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Trump's Fascist Takeover Of Washington
3 months ago
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8.....mp_dc_takeover
First, I'll say that it's long past time to make DC a state.
Next, I'll say that this is yet another move from Trump straight out of the fascist playbook, but ultimately it's just a stupid and cowardly attempt at a show of power and grandstanding. Utilizing the military to enforce domestic laws is a clear violation of the Posse Commitatus Act. It's also dangerous. And Trump continues to weaponize the use of emergency declarations.
Trump said "This issue directly impacts the functioning of the federal government and is a threat to America, really. It’s a threat to our country. We have other cities also that are bad, very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore. They’re so — they’re so far gone. We’re not going to let it happen. We’re not going to lose our cities over this. And this will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick. Very quickly, as they say."
-No Donny, they don't say.
Notice that these are all cities with black Democratic mayors and large black and brown populations. No matter all of the cities with Republican mayors and far worse crime records, such as Memphis, St. Louis and New Orleans. And speaking of Oakland, which I live near, I can confidently call his claim Bullshit.
Keya Chatterjee, at a protest at the White House yesterday said "Nothing Trump is doing right now is about our safety. If Trump cared about safety, he would stop mass firings of federal workers. Taking away our jobs, our families’ jobs, that isn’t safety. If Trump cared about safety, he would stop kidnapping immigrant neighbors, because terrorizing people, terrorizing families, is not safety. If Trump cared about our safety, he would fund Medicaid. He would fund schools. He would fund SNAP, because people being sick, out of school and hungry is not safety. If Trump cared about D.C.'s safety, he would make D.C.'s prosecutor accountable to the people of D.C., so that they were listening to local leaders. These are the leaders, our local leaders. Our communities are the one who — the ones who have reduced crime to a 30-year low." Fucking bingo, Keya.
He says he wants to move all of the houseless people far away from DC. -Out of sight, out of mind, right? This is just blaming the victims and dehumanizes and criminalizes them, and ends up solving absolutely nothing.
Trump also said "Entire neighborhoods are now under emergency curfews. Just this past weekend, gunfire through — went through. And you saw that, the Navy Yard. I saw it this morning. I saw that they fought back against law — see, they fight back, until you knock the hell out of them, because it’s the only language they understand. But they fought back against law enforcement last night. And they’re not going to be fighting back long, because I’ve instructed them and told them, whatever happens — you know, they love to spit in the face of the police as the police are standing up there in uniform. They’re standing, and they’re screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face. And I said, “You tell them, 'You spit, and we hit.'” And they can hit real hard." -What a complete load of crap. This will acheive absolutely nothing.
And perhaps he's forgotten about his buddies who beat up and abused cops in DC on January Sixth...
I'll be following this story to see where the houseless people end up getting put, (I suspect that this will be the beginning of an attempt to intern houseless people in remote camps, though apparently for now they're just throwing them in jail) and to see if he takes this shit on tour, particularly to Oakland.
In a related story, there's this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati.....-civil-unrest/
Trump has proposed the creation of a military force to put down protests called the "Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force”, at the potential expense of who knows how many hundreds of millios of dollars. This plan was put together by Eldridge Colby from the Department of "Defense".
First, I'll say that it's long past time to make DC a state.
Next, I'll say that this is yet another move from Trump straight out of the fascist playbook, but ultimately it's just a stupid and cowardly attempt at a show of power and grandstanding. Utilizing the military to enforce domestic laws is a clear violation of the Posse Commitatus Act. It's also dangerous. And Trump continues to weaponize the use of emergency declarations.
Trump said "This issue directly impacts the functioning of the federal government and is a threat to America, really. It’s a threat to our country. We have other cities also that are bad, very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore. They’re so — they’re so far gone. We’re not going to let it happen. We’re not going to lose our cities over this. And this will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick. Very quickly, as they say."
-No Donny, they don't say.
Notice that these are all cities with black Democratic mayors and large black and brown populations. No matter all of the cities with Republican mayors and far worse crime records, such as Memphis, St. Louis and New Orleans. And speaking of Oakland, which I live near, I can confidently call his claim Bullshit.
Keya Chatterjee, at a protest at the White House yesterday said "Nothing Trump is doing right now is about our safety. If Trump cared about safety, he would stop mass firings of federal workers. Taking away our jobs, our families’ jobs, that isn’t safety. If Trump cared about safety, he would stop kidnapping immigrant neighbors, because terrorizing people, terrorizing families, is not safety. If Trump cared about our safety, he would fund Medicaid. He would fund schools. He would fund SNAP, because people being sick, out of school and hungry is not safety. If Trump cared about D.C.'s safety, he would make D.C.'s prosecutor accountable to the people of D.C., so that they were listening to local leaders. These are the leaders, our local leaders. Our communities are the one who — the ones who have reduced crime to a 30-year low." Fucking bingo, Keya.
He says he wants to move all of the houseless people far away from DC. -Out of sight, out of mind, right? This is just blaming the victims and dehumanizes and criminalizes them, and ends up solving absolutely nothing.
Trump also said "Entire neighborhoods are now under emergency curfews. Just this past weekend, gunfire through — went through. And you saw that, the Navy Yard. I saw it this morning. I saw that they fought back against law — see, they fight back, until you knock the hell out of them, because it’s the only language they understand. But they fought back against law enforcement last night. And they’re not going to be fighting back long, because I’ve instructed them and told them, whatever happens — you know, they love to spit in the face of the police as the police are standing up there in uniform. They’re standing, and they’re screaming at them an inch away from their face, and then they start spitting in their face. And I said, “You tell them, 'You spit, and we hit.'” And they can hit real hard." -What a complete load of crap. This will acheive absolutely nothing.
And perhaps he's forgotten about his buddies who beat up and abused cops in DC on January Sixth...
I'll be following this story to see where the houseless people end up getting put, (I suspect that this will be the beginning of an attempt to intern houseless people in remote camps, though apparently for now they're just throwing them in jail) and to see if he takes this shit on tour, particularly to Oakland.
In a related story, there's this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati.....-civil-unrest/
Trump has proposed the creation of a military force to put down protests called the "Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force”, at the potential expense of who knows how many hundreds of millios of dollars. This plan was put together by Eldridge Colby from the Department of "Defense".
I'm still waiting for the first civil war to finally be over.
Lee was gracious in defeat. Davis was not. And unfortunately the lesser man was the one who lived almost twenty years longer.
He'll stop at nothing to distract from the Epstein files!
And this is only being done because he saw that one of his and Elon's DOGE goons got beaten up by two 15-year-old kids!
quoting all the speakers involved, the heroes and the villain!
It is chilling, yes. All those emergency flexes and special task forces
are a ham-fisted scramble to make sure no one could oust Trump
when he inevitably resists getting voted out.
The old fascist playbook, as you rightly said.
Hoping for more people, in local government and in the streets,
staging strong opposition to these dangerous probing acts,
because even the conservatives who take no issue
with Trump's heinous anti-civil policies and spitting on the Constitution
will still turn away from him if he proves to be both evil, incompetent *and* weak.
Nobody in DC likes what he's doing there. It's not gonna persuade anyone there to support him.