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Yes, the National Guard is really cleaning up Washington:
At least they aren't machine gunning the squirrels!
At least they aren't machine gunning the squirrels!
Trump administration 2024-2028
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I thought he was going to be the 'no war' president.He seems to not understand that the War Department was the Army only (when there was no USAF, USSF) and the Department of the Navy were separate. Oh well, the whole crew are historical morons.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/25/trump-pentagon-name-change-00523335
Oldgateboatdriver
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Can you imagine what that does for morale if you are a National Guard member, called out from your civilian job because of an alleged "emergency" crime situation in DC and you end up doing that for most of your day?
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Don’t they typically use convicts to do that job in the US?
Good. That was an absolute farce. He was a drunken idiot who deserves a liquor ticket and maybe a night in the drunk tank. Instead they tried to go full federal on him including a super cringey high resolution video of a full tactical raid on his residence. Even within the law enforcement community - and I’m in some US-dominated LEO-only social media space - we were almost universally saying it was embarassing. That drunk idiot winning the foot pursuit and getting away wasn’t any better.
This is the video the White House posted of the raid on the sandwich-thrower. This is after he can contacted them and offered to turn himself in mind you.
Oldgateboatdriver
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That is absolutely pathetic.
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Just imagine if they had access to the talent of Leni Riefenstahl and Dr Goebbels. The MAGA crowd would be swooning.
QV
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DC Mayor Bowser reverses course, admits Trump's federal crime crackdown is working
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser changed her stance on President Donald Trump's federal officer surge after initially calling it "unsettling," now praising its effectiveness in reducing crime.
www.foxnews.com
Sounds like Trump made the right call.
Well no shit, if you temporarily and unsustainably flood an area with police you’re going to see crime go down in that patch of ground for the time that surge is sustained. Any of us who did time in Kandahar were playing a similar game. But it won’t be sustained. FBI, HSI, CBP etc all have their actual work to do and it’s not getting done. Every day some FBI guy is standing on a corner in DC getting beaked off at by a drunk, they aren’t investigating extremism, cybercrime, child porn, counterintelligence… And the federal deployment ends at the municipal borders of DC. They don’t cross the street (literally) into the neighbouring municipalities. It would be like dumping the federal portion of the RCMP into policing Vancouver but meanwhile everything just temporarily flows from the downtown east side into Burnaby or Richmond or Surrey.DC Mayor Bowser reverses course, admits Trump's federal crime crackdown is working
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser changed her stance on President Donald Trump's federal officer surge after initially calling it "unsettling," now praising its effectiveness in reducing crime.
Sounds like Trump made the right call.
Once this deployment ends - and it must and will - there will be a reversion to the norm (which as a reminder was already decreasing crime rates). And in the meantime a whole bunch of actual federal criminal files will have been neglected.
Total amateur hour. It’s not an actual law enforcement initiative; it’s a federal administration continuing to figure out what buttons it can press to normalize and legitimize federal overreach. They still haven’t said, if the deployment was already making DC safe, then by it was necessary to newly arm the Guard members there.
But at least they got a great video of the tactical raid on the drunken sandwich artist after he offered to turn himself in and before the grand jury declined to indict.
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And Canadian jurists await Canada's response to the poking ....Poke, poke, poke ...
Trump slaps sanctions on Canadian International Criminal Court judge
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration slapped sanctions on a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court as the U.S. State Department continues to push back on the tribunal.www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
More than just the CAN judge according to the State Dep't info-machine - highlights mine
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Law advocates slam Ottawa for silence on Trump sanctioning Canadian ICC judge
OTTAWA - Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jurist.
Probably a case of picking our battles. There’s no win in this one, nor any likelihood we can budge the U.S. position on the ICC where their investigations implicate U.S. personnel or allies. We have plenty more Canadians working for them who face this risk too. Unfortunately it’s a reality at this point that working for international bodies in a manner deemed contrary to U.S. policy or interests brings a sanctions risk.And Canadian jurists await Canada's response to the poking ....
Law advocates slam Ottawa for silence on Trump sanctioning Canadian ICC judge
OTTAWA - Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jurist.
HavokFour
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Unsurprisingly, treating concepts of a deal like a real one is a bad bet.
Japan’s top trade negotiator cancels trip to U.S. over trade deal issues
Japan’s top trade negotiator cancels trip to U.S. over trade deal issues
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Too easy, call them the Department of Peace.
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No, he wants a Piece of the companies.
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Why not both?
The government acquisition of private companies is pretty funny though, with how quickly they call everyone else communists.
Brad Sallows
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USSC didn't rule on the legality. They just put it back with the states.
Brad Sallows
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Not really. See here for a dose of proportion and reason. Note particularly the US's own history of using trade policy to support diplomatic policy.
PrairieFella
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The government having a vote and stake is peak state capitalism. If the US wants to be the
The cognitive dissonance surrounding this is insane. I guarantee if our government had done this first, anti-communist/conservative people would be self-immolating in protest of Comrade Carney.
Edit: clarity, forgot a point.
Brad Sallows
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How many corporations does our government own, control, have a minority stake in, etc? Start counting here. Knock yourself out.