ChiGoose

Do you believe that non-citizens *are* entitled to due process but you wish they weren't? Or do you honestly believe they are not entitled to due process?

"It really is about fighting crime" says the person supporting the actions that are so divorced from fighting crime that they received THREE NO BILLS from grand juries on the same case. They failed to secure a grand jury indictment THREE TIMES! That's unheard of. It's almost as if they are grossly overcharging people for things because the goal is intimidation, not fighting crime... Prosecutors Fail 3 Times to Charge Woman With Felony Assault of F.B.I. Agent in D.C. "Prosecutors almost never go in front of grand juries without obtaining indictments because they are in control of the information grand jurors hear and defendants are not allowed to have their lawyers in the room as evidence is presented." "But in a brief submission filed to Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey in Federal District Court in Washington, the prosecutors in Ms. Reid’s case acknowledged the extraordinary: that they had failed three times to secure an indictment within the 30 days given to them to do so after Ms. Reid’s arrest." “Three grand juries have now declined to indict Ms. Reid for felony assault on a law enforcement officer,” her lawyers, Tezira Abe and Eugene Ohm, said in a statement on Monday evening. “The U.S. attorney can try to concoct crimes to quiet the people, but in our criminal justice system, the citizens have the last word. We are anxious to present the misdemeanor case to a jury and to quickly clear Ms. Reid’s name.”

Gavin Newsom sucks and it pains me that he’s the first Dem to jump on this strategy. Would have really liked someone else to do this but I suppose I have to give him credit for being the first.

Look, these are people who went from “Hillary Clinton is eating children in a pizza parlor basement” to “it’s no big deal that Donald Trump is a pedophile. The fact that they are now going from “Socialism is bad” to “it’s a good thing for the government to take ownership of companies” isn’t surprising when you recognize that they are just dumb lemmings following whatever they are told.

LFMAO Trump did a socialism Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business Government starting to take ownership of private companies. One would think the MAGA crowd is gonna be upset with this. Unless, of course, they just assume anything Dear Leader does is good.

I don’t understand what they were thinking with the redesign. Cracker Barrel was an iconic brand and it stood apart from others in the market with a kitschy appeal. The rebrand makes them seem bland. What draws you to them over the competition when they all look basically the same? That being said, I have no idea why the redesign is being called “woke.” It seems to follow in the pivot to that sleeker modern style that we’ve already seen from brands like Taco Bell.

If the DC deployment has solved crime in DC, then why would they need to start arming the guard now? National Guard members on DC streets for Trump’s crackdown will soon be armed, Pentagon says It doesn’t seem to make sense unless fighting crime wasn’t the purpose here…

They're eating the cracker! They're eating the barrel!

They really don’t think things through, do they?

We don’t have hard numbers at this time, but you can make an estimate from what is known. Reporting from previous deployments estimate the cost at $530 per soldier per day. This is line with previous statements from the DC National Guard estimating the cost of deploying 5,000 troops per day at $2.65 million. While there weren’t 5,000 DC National Guard troops deployed, hundreds have been deployed. Additionally, hundreds of soldiers from the national guards of several states have been sent in (which are probably more expensive given travel and housing requirements). I’ve seen estimates as high at ~2,000 national guard troops activated, but even if you want to say it’s half that, it would be half a million dollars per day, or $180 million per year to sustain this deployment. And that doesn’t factor in the costs of other federal agents (ICE, HSI, FBI, etc) who have been reassigned to assist. So you’re raising you hand saying you’ll help pay for hundreds of millions of dollars per year to support permanent national guard deployment in DC?

Totally fair about the actual cost. Until we get hard numbers, it’s going to be an estimate. But the logistics and material behind taking people from plainclothes day jobs, getting them equipped, organizing and deploying them can’t be cheap. Do they get stipends or extra pay when they are activated? Even if it’s half of that estimate, it’s still prohibitively expensive for a long term solution. NG is supposed to be for short term deployments, like disaster response. More about piling up sandbags and providing logistical support than patrolling and crime enforcement. A couple million dollar price tag for immediate help in the wake of a hurricane seems more justifiable than the tens/hundreds of millions for permanent deployment would cost

Man, you’re just spiraling at this point, huh? Sure, I have ideas on how to combat crime but they aren’t relevant to whether or not the DC deployment is effective or even for the stated purposes. Even though you are out here defending the deployment, you still can’t answer basic questions about it so you need to grasp for any distraction. ”hurr durr. He lives in Chicago. Hurr durr.” Pathetic.

Well now you’re gonna get the poor guy excited For the low, low price of $350 million+ annually per city, we can solve crime across the nation

Aww, poor guy is triggered We’re talking about what’s happening right now, kiddo. You’re attempts of whataboutism are as pathetic as your inability to answer basic questions about the plan you so ardently support.

If this is such a great solution, why would DC do anything to change it? It’s costing taxpayers over $1 million per day, so if the plan is to wait until DC takes over, why would they decide to spend $365 million per year when you and I get to pay for them to have it for free?

What’s your plan, keep the deployment permanent? How much is that going to cost taxpayers?

If you read through the thread, they point out that they don’t care about those people. The purpose isn’t to fight crime, it’s to fight “crime.”

My wife had four miscarriages before getting the vaccine. After that, one miscarriage and one successful pregnancy. According to MAGA logic, the vaccine reduced her miscarriage rate by 75%!!!

Louisiana is deploying their national guard to DC even though many cities in Louisiana have higher crime rates than DC. If the troop deployment is about crime, why is Louisiana sending its troops to DC instead of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, or Shreveport? If the troop deployment is about crime, why aren't residents of Louisiana rising up and demanding the troops be deployed in their state instead of being sent halfway across the country?

You're so close to getting it. You can do it!

Typical MAGA talking point: utterly false. "But in neighborhoods that experience some of the city’s highest rates of gun violence, residents say they haven’t seen the same presence. Monday afternoon the St. Elizabeths campus in Southeast, two shootings happened within 90 minutes — just a block apart on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Neighbors declined to speak on camera but told us they haven’t noticed any increased federal patrols or police since the President announced plans to bolster law enforcement in the District. Moving just North near 2200 Minnesota Ave., Advisory Neighborhood Tom Donahue echoed that sentiment. “There is no presence,” Donahue said. “Our murders are up in our ANC by three.” “What we are seeing them focus on are areas that don’t really have a lot of crime,” one of the Ward 8 ANCs Andrea Davis added." "“We’ve actually seen an increased MPD presence in our neighborhood over the last several weeks, before any discussion of the federal takeover,” Dorn said. " Source: Residents in DC's high-crime areas say federal police surge has left them out If the purpose of deploying the troops is to free up local police, how come the local police increased their presence in high-crime areas only before the deployment was announced and have not increased their presence since the deployment?

Operation Warpspeed was great. He did a really good job with that. It saved a lot of lives. If the purpose of deploying troops to DC was to prevent crime, why didn't the deploy to the city with the highest crime rate? If the purpose of deploying troops to DC was to prevent crime, why didn't they focus deployment to the areas of DC with the highest crime? If the purpose of deploying troops to DC was to prevent crime, why did Jeanne Pirro, the new US Attorney for DC say it was not to prevent crime? If the purpose of deploying troops to DC was to prevent crime, what exactly are the troops supposed to do since they do not have authority to arrest people? Are they supposed to just patrol the entire city forever? I think the TDS is coming from inside the house, buddy.

This may come as a shock to you, but I don't actually control Chicago. Also, wouldn't you expect someone who lives in a high crime area to have more knowledge about crime? Why would you expect someone who lives in a low-crime area to understand crime? Do you ever think before you type? See? This guy gets it.

At least you’re being honest that the project is authoritarianism. The rest are either lying or actually stupid.

You gotta love it when they get triggered and rush in to prove you right.