"We have a mentally incapacitated octogenarian white supremacist, who is intent on using overwhelming power to change America into a MAGA wet dream. To do that, he is going to need to physically confront people he calls 'urban dwellers,' which is white supremacist talk for African-Americans."
~ Malcolm Nance
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI
/1
https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-trump-may-seize-control-of
"It will be a week filled with new performative cruelty and made-for-TV melodrama. It’s all a ruse. Trump is play-acting as president and provoking outrage to distract from his own guilt. Everything he does is a sign of weakness or fear."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
/2
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/looking-past-the-performative-cruelty
"Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression. ...
The ongoing militarization of immigration enforcement, the false narratives about rising crime, and the threats for further crackdowns on Americans are all part of Trump’s need to punish anyone and everyone who doesn’t support him absolutely."
~ Justin Glawe
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
/3
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-national-guard-washington-dc-takeover
"It’s official: Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C.—a dramatic escalation in a city where violent crime has actually fallen year-over-year from 2024 to 2025."
~ Aaron Parnas
But EpsteinEpsteinEpstein and EconomyEconomyEconomy.
This is politics of theater and distraction, always predictably loved by authoritarian-leaning citizens.
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty
/4
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-donald-trump-places-dc-police
I have lived in D.C. for eight years. I am not leaving the city I call home. Get ready for on the ground, live coverage from the nation's capital.
"Yes, today, the crazy old man running the country is going to focus on CRIME. I think we know why, don’t we? Here’s the lead story on The Hill’s website right now:
'High costs after tariffs pose threat to Trump and GOP.'"
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/5
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/working-to-distract-from-epstein
"Our Republic reaches a crossroads as the power of the White House to militarize our cities comes under judiciary scrutiny. …
There are already plenty of police within D.C, and neither the mayor of D.C. nor its police chief has asked for any federal help with crime control. Nor is the National Guard trained to conduct crime control as Trump wants them to."
~Jay Kuo
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/6
"Every single person who said we were being hysterical about Trump being an existential threat should be forced to explain how the President seizing control of the capital’s police force and deploying military units to forcibly relocate citizens represents normal democratic governance."
~ Mike Brock
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/7
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-note-on-trump-derangement-syndrome
Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moodie ring a warning bell in a conversation they've just had about what's happening with Trump and his military occupation of D.C.:
"The overarching message in today’s episode is a stark warning: the America many knew is 'gone.'"
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/8
Donald Trump's federal take over of Washington D.C. is a sign of his authoritarian ambitions. Law enforcement is now his personal Gestapo to crush future dissent and protests.
"Donald Trump’s usurpation of law enforcement in the nation’s capital carried a warning for America’s liberal bastions.
Speaking at a White House press briefing Monday morning, Trump declared a 'public safety emergency,' emphasizing Washington’s supposedly startling rise in crime while citing statistics from 2023 instead of 2025."
~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/9
https://newrepublic.com/post/198978/donald-trump-warns-fascist-dc-takeover-just-beginning
Trump also suggested that cities far beyond Washington’s region could experience the same fate.
'We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then, of course, you have Baltimore and Oakland.'"
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/10
"Data released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in January, revealed that total violent crime in D.C. was at a 30-year low in 2024, and had decreased by 35 percent from 2023. Homicides were down 32 percent from 2023; robberies were down almost 40 percent; and armed carjackings were down more than 50 percent."
~ Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/11
"But at Trump’s press conference he claimed, 'Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people, and we’re not going to let it happen anymore.'”
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/12
"There are the especially concerning facts of this military deployment, which we must place in the context of an ever-growing impulse to deploy the military within the United States. It began eight months ago at the southern border. It spread to Los Angeles earlier this summer."
~ Chris Mirasola
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/13
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/deploying-the-d.c.-national-guard
"And it is now arriving (returning, really) to the capital. Each time, the president has justified these military deployments under the pretext of a domestic crisis that facts do not support."
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/14
"President Trump said violent crime in big cities was 'out of control.' The new FBI report on 2024 data says otherwise. …
The FBI’s data is unambiguous. Far from being “out of control,” violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 4.5% in 2024. The numbers are even more striking when you break them down."
~ Jeff Nesbit
#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #PerformativeCruelty #Epstein #economy
/15
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/president-trump-said-violent-crime
Facts, science, knowledge no longer a factor in American government.
"we start with DC, then ride north" - the same fucking plan the Ku Klux Klan has been trying to pull off since Lincoln died
Also, don't overlook the fact that the first deployments to the border were funded by billionaires.
Bigoted billionaire GOP donor and Tennessee resident Willis Johnson
Political theater & stunts by Trump are him auditioning for the role of despot, as Peter Thiel's puppet JD Vance makes his play for Trump's ouster.
MAGA ire over Epstein is manufactured by Thiel's media manipulation
Both are auditioning for the billionaire donors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/29/willis-johnson-us-mexico-border-497080
@wdlindsy
"Trump posted a similar statement on Truth Social last week, stating that kids as young as 14 should be charged as adults."
That's so it will be legal to fuck them, too.
WASHINGTON – As America braces for what increasingly looks like the era of a strongman under the next term of Donald Trump, a Nobel laureate and defender of the free press made a call to arms against the efforts by authoritarians to curtail free speech. Maria Ressa, speaking at the 40th anniversary of the International
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