Hey, I think she’s just setting the stage to enable all these yahoos coming in from red states to shoot with impunity. BTW, these troops aren’t patrolling ‘high crime’ areas:
As Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington DC’s police entered its second week, and six states vowed to send hundreds of additional national guard troops to assist the administration, residents questioned why federal agents seem to be largely patrolling high-profile but low-crime parts of the nation’s capital.
The Washington Post has tracked where federal forces are patrolling the city, finding that few interactions have been witnessed in the parts of the city with the highest rates of crime. The White House rejected that claim on Tuesday, saying that “nearly half of non-immigration related arrests have happened in the most crime-hit areas in DC”, but before Tuesday, the White House had been releasing data showing many of their arrests were of undocumented immigrants, and few federal agents have been spotted addressing or responding to violent crime.
Correction: The occupation has succeeded in basically killing DC’s restaurant scene. Don’t have to tell you who has been targeted there.
Trump Says It Out Loud: He’s Trying To Rig Midterms:
“We gotta stop mail-in voting and the Republicans have to lead the charge. The Democrats want it because they have horrible policy. If you [don’t] have mail-in voting, you’re not going to have many Democrats get elected,” Trump said Monday during his Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “That’s bigger than anything having to do with redistricting, believe me.”
Trump’s attention has seemingly flitted back to the voting method after he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him Friday that the 2020 election was “rigged” due to vote-by-mail.
“He said: ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting,’” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity of Putin after the Friday summit in Alaska. “‘It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections,’” he said, adding that Putin told him that no other country in the world has mail-in voting, a lie Trump regurgitated in his Truth Social post.
Is it Fascism yet?
Meanwhile, Over On The Other Side–“The Democratic Establishment’s Shunning Of Mamdani Is Disqualifying”:
In the weeks after he won the 2021 Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, Eric Adams was enthusiastically embraced by the party’s establishment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi posed for a picture with Adams and described herself as “honored” to host him at a meeting of House Democrats. He was seated near President Biden at a White House session. “Why Top Democrats Are Listening to Eric Adams Right Now” was the headline of a New York Times story.
Four years later, Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral Democratic primary in the Big Apple by a larger marginthan Adams, with far more overall votes, and on the strength of a spectacular campaign that inspired young voters across the country. But the party’s establishment is dissing him. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, hugely influential figures in both New York and national politics, have refused to endorse Mamdani. Same for the state’s other senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Governor Kathy Hochul. Many prominent national Democrats, such as Rahm Emanuel and Cory Booker, are also either criticizing Mamdani or refusing to back him. It was considered a coup for Mamdani when it was reported that he and Barack Obama had a lengthy and positive phone call. But the former president hasn’t actually publicly announced his support for Mamdani, either.
Hey, we know why. Because these sheeples listen to their corporate overlords. This is disqualifying. They’re saying that there is no room in a corporate Democratic Party for true progressives. Time to take those corporacrats out. Can’t spell corporacrat without ‘corps(e)’. Or, for that matter, ‘Israel’, which is a key reason why NY politicians have kept their distance.
Today’s must-read.
I Agree(?) With The FOP. At least, the Dover Chapter:
The Fraternal Order of Police Dover Lodge #15 has conducted a vote of no confidence regarding Dover Police Chief Thomas A. Johnson Jr., reportedly revealing a significant lack of confidence in the Chief and multiple officer grievances.
In a letter to City of Dover leadership shared on August 18, the fraternal order also publicly shared their complaints against Johnson that had officially been submitted in 2022. Johnson, the order alleges, regularly used his department-issued city vehicle during off hours and for personal reasons.
The Fraternal Order Lodge #15 Executive Board says Johnson used his official vehicle to travel to Penn State University where he was employed as an adjunct professor, and on one occasion used the vehicle to travel to his daughter’s university in Virginia. In another example, Dover officers say Johnson took the car on a vacation trip to Fenwick Island, where the vehicle remained for the duration of the trip.
Officers also allege they were unable to contact the chief because he was unavailable while teaching Penn State college classes via Zoom.
First (and likely last) time for everything. As in, ‘I stand with the FOP’. Although, I notice a few NCC police cars in private driveways. Tell me they never run personal errands with those cars.
What do you want to talk about?