Day: September 8, 2025

Why Are Red States Exempt?

Dear Donny has been flexing what muscle he has in DC and in turn is threatening other Blue States and cities with federal intervention….like NYC, California, Chicago, etc…..but why are Red sites exempt from this  intervention?

The New York Times’ David W. Chen, in an article published on Labor Day 2025, emphasizes that some of the most violent cities in the U.S. are in red states.

“When Tennessee’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, dispatched his National Guard troops to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on crime,” Chen reports, “Democrats and other critics wondered why he didn’t keep them within state lines. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital, according to FBI statistics. Nashville has a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well.”

The New York Times reporter continues, “The same questions could be asked of other Republican governors like Greg Abbott in Texas, Mike DeWine in Ohio and Mike Kehoe in Missouri, since cities under their purview all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. Yet no Republican governor has asked for federal intervention.”

Chen notes that the “image of red-state governors mustering uniformed troops for duty in blue-state cities” has “left many Americans with the foreboding sense of a nation dangerously divided, perhaps even drifting toward open conflict.”

Chen explains, “Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield, Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Memphis and Nashville; Houston; Little Rock, Ark.; Salt Lake City; and Shreveport, La., all have crime rates comparable to Washington’s, according to FBI statistics…. Indeed, Republican governors who have so far declined to ask the president for an intervention in their cities might be tempted to rethink that stance.”

https://www.alternet.org/trump-abbott-dewine/

Why indeed.

First it sits well with those mental midgets that are die hard MAGA fans to blame everything on Dems….second it is Little Donny Do-wrong getting even with people and places that have somehow ‘wronged’ him in the past.

Ignorant policy from an ignorant man.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Winds Of Change?

After decades of building a public support for the money being spent on policies to counter the ‘China problem’…..is about to change…..and after spending billions upon billions to protect Taiwan…..

The newly rebranded Department of War is expected to release a National Defense Strategy that prioritizes missions in the homeland and the Western Hemisphere over countering China and Russia, a shift from the Pentagon’s policy in recent years, which has placed China as the top priority, according to a report from POLITICO.

The report said that the new NDS has been placed on the desk of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who could make changes to the document before it’s released. The news comes as the US military has been deploying National Guard troops in US cities and has sent an armada of warships near Venezuela in the Caribbean, where it recently bombed a boat allegedly carrying drugs.

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A new NDS that de-prioritizes China doesn’t mean that the US will slow its military buildup in the Asia Pacific, since China is still expected to be the top priority outside of the Western Hemisphere. Colby is also overseeing the Pentagon’s Global Posture Review, which could lead to US troop reductions in Europe and the Middle East, potentially allowing more troops to be deployed to Latin America and Asia.

(antiwar.com)

After the attack on the so-called drug boat off the coast of Venezuela the US is focusing more and more on Latin America…. we have moved a navy flotilla into the waters off Venezuela and after the boat attack the jets of Lula’s military keeps buzzing the American ships….

Here we go again….another regime change to waste money on yet again….

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday didn’t rule out the possibility of the US military pursuing regime change in Venezuela and suggested more US strikes on boats in the region were coming.

Hegseth made the comments in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday morning, the day after the US bombed a boat in the Southern Caribbean that it claimed without evidence was carrying drugs, marking the first US kinetic military action in the name of combating drug trafficking, though the real purpose of the attack may be part of a new push to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

“We have assets in the air, assets in the water, assets on ships because this is a deadly serious mission for us, and it won’t stop … with just this strike,” Hegseth said. “Anyone else trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate.”

When asked if the goal was regime change in Venezuela, Hegseth said that was a “presidential decision” and added that “we’re prepared with every asset that the American military has.”

(antiwar.com)

Every administration has to have in its sights a nation for regime change……

Why is that?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”