to come for you because you wear glasses.

scottax.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The beginning of interment camps and a military state. What ever happened to not using our military domestically?

jbmagni.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Trump probably won on this issue.

ghla.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Meanwhile, Trump is doing this 👇

mmcgreer.bsky.social•17 hours ago

posse comitatus act violation?

radbradley.bsky.social•17 hours ago

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sharonlindsey.bsky.social•17 hours ago

azistoohot.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Why? Mexico is an ally. To get our attention off Ukraine?

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

To keep all the republicans who abhor immigrants like he does that this is even better than the “wall”.

leoconles.bsky.social•17 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/leoconles.bsky.social/post/3lkt7eey5dk2a

azistoohot.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Can't believe 2 warships are in the Gulf of Mexico for support. All this is smokescreen to divert attention away from Trump's dismantling government and tax cuts for ultra wealthy.

leoconles.bsky.social•16 hours ago

This goes beyond tax cuts, this is a COUP. Trump is already invoking some bogus war powers to detain and deport people, but that's not going to fly. He is going to need a real war to effectively use wartime power to complete the total takeover of the government and end all civil liberties.

americanvoter.bsky.social•17 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/americanvoter.bsky.social/post/3lktbw675ks2d

kcmacinblack.bsky.social•9 hours ago

that takes away the readiness of the miltary doesn't it.

canarycalls.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Not only can they prevent people from coming in, but they can stop citizens from escaping.

quinnscorner.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Are we in Russia? Thinking I made a wrong turn when I got out of bed this morning!

debifo.bsky.social•16 hours ago

🤮

trippertoes.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Still have cages there from 2017?

rhondamorton.bsky.social•17 hours ago

When is convicted felon Trump going to take action to deal with people in the USA attempting to smuggle cocaine & other drugs& guns into Canada?! There have been multiple seizures by Canadian border security& RCMP in the past 18+month& not something he can blame on Biden as it continues to escalate

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•7 hours ago

He’s not going to take action because that takes diplomacy. He’s only interested with invading so he can steal Canadian and Greenland resources for his own greedy consumption. USA/Russia are besties now and they both want this to happen.

chuckyou2x.bsky.social•17 hours ago

America, like North Korea, gets its very own DMZ!

Woo-hoo!

🤨

cocainedecisions.bsky.social•12 hours ago

It's kinda opposite of N. Korea. America is keeping people out, and N. Korea is trying to keep people in. It's true. You can leave America anytime.

therealedgardner.bsky.social•17 hours ago

They'll mine the damn thing too ☠️

sonoransage.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Shh don’t give them any ideas.

philipskipper.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Boycott Amazon, Tesla, Target….and the Washington Post!!

philipskipper.bsky.social•17 hours ago

WHY ARE YOU SOURCING THE WASHINGTON POST?!

rhettoreck.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Who needs Guantanamo? Must be a DOGE/Miller idea. Welcome to America. Just stay at this camp here to get acclimated to your new home, the Fascist Police States of America. We suck Russian cock, so get used to it.

dadidoc1.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Elon Musk’s team is planning large scale ovens to handle the human waste.

a-time-traveler.bsky.social•17 hours ago

And what happens when/if we're attacked by foreign adversaries on the east/west coast? Bad use of the military. Let the border patrol handle it.

nonsensicalmadness.bsky.social•17 hours ago

If that happens, Musk and VP Trump will bring in a huge number of Russian troops to occupy and “protect” America’s coasts from foreign invaders.
They will then thank Vladimir Putin for being kind enough to let his troops occupy the United States.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•7 hours ago

…and that’s when he’ll turn on Trump.

whatthehell2025.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It part of the Trump Show. He is one of the most wasteful president in history.

alleycat52.bsky.social•13 hours ago

snoad44.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Who is going to stop this very mentaly ill man while time is running out! America is close to the edge!

changerous.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Burning question,
Do the military's cavalry horses have the ability to jump that fence?
Asking for a general named G. Custer.

invisible9111.bsky.social•16 hours ago

this is a bad dream to become cruel to refugees

youvotedforthis2.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I guarantee most military would avoid an assignment there at all cost. They’d have to turn it into an unaccompanied tour. There are already too many bases out in the middle of nowhere with no services.

travelincatdoc.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Huge deleterious effects on the wildlife corridor

leahleahbobeah.bsky.social•17 hours ago

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imagine1016.bsky.social•14 hours ago

BELIEVE THE TRUTH not trump.

lynnmanyfires.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Wasn't the goal to get them away from the border? Good luck Arizona and Texas.

debra.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Let me think. Where have we seen this before?

rpcsas.bsky.social•16 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/84sBH8D9f0E?si=obPCupL4O-PxLL_x

madpotter.bsky.social•17 hours ago

60 ft x 700 miles! Given that an Army mechanized division typically occupies a 15-20 mi frontage, even if you stretch that to 100 mi, that’s 7 divisions. AF and electronics can surveil, but still need to get “detainer” troops to location of incursion quickly. ALONG A 700 MILE FRONT!

gomerkierkegaard.bsky.social•16 hours ago

If he sends all these troops to the southern border, who will be left to invade Canada and occupy Gaza...especially if they kick out all the trans soldiers?

sweetpjeb.bsky.social•15 hours ago

and you know the women are next

redsmadetheirbeds.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The Washington post should allow us to read the article instead of trying to sell us a subscription !!
Every time I want to read these, they come up and I just use a different free news source and don’t go to the Washington Post.

harvestmoon11.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Bezos owns it…don’t bother it just lines the pocket of one of your Oligarchs.

dogmama2x.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Schumer just allowed Trump to make up his own military. It’s not just a border thing. He could arrest me for saying this, put me in a detention camp for life with no representation. What could be more frightening than Trump having the power to detain people for life without representation?

nrg10.bsky.social•10 hours ago

🤦🏻‍♀️ ugh!

kavavita.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I’m confused. What does this have to do with the vote on the CR?

australiakatie.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Issues press @maddow but did u know the Trump pay 4 play extends to US tech industry attacking Australia’s pharmaceutical affordable drugs scheme & our fwd-thinking online /AI safety laws? It’s incited interference in another sovereign nation.

paulinacd.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I canceled my subscription to WaPo. I guess there are no free reads anymore. 😐

lexultimaveritas.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Just stop trying to make concentration camps work. What the fuck

kitchengigolo.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Pete H at the helm to make sure it's all done kosher.

savvysuzy.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Sounds like a great pretext to set up a military fortress at our borders🤨

redheadedtraveler.bsky.social•17 hours ago

This is not for the border, IMO. It's to have them in place when the revolt begins. He hasn't followed any other laws. Why would the Posse Comitatus Act stop him?

sweetpjeb.bsky.social•15 hours ago

That's absolutely a plan for a concentration camp 😐

windersj.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Just like Bondi in contempt of federal judge orders. Find her in contempt and detain her in DC jail until DOJ answers the judge’s questions

cyril51.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Colin Powell's very existence makes the Apartheid, racist Chump administration's heads explode. A black Republican hero? Such a thing cannot exist in their universe.

katillogical.bsky.social•17 hours ago

They're going to be overwhelmed by US residents and citizens trying to flee to the safety of Mexico.

raycunneff.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It starts to sound like the "no man's land" at the Berlin Wall.

elizabethpgraham.bsky.social•16 hours ago

A wall to keep people in, rather than out. As a child I was told that anyone attempting to go outside the wall would be shot.

I hope this isn't Trump's long-term plan.

raycunneff.bsky.social•17 hours ago

raycunneff.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I crossed the Berlin Wall at "Checkpoint Charlie" in 1964 after three months behind the "Iron Curtain". It's only when you've seen such a barrier first-hand, in human scale, that you fully appreciate the evil behind its construction. It's something you never forget.

beansrgross.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Netanyahu’s wall

ljgroza.bsky.social•18 minutes ago

I wish we could actually see the things that are posted here without having a paid subscription to the source.

grantmusic-pdx.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Contractor bliss free cash to be a kennel

grantmusic-pdx.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Eek

natink.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Not to mention its the beginning of his desire for a militarized state!

elizabethodr.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Catch & keep!
Private ICE detention centers will LOVE the money rolling in! Their own private Guantanamo detention.

leoconles.bsky.social•17 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/leoconles.bsky.social/post/3lkt7eey5dk2a

sarahann1952.bsky.social•17 hours ago

WTF Rachel ? I have a Story. READ ALL ABOUT IT!

cuzcaroline.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Why don't they just use those abandoned Walmarts and their tunnels that Obama's Democrats use to use to hold right-wingers?

gomerkierkegaard.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You forgot the /s.

anniekostyk.bsky.social•17 hours ago

🤬

kimkateley.bsky.social•15 hours ago

So much for peace: Mexico, Panama, Canada & Greenland are all on Shitler's list.

thumper9755.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Yup will never happen!! We’re still waiting for the wall to be finished!! He’s just a big mouth idiot!! He’s just a 🐂 💩er!

sarahgabriella84.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Why link to Bezos news tho?

rotnes.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Make concentration camps great again.
The wall will soon keep people trapped in the deplorable MAGA dystopia.
Handmaid's tale is the dream scenario for the rapist cult.