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Related: About this forumTrump-Loving Junk-Car Billionaire Pays for Kristi Noem to Send Troops to Border
Last edited Wed Jun 30, 2021, 09:28 AM - Edit history (1)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-willis-johnson-the-billionaire-bankrolling-kristi-noems-border-deployment?ref=scroll]Will South Dakota be on the hook $$$$ if someone sues because their kid gets injured "on the border"? Or dies? Who pays for their medical care?
Who gives orders to these kids? The junk-yard jack ass? Romney's niece? Trump? Mitch McConnell?
What happens when the SD national guard blows up a bus full of people trying to cross?
At one point, it was illegal for people to leave things like water out in the desert so people would not die. The SD national guard gonna kill American citizens leaving drinking water behind?
Noem is nuts and so are the people who voted for her.
https://news.sd.gov/newsitem.aspx?id=28226]
The initial deployment to the border will last for between 30 and 60 days. South Dakota Adjutant General Jeff Marlette and the South Dakota Department of the Military are working with their counterparts in Texas to finalize the details of this mission. The deployment will be paid for by a private donation.
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Trump-Loving Junk-Car Billionaire Pays for Kristi Noem to Send Troops to Border (Original Post)
suegeo
Jun 2021
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captain queeg
(11,780 posts)1. Is this even legal? Sounds like using the Guard like a private army.
Pinback
(12,858 posts)2. Made his $$ reselling worn-out junk,
so of course he buys and sells the same in political terms: Republicans.
Voltaire2
(14,654 posts)3. So we have the secessionist states
trialing using their NG forces in joint ventures.
LizBeth
(10,757 posts)4. I do not see how they can legally use our military for this and pay from outside sources.
suegeo
(2,809 posts)5. Kick. A private individual is funding a National Guard mission.
What's to stop some other wingnut from funding a national guard mission to send the Iowa national guard to "protect" voting stations in swing states?
Some rich kook from funding a national guard mission to send the South Dakota national guard to where ever, to do who knows what shady business?