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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Trump mobilized the DC National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation's capital, despite DC's crime rate being at a 30-year low.

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What's the cost of the National Guard deployment in DC?

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-- WTOP News (@wtopnews.bsky.social) Aug 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM

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Orange Idi Amin will do this while cutting SNAP and health care for poor people.

It's a matter of choices.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-26 07:15 AM | Reply

i.imgur.com

#2 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-08-26 11:00 AM | Reply

On the positive side, the streets in NW DC are cleaner than ever, with all those guardsmen swinging brooms, stooping for cigarette butts and shooting at rats with their M-16s...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-28 05:03 PM | Reply

@#2

Yeah, those are the optics that Pres Trump is hoping for.

But is that the reality?

Or are what Democrats trying to protect, not violent criminals but, the Constitution and the Rule of Law?


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-28 06:29 PM | Reply

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