r/politics • u/thenewrepublic The New Republic • 12d ago
Soft Paywall Trump’s Agents in D.C. Caught on Video Randomly Harassing People
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u/AssociateGreat2350 12d ago
Batshit crazy conversation as expected:
“Trump’s got all federal agencies kind of coming together for seven days, going out, trying to stop the violent crime, all kinds of stuff. So we’re out here contacting people, talking to ’em, right?” the officer continues. “The quality of life offenses—smoking, drinking in public—it can’t happen outside, right? Most people know that. So we’re contacting people, trying to advise them of the law so they learn, right? And then if there’s other stuff going on where it turns into … there’s multiple agencies, if there’s a shooting or things like that.... We’re just out here trying to inform people and educate people, it’s not like we’re trying to just go … ruin someone’s life over a joint or something like that, alright?”
Dude he's accosting tries to ask him what the hell he's talking about and he replies:
“Yeah well it smelled like the odor of marijuana, burnt marijuana in the air, right? And you’re the only guy that had something lit in your hand.... I didn’t realize it was just a cigarette, I appreciate you … not getting chippy,” the officer responds. “Just know, learn. Tell your boys, everybody’s out. From FBI to Park Police. So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”
Straight up authoritarian harassment
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u/Galactapuss 12d ago
Isn't weed legal in DC anyway?
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u/greywar777 12d ago
Yes it is. Apparently they dont care.
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u/Forward-Shopping-148 12d ago
It's still federally illegal. The officer listed a bunch of federal law enforcement agencies, because they are concerned with more than Metro PD.
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u/JakToTheReddit 12d ago
They're going to have quotas.
They're going to arrest people who aren't committing crimes.
They've already been doing it and gotten very little to no pushback, so why stop now?
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u/StupendousMalice 12d ago
Federally illegal doesn't create an orbit of illegality around wherever a federal officer happens to stand.
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u/New-Anybody-6206 12d ago
No, it's just always illegal everywhere in the country. But only a federal agency can arrest and charge you for it if it's state-legal. But they could always do that. The fact that they may start actually enforcing it on the street is what's new, but it was always a possibility.
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u/zeekayz 12d ago
Wait till libertarians who vote straight ticket GOP every 2 years hear about this!
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u/Honky_Stonk_Man 12d ago
Lol. So true. I thought libertarians were for individual liberty and would naturally side with democrats on a lot of social issues. Boy was I surprised to see how much they like shiny boots too!
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u/vengeanceintobeing 12d ago
I kid you not the only issues that a majority of self described libertarians care about are gun rights and lowering the age of consent
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u/throwawaydragon99999 12d ago
They’re mostly just Republicans who want to avoid being called Republicans
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u/AlarmingAffect0 12d ago
Boy was I surprised to see how much they like shiny boots too!
Tread on me daddy.
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u/Culltheskulls 12d ago
Dont forget they also want to diddle children. Anyone voting for the GOP does.
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u/mlc885 I voted 12d ago
They are very concerned about their rights and very unconcerned about your rights
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u/FractalHarvest 12d ago
They don’t actually care. They’re posers and hypocrites who simply claim to be libertarian. And that’s almost every one I’ve ever met.
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u/mlorusso4 12d ago
Ya it was always possible for an fbi agent or whatever to be walking down the street and decide to arrest a dude smoking weed in the city park. But they never did because it was a waste of their time and their superior would say wtf
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u/Miserable_Archer_769 12d ago
I really dont think people understand that states have just stopped caring and like the money it generates. It is still stupidly imo but none the the less a schedule 1 drug.
But federally it is illegal which causes all kinds of complications with banks.
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u/counterweight7 12d ago
It does... though? If the feds wanted to bust in and arrest you for a federal crime, they could. If the feds wanted to arrest you for buying weed, they can. They don't, because it's a waste of time, and they have to convince a judge, but its a federal crime.
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u/desertingwillow 12d ago
Didn’t you listen to the big shot fed patrolling the streets say even though it’s legal, it can’t be smoked outside - Donald Trump is tired of it! Yeah, it’s an emergency that necessitates deploying the National Guard and all the federal agencies according to that self-important dimwit lol.
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u/dreadpiratepeter 12d ago
Note that the brutal shootings of two democratic lawmakers and their families and pets is not an emergency, nor are school shootings. For that matter neither are violent cop-killing insurrections
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u/StupendousMalice 12d ago
Nor is crime in the many red state cities that have higher crime rates than DC.
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u/Plow_King 12d ago
literally "Someone is smoking weed...call in the National Guard!"
what a nightmare.
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u/seiggy 12d ago
Legal to own, and buy, but still illegal to smoke it in public. Have to smoke on private property.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 12d ago
We are f*cking under nuclear threat, too, until we learn to forget that Trump ran a worldwide child sex trafficking and honeypot operation using girls from his pageants and modeling agency.
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u/Radarker 12d ago
Yeah, this prompts the question, "Holy shit, how many kids did he rape?"
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u/Doppelthedh 12d ago
I'm 100% sure they killed kids
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u/cudipi 12d ago
There’s a snuff film out there with Trump in it, I’m certain at this point.
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u/MouthwashProphet 12d ago
I’ve been saying for years that the adrenachrome rumors were started to deflect from the reality that Trump killed babies and drank their blood… and it’s probably on film.
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u/togiveortoreceive 12d ago
And probably a satanic ritual, too. FFS “GOP” till the end, eh? Gaslight. Obstruct. Project.
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u/lolzycakes 12d ago
Golly, I sure wonder what that whole "Enigmas never age." comment Trump made when waxing poetic about the secrets he and Epstein shared.
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u/hecate37 12d ago
13 year old Maria, who disappeared according to the complaint. http://thememoryhole2.org/blog/doe-v-trump
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u/happyherbbby 12d ago
Absolutely. Not everyone survived. What happened to Virginia was no accident. What a sick timeline, how little respect we have for the victims and how fast society is to protect kiddie diddlers.
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u/Jayman_007 12d ago
I'm sure they waited until they were no longer kids anymore and useful to them as such before killing them. /s
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u/StupendousMalice 12d ago
I said back in 2016 that Trump is 100% the guy to go on a "Hostel" type vacation and the Russians would happily arranged such a thing specifically to obtain blackmail material on him.
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u/black-kramer 12d ago
how many of them/their family members did he have offed? there is always, always a lower level of depravity with him. the rape isn’t enough.
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u/StupendousMalice 12d ago
I'd be willing to bet that he went human hunting or some such in Russia somewhere and they are using that to control him.
Getting compromising evidence against people is the entire point of a honey pot operation like what Epstein was doing.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 12d ago
Wait until you learn all the theories on Epsteins ranch
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u/thingstopraise 12d ago
I was reading about the West Mesa murders in Arizona, where the skeletons of several women were all found in the soil of what had become a housing development. There was a theory that it was body disposal for Epstein's ranch. I have no clue how legitimate that theory is. His ranch itself was 10,000 acres, so I feel like he could easily dispose of them there with no issues. 10,000 acres is a lot of land. Like, a lot a lot. Impossible to search all of it.
Looks like the ranch was bought by someone else in 2023. I wonder if they'll uncover any secrets there on the land over time, or if they bought it specifically to keep those secrets under control.
It's all so fucked. It's really easy to start thinking that everything is connected and everything is a coverup... because a fuckton of it totally is. But we can never know exactly what's a coverup, which is maddening.
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u/ADhomin_em 12d ago
Please don't make the mistake of thinking this authoritarian restructuring (or de structuring) is simply a distraction from his epstein ties. Those are important, but this is an immediate threat and affront to our constitution and our way of life. Distraction is still the name of the game, but make no mistake, over the last weeks, the epstein shit has served as a major distraction from the assembling of armed forces against the public that's taken place during those weeks.
Not saying they haven't attempted to distract away from the epstein shit as well once it seemed to be getting out of hand, but overall, it's hurt him very little and provided cover for the active assaults on our country, our constitution, and our rights.
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u/sweeper137137 12d ago
I like to bang the epstein drum bc ive finally found something that breaks through the wall with maga in a way that nothing else seems to be able to do. Frustrating but ill take what I can get at this point.
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u/brain_overclocked 12d ago edited 12d ago
From FBI to Park Police. So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”
The Goblin King has spoken!
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9_8nSb7Iuo
Apologies to any modern goblins and followers of the labyrinthian King.
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u/meatballwarlock 12d ago
dont do goblins like that
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u/jugnificent 12d ago
Goblin King would be an upgrade.
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u/my_Urban_Sombrero 12d ago
You remind me of the babe…
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u/Simpicity 12d ago edited 12d ago
I saw my POTUS.
Crying hard as he could cry.
What could I do?
His first lady was gone,
And his underaged masseuse too.
Nobody knew
What kind of Nazi thing he'd do:
Alligator jails,
Gestapo unveils,
Total county whitening...
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u/my_Urban_Sombrero 12d ago
And Ghislaine said…
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u/Mekisteus 12d ago
Vance, tragic Vance
Vance, tragic Vance
Put those guardsmen in DC
Trump, tragic Trump
Trump, tragic Trump
Put diaper Donny far from me
That man-baby smells like pee
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u/Hobbgob1in 12d ago
As a member of the goblin community, I would like to inform you that we have no kings here. Unlike the formally United States.
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u/Celloer 12d ago
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We're taking turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week…
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u/dustinhut13 12d ago
I quit smoking, but I'll happily return to it if Donnie finds it upsetting. Everywhere he goes people should be blowing nasty cigarette smoke at him
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u/vanillasounds 12d ago
I’m gonna go smoke and drink outside tonight. It is Tuesday after all.
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u/TarbenXsi Connecticut 12d ago
I am very glad I don't live in DC, because I would 100% get arrested for telling one of these Y'All Queda pricks to eat my whole ass. They would then beat me down, claim I threatened them, and ship me off to South Sudan.
Edit: To be clear - I do not think I would make a difference, or be brave, I would just exercise my 1st Amendment right to say what I think and would get disappeared for it. As Ron White said - I had the right to remain silent, but not the ability.
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u/End3rWi99in Massachusetts 12d ago
Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.
The pedophile?
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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona 12d ago
I don't know if he's a pedophile, but I do know that he raped children.
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u/Manderspls Canada 12d ago
“Because Donald Trump’s tired of it”
Everyone is tired of his shit. Trump can suck a fucking fat one.
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u/TheAskewOne 12d ago
They're harassing people in the hope that someone will snap and assault them, then they'll have an excuse to beat up everyone and make "split-second decisions".
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u/PM_ME_UR_RESPECT 12d ago
I couldn’t possibly give a flying multicolored fuck what Donald Trump thinks I should be doing with my time if I’m not harming anybody.
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u/LoneWolfMcQuibble 12d ago
“We’re out here preventing violent crime,” and “we can’t have people drinking and smoking in public.”
It’s absurd that someone can be that dumb to either buy in, or think they’re fooling anyone.
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u/acuntex Europe 12d ago
They are basically writing the South Park script.
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u/MarxistMan13 Virginia 12d ago
I was imagining those doofus dudebro "officers" as South Park characters during the whole video. Matt and Trey don't even need to write dialogue, just quote this dumbass.
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u/DennenTH 12d ago
Taught the civilian nothing, because they weren't doing anything wrong... Officer still says the guy needs to learn and tell more people... Their actions alone show that they have no interest in being correct, they just want to find people to punish and will accost everyone in the process of doing so.
Won't be long before they're planting things and more.
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u/Much-Anything7149 12d ago
"Tell are your friends w're here to fuck shit up because we voted for the fat pedo and we're bored as fuck."
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u/the_scarlett_ning 12d ago
You’re not allowed to smoke outside now?
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u/EwokVagina Florida 12d ago
I was wondering the same thing. It looks like they're on their front stoop. Are you not allowed to smoke outside at all? He also says drinking. Can you not do that either?
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u/ThinkyRetroLad America 12d ago
"...Tell your boys, everybody’s out. From FBI to Park Police. So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”
I'll be honest, I don't deal with authority well. This would encourage me to smoke and drink outside as much as possible without causing any sort of commotion, and encouraging every person I know to do the same. In fact, that's what people should do. Just go out and throw a makeshift Mardi Gras in D.C. to "celebrate" this military presence.
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u/dbreeck 12d ago
I'd literally go inside, grab my six pack, bust out my folding chair and 'stoop kid' it up. Maybe even play a certain Twisted Sister song on repeat at JUST within earshot volume (while avoiding a noise complaint citation).
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u/HereForTheComments57 12d ago
"Donald Trump's tired of it"
I'm tired of him covering up the Epstein files that mention him raping children. Maybe he can get his goon squad on that
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u/MittenCollyBulbasaur 12d ago
They're really expecting us to believe they don't know how to tell the difference between what smoke smells like
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u/BeverlyHills70117 12d ago edited 12d ago
"Trumps' Agencies" "Trumps tired of it"
No city, no citizens, nothing local. One man.
And when he asks this clown parade to shoot, he will. The one thing they have besides below average intelligence is fealty to his power.
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u/BeverlyHills70117 12d ago
Also, he is absolving himself of responsibility to his own conscience when he does do whatever is to come.
It is not 'him' being a moster, it is Trump.
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u/FauxReal 12d ago
And interestingly enough, most big cities in the US have a reduced murder rate from last year at this time. Let's see if Trump troops can bring it up.
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u/killerkadooogan 12d ago
every response needs to be about his being a child molester
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u/brain_overclocked 12d ago edited 12d ago
Federal law enforcement has begun patrolling public areas in Washington, D.C., and harassing normal civilians in the wake of President Trump’s federal takeover of the district.
In one video posted on Reddit Monday night, four police officers, one of whom is clearly from the U.S. Park Police, can be seen walking up to some men smoking cigarettes on a stoop. The officers question the men before warning them to “tell their boys” that the entire federal police force is out and looking for reasons to accost people.
The interaction:
“How y’all doing today? Y’all staying out of trouble?” says one of the officers, wearing a backward hat and a vest with “US Park Police” on it. He sees one of the men sitting down filming and immediately confronts him.
“You got your ID on you, champ?” the officer asks, walking up the steps closer to the men.
“No, I live right here.... It’s a cigarette.”
The Park Police officer begins to shine his flashlight and look the men up and down with suspicion.
“Did y’all get a call or something about right here?” the man filming asks. Then the Park Police agent begins to explain Trump’s takeover of the city.
“So we’re uh, doing checks, keeping everybody safe down here, right? Have you heard of the federal search that Donald Trump’s puttin’ out?” he asks, before going on to explain the trivial goals of the federal agents.
“Trump’s got all federal agencies kind of coming together for seven days, going out, trying to stop the violent crime, all kinds of stuff. So we’re out here contacting people, talking to ’em, right?” the officer continues. “The quality of life offenses—smoking, drinking in public—it can’t happen outside, right? Most people know that. So we’re contacting people, trying to advise them of the law so they learn, right? And then if there’s other stuff going on where it turns into … there’s multiple agencies, if there’s a shooting or things like that.... We’re just out here trying to inform people and educate people, it’s not like we’re trying to just go … ruin someone’s life over a joint or something like that, alright?”
“I only ask because when you walked up, at the moment you walked up, you only had asked me—” the man filming tried to object.
“Yeah well it smelled like the odor of marijuana, burnt marijuana in the air, right? And you’re the only guy that had something lit in your hand.... I didn’t realize it was just a cigarette, I appreciate you … not getting chippy,” the officer responds. “Just know, learn. Tell your boys, everybody’s out. From FBI to Park Police. So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”
This officer approached some men who were at their own home, asked them for ID, and lectured them about staying out of trouble. And then warned them that more people like him from three-letter government organizations would be coming to make sure they weren’t doing evil things like smoking cigarettes or weed peacefully on the steps of their own residence.
Big Brother is looking out for you, making sure that you don't smoke on your own fucking property. "Party of small government" my fucking ass.
Trump Border Czar Confirms Racial Profiling Is Now Law of the Land
Immigration Czar Tom Homan just enthusiastically confirmed what we already knew: ICE is using indiscriminate racial profiling tactics to detain immigrants.
“People need to understand, ICE officers and border patrol, they don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain ‘em and question ‘em,” Homan said when asked about a Los Angeles federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order on his west coast immigration crackdown. “Get our typical facts based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions ... agents are trained what they need to detain somebody temporarily and question them is not probable cause, it’s reasonable suspicion. We’re trained on that. Every agent gets 4th amendment training over and over again.”
Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court to Bless Stephen Miller’s Racial Profiling
On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift an injunction blocking ICE’s mass arrest program based on unconstitutional racial profiling. The injunction, issued by a district court in California, bars Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting people because of four factors, alone or in combination: “appearing” Hispanic, speaking Spanish or accented English, working a particular type of job, and being present at a place where immigrants “are known to gather.” The Justice Department claimed that the district court “egregiously” and “needlessly upended immigration enforcement” by prohibiting such arrests and sought permission to resume them immediately.
Trump's Washington, D.C., takeover targets a host of groups, many of them vulnerable
Trump said cops will be allowed to do "whatever the hell they want."
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u/BigDictionEnergy 12d ago
"That sounds great, man. I feel safer already. Hey, have you heard anything about those Epstein files?"
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u/TheAskewOne 12d ago
Calling those men "champ" and "boys". They sure know how to choose their words, right?
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u/wtfnouniquename 12d ago
I'd probably be in jail because I would have found it difficult not to respond to his "Donald Trump's tired of it" comment with "fuck Donald Trump." Seriously, if Donald Trump thinks/wants it it's almost certainly wrong. Am I breaking the law? No? Then fuck off and fuck Donald Trump.
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u/TheAskewOne 12d ago
It's not even that he's wrong. It's that in the US, we're not supposed to care about what King Donald wants.
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u/DDDingusAlert 12d ago
You don't need to be breaking the law to get detained and disappeared by the current administration.
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u/STM_343_4009 12d ago
1A. Free Speech. I'd tell the cop to fuck right off too after saying shit like: "You don't really do this very often do you? Don't you watch the door when kids go on field trips at the museum?" Along with "Fuck Trump and show some spine"
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u/ms-rumphius 12d ago
“Quality of life offense” is an absolutely fucking terrifying term. I don’t know how many more alarm bells people need.
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u/hotthamz 12d ago
“Trump is sick of it.” Bro needs to listen to himself. Really? Drinking outside? I’m from Wisconsin-we call that a wholesome evening. Sitting on your porch with a fucking beer? That’s Norman Rockwell level wholesome.
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u/illbebythebatphone 12d ago
This is insane gestapo shit. Just patrolling the streets harassing people who are smoking cigarettes!? This is going to be bad during the next protest
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u/I405CA 12d ago edited 12d ago
About two-thirds of the US population lives within the 100-mile border enforcement zone.
The border includes the oceans and other bodies of water, not just the land borders with Canada and Mexico. So that means that DC, as well as many other major cities such as LA, SF, NY, Boston and Chicago are located in the zone. The zone also includes the entire state of Florida.
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u/captain_intenso North Carolina 12d ago
Kash Patel has said numerous times that the FBI treats every state as a border state.
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u/I405CA 12d ago
The technical term used to describe him is idiot.
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u/BigDictionEnergy 12d ago
We would also accept paste-eating imbecile. I've never seen eyes that vacant looking.
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u/Infamous_Employer_85 12d ago
He's the one with the cork on the end of his fork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJ0iGZ7Ms8
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u/moldivore Illinois 12d ago
He always has an eye on the border. That's why he looks like that.
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u/pfannkuchen89 12d ago
It’s kinda like people in bum-fuck, middle of nowhere, South Dakota getting riled up about the ‘border’ like they have any idea what’s actually happening or have really any impact from it other than maybe some migrant workers picking their crops for them. Yet it’s somehow one of the first issues on their minds.
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u/HerbaciousTea 12d ago
That's why the GOP has spent the last two decades trying to manufacture a 'border crisis' and expanding those powers. They identified a loophole where border agents had effectively unchecked authority near the border, so they spent years expanding what was considered "near the border" to include almost the entire country, and expanding the powers of immigration enforcement "near the border," so that it could be exploited to bypass checks and balances for an authoritarian power grab.
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u/Rassayana_Atrindh Montana 12d ago
We had border patrol arresting who knows how many this morning in my town, and I'm like 400 miles from the border.
The laws, rules, and regulations are meaningless if no one is there to enforce them and mete out punishments.
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u/ThingCalledLight America 12d ago
Oh, so Trump was referring to public smoking and drinking when he declared a “crime emergency” or whatever he said?
What a POS.
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u/thorvarhund 12d ago
And so it begins. "You got your papers?"
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u/brain_overclocked 12d ago edited 12d ago
"What kind of American are you?"
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u/AMetalWolfHowls 12d ago
That movie was terrifying and way too real.
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u/Amused-Observer 12d ago
And I loved it for that very reason. Everyone should have went to go see that movie when it was out in theaters. Preferably IMAX.
People need to see what life could be like here. The zombie craze made people think they want to live in a collapsing/collapsed society.
Nope. You don't.
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u/Th3_Admiral_ 12d ago
Two guys in my theater nearly died laughing at that scene. I'm here on the edge of my seat and these two found the entire interaction hilarious. That was honestly the scariest part of the whole thing to me.
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u/clumaho 12d ago
"Papers please."
I was taught in school that it could never happen in a free country.
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u/commutinator 12d ago
It can't and it hasn't. It's happening in the USA, which hasn't been a free country for about 24 years.
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u/objectlesson Georgia 12d ago
Man, the terrorists really won, didn't they? They provoked the federal government to turn on their own people.
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u/KartFacedThaoDien 12d ago
I'm pretty sure that has always existed for any black person in America.
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u/absolutelynotagoblin 12d ago
> “Yeah well it smelled like the odor of marijuana, burnt marijuana in the air, right? And you’re the only guy that had something lit in your hand.... I didn’t realize it was just a cigarette, I appreciate you … not getting chippy,” the officer responds. “Just know, learn. Tell your boys, everybody’s out. From FBI to Park Police. So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.”
Who gives a rat's fucking ass what Donald J. Trump is tired of? I'd argue that the overwhelming number of Americans are tired of him.
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u/BookerLittle 12d ago
also last I checked weed is legal to consume on your own damn property in DC. are the feds suddenly going to start enforcing federal weed laws in DC and weed-legal states? because that would be a massive policy shift with nationwide implications. even republican lawmakers are deeply invested in corporate weed at this point.
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u/Not_Bears 12d ago
And the correct response, given my 1st amendment rights should be:
"Gargle my balls you boot licking Nazi."
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u/Dr_CleanBones 12d ago
When tf would Trump ever see what happens in DC? Does he go out for a nightly walk in the neighborhoods? If only…
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u/No-Angle-982 12d ago
Trump's ideas for combatting crime include his buying full-page ads in NYC newspapers that called for the summary executions of five Black teens who were imprisoned for a brutal assault on a woman jogger in Central Park in 1989 but were later exonerated via DNA evidence and the confession of a convicted rapist and murderer. He has never apologized.
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u/No-Angle-982 12d ago
BTW, on the subject of crime and newspapers: The first time Trump's name ever appeared in the New York Times was after he and father, as landlords, were sued by the DOJ over race-related civil rights violations.
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u/MyCrackpotTheories 12d ago
Actually.... it was reported in the NY times in the 1920s that Fred Trump (dad) was among 7 guys arrested at a KKK rally in New York City. And not because they were protesting the Klan march. They were in it.
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u/Atouchofexcitement 12d ago edited 10d ago
I am really surprised that this officer could say all that with Donald Trump‘s dick so far down his throat. Saying that Donald Trump is personally tired of seeing things is hilarious. Trump couldn’t tell you what was actually happening in Washington DC if he walked the streets every day. people always wonder how Germany fell under Hitler’s rule. People like this officer are prime examples of how it happens.
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u/Mateorabi 12d ago
Trump’s ween is never going to be far down someone’s throat. The cops are massaging it with their lips.
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u/PerniciousPeyton Colorado 12d ago
The American brown shirt origin story right here
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u/ProstheticAttitude 12d ago
what would happen if you replied:
"fuck donald trump, i don't give a shit what he wants"
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u/FoxyInTheSnow 12d ago
Inevitably, some teenager in a more economically unstable area is going to get murdered for… I don't know— “aggressively skateboarding” or… being brown and not being sufficiently polite to a gang of armed thugs with dubious qualifications and seriously misplaced loyalties [Loyal to trump, not to the constitution or to the rule of law].
What follows will be a manufactured disinformation blitz about the poor kid and his links to street gangs. People will probably take to the streets, and then the tanks can roll in to “restore order”.
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u/SwiftCase 12d ago
"So do your thing, let ’em know, don’t be smoking outside, don’t be drinking outside. Because Donald Trump’s tired of it.” "
Said this to a man smoking a cigarette on private property. Fascism? Racism? Both? Welcome to Republicans wet dream.
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u/Horror_Match9867 12d ago
Should ask the agents if they have found the Epstein files?
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u/LarrBearLV 12d ago
Perfect response. Hope I don't have to use it... but I will if it comes to that.
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u/teamdiabetes11 America 12d ago
Brown Shirts are here. Wake up America. Who am I kidding? They’re all too busy with Fox News and Love Island to do anything meaningful aren’t they?
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u/Calcutec_1 12d ago
They are provoking people so they will fight back, then someone will be killed by the cops which will trigger more civil unrest which attracts more military thugs which turns into a full on riot that will spread to other cities and boom Martial law and bye bue midterms
Project 2025 everyone.
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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Illinois 12d ago
They only think they want people to fight back, but that's because they are fucking stupid. The thing to remember, is that fascists think they're bad-asses when they're actually weak cowards.
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u/Massive_Weiner 12d ago
They also don’t understand the logistics of wrangling an entire country of 300+ million people when separatist cells can and will crop up everywhere.
There are no military targets to hit, no resource pipelines to disrupt. Any retaliatory measures will affect the loyalists as well, not just the rebels. And for every scare tactic they implement to flush them out, they only drive more of their own base to turn as well.
The “enemy” looks just like you, talks just like you, and lives just like you. But the Federalists? Why, they’re only too happy to broadcast themselves on tv every single day…
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u/Guardianpigeon 12d ago
Germany is much smaller and more culturally aligned in 1930s/40s than the US is today. They may have been able to take over then, but now is a much different story.
They simply don't have the population to enforce fascism for long. Even with all the cops, the letter agencies, and the military, its just too big of a country. Not to mention there will be resistance in those ranks and that getting armed in America is far easier for the regular person.
Even with AI and drones and all that shit, they won't be able to keep fascism going without constant violent resistance. They can barely recruit people into the military or ICE right now, imagine trying to when theyre turned on their fellow citizens. Fascism is inherently incompetent but trying to do so over the whole US is even more ridiculous.
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Yes, they haven't learned very much from how civil war would be conducted. They think it will be mano y mano, direct confrontation on the battlefield of glory. But look at South America to see what reality looks like....
1 - Man leaves to patrol city
2 - Man leaves family behind at home
3 - [REMOVED BY REDDIT]...and just like that nobody wants to patrol the city anymore.
This whole thing in DC started because one of them got beat up by children. And they really want to drag innocent people into more bullshit with them.
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u/BeCoolOrLeaveDude 12d ago
He doesn’t need to be provoked to do anything. He and his gross idiot followers will force whatever they want on the rest of us. Other than being unintelligent and low-class, it’s what him and his followers have in common.
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u/Massive_Weiner 12d ago edited 12d ago
For them it’s a win-win situation.
Either everyone quietly falls in line to avoid accelerating the collapse, or they actively fight back and trigger it.
It doesn’t matter if you stand or run, fascism will come to you on its own terms.
Try not to make it too easy for them when it’s your turn.
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u/Spacebotzero 12d ago
They. Want. Violence. To. Justify. Their. Violence. Policies. Law.
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u/lokol4890 12d ago
This is non-unique. He will militarize the country as much as he can regardless of how people act. All you're doing is pushing for compliance for no reason.
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u/30mil 12d ago
They need to provoke a response to cause the violence they'll use to justify cancelling midterms.
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u/lokol4890 12d ago
They'll try to cancel the midterms and whatever else they want regardless of compliance. He literally federalized police in a place who was at a 30-year low in terms of crimes. People gotta stop buying into the idea that if people act peaceful enough things will get better. They will not.
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u/TheAskewOne 12d ago
They don't really need to cancel the midterms, they just need to rig them.
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u/MadAstrid 12d ago
This is the plan. They tried and failed on J 6 . They are making sure it won’t fail in January 2028.
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u/mattdionis 12d ago
A more accurate headline would be:
“Pigs Oink At Innocent Citizens in Attempt to Earn Another Lick of the Boot”
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania 12d ago
No shit. And of course the Gestapo won't be punished.
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u/Jezzusist12 12d ago
Not yet but hopefully they will be. I'm sure the people of the late 30s in Germany felt the same. loads of those assholes got hanged, after the surrender
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u/redrocketredglare 12d ago
Wow. Who would have thought that once in power the law does not matter. Please explain to me how this is making America great again? Where are the defenders of the constitution against a tyrannical government? How does a pedo gets this much power?
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u/SupaKoopa714 12d ago
It's just crazy to me that they're using the smell of weed as an excuse to go up and start harrassing someone. You walk through the streets of DC for half an hour and smell weed like a dozen times, no one gives a fuck.
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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 12d ago edited 4d ago
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u/AntifascistAlly Oregon 12d ago
They’re hoping to annoy a fifteen-year-old girl into kicking their ass so they can also get a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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u/Alps-Mountain 12d ago
"Yeah officer, I have a tip for you, I heard about a rapist at large. I think the last known location is the White House."
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u/dBlock845 12d ago edited 12d ago
Jesus fuck the fed doesn't even know what his mission is as he is trying to explain it to the dude. The last thing these federal agents want to do is be beat cops. Stupid fucking right-wing government harassing black and brown people.
Edit: This is fucking crazy but I guess if Trump keeps FBI agents busy being beat cops, there will be no one in the office to leak the Epstein Files.
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u/TheShocker1119 12d ago
Last time I checked as long as I am on MY property I can drink and smoke outside.
Once Mr. Park Piggy started walking up the stairs that was no longer public property but private property. The dude was illegally searching too using "the smell of burnt marijuana" as PC.
Keep smoking and drinking on your stoops/balconies/front porches/yards and don't let them fool you.
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u/sonofabutch America 12d ago
They’re trying to provoke any kind of incident that can then be called an insurrection.
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u/Shobed 12d ago
You can’t have a smoke or a drink on your own porch or stoop?
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u/tom_snout 12d ago
Yes you totally can. These dudes with badges are 1) clueless about local laws and 2) are just enjoying the thrill of harassing people
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u/Ozymandias12 12d ago
I'm going to laugh my ass off when crime in DC actually goes up after this because these turds are just walking around mostly in wealthy areas downtown and doing absolutely nothing.
I'm in downtown DC right now and all I've seen is a bunch of unmarked SUVs with dudes just sitting in them wasting taxpayer dollars when they should be doing their jobs.
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u/Vanga_Aground 12d ago edited 12d ago
If you're looking for a reason why the Germans went fascist with Hitler and his brownshirts, look at yourself, America. This is the moment in history when your fellow citizens turned fascist. You don't have it in you to get out in the streets by the millions to stop it. Edit: a letter
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u/N3wAfrikanN0body 12d ago
Just another day ending in "y" since 1679,1877, 1915 and 1954.
MAGAts remain the same parasites as their confederate for bears.
Sort them out or the world will do it for you America.
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u/silent_thinker 12d ago
All that yapping Republicans did saying Democrats would do this and here we are. I’m waiting for the Republican outrage.
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u/Turbulent_Art745 12d ago
ah its like the good old days of the KKK but without the need for the hoods.
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