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BumRushDaShow

(160,061 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:36 AM Saturday

National Guard asks DC leaders for 'beautification' projects as Trump says crime is gone

Source: USA Today

Sept. 13, 2025, 3:00 a.m. ET


WASHINGTON – Matthew Cohen couldn't believe the DC National Guard was offering up its soldiers to help with a neighborhood clean-up. “To have the National Guard come to our neighborhood to help pick up litter is absurd,” said Cohen, an advisory neighborhood commissioner, one of Washington's hyper-local elected officials in the city's low crime Northwest.

But he could use the help. So long as thousands of soldiers had standing orders from President Donald Trump to remain on duty in the capital, Cohen wondered, what was the harm if his community took them up on the offer?

Troops that deployed to the city in August were meant to combat what Trump called a crime emergency. Groups of camouflage-clad soldiers have since become a familiar presence, pacing the underground platforms of Metro stations in the city's downtown, along the marble halls of Union Station and at the National Mall, home to the Washington's popular monuments. Soldiers have also been spotted in parks carrying out tasks typically assigned to gardeners and landscapers – shoveling mulch, blowing leaves and scooping up trash.

Now, the DC National Guard is asking city leaders if they might help with local "beautification" projects. This tender offer comes amid protests against Trump's takeover of the city under the banner of "Free DC" and the Guard's own assessments that its deployment prompted "alarm and indignation" among residents.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/13/national-guard-deployment-beautification-dc-trump/86076365007/



Waste. Fraud. Abuse.
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Lovie777

(20,202 posts)
2. What happened to the homeless?....................
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:45 AM
Saturday

immigrants legal/illegal of all races are still there.

D.C. crime was not high, not even close to red states crimes.

The gaslighting continues, but I'm sure it will comes home to roost on shithole and comrades soon.

Cheezoholic

(3,284 posts)
3. There was time not so long ago (especially in the south) where larger groups picking up trash all had uniforms with DOC
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 11:54 AM
Saturday

on them. Now we have large groups who are picking up trach whose uniforms say Guard and are carrying side arms. What does this say about what FatFuck thinks of our blessed military service members, many of whom are in the guard after many years of active combat duty just to make ends meet?

Die already you stroked out one piston shy of a rice burner fuck!!!



FF!!!

littlemissmartypants

(29,722 posts)
6. He plays with them like plastic "army men" toys. He's living out a fantasy.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 12:58 PM
Saturday

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

Bayard

(26,974 posts)
8. Describes him to a T.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 01:19 PM
Saturday

Everybody knew it. But, half the country decided to put him in the Oval Office.

Jacson6

(1,533 posts)
4. It's called litter police call
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 12:01 PM
Saturday

Once a month we would police our outpost for about half a mile around it for good community relations in Germany forty years ago.

mainer

(12,429 posts)
10. This sounds ok to me. Like an updated CCC
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 01:25 PM
Saturday

The old conservation corps did a lot of great things.
Not that the Guard wants to be away from home doing this, but at least they're occupied in civic improvement.

BumRushDaShow

(160,061 posts)
12. Meanwhile
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 02:11 PM
Saturday
AP finds major disaster declarations are taking longer under Trump

By DAVID A. LIEB/AP, SOPHIE BATES/AP, M.K. WILDEMAN/ AP, ALEX ROZIER/Mississippi Today and ILLAN IRELAND/MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS

Updated 1:25 PM EDT, September 9, 2025


TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — As an ominous storm approached Buddy Anthony’s new home, he took shelter in his Ford F-250 pickup parked under a nearby carport. Seconds later, a tornado tore apart the one-story brick house and damaged the truck while lifting it partly in the air. Anthony emerged unhurt. But he had to replace his vehicle with a used truck that became his home while waiting for President Donald Trump to issue a major disaster declaration allowing federal money to flow to individuals reeling from loss. That took weeks.

“You wake up in the truck and look out the windshield and see nothing. That’s hard. That’s hard to swallow,” Anthony said.

Disaster survivors are having to wait longer to get aid from the federal government, according to a new Associated Press analysis of decades of data. On average, it took less than two weeks for a governor’s request for a presidential disaster declaration to be granted in the 1990s and early 2000s. That rose to about three weeks during the past decade under presidents from both major parties. It’s taking more than a month, on average, so far during Trump’s current term, the AP found.

The delays mean individuals must wait to receive federal aid for daily living expenses, temporary lodging and home repairs. Delays in disaster declarations also can hamper recovery efforts by local officials uncertain whether they will receive federal reimbursement for cleaning up debris and rebuilding infrastructure. The AP collaborated with Mississippi Today and Mississippi Free Press on the effects of these delays for this report.

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THIS is where they need to be - helping all the disaster victims "left behind".

C Moon

(13,173 posts)
11. Just like when trump said covid would be gone by summer.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 01:38 PM
Saturday

He makes crap up, and his followers and the media eat it up like a free lunch.

patphil

(8,250 posts)
14. I guess that's what you do when all the immigrants that used to do that stuff are gone.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 02:27 PM
Saturday

Too bad these National Guardsmen have other jobs back home where they came from. It would have otherwise been an exciting, new career opportunity.
Depending on their pay grade, many of them are earning more than minimum wage, which is $17.95 in Washington DC.
Add in their food and housing allowances, and they might want to consider a permanent assignment guarding the nation's capitol.

Angrybob2001

(53 posts)
16. unspoken reason
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 04:39 PM
Saturday

I havent seen anyone mention the psycological upside.

We see our local guard being forced to do clean up and beautification. This makes things look better and gives warm fuzzies. If we were seeing guard forces patrolling and harassing locals it would leave a bad taste. This is 4d chess moves on the part of the guard commanders. Trump and his cronies would never think of this. Fear is what they want not warm fuzzies.

BumRushDaShow

(160,061 posts)
17. They already have ICE doing the "harassing"
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 04:48 PM
Saturday

and the NG are the "backups" in case of some violent "reaction" to rights being stripped away, occurs.

turbinetree

(26,548 posts)
18. If and this would be a big if..............they should hand in a resignation letter to the commanding officer..........
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 09:45 PM
Saturday
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