Trump Instructs DOJ to Classify Democratic Cities "Anarchist Jurisdictions"

[orangecrush]

President Donald Trump, on Wednesday, signed a memo threatening to withhold federal funding from Democratic-run cities the White House deems “anarchist jurisdictions” because of their handling of ongoing civil unrest that continues to ripple around the country. The five-page presidential memo, officially titled, “Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities” is more of a political document than a policy one. The real point of the memo is for Trump to sow division between his decidedly non-urban, white political base and the other two-thirds of the country. To do that, the Trump memo aims to “defund” cities that “defund” their police departments. Since American cities haven’t really defunded anything other than in an extraordinary case or two—and even in those cases overhaul would be a better descriptor than defund—the memo also targets “cities” that do not meet some vague bar of law and order (read: hyper-aggressive policing tactics) that the Trump administration will set.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-memo-justice-department-barr-democratic-cities-anarchist-jurisdictions-to-help-him-win-reelection.amp

[Efilroft Sul]

1. What an oxymoronic phrase from a hydroxymoronic president.

[Laelth]

5. +1 for "hydroxymoronic."

Well said.



-Laelth

[mitch96]

2. tRumps game is Lets play dictator and see what happens.. putin prolly told him what to do... nt

[orangecrush]

7. Agree 100%

[mainer]

3. Maybe residents of those cities can "defund the federal government"

And just stop sending their taxes to Washington. Being taxed without getting any benefit back is akin to taxation without representation.

[orangecrush]

8. Exactly.

[still_one]

4. They should classify trump as a Putin pawn

I would like to see the Biden campaign push how trump has refused to criticize Putin from everything from bounties on our troops, to when Putin tries to poison his opponents

[orangecrush]

9. The use of this kind of language

By a President should be setting off alarms.

[sarcasmo]

6. Dictator Don

[orangecrush]

10. Not yet.

[sarcasmo]

11. Close and Barr is laying the ground work.

[Gothmog]

12. trump tried to defund Democratic cities using sanctuary city excuse and lost in court

trump has no power to defund these cities and this effort will fail also

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. Really....who's advising him to make these kind of pronoucements?

It's obviously not going anywhere, but the optics make him look like a dictator wannabe. Given the timing of the election, can't see how this does anything positive to grow his base. If anything, he'll lose a few more undecided Republicans that are in purple and blue states.

I expect to see more bizarre and irrational, off-the-cuff demands by Trump as we get closer to Election Day.

[Gothmog]

14. He is doing this to appeal to the low IQ/poorly educated idiots who make up his base

[Kid Berwyn]

15. Sounds NAZI

Because it is NAZI.

What Hannah Arendt said:

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.

via Chris Hedges