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Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown
Hannah Rabinowitz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN
Sun, August 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM EDT
4 min read
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We are so far into fascism it is not funny.
BTW Just a guess but it might have to do
with trying to distract from Trump raping girls
and Epstein.

The Wizard
(13,365 posts)is Republican code for "keep the brown down."
B.See
(6,283 posts)He figures doing so will:
1. Stoke his base of support from Nazis, racists, bigots, separatists, and supremacists
2. Distract from EPSTEIN
3. Distract from his FAILED Ukraine policies (or the lack thereof)
4. Distract from his support of genocide in Gaza
5. Distract from his FAILED economic policies and rising prices.
6. Distract from his continued GRIFT and profiteering from the office.
7. Distract from his sabotage of Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, FEMA, USAID, and of government in general.
8. Distract from the fact that he really hasn't accomplished SHIT on behalf of AMERICANS.
9. Allow him to declare martial law.
10. Allow him to suspend ELECTIONS... INDEFINITELY.
Botany
(75,141 posts)And no matter what they do America
is going browner ... population dynamics
are what they are.
MAGA minded people like Trump NEVER thought so.
(PS. I added commentary to my op to remind us why Trump has declared was on essentially all People of Colour.)
AZJonnie
(1,255 posts)Remember how THEY are the ones who got JE back in the news themselves? And the Maxwell prison-move thing? They didn't have to do that either. So, to me JE looks like just another, and possibly planned, distraction. Also I would bet that this DC military takeover was planned long ago, before he was even re-elected, and I think *this* is an action that is so major that they're happy for any distractions, including JE&GM. I think it's a bad idea to discount that notion, at minimum.
I think this military invasion/fascist takeover shit going down is logically #1 to us as well, just saying
Prairie Gates
(6,017 posts)CNN has this whole clown story, but no details on what a deployment would actually look like. I mean, are there going to be troops surrounding the Bean? Are they going to be picking up suburban pukers in Wrigleyville? The whole thing is goofy.
Emile
(37,046 posts)J_William_Ryan
(2,942 posts)a crackdown on black people as well if theyre immigrants.
PSPS
(14,845 posts)mopinko
(72,896 posts)theyve been all but nonstop here. in my hood, they do 2 visibilty actions every week.
theres always something going on here. its not gonna go well for him.
i expect to see jb at at least 1.