Trump doesn’t have the power to take over police departments in other cities apart from Washington
Donald Trump threatened to send active-duty military personnel into America’s third-largest city to quell what he described as out-of-control crime at the hands of a liberal mayor and Democratic-run city and state governments.
Speaking in the Oval Office Friday to reporters, Trump was boasting of positive crime numbers in the District of Columbia since he seized control of the capital’s police department earlier this month.
He claimed the national guard soldiers tasked with patrolling some of Washington had been doing an “incredible job working with the police” and said his solution for the capital — uniformed soldiers and roving patrols of federal agents who have largely been conducting immigration arrests of delivery drivers according to government statistics — would soon be sent to “another location” to “make it safe.”
what happened to small government not involving itself with states. i thought that was supposed to be a pillar of supposed “conservatives” that support this tragedy of a government
Republicans are not conservatives anymore, they embraced fascism, and fascists don’t care about rules. They only care about power, the kind that allows them to bully everyone into submission.
Conservatism is just watered down fascism. Always was, always will be. The difference is that conservatives worship pre-existing power while fascists seek their own power to worship.
When you get called out for being fascist, you say “I just want to conserve our old values” and decent, civilized people buy that, not thinking anyone would be so morally bankrupt that they would want more than that for their own selfish desires to see people hurt.
We have as big a problem with decent, civilized people as we do with fascism. We have to get everyone a lot less decent and “civilized” about what’s going on, and that starts with you, tender, shy, anti-social leftists reading all this. You care? You have to start caring about the right things, get off Lemmy and discord and stop bickering about little lefty issues and start fighting the right people.
No way, I want to hate Kamala more for not being against genocide enough and doing more to earn my moral high ground vote instead of doing something now. The election was not even half a term ago so this is still quite important.
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(That’s literally what conservatism is)
Conservatives have always had authoritarianism as their motivating force. Most of them probably have the mental disorder outlined in The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer.
This idea that Republicans are now somehow violating some ideals laid out in the conservative movement is a very problematic one. Probably even a dangerous one.
This video by Innuendo Studios is a really good explanation of this. The whole playlist is amazing but this video and the one after it where he shows his work should frankly be required watching before you’re allowed to talk about politics.
Big government is when Republicans arent in control.
It’s all about team sports and triggering the libs. They don’t even know what the word “hypocracy” means.
“hypocrisy”
So a standing domestic army occupying a domestic city during times of peace. That’s blatantly illegal. Unfortunately who’s going to stop him.
Yeah he fucking looks like he’s dying soon.
What dumb fucking goofball, he meets Putin face to face, gives him that bare naked palm to shake, then a week later he’s like “Oh I feel sick I think I might be dying”.
You dumb shit, of course you’re dying, one of the toxic dicks you been licking secreted KGB venom you stupid dumb asshole.
“Awww I just wanted to kiss a KGB man, now my cankles are swelling with fluid and I lost a lot of weight.”
Yeah bitch, you got poisoned!
Meanwhile the dems are all like “Did ya see Gavin Newsome say something, he’s not like the other Democrats!”
…shiiiiiiiiieet.
My amateur read would be that Trump is far more useful to Russia alive as the credulous creature he is than dead. Letting Vance carry on the MAGA legacy would be risky for Putin’s ambitions, so long as Trump is handily disrupting any hope of Ukrainian self determination, why rock the boat?
Maybe they’ve been fighting, seems like that’s what’s being said. Trump slowly realizing he’s being lied to. Better a stable person than someone who might actually nuke if he gets cranky enough (the big baby). Also, Russia probably just wants the flex - I think autocrats see the revolving door of democracies as a weakness.
Hell, maybe Putin saw the stealth bomber got paranoid and got “the guy” to slap that shit into his hand just incase.
All I know is that you meet that guy, you wash your hands straight away.
You don’t shake his hand in the first place. Why would you shake a war criminal’s hand?
are you sure it’s not spelled sheeeeeeeiit?
It’s German pronunciation
Gee I hope nobody, or several nobodies, get any bright ideas about how to, ahem…more creatively protest their presence.
Cop should have just laughed and let the guy run away. Unfortunately, he lives in the US and it is all “respect my authority” you need to go to prison for flinging a footlong.
Straighten what out?
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I agree but they will be rounding up the disabled somewhere in there.
Don’t have to round them up. They’ll all die because there’s no medicaid.
Don’t forget Teh Gheyz.
Sweet. Can we start freeing up parking spots?
Sounds like you qualify to park there already.
I would love to see Pritzker turn around and de-mobilize the guard once they get in to the state.
And then this turns into “JB Pritzker threatens to put ‘national guard’ in the White House to ‘straighten it out’ by removing an orange turd from it”
So will we have the police fighting the military? What if the police start starting the soldiers? What if members of the Chicago PD are also in the reserves, will they get called up? What would happen if the city of Chicago organized to the point that the police as a whole decided not to allow the military into the city?
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