The Police State Has Arrived

It isn't about crime or the border you dunce. It's about federal overreach, proto-authoritarian practices, incursions on our civil liberties, and the normalization of a military presence into everyday life.

What you are doing now is the exact same thing people did regarding the PATRIOT act 20 years ago. "Oh well you must support terrorism if you don't want perpetual pervasive government surveillance"

Crime was already at a 30 year low in DC.

Trump should point his angry NPCs toward something more productive.

Maybe find a way to get red states off blue state subsidies.

'A young black woman in DC beamed on camera while saying she feels so much safer in the city since President Trump's controversial crime crackdown.
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Finally able to chill at a red light with my windows down,' the TikTok user @bigdawglexi said as she sat in her car.
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(I'm) not worried about if one of them young n***s is coming… Riding through the city, feeling more safe than I ever felt.'

Poor thing is clueless. She needs to suppress her happiness. Push it way way down.

I heard you're moving to Tulsa because its safer?

I don’t live in DC.

But im glad the Tulsa comparison stuck.

As my mom used to say “clean up your own room first”

Daddies back in town...Time to spank the Democrat criminals...

https://www.facebook.com/RepBrianBabin/posts/dc-has-worse-homicide-rates-than-mexico-city-lagos-and-nairobi-the-capital-of-th/1315834409905746/

Yeah! This is great, troops on the ground cleaning up that Swamp. Let’s go!

Imagine having the legal authority to reduce crime in DC (like Trump does), but not using that authority.

Democrats say....Yeah, crime is bad , but it used to be worse...

It's called "liberal logic"

my understanding is that in addition to walking around the streets like police -- which itself is illegal under posse comitatus -- they are also doing immigration checks -- ie, "show me your papers."

meanwhile in california they were doing immigration checks outside of newsom's political rally. so this is becoming a disruptive federal show of force for blatant political use. metastasizing beyond the claimed purpose to anything the government wants jackboots behind.

how could that possibly go wrong, conservatives????

do y'all ever spend 5 seconds to think what this would be like if obama or biden did it to you? or do you have no principles other than jabbing libs and violence?

you're conflating things. he has authority to run DC PD for one month in an emergency. this isn't an emergency and he's said it will last more than a month. so BUZZ

he has no authority to call up military/federakized national guard and use them as police on US soil. that violates posse comitatus. it's an anti-dictatorship "rubicon" sort of thing. if you want a safe democracy you don't want the military going around hounding, arresting, or killing political opponents, citizens have rights like being on the streets, protesting, speaking, and not being stopped without probable cause.

Let me try to spell this out clearer for you. Crime is nothing but an excuse that is being used to roll out federal troops for the purposes of controlling the civilian population. That doesn't happen in democracies. You are cheering on the implementation of an authoritarian police state because you've been convinced by the powers that be that "owning the libs" is the ultimate political end goal. By supporting this though, you are owning yourself too. The elites are the real enemy here, not your fellow citizens.

I mean, Biden forced people to take a vaccine and stay in their homes. Yes, people were angry, and they remain angry. Biden's henchmen pissed all over the constitution in a way we've never seen before:

cnn.com

Kentucky will order people attending Easter services in person to quarantine | CNN

Faith Karimi,Mallika Kallingal,Rebekah Riess

Kentucky is urging residents to avoid Easter services this weekend due to the coronavirus pandemic, warning that anyone who attends in person will be ordered to quarantine for 14 days.

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Sickening.

"Kentucky"
not "Biden"
not "Federal Government"

This example was done at the state level

the OP is correct. rufo effectively spilled the beans and, paraphrasing it how i see it, said this is their perceived window to try baby dictatorship jackbooting against crime and immigration. that it was a race between their bukele style efforts and liberals convincing people or courts it is bad.

and so we're watching the folks who on right wing issues flop down like john stockton and grab their constitution while they roll around, turn into jackboot advocates.

and what's worse is the president believes in nothing and no one but himself.

the reason we had a million-plus dead from covid and not, say, 2000 like new zealand, is folks like you.

this was a basic survival situation like a war. 1 in every 300 people died in this country, and it would have been worse if we'd done nothing.

i invite you to do your stupid crap like this when the Big One comes. but then the reality is that the pandemic that kills the amount of people conservatives are willing to take seriously, would likely result in complete societal breakdown. but at that point you might consider acting like an adult and not a 5 year old.

y'all live in some alternative facts universe that has zero to do with reality.

i also guess you have spent zero time watching what's happening in gaza, which is what happens when the hospitals become overwhelmed and cease to function.

y'all are not bright enough to get that if too many people make a bad bet on covid is fake, then get sick, then go to the hospital, the hospitals hit a point where they can no longer handle all the covid people who need help, or the other people who need a hospital, eg, heart attacks, accidents.

beyond that you're so selfish and blinkered you literally want to walk around and make everyone else sick, based on self centered theories.

at that point, yes, we start needing public masks, police sending people home, etc. you don't want that, have some consideration for someone besides yourself.

despite trump turning on basically everyone in his first administration by the end, they think he is their unchanging friend. you have to read histories of dictatorships neutrally and not in some triumphalist yay america mindset. then you start to see the signals.

it's already military on the streets for no good reason, ignore the law and constitution and do whatever, and a list of things liberals can't talk about without getting defunded or arrested or lose their job (eg black history, gay issues, israeli war crimes).

many of his voters did not go to college, are overly obsessed with politics as a team sport, and can't mirror the concerns across and see the risks of trump turning on them, or a left wing government with the same powers. they don't do abstractions well. and they haven't read their history where some commie government lets a thousand flowers bloom and then jails everyone who spoke up, or the purges. like they lived the first trump administration where he turned on literally everyone he hired, and yet they think they are somehow safe. he'll always be their friend. all this government will never turn on them.

i mean what makes me laugh is last president the supreme court invalidated a student loan plan that was authorized but just did more than they liked. and this president can just do whatever the heck, who cares about authority, the constitution, etc.

you put that together with the brooks brothers riot of 2000 and january 6, plus the bush black sites, plus trump's stuff, and it's one side plays by rules at all, the other doesn't.