Trump is on the list. Anything he says or does from here on out is just an attempt to distract and switch the narrative.
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Funny how he didn't mobilize federal police during the January 6 coup attempt.
The most deranged and bloodcurdling statement came, predictably, from White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Trump’s most openly fascistic aide, who claimed Thursday that Washington, D.C. “is more violent than Baghdad, it is more violent than parts of Ethiopia, and parts of many of the most dangerous places in the world.” The clear implication is that Washington, like Baghdad, should be the target of US military violence on a massive scale.
Miller IS the threat in DC
One of the biggest, anyway. POTUS rightly recognized he has no friends or loyalty around him, only opportunists, and has done nothing to mitigate the threat. Not that competent advisors wouldn't be opportunists, but they could at least somewhat salvage his presidential reputation.
Do you really think Trump gives a shit about his reputation? He wants to grab all the money he can, and he's old and will soon be dead.
This is what you get with "evidence be damned" people
Just claim, no evidence required
Is there evidence against your claim? Just completely ignore it, act as if it doesn't exist and ridicule those that remind you there is evidence, and you're golden!
Quality of evidence matters, too. There was a study popped up on Lemmy yesterday and I looked at who paid for it and the methodology, and it was quite questionable, but people commenting acted like they'd put fingers in the nail wounds of the risen Christ. Confirmation bias is real.
Who paid for a study shouldn't directly matter as long as the study was done in good faith with the right methodology. That is also what peer review is for, and we need to support and push for much more replication studies to ensure everything is trustworthy
It could be true:
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District of Columbia: 22.3 per 100,000 people
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Iraq (not specifically the capital): 9.14 per 100,000 people
However St. Louis has a murder rate of 65 per 100,000 so the national guard should be starting there, not outside the president's bedroom.
Why? What kind of shit did he start now?
Big Balls (the DOGE kid musk hired) got beat up in DC while supposedly saving a woman from being carjacked or something by 10 people. Somehow that's an adequate reason to take over the city.
We're living in a joke.
He got his ass kicked. That fuck wouldn't pour an ounce of water to save a man dying of thirst.
If any of that was actually real I'll eat my hat. I'd be more willing to believe the little shit just got his ass beat but with this rotten admin the whole thing is likely made up.
I actually did witness him doing that, I was right next to him saving an ultra-baby from a super-fire at the mega-charity.
What are ten people going to do with one car?
Give Big Balls an excuse for why his ass got beat by two 15-year-olds.
We’re living in a joke.
This is no joke. This is deadly serious. Fascism is here.
while supposedly saving a woman from being carjacked or something by 10 people
Yeah, sure, that really happened.
Sadly obligatory /s
Epstein smokescreen, but one that brings him closer to his goal of authoritarianism, all because 19 year old Big Balls got attacked by a couple of 15 year olds.
*trumpstein
Two 15-year-olds tried to carjack a former doge employee, at least that's the excuse. It's an attention-splitter: either the press raise outrage on the DC takeover, or they raise outrage over the Epstein files. Either way, he's wins.
That's what allegedly happened, wouldn't surprise me if that's not the real story.
My money is on drug buying gone wrong. Big balls probably ran out of Aderall to soon this month.
Trump is on the Epstein list. He raped kids.
At this point with the amount of distraction and deflection I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t the entire Epstein files.
Does he need to go hold a Bible upside down again?
Anything to distract citizens from Trump's child rape ring with Epstein
hes going to hold up the book of the damned instead.
Any excuse to assert power and get attention. Much like a four year old.
fascism play right here. tin pot dictator move
Remember when Republicans were talking about FEMA prison camps?
Release the Epstein Files
Trump is on every page of the Epstein files
It’s because blue balls got a boo boo
I swear I just read an article where the plan to do this was in a leaked memo. I wonder if that memo moved the schedule up.
And so it begins….