WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.
Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.
Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation’s capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”
Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.
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Do you have any idea the emotional toll this takes on the “haves” when they endure the “have nots” getting anything for “free”? Never mind if it’s not even actually free or amounts to providing basic human dignity or life saving care. Bet you didn’t factor that cost in did ya?
And yet when you ask the wealthy how they “earned” their wealth, they tend to gloss over the money inherited, the private schools, the elite education (with zero grants, all paid for), the social connections to other wealthy families, etc. So few came from absolute low income origins.
And not a single damn billionaire can look someone in the eye an say, “I make so much I will never be able to spend it all, so I don’t see any reason I should need any more.” And the creepiest of those fucks idolize the LoTR books, but don’t seem to comprehend the message of Smaug and the Ring, which is that greed for wealth and power corrupts you, and berefts you of humanity.
I feel better now… not really.