Trump’s claim that he’s invading Democratic cities and militarily occupying them to “fight crime” is no different than Bush’s claim he was militarily occupying Iraq to “find WMD.” And much of the media is still mindlessly repeating the bullshit premise as if it’s real.
He'll probably do a bit at the WH Correspondents Dinner pretending to look for violence under the bed.
There is no way the National Guard commanders will send their troops into the most crime ridden area of any city. Those folks are territorial and will push back, with intimidation and violence. Then the shooting starts and we have burning cities again maybe like during 1968. It’s all for TV.
Curious. They still do teach journalism, right?
Sometimes you see push back. Like noting that DC crime is at all time lows. But nobody ever asks "where is he going with this?". And why do people continue to believe and/or tolerate his incessant lies?
it's the congressional Dems who are supposed to be using legal challenges & do nothing...they can file suits & injunctions even if they lose, it's then a fighting opposition. Now, w them doing nothing it's complicity. We are not the ones w that legal authority. They are elected to do just that.
Their ABJECT silence from the stolen election to the occupation by isntreal and russia is sooooo SUSPICIOUS 😒
i think they've just been bought off by the same corporate oligarchs that have bought the GOP. And the fascist state of affairs brings in most money for the corporations & the oligarchy. Our DOJ would be investigating that, if they were not corrupt and on same side as fascists. 😒
Time for Rhe People to enact our own justice. WAYYYY passed the time😡
Oh, but you see, Democrats need to stop using progressive buzzwords like "unhoused" and "LGBTIQIA+". That's why they don't win! Liberals could have stopped the Iraq war if they had just not done all this cultural war stuff before we started calling it culture wars. /s
So when is he headed to St.Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans? You know, cities with the actual highest crime rates?
Wake up! Wake up! It’s a brand new day … of possibilities! This is the 5th Jubilee Year!! LET MY PEOPLE GO!!
Das ist ein interessantes Spiel, Eric. Du denkst, wenn die Demokraten ihre Sprache ändern, können sie die Republikaner überzeugen? Aber vielleicht ist es nicht die Sprache, die das Problem ist, sondern die Tatsache, dass die Republikaner sich nicht von Fakten überzeugen lassen.
MSM needs to stop legitimizing Trump
Rags like the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social are suggesting that we take Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight's approach when being raped to just lie back and enjoy it. I dropped my subscription once they decided Trump deserved to be a King. Fuck the media that is obeying in advance!
His idea of a criminal is anyone who opposes him. The cult is behind him 100%. They don't give a shit if he's a criminal himself. He's going after the people they hate. Too bad Democrats can't be as unified as Republicans. We have to fight among ourselves instead.
...or when Reagan militarized police forces for a 'War on Drugs' to fill the private prisons his administration helped to develop.
Are there reporters imbedded with ice yet?
DISTRACTION. Epstein real files must be QUITE NASTY, eh pig prez?
Means to an end
Sorry, is Iraq in the US?
The GOP is trying to provoke a fight to give reason for more.
Interesting take, but it's a bit different: The WMD lie was difficult to access and not long after 9/11 people were easy to manipulate. Crime rates are public knowledge. The inefficiency of using military against violent crime is too.
Where are the well-funded left-wing media outlets to compete with the far-right and center-right media (NYT, WAPO, CNN, NBC, etc) outlets?
You’d think that the Pres proposing to attack *other Americans in America* would change the way they report it, but
They are the same in terms of how deceptive they are. But this move by Trump is the slow build up to martial law to cancel elections next year. This is waaay different.
You’re absolutely right. And that is so incredibly disconcerting.
The media are useless and an embarrassment
if we've learned anything in the last 25 years, it may be that as far as media strength to push back on propaganda goes, we've learned nothing.
Mainstream media is a business. That's all it is
It’s all BS! All of it!!!
Except for the part where we are not supposed to have US federal troops deployed within this country. That’s kind of important.
Complete and utter agreement.
The media has been hijacked. They are part of the narrative now, not the resistance.
It’s actually far worse. As awful and fraudulent as the WMD claim was, it didn’t destroy federalism, it at least pretended to honor constitutional norms, and it didn’t empower the new Brown Shirts to falsely imprison citizens.
“Trump is worse because he’s hurting Americans, who’s lives matter, instead of Iraqis, who don’t.”
there were at least million dead Iraqis because of Bush’s WMD lie?? Jesus
for sure....that's right!
-> bsky.app/profile/john...
It's an occupation.
It’s simple to prove trump doesn’t care about crime, the men aren’t being sent to higher crime areas in the cities or the higher crime cities for that matter
He’s doing this against states that voted against him. End of
