Is anyone watching this Trump press conference???

This. 

jeremysgirl, you wanted to talk about policies. 
How do you feel about policies coming from your party where they don't lock up the thieves, so stores are forced to lock up the products or go out of business?

I can imagine this very well because on January 6, 2021, I watched the US Capital being broken into by thugs summoned to the same city that now suddenly, supposedly, has a crime problem.  I watched them not only break in but attack the very police who were there to protect the building.

Those criminals were tried and convicted and you know what happened then? The same man who claims that D.C. needs federal help to protect itself and who failed to summon the National Guard on January 6 to protect the capital, our legislators and the police, pardoned these criminals. Those long prison sentences were overturned.

So I really don't believe that Trump has suddenly become Mr. Law and Order. I don't believe he cares at all about crime in D.C. or anywhere else for that matter. He has his own agenda to build and maintain power. This is just another move on the chess board for him.

Lol, someone is mighty upset with my posts. I wonder why? Is telling me to fuck off the best you can do? Shows how you handle people you don’t agree with instead of handling it like an adult. Why did you tell me to fuck off? Because we finally have a President that has balls and is getting shit done. And you liberals hate that he’s accomplished so much in so little time being in office.
And all that taxpayer waste that was uncovered?
Think about all the good things that money can do and put to much better use now and help the citizens of our country!
And y’all are upset that the waste was uncovered!
Why? Because it shows how poorly the previous administration was running things.
I want the border closed and all illegal immigrants deported. If you want to come into this country, do it legally and don’t skip the line.
All other countries have closed borders. But when Trump closed our border, we are now racist? So the other countries with closed borders are racist too?
Obama deported way more illegals. But somehow Trump is the racist one?
And I want a President that is tough on crime. I’d love to see all states get tough and reduce crime across the country. This would benefit all of us.
I’d love to see all the funds that had previously been used to house and feed illegals used instead for our veterans, low income families and the elderly.
This is all common sense.
Reduce crime and help low income AMERICANS. When and if this country is back on track, then funds can be used to help other countries.
But we’ve got SO much need here in our own country. Let’s fix our country and help our people first. Our tax dollars that we Americans pay should help Americans.

I can't disclose too much but I spent the day with federal employees from various agencies who grew increasingly frustrated & angry during the day about the ambiguity of staff being reassigned to DC for this. They couldn't focus on the task they needed to do today because they were so preoccupied. This task they couldn't focus on is allegedly critically important to national security (sarcasm heavily implied.) And to add to the context, these are federal employees who have ALREADY been reassigned to do jobs which have nothing to do with their various agencies, for which they have received no training and which clearly many of them do not want to do. And the reassignment apparently was so ambiguous that it was basically like "you need to send xxx# of employees to DC for an indefinite amount of time by tomorrow, let us know who you are sending."

Ooph. Maybe I did disclose too much, lol!

Okay, what do you suggest needs to be done?

Okay, we'll say you're right about Trump.
How do feel about Ashley Biden saying her father showered with her when it wasn't appropriate?

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It’s horrifying to me that people are stupid enough to complain about wanting to have the capital of the United States cleaned up of its crime. The liberal judges are too busy with no cash bail and letting these criminals off and out of jail. Trump didn’t have a choice.  

So what are your ideas on the root causes of crime? I don't see any that you shared, liberal bullshit or otherwise.



The US has the highest rate per capita of incarceration among wealthy nations. Second place isn't even close. So your theory that "nothing will happen to them" isn't really supported by the data.

If your theory was correct, our astronomical rate of incarceration would lead to near zero levels of crime, and yet here we all are. We also happen to have the highest rate of violent crime among wealthy nations, so increased incarceration hasn't fixed that, either.



Well, you know what assuming gets you. I don't think stores can afford to take the hit at all. I think food deserts are a serious concern. But I don't think, based on all the evidence, that even higher rates of incarceration are going to solve the problem.



So since it seems that high rates of incarceration haven't actually solved the problem, what other ideas do you have? Trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.

Prices are up across the board and only getting higher due to tariffs, and we're spending billions of dollars in taxpayer money to keep mostly non-criminal immigrants in concentration camps. Our peer countries despise us while our administration is cozy with the world's worst dictators. I guess that's an "accomplishment" by some people's standards, but not mine.



"Savings" are a fraction of what Elon claimed, and far from helping the citizens of our country, Americans in need have paid a steep price in cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, as well as losing essential funding for education and medical research.



What *legal* avenues are there for poor people to come to this country and fill jobs that need to be filled? The Biden adminstration brokered a bipartisan immigration bill that would have solved some of these issues, but Trump made the Republicans vote against it in the end.



The racism comes in when he wants to put the brown immigrants in concentration camps but invites in a bunch of largely unvetted white ones from South Africa, and when he largely ignores visa overstays from countries other than those south of our border. Biden and Obama also prioritized actually finding and deporting criminals rather than rounding up every brown-skinned gardener and abuela they can find just to get higher numbers.






We hadn't been housing and feeding many immigrants at all until Trump stuck them in camps. They were generally housing and feeding themselves. The refugees and asylees we help contribute more than they take.  Now we're spending billions on arresting and incarcerating them with to end in sight. Is that what you wanted?

And I feel it necessary to point out that when Democrats try to expand social safety net programs for the groups you name, Republicans call it "socialism" and vote against it.



I'll point out again the GOP's long standing complaints about "socialism." I don't think your view is common sense at all. I think you've allowed yourself to be swayed by ... something that isn't common sense.

I'd encourage you to do your own research on the claims Trump makes. The reality will likely surprise you. I think we agree about the need to reduce crime and to fix our immigration system. Please consider that continuing to do what we've always done, or doubling down on it, is likely not the best way to accomplish those things. It may be there's something we can learn from our peer countries with both lower rates of crime and incarceration.

Maybe all the people that burned Portland down to the ground have moved on to DC. (Sarcasm)

:looks around my blue city and shrugs: