This is a Republican talking point you’ll hear a lot over the next few years. Republican elites know that the best way to protect themselves, since their party is the party of billionaires and corporations, is to say that both parties are corrupt and act to benefit billionaires and corporations. No. Look at the 2017 healthcare bill. Democrats voted to keep people’s healthcare. Republicans voted to take healthcare away because that would lower taxes and enrich greedy Republican billionaires. Only one vote from McCain saved it. Do not believe Republicans who are telling you Dems are the same as them. One party is the party of billionaires and corporations: the Republicans. One party is wildly corrupt and launched Cit U and stacked courts with Republican judges to allow the wealthy to buy politicians. That is the REPUBLICAN Party: the party of billionaires, corporations, and corruption. |
| Right wing white supremacist gangs are going to invade the District this weekend at their cult leader's beckon and MPD and Chief Newsham will stand at 16 and K NW and beg them to be nice. |
And what would you suggest MPD do? Open fire on the morons? |
Yes wasn’t it the federal BOP and Border Patrol Fox-watching brownshirts that teargassed peaceful protestors? I don’t think it was MPD. |
Enforce city gun laws, if they resist, treat them like they’d tread a black man with a gun resisting arrest |
You are making no sense. I did not mention the federal agencies. I was asking what you expect of MPD. We all know they weren't involved in the other fiasco. Your yes answer seems like you advocate MPD opening fire. |
I want them to kettle and treat these right wing white supremacists gangs as for what they are: right wing white supremacist gangs. If the Crips or Bloods announced that they were having a huge rally in the middle of DC, do you think MPD would stand around and ask them to be nice? Hell no, they'd beat the snot out of them and tear gas the hell out of them. |
"To kettle" WTF are you talking about. So you are advocating MPD use violence on a protest that has not happened yet? You would have a fit if they planned to tear gas BLM plaza. The first amendment works both ways, whether you like it or not. |
Good point. Assume the brownshirts won't show up this time and it will be just the MPD facing down armed protestors. So much for "blue lives matter." |
I agree with this sentiment, and I was born in D.C., as was my father and his father. |
| It’s simple. None of them will be wearing masks, do send a handful of infiltrators with active COVID and have them sneeze on them. Then watch the exponential growth ... |
Except, as the nation’s capital, it’s THEIR town, too. |
You are out of your goddamn mind. Name one time an armed coup overturned an election and the outcome favored the populace. In fact, name one time outside the American revolution that the outcome of an armed insurrection favored the populace. All dictators, whether communist or fascist, use volunteer militias to take power. Brownshirts, Blackshirts, the Red Guard, guerrillas in China and North Korea. That's the outcome you are hoping for. You're too lazy and weak to work to change the system through constitutional means, so you fantasize about a civil war just like the movies. A CIVIL WAR WILL DESTROY THE COUNTRY. And the aftermath will likely be much worse than the status quo, no matter who wins. I can't stand these ignorant nihilists who think this is a valid option. It's so irredeemably stupid. |
| All this hype about a civil war is overblown. We’re too wealthy and it serves no one’s economic interests to tear the country apart. Let the fringe keep on fringing. Everyone else will keep on with their lives. |
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No one should show up against them. All the BLM and Anti-Fascists should just stay home.
Bring in some port-a-potties, trash cans, get tables laden with beer and hot dogs, coffee and Krispy cream donuts, and maybe some DC mementos like free t-shirts with Donald and Melania's pics on them. These men will come, eat, piss and go away. Only job will be for DC to clean up after them. |