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Trump Orders National Guard Into Washington, Takes Over D.C. Police

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by FrontRunner, Aug 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM.

  1. SamFisher

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    When you lose your job because of illegal DOGE NSF & NiH theft.....
     
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  2. Rocket River

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    A dictator just surrounded the capital with a standing army

    In the U S A


    Who would have thunk it?

    Rocket River
     
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  3. SamFisher

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    To be clear, the Trump-Hegseth Regime plan for the US military is to turn it into the Russian military - a corrupt personal police force for suppression of internal dissent that is bad at fighting wars

    @Os Trigonum when you've lost the military...

    To answer your question @Rocket River who woulda thunk it - we all thunk it.

    People have been warning of this for years. Things are unfolding exactly the way we predicted. Even milquetoast Dem centrist senators regularly warned of this.

    The media/information/tech /wall st alliance though was n the tank for Maga, arrogantly thinking oligarchy won't be so bad, that it just got downplayed. Stop overreacting. We survived Trump 1.

    But this is different - this is the destruction of the US as we know it.

    And the replacement sucks. Dictatorship sucks. Oligarchy sucks, regardless if you're college age or someone who college age kids don't get along with (@Os Trigonum )
     
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  4. deb4rockets

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    Disgusting. What times are we living in now? His vision? We are now supposed to look at history, science, art, and everything else with blinders on, only seeing his narrow minded, racist, and bigoted viewpoint? I bet the male chauvinistic pic, bigot, and racist Hegseth puts some ideas in his head when it comes to removing a lot of works.

    For all the progress this country has made the past few decades trying to mend broken fences, righting wrongs of the old racist ways, along comes Trump and Hegseth to do all they can to throw a wrecking ball to it. Can you hear 'em now? I can only imagine that decision making. One thing is for sure though, the gayer, the darker, and the least macho looking will be the first exhibits to go.

    Fascism? White Supremacy? Male Superiority? Call it what you want. Call it good, call it fantastic.
    I call it disturbing, and ignorant. Keeping America Ignorant Again. Start it when they are young. Time to fill their heads with Trump's ideological viewpoint of everything. So Hitler like. So Kim Jong Un like. So Putin like.

    Then you have Trump's platoon leader who played a little GI Joe and thinks he's Mr. Macho Stud appointed to Secretary of Defense. It's guys like Pete who would prefer to forget the women heroes, who put their lives on the lines during our biggest wars, as spies, codebreakers, nurses in combat zones, and so on. We know what he thinks of women who aren't housewives and aren't submissive to their husbands. The same goes for his viewpoint of anyone LGBQT, and any other race and culture who were heroes in combat. I'm sure he would prefer to keep as many as he could behind that curtain of recognition.
     
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  5. Commodore

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    All of the cities with the highest murder rates in the country are run by Democrats (in many cases for decades)

    Trump taking over DC policing is an existential threat politically. If he for example drops the murder rate in DC from 19th highest to 100th, that is a powerful data point.

    It's the same dynamic as Trump eliminating illegal border crossings in a short time after he took over from Biden's open border policy.
     
  6. SamFisher

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    Now do it on the state level b'tch
     
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  7. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    This is conquest, pure and simple.

    Pay attention.
     
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    I will!

    Which States Have the Highest Murder Rates?

    8 out of the top 10 are quite solidly red states.
    1. Mississippi
    2. Louisiana
    3. Alabama
    4. New Mexico
    5. Missouri
    6. Arkansas
    7. South Carolina
    8. Maryland
    9. Georgia
    10. Tennessee
     
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  9. SamFisher

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    Let's be honest if you were a foreign enemy hell bent on destroying the United States of America, you would do literally everything Trump 2 has done

    1) destroy/tank the economy & drive Americans into poverty
    2) destroy US ability to influence items a road
    3) load the national security apparatus up with actual foreign agents & grifters
    4) legalize foreign bribery & corruption
    5) destroy the us' scientific & technological research base, destroy the biomedical industry, instead build concentration camps for Americans
    6) militarily occupy US cities to actively destroy the engines of America's economic growth

    **** any piece of **** who ever voted for this.

    Seriously **** you for real.
     
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    You didn't direct the question towards me - but no, I don't think that Washington DC or Chicago especially need to be cleaned up anymore than places like Oklahoma City, Miami, Jacksonville and any number of other cities.

    The murder rate in DC is half of what it was 40 years, it is less than half of what it was 40 years ago in Chicago and NYC.

    Where do you draw the line? How will you feel if in 4 years someone like Newsome is President and decides to occupy OKC based on a high crime rate? What about when the people in OKC say they don't want a Democrat policing their city?

    It is a slippery slope. In the past we have had situations where a federal agency would investigate specific allegation in a city. For example, the Justice Department went into Chicago and investigated why there were so many police shootings based on claims of a 5th Amendment violation. However, this is completely different and pointedly political. I just don't think anyone long term is going to be happy with this and it sets poor precedent.
     
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  12. Nook

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    The worst thing he has done is erode any confidence in US institutions and the validity of law and principle. When you have a society that believes in the idea of "alternative facts" and conspiracy theories are cited in the SCOTUS, we are ****ed. No enemy from the outside could do that. Trump saw a hole in the yard and turned it into a pit.
     
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  13. Nook

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    Where is the rest of the clip?
     
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    They don't think that way. There is no "what if's" that include the Dems being in power in their minds. To them, this is permanent and the magats will run the country in perpetuity. They're likely still actively looking for ways for trump to run again and then put in to place something similar to what they've done in El Salvador.
     
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    They generally don't think at all, but those that do are the literal bad guys who want to rape children and murder your family - because it makes them feel good

    They are not American - they are anti Americans.

    This is The State of The Republican Party @Os Trigonum
     
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    Which is it? You guys can't have it both ways.
     
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    The party of small government strikes again
     
  18. Nook

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    Just remember to keep that same energy if Newsom or Pritzker is elected President and occupies states like Miss, Louisiana, Alabama and Missouri because Republican governors cannot control the violent crime in their states.

    It isn't right that Trump is doing it now - It won't be right if the Democrats do it either.... but make sure you are at least consistent.
     
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    Seems like an open border would be very attractive to a foreign enemy hell bent on destroying the USA. Trump fixed that.


    GOOD DAY
     
  20. Commodore

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    This argument is not politically tenable. No one in these high-crime blue cities interacts with state police, they don't have jurisdiction. To say nothing of GOP-run cities in those same states that don't have high crime rates.

    If you want to argue governors should take over high crime city police departments ala Trump in DC, that's worth discussing.
     
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