WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s placing the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.
Trump has promised new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city's mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets.
Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation's capital would be “LIBERATED today!” He said he would end the “days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people.”
Violent crime in Washington D.C. is actually at a 30 year low.
What if somebody agrees, and they acted accordingly in words and deeds, but then their opinions and actions were overruled by a combination of party leadership and millions of other voters?
Now it's election day 2024, all debate and candidate selection is in the past, and the choices before this somebody are Same Old Shit (D), Turbo Fascism (R), or Other (send your message but don't affect the outcome).
I think we should consider all lives equal value, naturally. That means we cannot ignore the tens of thousands of bodies in Gaza. It also means we cannot ignore the hundreds of thousands of excess covid deaths Trump already caused, or the lives and communities currently being destroyed because they are too LGBT-Mexican.
So our somebody is still standing in that voting booth.
Please tell me which is the moral vote and why.
This isn't farming for a gotcha. This is the thought process I personally went through, and I enjoy having my mind changed. But having been active on Lemmy for a couple years now, I feel like I mostly understand but just disagree.