President Trump says he may send National Guard to New Orleans next instead of Chicago “We’re making a determination now,” Trump said in the Oval Office to reporters. “Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans?” Portrait of Joey GarrisonJoey Garrison USA TODAY
President Donald Trump suggested he may not send National Guard troops into Chicago as he’s repeatedly threatened, and for the first time introduced a potential new target for his next crime crackdown: New Orleans.
One day after he declared, “We’re going in” about plans for Chicago, Trump on Sept. 3 said his administration still hadn’t decided whether he would deploy troops to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump instead pointed to New Orleans, a city in a Republican-led state, in contrast to Democratic-led Illinois.
“We’re making a determination now,” Trump said in the Oval Office to reporters. “Do we go to Chicago or do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad”?
“So, we’re going to be going to maybe Louisiana,” Trump added.
Fuuuuck. So once again I am guessing he’s going with the path of least resistance bc our governor would literally burn us to the ground if Trump asked him to show his loyalty. I have no no doubt he would let Trump use us to test out any authoritarian bullshit requested.
Meanwhile, I believe Trump lost a lawsuit yesterday with California and I know Chicago’s mayor and governor were both making plans and preparations to resist occupation. So again this will be a very easy way to signal he’s doing something.
BTW, in addition to already having a private nonprofit surveillance company that works with NOPD and LSP (and already set up the only live tracking facial recognition surveillance system of its kind in the U.S. with no notice or input to the public) the National Guard will be New Orleans 4th official branch of city dedicated law enforcement:
NOPD
Louisiana State Police (LSP) branch Troop Nola was permanently established in the city last year by Governor Landry almost as soon as he took office.
And if you have anything like a car wreck, you have to deal with a private company the city contracts out to called On Scene Services (OSS)
All I’ve heard since Troop Nola was established is how much crime is down and we should be grateful for their presence. But apparently that has suddenly changed and we need to add a 4th (in addition to ICE and official ICE State police partners who may already be using the facial recognition surveillance tracking system with zero oversight.
I’ve been to new orleans and it sucked.
You can drink in public and everyone pisses in the street because all the stores charge people to use their bathrooms.
Hmmm, sounds like you kinda suck
Not really. Sounds more like you’re insecure and flustered.
Try to learn how to take criticism 😎
Nah, I just really love my city. I’ve always believed you would have to be an incredibly miserable person to come here and not find something you enjoy.
From your description I would assume you never left Bourbon the entire time you were here. Sucks for you 🤷♀️
There was one good thing about New Orleans.
I got to eat a bunch of shrimp for a very good price.
LA mayor, black woman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
DC mayor, black woman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Bowser
Chicago mayor, black man https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Johnson
Baltimore mayor, black man https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Scott
New Orleans mayor, black woman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
What a very odd coincidence. Every city he wants to deploy troops to happens to have black leadership. So strange. I wonder why…
I know! I know!
Quick AI assisted search gives this:
There are currently 13 black mayors of major cities in the United States. The cities with black mayors include:
- Los Angeles, California
- Chicago, Illinois
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Charlotte, North Carolina
- Washington, D.C.
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Detroit, Michigan
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Killeen, Texas
- New Orleans, Louisiana (Mayor LaToya Cantrell)
Don’t know if this is an exhaustive list of black mayors of major cities, but it definitely is a familiar sounding list
Don’t post this trash if you’re not going to verify it.
Here’s an idea, I’ll do what I want!
Some people, honestly…
Don’t know what constitutes “major”, but if you expand out to the top 50 by population then over half have a mayor that is a PoC. A lot of those are in red states and are in trouble if these fascists start targeting blue dots specifically, I fear
You have to be careful, saying you used ai gets you mega down voted. Lemmy is a weird place at times.
The problem is that AI halucinates and says things that aren’t true with full confidence.
To me, saying “I used AI to answer a question” is no different than saying “I asked my neighbor. He’s pretty smart and knows about these things.” He might be right 95% of the time but his words should not be treated or repeated as facts without independent verificatfon.
Or put another way, if the top result in your Google search is a reddit post, maybe look at some other sites too.
So to this person stating that they used AI, thank you for being honest. Now we know that your info might need a little more analysis if there’s any error or dispute.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use AI, it’s an excellent tool. Just saying that we need to be mindful of what LLMs really are.
ChatGPT can hallucinate, others are better.
They all hallucinate. Just like NA (Natural Intelligence, which I suspect is also an LLM)
That it is technically possible on all of them does not mean that they all do it to the same amount. Geez Lemmy users need to catch up and not be left behind in their rabidness. AI isn’t going to take your job, someone that knows how to use Ai will take your job.
I wasn’t criticising AI. Sounds like you just wanted to pick a fight. Who hurt you?
Yikes. AI is horrendously inaccurate but sure. You came here and picked a fight about this because you want to feel right but you’re not
Well my reply to that would be that it’s as dumb as saying you’ll never use Google because it shows you porn sometimes.
For general searches that are common knowledge, it’s a very good tool for fetching information. No it’s not perfect so don’t take anything from it to the bank.
But for discussion purposes? More than good enough, no more subject to error than real humans and almost always more accurate and thorough.
That actually is a legitimate point. Any search engine worth my time will show porn more than just sometimes.
TACO Trump folds to Chicago cause they stood up to him. Pay attention other cities, you don’t have to just roll over!
Our governor is welcoming him with open arms. He literally made a post on his X account saying we welcome them with open arms across the entire state.
Which governor are you referring to? Illinois or Louisiana?
Louisiana
TACO knows Chicago ain’t gonna mess around. A red state will roll over and show it’s belly.
Still not detracting from: WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES, PEDOnald???
Get ya po’ boys ready!
Right but Trump is a liar. Nobody believes a word he says; this story is a waste of space. Of course he would say this to deflect from the bad news of targeting blue cities … right before going into Chicago anyway.
And he’s in the Epstein Files. Don’t forget that.
Well, he may be chickening out. There’s plenty of precedent for that.
He’s not a liar. He just changes his mind. To keep his opponents on their toes!!
21d chess mofo!
/s
And he’s in the Epstein Files. Don’t forget that.
What’s the kind of end game of this thing? What would happen if it was decisively proven that Trump is in there and actually fucked underaged people?
Would USA get President Vance? Would that be better? Or is the point just to keep hammering about the Epstein files, not to get Trump fired but to just create tiny stings at him so that he cannot do things?
President Donald Trump suggested he may not send National Guard troops into Chicago as he’s repeatedly threatened, and for the first time introduced a potential new target for his next crime crackdown: New Orleans.
This really goes to show that this has shit to do with crime. It’s just "what other state will I fuck over now? Who don’t I like?
Got to intimidate the blue states. Notice how he isn’t sending his SA to Houston, one of the highest crime rates in the nation?
Trump Always Chickens Out
Texas National Guard has already been staging troops and equipment
at Great Lakes.I wonder who paid for that.e:
Ah I got that quote wrong, however:
“We have reason to believe that the Trump Administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois.”
I doubt that’s Texas National Guard, everyone would know if they already deployed.
Much more likely that Great Lakes is hosting a surge of ICE agents
I’m gonna trust Pritzker on that. His statement yesterday briefly mentioned that his administration is receiving “unauthorized” information from “patriots inside the [Trump] administration.”
Pritzker said he received information about Trump’s plans, not that the Guard already deployed.
He said that Texas National Guard was staging
at Great Lakes “starting yesterday [Monday]”.e: @FlowVoid@lemmy.world drew me to recognize my error.
Ah I got that quote wrong, however:
“We have reason to believe that the Trump Administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois.”
No, he said “ICE, Customs and Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security, and other similarly situated federal agencies” had started staging.
Ah I got that quote wrong, however:
“We have reason to believe that the Trump Administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois.”
This is the solution? Roll the military? And to what end? Forever? This is the solution to crime, bring in an army that is hand picked to be loyal only to Trump.
This is what you gt when you vote and have no brains.
The mouth-breathers have permanent erections from this because they think it’s double-plus awesome to waste time and money on having jack-booted thugs threaten brown people.
The Louisiana governor is receptive to it. Dumbass sycophant.
Fuck this. Where do we protest?
You misspelled riot.
