The messages, casually exchanged last weekend in a crowded, public space, show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne, an infantry division that has been parachuted into combat zones in both world wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan. If the administration were to send in the Army division, it would almost certainly be challenged in court under federal laws limiting how the military can be used domestically.

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There is also an editor’s note — apparently deputy Homeland Security adviser Salisbury decided to use Signal to exchange information about this while attending a funeral in Minnesota.

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    17 hours ago

    Tell that to Charlie.

    Guns have been an effective treatment plan for fascism for nearly a hundred years. It’s proven to work.

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      Wow so this took me a minute. I’m like… Charlie… guns… Viet Cong (Victor Charlie)?

      I totally forgot about Kirk. lol! I guess he’s just another name on that list of gunshot victims.

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        I mean, it applies both ways. (You might argue that the Viet Cong were resisting something other than fascism, but you can’t argue that they weren’t effective at it.)