Trump Invokes D.C. Home Rule Act!

[UT alum]

3 hours ago, thetragichippy said:

From your article

"The homicide rate in the nation’s capital was the fourth highest among 24 U.S. cities in 2024, 

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

 by the Center for Public Safety Initiatives at Rochester Institute of Technology that relied on local news reports and individual agency data. The three cities with higher rates than Washington were St. Louis, New Orleans and Detroit."

So while crime may have come down, it is still 4th highest......Is that really something to be proud of for our nations capitol? 

So, send the guard to those other cities too?

[Reagan]

 

Hummmm, interesting thought!

[thetragichippy]

47 minutes ago, Boyz N Da Hood said:

Why stop at Washington!? Send troops throughout the country... law and order

 

Authoritarian

I would say because Washington DC is our capitol......

[thetragichippy]

6 minutes ago, UT alum said:

So, send the guard to those other cities too?

I wouldn't - but I think Washington being the capitol, it should be safe......

[BBtater984]

36 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

Just don’t be mad when the next Dem president sends troops into a Republican controlled area to “restore order in the time of emergency.”

Republicans aren't screaming defund the police or we hate America or blank President Trump.

[thetragichippy]

2 minutes ago, BBtater984 said:

Republicans aren't screaming defund the police or we hate America or blank President Trump.

I also don't recall any republican cities being taken over for days during the summer of love.........

[Separation Scientist]

1 hour ago, Boyz N Da Hood said:

Why stop at Washington!? Send troops throughout the country... law and order

 

Authoritarian

Because you just don't understand. 

Washington D.C. is a Federal Enclave, not a state. For the Feds to move into a state, it would have to go through the respective state Governor first. D.C. is different. By Law, the Feds control D.C., they don't have a governor. Trump is 100% perfectly within the Law to enact enhanced law enforcement in D.C.    

Why did this happen? In blue D.C. A murderer can point blank shoot someone in the chest killing him, and they go to a "court" that sentences the murderer to "rehab" which entails no bail, arts & crafts activities, ice cream parties, and yoga classes. What a joke, but the D.C. joke ends now. 

 

[OlDawg]

Somebody better put their thinking caps on…

First, I don’t know of any Serving who relish this type of duty. If they do, they’re not the ones you want doing it. They are not the droids you’re looking for…

Second, since it’s not a desirable duty, recruitment—already at historically low levels—will suffer more. Not good.

Third, if these actions continue, and are allowed to continue at any time, in any location, the 2nd Amendment will be in inherent danger. At the least, gun control will be ramped up immensely by advocates with the normal excuses for gun control PLUS the addition of having legal authority, and the capability to rapidly deploy a specially trained Guard force anywhere/any time.

I can hear it now:
‘The public doesn’t need to protect themselves. We’ll do it for them. We have the capability and authority now.’

I don’t want anyone to have any more excuses than they already have to try and curb my 2nd Amendment rights. I trust myself to protect me and mine.

The last security threat gave us the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps, limitless & unaccountable surveillance, and other extra judiciary actions all approved by secret court proceedings. Trump was caught up in it himself!

The best intentions are always just that. Until the government gets control of them. Remember Reagan’s 9 scariest words. Take them to heart.

Just fix the laws that protect the criminals more than the victims.

 

[Boyz N Da Hood]

29 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said:

Because you just don't understand. 

Washington D.C. is a Federal Enclave, not a state. For the Feds to move into a state, it would have to go through the respective state Governor first. D.C. is different. By Law, the Feds control D.C., they don't have a governor. Trump is 100% perfectly within the Law to enact enhanced law enforcement in D.C.    

Why did this happen? In blue D.C. A murderer can point blank shoot someone in the chest killing him, and they go to a "court" that sentences the murderer to "rehab" which entails no bail, arts & crafts activities, ice cream parties, and yoga classes. What a joke, but the D.C. joke ends now. 

 

This is the answer?

[Boyz N Da Hood]

Best part about it all is watching em act like they care bout D.C now! 😂

[baddog]

The care is about law and order. Who thinks like that?

[baddog]

What’s funny is all the anti-comments and those posters never offer a solution. Never……

[OlDawg]

51 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said:

Because you just don't understand. 

Washington D.C. is a Federal Enclave, not a state. For the Feds to move into a state, it would have to go through the respective state Governor first. D.C. is different. By Law, the Feds control D.C., they don't have a governor. Trump is 100% perfectly within the Law to enact enhanced law enforcement in D.C.    

Why did this happen? In blue D.C. A murderer can point blank shoot someone in the chest killing him, and they go to a "court" that sentences the murderer to "rehab" which entails no bail, arts & crafts activities, ice cream parties, and yoga classes. What a joke, but the D.C. joke ends now. 

 

You are correct about the status of DC. Also, as I mentioned to you in your thread about this, the next time Dems have control of Congress & POTUS, it only takes a simple majority to accept DC as a state.

BANG!

Two more Senators, at least one Representative, and electoral votes that will be 100% Democratic. Dems won’t have to gerrymander more states. They’ll just create new ones.

Trump is giving them the ammo—so to speak. The Guard wasn’t needed. Do what needs to be done with law enforcement available. Reorganize. Ramp up. Just not with the Guard.

[OlDawg]

5 minutes ago, baddog said:

What’s funny is all the anti-comments and those posters never offer a solution. Never……

Incorrect.

[baddog]

28 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

Incorrect.

You would be the only exception. Boyzindahood knows to whom i was referring……and he reads my posts. He just ignores them because he has no answer. All he does is cry. Wahhhh

[UT alum]

1 hour ago, BBtater984 said:

Republicans aren't screaming defund the police or we hate America or blank President Trump.

Yeah. They scream “kill the cops” while defiling the Capitol. And blame it on the Democrat Speaker. Can’t get much lamer.

[Separation Scientist]

1 hour ago, Boyz N Da Hood said:

This is the answer?

DC liberals had 50 years to fix it. They failed miserably, it just gets worse.

Time to get it done.  

[BBtater984]

7 minutes ago, UT alum said:

Yeah. They scream “kill the cops” while defiling the Capitol. And blame it on the Democrat Speaker. Can’t get much lamer.

Except for when you spew your liberal thoughts. 

[Separation Scientist]

51 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

You are correct about the status of DC. Also, as I mentioned to you in your thread about this, the next time Dems have control of Congress & POTUS, it only takes a simple majority to accept DC as a state.

BANG!

Two more Senators, at least one Representative, and electoral votes that will be 100% Democratic. Dems won’t have to gerrymander more states. They’ll just create new ones.

Trump is giving them the ammo—so to speak. The Guard wasn’t needed. Do what needs to be done with law enforcement available. Reorganize. Ramp up. Just not with the Guard.

That "could" happen, but you never win by waiting on what may or may not happen in the future. Much of what Trump has done has been codified into Law. Its not so easily reversed. In any case, it would take a sea change for that. The Dims poll about 19%, and right now its conceivable that the Republicans could even add in the mid term. Appeasement never works with the radical Dims. They are the sole reason reconciliation is now the norm in Federal budgeting. The Republicans played nice far too long then the Dims went too far. They are still paying for that today.

[5GallonBucket]

46 minutes ago, OlDawg said:

You are correct about the status of DC. Also, as I mentioned to you in your thread about this, the next time Dems have control of Congress & POTUS, it only takes a simple majority to accept DC as a state.

BANG!

Two more Senators, at least one Representative, and electoral votes that will be 100% Democratic. Dems won’t have to gerrymander more states. They’ll just create new ones.

Trump is giving them the ammo—so to speak. The Guard wasn’t needed. Do what needs to be done with law enforcement available. Reorganize. Ramp up. Just not with the Guard.

Not really.  Dems want to do that no matter what so they can keep on with their ridiculous ways. People are waking up and realizing how the dem party has been taken over and has moved so far to the left and are leaving the party. Dem politicians are grasping at anything and everything. 
 

 

[OlDawg]

23 minutes ago, baddog said:

You would be the only exception. Boyzindahood knows to whom i was referring……and he reads my posts. He just ignores them because he has no answer. All he does is cry. Wahhhh

You’re just finding out the difference in a libertarian & a Republican. Now, it should be more clear where we align & where we don’t.

[OlDawg]

22 minutes ago, 5GallonBucket said:

Not really.  Dems want to do that no matter what so they can keep on with their ridiculous ways. People are waking up and realizing how the dem party has been taken over and has moved so far to the left and are leaving the party. Dem politicians are grasping at anything and everything. 
 

 

I fail to see how very likely electing a Socialist/Communist Mayor of NYC and Seattle, already having one in Chicago, and—closer to home—having basically a Socialist Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and 2 Council Members reflects people waking up.

[Separation Scientist]

The Communists and Socialists the Dims are electing in deep blue cities are illustrating how radical they really are. This does not play well in mainstream America. Even if D.C. would eventually become a state, that would be offset by those fleeing NY, etc. and moving to red FL, TN, and TX. Red states will gain while NY, CA, IL, etc. will lose electoral votes. Their electoral losses will further accelerate as more and more are deported.  

[OlDawg]

21 minutes ago, Separation Scientist said:

The Communists and Socialists the Dims are electing in deep blue cities are illustrating how radical they really are. This does not play well in mainstream America. Even if D.C. would eventually become a state, that would be offset by those fleeing NY, etc. and moving to red FL, TN, and TX. Red states will gain while NY, CA, IL, etc. will lose electoral votes. Their electoral losses will accelerate as more and more are deported.  

No offense, but Barbers Hill isn’t mainstream America. Just because Dems are at an all-time low approval doesn’t mean the voters will switch Parties, and it doesn’t guarantee Republicans will show up to vote Republican. I’m reading a great number of both Parties are moving Independent.

Texas will lose as many seats as California if illegals aren’t counted.

I want less government intervention—from either Party.

[Reagan]

 

This is good news.