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Trump is doing this because of Big Balls in the same way that Israel escalated their genocide because of 10/7: It was just a pretext for them to do something they've been planning for longer.
these videos videos of military police marching down the street while people just sit outside restaurants enjoying their treats is dystopian
"At least we aren't an evil communist dictatorship, they wouldn't even allow us to sit and eat brunch like this."
sounds like home
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The DC mayor is dem garbage. But I repeat myself. Trump is lying about everything yet she makes excuses for him.
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Mayor Bowser treads a diplomatic path in response to Trump's policing takeover in DC. Catch up here
Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser struck a diplomatic tone during a news conference this afternoon to discuss President Donald Trump’s decision to place the city’s police department under federal control and to deploy the National Guard.
Earlier, three sources told CNN that Bowser and DC Police Chief Pamela Smith did not know of Trump’s move before his announcement this morning.
While she called it “unsettling and unprecedented,” the mayor said she believes the president’s view is “shaped by his Covid-era experience during his first term” when crime spiked while noting that the crime rate has since fallen.
Those who have been appointed by Trump to help implement the executive order will report to the attorney general, Bowser said, adding she has reached out to Pam Bondi to set up a meeting.
What is known about the deployment so far: Troops are not expected to openly carry rifles as they patrol the streets, an Army official told CNN. Bowser said all members of federal law enforcement will “be identifiable by uniform, a badge, a jacket,” when asked about potential confusion with so many different agencies being involved.
What the US Army has said: “There will be about 800 Soldiers activated. During this activation, between 100-200 Soldiers will be supporting law enforcement at any given time,” the Army’s statement said. “Their duties will include an array of tasks from administrative, logistics and physical presence in support of law enforcement.”
Some reactions: DC Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton said the group agreed with Trump that “something needs to be done” about crime in DC while the Democratic Mayors Association described the president’s move as a “political charade.”
Some reactions: DC Police Union Chairman Greggory Pemberton said the group agreed with Trump that “something needs to be done
9/10 cops agree: consolidate power into the hands of a single individual
What the US Army has said: “There will be about 800 Soldiers activated. During this activation, between 100-200 Soldiers will be supporting law enforcement at any given time,” the Army’s statement said. “Their duties will include an array of tasks from administrative, logistics and physical presence in support of law enforcement.”
The other 600-700 soldiers will be playing candy crush with their cop bretheren.
Any moment they're doing something other than killing brown people (and occasionally another minority) is a good thing
Shes a disgusting piece of shit.
Instead of building affordable housing shes spending $3 billion of tax payer money to build a stadium for some rich assholes.
She enacted curfews across the city, with harsher curfews in ~~minority~~ problematic areas.
Now she's kissing the ring of Trump, as a democrat by the way. I hope someone shoots her in the head.
You could say she’s spineless, but then again she evidently has one considering how she repeatedly carries truckloads of water for fascist narratives
This is like the average "anti-populist democracy-defender" politician in the west.
love my vichy dems
Nothing liberals love to do like suck conservative boot
Her name is Bowser... c'mon Mario time to shine
What is known about the deployment so far: Troops are not expected to openly carry rifles as they patrol the streets, an Army official told CNN. Bowser said all members of federal law enforcement will “be identifiable by uniform, a badge, a jacket,”
so an excellent time to heckle losers who joined up then, eh?
What a bombshell. I’ve totally forgotten all other news stories that might have occupied my attention around this time.
I can barely remember my own name!
Was it Epstein? Shit, no, that's not right... But it feels important?
nah if it was important we'd remember
now, forgive me for being a checked out and uninformed simpleton, but why is Trump doing this and why now?
Big Balls was attacked in DC.
I did not make that up.
Wasn't that just him losing a fight he somehow got in with two 15 year olds? Was it even political in nature?
It's an excuse
The actual circumstances do not matter
Yeah, but so was the Reichstag Fire response. I think it still helps to understand the event itself.
imagine being one of the teenagers lmao
singlehandedly initiated martial law in the US by beating up some loser who picked a fight with you
seizing control over the DC police and mobilizing the national guard because a teenager got beat up? is this some pretext to do something else or is he just trying to send a message to... someone?
Reichstag Fire moment. It's just an excuse because Trump is pissed over January 6th. not going the way he wanted.
Well he can only really blame his dumbass supporters who have no idea how power actually works and thought that standing in a government building for long enough would magically make him king. Are we sure he actually knows how to pull off a reichstag fire moment?
Strange things do happen if you stay too long.
the thing is that congress is apparently on vacation? like he can't even arrest all the democrats idk what the big idea is
he can't even arrest all the democrats idk what the big idea is
Trump could sign an executive order saying "democrats are a domestic enemy" and ICE can arrest them at any time. Then the GOP justices will make a weird pronouncement that it's okay for ICE to do that "temporarily" . Of course - they'll finally rule that it's the law.
Is there anything that will ever break liberals’ belief in the law as some mystical power that exists outside of politics? Liberals will be on the trains to the camps and they’ll still be furiously filling out appeals forms to appeal their forced labor sentence to the Supreme Court arguing that George Washington wouldn’t have wanted this (he absolutely would’ve wanted it)
Is there anything...
Nope. I really don't think there is.
Liberals will be on the trains to the camps and they’ll still be furiously filling out appeals forms...
That sounds about right.
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The dems have managed to become historically unpopular. It's kind of amazing. I look forward to them working hard to push those numbers even lower. Next year's elections might be hilarious. I think the dem machine might actually push center-right candidates in the hopes of grabbing "reasonable" republican voters. Meanwhile - their base is demoralized by this shit and turn out is very low and the dems get hosed.
Have the dems tried calling their base terrorist supporters in a more condescending tone? Kamala should go on CNN and call them worthless cretins, I’m sure that will boost their numbers
the dems already have hard pivoted on trans people as well, with even people like buttigieg and sarah mcbride (for the most part, she actually did kill one bad bill effectively banning transition care federally) going lgb drop the t
like that just emphasizes how strange this act is in context, it's either unimaginably petty or only makes sense to a cadre of utterly unhinged people. revenge for trump's birthday sucking???
edit: btw: if this is to preempt protests for something else, these people are such fucking idiots lmao. lets make entirely clear exactly how our command and control network works before we even start
what is the supposed crime spree in DC? is this a recent thing? i feel like trying to google that is going to give me a bunch of kkkracker shit.
Afaik its nothing but made up bullshit. A maga staffer got beat up cause he is a dork and that indirectly bothered Trump I guess. Its just an excuse to normalize putting jackboots on the ground.
lol, oh yeah i forgot about that loser. i bet he hasn't forgotten his ass beating, though lol
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there are a bunch of trouble makers, thieves frankly, who stand outside union station saying they can trim people's armor for free. when you give them your armor, they log out. come to find out, nobody can trim armor. by then it's too late.
DC's crime is not being a white ethnostate
I was literally there on a road trip with my partner and their 80 year old has grandparent last month. Most uncomfortable and unsafe feeling moments were just walking by the Whitehouse. We routinely saw young women in their 20s going out for a run after dark, alone, and through the streets that had burnt out streetlights. DC is a relatively clean and safe city, never seen an aggressive homeless person, roving gangs of teens, or anything alarming while there or years ago when I lived there for a time. He's straight up just made it the fuck up. Big boy was probably trying to get handsy with a 15 year old... Or maybe trying to abduct her for that snuff film for commission group he's rumored to be a part of.
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So what's the move chat? Is he gonna expand this policy to other cities under the pretext of stopping crime or is this just so he can surround himself with big strong boys?
Trump learned he only has to yell "Emergency!" with no basis in fact and he's already been able to use the military and now the FBI on American streets. How far he can go and how fast will ultimately be determined by the GOP SCOTUS. And I am not optimistic - to say the least.
Other cities are not run by the federal government, so on it would be hard to do... not that Trump cares about rules, so who knows?
Awesome.
Reminder that to work for ICE you need to be able to run 200 yards in 47 seconds
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