Trump says he's placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard

“We're getting rid of the slums, too,” Trump said, adding that the U.S. would not lose its cities and that Washington was just a start.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will be taking over responsibility for Washington's metro police department, he said, while also complaining about potholes and graffiti in the city and calling them “embarrassing.”

For Trump, the effort to take over public safety in Washington reflects a next step in his law enforcement agenda after his aggressive push to stop illegal border crossings. But the move involves at least 500 federal law enforcement officials as well as the National Guard, raising fundamental questions about how an increasingly emboldened federal government will interact with its state and local counterparts.

The president has used his social media and White House megaphones to message that his administration is tough on crime, yet his ability to shape policy might be limited outside of Washington, which has a unique status as a congressionally established federal district. Nor is it clear how his push would address the root causes of homelessness and crime.

Trump said he is invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to deploy members of the National Guard.

About 500 federal law enforcement officers are being tasked with deploying throughout the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to combat crime, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.

More than 100 FBI agents and about 40 agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are among federal law enforcement personnel being assigned to patrols in Washington, the person briefed on the plans said. The Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Marshals Service are also contributing officers.

The person was not authorized to publicly discuss personnel matters and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity. The Justice Department didn’t immediately have a comment Monday morning.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, questioned the effectiveness of using the Guard to enforce city laws and said the federal government could be far more helpful by funding more prosecutors or filling the 15 vacancies on the D.C. Superior Court, some of which have been open for years.

Bowser cannot activate the National Guard herself, but she can submit a request to the Pentagon.

“I just think that’s not the most efficient use of our Guard,” she said Sunday on MSNBC's “The Weekend,” acknowledging it is "the president’s call about how to deploy the Guard.”

Bowser was making her first public comments since Trump started posting about crime in Washington last week. She noted that violent crime in Washington has decreased since a rise in 2023. Trump's weekend posts depicted the district as “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World."

For Bowser, “Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false.”

Trump in a Sunday social media post had emphasized the removal of Washington’s homeless population, though it was unclear where the thousands of people would go.

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote Sunday. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong.”

Last week, the Republican president directed federal law enforcement agencies to increase their presence in Washington for seven days, with the option “to extend as needed.”

On Friday night, federal agencies including the Secret Service, the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service assigned more than 120 officers and agents to assist in Washington.

Trump said last week that he was considering ways for the federal government to seize control of Washington, asserting that crime was “ridiculous” and the city was “unsafe,” after the recent assault of a high-profile member of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Our beautiful, beautiful parks...

didn't he just pave over the White House's "beautiful, beautiful" Rose Garden?

[quote]the city’s mayor has noted that crime is falling in the nation’s capital

NOT FOR BIG BALLS!

Power mad.

Now I'm convinced that the Coristine "attack" was completely planned.

No evidence or video footage, whatsoever.

And now the takeover of DC.

This is how Trump is going to operate, from now on.

Staged incidents, leading to a crackdown.

Straight from the dictator handbook.

We are on the fast track to becoming a police state.

There is a picture of Coristine after the fact. I don't think it was staged. I think it was planned. A guy like Trump is perfectly fine with OKing the roughing up one of his sycophants if it benefits him. He would throw anyone under the bus to help his own ass.

Where will all of these various law enforcement officers from varied agencies be staying while the clean up D.C.?

Let me guess… a property co-owned or owned by Trump, like that Trump hotel the J6 traitors stayed at?

ANYTHING, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING THIS MAN DOES, HE DOES TO LINE HIS POCKETS AND THE POCKETS OF HIS CRONIES.

This has nothing to do with safety, or solving homelessness. This ONLY has to do with warehousing bodies for cash, whether they’re law enforcement officers, or sleeping in a tent.

That's definitely another possibility, R7.

In any case, the Coristine attack was definitely planned.

staged v. panned.

is someone suggesting that big-balls’ "carjacking" could be a ... hoax...?

that's just too far-fetched in this teenage-cellphone doge-evidence-based day and age.

License to kill:

Continuing his decades long display of dumbassery

The way Trump was reading that statement at R11 makes it clear that someone else is writing the statement for him.

These ideas are coming from his Project 2025 people.

Trump just does the embellishments. He gives the narrative to support the policy.

It's very weird. He really does seem like a puppet to whichever master is pulling his strings.

I'm glad that this Aaron Rupar guy is all over it.

He's just the spokesmodel for Project 2025.

Speaking of Aaron Rupar, he's really fighting the good fight.

He needs to be careful, because MAGA assholes are always threaatening him.

For example:

[quote] College football coach sends threatening message to progressive journalist

[italic]The folks who want to leave sports out of politics had difficulty practicing what they preached on Monday.

After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, ESPN decided to air a politically charged message during halftime of the National Championship Game. The broadcast was anything but apolitical.

Similarly, Long Beach City College head coach Brett Peabody was embroiled in controversy following a series of regrettable social media decisions, including sending a threatening message to an independent journalist on X (formerly Twitter).

Progressive journalist Aaron Rupar uncovered the messages and shared them with his followers. After significant backlash, Peabody responded to the Long Beach Post but showed little remorse. He seemed more concerned with the negative attention his comments brought to his football program than with the message itself.

In the message, Peabody wrote, “You’re done, you sorry fascist scumbag. Hope you get held accountable for the bullsh*t that [you’ve] spread. Justice is on the horizon, kiddo.”

Rupar, no stranger to receiving threats on social media, noted that this message stood out, given that it came from the head coach of a college football program.

Peabody’s account is currently set to private.

In his conversation with the Long Beach Post, Peabody admitted that the message was “clearly not the best decision” and acknowledged that it had brought unwanted attention to the college. However, he insisted that the language was simply a “criticism” of Rupar’s coverage of Trump and labeled the journalist’s online behavior as “unprofessional.”

Peabody further downplayed the seriousness of the message, saying, “It was not a threat in any way, shape, or form. If you read it, I’m not sure how it could be construed as a threat. … I’d like to see journalists held at a higher standard.”

Rupar wasn’t looking for Peabody to be fired but turned the tables on the embattled college head coach, telling the Post, “I think people like that need to be a little more accountable for their actions. I think it’s a bit out of line.”

He also attempted to shed light on the confusing non-apology apology.[/italic]

I haven't heard anyone talk about "the slums" in decades.

Dress rehearsal folks, stay tuned

This is like his seventeenth or Epsteineeth attempt at distraction and nothing is working

This is rich coming from the scum who led the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and then pardoned the domestic terrorists who carried out the attack.

He is going to turn DC into his personal Kremlin.

He is going to arm it to the teeth and start arresting Democrats who break the law.

Off to the Gulag, you jaywalker!

And how many times did HE fly HIS jet onto Pedo Island DIRECTLY.

The Epstein flight records show him on SEVEN FLIGHTS. Did he hitch a ride home from someone?

Oh and his attack on DC is 1/6 in reverse. It is as if he replaced the Capitol Police with Proud Boys BEFORE the insurrection.

COM (ON IN BOYS!

r14 spokesmodel?! More like spokestard.

(I know r14 is not Tee Cak)

Remember when the Republican Party stood for very limited intervention of the Federal Government into state and local affairs, as well as private businesses?

r23, go ask Nikki Haley.

She warned us.

Exactly, R16.

It's performative for the rubes who need some kind of documentation for their bias.

I was waned about Union Station before I went seven months ago but when I got there I thought it had about the same type and amount of downtrodden people as I encounter every week in Grand Central or Penn Station. And what those locations all have in common is that they are transit hubs where some of the more sheltered among us are forced, briefly, to interact with reality between Amtrak (commuter trains) and Uber (private livery). Anyone who lives in the real world navigates the spectrum of humanity all of the time. Only those glued to their social media and/or FUX Noise believes that this will do anything to affect any kind of change.

He is willingly acting as the frontman and being managed by other racist assholes who have been fighting the same culture wars for an entire generation without acknowledging that the world around them has actually matured.

r20

DISTRACTION !!!

Also, what I forgot to say at R25 is that he's performing for an audience that 100% believes that Chicago and New York are 100% worse than Nashville. But they don't need to worry about Nashville since their people--good people--are in charge of Tennessee and will take care of that problem unlike the libtards running "DEMONcrat" blue hellholes.

(Never mind that Memphis has one of the worst homeless problems I've ever seen anywhere. And St. Louis isn't far behind)

And, never mind that the people this is geared to sway are in places like Tucson and Boca and it has nothing to do with them anyway save that it makes them feel high and mighty

If he wants to curb crime in DC, he and his MAGAt Congress and appointees need to resign and crawl back under their rocks.

[quote] "You knock the hell out of them. It's the only language they understand ... you spit and we hit. And they get hit real hard ... now they are allowed to do whatever they want"

Who was getting into the faces of police and spitting at them and doing whatever the hell they wanted on Jan. 6, 2021?

And this autocrat pardoned these violent and criminal insurrectionists!!!

This guy brings up another good point:

NATIONALLY 7% of homeless people are US military veterans.

I would assume that number is much higher in DC given the much higher percentage of veterans overall.

One of his idiot followers was carjacked and he's turning it into the Reichstag fire.

But where are the Epstein files, hmmmm?

It worked so well in LA. /s

This is what the British call throwing a dead cat.

All of Trump's beefed up military and law enforcement forces, seconded from their real jobs and homes, are going to be frustrated, bored, and demoralized at having almost nothing to do. If any of them voted for Trump last year, they should be cursing him.

Now, if they actually went into Wards 7 and 8, where the real street and gang-related crime happens, they'd be scared witless.

Trump doesn't want to solve any problems, R35, especially seemingly intractable social problems. He has the attention span of a housefly and flits from one sound bite to the next.

Everything Trump says or does is to burnish his "brand."

where are the courts

I mean, there's a good chance that this will end up with them sitting on their ass without enough food and nothing to really do just like last time. The rank and file don't seem enthused when any of this is really happening, either. Look how sour they were at the parade.

I am not the person you referred to and was not in snywY making a serious statement. It’s getting harder and harder to express a thought here.

It’s all on them now! Every rape, assault and murder is Trump’s responsibility

It's also hard to edit. Anyway, not snywY.

R28 All the cities you mention are Democrat run.

Another turd in the shit storm.

Now we know why this happened today. Federal judge issues scathing rebuke of the Trump DOJ efforts to release Epstein grand jury file. Correctly notes that the DOJ already has EVERYTHING in the file and more, and that the proceeding was just a ruse to hoodwink the public.

Deflect, divert and distract.

Can't somebody please do something about this traitorous fool - PLEASE!

" I don't think it was staged. I think it was planned."

Planned, staged, whatever. It's just another Reichstag fire moment that Trump & Co. will exploit to the fullest advantage.

Expect numerous others like them in the coming weeks, months and years.

Trump had Obama's portrait in The White House moved to a hidden stairwell.

Trump is a freak show and needs to go.

Timeline of MAGAs Epstein position: 1. Democrats killed Epstein to hide their connections to his operation while Trump was president, Trump does nothing about it, and is assumed to be planning to release all the information in a second term. 2. The Epstein files reach Bondi’s desk, soon to be released 3. There are no files, Epstein didn’t hook up young women with powerful people OR traffic them, he was just into illegal porn. 4. There are Epstein files but the Democrats loaded them up with so much fake information that it would be irresponsible to release them. They were able to do this even though he was incarcerated during the Trump administration. 5. We can’t release the files because it would hurt the Democrats and we’re protecting them even though in every other way we treat them as subhuman criminals. So it’s all Clinton and democrats we promise but we still won’t release it.

Meanwhile, I’ve seen that the GOP may be moving to lower the age of consent to around 15 in the coming months.

R51 I’m sorry, I forgot I need to do a full line break.

The current narrative is something like this - Joe Biden and Obama edited the Epstein files with false connections to conservative figures. Because Trump officials never saved any information and can’t remember any of it, all they have to work with are these bogus Democrat faked files that can’t be trusted. Even though Epstein was incarcerated during the Trump administration. However, the files still prove that Clinton and other powerful dems are guilty of sex crimes connected to Epstein - however, he had no clients. Presumably, Obama and Biden forgot to remove that stuff from the files. In conclusion, the Democrats made a fake case file that incriminates themselves and we won’t release it because we want to protect Democrats. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[quote]They cited/cancelled people for misgendering trans and refusing to go along with woke/trans ideology.

They did? Who did? Where? When?

Or is that and your whole nutty screed a total lie?

Ironically, aside from pure ego, the next largest portion of their obstinance is representative of a large portion of the American public. While people love to bitch and complain about how nothing ever gets done, people legitimately feel like things should be instituted in a measured and equable way. The problems are

1) that shit doesn't work

2) not everyone plays by the same rules

3) we elect senators because they're supposed to know better

Biden’s words now coming back to bite everyone in the ass. The media is running with this.

Doesn’t he need to know where Washington, DC, is first? Or even where he is located in relation to it? lol

1000 National Guard troops is NOT the correct answer to the question, Roger

Anyone else think the DOGE worker assault last week was fake?

A comparison between capital cities:

2024

Washington DC - population: 702,250.... homicides 197

London UK - population: 8.9 million.... homicides 104

So glad I don’t live in DC anymore, but wonder if and when they will come for my current city. I’ve been on vacation out of the country and man, checking the news from “home” everyday has been depressing (I should tune out for a week, but I’m a doom junkie). I don’t want to go back there. The country is a complete disgrace now. Turds in a punch bowel is right. They’ve turned it into an overflowing toilet.

This is all fake drama

[Quote] A comparison between capital cities

Guns and wealth disparities are the causes. Study after study shows police presence doesn’t stop crime. Sending in the national guard won’t do shit. Equalize wealth disparities and ban guns

R61, take away those pesky UK weapons control laws and we’ll get the London numbers up to US standards.

[quote]Study after study shows police presence doesn’t stop crime.

So let's defund the police! Sounds like a winning argument!

Trump will not stop any assassination plots that way.

[quote]Study after study shows police presence doesn’t stop crime.

USA: the number of police officers is 240 per 100,000 residents.

Italy: 398

Spain: 370

Germany: 301

I guess those low crime countries are doing it all wrong?

When is Dump presenting Big Balls the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

The “big balls” attack stinks of Morton Downey Jr.’s faked attack. The one where he was supposedly disfigured by neo-Nazis, but had obviously drew a swastika backwards on himself in the mirror.

This is utter bullshit. The D.C. crime rate has gone 25% in recent year. If Trump wants to throw out the criminals in DC he can start with all the pedophiles in his government including him.

… meant to change it to “drawn.”

[quote]This is utter bullshit. The D.C. crime rate has gone 25% in recent year.

And it's still absurdly high.

It’s always you flyover retards who are INCENSED about crime in the Big Cities. “It’s inescapable! My sister’s roommate’s cousin gets murdered every time she leaves the house! Look at this NYPost article if you want proof!”

Keep fucking your siblings and voting for your obese savior in his orange pancake makeup. Oh, and do try to avoid getting a shotgun head wound from one of your local road-raging Jethros.

Nazis gonna Nazi

Am I the only person who thinks Paul Rudnick is like some lame second-banana comedy act in the Catskills and not very funny?

Yes.

R62, I’d love to move to Spain or Portugal. Language wise, I’d do well in either country.

That stated, even if I had 20 million tax free at this very moment, it think it’s very important to see how this plays out before leaving.

So far? Europe hasn’t bitten the authoritarian bullet completely, but it’s wise to stand back & see where things are going there in the next 5-10 years.

[quote]This is all fake drama

Yes it is R63 - BUT it will come with real-life consequences as they are going to use this fake drama to implement what they have wanted to do for a long time.

Why do some people think compating city proper with metro areas is a valid comparison?

Soft intro to martial law. Thank your local Quislings.

[quote]"The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong.”

From the desk of the convicted felon who before November '24 faced at least four serious court cases.

We’re screwed.

More "law and order" bullshit from the clown and political party that have absolutely no respect for the law or order.

What could go wrong?

[quote]It’s always you flyover retards who are INCENSED about crime in the Big Cities.

Nothing to be incensed about!

Chicago last weekend, like every weekend:

"Chicago police say at least four people are dead and around 30 are hurt after shootings across the city this weekend."

Or this, last month:

"Chicago shootings: At least 55 people shot, 8 fatally, in 4th of July weekend gun violence, CPD says"

And there are probably seventy times as many people living in Chicago than there are in all of Jethro County, where a local meth dealer shot his rival (and beat his girlfriend and dogs last weekend) among other crimes last weekend.

Keep in mind that DC doesn’t have statehood. This gives him an opening to do this. For him to do it in Chicago is going to be a real legal problem. No doubt this is to distract from the Epstein files.

"fake drama", "distraction"

OK, but real people are being harmed by this. They've already rounded up people in DC and sent them god knows where. This is not like one of his nasty tweets where he's just saying something wild to distract from something else.

And this is another step on the path to his desired dictatorship. He's accomplishing other goals with this "distraction".

Two things can be true at once:

It’s because he is a wannabe dictator AND

it is Absolutely to distract from the Epstein files.

Announcing this on August 11th was no coincidence. He can only take over DC for 30 days without a congressional extension of authority. Congress returns - ostensibly to begin addressing the Epstein scandal - the evening before that 30th day.

Is this another ploy to distract us from the Epstein files? This is appalling.

What is this distraction nonsense?

Everybody already knows Trump is a sexual predator and pervert. But to MAGAts and Republicans, it's just part of his "charm."

[quote]Is this another ploy to distract us from the Epstein files? This is appalling.

Imposition of power and strength to feel good about himself - while knowing he can't control the constant presence of Epstein talk and action, always likely to take a new turn, continue to sustain its impact.

Fascism runs on fear. They're fear-mongering so they can proclaim martial law and ram even more bullshit down our throats. This is a power grab. But keep taking your cues from right-wing propaganda channels owned by billionaires who keep making everything worse. Keep being smooth-brained drones who live in terror of appearing different, thinking independently or saying something off-script. Speaking, thinking and looking like every other FOX News at all times is how you stay in the "club (of complete idiots with no critical thinking skills)."

Crime is down, this is one isolated incident, most people have lived and work in DC for decades without incident. If you're pulling FOX News talking points to justify this even slightly, you are complicit in the fascism we live under right now. You're willingly doing the work of the most vile people who have ever held power in this country, because you're too stupid to understand history and too eager to curry favor with people you see as your superiors. You are weak and pathetic and deserve everything that you're trying to inflict on others but too stupid to know it will catch up with you, too, and sooner than you could ever imagine.

Good luck, morons. Just know that when the dust settles we'll all remember which side you chose.

WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

He has dementia, no telling what he'll do next.

Where is the Trumpstein Pedo List.

Was David Pecker a Pedo Island/Palm Beach/New York mansion devote?

[quote]Crime is down

Crime is out of control in the US.

[quote]most people have lived and work in DC for decades without incident.

Ok. So do tell us, how many people need to be victimized for crime to be a legitimate issue?

You can't just do crime rates.

Here's the reality that people who have never lived in a major city in the U.S. don't understand.

Most crime in D.C. is in the heavily black areas. It's not in the tourist areas.

This is the same for Chicago and other areas.

Furthermore, a lot of this crime is not truly random crime. All those Chicago murders? Black people who stay away from gangs don't usually have to worry about those. And white people know which neighborhoods to avoid walking through.

I know that sounds racist, but it's a critical thing to understand about the crime problem in the U.S.

Yes, there are exceptions. There can be druggies and psychos and so forth attacking randoms. But that's NOT very common. The overwhelming majority of those folks are just muttering to themselves. And a handful of violent instances do not justify a federal takeover.

Trump, or at least his people, know all this. But when just presented as crime ridden hellholes like one part of town is like every other, it leads people who don't know this to support crazy shit like abandoning the Constitution to support a federal crackdown.

R100, I'm very concerned about crime, but apparenly 80 million Americans aren't concerned about crime because they elected a violence prone, convicted felon/sexual predator/pervert to POTUS. THIS IS THE IDIOTIC LOGIC RATIONAL, SANE PEOPLE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH.

Why don't you ask those 80 million voters why crime is not an issue with them? Is it because said criminal is a rich white man who thinks he can commit a murder on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and get away with it?

Trump's views on crime and race were formed in the 1960s and 1970s, which is why he still talks about the "slums" and why the cities he's focusing on all have a large black population and had race riots in the 60s. Hispanic crime doesn't cross his radar. (Nor does white crime, obviously.)

He only thinks of crime in connection with black people. If you're one of these people whose response to this is "But crime IS a serious issue, why shouldn't we bring in the military, etc., etc." you're lending support to his racist view that crime is caused by blacks. He is only proposing this now, when crime rates in DC are at a 30-year low, because he's always been racist and has always wanted to punish blacks on principle. We can tackle crime but not in the way Trump wants to.

I'm sure his plans to use the military are very popular among white people ages 80 and up (who already support him anyway). I'm not convinced anyone else likes them. His approval ratings dropped when he sent the National Guard to LA.

Crime rates ARE usually higher in black areas, r103. That's still true.

That doesn't mean crime is caused by blacks or that blacks are inherently criminally minded or anything like that. That's where the racism comes in. There are reasons for the disparity that need to be addressed. But not by a federal takeover.

And again, he's pretending that there is heavy crime in the tourist areas of D.C. There is NOT!

[quote]you're lending support to his racist view that crime is caused by blacks.

Have a look at the FBI statistics of homicide rate by race.

[quote]he's pretending that there is heavy crime in the tourist areas of D.C. There is NOT!

R104 You need to explain that to ABC News anchor Kyra Phillips.

Neither of my parents, 85 & 89 y.o., voted for Trump.

Just sayin'.

Britain is supporting what Trump is doing in DC.

I simply cannot believe that nobody can do anything about this fascist move! And that he is out for cities with black mayors and large black populations. There has to be something that someone can do!!!

If he wants the criminals to leave, he should just start playing Lara Trump's "music" everywhere. They'll all leave to get away from it

R108, GB News is the British equivalent of Fox News. Stop pretending they represent the average British person, Trump has a very low approval rating in Britain

This is great news. Trump will arrest himself shortly

DC could've been a state if it weren't for those two shitheads Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema.

[quote]GB News is the British equivalent of Fox News. Stop pretending they represent the average British person

She’s of the Reform party which is taking over Britain now and will be the next government come the next election.

R108 thinks we're as dumb as he is.

The states with the highest per capita crime rates are MS, AL, AR, LA, TN, and MO, all deep red states.

Why do Trump, Republicans and MAGAts refuse to acknowledge this.

Why isn't Trump sending federal troops to Jackson, MS, the nation's murder capitol?

[quote]The states with the highest per capita crime rates are MS, AL, AR, LA, TN, and MO, all deep red states.

The crime is in the Democrat run cities in those states.

Throw this douchebag out of office. UNFIT.

R116, we’ve been over this. They’re in cities run by Democrats. This isn’t the hill you wish to die on.

"The crime is in the Democrat run cities in those states."

As if the Republican governors and Republican controlled legislatures in these shithole states are completely powerless to do anything with the municipalities in their jurisdictions.

Spoken like your typical MAGAt/Republican/KKKlan granny pass-the-buck asshole. Good job, R117.

This isn't grade school, R119, and you're not the school marm. Stop your smug, condescending bullshit.

My reply at R120 applies to you as well, asshole.

Just now, in the NYT:

[quote]D.C. Officials Take Conciliatory Approach to Policing Takeover

[quote]Washington’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, and the city’s police chief emphasized cooperation with federal officials after meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi.

[quote]As if the Republican governors and Republican controlled legislatures in these shithole states are completely powerless to do anything with the municipalities in their jurisdictions.

Imagine the backlash to any attempt in those cities.

Who'd have ever thought that the United States would find itself in the death grip of an Adolph Hitler wannabe? How many times has he read "Mein Kopf?"

I am totally in agreement with what's happening in DC. The crime situation is so bad, that last week a well-known child molester was seen wandering on the roof of the White House!

Bowser has to mollify Trump to get the RFK Stadium redevelopment plan--it goes far beyond just replacing the stadium--accomplished in her term.

She also figures she can deflect blame for crime in the whole District, even Wards 7 & 8 (where the majority of it occurs).

"Imagine the backlash to any attempt in those cities."

If their only solution is to send in the National Guard and run a militarized city, then yes, there will be a backlash. If state governments and state legislatures wanted to work with municipalities to improve the quality of life for ALL of its citizens, through better education, health care, and housing,

But we all know that will never happen because Republicans are lazy ass fucks who refuse to do anything that will take major effort. Besides, they don't want to look weak and ineffectual in the eyes of the KKK constituents. Besides, they will lose their go-to whipping boy of blaming it all on the "darkies and Negroes." It's so much easier to scapegoat, isn't it, R123.

It's so much more difficult to actually govern that it is to be a penny ante dictatorship, no, R123?

R119, you sound like quite the mega-cunt.

Stop Hall Monitor-ing.

[quote] Bowser has to mollify Trump to get the RFK Stadium redevelopment plan

Do we really think she's throwing away democracy to get a sports stadium?

IF YOU ALLOW THE GOVT TO BREAK THE LAW BECAUSE OF AN EMERGENCY THEY WILL ALWAYS CREATE AN EMERGENCY TO BREAK THE LAW

R120/R121 = same idiot.

R130, that’s Republican speak to kill the federal government

Re: R30

Wow, R131, you truly are a super sleuth. Wherever did you get your Dick Tracy like investigative skills?

It must have really taxed your pea brain tracking me down. What gave me away? The fact that I indicated in both posts I was R120/R121.

Is your degree in investigative jounaluam from Trump University by any chance?

Near Howard University? 😡 You know why…

[quote] R130, that’s Republican speak to kill the federal government

No, it's Democratic Speak to kill peaceful protest and assembly. Trump has 30 days.

[quote] Trump's views on crime and race were formed in the 1960s and 1970s, which is why he still talks about the "slums" and why the cities he's focusing on all have a large black population and had race riots in the 60s. Hispanic crime doesn't cross his radar. (Nor does white crime, obviously.)

Trump's views on race are those of his klansman father, Fred Trump. Born to American immigrants but somehow managed to find a KKK chapter in New York City.

[quote] More "law and order" bullshit from the clown and political party that have absolutely no respect for the law or order.

Indeed. Law and order for everyone who does NOT reside in the White House.

[quote]Hispanic crime doesn't cross his radar. (Nor does white crime, obviously.)

Hispanics are being attended to under the guise of Immigration.

Whites are being attended to by keeping MAGA monolithic.

Once Poor MAGA finds out that they are different from Rich MAGA, Trump is done.

Poor MAGA shops at Walmart. Rich MAGA sits at home counting its money.

Trump will never be "done." We've been hearing that for years. This is not a democracy anymore. "Rich MAGA" owns every media outlet, social media platform and technology company. "Poor MAGA" owns nothing, can barely afford food, and will believe anything they're told within their echo chambers, especially if they're told to blame black and brown people for their problems.

[quote]Poor MAGA owns nothing, can barely afford food, and will believe anything they're told within their echo chambers

Unless they actually FEEL the loss of jobs, healthcare, and the increases in price inflation.

Unless Trump gives them pain. We shall see.

“Yeah well it smelled like the odor of marijuana, burnt marijuana in the air, right? And you’re the only guy that had something lit in your hand.... I didn’t realize it was just a cigarette, I appreciate you … not getting chippy,” the officer responds. “Just know, learn. Tell your boys, everybody’s out. From FBI to Park Police. So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”

This officer approached some men who were at their own home, asked them for ID, and lectured them about staying out of trouble. And then warned them that more people like him from three-letter government organizations would be coming to make sure they weren’t doing evil things like smoking cigarettes or weed peacefully on the steps of their own residence.

R116 If I recall, Trump or one of his lackeys went out and said that you shouldn't believe in crime stats because Democrat governors and mayors make it impossible to report crime. So the real stat is way more, but of course they can't collect any real stats because the evil Democrats prevent it. You just have to assume that the 'real dem crime stats' blow those rates out of the water.

“Washington's rate of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter was 25.5 per 100,000 people in 2024, according to a USA TODAY analysis of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program data. That places Washington at No. 5 among more than 30 cities with more than 500,000 people.”

The capital of the United States should not be in such condition.

World Capitals:

“In London, the homicide rate is currently 1.45 per 100,000 “

“ The homicide rate in Rome, Italy is relatively low, with figures around 0.7 per 100,000

“The homicide rate of Berin Germany: 0.9 per 100,000 residents”

“In 2024, Washington, D.C. saw a homicide rate of 27.3 per 100,000 residents.”

r146, get rid of the guns. If Trump were serious about crime he would start collecting guns.

All of the people going on about "high crime in cities" are "second amendment supporters" aka gun nuts who don't have passports. They like the guns flooding the cities because they think all the people they hate will kill each other, and it conveniently lets them dog whistle about "high crime in cities" to boot.

[quote] It’s no more adult than a video-game arcade. He and the Cult believe they can insert their coin (a vote) and, instantly, sound booms and their Hero vanquishes all their enemies (Blacks and Browns, medical experts, universities, researchers, climate professionals), all liquidated.

[quote]Unless they actually FEEL the loss of jobs, healthcare, and the increases in price inflation.

Hon, they'll blame Democrats for all of that. Also, they've already been FEELING those things since Reagan was in office -- did you think the middle/working class was thriving until right now?

It never mattered to them before this. They still blamed the Democrats for everything before this. And why? Because they were told to by their Republican masters, the ones they worship with a cult-like fervor.

You really don't get how fucked we are. You think we're still in the beforetimes and a strongly worded NYT editorial or a big "expose" on the nightly news will make them stand down. You think someone is coming to save us. You think MAGA just needs an education and all will be right again. Things won't ever be right again in our lifetimes.

They were the "right kind" of immigrant r138, German, Scottish, Protestant, racist. KKK was delighted with that family, and of course still is.

And of course this whole thing is being driven by that racism. Nobody can seriously believe that a career criminal like Trump is honestly disturbed by crime anywhere. He loves crime, always has, as long as its directed by white people and nonwhites are kept properly under control.

R150, it diminishes Trump to call him a cult. “Trump” is a significant nationalist/religious movement. Ordinary pain is nothing to a true believer. Many of them think that they are willing to suffer and sacrifice for him. We’ll see if they are, but people have an incredible ability to deny reality and defy logic.

Yeah, my Trumper cousin who works at the VA and doesn’t believe anything worse than not being allowed to wear a hat will happen, because anything more is illegal and he’s a libertarian.

Oh my sides

[quote] DC Mayor Bowser changes her tone on Trump as crackdown ramps up

After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him.

When Republicans pressured her over the giant “Black Lives Matter” lettering she installed in front of the White House during Trump’s first term, Bowser agreed to remove it. Her reasoning: The city had bigger fish to fry, particularly on managing the federal job cuts Trump has enacted this year.

Now, as Trump federalizes the police in the capital and deploys the National Guard, Bowser faces perhaps the biggest test to date of her leadership and her ability to navigate the White House.

Bowser’s comments in response to the announcement illustrate how she’s often trying to communicate multiple messages at one time.

Describing Trump’s executive action as “unsettling and unprecedented,” Bowser on Monday blasted the city’s lack of full autonomy without personalizing that frustration or criticizing Trump directly.

“I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past that we’re totally surprised,” she said.

Minutes later, she suggested the federal intervention may work to the city’s benefit and told reporters she didn’t have the legal authority to stop Trump’s plans.

“The fact that we have more law enforcement and presence in neighborhoods, that may be positive,” she said.

But Bowser struck a stronger tone during a virtual conversation with community leaders on Tuesday.

Asked what residents can do, Bowser said, “This is a time where community needs to jump in and we all need to, to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side of this guy, and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push.”

The following day, she responded to a question about her relationship with Trump saying, “I’m the mayor and he’s the president. I mean, that’s always been our relationship, and the DC mayor and the president of the United States will always have probably more interaction than any city in the rest of our country. So, we’re going to keep doing our job.”

Christina Henderson, a member of the DC council, suggested she empathized with the difficult balance Bowser is trying to strike. She noted that only in 1973 did Congress allow DC residents to elect a mayor, council members and neighborhood commissioners, but prohibited the council from enacting certain laws and the city from having voting members in the US House or Senate.

“You do not want to be the mayor that loses home rule and that there is no mayor after you,” Henderson said.

Asked if she planned to push back harder in the wake of an unprecedented undermining of her authority, Bowser said Monday, “My tenor will be appropriate for what I think is important for the district and what’s important for the district is that we can take care of our citizens.”

Anti-Trump sentiment is fierce in activist spaces across the city, which former Vice President Kamala Harris won last year with 90% of the vote.

At a demonstration this week, the Free DC project, a movement grounded in demanding DC statehood, denounced the Trump administration’s actions. Organizers accused Trump of trying to provoke violence and compared immigration arrests to kidnappings.

“Black Washingtonians have long recognized that community violence cannot be solved through state violence,” said Free DC’s organizing director Nee Nee Taylor, questioning the effectiveness of policing over investing in social programs to uplift the most vulnerable.

“We will not be idle as oppressors’ structures try to harm our communities and take power,” she added.

I feel for Mayor Bowser. Her authority is compromised because DC does not have statehood. Wyoming has fewer residents than DC and it has two US senators. DC has no voting Senators. This is why Republicans have always opposed statehood for DC.

[quote] You really don't get how fucked we are. You think we're still in the beforetimes and a strongly worded NYT editorial or a big "expose" on the nightly news will make them stand down. You think someone is coming to save us. You think MAGA just needs an education and all will be right again. Things won't ever be right again in our lifetimes.

MARY!!! Take your Xanax, dear.

75 million voted for Kamala Harris, a Black woman. She won the highest popular vote total of any Presidential candidate ever except for Presidents Biden and Trump...a Black woman...in Amerikkka! And that was without the full contingent of Democratic supporters going to the polls. 2028 will be a revolution.

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would ask Congress for “long-term” control of Washington DC’s police department and signaled he expected other Democratic-led cities to change their laws in response to his deployment of national guard troops and federal agents into the capital.

Trump’s comments came as the White House took credit for dozens of arrests overnight in Washington as part of Trump’s campaign to fight a “crime crisis”, which the city’s leaders say does not exist.

Trump earlier this week invoked a never-before-used clause of the law that sets out the federal district’s governance structure to take temporary control of the police department, but will need Congress’s permission to extend it beyond the 30 days allowed under the statute.

“We’re going to need a crime bill that we’re going to be putting in, and it’s going to pertain initially to DC,” Trump said during a visit to the Kennedy Center performing arts venue in Washington. “We’re going to use it as a very positive example, and we’re going to be asking for extensions on that, long-term extensions, because you can’t have 30 days.”

He said he expected to propose the legislation “very quickly”, though the Senate and House of Representatives are out of session and not scheduled to return until 2 September. Trump alluded to other options for extending control of the police department, saying “if it’s a national emergency, we can do it without Congress”.

A White House official credited Tuesday night’s deployment with a total of 43 arrests, twice the total of the previous evening. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan police department said a total of 76 arrests were made throughout the day citywide on Tuesday; the agency’s data showed they made an average of 56 arrests per day in 2024.

More than 1,450 officers participated in the deployment, about half of whom were from the city’s police department, while only 30 national guard troops were deployed of the roughly 800 whom defense officials have said are expected to arrive for the mission.

A White House official said to expect a “significantly higher” presence of national guard troops over the days to come, as well as round-the-clock patrols by federal agents, which have thus far only been present in the evenings.

Democratic lawmakers have condemned Trump’s incursion as an authoritarian move intended to distract his supporters from outrage over his refusal to make public files related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a one-time friend who has become a fixation of conspiracy theorists.

Trump on Wednesday accused the Democrats of being “afraid to do anything because they don’t want to be criticized. But fighting crime is a good thing.” He warned that he would seek changes to Washington DC’s crime laws that he expected other cities to adopt, pointing to a cash-bail reform lawmakers in DC approved in 1992.

“We’re going to go for statutes in DC and then ultimately for the rest of the country, where that’s not going to be allowed,” Trump said, singling out New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, all cities governed by Democrats. He also criticized the city government’s long-term push to be made a state, saying it was an attempt by Democrats to get two more senators. “Statehood is ridiculous. We want to straighten the place out,” Trump said.

The White House said a total of 19 teams of officers from various federal agencies are in the city “to promote public safety and arrest violent offenders”, while the national guard will “protect federal assets, provide a safe environment for law enforcement officers to make arrests, and deter violent crime with a visible law enforcement presence”.

Have we found out yet where they'll be "moving" the homeless population?

Same as where the Gazans are headed, R158.

Career Criminal Demands Control of Police Force. And really, people are going to have to be more blunt about that, throughout the political world. Trump loves crime and criming and committing crimes and benefiting from crimes, and all of that, constantly. It really is like making the godfather the police chief. Exactly like that.

Have we forgotten Epstein yet?

r158, if good journalism was still a thing, we'd have known exactly where those people had been taken within hours of it occurring.

Good journalism takes people on the ground asking the hard questions and using their connections to get information. It's not cheap, but it's so damn important.

True, r162, but I assume since it's the Trump Administration everybody is lying about everything. Still Journalism should be adversarial. Assume constant lying by the administration and dig until you find real answers.

[quote] Trump alluded to other options for extending control of the police department, saying “if it’s a national emergency, we can do it without Congress”.

Well it is NOT a national emergency so that's a lawsuit, fatf*ck!

Today's reporters make Lois Lane & Jimmy Olsen look like Pulitzer Prize Winners.

The late “Mayor for Life” Marion Barry wouldn’t have stood for this shit.

Coke-head Marion Barry was one of the worst city mayors of all time.

Masked cosplayers snatch people off of the street and beat the shit out of them with no repercussions. But how much are we going to spend on a trial for assault-with-a-crappy-sandwich?

[quote]The crime is in the Democrat run cities in those states.

There is someone at DL who is *convinced* that only Democrats are responsible for crime and the high crime rates in the South *must* be the fault of Democratic mayors. It's ridiculous.

Shreveport, Louisiana - the home of House Speaker Mike Johnson - has an exceptionally high homicide rate (41 per 100,000 in 2023). By comparison, the homicide rate in DC in 2024 was 27.5 per 100,000. But Shreveport's mayor is a Republican, so no one is sending the National Guard there.

In fact there are many Republican mayors throughout the South in cities with high violent crime rates. Plus, every state in the deep South has a Republican governor and legislature at this point that could easily adopt policies to reduce crime. They choose not to.

States and cities don't kill people. People do. You have to look at "who" is doing the killing. See the FBI statistics on the matter.

Men

Men kill people.

R170, and if you look at FBI statistics you'd know that in over half of all murder cases we DON'T know who is doing the killing because the crimes are never solved. The U.S. has an incredibly low rate of solving violent crime. There's not enough data to make sweeping generalizations.

The "war on drugs" is sometimes blamed for the low solve rate. Giving ICE billions of dollars to hunt migrant workers will not do anything to help, nor will paying the National Guard to travel around the country sight-seeing. Apparently that's what they've been doing in D.C.: they've been walking around the Mall and other tourist spots. Just wait until they come to NYC and they all want to go to the top of the Empire State Building.

88% of murderers are men,

R170 is right, we should have thousands of brother-sun alligator Alcatraz camps and round up and put all men in them in order to ensure public safety.

R169 And this is off topic, but speaking of Miss Mike Johnson--her district is gerrymandered big time and goes right down the I-49 corridor. The African-American population of Shreveport and Bossier City is around 40%, so if they had a fairly drawn district, it's likely they'd have a Democrat representing them.

[quote] I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.

No one would want to live in the District of Columbia of Donald Trump’s fever dream. At a press conference on Monday, the president described a city “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,” a place teeming with “roving mobs of wild youth” and “drugged-out maniacs.”

That was his excuse for deploying 800 National Guard troops and 500 federal agents to patrol the city and harass unhoused people for living on the street. He will also attempt to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, though the extent to which he can legally take over remains to be seen.

For the past few days, all across D.C., federal law enforcement officers have been popping up in most incongruous places. Homeland Security officials wandered the pricey, condo-filled corridors of Navy Yard, where the baseball stadium sits. Border Patrol cops loitered on the sidewalks of a popular nightlife strip, where they got an earful from a passerby in a pink pointelle shirt. (They arrested him after he tossed his Subway sub at one of their bulletproof vests.)

Over the weekend, a crew of Drug Enforcement Administration officers was spotted strolling along a path by the National Mall, surrounded by joggers and tourists enjoying the afternoon sun.

Bewildered by the sudden influx of armed and armored agents swarming my hometown, I decided to walk a sweltering mile in their shoes. Trump claims that emergency conditions require him to use the MPD to protect federal buildings and national monuments—so I went down to the Mall to follow the pathway of those DEA agents, hoping to see what they saw.

What I witnessed was an idyllic scene of American tourism. A nerd in a Millennium Falcon shirt made a beeline for the Air and Space Museum. A French-speaking couple took videos of each other trying to mount their Lime scooters. A set of parents and their adult children sat in the shade of some trees, giddily sucking down Rocket Pops. A time traveler from 2014 used a selfie stick to get a shot of her whole family in front of the Capitol.

But through the tactical Oakleys I had procured for this mission, I sensed chaos and criminality lurking beneath the surface. The runners zooming by in those strange tiny vests—what’s the big hurry?

Those sullen teens trailing their parents toward the taco truck—why the hooded sweatshirts in 84-degree heat and 72-percent humidity? The quadrillion boomer men and four Buddhist monks in performance-fabric bucket hats—what on earth were they hiding under there, besides their sun-sensitive scalps?

I also wondered about the three buff young men in baseball hats and Americana T-shirts—where had they been on Jan. 6, 2021?—but I assumed that Trump’s agents would have given them a pass.

Unfortunately, the only blatant crimes I witnessed were two cars speeding through a red light and a man wearing a fedora, which is illegal summer attire in my book.

So I visited a few other parks where feds have been sighted in recent weeks. Even before the current deployment, Trump was ramping up federal policing in the District’s public spaces.

A couple of weeks ago, United States Park Police officers in bulletproof vests and backward baseball hats handcuffed and carted away several people peacefully drinking beer and smoking weed in public parks.

This was a shocking departure from standard policing in D.C., where law enforcement officers rarely hassle people if they’re discreet and minding their own business. A Park Police spokesman said the officers were enforcing one of the president’s executive orders, titled “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful.”

On Tuesday morning in Logan Circle, where some of those arrests were made, I saw a middle-aged man on a bicycle throwing rice to the sparrows.

In Dupont Circle, where others were handcuffed, I witnessed a woman with a thong leotard poking out of her cargo skirt reading loudly from some kind of political tract. In Malcolm X Park, where a long-running techno party recently canceled an event for fear of harassment, I watched a line of Latino elders with shopping trolleys wait for a food bank distribution.

On nearby benches, one person in scrubs and another in a reflective vest and hard hat ate their Tupperware lunches.

I rarely pay such close attention to who’s around me in public. When I did this morning, I was charmed by the characters near me and the microcosm of the city in each park.

There were troubling signs of privation and a broken social safety net—the food bank line, an unhoused man sleeping on a bench—but despite Trump’s insistence that these people must be violently plucked out of American life rather than supported by their neighbors, they posed no threat to any of the other people living their lives in close proximity to one another.

The D.C. public spaces that will be militarized and overpoliced in the weeks to come are exactly where you can best observe the interdependence and plurality that make cities great, and that conservatives view as a threat to their own ideological ends.

As much as I loved viewing D.C. through the Oakleys of a DEA agent, it feels silly to take what federal officers are doing in the city even a little bit seriously, because the fantasy of D.C. as some crime-addled hellhole is a deliberate invention.

The members of the D.C. National Guard who have begun policing the city live in and around the city; many of them must realize that a woman using a walker while drinking a beer in the park with her family does not pose a threat to public order.

But the age-old tale of the lawless, dystopian city is still a tantalizing myth to people who have never spent significant time in one, or who have a racial and political interest in demonizing urban communities.

At the Mall on Tuesday, I felt a surge of recognition when I saw a crowd of 6-year-olds rush by clutching pencils and pads, clearly engaged in some kind of scavenger hunt. That’s what the National Guard and federal agents will be doing in D.C., isn’t it?

They’ll spend most of their time roaming around, searching for the petty crimes and aesthetic offenses on the list they’ve been given: a lit joint, an open beer, a tent pitched under an overpass, men looking for work outside Home Depot.

That's what makes this whole era so damn stupid. There is no actual crisis that neeeeeddddsssss fixing. None. No reason to look to a strongman to solve anything. We're just trying out fascism on a whim.

[quote]There's not enough data to make sweeping generalizations.

The data is there. There is no need to make sweeping generalizations. Facts are facts.

Trump is speaking live now.

[quote]There is no actual crisis that neeeeeddddsssss fixing.

In the US, the sickening homicide rate of cities is normalized. In any other civilized country, it would indeed be called a crisis.

Is he talking about grass r179, and how much he knows about grass?

No, it would be treated as a normal police matter and not a call for fascism r180.

[quote]Trump is speaking live now.

Thanks for the warning, I've disabled all my devices.

He's taking questions from the press. They need to stop throwing his soft balls.

Why is there a guy standing next to him while he's sitting down?

[quote]No, it would be treated as a normal police matter and not a call for fascism

Ever heard of "Operazione Strade Sicure"?

Quote] In the US, the sickening homicide rate of cities is normalized. In any other civilized country, it would indeed be called a crisi

[Quote] No, it would be treated as a normal police matter and not a call for fascism [R180].

New York’s Democratic Governor Called in the Troops Last Year to Fight Subway Crime

President Trump is deploying the National Guard to the streets of an American city for the second time this year, but the Guard has been used by other leaders, too.

Trump is inventing a fictional crisis to try out fascism in the capital city. That is what is happening here. Only cult members can pretend it's anything else. No, some cunt calling himself "Big Balls" and getting assaulted does not in fact constitute a national crisis.

Leave the fucking cult, you ridiculous whore.

Funny as it was, can’t imagine losing a law license at 37 for something so pointless.

Anyone in DC had him?

His pink eyelet blouse, lol. 😂

LinkedIn says he’s was a DOJ trial lawyer. Should have walked away.

^ vid for above post

doesn't work, at least for me, r190. what the fuck is the video about?

Dunn was allegedly caught on camera berating a group of federal officers as “fascists” before lobbing his deli sandwich and hitting a US Customs and Border Protection agent in the chest.

Pam Bondi is such a wannabe bully. She’s got tbe power, but looks like an amateur in everything she does.

Gee, maybe instead of sending in the National Guard, we could do something, ANYTHING, about how easy it is to buy guns.

Background checks and red flag laws? The NRA says no.

I bet she looks like a pro giving a BJ, though!

True r194. It would actually be the only authoritarian move that would make any sense at all, and it will never happen. But declaring Washington DC a gun-free zone, giving everyone a couple of days to turn in their guns and then starting house to house searches and arresting anyone found in possession of a gun, would at least have some relationship to the actual problem. This shit is just fascist cosplay right now.

Pammy got her lawyer degree from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida! All of the great legal minds come from there.

[quote]and then starting house to house searches..

Oh yeah...house-to-house searches...

LOL. Could you fucking imagine how that would go over?

It would go terribly r198. I'm just saying if you really wanted to solve a problem and be ruthless about it, that would be the way to go. What they are doing instead is testing out the idea of military control of the capital, maybe for some future coup or maybe some other fuckery.

R197, way to make [italic]yourself[/italic] look like an idiot.

Stetson University is a small private college in DeLand.

Stetson [bold]Law School[/bold] is a beautifully appointed school in Gulfport, FL, which is a big artsy gay/lesbian area near St. Petersburg, FL.

Nice try, though!

Is r200 serious?

R200 So what, it's still ranked at the bottom of US law schools.

But woo, you got me. I didn't say the correct town. Fell better about yourself, dear?

I do, as a matter of fact. I hate Bondi as much as the next person (or more, since I live in FL), but at least get your mfing facts straight. Facts are important -- if you're a Democrat.

Maybe that Trump-hating, violent, sandwich-wielding "deep state" terrorist can get a job AT Subway when he comes out of Bondi's gulag.

r203 you pointing out that it has a "beautifully appointed" campus is giving "great gowns, beautiful gowns."

What’s he gonna say when the word “beautiful” is erased from his dementia-riddled mind?

[Quote] Gee, maybe instead of sending in the National Guard, we could do something, ANYTHING, about how easy it is to buy guns.

[Quote] Background checks and red flag laws? The NRA says no.

The scary part is that a lot of shootings in New York City, Chicago and DC are committed by teens

One more time, for the cheap seats!

[italic]Facts are important -- if you're a Democrat. [/italic]

BTW, you should visit Gulfport, FL sometime, R205 -- I bet you'd like it.

I find Bondi's smugness to be particularly annoying. She knows *exactly* what's in those files and still chooses to cover up the sexual assault of minors. She's as big a monster as the rest of them.

Bondi is Florida trash.

Bondi is shit. And in fact, every Democrat running next year should pledge to impeach her. I know she won't really be removed with the fucking asshole Senate rules, but still, say it anyway. Say that if we can, there will be one less rancid cunt in the Trump Administration.

[quote] BTW, you should visit Gulfport, FL sometime, [R205] -- I bet you'd like it.

Maybe I would if it wasn't in Florida.

DL has a Gulfport, Florida Troll that feels slighted.

R207, that's why uniform federal gun laws are needed. Guns are easy to move across state lines. I suppose the alternative is to cut back on teenagers.

[quote] Funny as it was, can’t imagine losing a law license at 37 for something so pointless.

Update, fwiw:

No person with any self respect would be in the Trump administration.

[quote] No person with any self respect would be in the Trump administration.

People didn't learn their lesson the first time. Ask Rudy how it worked out for him-disbarred, disgraced, and bankrupt.

It’s just not taking here and us D.C. residents are like openly mocking them. There is a hilarious video of the (what are they?? ICE? FBI?) patrolling the mean streets of…Georgetown. The passers-by are just like “What are you people doing?” and lightly laughing.

There was a protest last night in front of my building gathered around a “checkpoint” they set up in the heart of the vibrant U Street Corridor (one block away from the Subway where the sandwich guy threw his way to folk glory). Someone shouted, “You could just work at Wal-Mart!” to one of the agents.

They look like idiots and cannot tell Logan Circle from Thomas Circle. They are just wandering around aimlessly doing nothing. It’s so NOT menacing.

Harry Enten with CNN polling: approval of Trump on crime

Sandwich guy for ‘28?

Yeah, the cunt who's about to pardon the most notorious living sex predator is going to win on "crime."

Do fuck off.

Jeanine getting a pie in the face would be delicious.

^ Why waste a perfectly good pie on that soiled old drunk?

Agreed. A nice big fist would be better.

“It’s 1983 and big cities are scary! Long live disco!”

YMCA

This is what people voted for. They WANT this.

What shall we do to overcome this?

Revolution

Isn’t this basically Marsha Law at this point I thought that required some explicit sort of declaration

Some people think he's going to make Peter Thiel techbro dictator of Washington, but they would never trust a fa g to do that. He's already served his usefulness, he wll probably meet with a mysterious accident not unlike Jeffrery Epstein..

In teh meantime the US military and national guards will gradually turn mutinous.

we hope

Wouldn't it have been simpler for Trump to simply fire whoever is in charge of D.C. crime statistics?

I've stopped using the buttons but that, r235, was a W&W

[quote]Jeanine getting a pie in the face would be delicious.

[quote]^ Why waste a perfectly good pie on that soiled old drunk?

[quote]Agreed. A nice big fist would be better.

We all need to dream a lot bigger. I believe that dreams truly can come true. We just need to believe.

R180 is whipping up that hysteria across every thread. Probably a bot.

R235 you made my day.

I think for a lot of americans, including a lot of Klan Grannies on the DL, "crime" isn't really lawbreaking. It's the presence of black and brown people in public spaces. To them, six or seven black teenagers hanging out in the park, no matter what they're doing, is "crime."

To them, what Trump is doing isn't a crime, even though it's against the law. To them, he's cleaning up crime by getting black and brown people out of sight. They don't care where.

Trump's core appeal is to the worst people on Earth. If you like Trump, you have a personality flaw.

The contents of a box of bad wine is the most appropriate thing to splash in Pirro's face.

R240 you are correct. They also see being homeless as a crime and are working diligently to criminalize all aspects of homelessness. It's the same thing, "undesirables" merely existing is a crime to them, but ignoring laws, trampling the constitution, attacking the US Congress, none of that is "crime" to these fascists.

Remember the Wisconsin legislators (Democrats of course) who were shot and killed in their own homes? Where's the right wing hysteria about that? They flip out over a carjacking, but home invasion and murder are NBD?

We are truly living in "Nineteen Eighty Four."

Nah, R241. That's kiddie bullshit. Grow up.

Carbolic acid. Or better yet gasoline. Followed by a lit match.

[quote]Ask Rudy how it worked out for him-disbarred, disgraced, and bankrupt.

And poor Dershowitz can't even buy a dumpling.

[quote]Wouldn't it have been simpler for Trump to simply fire whoever is in charge of D.C. crime statistics?

Simple and neat, but putting pointless enforcement out in DC is so much more punchy as fascist street theatre - so much more gratifying for an impotent old man almost not to feel that way.

Dear MAGAts, if Trump continues down this road, at some point he may declare martial law. When he does, when he achieves his authoritarian goals, he is going to come for the guns. All of them. Your guns, too. Just so you know...

For years when I worked in politics, we studied voter behavior. Law & Order is a winning strategy. Because even though most voters have never been crime victims, it is the FEAR of crime that causes them to live on the verge of panic. Sowing fear and division and getting us to hate one another is the name of the game. What's happening right now is a show of force. But there is no crisis to justify it. The independents who usually don't care for Trump will support him on this, and on "getting rid of" the homeless. His approval ratings will go up by doing what he is doing and making it about crime. It isa Roger Stone/Nixon specialty.

[quote]They also see being homeless as a crime and are working diligently to criminalize all aspects of homelessness. It's the same thing, "undesirables" merely existing is a crime to them

Oh how people forget

"“San Francisco has cleaned up their streets ahead of President Biden and President Xi’s meeting,” the reporter said. “They’ve moved homeless to other parts of the city, cleared tent cities and trash off the street. Is the president embarrassed that an American city needs to go through a total makeover to be presentable for his out-of-town guests?”"

"Over the summer, the San Francisco Police Department received reinforcements from the California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard to tackle drug-related issues, and the daily population of the city’s jails rose to over 1,100 people for the first time since before the pandemic. The rise in detainees forced the sheriff to reopen a disused facility to accommodate the influx."

^ Note: "...the California National Guard to tackle drug-related issues"

Documentary footage of Berlin in the summer of 1936, in preparation for the Olympics, shows all the streets swept of "human filth."

History is repeating itself here, in the country from which hundreds of thousands of Americans gave life and limb to defeat Fascism.

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^^^

^ Did Ms. Zapata come up with that lame post seen at R250?

The comments say it all...

R252 Is it Mi? or does she slightly look like a pre-surgery Laura Loomer?

It’s feeling like they want to take over blue cities. Then they stay in power. Plus the Supreme Court will gut the Voting Rights Act, in furtherance of the MAGA goal for total domination. It's getting dark.

[quote]It's getting dark.

No, r254...it's dark.

[Quote] hundreds of thousands of Americans gave life and limb to defeat Fascism.

exaggerate much

How to prove you are an idiot in a public forum;

Accuse someone of exaggerating about hundreds of thousands of Americans giving life and limb in WW2 without bothering to do a simple google search first.

May you be haunted by the souls of the 400 thousand plus Americans killed in WW2 until you DIAGF R256.

Sorry my bad Elder Lez May you find inner peace and happiness I apologize profusely

[quote] The only reason why Dean Cain joined ICE, was to get sandwiches thrown at him.

How long until they bring up Laura Loomer being committed twice?

r256, when you live in a world where Trump killed over 400K Americans because of his mishandling of the Pandemic Response (I am not responsible) thinking about the hundreds of thousands of Americans who gave their lives in WW2 is rather dismissive.

You should not DIAGF, you need to read actual American History.

And who would have thought that Trump's fucking up the Pandemic response was actually a Heritage Foundation policy of spending no money on the American people. Come get your Hydroxychloroquine, come get your Ivermectin, real cheap. The next pandemic will have NO VACCINES. Half of Americans will die. And that is good with the Heritage Foundation, because Rich MAGA will have access to the best healthcare for purchase.

R261 May you find peace and inner happiness You're not gonna find it in an echo chamber like DL nor are you going to change the world either

Thanks, EL. I hope you used one of your FFs, so I won't have to do it.

R262, When I have a family that I agree with, who provides me extra information on many occasions, you suggest I look for another family.

Do you know how many people here have advanced degree, who are deep thinkers who can put together cogent arguments with salient facts?

DL is not an echo chamber but an ACTUAL FUCKING THINK TANK. I enjoy the company. MSNBC is in the process of setting up VERSANT and in the last user survey they asked for sites where you interact with other people and I recommended DL as a template for a VERSANT discussion community.

FFs the tool of imotent rage

^ impotent (and infantile)

Do you have friends and family and interests outside of DL R262

Remember misery loves company and what you're doing is called venting.

Imotent rage is a great band name.

R264 Do you have friends and family and interests outside of DL

Remember misery loves company and what you're doing is called venting.

It looks like I *might* still have unlimited ffs R263. It’s very strange.

Ok, not unlimited, I do run out eventually.

R263 what happened? Overuse of FFs

The fucking pussy republicans need to grind him underfoot.

I'm not getting my hopes up too high, R273.

But...

And...

Just a small refresher if I may: More than 700,000 people in the USA died from COVID. Trump's people determined that since the most vulnerable were t he elderly and the poor, and they associate "poor" with People of color, they made a deliberate decision to play games. If you wore a mask and social distanced you were probably OK. Avoiding crowds and public places. But his refusal to promote masks and quarantining contributed. And I will never forget how Jared withheld supplies and equipment to hospitals. Photos of nurses wearing trash bags because protective coverings and supplies were not available. Not enough ventilators. People who couldn't visit loved ones in the hospital. Funerals done remotely. People lined up on the sidewalks wrapping around the block waiting to get admitted to hospitals and refrigerated trucks used as temporary morgues. I remember. I lost my cousin, and my father lost his best friend who was an "uncle" to us for 40+ years. Trump demonized Dr. Fauci our one voice of sanity. He discredited the CDC and was dismissive when asked about the number of cases.

The two sides sparred in court for hours Friday before U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who is overseeing the lawsuit. She indicated the law likely doesn’t grant the Trump administration power to fully take over city police, but it probably does give the president more power than the city might like.

“The way I read the statute, the president can ask, the mayor must provide, but the president can’t control,” said Reyes, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden.

TACO's gonna TACO

[quote]Just a small refresher if I may: More than 700,000 people in the USA died from COVID. Trump's people determined...

Just a small refresher if I may:

"Covid total deaths per million by country" Updated August 13, 2025.

USA: 3,589

UK: 3,404

Italy: 3,329

The difference in deaths between the USA and the EU is not as great as you might think.

Is Donald Trump responsible for the 2,827 deaths x million in the EU too?

R276 Yet almost as many people died from COVID during Biden's administration as Trump's and by the time Biden took office we had vaccines.

According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dated December 19, 2021, 803,593 people have died due to COVID since the beginning of the pandemic.

Finally, according to OurWorldInData, which relies on Johns Hopkins University figures, cumulative deaths stood at 412,892 as of January 20, still significantly more than the 393,547 recorded under Biden through to December 19.

Someone here is working VERY HARD to defend Trump. Why?

Let's address COVID for a moment. I actually give Trump a pass on the first few months of COVID. His biggest mistake was a huge delay in stopping international travel, which he could have done beginning in Feb 2020, but he delayed another 6 weeks and even then, he allowed Americans back who had been traveling internationally. I don't give him a pass on epidemic preparedness. Obama had left a very detailed plan in place. Trump ignored it completely.

"Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.”

The document, originally unearthed in March by Politico, is a 69-page National Security Council guidebook developed in 2016 with the goal of assisting leaders “in coordinating a complex U.S. Government response to a high-consequence emerging disease threat anywhere in the world.” It outlined questions to ask, who should be asked to get the answers and what key decisions should be made.

Nicole Lurie, another Obama administration official, confirmed to us the existence of the NSC pandemic playbook and also said similar documents were created for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

What a surprise that Mitch McConnell denied its existence until confronted with the actual document.

Re: COVID vaccination. At no times were COVID vaccinations mandatory for adults except those working in certain fields - medicine, education, military. We know in retrospect that most of the post-vaccination deaths were among the unvaccinated. As a matter of fact, if anyone cares to retrieve it, there was a long-running COVID times thread detailing the virulent public anti-vaxxers from the right wing, especially politicians and preachers, and followed their gruesome deaths from COVID.

My mother, age 103 now, has survived 3 bouts with COVID. She is in the most vulnerable group for dying from COVID. All of her bouts were minor. Why? Because she had the vaccines at the earliest possible availability for each. We'll see what happens this fall, since RFK Jr in his infinite wisdom, is not allowing the CDC to contribute to the production of an updated vaccine against the most prevalent strain.

Oh Lord, the MAGA trolls have us re-litigating the pandemic. Trump royally fucked it up, like he fucks up everything he touches. End of story.

Trump sucks.

Ahem, Mr President, let's go to the golf course. You like that better than being president, riight? You'll still be rich and not have to sign papers that you can't read. anymore Deal? You like deals, let's go then.

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District's police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement regardless of any city law.

[quote]May you find peace and inner happiness You're not gonna find it in an echo chamber like DL nor are you going to change the world either

DL is an echo chamber! MAGA tells it like it is!

Trump and Murdoch are moving from Immigration booga booga, to inner city crime booga booga.

If this weren't booga booga, Trump would have cleared out ALL OF MS-13 in LA. He didn't.

Trump is turning us into a Willie Horton Nation.

If Trump were trying to reduce crime in DC, he would have sent his goon to South East. He sent them to places where lawyers, professionals, and tourists congregate or live. That said, they are doing random stops and checking for papers and disappearing immigrants.

This is to protect the Supreme Court as they gut the Voting Rights Act and return us to Jim Crow. Meanwhile McConnell is retiring or craoking, so what happens to his Chinese agent wife?

I'm going to make a prediction about Voting Rights. The ultimate goal of the Extreme Right, is to restrict voting rights to just one segment of the population. Women and minorities will lose their right to vote. Of course it won't matter by then because "voting" will be a fig leaf to insist we are still a democracy, but we will have evolved fully to the Corporate police state where everything is privatized, and no one is accountable. People will be consumed with keeping a roof over their heads and paying for groceries. It will be a dystopian world where the air and water are suspect, schools are only for the elite, and convicts will provide labor. Anyone can be disappeared or arrested. Those who can will anesthetize themselves with the drug of the moment, and play video games until their brains fry. There will be an underground economy, if your willing to pay $50 for a loaf of day old bread.

^ Okey dokey...

R292 I have a pessimistic tendency toward gloom and doom, and it's clear our current predicament is a political crisis beyond anything the US has faced before, but after reading your comment, even I thought "Lighten up, Francis."

The Covid outcome in the US was not much different than the EU. The number of deaths per capital is higher but not outrageously so.

You also have to factor in the fact that more Americans are obese and have more comorbidities, diabetes etc. So of course more people were going to die in the US.

This is the issue: Everyone seems to be under the impression that this administration simply doesn't know how to govern - that what we perceive as mistakes being made is rooted in their being so extraordinarily unqualified and unfit for the positions they hold. While true in and of itself, what's really happening is a great deal mor complicated. When will the MSM call this for what it is? When will the right word "Dictatorship" be used on a constant basis as THAT absolutely IS the issue we are facing. Nobody is being all "doom n gloom" by mentioning it. Honestly, I think that some of us can clearly see what's on the horizon while some of us will be denying it all along, until....

R292 here. My "doom and gloom" prediction about voting rights and where we're headed is about 20 years down the road. Not immediately.

R296 I have posted similar predictions elsewhere online months ago to what R292 has written here. Our future does potentially look bleak, but we can and must hold onto hope that the worst of what may happen does not. We should not accept it as inevitable.

We have the advantage of knowing how authoritarianism progresses and how it might be defeated. We still have the ability to observe what is happening and to communicate with each other. Courage is contagious. We only need brave, intelligent people to lead us forward at the right time to fight. Remain strong and ready.

[quote] We only need brave, intelligent people to lead us forward at the right time to fight. Remain strong and ready.

If she is an American citizen, she will be set for life when she sues the shit out of ICE for this arrest.

The judiciary is stuffed full of Trumpers. No one is going to get anything out of all this.

moar:

^ Those ICE assholes are FAT!

300-400 from West Virginia

200 from South Carolina

150 from Ohio

There is a crime problem in DC. Trump can be attacked for overreacting, using the military etc. BUT Dems can’t give up another important issue to Republicans like crime. You can recognize the problem and not be a fascist.

Two points as a someone who had to fly into DC every other week for work for 3 years. The city has a massive crime and homelessness problem. Sure we can and do ignore the homeless but it does make our capitol look terrible.

Make DC homeless encampment free makes sense. It’s one area that shouldn’t look like trash.

The crime is crazy in some parts. Secrete Service had a shootout with some crooks while protecting Biden’s granddaughter a year or two ago.

I’m sure many people wished we could remove the homeless encampments from the public spaces. Trump is finally letting our intrusive thoughts out and into action.

I don’t trust the man. I don’t support the man. But homeless encampments are an eye soar.

R306, fortunate most of us will never know what it is like to sleep and live outside under cardboard boxes and scraps we cobble together for shelter. We won't sleep with one eye open incase we get robbed of our meager belongings by other homeless people and rummage through garbage bins or stalk fast food parking lots for food. We'll never have to worry about rats biting us, dogs attacking us, and pedestrians spitting at us or kicking us. These people need help. No matter how they got to this point they need ongoing mental health services so they can function, hold down a job and manage living on their own. We need to rebuild the safety net and provide affordable housing. In my city we had single resident occupancy apartments . They were subsidized and were looked at as transitional housing. It worked. We reduced our indigent population by 70%. But there seems to be no patience or sentiment for it now. So we send in the cops to roust them and push them out. "Relocate them." They're not going away. We need to find a way to address it.

[quote]eye soar

Oh dear

R307 yes, it is fortunate that most of us won’t have to live on the streets. That’s why we bust our ass at work so that we don’t end up taking over public property as our private property.

R309 how many paychecks are you away from being homeless? A catastrophic illness medical bills, etc. can do it for many of us. People who have addiction issues, or people who are mentally ill and not able to access treatment? Your simplistic view about the homeless is disappointing. As I said, the sentiment to day is not about finding solutions, just about getting them out of sight.

Bravo, R310

R309 has obviously never heard of the old adage; "There but for the grace of God go I,"...

I saw a video of cops/ICE/whoever taking tents and everything inside and throwing it into the back of a garbage truck. Bleak.

Trump's Gestapo. First the brown people, then the homeless. Who will be next?

Heard this morning he can declare it an emergency every thirty days to keep it going.

400 hillbillies from the hollers of West Virginia who’ve never been to a city bigger than Charleston patrolling a majority minority city that voted 90 percent for Harris. What could go wrong?

At this point I'm surprised he hasn't just put every DC resident in jail and blocked all access in, just so he can say: "Folks, I reduced the crime in DC to zero overnight. It's a beautiful thing, many people are saying it."

[quote]As I said, the sentiment to day is not about finding solutions, just about getting them out of sight.

As a thought experiment, imagine a Trump who would make a passionate speech about addressing the root causes of homelessness, and concerted government initiatives to practical solutions. Rather than boasting about a new WH ballroom. But no, I don't believe in unicorns either.

Why haven't Barron, Eric, and Dump Junior enlisted in ICE?

Clearly they have no standards and will take anybody with a heart full of white supremacy.

We’re still recovering from Reagan’s fuck ups; will we ever get past the 💩 that President Syphilis is inflicting on the country?

R319 since when do Princes rub shoulders with the rabble?

R320 is right. You know a while ago, Showtime did a 4-5 part documentary series on the Reagans, and it was SO GOOD. If it is still around I urge people to watch it. He masked his cruelty behind a facade of affability, making the lack of compassion acceptable.

[quote] Princes

Those three are princes R321? 🤮💩🤡

Meanwhile, over in California:

"Newsom wants cities to force homeless Californians to move camp every 3 days"

"Gov. Gavin Newsom has a new strategy to eliminate the large, long-standing homeless encampments that have been a thorn in his side throughout his administration: Push cities to make them illegal. "

First thing that they have to do is find housing for them.

Seeing variations on this around social media.

Brought to you by the guy who bankrupted a casino...

This mess is a solution in search of a problem: They are just itching for something to pop off. I feel pretty confident that Black people won't take the bait, but, as they showed in November, leftists can't just work on making things better even when it's in their own best interest.

Putting tourism and service and nightlife professionals out of work creates the conditions for people to impetuously fight back.

Also this

🚨Trump CAUGHT ON CAMERA as Plan IMPLODES IN PUBLIC

That vid @ R299 is terrifying.

An acquaintance of mine’s wife just had back surgery several weeks back. She & her husband are both American citizens, born & raised, however, both are Hispanic & look it.

I watched that vid, & kept thinking, imagine if this poor woman had a bad back, a bad neck, or both? Imagine if she had surgery 3-6 months ago, & then she’s dragged out of her car, & brutalized?

We’re watching these videos, without considering any pre existing conditions that these people might have, such as back problems, heart disease, diabetes, bad knees, COPD, pregnancy, recent surgeries for anything, etc.

The woman arrested in the aforementioned video was pleading with the ICE agents in Spanish, asking them to please give her a moment to step out of the car on her own. She was attempting to cooperate, yet they wouldn’t allow her to.

You have to be the BIGGEST coward on earth to treat a small, older woman like that… to drag her out like a rag doll, & then proceed to kneel on her back & her neck on hard, unforgiving concrete.

I genuinely do not understand how Latino men are able to wake up every morning, gear up, & proceed to terrorize fellow Latino’s, ESPECIALLY when targeting older women who could easily be their Abuelitas.

I’m thinking of my little Abuelita right now. She was the kindest, sweetest woman who I have ever had the awesome privilege of knowing. Never, EVER had one single bad word to say about anyone. She loved me unconditionally, & I’d like to think that the good parts of me, came from her.

She taught me to read & write in Spanish. She prayed with me every single night, cooked me meals when my mom would not, brushed my hair, bathed me. She’d walk me to school & pick me up. She was my mother & grandmother, because my mom was/is so screwed up, she couldn’t be a mother to anyone, myself included.

I cannot imagine how I would react if I saw my BELOVED, BEAUTIFUL, BROWN Abuela treated like this. I think I’d lose my fucking mind.

What kind of proud, loving family man in the Latino community, justifies terrorizing their very own, for a living?

Shame on these POS bastards for doing this, & mad props to the tow truck driver who did his job quickly, & well.

[quote]imagine if this poor woman had a bad back, a bad neck, or both?

If she didn't before, r329, she does now.

Show-of-force grandstanding

and/or protecting the areas where his people live

Notice most of these new facilities are in states with cooperative state legislatures...

Possible sane Republican sighting?

It is both heartbreaking and infuriating to think that anyone can listen to this diatribe and think that he is on the right side of the issue.

And, where are these human beings? What is going on with the human lives attached to those items being tossed into dumpsters?

[quote]The homeless encampments were dismantled by law enforcement and everything those "unhoused" people owned was thrown in the dump, you heartless stupid bald fuck.

Are there any posts by Susa E Jordan when Gavin Newsom started doing exactly what Steven Miller is talking about?

If you know what Stephen Miller is and what he believes and thinks this is not at all surprising. He is a self avowed White Supremacist, and a Neo Nazi and he is not only unapologetic about it, he is proud of it, and believes he is absolutely right in his thinking. He is sick and crazy and he has always been this way. What is scary is t hat he is now in a position of power and able to carry out his beliefs as public policy.

Stephen Miller is an angry person because he fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

R337, it might be the reverse. If Stephen Miller were a normal guy he might look like an ordinary guy. He's ugly because you can see how disturbed he is.

[quote] Some National Guard troops in Washington set to carry firearms

Some National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., will begin carrying firearms to conduct their mission in the city, two U.S. officials told NBC News. Not all troops will carry weapons, one official said.

The arming of the troops marks a change since Guard members were first deployed to the district earlier this week. They were tasked with addressing crime and homelessness in the capital.

A spokesperson for the Joint Task Force said in a statement that Guard members “may be armed consistent with their mission and training.”

“Their presence is focused on supporting civil authorities and ensuring the safety of the community they serve. The DC National Guard remains committed to assisting the District of Columbia and serving its residents and visitors whenever called upon,” the spokesperson, Air National Guard Maj. Melissa Heintz, said.

Heintz also said that the defense secretary “is authorized to mobilize additional National Guard forces, as needed, in coordination with State Governors.”

In a statement, a White House official confirmed that National Guard troops had been called to D.C., saying, “As part of President Trump’s ongoing effort to make D.C. safe and beautiful, additional National Guard troops will be called in to Washington DC — the National Guard’s role has not changed. The National Guard will protect federal assets, create a safe environment for law enforcement officials to carry out their duties when required, and provide a visible presence to deter crime.”

Several Republican governors announced Saturday that they were deploying some of their states' National Guard troops to aid Trump's efforts in the nation's capital.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Saturday afternoon that he is deploying 300-400 troops to D.C., plus “mission-essential equipment” and “specialized training.”

“West Virginia is proud to stand with President Trump in his effort to restore pride and beauty to our nation’s capital,” Morrisey said in a statement. “The men and women of our National Guard represent the best of our state, and this mission reflects our shared commitment to a strong and secure America.”

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said in a statement Saturday night that he was authorizing the deployment of 200 of his state's Guardsmen to Washington at the Pentagon's request. McMaster stipulated that the troops were subject to "immediate recall" if a natural disaster such as a hurricane occurred and the state needed them.

“South Carolina is proud to stand with President Trump as he works to restore law and order to our nation’s capital and ensure safety for all who live, work, and visit there,” McMaster said.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine released a statement Saturday night in which he said the secretary of the Army had requested the state send 150 military police from the Ohio National Guard to Washington.

"These Ohio National Guard members will carry out presence patrols and serve as added security. None of these military police members are currently serving as law enforcement officers in the state of Ohio," DeWine said, adding that the Guardsmen are expected to arrive to the district in the coming days.

The governors' moves come just days after President Donald Trump announced that he was deploying 800 members of the National Guard to D.C. and directing federal law enforcement agents to assist local police with patrolling and executing warrants in the city.

“When you walk down the street, you’re going to see police or you’re going to see FBI agents,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “We’re going to have a lot of agents on the street. You’re going to have a lot of, essentially military. And we will bring in the military if it’s needed.”

Trump’s stated aim of cracking down on crime in Washington comes as crime rates in the city are at their lowest levels in decades.

Now the Justice Department is accusing Washington D.C. of falsifying the data on crime reports. PROJECTION?

R340, it turns out that D.C.’s violent crime rate was too low, so the administration is importing armed gangs to bring up the numbers.

Unprecedented crime wave at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue right now.

I can't wait for the first massive hurricane to hit Louisiana and Mississippi when their Nat Guard forces are in DC, and those Governors have to answer for their fuckery.

Saw clips of National Guard people roaming the DC subways and the locals just ignoring them.

More of our tax dollars pissed away by Dump.

[Quote] Saw clips of National Guard people roaming the DC subways and the locals just ignoring them.

Should they have been throwing Subway sandwiches at them?

[quote]Should they have been throwing Subway sandwiches at them?

Yes! That's why I joined ICE.

How do Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia and other welfare states have the resources to send their National Guard to DC? Are National Guard troops paid for by state or federal tax funds?

R347, when they work for the federal government, the federal government pays; when they work for the state, they are paid by the state. So it looks as if we, the federal tax payers, are on the hook for this adventure. I guess it's a way to send federal funds to red states.

The thing is, these guardsmen have to leave their jobs and their families to deploy. They are not trained for police work. If they have ever been on active duty it was probably long ago in Iraq and the ones who are now carrying guns are going to mess up if they truly believe Trump's hype.

In New York no one threw a Subway sandwich

^ In fact. The National Guard roaming the NYC subway were also armed.

Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Pete Hegseth went to DC's Union Station for a photo op and got heckled. Stephen says the hecklers are old white hippies who should go home and take a nap.

[quote]old white hippies

Yes, Trump's people show they're really on top of the zeitgeist. It's flower power which is sapping a once-great country.

Even his own family despises him. He's had lots of practice spewing ageist hate (mom and dad, grandparents, uncles and aunts, etc.)

"Fuck you, mom, I'm not taking out the trash, you old bitch."

R354 are you joking or is that true? I would love to know more about that fucking monster's background. I bet there's something there worth promoting. Anything to get him to have a meltdown on live TV. The crazier he gets the better it is for us.

"Go fuck a couch, JD!"

I just imagine how the budding little sociopath would have been as a teenager; in reality, as reported, loathed by everyone in his school, community, and his family.

As bad as I had imagined it to be...it's worse

[quote]Even his own family despises him.

Who?

Trump is the one who should be arrested. Fucking freak felon.

When corruption meets ineptitude

[quote]When corruption meets ineptitude

Frog chat in the bubbling water: "Is it just me, or did this place suddenly get much hotter?"

Ever the showman

Everyone in DC, lock your doors, there's going to be a dangerous sex pest roaming the streets tonight!

I want to see if Captain Cankles can even make it two blocks in the mean streets of DC.

I hope he gets plantars Fascist- itis! it's very very painful.

BUT HE HAS BONE SPURS! I'M CONCERNED FOR THE PRESIDENT!

Will the war hero qualify for a Purple Heart?

Amber unloaded on the "white liberals" she says are behind ongoing protests of the National Guard's presence to crack down on D.C. crime. In her IG story she says they don't actually care about black people's safety.

All the easier to lie...

R370 The homicides are concentrated in the cities of those states. Those cities are Democrat run.

As an example, Mississippi is ranked number #1. Well, these are the statistics for it's capital Jackson:

"Jackson, Mississippi, consistently has the highest homicide rate in the state and among U.S. cities in recent years, with rates reported as high as 99.5 per 100,000 people in 2021 and around 78 per 100,000 in 2024. These figures are significantly higher than the national average and place Jackson as a city with one of the highest rates in the nation, according to recent data from 2021, 2023, and 2024."

No cities in any civilized country have homicide rates that high. None.

The city is of course Democrat run. Demographics: about 80% black. 16% white. 0.49% Asian. 2.09% Hispanic.

Mississippi as well as most of the southern states are shitholes.

r372 Thanks for the stats, defacto. High crimes rates are highly linked with poverty and marked income disparity. Jackson COULD be a city of 600,000 - and a tax base to support good schools, good roads, an adequate water and sewer system, libraries, etc. But white people in Mississippi could not bear the thought of sharing even a city name with black people, so they fled to the suburbs, taking their tax dollars with them. Consequently, Jackson is a poverty-stricken city of 155,000, surrounded by very wealthy suburbs who add another 350,000 to the metro area. Those wealthy suburbs have well-funded schools, good roads, libraries, park systems, It's an old story in the US (Detroit, I'm looking at you). But the political system in Mississippi is completely geared toward suppressing black representation and withdrawing any kind of support for black business development, adequate services for black towns and cities, and even additional dollars for better schools, child care or any or the other things that can bring people out of poverty.

But, oh, it's the Democratic mayor and the black citizens who caused the problems. OK

[quote]Thanks for the stats, defacto.

What? Who? Explain.

BTW: note that every word of the post at R372 is true. The "why" of those facts is up for debate. But facts they are.

[quote]High crimes rates are highly linked with poverty and marked income disparity.

Homicides x 100,000 people in 2024:

Jackson : 70.0

Buenos Aires: 3.8

Brasilia: 6.9

Mexico City: 10

Guatemala City: 16.1

Bogotá: 15

San Jose: 13

Lima: 7.7

Panama City: 15

r375, you were comparing a US city to international cities. A. We don't know anything about their methodology for counting murders and B. Many of them do not have the ready access to guns that the US does, nor a history of white flight out of inner cities to wealthy suburbs. . Jackson's rate is high, but not off the charts compared to quite a few other US cities:

Memphis Shelby County, TN 40.9

St. Louis St. Louis city, MO 37.6

In my next post, I will have a more complete list of international cities, many of which you failed to include

Baltimore Baltimore city, MD 36.3

Washington, DC District of Columbia, DC 35.9

Birmingham Jefferson County, AL 28.2

Virginia Beach Portsmouth city, VA 26.9

Philadelphia Philadelphia County, PA 25.9

St. Louis St. Clair County, IL 25.5

Kansas City Jackson County, MO 25.3

Kansas City Wyandotte County, KS 24.2

Richmond Richmond city, VA 23.

Atlanta Rockdale County, GA 21.9

Indianapolis Marion County, IN 21.8

Virginia Beach Newport News city, VA 21.3

Milwaukee Milwaukee County, WI 20.7

Colima Mexico 181.94

2 Durán Ecuador 148

3 Ciudad Obregón Mexico 138.23

4 Zacatecas Mexico 134.62

5 Nelson Mandela Bay South Africa 102.82

6 Cajeme Mexico 88.99

7 Tijuana Mexico 87.88

8 Guayaquil Ecuador 83.80

9 Uruapan Mexico 78.26

10 Machala Ecuador 77.50

11 Durban South Africa 76.89

12 Portoviejo Ecuador 76.00

13 Feira de Santana Brazil 74.65

14 Kingston Jamaica 70.73

15 Celaya Mexico 68.07

16 Macapá Brazil 67.75

17 Port-au-Prince Haiti 67.20

18 Cape Town South Africa 66.80

19 uMgungundlovu South Africa 66.25

20 Ciudad Juárez Mexico 66.20

21 Acapulco Mexico 65.55

22 Buffalo City South Africa 65.59

23 Caucaia Brazil 65.58

24 Mossoró Brazil 63.21

25 Irapuato Mexico 61.60

26 Cuernavaca Mexico 60.20

27 Salvador Brazil 56.68

28 New Orleans United States 150 275,506 54.4

R376 How could you forget Detroit, Chicago, Albuquerque, Portland, New Orleans, Oakland, Cleveland,?

Axios reports Jackson's homicide rate x 100,000 is 78, putting it at a higher homicide rate than all but 8 of those cities listed at 377, cities with a much much higher poverty rate and disparity of wealth.

The closest thing to economic powerhouses in red states are blue cities deliberately underfunded. And we all know blue states subsidize red ones.

Enjoy hating liberals, they can't support you forever.

Enjoy, MAGATS. Some of you might have to get a job.

[Quote] The closest thing to economic powerhouses in red states are blue cities deliberately underfunded. And we all know blue states subsidize red ones.

For how long they have been deliberately underfunded?

Those cities have been crime and poverty ridden for decades so who specifically is to blame?

The red state r381. It should be obvious. Then the red state relies on blue states to stay solvent.

Most of the problem is based on your inherent racism.

Bless your heart R382

They want to get rid of foreign-born truckers, cuz then they'll try to become U S. citizens 'n shit.

Bless your descended from slave owners heart r383

Bless your heart R385 but my family isn't from Africa

I never suggested it was r386. But your family owned people from Africa. And you feel pride from that until you lost it all and are now known as WHITE TRASH.

^ a historian no less

No but accurate

We're all (well, almost all) descended from migrants. So shape the fuck up, act accordingly.

[Quote] So shape the fuck up, act accordingly.

Yes ma'am

A friend told me that FIFA is seriously considering moving their U.S. operations out and relocating them in Mexico or Canada because of all these new regulations. We are weakening our own economy with this paranoia. But that was Putin's goal. Weaken the U.S. and NATO and disband NATO. He is moving forward relentlessly with his agenda and his brilliant useful idiot. I bet Trump has been giving Kremlin Insiders even more laughs than he gives us.

It's so interesting that Republican state leaders are thought to have zero responsibility for conditions in the cities they help run. As if Jackson, MS wasn't a part of the state.

If it's so bad, allocate some state money for better police? Better schools? Early intervention programs for 14 and 15 year olds?

Nahhh - why bother?

It's clear that Republicans think of themselves as responsible only to the people who voted for them and no one else.

There are two levels of sovereignty n the US: state and nation. Cities are not sovereign at all.

American cities suck because states are sovereign

[quote]It's so interesting that Republican state leaders are thought to have zero responsibility for conditions in the cities they help run. As if Jackson, MS wasn't a part of the state.

And what about Democrat leaders and their responsibilities for conditions in the cities they help run, i.e. Camden NJ, Detroit MI, Oakland CA, Baltimore MD, Chicago IL...etc. and etc.

They don't run any city in Michigan. Those are run by the state. Chicago is a better city than ANY city in a red state. So is Oakland. You really need to get out more, dumbass.

[quote]And what about Democrat leaders and their responsibilities for conditions in the cities they help run

Yes, Gavin Newsome and JB Pritzker have been exempt from criticism while Mike Kehoe in Missouri and Bill Lee in Tennessee are regularly held accountable by Fox News and Trump for the violence in St Louis and Nashville. It's so unfair.

[quote] Defense Secretary Hegseth authorizes National Guard troops to carry arms in DC

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order authorizing National Guard troops deployed in Washington, D.C. to carry weapons if their mission requires it, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The new authority is expected to be acted on in coming days, the person said.

Hegseth's decision paves the way for the nearly 2,000 troops now mobilized in Washington, D.C., to expand their operations significantly, including possible security patrols in neighborhoods that struggle with crime.

In a visit to Guard personnel on Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested the military personnel would be playing a larger role in law enforcement in the city.

"You got to be strong, you got to be tough," Trump told Guard personnel at the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility. "You got to do your job. Whatever it takes to do your job."

A defense official on Friday confirmed the development in a statement provided to ABC News.

“At the direction of the Secretary of Defense, [joint task force DC] members supporting the mission to lower the crime rate in our Nation’s capital will soon be on mission with their service-issued weapons, consistent with their mission and training,” the official wrote.

The commanding general of the D.C. National Guard “retains the authority to make any necessary force posture adjustments in coordination with the D.C. Metropolitan Police and Federal law enforcement partners,” the statement added. “The D.C. National Guard remains committed to safeguarding the District of Columbia and serving those who live, work, and visit the District.”

Last week, Trump declared that crime in D.C. was out of control and that he would take over D.C. police operations. He also ordered 800 members of the D.C. National Guard to report to active duty.

Working in shifts, the troops began arriving in small numbers at popular tourist spots like the Washington Monument along the National Mall, where crime is relatively low. Standing alongside armored Humvees, the unarmed soldiers and airman could be seen posing for pictures with tourists and talking with children.

Trump though has moved to expand the effort considerably, requesting additional troops from nearby states. So far, six Republican governors have complied, with troops arriving this week from Louisiana, Tennessee, Ohio, South Carolina and Mississippi.

The military task force overseeing the operation said that most of those troops were in place as of Thursday morning, bringing the force size in the nation's capital up to nearly 2,000.

In his visit to the Guard troops on Thursday, Trump suggested the troops could stay for six months or longer.

“You do the job on safety, and I'll get this place fixed up physically, and we're going to be so proud of it at the end of six months,” he said.

“But let's say at the end of the year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty. You'll have all new surfaces. You'll have all new medians, everything's going to look beautiful,” he added.

Historically, presidents have relied upon the National Guard to secure cities in only extraordinary circumstances, such as large-scale events like the presidential inauguration or in response to riots, like the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the Capitol.

Violent crime levels in the city have decreased compared to years prior, down 26% since 2024, a 30-year low, according to crime stats released by the D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department.

On Wednesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser criticized Trump’s use of the Guard as an “armed militia in the Nation’s Capital.”

“Crime has gone down in our city and it has gone down precipitously over the last two years because of a lot of hard work, changes to our public safety ecosystem, including changes to the law,” Bowser said.

[quote]"You got to be strong, you got to be tough"[quote]

[quote] You'll have all new medians, everything's going to look beautiful.

Grampy is stuck on the medians again. What sort of trauma occurred to Dump in a median?

[quote]But let's say at the end of the year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty.

You need only look at the ever-more gilded White House interior, let alone at his wife, to fear what 'maxed out in terms of beauty' might mean to Trump. The phrase itself hardly implies an assured respected aesthete.

[quote]Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order authorizing National Guard troops deployed in Washington, D.C. to carry weapons if their mission requires it, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The National Guard troops deployed in the NYC subway by Hochul carried weapons.

And did the New York National Guard included troops from hostile states?

We all know why he's doing this. He's not planning on leaving and when he cheats at the next election he'll have troops to quell protests.

He will have troops in position to arrest Democrats who could impeach and possibly remove him again.

At the least, I hope the next congress votes to determine him an Insurrectionist, just like the SCOTUS demanded and most have forgotten.

The troopswon't obey him, that's the part he has not yet come to grips with.

In the meantime, he's wandered away from dealing with the wars in Gaza and Ukraine because they're too taxing to think about. Talk about murder rates: between abolishing much of this county's foreign aid programs and failing to assert himself in global conflicts he's probably going to kill millions of people and not even notice.

Too little, too late

Doing all that he AND his administration have done in seven months - action and inaction which not only affects us here in the US, but people arround the world - and this jackass is recently talking about a desire "to get into heaven."

R372, there are "Democrat run" cities in the blue states, too, so why do red states have more crime than blue states?

R396, if Republicans do such a great job running cities...why does Miami have a higher violent crime rate than New York or LA?

[quote] Trump’s DC crime crackdown has Stephen Miller at its core

The crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital is Miller’s latest project, working to make his own mark as Trump and his administration officials fan out across the city to highlight a federal take over.

“Trump sees transforming Washington, D.C. as a victory that would define his legacy, and Miller is the one shaping and driving that message,” an aide in Trump’s first term said.

Miller, who serves as deputy chief of staff, joined Trump on Thursday evening to greet federal law enforcement agents who have been patrolling D.C at a U.S. Park Police facility.

As a key player in Trump’s orbit, Miller has a hand in major policy decisions, especially on domestic matters like issues of immigration and crime in cities that are run by Democrats. Trump said on Friday that the federal government would turn its attention to Chicago next.

“He is the 85 percent center of gravity in the White House,” a source said. “It’s almost like open knowledge that if he’s not involved in it then it’s not important.”

“This is square right in the middle of his world. All the executive orders, all the focus— he spent four years putting together, here’s what we’re going to do when we take over. Crime is the first cousin to immigration. And deporting illegal aliens, criminal aliens, the whole nine yards and it’s the centerpiece of the progressives-had-destroyed-the-country-conservative-retake thing from that wing of the MAGA movement.”

On Tuesday, Miller visited Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrator Terry Cole, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. police chief Pamela Smith as part of his work on coordinating the federal response with local D.C. officials.

“All you see all day long are crazy Democrats screeching on TV on behalf of foreign terrorists, hardened criminals and violent illegal aliens,” Miller said on Tuesday.

“The sigh of relief that I have seen from the local communities in this city,” Miller said last week. “President Trump is making D.C. safe, livable, clean and secure, not just for the people who live here but for every American citizen whose birthright is to visit our nation’s capital.”

As of Friday morning, 719 arrests had been made as part of the federal crackdown on crime. Of those arrests, 300 were illegal immigrants and five of those arrested have been known gang members.

Over all 2,300 federal law enforcement worked in D.C. on Thursday night, the White House said, and the number has been increasing by a few hundred on a daily basis as red state governors have sent more National Guard into the city.

One area of success for Miller is his messaging approach to the city’s homeless problem.

“For years, cities like Washington, D.C., treated homelessness as a housing affordability problem, which pushed the idea that living on the street was an acceptable alternative so long as civil liberties were preserved. What we’re seeing Miller do is flipping that script,” a former aide said. “His message is that the real crisis is driven by drug abuse, mental illness, and criminal activity, and that is why there is broad support for moving people indoors and into treatment.”

Miller on Wednesday bashed those who have protested the federal enforcement in D.C., calling them “communists.”

“All these demonstrators you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been. And by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C., are Black,” he said.

“So we’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old,” Miller added. “And we’re going to get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington, D.C.”

Bullshit. They’re just standing around for the most part, other than the ones who are targeting the delivery workers. It’s a free trip to DC for a lot of people who have never been here.

ABC 7 News August 22nd 2025 :

"With the National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., crime rates have seen a significant decline. Carjackings have decreased by 83%, robberies by 46%, car thefts by 21%, and overall violent crime by 22%. "

"Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital on Thursday that there has not been a homicide in the city in more than a week.

"There have been no recorded homicides in the city for the past week," said public information officer Michael Russo via email. "Our last recorded homicide was August 13th."

I really just want someone or several.someone(s) to brutally beat Stephen Miller into a coma.

R416, crime drops when people do not leave their homes.

[quote]crime drops when people do not leave their homes.

No. You're wrong.

People feel free to leave their homes when crime drops.

They will lie about teh stats of course. Most homocides in any city do not occur on the streets.

Businesses are now losing money, r419, so much for your theory.

[quote]Most homocides in any city do not occur on the streets.

Where are you getting that info?

Google AI says it is mostly on the streets in US cities.

An study of homicides in NYC:

"The most frequent places of occurrence were the streets and other outdoor places (49.6 percent) and the victims' homes (19.3 percent). Firearms were the cause of death for 49.6 percent of homicides in the home and 80.3 percent of those on the streets."

Five Shot, Three Dead in Overnight Gun Violence on Chicago's Near West Side and Garfield Park

What's concerning about urban violence is that it's very often random And the people who are shot are mere collateral damage; they were not the intended target, but they just happened to be in the wrong place the wrong time.

I wouldn't leave the house either if there were masked kidnappers throwing people into unmarked cars with impunity. The idea that disappearing people doesn't constitute crime is bizarre.

I was in DC this morning, and saw about 20 National Guard personnel. They were standing around the Washington Monument, doing nothing except talking to each other and wasting taxpayer dollars.

^^^

[Quote] Bullshit. They’re just standing around for the most part, other than the ones who are targeting the delivery workers. It’s a free trip to DC for a lot of people who have never been here.

Pete Repete What should they be doing? When the NY governor deployed the National Guard to the subways last year, they were basically doing the same thing. The idea was that their presence would probably be a deterrent to crime as apparently it has been in DC. They are after all guards

The House Republicans cut $1 billion in funding from DC that was meant to pay for more police officers. Obviously that would have been more effective than paying for a few months’ worth of sightseeing National Guardsmen, but that’s the House Republicans for you.

[quote]The House Republicans cut $1 billion in funding from DC that was meant to pay for more police officers.

Bullshit.

Furthermore:

R428, why are you posting a story from 2020? On a budget of over $560M, it’s helpful to provide context.

And Congress has indeed frozen DC’s ability to spend $1B of its own money. They promised to fix this, but have not.

[quote] If Trump’s so eager to declare a national emergency, he should start with red states

[Quote] They’re just standing around for the most part, other than the ones who are targeting the delivery workers. It’s a free trip to DC for a lot of people who have never been here.

Though the accommodations are not always deluxe R415

President Biden on Friday called the chief of the National Guard Bureau to apologize after troops who had been brought in to protect his inauguration were ordered to sleep in an unheated parking garage after they were booted from the Capitol on Thursday, administration officials said.

R430 Perhaps because he's focusing on cities and Washington DC is listed high on lists of cities with highest homicide rates. And most lists include not only DC but Memphis, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia Chicago, Albuquerque, Detroit and St Louis

It irks me to no end when he has to have someone explain to him an executive order before he signs it. He should read and understand this stuff as POTUS. Useless piece of garbage. UNFIT.

I thought the biggest cover-up is that he can't read?

Trump said that he plans on changing the name Dept of Defense to Dept of War. Someone make it stop!

I genuinely can barely keep up. What is the goal here? To slowly take over blue cities, so that by the time the elections roll around, they will be occupying cities and controlling who can vote? I really would like to know what the gameplan is, if they have one. And what happens when Trump dies? Do they embrace his bad ideas? It's disturbing how none of our leaders can explain or stop what's happening.

Trump's dementia has made him drunk on power. Dangerous shit.

It doesn't help that he's listening to Stephen Psycho Miller.

Exactly, r439.

R437, the goal is to SHOW. This is all about optics. He is telling his base, and a lot of dumb "independents" that he is tough on crime. Whether or not the reality matches the response is another matter. We are watching this play out as if we were in a really bad movie. It seems to me Americans, average, not well informed Americans are no longer concerned with individual rights or due process. They are frustrated and impatient and they don't feel like they have control. So when they see someone like Trump assert his "authority" and no one really stops him, they feel he "gets it" and he is "Doing something." Data has shown that for most Americans it is the Fear of being a crime victim that forms t heir opinion, not the actual experience of being a crime victim. He also exploits their fear of Others. Vast swaths of Americans have this fear, consciously or subconsciously of gangs of Black or Latino men running rampant committing violent crimes.

Local police are a privileged caste. They aren't going to let the military waltz in and take over. If Stalin is right and local police really run America, Trump is going to set off a war between the military and the police.

so far it hasn't happened

General Kurilla just announced his retirement, after being touted by Trump and Hegseth as their saving grace at the Pentagon. Is this just a normal course of events, or did he leave under duress?

R442, that was then this is now. Local police are usually former military now, and these guardsmen and the local cops probably get together and swap stories and have a few beers. And if the Guardsmen have been assigned to work with local cops they will be viewed as a much appreciated augmentation of the force.

Police at all levels are always griping that policies and regulations and civil rights tie their hands in dealing with crime. I'm sure quite a few welcome an administration which flouts all of those. On the other hand, DC police (the Metropolitan Police) were the ones who were assaulted on January 6. I'm sure many have not forgotten that Trump had the option to call out the National Guard then to help defend the capitol and refused to do so.

[quote] I have the right to do anything I wanna do. I’m the President of the United States.

Did you watch the cabinet meeting? Pure Twilight Zone...Trump *is* Billy Mumy.

I did not watch it. I cannot stand the sight of him.

My point being that he says he has the right to do anything and nobody around him is telling him otherwise. The fawning at the cabinet meeting was beyond parody. I'm watching Jen Psaki and she showed some of it.

"Black women are wearing red hats!"

R442 I would like to think they would put down their arms before they would do that.

[quote] The fawning at the cabinet meeting

You would fawn too if threatened by a fistfull of Trump's diaper poo, R450.

A grand jury refused to indict the guy who threw a sandwich at one of the National Guards.

That is literally a treasonous statement r447. I don't know how many times he has to announce his dictatorship, or kingship, before we decide that's enough.

The Supreme Court ruled no one could hold a president of the US legally accountable for any crimes he committed in his official capacity. Is it any wonder he feels free to trample the laws of the land?

A Grand Jury will indict a ham sandwich.

But a Grand Jury will not indict a salami sub.

The statement @ R447 is his latest iteration of untouchable shooting on Fifth Avenue. He has always spoken and behaved in this way. Given his position and mental and physical decline though, admittedly this is the most disturbing reprise.

Well, this is beyond depressing.

R459 With all the willfully ignorant fuckers that live in this nation, maybe we do have the government we deserve, as a whole.

I'm not buying it, r459.

45%. That’s his highest. And there are outliers all the time. Stop the panic.

The bump in support - more important than the top line number - has to be because of Trump sending out the National Guard to DC. There's a long history of republicans successfully preying on people's fear of crime.

I'm waiting on the soon-to-be-released monthly AtlasIntel poll. A pollster which has stood out as pretty spot-on in the Trump era. It's been showing Trump in the 44% range the last couple of months. Too high.

Harvard-Harris has his approval at 47% (8/20 - 8/21)

But over all, right now, the polls are all over the place.

Whatever he does, he'll always have 4 out of 10 Americans behind him. If that ever changes to fewer than that number, I'll eat a MAGA hat.

It was 34% right after J6, so that, not 40%, would appear to be his floor.

Reporters are following Nat Guard members picking up trash around the District. "Mission: Beautification."

Meanwhile, their jobs and families can go to hell, as far as their "Commander in Chief" is concerned.

[quote]I have the right to do anything I wanna do. I’m the President of the United States.

Um, that's not how any of this works.

He's announcing his kingship r459. The question is what do we want to do about that?

R468 That is fucked up. What does Trump think The Dept of Parks and Recreation is for? FUCKING MORON.

oops meant r469, not r459, but really it kind of works everywhere Trump is mentioned.

R471, he’s fired a lot Parks workers, so he needs to spend a lot of money bringing in armed, uniformed people to do their work.

He doesn't give a fuck what the Parks and Rec Dept is for. He doesn't give a fuck if anything is actually accomplished here, including a reduction in crime.

He just wants to establish the principle that he gets to call up a bunch of soldiers, order them into the streets, and suppress any dissent and any objections, anywhere in the country.

Trump just wants a precedent that allows him to do this shit so when he contests the midterm, he can imprison Congressmen.

CBS News - August 27, 2025 :

"CBS News analyzed D.C. crime data amid National Guard deployments. Here's what the numbers show."

"In the nearly three weeks since President Trump deployed federal troops and law enforcement agents throughout Washington, D.C., a CBS News analysis of crime data shows violent crime is down in Washington by almost half when compared to the same 19 days in 2024."

"The analysis, reviewing every crime incident reported to the District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department from Aug. 7 through Aug. 25, also shows violent crime is down in comparison to the five-year average for the same dates."

"Beyond violent crime, reported burglaries also are down 48% and car thefts have fallen 36%."

Because they aren['t reported to the police anymore but he army Duh.

The question was never could fascism and military dictatorship lower crime rates. The question was always, do we want that? Is the price simply too high? I really hope people don't fall for this shit where they point to crime numbers and say, see, no problem with military dictatorship everywhere.

R479, and remember that this type of policing addresses only lower level street crime. The really massive crimes is societies like that are committed by the government itself. We've already seen ordinary people kidnapped off of the street and taken out of state, even out of the country, and placed in horrifying crime-ridden facilities. And that doesn't even begin to address Trump's blatant theft from U.S. companies: look at how he shook down Intel for a percentage of its business and how he put tariffs (fines, basically) on U.S. chip manufacturers who EXPORT chips to other countries.

The government is always the biggest criminal in repressive countries.

Just wait. If we continue down this road towards Authoritarianism, all these MAGAts will have to give up their guns. LOL! Ask Putin. Do you honestly think they will be able to carry and keep all the weapons they own in their private households?

If anyone thinks elected Republicans are in any appreciable numbers gonna push against him any time soon, think again.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer today issued an order prohibiting troops from engaging in security patrols, riot control, arrests, searches and crowd control. The order does not take effect until Sept. 12 to allow the Trump administration to appeal.

Breyer said the use of federal troops effectively created a "national police force with the president as its chief" and violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

"The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act," Breyer wrote.

Stephen Breyer's brother.

Chicago could use some help

They don't need it from Trump and his minions, r485.

ask the people of Chicago R486 It's a mass shooting every weekend

[quote] Chicago could use some help

Except the Guard isn't trained to do any policing that's needed. Which is why they've been stationed in DC tourist areas, not high crime spots.

He can get away with stuff in D.C. because it's not a state, that he can't get away with in California, Illinois, NY, etc.

and yet the presence of National Guard in DC has reduce crime and violence dramatically and the same thing happened last year when Hochul deployed the Guard to the subways,

Then get more trained local cops on the streets r487, who know the city and its neighborhoods and will know how to handle tough situations. Chicago doesn't need Guard members from Mississippi roaming the streets with automatic weapons, ready to shoot anything that moves.

The presence of the Guard in DC has reduced crime, it's also reduced much local business traffic. Restaurants and bars have 75% less traffic, local shops are suffering because everyone is afraid to go out of their house and encounter armed guards.

You can't reduce crime at the expense of curtailing everyone's business and freedoms. There's a happy medium there - one that is usually assisted by hiring of extra local police.

[quote]58 shot. And that's nothing compared to some weekends.

July 4th 2024: "Chicago reels from bloody July 4 weekend with 109 people shot — 19 fatally"

[quote]Then get more trained local cops on the streets [R487], who know the city and its neighborhoods and will know how to handle tough situations.

The Chicago police obviously do not know how to handle tough situations.

July 4th 2025 And what are the authorities in Chicago doing about all of this And believe it or not violence is down this year from 2024 but it's still way out of control And who's suffering?

The numbers for this past weekend in Chicago have been revised.

It's 61 shot with 9 killed and 52 wounded.

Why can't we just call it fake news?

R495, just think of these people as school children. That way you won't care.

The number of homicides is incredible as is the number of people who are shot and though they survived you can only wonder how many of them are seriously injured and what they are going through

For the idiot at R497: if they were 61 school children, we'd be having a week of wall-to-wall news about it with the country in mourning.

Not in today's world R499 Last Wednesday two children were killed and several others injured in a Minneapolis school shooting and we've moved on from that story being headline news a number of days ago

R499, that’s lie and you know it. I mean, nine dead? That’s a day’s worth of coverage, tops.

R500 and R501 Ok... so 61 children shot would only get maybe a days with of coverage. Tops.

And your point is?

^worth

I think the point would be the normalization of it; that it doesn't really shock us anymore and therefore is no longer a big news story beyond the day or two

Remember the guy who got evicted for not paying rent on his luxury apartment?

As expected, the troll comments on this post are ridiculous

^Interesting that it's a sea of white people when DC is nearly half black and white people are only 38%.

R507, they’re more confident that no one will open fire on them.

R508 Oh please. What a ridiculous comment. No one is opening fire on anyone (except the thugs).

The MAGA is strong in this thread, with some saying, "Let's give this a chance!" while opposing gun control laws.

Who on this thread has said they oppose gun control laws?