Donald Trump placed the DC Metropolitan police department under federal control on Monday, deploying the national guard while describing a “lawless” city in ways that are sharply at odds with crime statistics reported by the police.

Invoking section 740, of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, the president vowed to allow police to “do whatever the hell they want” in the face of provocations. “That’s the only language they [alleged criminals] understand.

“They like to spit in the face of the police,” Trump said at the White House. “You spit, and we hit, and they get hit real hard.”

At his press conference, where reporters were squeezed into both aisles, Trump continued: “I don’t like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful Capital was.”

He continued: “We’re declaring a public safety emergency in the District of Columbia and attorney general Pam Bondi is taking command of the Metropolitan police department as of this moment.

Well, I guess this'll make for good TV.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Last time this happened, the president (of South Korea) was impeached, suspended, arrested, and charged with insurrection.

Look, I can dream, okay?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Basically a test to see if he can get away with calling for martial law.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I bet the cops fucking love this

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    slowly building their support so he will have fewer defectors when he declares full martial law.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why would he declare martial law? Are there experts warning about this? If so, then who?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    he's been announcing his intent to stay in the White House after his 4 years. Martial law would be one way to achieve that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    he’s been announcing his intent to stay in the White House after his 4 years.

    He said the same thing the last time he was president. He's full of shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think the key difference this time is that he can't legally continue to be president after this term's up, so things like martial law become the only way to actually accomplish it. He could bank on re-election before. He can't now.

    I don't know if I'm ready to say he will do this, but it is unfortunately within the realm of possibility, and significantly moreso than it was in 2020. (Also, January 6th happened.)

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    [–] 99 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Is he that scared of Eptein information coming out that he's going to occupy American cities to get the media to forget?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm like 99% sure he's doing this to have control over DC law enforcement so that when he does some absolutely outrageous thing that will cause a mass riot he'll be ready to crush it. :/

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That’s what I think. I also imagine not all of the tanks he brought in for his little celebration left.

    Mix in flattening the rose garden you could see him wanting to have a firm open clearing there for defences.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, that is the distraction, so you can keep talking about the files while he occupies American cities.

    Wake up.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    There's fun scene in burn notice where they fill a can with thermite (aluminum and rust), put in on a gangster's hood and make him watch it burn through his engine block. This was pre drones and shit. Doesn't have much to do with this you just reminded me.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It's really a sign of the times that "Removed by moderator" is quickly becoming a stand in for the call to action we all know is long overdue.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Nowhere in my comment did I call for violence 🤷‍♂️ the mods must have a direct line to big balls or something

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    You absolutely were (though I disagree with it being removed)

    It would be horrible if they ramped up the rate at which they're doing it in DC.

    Sarcasm isn't a magic cloak of deniability.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    What? I'm sorry you believe you can detect sarcasm through text, but that's only possible through assumptions and projection. My comment very literally is against it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Did the author die, or was it murder?

    Sarcasm and irony can both be expressed through text, and neither require projection or assumption (beyond that required to establish basic context (like language)) when written or when expressed verbally. Why are you trying to pretend that's not the case, when the whole of the written canon is full of thousands of years of ample examples to the contrary?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But I wasn't being sarcastic, so your detector is clearly faulty? I'm not sure what to tell you except that you made false assumptions. You can either accept that or you can believe you are all knowing, lol

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Sure and if you claimed anything different, you'd risk being banned. I get it. It's transparent, but I get it. Keep on dodging if you like, I'm certainly not trying to wring a confession out of you, just point out that the removal was justified and that you're going to have to try harder if you want to actually convince anyone.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Reminder that police who do not identify themselves are not police.

    It is legal to kill in self defense or defense of others if unidentifiable people are trying to abduct people off the street.

    It's moral to do so even

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It may be legal on paper or by social media lawyers but courts and federal judges will be quick to ignore all that shit. Also I don't know about you but me pulling out an EDC to defend against a team of highly trained and equipped like they are taking a stroll through Baghdad Red Zone circa 2007 seems like unfavorable odds for me. I like living sometimes.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    No one wants to die, everyone needs to make the right decisions for themselves, and for legal reasons I would never advocate for violence.

    However...

    ...turned out to be a bit of a surprise for the world's most powerful military.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't need to be well armed. Just smart and patient.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    FYI - He tried this in Portland last time:

    https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland

    Bonus: The guy in charge of it, Chad Wolf (not making that up) had been illegally appointed and had no authority:

    https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/dont-shoot-portland-v-wolf/

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    He tested it in California, now is going after DC. Next will be New York until eventually he will get to all states.

    Remember that it is much easier to stop 1 10,000 people protest than 10 1,000 people protests.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    If you wanna crack down on crime in DC, start with the biggest criminal in the whitehouse

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Those quarter pounders need to get to work on those capillaries

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tf? Is it 1936 over there or what?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If the DC police just storm the Whitehouse and supreme Court, and publicly execute every Trump cronie they come across I think they'll find some really nice bonuses under the tree this year

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Trumps organs need to seize up and stop working.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Christ, he called out the statues again.

    He and his racist base are just so butthurt about statues. So he's going to occupy a city to....1. protect racist statues, 2. go after the homeless, and 3. remove slums.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    My dad (RIP) became nuts over civil war statues. I don't remember him ever saying anything hot/cold fora long time one way or another about the Confederacy even though we lived near Shiloh Military Park. We talked about Civil War kind of stuff normally for years, but then all of a sudden he was 100% white hot on Civil War statues and would not entertain anything but total agreement. He would slam the phone down on me and then call right back to chew me out if I didn't instantly and fully agree with what he was saying about they are part of our history and should be protected. He'd park in front of the county courthouse to make sure that nothing happened to the statue there. I felt like he was acting the same way that I did when I was a dumb idiot and getting mad about all the wrong things.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Title makes it sound like the DC police are a bunch of pussies and trump grabbed them

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    not president, Dictator

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Didn't even declare martian law first.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Basically the Pedo Party are following in Hitler's footsteps and once again the world is gonna let it happen till a giant ass worthless ww starts

    Over an ugly fat addled pedophile with a tiny dick and low IQ...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    @Davriellelouna My first thought when Trump said this was that he pardoned the Jan 6 insurrections who spit on the very same DC and Capitol police officers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    yeah.... y'all really need to start protecting yourselves with force

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    Military control freak

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He’s seized the country’s capital.

    Seriously? Us citizens just shrug. Americans deserve all they get.

    Live free or die, my ass!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Sure, storm the Capitol against the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen! Your 9mm and 12 gauge shotgun will surely make a dent and you won't just die for the 9pm news cycle.

    Stay alive till an organized resistance is formed. Sure it might be awhile, but you won't die and be forgotten in 6 hours when something else pops.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There will be no one left to resist

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    Good lord, this has to be the most distracting of all distractions to ever distraction. Amazing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Not the onion?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Those are about to be the highest-paid and most poorly-trained cops in the country.

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    edit: is the oniony? I don’t know anymore.

    No.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Hes cleansing the streets so when leaders come to his stupid new ballroom, they won't see the realities of life in DC. Also see what Beijing and Paris did during the Olympics.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Amerika über alles!
    Sieg heil!

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    Countering this is what the militia were supposed to be for, why the US was never supposed to have a standing Army, and why the National Guard is not an appropriate substitute for the militia.

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