"If anyone wants to pretend that this is a normal conversation that Donald Trump is having, just dispel that," the Democratic vice presidential nominee said.
  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    7 hours ago

    I do feel surprised that Trump’s comments on using the military against Americans isn’t all over the news.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      It’s Trump’s schtick. He spews out a constant stream of nonsense. His supporters are conditioned to ignore it.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      24·
      7 hours ago

      the news is like 80% run by billionaires who want to pay less taxes. They didn’t even drill him on any of the insane shit he’s said when the last debate came up.

  • sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    Yes Walz, we were already aware. Someone should warn Kamala against normalizing participation in far right wing war crimes when you’re trying to run in an ostensibly left leaning party. If you could get on that for us, coach thatd be swell.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    11 hours ago

    But what about the economy

    that trump left Biden

    . What about MEEEEEEEEE.

    • 49% of the country literally right now.
    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 hours ago

      Economic policy has a 3-4 year lag time until it’s felt by the average citizen.

      Biden has been picking up the pieces and putting the economy back together after the fiasco that was Trump. Just like Obama had to pick up the pieces after Bush, and Clinton had to after Reagan and Bush Sr.

      To a lesser extent, Carter had to do the same, but Nixon and Ford didn’t fuck the economy as hard as Reagan.

      And if you go back a bit further, FDR pulled us out of the depression caused by Hoover, Coolidge and Harding.

      The crash was due to the policy of Coolidge and Harding, but the depression, that was pure Hoover. He made a bad situation so much worse.

      Kind of like Trump taking a pandemic, and making it worse.

  • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 hours ago

    Not to diminish the seriousness of Trump’s rhetoric, but threatening to use the military against citizens is one of the few issues that is actually a ‘both sides’ problem.

    And, by the way, if they want to think they — it’s to take on government if we get out of line, which they’re talking again about — well, guess what?  They need F-15s.  They don’t need a rifle.

    I don’t usually agree with my Trump culty neighbor’s FJB flag, but it’s not unlike a broken clock.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      22·
      11 hours ago

      Nobody is threatening to use F-15s. It’s a rhetorical device meant to show how stupid stockpiling rifles “in case of tyranny” is in the modern age.

      Trump is actively saying he wants to use the military against the people.

      The difference is so wide there a “yo momma” joke could fit between them.

      • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        No, Biden didn’t threaten to use F-15s, he just said that if you want to resist his hit squads you’ll have to do better than Bryan Malinowski.

        • prole
          11·
          6 hours ago

          Biden has “hit squads”?

          What fucking reality do you live in?

          • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 hours ago

            The one where a federal agency got a search warrant for a man’s house (not an arrest warrant for him) and called off the raid when they found out he wouldn’t be home, so they could try again when he was there to create a situation where they could justify murdering him. Look it up, it’s fucking wild.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 hours ago

              Yup. I did. No mention of a second raid. But he did illegally sell guns that were recovered from crime scenes. Sounds like if they did that they wanted to arrest him at the same time so he couldn’t run.

              At any rate there’s still zero evidence any Democrat is going after Americans with the military.

              • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Zero evidence? The DOD just released a memo last month saying they can provide potentially lethal assistance to law enforcement. They might not have used the military to go after anyone yet, but they’re laying the groundwork.

                DOD DIRECTIVE 5240.01

                (2) The decision to approve requests for these types of permissible assistance described in Paragraph 3.2. to law enforcement agencies and other civil authorities are reserved to the Secretary of Defense:

                © Assistance in responding with assets with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated. Such use of force must be in accordance with DoDD 5210.56, potentially as further restricted based on the specifics of the requested support.

              • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Either your source is biased or you have some reading comprehension issues. He didn’t illegally sell guns and only fell afoul of ATF rules after they changed the rules without any input from Congress. There was only one raid because they postponed it when they found out he wouldn’t be there. He didn’t need to be there for them to execute their warrant, but he did need to be there for an extrajudicial execution.