Did you know that in case you were wondering, you can now know for sure what it's like to have an inmate running the asylum?

[msc545]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/31/trump-national-guard-chicago-los-angeles-portland/?

[Sevenpointfive]

wapo is paywalled. cany copy paste or give us the gist?

[goaded]

"Trump ends effort to keep National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!” Trump wrote on social media."

[msc545]

"Trump announced Wednesday he is pulling the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, although the troops already had a limited presence because the states involved had sued to block their deployment.

Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that troops would return “when crime begins to soar again.” He did not mention a recent Supreme Court order halting his deployment of the National Guard to Chicago with significant implications for their use in other cities.

“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” he wrote — a claim not backed by data."

[goaded]

@chickychickyparmparm By the time he can ignore the courts it's already too late to stop him being a dictator. That's the point when the second amendment people should step up, but they won't because they want a dictator. Their dictator.

[Sevenpointfive]

@goaded i assure you that they do not want a dictator.

as for the article. i don't see anything substantial. he wanted a war and terrorizing the citizens is not working. if he wanted to do it he would. but the powers that be are directing him to help netanyahu in his war with maduro.

i knew this wasn't an American interest. go look at what bibi is saying. that all their enemies are supporting maduro and they back the US! they won't help, but they support the US taking him down to israel's benefit.

it's so obvious what's happening that they don't put much effort into lying about things anymore.

[goaded]

There are plenty of people on here who do. It's a Nazi bar.

[Sevenpointfive]

@goaded i'm not calling for your head. i don't think civilized people get to the point where they wish death upon innocents. whatever character people play here is them going full extreme and it's pretty tame in my opinion.

[goaded]

Are you kidding me? What do you think Trump calling innocent people traitors is, other than wishing death upon innocents? It's a Nazi bar because people justifying the Nazis are not immediately thrown off the site.

[Sevenpointfive]

@goaded you have to practice more tolerance for people. it's okay that people hate you. people hate me too. but we deal with it and we don't start attacking people in self-defense!

he's there doing his theater. why are actors a such popular politicians? it's not a good thing

[msc545]

@Sevenpointfive in Goaded's defense, it's hard to be tolerant of people that behave like Nazis or actually are Nazis, given the rather pernicious history of Nazis.

[Sevenpointfive]

@goaded wouldn't be able to say that.

[goaded]

It's imperative not to be tolerant of the intolerant. It's known as Popper's paradox.

I repeat: What do you think Trump calling innocent people traitors is, other than wishing death upon innocents? This is a Nazi bar because people justifying the Nazis are not immediately thrown off the site.

[Sevenpointfive]

@goaded well i didn't say there wasn't a line that it couldn't cross. tolerance definitely has a line.

[goaded]

Is calling innocent people traitors the same as calling for innocent people's deaths?

It's not some rando on the internet, that's the president of the United States of America.

[msc545]

@goaded he doesn't just call for innocent people's deaths. He actually kills them. He has murdered well over sixty people in the Caribbean on boats. It is still going on.

[goaded]

Good point.

[Sevenpointfive]

@goaded
@msc545

yes. he has crossed the line. he already had. and he continues to do. as a collective we're stuck if the elected leaders aren't good people. and that means all of the leaders. i mean if he cancels the primaries (which is the only way it can work for him), then we might be toast. that's when we'll have to come out of the woodwork. don't worry. it'll happen.

[RandomGirl42]

Oh, I learn the most interesting stuff here. 😊

[NathanDavis]

I've know about inmates running prisons... lol