Trump starts offensive against Democratic cities

[suffragette]

The new directive to strip federal funds from sanctuary cities and the launch of an investigation about so-called illegal voting are both targeting Democratic cities.

Let's call these decisions what they are - moves against Democratic cities designed to defund them and repress voting.

[SoCalNative]

1. The jokes is actually on the orange creamsicle

because Democratic cities and states are the ones that support the red staters.

Perhaps we counter with threatening to withhold the federal taxes we send in return.

[Ohioblue22]

2. withhold it if they can give it to eed states then youre paying too much

[lagomorph777]

4. Spicer admitted today that the "Voter Fraud Investigation" will target "big states."

That's not even a dog whistle; it's an admission of guilt.

[suffragette]

7. Mayors like Seattle's Ed Murray have previously stated they were examining options

Of what to if Trump went through on his threat to do this.

I wonder if that is one possible action.

[BainsBane]

21. But we don't have the option of not paying fed income tax

Which is how that support is financed.

[workinclasszero]

3. Don't forget his threat to send in the "feds" (national guard?) to Chicago

A little martial law to chill big democratic cities anyone?

[suffragette]

5. They purposefully selected Chicago to launch the propaganda surrounding these measures

That threat is part of it.

[bigtree]

6. yes

...and targeting black and Latino voters, ultimately with a view toward restricting or obstructing their votes even further than they were in the last dismal exercise.

[suffragette]

14. Exactly bigtree. Yesterday, I noted the similarity to actions Republicans took after Sanchez

beat Dornan in CA in the 90s and that I thought it likely that if they actually started an investigation they would use it to further repress the right to vote, particularly targeting minority voters.

They'll likely go after college voters too, especially those attending school in a different state. Currently they can register in either state to vote.

[Freethinker65]

8. Gee Donald what if these cities remove protection and services from your properties located there???

[suffragette]

17. He'd probably call in whatever Blackwater calls itself these days, given his ties to Erik Prince.

[meow2u3]

9. Will there be blue states seceding in the near future?

Blue states and "reddened" Rust Belt states with Democratic governors won't be having any of Tramp's oppressive bullshit, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were secessions on the coasts or even a new civil war.

[suffragette]

18. I imagine they'll fight on constitutional grounds. But if it gets really bad, who knows.

[mattclearing]

22. This was my initial reaction as well, but don't expect a civil war.

The military will mutiny before they follow orders to invade NYC.

[Aristus]

10. Democratic cities? That's almost all of them, right?

Trumpsters, by and large, live out in the provinces. Probably because no one with a brain or a heart can stand to be around them...

[Jim Beard]

12. Not Fort Worth

[Aristus]

13. Yeah, so I hear.

I understand Dallas leans left, though...

[Jim Beard]

15. Yeah, I just had to be one to say , oh there is one. You are right about Dallas........

and we can add San Antonio, ElPaso, Austin, and Huston but we have one more city full of turds and that one is Corpus Christi. It should be Democratic with the high Hispanic population but it was Gerrymandered with the Military's Naval air station which always voted Republican.

[suffragette]

19. Even a small city is a city. I get your point though. Looks like Ed Murray will have

A press conference at 1:30 today to respond.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OfficeofMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


SEA Mayor's Office
@OfficeofMayor
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.@MayorEdMurray, @SeattleCouncil & advocates to hold press conference at 1:30pm in response to President Trump's orders on immigration.

[Freethinker65]

11. Trumps fucking Towers are in BLUE cities.....not in "real" RED America

[lagomorph777]

20. If he actually owned any of "his" towers, he might care about that.

But he's in hock to Putin up to his eyeballs; he doesn't actually own anything at all.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Sometimes I wonder if the guy is even liquid.

I would really like to know what his true net worth was. I have a feeling he extremely over-leveraged.

[haele]

16. His buddies really wants martial law, doesn't he?

Lean hard on the larger cities, sew chaos in the more fragile/minority communities, start riots, then send in the troops.
It's social genocide - the people behind Trump are hoping for a Helter Skelter/Long Hot Summer/Purge type event nation-wide, and then we can be a Supreme White Christianist Nation - just like Russia.
If a few thousand - or a few hundred thousand - or a few million minorities and liberals are killed, injured, made homeless, or incarcerated - they'd be even happier.

Trump - he could care less what happens to anyone but himself and his family. He just wants to be rich and "respected". It's the people around him that allow him to knowingly play at being a figurehead that really worry me.

Haele