Resistance to Trump must translate into viable, effective action now.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/resistance-to-trump-must-translate-into.html

Under the false claim that "crime is out of control," which is yet another outright lie told by Trump, the federal government is preparing to take over the District of Columbia police department and deploy the national guard on the streets of Washington, DC. This is the second attempt made by this incompetent and uniformed administration to try and control what happens in an American city, the first being his failed attempt at doing the same thing in Los Angeles. And I will make this statement, because it needs to be said: Anyone who is not able to see this kind of action for exactly what it is does not have an understanding of this nation's Constitutional democracy, the Republican form of government it has adopted, and the definition of being a patriotic American committed to the rule of law.

I'll say that again. Anyone who cannot see this for what it is, is an ignorant dumbass.

Republicans abandoned the old school protocols of decorum and civility at the behest of Rush Limbaugh and his "winner take all, no sympathy for minority rights" attitude. That actually occurred during the Reagan administration. And if they left any doubt about their contempt for that means of doing government business by compromise, and about their contempt for the rule of law, it was removed when they marched on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a violent attempt to steal an election and overthrow the United States Constitution.

And there's a clear reason why Trump wants to call out the National Guard and take over the police department of Washington, D. C. It's to give him an advantage when he wants to attack the Capitol once again. Were I a member of Congress now, especially a Democrat, I would not feel safe in the Capitol. Let's be clear.

Trump's closest sycophants are warning about the turn in the political tide that indicates Democrats are going to claim control of Congress following the 2026 elections. Everything they are doing now indicates that they are planning to steal the midterm elections to prevent this from happening and it appears that while they attempt to gerrymander as many states as they can get away with, to try and take the election that way, they are also setting up to over-run the Capitol building, again, and prevent Democrats from taking office that way, if they win the elections.

[ImmigrantsWGTJD]

1. Using the police to control Congress is my fear as well

He has no interest in homeless people or crime. Money and the power for getting more money is all that matters. The election next year is the target.

[lees1975]

2. Interesting that he claimed he couldn't call out the National Guard to Washington when his Nazi brownshirts were

attacking the Capitol, but he is calling them out now, and taking over the D.C. police. His top sycophants know how much trouble they are in from an electoral perspective and they're gearing up to stop that.