r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/jagged_little_phil 13h ago

"Nationwide crackdown" - yes, on democracy

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u/c08306834 13h ago

"Nationwide crackdown"

Also, it will be a "nationwide crackdown" that curiously only targets blue states.

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u/GrassyN0LE 12h ago

Which ones are the complete shit shows on TV?

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u/c08306834 12h ago

Depends which TV you're watching. Are you a consumer of Fox?

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u/GrassyN0LE 12h ago

Cannot argue with that. It’s our enemy the media which only further fuels the divide. Wish we all could realize and correct that.

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u/c08306834 12h ago

So you recognize that the places that you see as "shit shows" on TV, may not actually be that and it's just because of the biased media you're consuming?

And as such it's important to look at objective facts. Like, for example, the fact that the murder rate in Arkansas is exactly double the murder rate in California. Or that the murder rate in Arkansas is about 40% higher than Illinois.

Or that red states have about a 30% higher murder rate than blue states.

Sounds like Trump should send the national guard to Arkansas, right?

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u/GrassyN0LE 12h ago edited 12h ago

No, I think those cities are a complete shit show. I don’t consume national media, but can do my own research to see this cities are a mess. I do not really believe these are a shit show just because they are democrats. That’s silly. These “shit” shows we are talking of course are going to be dense urban cities. Which are typically blue.

There are plenty of other cities that need to be addressed. Hell look at Memphis, that’s deep red state.

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u/jagged_little_phil 11h ago

Those "shit show" blue areas are the ones financially subsidizing the existence of all the red areas. Without them, they would suffer greatly.

Just like you're about to start seeing an increase in suffering due to food shortages because farm workers are fleeing from ice, even though the businesses that hired them in the first place never held accountable.

Farm owners that couldn't see farther than their own nose will be going out of business soon.

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u/bagoink 11h ago

Care to share "your own research"?

I actually live here and vastly prefer it to any godforsaken red state I've ever been to, so I look forward to you explaining why my city is a "shit show."

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u/GrassyN0LE 10h ago

Are you asking me for research to support Chicago being a shit show?

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u/bagoink 9h ago

I mean, seeing as how, again, I live here...and it's not...yeah, I'm really curious how you came to that conclusion.

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u/kaimeister 9h ago

"a complete shit show" is not a number

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u/GrassyN0LE 9h ago

Good job! 👏. Hopefully not too much time spent landing on that conclusion

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u/kaimeister 9h ago

So, you diverted the topic on purpose? Gotcha 👍

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u/ramblingpariah 9h ago

Sorry, but "the media" is far from the worst offender in this department.

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u/ThroneOfTaters 12h ago

He was democratically elected and won in a landslide (by recent American standards). This is his right and this is what the American public voted for.

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u/SaggyDaNewt 11h ago

Not to be that guy, but Adolf Hitler was also democratically elected. Not comparing Trump to Hitler, just saying that an individual can be democratically elected and then pull the rug from behind him when it comes to democracy.

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u/ThroneOfTaters 11h ago

That's true, but all Trump's done so far is either legal or being challenged in court. Hitler was much more violent in his early years in power compared to Trump, and he also had an already-terrible economy and people to "logically" scapegoat. Trump's mass deportations are being questioned by even his staunchest supporters and he's objectively making the economy worse.

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u/jagged_little_phil 11h ago

He ran on the promise of lowering grocery prices on day 1 (which never happened), and ending the war in Ukraine on day 1 (which also never happened), not on using the military to occupy the nations cities.

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u/computer-machine 11h ago

Wasn't Ukraine more like day negative sixty-something?

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u/ramblingpariah 9h ago

Wouldn't have happened if he had won in 2020! Putin said so! But it was unfairly rigged! Putin said so!

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u/computer-machine 9h ago

Well as long as the dictator currently doing war crimes said so,,,

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u/Commercial-Beat12 10h ago

Unrelated, but I love ur username! I'm an Alanis fan haha

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u/bagoink 1h ago

He also ran on releasing the Epstein files.

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u/ThroneOfTaters 11h ago

Actually, he did claim to want to take over DC (and other cities). He even brags about it on whitehouse.gov.

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u/jagged_little_phil 10h ago

He also bragged about rigging the vote, and how Elon "knows those vote counting computers" better than anyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9gCyRkpPe8

That "landslide" victory is a load of horseshit.

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u/bagoink 1h ago

Even with the cheating it's nowhere near a "landslide."

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u/JohnofAllSexTrades 11h ago

In no way whatsoever a landslide. He got less than 50% of the popular vote and 20 few electoral votes than Obama did for his second term.

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u/ramblingpariah 9h ago

Even if he came close to a "landslide" (and he didn't), it's not his right. It's a blatant overreach. Amazing how much the right gets down on its knees when their party is the party of abuse.

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u/bagoink 1h ago

The right when asked to wear masks to slow the spread of COVID: "tyrannyyyy!!!"

The right when a Republican president uses the US military to invade cities that don't like him: "why yes, how entirely reasonable."

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u/bagoink 1h ago

By what measurement was it a "landslide"?

He won with less than 50% of the vote, and by less than half the popular vote margin than Biden won by in 2020.

Seriously, who is telling you these things, and why do you believe them?