BBC Asks 'Why Trump Deploys Guard,' Forgets Biden Did It Last Week
The BBC asks, with carefully manufactured concern, 'Why is Trump trying to deploy the National Guard to US cities?' (BBC, October 2024). This hand-wringing arrives shortly after President Biden authorized up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the southern border in March 2024, continuing a tradition set by... well, every recent administration. The crucial difference, it seems, isn't the deployment
itself, but whose name is on the deployment order. The historical pattern of using these forces for both domestic 'order' and border control is as bipartisan as corporate tax cuts. One might almost suspect the media’s sudden focus on potential 'military overreach' is less about constitutional principles and more about weaponizing every possible action of a former president, while similar actions
by the incumbent are simply framed as necessary measures. The selective outrage is less a revelation and more a carefully choreographed memory lapse, turning a policy discussion into pure political theater.