From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.trump
Subject: Re: It might start there (DC)...but that's not where it will end.
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:03:25 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Muffler Bearings LLC
On 2025-08-11, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-08-11 10:46, pothead wrote:
>> On 2025-08-11, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>> "Pretty soon, you won't have a country anymore"
>>>
>>> 'President Donald Trump announced Monday he was putting the Washington,
>>> D.C. police department under federal control and deploying National
>>> Guard on the streets of the nation's capitol, a striking move taken over
>>> the objections of local leaders, who say Trump is exaggerating the
>>> city's crime problems.'
>>>
>>> <https://time.com/7308788/trump-washington-dc-national-guard/?itm_source=parsely-api>
>>>
>>> 'Data show that violent crime in the nationâs capital is down
>>> significantly from a peak in 2023. But Trump paints a different picture.
>>> Trump described Washington as âone of the most dangerous cities anywhere
>>> in the Worldâ in a post on Truth Social Saturday. On Sunday, Trump
>>> wrote, âIâm going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it
>>> ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will
>>> give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.â'
>>>
>>
>> Guess you must have missed this one:
>>
>> <https://thepostmillennial.com/dc-police-commander-placed-on-leave-over-deliberately-falsifying-crime-data>
>>
>> "DC police commander placed on leave over 'deliberately' falsifying crime data
>> The police union has accused Pulliam of deliberately falsifying the data."\
>
> Even assuming that's true, aren't you just avoiding having to say that
> it's wrong for Trump to take over the DC police force?
>
> That's it's wrong for him to say he'll do it in other cities?
>
> Come on, brave guy: you're the one who's always saying how independently
> you think!
>
> But here you are snipping a lot of content and attempting to justify the
> unjustifiable.
It has nothing to do with being "brave" as you call it. I am simply stating
the facts regarding crime reporting in the US and DC is hardly the only
major city that has been fudging the numbers.
Nothing more and nothing less.
--
pothead
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Then our choices make us."
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