I think what Trump wants them to do is put down protests, and overrule judges, politicians, and local law enforcement through violence if anyone doesn't obey. You're right that arresting random individuals is a lot of what they're doing right now, but that's not why Trump wants to send them.
Yeah. I don't really know politics well enough to know how realistic it is. I do know that most of them exist in a weird white-collar corruption ecosystem which really doesn't give a shit about parties D or R, working people, America's standing in the world and success or failure, any of that stuff. They just work for who pays them, and for the most part, who pays them is the rich sociopaths who are completely fine with putting all the poors in camps.
I feel like a certain amount of it is also deliberate partisan sabotage by people who care specifically about R instead of D, but I think mostly it's just the bipartisan Washington consensus that Bernie Sanders is a loony old guy and Hilary Clinton / George W / Mitt Romney / Hakeem Jeffries / all those indistinguishable dickheads are the future of this country, because they're going to continue to enable all of "us" to get filthy rich without really having to work for it.
Honestly, the National Guard is a lot better trained at this kind of "dealing with large groups of angry but mostly unarmed and harmless people" situation. The cops are trained and experienced at dealing with individuals, for the most part, but when they're faced with a big protest or a riot they are often making it up as they go along.
One thing that multiple National Guard people said after they got involved in BLM in 2020 was that they often felt like their role in practice was to protect the people against the police. Since their job is, more or less, to maintain order, and the people were (most of the time) pretty orderly and the police often were not.
And when he's floating in a barge off Gitmo, he'll be very mad that it was someone else's fault. This isn't supposed to happen to people like him, he was doing everything professional and right.
Seriously. You'd think that after 2016 when the signal stabilized and people who ignored this messaging were consistently wildly popular in elections, and people who listened to it got beat like a rented mule year after year, they'd see the pattern. There aren't a lot of fields of big league human endeavor where you can be this stupidly unsuccessful for this long and people still take you seriously and keep paying you vast sums of money to learn your wisdom.
I suspect there's a certain amount of deliberate sabotage involved. How much of it is that, and how much is pure homegrown white-collar stupidity, it's impossible to say, although I would speculate they're both heavily involved.
That's all it's ever been. These nations rise and fall like villages in the Ice Age. We just have media and systems to make it look like everything is all organized and "professional" now, and it kind of is sometimes, but at the end of the day we're still living on the same uncaring planet by the same rules.
There's a pretty good book called "Playing With Fire" about the politics of the late 60s and the events of the time. I had to stop reading it, it's too sad. Bobby Kennedy talking to the crowd after MLK was shot, not knowing that he was going to be dead the same way a short time later, just fucked me up, I put it down.
Nothing, as far as I can tell.
I have only the vaguest of vague impressions, but my vague impression is that he's been quite a good actor in other things, but then with Doctor Who they kept giving him terrible scripts.
She did do acting before she did comedy, probably nothing anyone's ever seen.
It looks like I'm not alone in having the impression that the most recent seasons were badly received: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/ratings/
I don't think it was that gender "was an issue" or anything. Like I say I thought it was just kind of generally understood that the recent seasons just weren't very good, but it looks from the comments like that's not the Lemmy consensus, so be it.
Maybe you don't like the actress
No idea about her or anything upcoming. I thought it was universally accepted that the recent seasons of the Doctor were horrible, but it looks like I'm alone in that. Oh well. Anyway, my main point about this was that Fern Brady would do great.
My phrasing was bad. Both the gender-swapped and the current "dancing in the crosswalk" Doctor Who attempts were dogshit. Fern Brady would actually fit the emotional timbre of the classic Doctors while also happening to be modern and female, was my point.
They can do whatever they want. On the other hand, the people of the country can throw things other than sandwiches.
People tend to get confused, even when they are familiar with all these founding documents and principles (which the current government is not). They start to think there are "rules" and they get to say what's allowed, and they can punish people who do what's not allowed, but it doesn't go the other way, because that's not allowed and they're in charge. That's not reality. Reality is, we're all just on this planet bebopping around, and if someone is in a "government" role, it behooves them to make sure the people "under" them agree with the idea of them being in charge. Because no one has a monopoly on violence or vigor.
Even the top leaders of the USSR (starting with Kruschev) had to figure this out: He made a mostly unspoken deal with the other leaders that he wouldn't try to kill them for being potential threats, and in return they wouldn't kill him to take him out of power and replace him. And what do you know, it worked! It's better that way. The US up until now has had a little more sophisticated version, extending beyond the inner circle of leadership, but it sounds like Trump is hankering for an earlier era without really being aware of its perils.