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Botany

(75,150 posts) Sun Aug 24, 2025, 04:58 PM Aug 24

Trump's sending of troops to Chicago is not a crime crackdown but a crackdown on brown people. [View all]

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.

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Trump's sending of troops to Chicago is not a crime crackdown but a crackdown on brown people. [View all] Botany Aug 24 OP

The term "law and order" The Wizard Aug 24 #1

As is ALL his targeted cities. He's trying to start A RACE WAR. B.See Aug 24 #2

Funny thing as an American I thought "they" were All-Americans too Botany Aug 24 #3

We ARE. But B.See Aug 24 #5

I think it should be considered that maybe it's the other way round, and Epstein is the distraction AZJonnie Aug 24 #4

I'm curious as to where the National Guard will be deployed in Chicago to "stop crime" Prairie Gates Aug 24 #6

Memphis, Tennessee, has a significantly higher crime rate per capita than Chicago, Illinois Emile Aug 24 #7

It's J_William_Ryan Aug 24 #8

More specifically, black mayors and, especially, black female mayors PSPS Aug 24 #9

he wants to put down the protests. mopinko Aug 24 #10

the national guard is now a fascist enterprise to strike fear in the population nt msongs Aug 24 #11