Trump Admin takes over D.C. Policing

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CFordUNC said:
Completely agree. My thing is that I am not reflexively opposed to everything that Donald Trump does because I don’t like Donald Trump or because I don’t like Republicans. It’s not that at all. I am reflexively opposed to everything that Donald Trump does because I would be reflexively opposed to anyone of any party concentrating so much power into the executive branch. We are setting a very, very dangerous precedent- and if Republicans think that only Republicans are going to occupy the White House for the rest of history, or that only Republicans would use such concentrated executive power for nefarious ends, they clearly have not paid too much attention in history classes. My reason for reflexively opposing everything that Trump does is because I want the United States to be better than all of the other countries we’ve read about throughout history that succumbed to a tyrannical executive.
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Right. We always need to not only think about the present; we must always be thinking about “what comes next?”

I hate to be Dr. Strange in Endgame, but a lot of the positivefuture strands are burning out. It’s probably more than one good ending, but this this thing here and elsewhere, it’s not a lot of solutions. At least Paine brought that, even when I thought he was misguided.

Hey Paine, if you are reading this, we miss you!
 
Ramrouser said:
Trump is acting under the authority given to the President under the DC Home Rule Act. Not a dictator. He must get Congressional approval after 30 days. I’m not understanding the hysteria.
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Again, though, even if Trump is not that dictator after all, despite what some of his rhetoric may imply, this still opens the door for a future dictator, with similar, or even much more subdued, rhetoric than Trump, to become that dictator. Powers erode. They aren’t taken away all at once.
 
This will definitely continue past 30 days. My son is in the VA National Guard and they are looking for volunteers for up to 90 days.
 
I remodeled a row hose across from Rock Creek Parkway area in the 90s. We'd go up a couple of weeks at a time and get enough done so the subs could come in and then come back and enclose and frame more. Never felt troublesome to me even though the crime rate was much higher then.
 
TangledUpInBlue06 said:
If you've never cursed at a motorcade for interrupting your commute, you should probably sit out offering opinions on what DC residents want and think.
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1. I did that within the last week.
2. I don't see what that has to do with the topic of this discussion, which is the high-crime parts of DC, where no additional LEOs are being deployed.
 
Oh, and where are people going to go? Particularly the homeless. Prisons? The streets somewhere else? Suddenly built and staffed mental institutions? Florida Alcatraz? Other countries? Prisons/asylums in other countries? This isn’t a solution. It is a round-up. Not just people who commit crime, but the homeless.

There but by the grace of god go I.

And yes, language like “Unhoused” is stupid, but older generations often find the language of younger generations stupid. And through it all language keeps on evolving.
 


[dripping sarcasm] like what? [Reporter: terrorism] oh, really, terrorism? They’ll stop terrorism with what they’re doing right now. No. [talks about small number troops used and how thousands of DC police some good some bad weren’t allowed to do their jobs before this takeover] … You know it’s only two days but you look at the numbers already they’re dropping and uh No they’re not being pulled off anything.”
 
sringwal said:
Oh, and where are people going to go? Particularly the homeless. Prisons? The streets somewhere else? Suddenly built and staffed mental institutions? Florida Alcatraz? Other countries? Prisons/asylums in other countries? This isn’t a solution. It is a round-up. Not just people who commit crime, but the homeless.

There but by the grace of god go I.

And yes, language like “Unhoused” is stupid, but older generations often find the language of younger generations stupid. And through it all language keeps on evolving.
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I, for one, would be more than happy to use the term "homeless" if conservatives would stop trying to remove them to concentration camps.
 
finesse said:
You could note the steady decline in crime rate over those 50 years but you'd rather believe the lies. It's really not a good look for you.
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What's really not a good look is you arguing dc has been successful in any meaningful way at combating crime over the last 50 years.
 
Ramrouser said:
Trump is acting under the authority given to the President under the DC Home Rule Act. Not a dictator. He must get Congressional approval after 30 days. I’m not understanding the hysteria.

Speaking of hysteria, the DC sandwich slinger has been identified as a DOJ attorney. Bondi just fired him.
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At least something good came out of Subway
 
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Callatoroy said:
What's really not a good look is you arguing dc has been successful in any meaningful way at combating crime over the last 50 years.
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Doubling down on stupid? Constant improvement is damned sure on the way to success. How can that kind of progress not be meaningful?
 
finesse said:
Doubling down on stupid? Constant improvement is damned sure on the way to success. How can that kind of progress not be meaningful?
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lol. I guess your definition of success carries a really low threshold. When your best is still among the worst its kind of hard to celebrate that for anyone other than the people who run the city.
 
lawtig02 said:
I'm about 99% certain none of the conservatives posting here have ever visited DC.
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Been there many, many times going back to high school. Son currently lives there.

What prompts you to say something like that? Conservatives don't travel?
 
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