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generalbetrayus

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Wed Sep 10, 2025, 10:43 AM Sep 2025

Last night on NBC evening news with Tom Llamas, at the same time the occupation of Chicago

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to "reduce murder" was the lead story, the two featured murder stories happened in purple North Carolina and deep red Alabama.

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Last night on NBC evening news with Tom Llamas, at the same time the occupation of Chicago (Original Post) generalbetrayus Sep 2025 OP
I challenge any one of these news outlets to write a story about this without using the word "crackdown" Walleye Sep 2025 #1
statistics nomenclature Tetrachloride Sep 2025 #2
Impeach Motherf*cker. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #3
Dear Mike Lickspittle Johnson, let me help you understand Martin Eden Sep 2025 #4
More every day, seems less about actual crime and more about arbitrarily scooping up possible voters in blue states Attilatheblond Sep 2025 #5
Mike Johnson popsdenver Sep 2025 #6

Walleye

(45,484 posts)
1. I challenge any one of these news outlets to write a story about this without using the word "crackdown"
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 10:47 AM
Sep 2025

It just makes them sound heroic or something.

Martin Eden

(15,879 posts)
4. Dear Mike Lickspittle Johnson, let me help you understand
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 01:28 PM
Sep 2025

Sending military troops into Democratic cities has absulutely NOTHING to do with reducing crime. Your president is flexing his authoritarian muscles with an eye towards the 2026 midterms. Both you and he have REDUCED FUNDING for measures that are actually effective at further reducing crime, which has been declining for years in those cities.

Attilatheblond

(9,249 posts)
5. More every day, seems less about actual crime and more about arbitrarily scooping up possible voters in blue states
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 01:34 PM
Sep 2025

Indiscriminately grabbing brown people, who are usually legal and often actual citizens, then just hiding them away or shipping them off to another country is NOT about criminals. It IS about potential voters who generally vote DEM.

Plus there's the intimidation factor: Make a certain demographic afraid to venture out where they might LEGALLY register and vote.

John Roberts & his team of racists have made it easier than ever for this sort of voter suppression via disappearance possible.

popsdenver

(2,628 posts)
6. Mike Johnson
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 01:55 PM
Sep 2025

along with the entire Trump CABAL, the Republican Senators, Republican House Members, Cabinet members/advisers, and the Republican USSC justices.....
didn't all get those "brown noses" and "round mouths" from sucking bananas in the mud.......

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