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   From: deplorable.redneck@nytimes.com   
      
   You have to hand it to the Democrats. Their determination to throw a   
   hissy fit every time Trump does something is unwavering.   
      
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   NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin tells @Axios he will introduce a measure later   
   this week to end the emergency Trump has declared under the Home Rule   
   Act in order to federalize the D.C. Metropolitan Police.   
      
   Has to wait until a 48-hour window is up.   
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   "Shocking stuff, even for Trump": D.C.-area Democrats rage at White   
   House policing move "It's ridiculous, it really is," said one House   
   Democrat from the Maryland suburbs.   
      
   No matter how common-sensical a proposal, how much it is grounded in the   
   Constitution, or how popular the policy, Democrats will loudly protest   
   and cry "fascism" and "Nazi!" when Trump speaks.   
      
   Trump could mention the importance of breating clean air for good health   
   and Democrats would pick up smoking to spite him.   
      
   The latest round of insanity came on Monday, when President Trump   
   announced that he was federalizing the police force in Washington, D.C.   
   and mobilizing the National Guard to clean up the streets of the   
   District.   
      
   Washington, you see, is one of the most dangerous cities in America--in   
   the same basic category as Chicago, New Orleans, and Saint Louis. Its   
   murder rates exceed those of Bogota and Mexico City--both famously   
   dangerous cities.   
      
   The city, which famously puts "Taxation Without Representation" on its   
   license plates, wants to be a state. If it were, it would be the most   
   dangerous in the country.   
      
   The magnitude of the violent crime crisis places the District of   
   Columbia among the most violent jurisdictions in the United States.  In   
   2024, the District of Columbia averaged one of the highest robbery and   
   murder rates of large cities nationwide.  Indeed, the District of   
   Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than   
   all 50 States, recording a homicide rate in 2024 of 27.54 per 100,000   
   residents.  It also experienced the Nation’s highest vehicle theft rate   
   with 842.4 thefts per 100,000 residents — over three times the national   
   average of 250.2 thefts per 100,000 residents.  The District of Columbia   
   is, by some measures, among the top 20 percent of the most dangerous   
   cities in the world.   
      
   As President, I have a solemn duty to take care that our laws are   
   faithfully executed, and a sacred responsibility to protect the safety   
   and security of United States citizens who live in and visit our   
   Nation’s capital, including Federal workers who live or commute into the   
   District of Columbia.  These conditions cannot persist.  We will make   
   the District of Columbia one of the safest cities in the world, not the   
   most dangerous.   
      
   We all know the story of "Big Balls," who was assaulted by 10 teens who   
   tried to carjack him and his date. He defended her, suffering serious   
   injuries in the process. But his was just another in a series of such   
   attacks.   
      
   Liberals are screaming that D.C. is not as bad as it was in 2023, which   
   is true. But that is like saying that Kamala Harris was a better   
   presidential candidate than Joe Biden--in other words, so what? 2025's   
   D.C. may not be prowled by Snake Plissken combing the city for the   
   president, but if your capital city is less safe than Bogota, you have a   
   problem.   
      
   Not to mention the fact that DC is cooking the books to make things look   
   better than they are. As usual, you cannot trust what the Pravda Media   
   and the Establishment say.   
      
   One thing the establishmentarians ARE saying is that they don't care   
   what happens to people, as long as those people aren't themselves. It is   
      
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