Does anybody even pretend to think this is about fighting crime?

Well, yeah. Because the "danger" is not the crime. It's the people thinking "wrong".

All major cities are blue cities. The most dangerous cities are in red states because red state governments dont let blue cities run their cities without interference and beat them up to score political points. They want their cities to remain dangerous because harping on the cities for being dangerous is 85% of their political appeal to rural hicks

St Louis voted to legalize weed, for a $15/hr minimum wage and plenty of other things that would have drastically improved life for residents and reduced crime over a decade ago now. The state government took it away every time. More recently, the state government took control of the police department away from the city. All of this shit makes the city worse off, even though it has been steadily improving for the last decade in spite of the fuckery

Home rule should be a federal policy for all cities over a certain size

Yeah. Take a look at common social media. It’s literally flooded again with right-wing BS justifying trump’s actions. Outright lies made over and over. There’s no way these aren’t paid troll farms doing this. The volume is overwhelming.

If anyone from any corner wanted to do anything real about crime or drug use they could. It's an easy fix. It just takes investing in the people. Raising wages. Giving people a decent quality of life. Make it so every day isn't a scrap. A struggle for survival.

He wants a conflict to happen.

Any protest of this will be framed as violence and be used to justify more troops. I'm sure we'll get to a point where federal agents are "protecting" voting sites and intimidating minorities.

The Heritage foundation and the other fascist groups have been planning this for decades. The midterm elections are going to be tampered with in some way, this is just the initial stages of the project.

It's a martial law program, and nothing else.

It makes sense because he’s a criminal.

he’s testing reactions.

I'm beginning to think these actions are politically motivated.

Boiling a frog, when people want to rise up they'll find the dragnet is nice and tight around them.

You know if he's not able to rig the election this shit is going back fire on him.

I don't remember when I first heard about Trump, but when I started reading articles about him and seeing videos of him speaking in 2010 (such a long time ago...) I came to a conclusion very quickly that he was a fool and not to be taken seriously. Even on cracked.com (if those articles even still exist on their site!) back in the day he was universally reviled. The guy is just a criminal, pure and simple. He isn't even a particularly smart criminal. The one thing I had to really come to a sobering conclusion is that being 'smart' and being 'successful' are two entirely different things... also the world is absolutely full of irredeemable jackasses, a fact I should have come to the conclusion to as a young child, but I didn't until much later.

I read headlines like this and my only reaction is;”:

“Fucking duh”

Blue states get troops: mass protests

Red states: we love troops send them here

Troops go to Red states --> troops already there to chain people up for the leopards to eat their faces when Trump does next move.

I think he claimed democrats after lying about the crime numbers.

Yeah, no shit.

The oligarchs are prepping for collapse and upheaval, and the Democrats will “go along with it” (work in concert) to implement the authoritarian police state, just as they have always done.

Kansas City keeps getting rated in one of the most dangerous cities.

Want to know something neat about it? The city doesn't have control over its police.

Nope, instead the police is controlled by a 5 person board 1 is the mayor, the other 4 picked by the governor. So Republicans have had control of the police force in the past decade, you think that's been going well?

I mean to be fair, the police did crack down on the street racing thi- oh, wait, right, it's because one of them got ran over by a 4 wheeler, otherwise the governor(s) have been ecstatic to talk about how bad "liberal cities" are while fucking them over.

So everyone! Prepare for this on the national level! Have fun!

The governors of red states have been invading blue cities within their state for years. When Trump finally just declares war on his own people they'll already be set up and ready to take full control in several states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and probably Tennessee (Memphis for sure. They're actually #1 on the FBI list. Nashville has been successfully fighting back against their own governor for several years. Mostly bc they have the concentrated wealth necessary to win a legal battle compared to the rest of the state).

I think Trump faced way more pushback at the state level than he was expecting when he tried to take L.A. Not that he won't keep trying for L.A. and other blue cities, but D.C. was already federal territory/a relatively easy target by comparison. He needed a show of force, so he picked a fight he knew he could win.

You mean to tell me he may be biased against his political opponents?

No duh?

But you see, he is deploying troops to the most dangerous cites--the most dangerous to him and his regime, that is. No need to take control of cities that are on his side.

Doh, and why do you think he does that?

I wonder when he'll pull the old "soldiers in the room for an important vote" trick.

Not coming to San Francisco because we would throw down in the streets and run the clowns out of here.

yeah it's not about actually fighting crime. it's to make the blue states understand how important it is for states to be independent from the federal government, i.e. "state's rights" in other words. it has been a core demand from texas for 200 years, and now it's finally coming true. though not because of trump's direct executive order (which would probably be undone by the next dem president in office) but by making the blue states understand the very real danger if states don't have independence.