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Another Lie, Another Guard Deployment
Big Balls got carjacked so now all of DC must pay
mister mix
August 12, 2025
WASHINGTON—President Trump deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and placed the city’s police department under federal control, launching an unprecedented effort to take charge of the nation’s capital.
“This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re going to take our capital back,” Trump said during a news conference at the White House, where he was flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other senior administration officials.
Trump deployed roughly 800 D.C. National Guard troops to the city, and he said he would consider calling in active-duty military troops if needed. He also suggested he might attempt to exert more federal control over other U.S. cities, mentioning Baltimore, New York and Oakland, Calif.
Violent crime in DC is down 35% year-over-year, but who’s gonna let a few facts cloud a good story? Big Balls, the former DOGEr who’s now breaking stuff at the Social Security Administration, got carjacked and beat up by some 15 year-olds, so crime is out of control in DC, obviously.
Trump has a lot more power over DC than other cities, since he can essentially federalize the police force by telling a lie, one of his few core competencies. He doesn’t have that kind of power over the other cities he mentioned.
Congress is out of session so Democrats can’t go to the floor and complain (and get guaranteed press coverage). I think the right response to this is to remind everyone about the Epstein files and say that Democrats will make DC a state as soon as we have the votes.
Trump is getting all of the oxygen because he has the biggest microphone and he’s outlandish (or norm-busting, or pick your adjective). The only way to counter this, politically, is to have a strong program of what Democrats will do when we’re in power. Just not being Trump isn’t enough.
Also, I’m not being cavalier about big city crime. Rochester had a lot of crime — we punched above our weight, crime-wise — but honestly I didn’t worry much because I knew what neighborhoods to stay away from. I wish the cops there did a better job, and I also wish that the people locked in a cycle of violence had some other alternatives, but bringing in the National Guard would have accomplished little to nothing to prevent crime in that town.
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