Stitt Decries Key Component of Trump’s “Occupy America” Plan…

Let’s give some credit where credit is rarely due.

In case you missed it, Governor Stitt recently announced that he is opposed to Trump using National Guard troops from other states to occupy liberal strongholds like Washington D.C., L.A., and – coming soon to a cable news station and social media scroll near you – Chicago.

Stitt made the statement in his official capacity as the chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) – a group that seriously voted for him to be their leader.

Via The Washington Post:

Oklahoma’s GOP governor opposes sending out-of-state troops to states that don't welcome them

Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, the chair of the National Governors Association, said Thursday that he opposes sending National Guard troops across state borders without the permission of the state receiving them.

The position from a sitting Republican official posed a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump’s push to send National Guard troops to cities in states where Democrats are in charge, including Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker are fighting in court to try to halt the deployment of Texas Guard members.

Speaking to The New York Times on Thursday, Stitt said, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

Stitt is a hardcore Republican and literally has a Ph.D. in posturing and hypocrisy, so his stance was a tad surprising.

In fact, it caught the attention of George Stephanopoulos. He brought up Stitt’s quote to J.D. Vance during the political dog-and-pony show on This Week, asking the white-trash creative writer turned Ivy League DEI admission to respond to Stitt’s statement.

I’m not sure if J.D. Vance simply misspoke, or just really sucks at the baby blue piece of pie in Trivial Pursuit, but at last check, Chicago is located in Illinois.

I can't believe I'm writing this, but Stitt has a point.

He and other Oklahomans would flip out if, say, the California National Guard were sent by President Newsom to occupy our state capitol – but since when has that mattered to him? Stitt has always followed the GOP’s ruling dogma of “rules for thee but not for me,” so you’d think he’d just fall in line.

In all fairness, he kind of did.

Although his out-of-context quote makes him seem opposed to using the military to control cities during upcoming elections, he’s actually for it – as long as you respect the arbitrary lines and boundaries we call state borders.

Stitt drew one key distinction: while he opposes sending groups across state lines where they’re not welcomed by the governors, he said that Trump should have federalized the National Guard from Illinois instead to protect federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. That’s the approach Trump took over the summer when he sent National Guard troops to Los Angeles during protests there.

Yep, he’s only okay with the president using the military to needlessly occupy American cities if – and only if – they’re occupying their home state. That makes sense. Even though we’re all Americans and state lines are arbitrary boundaries, I guess I’d rather be marched around by some good ol’ boy from Slapout or Beaver than some liberal hooligan from L.A. or Chicago.

Even though Stitt’s not as strong a federalist as he thinks he is, I guess we should give him some props for showing at least a drop of courage and sanity on one issue. Sure, it may lead to Trump putting Tulsa on his list of cities to occupy next – which you must admit would be kind of cool to cover – but maybe it’s the beginning of a trend to defy Trump.

When Kevin calls for Fed independence and freedom for Greenland, maybe we’ll know for sure. 

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