Both “borrowed” / pasted from Moon of Alabama blog. — S. Byron Gassaway (webmaster)
DC has been a very dangerous city for a long time, give me a break.
The totally incompetent city mayor and administration have allowed armed teen age gangs to murder, rape and hijack throughout the capital district.
The DCMP police union has stated that the district police are totally overwhelmed by violent crime incidents attributable to armed gangs. DC has a higher homicide rate than Mexico freaking City for gosh sakes.
The move of federal police into the district supported by armed troops is fully justified, and previously occurred during the civil war, when federal provost guard troops are present through out the city.
This year alone there have already been 1600 violent crimes in the district….shootings, rapes, armed robberies, armed hijacking. That is totally unacceptable.
Is chaos now a Democratic Party value? Defense of violent criminals and gangs of thugs? Really ?
Trump actions are absolutely justified.
Posted by: tobias cole | Aug 13 2025 22:10 utc | 18
@ tobias cole | Aug 13 2025 22:10 utc | 18
Thank you for that perspective – which I agree with completely.
Two things should be noted. One is that the administration is completely within the law, and there is precedent, as you state. Two is that this was obviously planned and coordinated across many agencies, and yet not one word leaked in advance. The media is sidelined, aware that it didn’t see this coming, and aware that it doesn’t know what comes next – hence, can’t spin or prepare the narrative – therefore, it will just freak out and blame Trump for everything, bring up Epstein, do whatever, except offer any useful information.
The US (blue) cities are a disgrace, and a danger. The notorious murder rate of the USA falls to the very peaceful end of the global list of countries if you take away the statistics of five, Democrat-controlled cities.
There are many in the country who support law and order, and this move, as you point out, is exactly such a thing. People unfamiliar with the domestic sentiment of the country may not realize that the people are hungry for a reckoning for the abuses of recent years (Covid being the final straw) – people I talk to are ready for public hangings.
The point is, this is what the voters wanted and hoped for. It’s not the beginning of federal tyranny, as hysterics are suggesting – the power of the states prevents that. And people here know that. It’s to redress a bad imbalance and to restore order and lawfulness. Not much to ask from an organized society.
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Krainer’s point is interesting. Jeff Childers has made similar points, that this is massive force injected into DC. And why? I never thought of preventing a coup – good thought from Krainer. Childers speculates that high-profile arrests may be coming, and the NGOs and Soros affiliates will of course organize rent-a-riot protests, figuring this is the hill to die on. But this will preempt that.
Lots of dots can be connected lately, and they all fall on a timeline. Trump couldn’t go to Russia until after Tulsi Gabbard had punctured the residual Russiagate smear – because of what he probably has to give up there. The Alaska meeting was obviously long planned. And the DC task force started entering within 12 hours of the announcement, so obviously this was long planned too. So much planning, and total operational security – not a word leaking from lots of people in lots of agencies. And maybe something big is coming.
All the timelines fit a body of planning and gaming that speaks of far more intelligence behind current events than the overblown fears and outrage of commenters on all things “Trump” are equal to – and that’s sad to say. If people would drop their hysteria and knee-jerk attitude, and begin to parse events as if the administration is sane (I understand that’s hard to imagine), we might get some better thinking on the current situation.
Posted by: Grieved | Aug 14 2025 1:32 utc | 27
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