The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

Tragedy / Farce?

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The farce lasted for 18 more years. :face_vomiting:

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Where are you counting from?

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Some minor points of clarification -

  • The falling violent crime rate has been plummeting since 2023, and has been at a 3-decade low since before Jan 2025.
  • The white-hot hatred between him and DC is mutual, not one-way.

As you were. :slight_smile:

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1852-1870, but he was president from 1848

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Trump Vows To Evict Homeless From Washington, Official Says National Guard May Be Deployed

The more things change, the more they stay insane…

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Though that one’s not a trade deal, it’s just extortion. (Not that Nvidia mind too much - they just slap another 15% onto the price of the chips they previously weren’t allowed to sell at all in China.)

Although, from what I’m reading, apparently the president does have some authority to do something like this, sort of, because DC is special*. So leaving aside that it’s only under conditions of emergency, which don’t exist, it’s not the most unconstitutional thing he’s done in the last week. However, he’s also talking about doing this with other cities, where he has absolutely no authority whatsoever to do so. He’s using a case where he sort of has the authority to normalize it for cases where he doesn’t.

*Under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, which gives the President of the United States the authority to commandeer the DC Police Department in “conditions of an emergency nature.”

I don’t want to ever hear another gun-fondler talk about how personal gun ownership is so important because we need it to “rise up against tyranny.” That particular idea has been well and truly put to rest by current events.

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*Especially since the real freedom fighters will use sandwiches as their weapons of choice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1mnq0qj/fbi_agent_gets_a_free_sub_sandwich_from_a/

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Sunday thru Wednesdays? Nationals ball park and Audi Field are both in this area.

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Waiting for DHS to traipse some random people across the screen so they can have a DC version of the Central Park Five.

A topic someone should bring up, to emphasize his bigotry.

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Griftocracy? Griftting of the people, by the privileged, for the privileged!

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Well, that’s a certain “papers, please!” thing. How to prove you are old enough to be out, otherwise?

Even worse! The US would have to pay back money to foreign companies! Who absolutely WOULD pursue it! (If they had any sense of ‘shareholder value’ - that thing they’ve been assiduously pursuing for a while now. Some will no doubt claim it is in the shareholders’ best interests to suck up to Trump and not bait him).

It doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. (History, that is.)

One person’s tyranny is another arsehole’s freedumb. Nobody is coming for their guns, now, so everything is fine. /s?

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perhaps they should put an “A.I.” on an ear-bud in his head because they generally produce far less slop

(“well, until they allow GPT-6 to be trained-up on trump’s blatherings”)

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Youths on ATVs? Bah, it’s not bad until you get gangs of toddlers on Big Wheels!

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