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Calling it now, this administration is going to spend the next four years militarizing the Capital and pockets of cities around the country so he can celebrate his third inauguration in his big beautiful ballroom.
The best thing to do to make DC more beautiful would be to permanently remove a certain bloated orange eyesore.
The people demand traitor pedophiles immediately leave Washington DC
Better kick him out to make the capital "more smart".
How did an allegedly civilized country allow one of the worst people imaginable to become their leader?
allegedly
This is why.
Same way it has happened hundreds of times before. An ant doesn't know how an ant colony works and it doesn't realize when its in a death spiral.
Weird, everyone else could tell and even huge amounts of their own population could, too. Empires of the past didn’t have the internet but these days you can very easily* see how the ant colony works.
*it does require some level intelligence, but it’s pretty much all there.
No. You can't. None, or perhaps nearly none of us understand how a city functions. Millions of humans come together and form a functional unit that has behaviour and agency, that protects us and organizes us, and we have no fucking idea how it works, because it emerges in non-obvious ways from very simple human behaviours.
We are very much as ants, responding to signals that we don't even directly perceive.
Your aside seems to suggest you think people voted the way they did because of lack of intelligence. That is a defense mechanism on your part. It's a belief you hold not because of its predictive power, but because of your emotional needs.
A bunch of racists have decided that they're fine with the country crashing as long as they get to be racist and hateful to the weak morons who suffer from the disease of empathy....it's quite unfortunate really.
I mean also the media owned by billionaires that want to own city states basically fudal times, and with a crooked supreme Court that's literally taking bribes from billionaires we're cooked.
Classic conservative mindset.
Ignore a problem or demand that it cease to exist instead of figuring out how to solve it.
Conservatives don't like what they don't understand. Much easier to get mad at the problem than to figure out how to solve it
What's the last time a Conservative has solved any problem? Seriously, my entire lifetime I can't think of a single thing where I'm like "Ah, good this conservative fixed this...."
I have one example, and it was the Conservative premier from Ontario who finally got rid of the single-family home only zoning restrictions. Unfortunately for conservatives that’s not exactly a right-wing policy and he likely only did it because he is corrupt as hell and developers wanted to increase density to make more money(whatever gets us there, I guess). I also haven’t looked into it and it could be very badly done, plus the amount of horrid shit he’s done really kinda does not makenit worth it.
Basically, when they’re paid off by special interests and do things uncharacteristic of right-wing policy then things go ok. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
Imagine treating people you are supposed to be protecting as head of state this way. Or continuing to support the head of state who does so. This country is disgraceful.
Alligator Auschwitz won't populate itself
He’s gonna have homeless people “disappeared”. Like their lives weren’t shit enough already. He’s gotta get disappeared himself. I’m still waiting to wake up from this nightmare.
##pedo rapist is sicking poors on homless to distract themm
How detached you have to be to think this should just do it.
The criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going to put you in jail where you belong.
Pretext to classify anyone living on the street who refuses to leave DC as a "criminal" and shuffle them off to work camps.
While we all know the real criminal is in the White House.
He literally already did that with an executive order like a week ago. Maybe you missed it because everyone was dismissing it as a distraction.
“ya mean like all the convicted felons living in the White House in DC?”
Another distraction from the child rapist.
Everything is a distraction from everything else. Cry about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Trump_administration_controversies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Donald_Trump_controversies
Those Epstein files been released yet? Trump is a filthy rapist whose name is riddled throughout those files.
Release the files pedophile.
Let's normalize calling them the Trump/Epstein Files
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Epstein files, are in fact, Trump/Epstein files, or as I’ve recently taken to calling them, Trump plus Epstein files.
We're going to round them up and concentrate them into a camp or something...
Yep.
That's his plan.
He's mentioned it a few times.
"We will then open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified,” Mr Trump said in the video. “But we’ll open up our cities again, make them livable and make them beautiful.”
Now he has begun to act toward those ends.
https://shelterforce.org/2025/02/14/trump-wants-to-force-homeless-people-into-tent-cities-can-he/
There is no evidence yet that the Trump administration plans to use federal resources to create facilities like the one used in New Orleans before the Super Bowl.
Ah, well, no, wrong, ShelterForce, see above public speech from Trump 2 years ago, or just look outside right now.
https://homelesslaw.org/statement7242025/
This Executive Order is rooted in outdated, racist myths about homelessness and will undoubtedly make homelessness worse.
Specifically, this order:
- Expands the use of police and institutionalization to respond to homelessness
- Prioritizes funding for states that treat homelessness as a crime and end housing-based solutions
- Cuts off funding for life-saving programs like harm-reduction.
Today’s executive order, combined with MAGA’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets.
My guesstimate is that within a year of Trump's collapsing economy and cuts to all kinds of social programs (so, by Feb 2026), we're looking at roughly 10 million homeless people.
You know, just about the population of entire Chicago metro area.
Was probably around 2-3 million back during Covid.
No, the PIT count numbers of several hundred thousand, they're wrong.
Source is me, I used to be one of the people who contributed to that count, as a data analyst for a large nonprofit serving the homeless.
The PIT methodology is a complete joke, it only counts people in shelters or at known permanent encampments (which are all illegal now), you roughly have to multiply it by 3x to 5x if you want to match the demographics of all the people who call in, say they are or will soon become homeless, and then we either can't help them because we don't have the resources, or they don't want to come to a shelter full of traumatized poor people and would rather live in a car (also illegal now) or hop from motel to motel untill they run out of money (2 or 3 months on average).
EDIT:
Trump/MAGA's insane response to Covid unironically may have actually killed enough people, disproportionately in red areas, that it actually caused his election loss, and then subsequent Jan 6th coup attempt.
Now he's gonna more directly kill millions of Americans, an order of magnitude more.
I'm pretty sure the end game for the Republicans is to balkanize the United States and issue fiefdoms to billionaires. I can't believe I'm saying this seriously, but I anticipate States beginning to seceed within a decade. It wouldn't surprise me if gerrymanderig states into single party enclaves is the beginning. I've lived in Pennsylvania my whole life but I suspect my California birth certificate may become the most valuable asset I own one day.
I hope you have relatives with land there. CA is way out of reach for our family. Housing costs are nuts last I looked.
Well I do still have plenty of distant family in CA, but my guess is that by the time battle lines are drawn there will be relocation incentives. I'm betting that a California birth certificate will be enough to get me on the list, at least. When borders start closing, states will get desperate to pad their population numbers. It will be an awful chapter in American history. The next ten years will make or break us as a nation.
The fuck does he care, he's never there.
Sadism
I know of one certain house that has plenty of room that could be used to shelter The People. The current occupant is a squatter who has no respect for the rule of law and should be evicted any day now.
You're talking about all the megachurches in my city
And go where, may I ask?
Sadly probably bus them to a blue city.
DC is a blue city. But if they ship them off to New York or Boston or Philly, at least they’ll get public healthcare and better services for the unhoused than are available in DC.
Edit: but that’s not what’s happening; Trump proposes that the National Guard (now deployed to DC) simply “remove” the unhoused. I’d like to know what the fuck that means.
It was one thing when Nazi governors were bussing the unhoused to cities that would actually care for them, but it’s quite another thing to deploy the fucking National Guard in an attempt to make the unhoused “disappear“.
Probably to concentration camps
Every day I hope the McDonalds finally gets to his heart and every day I’m disappointed.
DC will definitely be safer & more beautiful when he permanently moves out
What fucking asshole. Plain and simple