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And entirely coincidentally, ICE claims something different happened.
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Meanwhile, the president says he has the right to do whatever he wants regarding his plan to deploy the military to cities with large percentages of minority populations who mostly oppose him politically, but who can say what he really means?​Originally posted by Lorizael View Post
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*but who can say what he really means?​* is that a dig against me? I figure he wants to win votes in those cities and he really believes that will work. It will likely backfire. I'd have said almost certainly would backfire less than a year ago but I've had to recalibrate a lot of my political instincts since then. Is your theory that this is his first step to death camps or mass deportation of all of the brown people in those cities so that Republicans gain more power? elaborate.Originally posted by Lorizael View PostComment
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...I think he wants to do what autocrats usually want to do when they send the military into their own cities: control, terrorize, and suppress. Which is exactly what's happening. Masked, armed thugs are running around DC, tearing down protest signs, dispersing crowds, abducting (usually brown) people without explanation, etc. Foot traffic, tourism, and business have plummeted. People, especially minorities, are scared. Trump doesn't like the people of DC. They voted against him. He wants to punish them. Same with Chicago and Baltimore and LA.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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But also, it doesn't ****ing matter WhAt He ReAlLy MeAnS. He says he's allowed to do whatever he wants, and he's using the military against his own citizens to do whatever he wants. That makes him a ****ing tyrant and there is simply no other way to look at it.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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You mean the people murdering, burning and looting?Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Just spent a lovely day with the wife in downtown Chicago. Drove down, lunched, then hit the Museum Campus. Went to the Shedd Aquarium where my daughter works. Beautiful day, no hint of anything other than a relaxed day of food and fun together. Not a single crime to observe. The only negative in the entire day was the traffic and road construction. Just like always.
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I don't know what you're referring to, but I'm going to say no.
Trump plainly does not care about crime. If he did, he wouldn't have pardoned the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol. If he did, he'd send the military to the many cities and regions with much worse crime than DC. If he did, he wouldn't have transferred a convicted sex trafficker to a cushier prison in exchange for her lies to clear his name of pedophile accusations.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
If you want to find legitimacy based on belief it is to stop crime, why Chicago? Why not Houston first? Violent crime according to that link is over 1,100 crimes per 100,000 people in Houston, but only about 540 crimes per 100,000 in Chicago? Memphis and Little Rock are right at the top of the violent crime rankings too? I'm not hearing about them having any deployments?
Serious question for you.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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I see that list actually has seven Texan cities above Chicago for violent crime rates: Houston, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Antonio and Pasadena. InterestingOne day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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I guess texas doesn't have enough guns.
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I'm curious what the next president(s) will do after Donnie -- roll back executive powahs, send out the NG to whatever city they currently don't like, or take away all private guns for their own personal use, so that only the pres has guns. Because the pres can do anything he wants.BlahComment
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Quietly continue exercising the expanded power while loudly proclaiming that normalcy has been restored.Comment
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It is entirely possible that the next president will be JD Vance, who AFAICT believes in MAGA as much as he believes in anything, and is substantially more intelligent and focused than Trump.Comment
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The US government executes alleged criminals with airstrikes.
Trump says 11 killed in US strike on drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela
​President Donald Trump says the US has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel in the southern Caribbean, killing 11 "narcoterrorists".
He posted on social media that Tuesday's US military operation had targeted members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
Trump said the vessel was in international waters and was transporting illegal narcotics bound for the US.
The Trump administration has ratcheted up military and political pressure against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in recent weeks, including through a $50m (£37m) reward for information leading to his arrest on drug-trafficking charges. Maduro has vowed Venezuela would fight any attempted US military intervention.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said that US forces had "shot out" a "drug-carrying boat" in the vicinity of Venezuela.
"A lot of drugs in that boat," he said.
Trump added he had been briefed on the incident by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine.
Later the president posted on his Truth Social platform: "Earlier this morning, on my Orders, US Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility."
He added: "The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No US Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!"
His post was accompanied by a grainy aerial video showing a motor boat speeding across choppy waters before it bursts into flames.
In a social media post, Venezuela's communications minister, Freddy Ñáñez, suggested, without evidence, that the video shared by Trump was created with artificial intelligence.
The Reuters news agency wrote that its initial checks on the video had not revealed any signs of manipulation, but that its verification process was ongoing.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X that "today the US military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organisation".
It is so far unclear what drugs the vessel was believed to have been carrying.
​Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has designated several drug-trafficking organisations and criminal groups in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America as terrorist organisations.
He has used allegations of criminality as a justification for deporting Venezuelans. He did, however, suffer a blow late on Tuesday when a US appeals court ruled that he could not invoke an 18th-Century wartime law to speed up these removals.
As well as Tren de Aragua, Trump has taken aim at the Cartel of the Suns - a group that the US alleges is headed by Maduro and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials, some drawn from the country's military or intelligence services.
The US military has moved to bolster its forces in the southern Caribbean over the last two months, including through the deployment of additional naval vessels and thousands of US Marines and sailors.
The Trump administration has repeatedly signalled a willingness to use force to stem the flow of drugs into the US. "There's more where that came from," Trump said of the strike on the vessel.
Venezuela's government has reacted angrily to the deployments.
On Monday, for example, Maduro vowed to "declare a republic in arms" if the US attacked, adding that the US deployments were "the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years".
In at least one other respect, Trump has taken a softer stance towards Venezuela - by reportedly allowing US company Chevron to work within the country in partnership with the country's state-run PDVSA oil firm.
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