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A Tsunami of Foul-Smelling Wastewater is Sweeping Across the United States

Elizabeth Graham Feb 3

A tsunami of foul-smelling wastewater is sweeping across the United States. It hit Washington, D.C. first leaving pungent echoes of racist narratives about urban crime. “President Donald Trump has taken control of D.C.’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis.” (PBS, August 12, 2025, written by Matt Brown).

Even as district officials questioned the claims underlying his emergency declaration, the Republican president promised a “historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” (Ibid) His rhetoric paraphrased that used by conservatives going back decades who have denounced cities with majority non-white populations or as lawless. Trump’s aggressive federal troops surging into neighborhoods reminded some of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre in which a White mob attacked the African Americans of the Greenwood District leaving over 10,000 bodies in their wake. (DOJ Statistics) Trump predicted that if their heavy-handed tactics take root in D.C., they will be rolled out to other majority-Black and Brown cities, like Chicago, Oakland, Baltimore and across the country.

Trump threats to “take over” and “beautify” D.C. is of course based on his own views. He has not decorated but defaced and deformed the Oval Office with gold accents on the walls, fireplace, and other areas. It resembles a Michaels Craft Store aisle sprinkled with gold glitter. He has destroyed the East Wing, stating he is rebuilding it as a ballroom – again attempting to make historical buildings in the U.S. resemble the gold of Russian Orthodox Churches. Now he wants a 250-foot-tall arch in D.C. that will overshadow the Washington Monument. While American families face difficulties affording food and health care, he has spent millions of dollars for ostentatious, obtrusive, flamboyant, and gaudy decorations – small and large.

He has sent National Guard troops to at least ten cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, Charlotte, NC., Memphis, TN and more. He has sent ICE armed and masked troops to these same cities plus Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, and Newark.

Trump’s focus on cities that are administered by Democrats and have a large population of Black or Brown citizens, distorts his attempted reasoning and constitutes a show of control and power rather than traditional law enforcement.

National Guard Fact Sheet (Quoted from the Public Rights Project)

The National Guard is generally under the direction of state governors. There are three statuses for the National Guard: state active duty, Title 10 (federalized), and Title 32 (hybrid status — paid by the federal government for federal purposes but under state command).

· Under state active duty, the National Guard is called to duty by their state governor for state-specific missions, like disaster response.

· Under Title 10, the president has some authority to federalize the National Guard and deploy them domestically to protect federal personnel and property. This authority is limited by statute and cannot be overridden by an executive order. Federalized National Guard troops are considered military and therefore CANNOT engage in domestic law enforcement unless the Insurrection Act is lawfully invoked. (10 U.S.C. 12406).

· Under Title 32, the National Guard can be called up for federal purposes but remain under state control. This is typically for the federal government to pay for training or other in-state needs, such as disaster relief. Governors must consent to any deployments of their state National Guard under Title 32. (32 U.S.C. 504(f))

Mr. Trump used authority under Title 10 to federalize the National Guard to support ICE agents in Los Angeles. The legality of this deployment under Title 10 is contested.

Sounding the alarm concerning Trump’s legal violations, transgressions, criminality, and acts of evil are nearly worthless. America’s decline – morally, legally, economically, educationally, is not just a dip in the cold smelly wastewater flooding our nation, but a plunge – with the number of Americans drowning and/or deliberately drowned (murdered) on the rise. At the end of Trump’s first term, the FBI reported a 30% rise in violent crimes in our nation combined with over 9,900 hate crimes against minorities.

Trump’s second term has seen the breakdown of American norms, undermining democracy through force and falsehoods. It does not matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat – the nation that you love, and call home has been sabotaged.

The Cold War – a period of geopolitical and ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union – now Russia, engaged in arms races, space exploration, and espionage. Vladimir Putin - a KGB-trained spy and an expert in espionage - is now leading Russia. Because he blames the United States for the destruction of the Soviet Union, his primary goals are to dismantle and wreck the United States. His primary strategy originates from his formative years, during which each Soviet satellite state was governed by a leader aligned with Russian interests.

Donald Trump is that man.

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