King Trump Rules the World, by David Haggith

Yes, we are ruled by the whims of Trump. From David Haggith at thedailydoom.com:

Washington DC is being turned into something of a police state today with Trump federalizing the city’s own police and authorizing the National Guard to use their full power to do what needs to be done. It is, of course, the federal government’s right to control Washington, since it is not like any other US city, being a federal “district.” However, D.C. has operated under its own rule for a long time.

That said, as Trump points out, D.C. has not operated all that well under its own rule, as citizens have to be afraid to travel in some parts of it. Crime is high, the slums are wide, and Trump rightly believes this all represents our nation poorly. Still, it’s a big change, hammered down from on high by the Don’s edict because the Dem’s have botched up government of D.C. so badly for decades. It is also the kind of martial law conservatives once loathed.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he was placing the D.C. police under direct federal controland will deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington to fight crime, an extraordinary flex of federal power that stripped city leadership of its ability to make law enforcement decisions and could expose residents of the nation’s capital to unpredictable encounters with a domestically deployed military force.

Big changes. The kind Trump likes to make. Changes to muscle crime to the ground. But also big and intrusive federal government—the kind Republicans used to hate … like this:

The administration has already mobilized FBI agents in recent days in overnight shifts to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime, officials said. Because the District of Columbia is not a state, the federal government has unusually sweeping powers to intervene over the objections of its residents and leaders, giving the president an opportunity to use it as a laboratory for a militarized approach to urban crime-fighting.

Imagine if Obama did that in Dallas! This is a test of presidential police-state powers over which the Right used to criticize Obama, saying he’d impose martial law to lock away US citizens, just as those who are not citizens are now being locked up in alligator dungeons for not having proper paperwork, even many nice people who are not criminals, just desperate workers doing what they ought not. Their alligator-meriting crimes? They seized economic opportunity that was not theirs to take.

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