President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.
My tolerance and respect of today's military is growing thinner and thinner. These "soldiers" who enthusiastically take part in targeting their own citizens deserve no respect.
He’s a f’n madman and the GOP POLITICIANS NEED TO PAY A HIGH PRICE FOR NOT DOING THEIR JOB TO CHECK HIS ABUSES OF POWER!!!
Why on earth would any tourist go there?
THOSE WHO FORGET HISTORY FROM MY TWIT FILE 5 YEARS AGO And, Chicago was being targeted
And Trump’s so proud. Him and Steven Miller who both admire Hitler and Nazis, love seeing the tanks and military in the streets. Love throwing around the power they have. Sickening abuse of power.
#ReleaseEpsteinTrumpFiles
This action is ILLEGAL, the false statements make it so. This orange pig trying to become 'little Hitler'
Awww, is he making life tough for criminals and bang bangers. Waaahh. 😭😭
That's the problem
Making life tough for restaurant owners and small businesses because stupid losers like you apologize for martial law. You are a dumb fuck.
He's making life tough for everyone. You're a special little snowflake cultist huh.
Hahahah. I’m the snowflake!? 😂😂😂😂😂 That’s hilarious. I don’t think that word means what you think it means. 😂😂😂 A cultist? Said the guy whose people support free speech only when they agree with the speech. Your reply just made my day. 😂😂😂
You bad
Lowlife pedophile worshiping scum.
Go worship your orange pedophile god, you reprobate.
Tell that to Bill Clinton and the democrat judge blocking the grand jury release……this site is a trip of misinformation.
If Bill Clinton is in there he should go to jail. Too bad you ridiculous cultists can't say the same about your pedophile god.
Why do you think the shitler admin is all for releasing the grand jury files?? Bc here's little evidentiary value in the grand jury files. What is of importance is the physical evidence, flight logs, client lists, investigative materials, etc., that tRump's DOJ won't release.
Fuck off, Troll. You’re too stupid to live if you believe the lies that Fox News & DJT tell you about crimes rates (& pretty much everything else).
😂😂😂😂. I see it first hand thanks. I don’t need the news. But enjoy your echo chamber.
Pedophile lover.
Save yourself from the aggravation. It feels good to mute or block. They live to smear their stinky sh** everywhere.
It's all for show... the criminals are happily still going about their criminal business 🤣
Focus on the typo when you have nothing to actually say in response ….:right on brand for you….
He wants marshal law.
Martial. MARTIAL! Martial means military law during an emergency.
Who can defend Trump using the military on the streets of Washington? 30 years of low crime rate. Send to Mississippi, Kentucky where crimes are at an all time high.
No, I think it was King Krasnov
Why do we need guns pointed at us? We’re not a threat or terrorist! This is unbelievable!
Now you can see that your 2nd amendment is worth shit.
They haven’t taken over the police. They haven’t taken over the police. Ok?
Yes so call it what it is - authoritarian dictator
Mad King George, from the great beyond: LMAO
Military Normalization: He wants visible troops to acclimate us. Authoritarian Playbook. Militarized Streets (From my 100 Daze Series). bsky.app/profile/opsa...
You have to laught at the Yanks . Trump told voters he was going to do this and you still voted for him . Funny as ..
May the Fourth be with you Remember Kent State
Why aren’t they in where the real criminals are…, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Say what DC residents truly feel, which is that the military presence is making them feel less safe.
This has got to be stopped! I’m so angry at everything this regime has done. 🤬🤬🤬
Read the Declaration, substitute Trump for King George, and it’s all true
Violent revolution is coming. Be ready for it.
King Donald?
HOW MANY WAYS has HISTORY REVEALED HOW 'VILE EVIL DEPRAVED' DIC -less-TATORS HAVE BEEN REMOVED or STOPPED??? Throwing this QUESTION out there to HISTORIANS🧐
Governor of Ohio, 1970, James Rhodes ordered the National Guard to the town of Kent and the Campus of Kent State University. The town and the Univ. had an anti-war protest where some violence and property damage had happened. On May 29, protestors were fired upon with live ammunition by the
National Guard. Nine students were wounded and Four were killed.
There it is in a nutshell
I believe said scholar should look at Shay’s Rebellion and the Ludlow massacre and the Bonus Army. Kent State comes to mind. To be fair, during Shay’s rebellion there really was no police organizations at almost any governmental level, hence the 2nd amendment.
Always more of us than them.
He wants to declare martial law.....he needs a pathetic excuse. They will fabricate one in order to mass murder......tick tock.
🤔 "Despite signs of a recovery in May 1811, by the end of the year, George III had become permanently insane, and lived in seclusion at Windsor Castle until his death.[132]" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
This is a great example of what is happening in American politics. People should remember if this is successful King Don I will be followed by King Don II who in my opinion seems just as if not more so narcissistic than King Don I aka Trump.
Can you all journalists stop with the word "unprecedented" pls It's so much more than that. And there are precedents. Fascism precedents.
Trump's always geen a loser! Because he is president,Trump has ordered his henchmen to order good American military, police, and other personal in uniform to do his dirty work. Where are the few good men willing to standby the Rule of LAW? Trump's still a reality showman! youtu.be/ZZzwPBlPweo?...
Democrats should accept NO continuing resolution or defense appropriations unless it explicitly prohibits the use of funds to deploy any US military forces within the US for domestic policing purposes. Government can shut down otherwise.
things have changed. w/ DEMS' CRIMINALS FIRST VICTIMS LAST-INSANITY, we the american ppl r not safe, we dont feel safe. we thank our NG-servicemen n women n pres trump for keeping us safe. thehill.com/opinion/immi...
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dammit can you guys Stop using the word "Unprecedented"??? It's incorrect It's passive. The takeover is illegal. It's violent. It's fascist, autocratic, insane. It's racist, bigoted, misogynistic, violent xenophobic. It's crude. Get a freaking thesaurus. "Unprecedented" is not the correct word.
Especially as it is not, in fact, unprecedented.
A continuation of Heritage Foundation's assault upon democracy.
Despicable!! This is no longer the land of the free.
This was long overdue.
What do all the phony Christians do on Sundays?
TEA PARTY TIME!!!
That’s true. Look how well that turned out for him.
*illegal
It was never George III, it was the British Parliament.
Why aren't the Democrats running ads in every rural county saying exactly this?
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That's who he wants to be, and all his court jesters are fully on board.
"How to destroy a Democracy - For dummies" by Donald Trump
Just so you know all you officers who voted for him he thinks you suck at your job and you need an untrained FF Ice agent to tell you how to do your job? Ok keep voting red to be disrespected.
Pertinent, powerful tune: open.substack.com/pub/ohhistev...
Your milk toast descriptions like “unprecedented” instead of idk “outright fascist and massively authoritarian” is part of why he and the far right been allowed to flourish and get away with this shit. The media’s constant platforming and legitimising of outright liars is why we’re in this mess.
This is DC 2025! Do something
The incident which set off the Boston Tea Party (which was a measure against the East India Corporation, not King George, it was THEIR tea).
The Tea Act granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea and precipitated the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Massacre was 3 years earlier.
#MeaCulpa You are right and I was wrong. I need to start double checking facts before posting, this isn't the first thing I've misremembered in the past year or so. 64 now, ugh. Thank you for providing the correct history 🫶
I almost didn't because I didn't want to be THAT person but I love New England history. I also made incorrect posts because I just "knew." Now I check as well. Thanks for being so nice about it. I'll be 60 next month and I worry about my memory too.
That would be the East India Company. I grew up not far from the East India Dock Road, the old docks themselves having closed before I was born. Happy to share a little local knowledge. P.S. Resist #AmericanFascism. Yours, A Londoner www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-east-ind....
Thank you! 🖖 🫶
If you want to know what life is like just imagine living in the Kremlin it fits into Occupied Washington a private army in a city that’s locked down,? I wonder if tourism is going up? Does the army have their red uniforms yet? Putin State dinner on the horizon?
@tribelaw.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @clairecmc.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @jenpsaki.msnbc.com @rwpusa.bsky.social This goes to Trumps narcissistic characteristic of wanting to feel like a King.
Didn’t Governor Hochul activate the National Guard in NYC?
Disgraced trumps for Prison!
Fulfilling his fascist fantasies, Trump's "military deployment" (try saying that with a straight face) to D.C. not just mainly performative but carefully staged with national landmarks in the background.
Do you live in DC?
Illegal act from full diaper Donnie. MSM just can’t call it out. Useless propaganda for airheads.
Finally, the US is getting a taste of its own medicine. TACO (Trump) is the best example of the arrogance this country has been preaching to the world for decades. If they allow it, it will get MUCH worse!
It’s not about law and order. It’s about creating a security perimeter to protect the dear leader.
So, I guess that answer is another revolution.
The same because they are stopping no crime, except with fascism wallpaper
No politician or pundit should ever again include the words "unprecedented" or "concerned" if they want to be taken seriously.
It's just the start. bsky.app/profile/loll...
Really? Did you evet visit any "Concentration Camp "?
Don't forget that Herbert Hoover, another Republican, used Federal troops, under the diretion of Douglas McArthur, to violently break up a protest by World War I vetereans asking for a promised war bonus. Which, of course, Repbulcans wouldn't pay.
It can’t be emphasized enough how President Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars to deploy the National Guard in Washington D.C.; all because a pair of teenagers beat up some government nerd who’s known professionally as “Big Balls”.
You are right! Dead people happen.
False flag
*BlueBallz
That’s far from the only reason.
He’s too dumb to be a nerd, I reject your premise
Big Balls getting punched in the face by a teenaged girl may have been the pretext for bringing the troops to DC, but let’s face it—DJT has been aching for years to be a tough guy by turning the US military on the people it serves. The only reason he didn’t in 2020 is cuz Mattis told him no.
Off topic: the IRS changed the rules so churches can now endorse candidates without losing their tax exempt status. I contend that there are more anti-Trump churches than the other way around. If priests, ministers & all denominations get on board we can turn this around www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...
Thank goodness for Lin-Manuel Miranda so we know who King George is 😅
So we know who Alexander Hamilton was.
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The federal takeover of DC law enforcement is a powerful argument for statehood.
Free DC. Jail pedophile Trump.
Trump = Hitler / Goebbels National Guard = Ordnungspolizei ICE = Sicherheitspolizei (Gestapo) Detainment sites = Concentration camps Americans who think that they just need to wait & vote to change what is going on right now, it's time to wake up. Do you think Germany became fascist overnight?
Great look for tourism: dictatorship=SHIT
“Unprecedented”? How about illegal and unconstitutional!
Connie Donnie in context of the human/animal divide is more animal than human.
Like all media u question the logic from emotion and historical precedent. Try analysis via psychology. U analyze Connie who is devoid of history knowledge and short human emotion. Analyze strictly wrt psychology.
I remember a time when we did just that and it worked. It exposed those predisposed to cruelty and criminallity and the general public moslty accepted the findings and acted accordingly. It was just another tool to work with. Why it's not used more often puzzles me.
We'll see how things go on those Winter nights when its single digits and windy. I think a lot of these citizen warriors will be doing everything they can to bail out and get back home.
are we going to undo everything the usa revolution was supposedly for? we could ban vpn like england is going to do. then they will get everyone a nice little id so they can track everything on the net. for your safety as anonymous said
The troop deployments in DC and LA have nothing to do with the stated purpose; crime fighting. Instead Trump and his Project 2025 masters know that their authoritarian policies and fiscal mismanagement will eventually lead to urban unrest
Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C...
Herbert Hoover and Abraham Lincoln both used the the military in law enforcement roles in DC.
President Trump's feral takeover....
No coincidence. Trump wants to roll back the constitution to the days of an absolute monarch. & of course, it will be him. Until then , of course, he will ignore it.
Democrats should not vote $1 for military that's used against Americans Take a fucking stand
The Republicans have been plotting a fascist dictatorship for decades, Trump campaigned on being a dictator from day 1. The US is a fascist dictatorship. The actions of the current US government are fascism.
Stop. Him. Now.
Go for it. Let's see what happens to you.
Haha. Me?
It’s finally happened. Confederate flags in the Capitol and now Confederate troops occupying the nation’s capital. Roberts, McConnell et al must be very happy.
Pics or it didn't happen.
military on your side, go'nna ask to complain, 1)Respect the consent. Prettty "truuuuck"
Please join us on The Hill Bluesky account where we’re reminding them of this:
America's first dictator in 250 years.
Well that sure puts things into perspective
Tyranny
Yeah, having a mobbed up con man President is also un-fucking-precedented.
Um.....ALL of this is unprecedented!!
What about the fact that it’s illegal to raise the military against the people. Why not fight that.
Explain why it's illegal please. We need to teach our children how to effectively escape justoce after killing someone. Please elaborate 🙏🏻
I'll fight all day long! But the problem is we have no one that will enforce the legal outcomes. As we say in France, "c'est foutu" 🫤
That's the #PosseComitatus Act of 1878 generally prohibits use of US Military as domestic law enforcement on US soil
So why isn’t he stopping?
Don't say "unprecedented"--say "illegal" or "unconstitutional" if it is, and maybe fucked up, fascist, or just "improper ideology"... I'm sure we can come up with something better than "unprecedented"...
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Trump has DC hostage. Peaceful protest is met with EXCESSIVE FORCE while INCITEMENT OF VIOLENCE is WELCOMED! 11/03 is National Sandwich Day and the 2026 midterms DC, AFTER VOTING, THROW TRUMP A SANDWICH ON THE WH NORTH LAWN! BE A HERO! THROW A HERO! EPSTEIN LIST 5 DAYS LATE AND COUNTING!
#Authoritarianism. Pres. T. referred to people as #cockroaches. 🪳 He is using power that was not used on Jan 6th. He has seized the city. A #fortress before the #Midterms. Either way, he can protect himself. Expect him to overturn or attempt to overturn elections w/ results not in his favor. 😔🗳
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Other than against native Americans I would guess. But perhaps they don’t count
What a fucking disgrace.
Thats just sad. So sad of a human being turning DC into his own Disney Land Park... Im already hearing the hes got 6-9 months to go,,so lets be accommodating..FT ..He should resign now ,spend what hes got with the grandkids, the rest of us take care of business.
RESIST DEFY WE WILL NOT COMPLY
And this is why 2nd amendment is in place. Citizens should be able arm themselves.
So King George was the one that sent the military to Berkley.
Need young people to organize mass protests using all their social media together.The people have the power to run them all out of their country on a rail with tar and feathers but the people have not the Pride in America to take a stand. You're running out of time America. Better get it together!
Understand completely what you're saying. Large mass protests, boycotts and midterm elections and we'll know more as to the damage done. The majority of people are incapable of war tactics. Some of us are vets but mass chaos and insurrection anarchy won't win either. Think smart, Self Disintegration
At some point it may very well come down to doing what ever you can to take it to the enemy in order to survive, or, end up being just another casualty because of not taking a stand. And really, this is what I think will happen; either you take a stand against evil or you perished at their whims.
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Waarom doet me dit aan Antwerpen denken?
schools still not safe tho.
What about Nazi Germany?
And like King George we need to fire Donald the Incompetent.
I don’t like this either but I am fighting for 8 million Americans and can’t get any help from anyone. Care to sign up and get others to help too? Below is latest attempt chng.it/8pnqh6g9R6 YouTube channel isnt set up well but youtube.com/@projectfirs...
Lest we forget, the Confederacy did this across the secession states.
“Unprecedented” is the media’s favorite word to describe Trump’s actions. It has been used since the start of his first term and does not begin to convey the gravity of his actions. How about calling the federal takeover of D.C. undemocratic, political and ethnic cleansing. Or, just f-ing fascist!
It’s not Bonaroo David. Christ.
I don't want to be in Washington, D.C. now, with this stupid orange moron of a President.
Mad King George, by the way...
And yet all political leaders, on both sides are silent, hiding and abandoning the nation who voted for them. Dems and rep, hoping democracy survives but unwilling to say anything , even the most simplistic statement that “it’s wrong” isn’t said
Problem is, the police have been neutered and can’t enforce the law anymore. They are told to downgrade crimes for example instead of pursuing the full charge. Catch and release has devastated Democrat run cities.
Why use AI art?
It lets us translate ideas into images quickly enough to match the speed of advancing authoritarianism.
Great read. Succinctly stated with no room for ambiguity. Should be required reading on every newscast.
Perfect
There is nothing new about this. Police in America have been becoming steadily more militarized even under so-called democracy.
And you're ok with that?
Of course not. We just wish all y'all liberals would criticize human rights abuses that happen under so-called democracy, instead of pretending they're brand new just because it's Trump ordering them now.
Trump didn't just inherit flawed institutions. He openly glorifies the abuses, promises to expand them, and turns them into a political brand. Criticizing him isn’t “pretending it’s new,” it’s recognizing that he’s taking old wounds in our democracy and making them deliberate weapons.
They're not wounds, they're features. They've always been deliberate weapons, Trump is just making that fact more explicit by removing the false gloss of democracy.
The Defense Department's 1033 program sends armored vehicles to local police departments. SWAT teams are indistinguishable from army urban warfare units. Cop cities have sprung up all over the country to train police to be even more violent. All before Trump.
Normalized treason.
Like the Gravy Seals and Meal Team Six needed any more burgers and pizza... 🙄
Nothing like being in body armor, outside, in Washington DC in August. Congress has the trade recess in August, because before air conditioning, the heat and humidity was unbearable! Think of boiling inside your clothes for an undetermined sentence, there may be a mutiny!
#NOKINGS
Each one of those "troops" is a traitor and hopefully one day stands before a tribunal facing formal treason charges.
King Trump's gestapo WILL NOT be tolerated in every city in America.
King Drumpf
What's life like, living under a dictatorship? Ask US citizens!
Actually, it was President Nixon when he sent the National Guard to Kent State University to break up peaceful sit in demonstrations. The National Guard murdered 4 defenseless students, in cold blood
RESIST! EVERY DAY, in some way! Vote every last conservative out - at every level, city, county and state!
Great safe place to go now!!!
WHOA! Across DC, restaurants are reporting business is DOWN 30%! UBER drivers have seen a similar drop in business! TAKE OUT delivery has SLUMPED! … # FREE DC
Simple fact here is that you are all sleepwalking into a fascist dictatorship, or massively different from what Turkey did. That is your future.
Winter is coming and DC is a really cold place. Especially around the monuments when you just stand around and are there to scare people.
So fascism
Dictator pedo dolt needs removed like our founders instructed.
Fuckedup nation and country… wake up morons…. Trump will stay in your shitty house until he dies
The crime rate is down. Trump, like any U.S. President, can declare in insurrection and have the military keep the peace. It has been done before. In New York City no less! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...
