President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to fight what he says is runaway crime. Yet data shows most violent crime in those places and around the country has declined in recent years.

Homicides through the first six months of 2025 were down significantly compared to the same period in 2024, continuing a post-pandemic trend across the U.S.

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    9 days ago

    More US cities need to start taking up arms against the Nazis coming to occupy them. Can a few civilians do squat against the military? Head on, no. But guerrilla tactics work wonders against shitheads like this.

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      20 years in Vietnam, 20-30 years in various Middle East countries, and the US military still pulled out.

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    I was at the hospital and they had fox news on the tv. It was some round table bullshit and they were talking about Trump sending troops to Chicago. They used footage of a violent crime as justification for it and argued crime may ne lower but shouldn’t all crime be eliminated or something. I felt my vrain rotting listening to them. Thankfully i wasn’t in the waiting room long.

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    It would be funny if there was a reporter with a backbone who would look at the list of cities Trump wants to deploy troops to, and then ask him how many more American cities Trump can name.

    Because i have a feeling that his handlers chose him this set of cities because they’re the ones he can remember.

    Better yet, somebody should challenge him to a spelling contest.

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    Y’all getting it wrong. It’s it that trump want less crime, he wants more. Happy citizens won’t vote for him