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.