President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps toward federalizing Washington, D.C. on Monday, saying it’s needed to fight crime even as city leaders pointed to data showing violence is down.

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    Once again, there is no emergency. It’s the same tactic that he keeps on using. How is there no requirement to provide evidence of an emergency?

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      Because the assumption is that the president won’t be a fucking dumbass, and will need to utilize the emergency powers immediately, because of an actual imminent threat they can’t wait around for approval for.

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        Sure, and that’s why he gets the initial 48 hours, as in the DC case in particular. But that’s enough time for Congress to meet and decide whether or not there is actually an emergency. Or it should be.

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      Let’s be honest, he probably has to provide the same level of evidence many state and local governments did when covid was well on its way out but kept the emergency going for political reasons.

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        Let’s be honest, you’re either being disingenuous about current Covid infection rates, or a moron, because it’s fully endemic now.

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          I live in the real world unlike some people who think covid is going to magically disappear if we have everyone stay home and get vaccinated across the entire planet. Im glad you agree that it’s fully endemic now, that is the reality of the situation. Continuing to declare an emergency over it really would be pointless.

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            COVID used to be about 2% fatal, which is huge. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_cruise_ships

            Now, as predicted by scientists right at the start, it’s at least 10x less fatal, about on par with a particularly serious strain of flu.

            Waiting it out saved A LOT of deaths. Countries with better lockdowns have significantly fewer deaths per capita. Some countries like New Zealand who responded both very quickly AND very seriously were able to benefit from far fewer restrictions as well

            The vaccines also reduced severity, and transmissibility of the virus, both at the time as well as now, and they’re still medically recommended for at risk groups.

            There was an emergency, the steps we took helped everyone. No one gained anything significant politically except anti-vax fascists who are now running the country.

            We on the other hand benefited from fewer fatalities, the first actual progress towards sustainable living with work from home for people who can. We finally made progress on climate goals. We showed the power of collective action through government benefits and healthcare for all when it came to vaccines at least in the US.

            It’s too bad we’re working away from those improvements so quickly.

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        And what fucking possible benefit would that be? Did fox news ever tell you what it was all for? Probably not or you’d be regurgitating that with it.

        Read a godamn book

        I used to want to tolerate people like you that are willfully ignorant but you all have caused so much godamn suffering and still don’t even know it. If you had a brain you’d never go outside again because you’d be too fucking ashamed.

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    The law only matters if there are those willing to enforce it. We all know that’s no longer the case.

    The supreme court has made TACO a king. Now we get to see the results.

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    Are you, are you, coming to the tree? Strung up a man, say he murdered three. Strange things have happened here no stranger would it be If we met, at midnight, in the hanging tree.

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    well this is was meant as a distraction of the epstein files which blew up more than he could handle, which was itself a distraction from the protests/ BBB cuts. hes doing whatever he cans to bury the bbb, and epstein files in a mountain of outrage shit.

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      Idk. This particular thing is bad enough that I’m not sure it’s meant to be a distraction. Trump is up to other actually bad things besides distracting from the files. Like, at this point I feel like if Trump went on live TV and declared himself dictator for life people would be like “nice try distracting us from the Epstein files!”. At some point he ain’t distracting, he’s just getting back to his main tasks

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        That’s because the majority of Americans think that he is not getting away with and or implementing the distractions. They think everything will get tied up in courts and nothing bad will happen. They have gotten too used to a normal functioning society and don’t believe the klaxon alarms going off everywhere right now.