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Discussion Thread: President Trump Holds News Conference on Placing DC Police Under Federal Control and Deploying National Guard
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  1. He is absolutely *desperate* to see civil unrest to take the heat off of him so he can enact the next stage of the plan.

    Don’t fall for it. Keep the pressure on.

    RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

  2. How anyone can listen to this moron speak and still think he should be president is beyond me. 

  3. Please for one second pause and imagine the right’s reaction to if Biden or Obama did this.

  4. Crime is at historic lows in DC right now

    Claims he wants to expand national guards occupation beyond DC as well

    He is just a fascist fuck

  5. This motherfucker blaming Zelenskiy right now is absolutely fucking *wild!* Russia attacked them. Don’t let this orange fuck rewrite our history.

  7. This is the same man that pardoned 1,600 J6 rioters for the same exact crimes and in THE EXACT SAME CITY he is complaining about.

  8. This is bad – we can’t just sit here and marvel at his overreach and how he gets away with it. This is just the beginning – and history has shown us how bad things can be.
    We need to be rallying all our leaders in the legislative and judicial branch to do everything they can to stop him. Throw the convicted felon in jail!

  9. > I don’t care about myself

    I think that’s the biggest lie this shitbag has ever told.

  10. Listening to trump trying to talk about technology would be hilarious if he didn’t have the power to kill millions of people.

  11. Washington DC is at a 30 YEAR LOW IN CRIME. Do not believe their lies. I was born in DC and still live here and it’s never felt safer to me in my entire life.

  12. Holy fuck this sack of shit likes to ramble lol. Reminds me of my grandpa at the peak of his dementia.

  13. For what it’s worth, a former coworker of mine is in the DC NG and she just made an Instagram post saying how her and 4 others are refusing this order. There may be more that refuse. Hopefully.

  14. “Do you have any other questions about DC? I don’t want these people standing up here all day long…” – Bro, you’ve been rambling incoherently for the last 20 minutes.

  15. DC police under the control of a guy with 34 felonies.

  16. Clearly at some point Congress needs to make a blanket law defining what constitutes ‘emergencies’. Trump has exposed a fatal flaw where most of these laws basically let him be a dictator if there is an ‘emergency’, no matter how laughable it is

  19. Im watching a fever dream. People laughing and joking and not knowing who talks next.
    President threatens war and nobody bats an eye

  20. Most of those journalists are a disgrace to their profession, don’t hit him with any actual hard questions, and all laugh along like the circus they’re in

  21. This is an official Declaration of War on the American People.

    DC does not have statehood to fight this on a legal front. Drastic measures must be taken.

  22. The Epstein files should obviously be released but I don’t think it should stop people from seeing what is happening directly in front of their faces.

    Troops deployed on US soil for no real reason.

    This isn’t merely a distraction, this is a massive overreach of the presidents power. For all of the people who have spent years calling him a dictator and suggesting all of the terrible things he could do, we are here now. Don’t let this be normal. Don’t let it be “just a distraction.”

    This should fucking register in a major way. It’s batshit insane and should be treated as such regardless of if you initially think it’s a distraction.

  24. I’m sick and tired of people calling things a “distraction.” Taking militaristic action against homeless people is not a “distraction,” it’s a human rights violation and a crisis of personal liberty.

    It’s called “flood the zone” — there are so many things happening at once, one after the other, that it’s impossible to keep up. All of the things happening are important.

  25. That’s the first Trump press briefing I’ve ever actually watched… everyone in that room, from the administration to the press pool, is an absolute joke

  27. I can’t believe the Reichstag Fire in America is a guy named Big Balls getting punched by a 15 year old girl

  29. “If the capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty”

    This is the type of dehumanizing that Adolf Hitler did constantly, Trump wants to be Hitler and we are letting him.

  31. This isn’t a distraction, it’s more groundwork for overturning/controlling the midterms. LA was a test run to see how large blue cities will react and what they will need to do differently.

  32. In Los Angeles, Donald Trump managed to turn a peaceful part of downtown into a chaotic, graffiti-covered disaster. Then he left and other people had to deal with it. I assume DC is next.

  33. We have mass shootings, school shootings, natural disasters, widespread power outages, etc that don’t even get a response like this.

    One man baby gets punched by a child and the entire city has to be locked down by the national guard?

  34. People storming capitol building attacking police: I can’t call in the NG and Nancy won’t call them in

    Few homeless people and falling crime rate: IM SENDING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD AND MILITARY TO CLEAN UP THE CITY. RESPECT MY AUTHORITY

  35. I feel like the CIA would step in and ‘have a word’ if a president acted like this 50 years ago

  37. Everyone screaming that a reichstag fire type event is coming are missing that we are already past that. 

  40. Can someone just publicly call him out to his face? Would it really nuke someone’s career to just tell him “No, you’re wrong, you’re making all this up, you’re a lying fascist child fucker”

  41. Paving the way for increased use of force against citizens.

  42. Rewatching Mr robot right now and it’s so prescient. They never comment on armed military patrolling the subway and barking about curfews. They’re just… there. I can’t believe the don’t tread on me crowd signed up for this future.

  43. Interesting… why did the convicted felon Donald Trump refuse to do this for his violent criminals on January 6th?

  45. Authoritarianism isn’t always a big grand coup with a tank and a machine gun. Sometimes it happens like this. Drop by drop. This country is on a terrifying path. I’m making arrangements to have an exit plan, but that really isn’t enough. What happens when the world’s most terrifying military is under nationalistic, authoritarian rule? Terrifying times.

  47. The Epstein List is about to get leaked. Not many other reasons for this much force.

  48. so let’s be clear. he didnt send in the national guard during an attempted insurrection on January 6th. however when “big balls” was car jacked he send them in. even with DC experiencing 30 year lows in crime.

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