Daily Take: The Army Was Built to Protect the Republic — Now It’s Being Deployed to Subdue It
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The battlefield is no longer overseas. It’s your city. Your rights. Your voice. And the military is no longer standing guard: it’s standing in the way…
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| 0:00.0 | You know, the hardest part about cooking or barbecuing meat, tethered to a hot stove or barbecue, |
| 0:04.7 | sweating, constantly checking it, singeing your eyebrows, and then serving it, and half is beef jerky |
| 0:10.9 | and half is blood rare. Those days are gone. I got a Chef IQ Sense, and I'm ready for the food network. |
| 0:17.5 | It's kind of like a meat thermometer, but wireless and way smarter. I just enter |
| 0:21.7 | whatever I'm cooking into my Chef IQ Sense app, steaks, chicken, fish, whatever. Choose precisely how |
| 0:27.1 | I like it cooked. Well done, medium, medium, rare, rare. Chef IQ Sense continuously monitors and |
| 0:32.8 | predicts precisely when my food will be done. No opening a hot oven, sweating over a barbecue, frying |
| 0:38.5 | pan, or air friar. Then, Chef IQ Sense sends an alert to my smartphone when my steaks, |
| 0:43.9 | chicken, or seafood are cooked to order the way I like it. This is the world's smartest, |
| 0:48.3 | simple to use, wireless cooking sensor, and the best news is they just announced a flash sale. |
| 0:53.2 | Visit ChefIQ.com, promo code Tom, T- a flash sale. Visit chef IQ.com promo code Tom, |
| 0:56.0 | T-H-O-M. That's chef IQ.com promo code Tom. The army was built to protect the |
| 1:02.9 | republic. Well, now it's being deployed to subdue it. After a couple of wannabe carjackers |
| 1:09.8 | punched out big balls in D.C. Trump used as an excuse to threaten to take over the city and bringing the National Guard to police it in a clear violation of the Posse Comitatis Act. |
| 1:21.7 | This despite the fact that crime in Washington, D.C. is at a 30-year low, and the city already has the largest police force per capita |
| 1:29.7 | of any city in America. None of that matters. Trump wants to turn America into a police state, |
| 1:37.4 | just like every other dictator in the world does when they get a hold of a democracy. They steal from the |
| 1:42.6 | people, enrich their cronies, break laws with impunity, |
| 1:46.2 | and then use police agencies to terrorize the general populist, judges, and legislators into |
| 1:51.6 | docility and submission when they object. In fact, they told us this was their goal. They showed us. |
| 1:58.2 | They planned it in writing. A leaked memo from inside the Department of Homeland Security reveals what many of us feared but hope we were wrong about that the military is no longer a last resort in American government's governance. It's now a first tool, a central player, a political weapon, just like in Russia, and they're not even hiding it anymore. |
| 2:19.7 | This isn't some vague speculation or dystopian what-if. This isn't a shadowy plot hatched in secrecy. |
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