TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2025
Leader of the pack: Just for the record, there actually is "too much [street] crime" in Washington, D.C.
It's a slightly strange formulation; no one ever says what the appropriate level of such crime would be. And of course, when a 12-year-old kid is involved in a carjacking, that 12-year-old child has had his or her childhood stolen away in some manner as well.
That said, Washington's homicide rate vastly exceeds that of New York City. (We're speaking now of the actual New York City, not of the dystopian hellhole the messenger children on the Fox News Channel talk about day and night.)
There's too much (street) crime in D.C., some of it truly horrible (street) crime. Yesterday, President Trump announced that he plans to address this problem.
To our ear, revolution is in the air as Blue America faces an array of assaults from angry Red American tribes. That said, it's entirely possible that there are ways to improve the situation in D.C., and in other American cities.
But is President Trump the man to lead this fight? Here's the post he offered on Truth Social shortly before yesterday morning's presser:
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Washington, D.C. will be LIBERATED today! Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum will DISAPPEAR. I will, MAKE OUR CAPITAL GREAT AGAIN! The days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people, are OVER! I quickly fixed the Border (ZERO ILLEGALS in last 3 months!), D.C. is next!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
That post appeared at 8:11; the presser started a few hours later. If we take the earlier statement literally, the filth and the scum should already have disappeared, along with Washington's crime.
The crime was going to DISAPPEAR! So spoke President Copperfield, marching toward revolution.
Zeal is present in all revolutions. Some type of fervent revolutionary zeal seems to be present in that proclamation.
But is it zeal that we're looking at, or is it some near neighbor to some form of madness? Over the weekend, this same president had strangely offered this:
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C. It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
Really? Monday's press conference was going to "stop violent crime in Washington, D.C.," even if only "essentially?"
Crime reduction would be a godsend, but what should a citizen think about the strange grandiosity of that presidential statement? Also, what should a citizen think about this subsequent post?
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier—Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
The homeless would be gone IMMEDIATELY. They were going to be sent or taken to some undisclosed location, to some place FAR away.
What should a citizen think about such unusual ideation? We'll offer some thoughts about that below, but let it be said that this type ideation was also present, for all to see, at yesterday's press event.
Thanks to the invaluable Rev, the entire event has been transcribed. Here are some of the things the president said as the nation averted its gaze:
Trump Details Crime Crackdown For D.C.
PRESIDENT TRUMP (8/11/25): Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people. And we're not going to let it happen anymore, we're not going to take it just like we did on our southern border.
[...]
And we're getting rid of the slums, too. We have slums here, we're getting rid of them. I know it's not politically correct. You'll say, "Oh, so terrible." No, we're getting rid of the slums where they live.
[...]
It's going to be something that will be pretty amazing to you as you watch it. And I think most of you say it's a beautiful thing to do it right. We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on. They're very dirty, got a lot of problems, but we've already started that. We're moving the encampments away, trying to take care of people.
Some of those people, we don't know how they even got there. Some of those people are from different countries, different parts of the world. Nobody knows who they are, they have no idea, but they're there. We're getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city. There are many places that they can go and we're going to help them as much as you can help. But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see.
There are plenty of places where the homeless can go. We don't even know how they got here!
Having said that, also this:
The president will also be getting rid of the slums! How is he planning to accomplish that task? No account of the planning was offered.
Could something be wrong with President Trump? We've asked that question again and again. It seems like an obvious question.
As for yesterday's press event, we think New York magazine's Ed Kilgore largely sketched an accurate portrait, in real time, of what was occurring there:
Trump is really enjoying himself
Watching the president’s interminable press conference announcing his takeover of D.C. law enforcement, it’s very clear how much this strange old man is enjoying himself.
As his attorney general and Defense secretary, both deeply experienced sycophants, tried to maintain straight faces, Trump put on a virtuoso performance of “the weave,” fusing together a vast number of sentence fragments on wildly unrelated topics. An entirely imaginary crime emergency is the ostensible reason for this event, but the president happily moved across a vast landscape of his brilliant accomplishments and the perfidy of his enemies (including California governor Gavin “Newscum”) with particular emphasis on his upcoming meeting in Alaska with best frenemy Vladimir Putin.
You get the sense he would love to turn his final term in office into one long press conference, making a hash of every precedent, mocking any effort to hold him accountable to the law or any sort of objective reality, and relying on loyal retainers to keep the wheels from falling off...
We don't agree with every word. In our view, the "crime emergency" in question isn't best described as "imaginary," to cite one example.
That said, the president did wander the countryside in his lengthy remarks, "fusing together a vast number of sentence fragments on wildly unrelated topics." Inevitably, he fell back on the childish way he refers to Governor Newsome.
On two occasions, he said he'd be meeting Putin "in Russia." Kilgore didn't bother with that—and everyone does make such mistakes.
That said, we're going to get rid of the slums! Also, the crime, the filth and the scum should already have DISAPPEARED.
In theory, a revolution can be led by someone who's off his rocker. At the dawn of the west, in the verses of the Iliad, Agamemnon, lord of men, king and commander of the Achaean forces, is constantly melting down, suffering emotional breakdowns.
At such times, the puzzled troops are kept on task thanks to the interventions of two highly stable "loyal retainers"—Odysseus, the wily tactician, and noble Nestor, the seasoned charioteer.
Agamemnon's instability is mitigated by those experienced lieutenants. As the fury of revolution bubbles up in this second Trump term, the president is now surrounded by some highly competent lieutenants—people who have been planning for some such mission as this all through their adult lives.
Also, there are the angry, hotheaded foot soldiers prepared to serve the cause. You can see them day and night, reading the tribal script prepared for them by their bosses at the Fox News Channel.
Tomorrow, we hope to return to the question of Pete Hegseth's pastors—more generally, to the role of religionism in this revolutionary moment.
Is this really a revolution? Like the citizens of Camus' Oran, we Blues tend to be ignoring the obvious, but that's the way it looks to us at this particular site.
For the record, we Americans have applauded revolutions all over the world. That included the revolution which General Washington led.
Is a revolution needed now? On that, opinions will differ—but we think it must be said again, even if by a non-specialist:
The leader of this revolution seems to perhaps exhibit signs of grandiosity, fixed ideas and delusional thinking. "Only I can solve it," he has routinely said.
Also this:
When he was only 12 years old, he was already being mocked as "The Great I-Am" by his older brother. With respect to unruly teens, he was sent off to military school at the age of 13, because he wouldn't stop assaulting the younger kids at the local private school in Queens where his very wealthy fathers sat on the board of directors.
Was some sort of unfortunate problem already surfacing then? We have no earthly idea.
A revolution can be led by someone who's a bit "off." Revolution may even require the zeal of some such leadership figure.
It seems to us that downsides also exist when someone whose thought processes seem to be strange is sitting in the Oval Office as the world's most powerful person. Also, when the entire apparatus of Blue America has agreed that his possible "mental disorders" must, by law, not be discussed.
"Only I can solve it," he has said. He has also described himself as "a very stable genius,."
We'd guess that he really believes such things. Along the way, he can't seem to stop making ridiculous statements like this:
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
“Congresswoman” Jasmine Crockett is a Low (Very!!!) I.Q. Individual, much in the mold of the AOC Plus Three Gang of Country Destroying Morons - Only slightly dumber. Each of these political hacks should be forced to take a Cognitive Exam, much like the one I recently took while getting my “physical” at our GREAT Washington, D.C., Military Hospital (WR!). As the doctors said, “President Trump ACED it, something that is rarely seen!” These Radical Left Lunatics would all fail this test in a spectacular show of stupidity and incompetence. TAKE THE TEST!!!
We aren't referring to his opinion about (the current version of) Rep. Crockett. We're referring to the president's persistent claim that he has ACED some cognitive test which no one else could pass.
Chairman Mao swam the Yangtze, "setting the stage for the launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution." President Trump truly seems to believe that he ACED an impossible test.
(We're prepared to guess that he truly believes that the doctors in question said that.)
The most powerful man in the world seems to be possibly gripped by types of delusional thinking. Any such state of affairs is, of course, a deeply unfortunate human tragedy—a loss of human potential.
That said, foot soldiers are eager to fight on behalf of this modern lord of men. All across Blue America, our own lieutenants seem to agree that his actual state of mind simply cannot be discussed.
Tomorrow: Revolution! The views of the two pastors
ReplyDelete"The leader of this revolution seems to perhaps exhibit signs of grandiosity, fixed ideas and delusional thinking."
Squeal, squeal Democrats; squeal harder. I love it.
And you, Mr. President, keep draining the swamp, please. Keep draining the swamp, Mr. President.
The Deep State slapped the wig off Trump's bald head, and told him not to release the Epstein Files.
DeleteOf course, the 400 lb. weakling, who barely has the strength to sexually attack a 7-year old, anymore, caved like the simp he's always been.
Swamp being drained, sir! But it's leaving a big hole in the ground, so we're filling it up with the profits you're making from your crypto policies!
DeleteMao, twenty three years a clueless shithead. Truly dedicated to spreading the dumb.
DeleteMao - Sincere question: Why did you become an Anon?
DeleteMy ID went away when I upgraded my system, and I forgot how to get a new one. I’m in cognitive decline.
DeleteHave you tried raping a pre-teen, Mao. That seems to work for Republican politicians.
Delete"Inevitably, he fell back on the childish way he refers to Governor Newsome."
ReplyDeleteSomerby says, falling back on his own childish misspelling of Newsom's name. Is Somerby too tired or too childish to look this man's name up?
It is N-E-W-S-O-M. I am planning to vote for him in 2028.
DeleteInteresting. Both Somerby and DiC, whose nym suggests residency in California, have gotten the name spelling of Newsom wrong, DiC on multiple occasions in the past. How often do residents of a state spell thei name of their own governor incorrectly??? Has anyone seen Somerby and DiC in the same room, ever?
DeleteDavid in Cal is no better at spelling, then he is at math.
DeleteHe's a bigot, so he thinks he's smarter than people who run circles around him intellectually.
I run circles around David intellectually, but he’s smarter than I am, in many ways.
DeleteDavid is white. How smart could he be?
DeleteDavid is not smart, just persistent.
Delete"As the fury of revolution bubbles up in this second Trump term, the president is now surrounded by some highly competent lieutenants—"
ReplyDeleteWho are Trump's highly competent lieutenants? Not Hegseth, not Bondi, not Vance, not Rubio, not Noem, not any of his financial advisors or cabinet members. Trump has not employed any of the actually competent Republicans in place when he took office, and he has fired the people who actually know how to run things and get things done. That was DOGE's job.
Somerby dredged this non-fact from the Iliad and assumes it is true about Trump when he has no evidence to support that idea. When they say the guardrails in Trump's administration are gone (as they are saying on both the right and left), they mean that those competent underlings are gone, all fired by Trump because he distrusts their loyalty, which is now the only trait he values. Not competence, since he doesn't know what competence looks like and doesn't care about the actual missions of the agencies he has been destroying.
But Somerby has this fantasy that there is anyone competent left in Washington, when that is manifestly untrue.
an 10:33, have you ever heard of sarcasm?
DeleteSomerby never signals his sarcasm. In text you cannot tell by tone of voice or body language. It is the writer’s responsibility not the reader’s, to make meaning clear. Otherwise it is your opinion this is sarcasm but you have no proof.
DeleteAC/ MA,
DeleteAhh, the old "Can't you take a joke" retort. A classic of bigots, when they are called out for their words or actions.
"Also, when the entire apparatus of Blue America has agreed that his possible "mental disorders" must, by law, not be discussed." There is no such agreement in Blue America. There is a recognition that removing the president under the current circumstances is not possible without Republican cooperation. Somerby knows this but he likes to pretend that there is something wrong with Blue America, because that is his role here, his reason for writing crap, like today's essay.
ReplyDeleteWe in Blue America, by definition, did not elect Trump. We didn't put this crazyman into office. We do not condone or enable anything he is currently doing. Somerby pretends that there is some value in removing homeless people from DC, against their will and without any word about where they will go, but that is another symptom of dictatorship and Somerby does not acknowledge the violation of rights involved in everything Trump has said about who will go where.
Somerby is cheering on the "disappearing" of homeless people, the removal of criminals without due process (because if there had been due process they would already be in jail). Both groups are entitled to habeas corpus and cannot just be hidden away in some unspecified location with impunity. People live in DC by choice, including the non-homeless and non-criminal, who have not found crime so intolerable that it has driven them out of the city.
Next Trump will tell us that he MUST go play golf and spend his weekends at Mar a Lago because of DC crime rates, even though he is the least likely person to experience them, as long as we limit ourselves to street crime (Somerby's emphasis) and not the criminal lawbreaking and graft of Trump's own people.
Blue America is not making laws these days. The Republicans are the majority in the House and Senate, our legislative bodies. Meanwhile, it seems to me that many people in Blue America are speaking out loudly against Trump and his govt. They are not doing it by law, but out of personal courage.
DeleteIt takes nerve for Somerby to say that Blue America has made some law against speaking out about Trump, after seeing what has happened to Colbert. Corporate America has allied with Trump to suppress free speech in newspapers and on cable and TV, but that is not Blue America.
Meanwhile Somerby does his faithful job of maligning Blue America while pretending he too opposes Trump, while claiming DC does require a cleanup on Aisle 2.
AOC and Bernie's tour was not on Somerby's radar. Neither are the many demonstrations nationwide. Somerby used his essay yesterday to bash Pritzker of IL and he does not applaud Newsom either. Adam Schiff has been a Blue star, to use Somerby's term, one Somerby cannot see no matter what he does. Jasmine Crockett has been taking a lot of hits for the blue team, off Somerby's radar. She is both black and female, so his ignorance of her efforts is understandable given his biases. And what about all those TX Dems who fled the state and are now fugitives in order to prevent the illegal redistricting of TX to keep Republicans in power after the midterms? Are they not doing anything for our blue cause and for democracy (while they are at it)? And Newsom is a lightning rod for red hate these days because he is standing up to Trump and Noem in Los Angeles and the courts.
DeleteAnd Colbert has not stopped his nightly diatribes against Trump's idiocies and evil-doing despite being taken off the air when his contract ends, at Trump's demand, so that the Paramount merger could go through -- because commerce is more important than people's rights and freedom.
But Somerby can see no Blue resistance, no matter where he looks. Because he has his eyes wide shut, as he likes to pretend.
Get your own blog, if you want to live in reality.
DeleteGet your own blog if you want to bitch about people on a blog all fucking day long.
DeleteDemocrats need to understand that just because people don't like Trump, doesn't mean they like Democrats.
DeleteDemocrats have to offer more than just being against Trump.
Hatred of Trump is all I have.
Delete"Hatred of Trump is all I have."
DeleteCherish it. Nurture it.
Don't be lazy, 1:37.
DeleteThere's a whole Republican Party to hate, sitting right in front of you.
When someone has lived as long a life as Trump and still done nothing worthwhile with his life, we do not refer to that as a tragic loss of potential. We call it a wasted life. There is very little potential left in Trump's lifespan. His best way of contributing to society would now be to resign, except that would make Vance the president and that may conceivably damage our country more than Trump has, given Vance's own set of psychiatric problems.
ReplyDeleteWhy does Somerby not worry about the tragic loss of human potential represented by homeless people and street gangs? There are ways to fix those problems that would cost far less than Trump's plan of disappearing those people, ways that would give people back their lives with a more modest investment of time and resources. Trump is choosing the expensive path, because he likes the violence inherent in removing people from their lives, the exercise of power. But Somerby treats Trump as if he were the victim, not the wrongdoer.
Here is Somerby's delusion in full bloom. He thinks he is the only one courageous enough to call Trump deluded, while Blue America says nothing. He can only think this by failing to read anything currently said by Blue America. Instead he pretends it is the job of newsreaders and journalists to call Trump crazy. That way he doesn't have to mention the many people on the left who have been saying that Trump is a danger to our nation, ever since 2015. Somerby is too late with too little and he is not a noble crusader willing to see Trump as he is, but a long-time apologist for Trump, advocating pity and avoiding the call for impeachment, while suggesting that Trump's father is to blame while Trump is the fault of us blues.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Somerby today suggests that DC does need to be cleaned up because those homeless people are horrible and it is about time someone did something about them, even if it is soul-destroying fascism and use of the military to ruin our democracy. Whatta guy our Somerby is.
Somerby is a moron, who still hasn't figured-out the corporate-owned media is Right-wing.
DeleteGet your own blog, if you want to read about things from people who aren't morons.
Delete"Whatta guy our Somerby is."
DeleteAnd what a mensch you are for making stuff up and posting it. How admirable.
Somerby makes stuff up but you seem to love him.
Delete"Somerby today suggests that . . . it is about time someone did something about [the homeless], even if it is soul-destroying fascism"
DeleteAgain, why do you just make up bullshit when we can read the post ourselves and see that you're just making it up?
I like trolling here.
Delete"Somerby makes stuff up but you seem to love him."
DeleteI don't love Somerby. What I do love is pointing out comments that make stuff up about him.
"Meanwhile, Somerby today suggests that DC does need to be cleaned up because those homeless people are horrible"
DeleteWhere? Not in this post.
I hate that Somerby disappears some of my best stuff when I post it.
DeleteSomerby says several times that DC does have a problem.
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DeleteSomerby’s main objection to what Trump says about the homeless and slums is that Trump is grandiose about solving those problems that he claims only he can fix. Somerby expresses no concerns about the rights of homeless people or harm to them during interactions with soldiers. That makes Somerby A-OK about Trump’s goals but doubtful that Trump can deliver. That is not how those who care about homeless or human rights are reacting.
When homeless can be put in camps involuntarily, why not any of us. Trump is removing the homeless because most people consider them a nuisance. He thinks no one will resist his bullying of marginal people. Somerby expresses no concern about this either. None.
DG is wrong to defend Somerby
"Somerby expresses no concerns about the rights of homeless people or harm to them during interactions with soldiers. That makes Somerby A-OK about Trump’s goals but doubtful that Trump can deliver."
DeleteI note that in your comment you 'express no concern' about Israel killing journalists in Gaza. I infer from your silence that you're A-OK with it.
I have met someone who is okay with Israel killing journalists, but I've never met a Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
DeleteGhislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell: Found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
ReplyDeletePresident of the United States of America, Donald J Trump: "I just wish her well, frankly.”
Is something wrong with President Trump? Are you fucking kidding me?
You're not getting it. Ghislaine is helping Trump drain the swamp.
DeleteShe couldn't do that from a regular prison, where all the other sex traffickers are kept. She could only do it from a minimum security prison, where they play ping pong and miniature golf and drain the swamp all day long.
She was found guilty of trafficking children to who?
DeleteIt is absurd that Trump is blocking the answer to your question, 1:12.
DeleteShe never trafficked any to me.
DeleteShe was found guilty of trafficking children to who?"
DeleteTo Trump's friend, Jeff.
And Trump's friend, Jeff, trafficked the childrent to Jeff's friends.
DeleteJeff shared young girls (jailbait) with Trump. Victim depositions say Trump raped girls as young as 13.
DeleteSo Maxwell's trial proves that Epstein was running a pedo ring for ... one person.
Delete11:07: no, shit-for-brains. What are you doing here anyway? Don't you have some small animals to torture or something?
DeleteDemocrat party favorability at a RECORD low in Gallup polling today.
ReplyDeleteOf course favorability is low. The Democrats removed from their ticket the most effective and successful president since Obama, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2024. What's not to dislike?
DeleteMaybe not so effective at public speaking:
Delete"what I've been able to do with the with the Covid, excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, uh, look, if…we finally beat Medicare."
"Look, there's so many young women who have been, including a young woman who just murdered and he went to the funeral. And the idea that she was murdered by a by by an immigrant coming in to. They talk about that. But here's the deal. There's a lot of young women being raped by their by their in-laws, by their by by their spouses, brothers and sisters, by just it's just ridiculous. And they can do nothing about it. And they try to arrest them when they cross state lines."
These are all distractions from the fact that Trump promised to end post-birth abortions on Day One, yet we have seen an explosion of post-birth abortions under Trump's rule.
DeleteAnother in a long, long line of failures, from the tiny-handed real estate developer from Queens.
A quote is useless without providing the source.
Delete12:00 Eat a bag of dicks you unhelpful ass.
Delete12:41,
DeleteDid you have "Declaring martial law to distract from the fact the Republican party is a global pedophile ring" on your Bingo card?
@11:51
DeleteI remember that. But whatever happened to the guy who unspooled that stream of gibberish? Did he go on to continued success and support from his party in Congress? Or did his party convince him it was time to step aside?
3:01,
DeleteHe got chased out of the election by the Right-wing media, pretending they cared about the age and cognitive abilities of political candidates.
Similar to how they pretended to care about Republicans pretending to care about Hillary Clinton's email protocols throughout 2016.
Maybe I'll start my own media musings blog where I won't have to ignore the obvious.
Biden had a single bad debate for plausible reasons. That was used as a pretext to torpedo his reelection. Trump always sounds incoherent, unlike Biden. And Trump is making bad decisions that put our nation at risk. Biden never did that. Trump has dementia and needs to be removed ASAP.
DeleteAt the time Biden dropped out an overwhelming majority of Democrats. Thought he should step aside.
Deletehttps://apnorc.org/projects/most-say-biden-should-withdraw-from-the-presidential-race/
He dropped out because there was no question he was going to lose huge.
He was a deeply unpopular and deeply unlikable president. Basically, everybody but the robots hated him.
Biden was the best President this country has had since at least LBJ.
DeleteUnder Biden it was Morning in America, until bigots got mad about immigrants wiping the floor with white people on the job market.
Yeah. You lost that one. It's another one you lost. Stinks doesn't it? I guess there's nothing to do but complain about it. Complain about your losses. If it wasn't for all those other people and all those other factors, life would be so great. But they're not. Bastards. Why can't they all be like you?
DeleteYeah, great point bozo. It's not like the GOP complained after 2020, right? The entire party, especially their leader, took it like the mature adults they are. No whining. No making up phony election fraud. What a stupid sonofabitch you are.
Delete8:10,
DeleteIs that sarcasm?
Because we all saw Republican voters throw a childish temper tantrum at the United States Capitol, just because black people's votes were counted in the 2020 Presidential election.
It was on live TV and everything.
Democrats crying and screaming over law enforcement assistance in crushing DC violence. They always pick the winning fights.
ReplyDeleteHousing prices in Washington, D.C. are significantly higher than the national average. Specifically, the median home value in D.C. is around $770,566, which is 216% of the typical U.S. price. This indicates that homes in D.C. are more than double the price of the average home in the United States.
DeleteCrime s so bad there, they need to build a lot more housing, just to meet the overwhelming demand.
LOL.
Trump fired everyone in the government who understands the laws of supply and demand.
DeleteWhat exactly is the National Guard going to do?
DeleteLower housing costs.
DeleteHere is a rundown by Joyce Vance on the legal basis for Trump's use of the military in DC, and how it differs from what he might do in other states:
ReplyDeletehttps://joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-president-becomes-the-police
Somerby does not ever discuss the legality of Trump's actions, nor does he discuss whether crime is actually out of control in DC -- he seems to agree with Trump that something must be done to the homeless there because they are troublesome to him all the way over in Baltimore.
Vance is helpful because she provides facts about the laws governing Trump's actions. That won't make him stop, but it does clarify what Blue America can and cannot do about his actions. It is more than Somerby is willing to talk about.
Another entry in the “Somerby should talk about what I want to talk about” genre.
Delete11:06,
DeleteGet your own blog, if you want to point out that the people who voted for Trump because he was going to bring down the Deep State, have been played as suckers.
No, this is about "Somerby should tell the truth" and not just attack Blue America every day.
DeleteIt horrifies me that Somerby today admits he would like to see the homeless in DC tormented by Trump's troops and disappeared somewhere nonspecific, because they are some sort of problem. That is something Somerby did talk about that he shouldn't have said, because cleaning up the homeless comes at the expense of American rights and freedoms, including those of ther homeless people themselves.
Something is seriously wrong with Somerby!
What is wrong with promoting the work of an effective "blue star" who is an attorney and knows the law that applies to what Trump is doing?
Somerby claims blue America is not talking about anything but here is an example contradicting that claim. That makes this an entry in the "Somerby is wrong about Blue America" genre.
From Somerby repeating Right-wing grievances, to Somerby concern-trolling the Left for fighting back against the Right.
DeleteThe times they are a changin'.
“Somerby today admits he would like to see the homeless tormented by Trump’s troops”
DeleteWhy do you make up such pure, unadulterated bullshit? We can all read the post and see it says no such thing.
11:36 - Funny, I read Somerby as concern trolling the Left for NOT fighting back against the Right. The lesson of the Trojan War, he repeatedly tells us, is that force must be met with equal or superior force if a civilization is to survive.
DeleteGood to know that Somerby is “concern trolling.” You do know that isn’t the same thing as expressing concern.
Delete11:59 - You’re right. He’s expressing concern that the Left is mostly mute about Fox propaganda.
DeleteThe first punch thrown by a Lefty will give Somerby the vapors.
Delete12:06,
DeleteAgree.
Somerby isn't calling for violence from Blue America, just because he thinks Trump's actions need to be fought with everything in "us blues" arsenal.
The left is far from mute about Fox propaganda. Somerby doesn't look in the right places for the rebuttals.
DeleteSomerby superimposes messages on the Iliad, just as he does Dylan and Emmy Lou Harris songs. Troy left no historical record so the Iliad is made up, a work of fiction. Today it has been adopted by white supremacist bros who idealize warrior culture and fantasize about being brave when they are venal. That fits Somerby too.
DeleteI don’t see anywhere in this post that Somerby demands Thad the left stand up to the right, DG. His entire message us that no one in Blue America (ie journalists?) is discussing Trump’s mental state and/or personality disorder. That’s it. You tell me if you think that is a valid criticism, or if they did that, would that constitute the left “standing up to the right.”
Delete12:17 - Calling Somerby a "white supremacist" is a perfect example of how many in the left have enabled Trumpism. The indiscriminate and promiscuous use of r-bombs destroys our credibility with many voters.
DeleteCalling me an anti-semite is a perfect example of how many on the right have enable Kamala-ism
DeleteThere are good Vances, and there are bad Vances.
DeleteThe Democrats would win more votes if they stopped calling people who believe Haitians are eating our pets "misinformed".
DeletePeople in Ohio complained that Haitians ate their pets. Are you one of those people, 2:06?
DeleteAre you sure those were people, and not AI, 2:27?
Delete"...he seems to agree with Trump that something must be done to the homeless there because they are troublesome to him all the way over in Baltimore."
DeleteHe "seems" to agree? That's your invention, not something that can be supported by any part of today's post.
Somerby is neutral on it, because like Target, CBS, Ivy League schools, etc, he thinks if he keeps his head down and doesn't make waves, the fascists won't get him.
DeleteWhether Somerby is a moron, is in cognitive decline, or is just cos-playing as a moron or someone in cognitive decline, is not for me to say.
Nice non-reply. You really ate it on this exchange.
Delete"There are good Vances, and there are bad Vances." Good Vance fucks an Indian, bad Vance fucks a couch.
DeleteSomerby’s main objection to what Trump says about the homeless and slums is that Trump is grandiose about solving those problems that he claims only he can fix. Somerby expresses no concerns about the rights of homeless people or harm to them during interactions with soldiers. That makes Somerby A-OK about Trump’s goals but doubtful that Trump can deliver. That is not how those who care about homeless or human rights are reacting.
DeleteWhen homeless can be put in camps involuntarily, why not any of us. Trump is removing the homeless because most people consider them a nuisance. He thinks no one will resist his bullying of marginal people. Somerby expresses no concern about this either. None.
DG is wrong to defend Somerby.
"Housing prices in Washington, D.C. are significantly higher than the national average. Specifically, the median home value in D.C. is around $770,566, which is 216% of the typical U.S. price. This indicates that homes in D.C. are more than double the price of the average home in the United States."
ReplyDeleteCrime is so bad in Washington D.C., they need to build more housing to meet the demand of those who want to live with it.
They want (or need) to live in DC, 11:16, yes. But if you think it means they want more crime, you're an idiot. Or a Democrat, but I repeat myself.
DeleteOf course they don't want more crime. That's why they paid the premium to live in DC, where crime rates are low.
DeleteDon't fall for Trump's DC crimewave bullshit. He's just trying to distract from the fact the Deep State curb-stomped him over the Epstein Files, while he licks his wounds.
Who had "Declaring martial law to distract from the fact the Republican party is a global pedophile ring" on their Bingo card?
ReplyDeleteI had "declaring martial law to distract from the fact that the President is a man-baby, drama queen."
DeleteBut I'll keep playing.
Here is what the Denver Voice says about addressing homelessness:
ReplyDelete"This week, the President of the United States announced plans to deploy the National Guard and federal law enforcement to clear homeless encampments in Washington, DC, and across the country.
We agree with President Trump that homelessness should not exist in a country as wealthy as ours. No one should be in a position where housing is out of reach, and they are forced to sleep outside.
But the solution to homelessness is not through arrests, criminalization, or forced sweeps. We know from years of data that support services and job opportunities are what truly help people exit homelessness and rebuild their lives. Forced removals only cause more trauma, making it harder for people to find stability."
You can donate to their efforts here:
https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/denvervoice
Trump's plan to bring down the value of every thing in the USA is the first step in his plan to lower the cost of living for Americans.
ReplyDeleteOf course that “everything” includes the dollar.
DeleteHere Somerby equates Trump's lawbreaking with revolutions that overturned past tyrannies:
ReplyDelete"Is this really a revolution? Like the citizens of Camus' Oran, we Blues tend to be ignoring the obvious, but that's the way it looks to us at this particular site.
For the record, we Americans have applauded revolutions all over the world. That included the revolution which General Washington led."
It is a travesty to find any similarity between the revolt of the American colonists against England and what Trump has been doing to his own citizens, yes including the deportees whose legal permanent residency has not been respected, the citizens held without charges for weeks before being released after detainment against their will, and those living in fear of family separation because of Trump's draconian efforts to rack up deportation numbers. Much as he ignored covid testing in order to lower his infection stats, hampering the efforts to eradicate covid in the US.
Trump has been breaking the law and ignoring the contitution. That doesn't make him a revolutionary because there was no previous government overthrown -- just a peaceful election in which voters made the wrong choices. Yes, destroying the nation is a change from the past, but where is there any evidence his destruction is what people voted for when they supported Trump? Today there is chagrin on the right, not cheering. People are worried, not impressed by Trump's actions.
Calling this a revolution, as Somerby does today, debases the word and glosses over the wrongness of what Trump is doing. Yes, it is a change to have a sexual pervert and sex abuser in office, a felon with 34 fraud convictions, a man who cannot keep two thoughts in his head at the same time. But that doesn't make it a revolution, nor does it make it OK to have put such a person into the presidency. For one thing, Trump's destruction is being replaced with nothing constructive, just grifting. For another thing, there is no ideological purpose behind Trump's actions (at least on Trump's part). Trump is too stupid to have a unified ideology, so his goals are dictated by self-interest and greed, revenge and petty jealousy, personality not purpose. Opportunist cling to his coattails, not idealists. He is creating openings for white supremacists and oligarchs, not for a better society.
Meanwhile, Somerby has once again forgotten which team he is pretending to play for.
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ReplyDeleteBob wrote, "Just for the record, there actually is "too much [street] crime" in Washington, D.C." His comment illustrates Conquests First Law of Politics
ReplyDelete"Everyone is conservative about what he knows best."
Pablum bullshit.
DeleteFuck you David in California you nasty piece of Nazi Swine.
DeleteSomerby lives in Baltimore, not DC.
DeleteHalf of Republican voters would not abandon their vote for President Donald Trump if he were implicated in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
ReplyDeleteThis is according to a new survey conducted by Canadian market research firm Leger, which found that such a revelation wouldn’t sway 47 percent of Republican voters.
A further 26 percent of survey respondents said they were unsure or wouldn’t answer, leaving just 27 percent who said that they would be more likely to vote for another party.
Broken down by demographic, 61 percent of 18-34-year-olds said they would be more likely to vote for another party, while just 15 percent of respondents over 55 said the same.
Previous polling has found that a plurality of Republicans approve of the way Trump has handled the Epstein case.
Half of Republican voters
Deplorable.
Looks like Hillary Clinton had it just about right.
Trump is blocking the release of the Epstein files, because there is a photo in there of Trump smiling while talking to a young back man.
DeleteBob is a school teacher; Trump is a leader. The school teacher focuses on the precise accuracy and tone of a comment. The leader focuses on whether the comment will lead to the desired goal.
ReplyDeleteFucking fascist freak. Get the fuck away from us.
DeleteIn the case of declaring martial law in D.C., both the teacher's and the leader's goal is to distract from the fact the Republican Party is a global pedophile ring.
Delete1:05, right, I completely forgot that Prince Orange Chickenshit is blocking the release of the Epstein files. Also I completely didn't notice the chaotic nonsense word salad Orange Chickenshit spit out yesterday about how he is ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the first day.
DeleteNice try. Hitler was a leader.
DeleteLeaders are not chickenshit cowards.
Delete"The leader focuses on whether the comment will lead to the desired goal."
DeleteHow does making nonsensical statements lead to desired goals? In your answer, please reference"I will end the war in Ukraine on Day One."
He did end the war between the US and the RF, in Ukraine, on Day One. Western Europe should do the same.
DeleteWhat's left, the ongoing conflict between the big Russia (the RF) and the little Russia (Ukraine) has little to do with anyone who's not Russian.
Hector - My guess, it's through distraction: "Look over here at this shiny object (e.g., end war in Ukraine), and just forget about what's really going down!"
Delete2:37,
DeleteYou’re not special.
No one can tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and good people on the Right.
Hector - setting absurdly high goals motivates people to work in the direction of those goals.
Delete"He did end the war between the US and the RF"
DeleteGreat. Now we have friendly relations with a country ruled by murderous thug dictators. Super.
"setting absurdly high goals motivates people to work in the direction of those goals."
DeleteIf you removed the word 'absurdly' from the above, it would make sense. Leaving it in makes you sound as loony as Trump.
Fuck you 2:37.
DeleteYour place or mine?
DeleteHector— consider DOGE. Musk set an absurd goal of a trillion dollars. But, did save a couple of hundred billion — far more than any previous effort saved.
DeleteConsider the Southern border. Trump set an apparently absurd goal of ending illegal immigration there and actually achieved.
You think Musk saying he was going to cut $2 trillion inspired the DOGE minions to greater feats of….of what exactly? You’ve never understood how simple were the things DOGE did. Its only obstacles were political.
DeleteDOGE could have wiped out the entire government’s budget in an afternoon if they were allowed to. It had nothing to do with effort or skill or anything like you seem to imagine it took. It just took minds cold and callow enough to yank the peanut paste out of the children’s mouths.
Setting the absurdly high goal of finding one Republican voter who isn't a bigot, doesn't seem to be working.
DeleteJust saying.
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ReplyDeleteDeadly shooting in Austin. Please alert King Orange Chickenshit to send the National Guard immediately.
ReplyDeleteIn our view, the "crime emergency" in question isn't best described as "imaginary," to cite one example. -TDH
ReplyDeleteLeader of the pack: Just for the record, there actually is "too much [street] crime" in Washington, D.C. -TDH
DC is full of "Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum"...DJT
It looks like Trump has convinced Bob that DC has a uniquely high violent crime rate. Like the typical Fox News viewer, it appears he did no research because if he had, he would have discovered that DC is 25th in violent crime and 19th in murder and manslaughter. Cities in deep red states like Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Indiana have a higher violent crime rate than DC. Yet they get no attention from our great crime-fighting president, who doesn't seem to care that red-state voters continue to suffer under more "Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum" than DC
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
DeleteYou lose again.
DeleteThere's a blog called Lawyers, Guns and Money. You can go there and they're people just like you who you can commiserate with about how much and how often and how deeply you lose and how unfair it all is. Check it out!!
DeleteBecause, really all you do is lose and complain about losing. Right? What else do you discuss? Oh, I forgot. It's a fascist takeover. Things will never be the same. It's a frightening, existential situation so we all need to be sad and scared like you. Cool.
DeleteBecause, really all you do is lose and complain about losing. Right? What else do you discuss? Oh, I forgot. It's a fascist takeover. Things will never be the same. It's a frightening, existential situation so we all need to be sad and scared like you. Cool.
DeleteActually it is a fascist takeover, which it sounds like you're all for.
Delete11;53,
DeleteThe Left only complains about losing because they are jealous.
The same reason the Right complains about illegal immigrants getting all those handouts from the government.
Jealous losers, every last one of them.