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Trump puts Washington police under federal control, National Guard to be deployed

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    I agree that random fly-by-night twitter tik tok hot takes shouldn't be part of the discussion.  It distracts from what is actually happening - that our current POTUS is using the military against a c

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So all of the people that came here legally by visa or refugee status or whatever, then had their legal status expire- have not committed a crime?  

10 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

FOX says it’s true. YMMV

I had to google YMMV. I’m relieved that it’s not an insult and I learned something as well. 

 

26 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, Dallas has more murders ytd (113) than DC (101).  So does Houston (112 through May).

Well, Dallas has double the population of DC. It shouldn’t be all that close. But Houston… well, I’m proud of us. 

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38 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So all of the people that came here legally by visa or refugee status or whatever, then had their legal status expire- have not committed a crime?  

Nope. Irregular entry is a misdemeanor or felony depending on circumstances.  Overstay or unauthorized work, etc. is not a criminal offense.

But there is a flip side to the coin: removal, visa revocation, denial of status is not a judicial punishment and the level of due process and burden of proof is much lower. When review is needed, you go before a special administrative judge and not to criminal court. 

My own stance is pretty simple: removal to a prison in a third country is clearly extrajudicial punishment and prohibited. The CECOT shit is outrageous.

Expedited removals, visa revocations, toughening asylum criteria and similar tactics are not punishment and it’s squarely within the remit of the executive to do it. The level and approach to enforcement is a question for voters and Congress to address if they choose. 

Conditions at detention centers while waiting for removal are a clear human rights and likely 8th Amendment issue. 

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15 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Nope. Irregular entry is a misdemeanor or felony depending on circumstances.  Overstay or unauthorized work, etc. is not a criminal offense.

But there is a flip side to the coin: removal, visa revocation, denial of status is not a judicial punishment and the level of due process and burden of proof is much lower. When review is needed, you go before a special administrative judge and not to criminal court. 

My own stance is pretty simple: removal to a prison in a third country is clearly extrajudicial punishment and prohibited. The CECOT shit is outrageous.

Expedited removals, visa revocations, toughening asylum criteria and similar tactics are not punishment and it’s squarely within the remit of the executive to do it. The level and approach to enforcement is a question for voters and Congress to address if they choose. 

Conditions at detention centers while waiting for removal are a clear human rights and likely 8th Amendment issue. 

Get the fuck out of here with that nuance.  It is not appreciated and frankly pretty jarring.

1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, Dallas has more murders ytd (113) than DC (101).  So does Houston (112 through May).

Houston has more than 3x the population of DC and a million more than Dallas. I’m honestly surprised that the homicide rate here in H-town is that low. I guess my fellow Houstonians are less stabby and shooty than I thought they were.

59 minutes ago, Hitch said:

I’m relieved that it’s not an insult

YMMV

1 minute ago, royiv said:

Houston has more than 3x the population of DC and a million more than Dallas. I’m honestly surprised that the homicide rate here in H-town is that low. I guess my fellow Houstonians are less stabby and shooty than I thought they were.

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38 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Bless your heart.

My mom says that when she sees a slow kid, so this hits close to home. 

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27 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Nope. Irregular entry is a misdemeanor or felony depending on circumstances.  Overstay or unauthorized work, etc. is not a criminal offense.

Yes, this is what I was alluding to. This is the majority of people that we consider "illegals". Visa overstays account for like half of "undocumented" people by itself.

Being here illegally is not a crime, and proving criminal entry is very, very difficult.

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30 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

But there is a flip side to the coin: removal, visa revocation, denial of status is not a judicial punishment and the level of due process and burden of proof is much lower. When review is needed, you go before a special administrative judge and not to criminal court. 

Expedited removals, visa revocations, toughening asylum criteria and similar tactics are not punishment and it’s squarely within the remit of the executive to do it. The level and approach to enforcement is a question for voters and Congress to address if they choose. 

I would push back a little on this and say that while these things are not punishment by definition, they absolutely can as good as and be used as such, like when the Trump admin decides they want to revoke student visas of people that dare to participate in protests against Israel's genocide, for example.

1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:

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19 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

No homicides in DC for the last 7 days seems like a good thing.

we only need one.

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12 minutes ago, Hitch said:

My mom says that when she sees a slow kid, so this hits close to home. 

You must be really tired of hearing it then. 

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

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13 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

You must be really tired of hearing it then. 

Well, that’s just unnecessarily rude. 

1 minute ago, Hitch said:

Well, that’s just unnecessarily rude. 

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6 minutes ago, Hitch said:

Well, that’s just unnecessarily rude. 

I want you to think about what you just typed

6 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

I want you to think about what you just typed

Bless his heart.

12 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

I want you to think about what you just typed

I did. It seems more profound now than when I initially wrote it. 

24 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

I want you to think about what you just typed

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47 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

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He makes up shit that his base will never fact-check because when they say "do your own research" they are talking about everybody else.

1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

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Take a convertible to get a better look. 

17 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

He makes up shit that his base will never fact-check because when they say "do your own research" they are talking about everybody else.

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Pre-emptively posting this here to quote myself in the near future when one of the Pedophile defender's rushes on here to reguritate whatever they just heard on OAN to justify the same in LA:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/los-angeles-approaches-historic-low-in-homicide-rate/3741552/

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The city of Los Angeles is on pace for its lowest homicides total in 60 years based on the first half of the year’s data, Mayor Karen Bass said Wednesday.

This year, the Los Angeles Police Department reported 116 homicides through June 28, down from 152 during the same period in 2024. 

“Especially with the summer underway, we will continue to implement comprehensive safety strategies with law enforcement and community organizations to keep Angelenos safe,” Bass said. “That means swiftly responding when crime happens and holding people accountable, while also working to prevent crime from happening in the first place.” 

Crime in the city had also declined in 2024, noting that homicides dropped 14% and shooting victims decreased by 19%, according to Bass and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnel. 

 

2 hours ago, royiv said:

Houston has more than 3x the population of DC and a million more than Dallas. I’m honestly surprised that the homicide rate here in H-town is that low. I guess my fellow Houstonians are less stabby and shooty than I thought they were.

Too hot

Houstonians prefer to murder people with their vehicles, so most of them don't get picked up in the stats

28 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Too hot

It has been so fucking humid out this summer. Even worse than normal. 

22 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

No homicides in DC for the last 7 days seems like a good thing.

It happened in March without a fascist military deployment against US citizens. The sun rose today, too - is that also something we should credit to Trump’s destruction of democracy?

Not sorry the stats have already been posted. The point remains DC is experiencing a 30 year low on violent crime and big trucks next to the Jefferson Memorial didn’t cause any reduction in crime 

19 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

It happened in March without a fascist military deployment against US citizens. The sun rose today, too - is that also something we should credit to Trump’s destruction of democracy?


Any excuse to keep the bung they suck in its place of power.

52 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Any excuse to keep the bung they suck in its place of power.

All a distraction from the other stuff.  Maxwell is going to escape or be pardoned one of these days.

r/BlueskySkeets - We blew past sane quite a while ago

In before Pedo's defenders arrive to explain why those particular cities need US military on the ground bc one time they read a story about a crime in San Francisco. 

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On 8/18/2025 at 8:14 AM, atomheartbevo said:

LOL, there are larger cities in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, etc with far worse crime problems but Trump ain’t sending the National Guard into them. Ask yourself why.  

And ask yourself why he did this just as pressure over the Epstein files was mounting.  

Yes, and ask @TexasHammer why the governor of Mississippi is sending troops to DC when his own capital, Jackson, has a higher violent crime rate and a 3X higher per capita homicide rate, as well as governors in Tennessee, SC, and Louisiana with similar statistics in their larger cities.

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-states-sending-troops-dc-crime-rates-2116611

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/homicide-rates-highest-blue-cities-red-states

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/gop-governors-troops-dc-10-cities-crime-rates

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6 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

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im so shocked that he's a fucking lying pos

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1 hour ago, Foosters said:

r/BlueskySkeets - We blew past sane quite a while ago

In before Pedo's defenders arrive to explain why those particular cities need US military on the ground bc one time they read a story about a crime in San Francisco. 

Start at Morton’s in all those cities. It’s Ground Zero for murder.

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7 hours ago, royiv said:

Houston has more than 3x the population of DC and a million more than Dallas. I’m honestly surprised that the homicide rate here in H-town is that low. I guess my fellow Houstonians are less stabby and shooty than I thought they were.

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14 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

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That scary old codger will out run a sage hen at the first sign of danger.

15 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Yes, and ask @TexasHammer why the governor of Mississippi is sending troops to DC when his own capital, Jackson, has a higher violent crime rate and a 3X higher per capita homicide rate, as well as governors in Tennessee, SC, and Louisiana with similar statistics in their larger cities.

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-states-sending-troops-dc-crime-rates-2116611

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/homicide-rates-highest-blue-cities-red-states

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/gop-governors-troops-dc-10-cities-crime-rates

Counterpoint: fuck @TexasHammer

16 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Yes, and ask @TexasHammer why the governor of Mississippi is sending troops to DC when his own capital, Jackson, has a higher violent crime rate and a 3X higher per capita homicide rate, as well as governors in Tennessee, SC, and Louisiana with similar statistics in their larger cities.

https://www.newsweek.com/gop-states-sending-troops-dc-crime-rates-2116611

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/homicide-rates-highest-blue-cities-red-states

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/gop-governors-troops-dc-10-cities-crime-rates

It's a perfect microcosm of MAGA.  Ostensibly, the upright citizens of those cities would be in arms about their horrific crime rates and begging Trump to send troops and the FBI to "take back their cities."

But it's not about crime, it's almost never about crime.  

National Guard is going to be mobilized in 19 states now: 

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming.

 

Trump must have raped a whole shitload of kids with Epstein to go these lengths to bury the Epstein files

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14 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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Fuck you you syphiltic cunt.  You didn't give Maryland shit.

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Fuck you you syphiltic cunt.  You didn't give Maryland shit.

Don’t be so hasty. That may be where he shipped the homeless 

2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

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He is desperate for everyone to forget about his child rape and partnership with Epstein 

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24 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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NO CRIME in DC?  At all?  Huh.  That's excluding what the US Government is doing I guess.

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

He is desperate for everything to forget about his child rape and partnership with Epstein 

Yeah, man, that's over. It's not a thing that's discussed outside of small online circles. People have already rationalized/ignored that they voted for a pedo 3 separate times and moved on.

Nothing...nothing...has enough staying power to last for over a month with the combination of American attention spans and the constant right wing media sphere brainwashing.

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

He is desperate for everything to forget about his child rape and partnership with Epstein 

24 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Yeah, man, that's over. It's not a thing that's discussed outside of small online circles. People have already rationalized/ignored that they voted for a pedo 3 separate times and moved on.

Nothing...nothing...has enough staying power to last for over a month with the combination of American attention spans and the constant right wing media sphere brainwashing.

Something is absolutely bugging the fuck out of him.  He didn’t give a shit about “crime” in his first term.

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