Posted on 09/01/2025 10:29:07 AM PDT by Beave Meister
When Tennessee’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, dispatched his National Guard troops to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on crime, 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 F.B.I. statistics. Nashville has a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well.
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.
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All the cities in Texas are run by Dems
It just got re districted for Congress. Does the Times mention? Of course not
Don’t worry. Red State governors are going to start sending their NG to the cities too. Then the mayors will scream about the governors.
Black people are 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders.
You do the math.
Also, the president doesn’t have the same authority in those cities as he does in D.C.
Blue cities in red states are still blue cities.
That being said, ordinary street crime in other American cities isn't the business of the federal government. That's the responsibility of those cities, and the people living in them who voted for that political leadership.
I have zero interest in helping to rescue those cities from the consequences of their own political choices.
My favorite.
Yes, we're well aware that these little blue islands full of black people and ruled like Congolese warlord kleptocracies have a lot of crime.
We've been talking about it for years.
Oh, that would be funny as hell if some of these red state governors seized control over their violent black cities. The left would howl with rage!
Always playing the devil’s advocate, the NY Slime hates America.
The mayor of Baltimore, Branden Scott has asked President Trump for more Federal help, but no National Guard....yet.
i wonder what the big bad crime-ridden cities in red states all have in common.....
“... cities under their purview...”
That is a lie. Those cities are NOT under the Republican governor purview UNLESS the Rat mayor of those filthy rat cities ask for it.
The rat mayors are not asking for police help. They only want $cash.
I say let those rat cities fester. They voted for rat mayors and they deserve to get what’s coming.
So the Slimes admits there is a severe problem with crime. It’s a start.
Garbage reporting and lies as usual from the no-cred “reporters” at the Slimes. One of these days I hope the world takes revenge on them.
Yup morning schmuck tried to make the same point lol. What a bunch of lying tools
That kind of math they'll never do. It doesn't fit their non stop propaganda.
🤣🤣🤣 They are so full of their own execrement.
“Black people are 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders.
You do the math.”
It’s even worse than that. Generally, black women and older men don’t commit murders in huge, disproportioned numbers. So, 3% of the population, males under age 35, commit about 50% of the murders.
Hat tip to Larry Elder.
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