@briankrebs in all seriousness though he's laid the ground work to ship people off to camps now. Remember he's also allowed authorities to begin detaining people with "mental illness" without cause. i.e. it's up to the "discretion" of the person of authority what they deem as "mental illness" which as we all know could cover a very LARGE range or more than likely not even apply. What's to stop a cop from labeling someone that is LGBTQ as mentally ill? and now he wants to remove the homeless...ok so what's to stop a cop/FBI agent from detaining someone who isn't homeless but simply low income? what about people who are couch surfing? the hidden homeless?
If a Democrat is giving a 24+ hour filibuster are they now considered homeless because they've been in a government building for over 24 hours?
@briankrebs And how many members of congress and judiciary will disappear? How many from the media who have been trying to publish articles that are critical of him will disappear? Then it will spread to those cities and/or states that the orange taco doesn't like.
This is a coup and no one in the former GOP has the balls to say enough and remove him and the corrupt judges in the supreme court will ignore all attempts to hold him accountable or simply cheer him on.
Distracted you from Epstein, didn't it?
Unless you count being a Trump/Trump administration critic as a crime. This is exactly where they're going with all of this. With the calls to arrest the members of the Texas state congresspeople for not showing up to work, it's becoming more and more overt. This country is rapidly flying down the Autobahn to dictatorial fascism, no question about it.
They're still trying to find the deep state aren't they?
Trump is a fascist. His authoritarian reflexes will drive the USA into chaos and possibly worse.
@briankrebs Aside from which Mr. Trump's claims about DC crime are complete bullshit.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and announced by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves. A breakdown of the data is available here.
Nonetheless.
Yeah they love impunity. Power without constraint. Same reasons people joined the Nazis.
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and announced by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves. A breakdown of the data is available here.
If Trump cared about crime in D.C. he would not have pardoned hundreds of convicted Jan 6th criminals
Drunk with power, Trumpster is executing the fascist playbook.
@briankrebs To be honest, it could be worse. See the Buster Keaton film "Cops", where the whole police department ends up chasing after him due to a series of misunderstandings (but, unlike Trump, Buster Keaton is incredibly funny):
https://archive.org/details/Cops1922BusterKeatonFullFilmHDPelculaCompleta
Cops (1922) Buster Keaton Cops is a 1922 comedy short silent film about a young man (Buster Keaton) who accidentally gets on the bad side of the...
The GOP punches in only one direction -- down.