Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread

thethe said:
You actually don’t think it is or are compelled to say that because it leads to a very uncomfortable truth?
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Actually don’t think it is. We’re still talking about a tiny number here, it’s just bigger news. I think the actual trend to worry about is *any* online radicalization of mostly young men.
 
mqt said:
Actually don’t think it is. We’re still talking about a tiny number here, it’s just bigger news. I think the actual trend to worry about is *any* online radicalization of mostly young men.
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Noted that you refuse to see the actual trend right in front of you. Disappointing but I get why you’re incapable of seeing it.
 
I guess you don’t understand the efforts to clean up financials and reporting processes that have been neglected for ages
 
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DC police commander suspended, accused of changing crime statistics

A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district. The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment...
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Executive Assistant Chief Andre Wright, the second-in-command of DC's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), was placed on administrative leave in March 2026 amid allegations of manipulating crime data to appear lower. His phone was seized for investigation into claims that he, along with other commanders, pressured officers to reclassify violent felonies as lesser offenses.


Well well well….
 
mqt said:
I think you’re ultimately correct about the trend but that the underlying issue driving the uptick in political violence is being caused by other problematic societal trends. I don’t see the Democratic Party (official) endorsing gun violence, but I have seen a shift in the past decade or so when it comes to how much politics is the core of someone’s life. So it does make some sense to me that there would be an uptick in gun violence aimed at politicians as the same disturbed people who have been shooting at everyone else in America are suddenly consumed by politics.

Our lawmakers don’t live in a bubble outside of that reality, so I think it’s important for our leaders to do more to forcefully condemn violence and tone down the rhetoric. Part of that includes calling out those like Piker who are spewing the type of radical bullshit you bring up. But I think we also need to be careful when it comes to pretending that Nancy Pelosi calling for people to cause a scene is violent and incendiary rhetoric as the right-wing media is doing in the wake of these events.
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No one “officially endorses” gun violence.

It’s all done with soft language, tacit acceptance, redirection,

Take for example this… more “it’s understandable” that people murder capitalists.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2049471162900455654
 
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