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Botany

(77,867 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 04:58 PM Aug 2025

Trump's sending of troops to Chicago is not a crime crackdown but a crackdown on brown people.

Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown
Hannah Rabinowitz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN
Sun, August 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM EDT
4 min read
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We are so far into fascism it is not funny.

BTW Just a guess but it might have to do
with trying to distract from Trump raping girls
and Epstein.






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B.See

(8,870 posts)
2. As is ALL his targeted cities. He's trying to start A RACE WAR.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:15 PM
Aug 2025

He figures doing so will:

1. Stoke his base of support from Nazis, racists, bigots, separatists, and supremacists

2. Distract from EPSTEIN

3. Distract from his FAILED Ukraine policies (or the lack thereof)

4. Distract from his support of genocide in Gaza

5. Distract from his FAILED economic policies and rising prices.

6. Distract from his continued GRIFT and profiteering from the office.

7. Distract from his sabotage of Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, FEMA, USAID, and of government in general.

8. Distract from the fact that he really hasn't accomplished SHIT on behalf of AMERICANS.

9. Allow him to declare martial law.

10. Allow him to suspend ELECTIONS... INDEFINITELY.

Botany

(77,867 posts)
3. Funny thing as an American I thought "they" were All-Americans too
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:21 PM
Aug 2025

And no matter what they do America
is going browner ... population dynamics
are what they are.

B.See

(8,870 posts)
5. We ARE. But
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:31 PM
Aug 2025

MAGA minded people like Trump NEVER thought so.

(PS. I added commentary to my op to remind us why Trump has declared was on essentially all People of Colour.)

AZJonnie

(4,035 posts)
4. I think it should be considered that maybe it's the other way round, and Epstein is the distraction
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:26 PM
Aug 2025

Remember how THEY are the ones who got JE back in the news themselves? And the Maxwell prison-move thing? They didn't have to do that either. So, to me JE looks like just another, and possibly planned, distraction. Also I would bet that this DC military takeover was planned long ago, before he was even re-elected, and I think *this* is an action that is so major that they're happy for any distractions, including JE&GM. I think it's a bad idea to discount that notion, at minimum.

I think this military invasion/fascist takeover shit going down is logically #1 to us as well, just saying

Prairie Gates

(8,479 posts)
6. I'm curious as to where the National Guard will be deployed in Chicago to "stop crime"
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:32 PM
Aug 2025

CNN has this whole clown story, but no details on what a deployment would actually look like. I mean, are there going to be troops surrounding the Bean? Are they going to be picking up suburban pukers in Wrigleyville? The whole thing is goofy.

Emile

(43,285 posts)
7. Memphis, Tennessee, has a significantly higher crime rate per capita than Chicago, Illinois
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 05:35 PM
Aug 2025

mopinko

(73,954 posts)
10. he wants to put down the protests.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:20 PM
Aug 2025

they’ve been all but nonstop here. in my hood, they do 2 visibilty actions every week.
there’s always something going on here. it’s not gonna go well for him.
i expect to see jb at at least 1.

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