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Got away with taking over a city claiming an immigration issue. Getting away with taking over a city claiming its a crime issue. Wonder what the next step is because this seems an awful lot like the administration conditioning us to see the military doing police activity in major cities
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Marshall
Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
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Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."
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Marshall
Wait, Trump had the power to deploy the National Guard to combat rampant crime in Washington DC?
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Wait, Trump had the power to deploy the National Guard to combat rampant crime in Washington DC?
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Wait, Trump had the power to deploy the National Guard to combat rampant crime in Washington DC?
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Wait, Trump had the power to deploy the National Guard to combat rampant crime in Washington DC?
Looks like a peaceful protest to me
While our "conservative" government is using the power of hte federal government to control the lives of local citizens and attempt to fix local issues (real or imagined) our national debt made it to $37 trillion a few days ago.
Thanks for the nice upturn in rate of debt accumulation by overpaying masked goons and using our military to take over cities.
Just what you would suspect from the party that hates big federal government.
Yet, we get more silence from the "national debt is my biggest concern" folks.
That's (d)ifferent
Stillwater Townie
Ranger
Do these people even have jobs? If not, they need something more constructive to do.
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Marshall
Responding to President Trump’s plan to put District police under federal control, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb called the move “unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.”
“There is no crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” Schwalb said. https://wapo.st/4mlUUvZ
“There is no crime emergency in the District of Columbia,” Schwalb said. https://wapo.st/4mlUUvZ
Great article in the WSJ. Worth reading in full.
A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China.
Recent examples include President Trump’s demand that Intel’s chief executive resign; the 15% of certain chip sales to China that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices will share with Washington; the “golden share” Washington will get in U.S. Steel as a condition of Nippon Steel’s takeover; and the $1.5 trillion of promised investment from trading partners Trump plans to personally direct.
This isn’t socialism, in which the state owns the means of production. It is more like state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.
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The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
President Trump is imitating Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into economy
A generation ago conventional wisdom held that as China liberalized, its economy would come to resemble America’s. Instead, capitalism in America is starting to look like China.
Recent examples include President Trump’s demand that Intel’s chief executive resign; the 15% of certain chip sales to China that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices will share with Washington; the “golden share” Washington will get in U.S. Steel as a condition of Nippon Steel’s takeover; and the $1.5 trillion of promised investment from trading partners Trump plans to personally direct.
This isn’t socialism, in which the state owns the means of production. It is more like state capitalism, a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.
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Trouble with state capitalism
There are reasons state capitalism never caught on before. The state can’t allocate capital more efficiently than private markets. Distortions, waste and cronyism typically follow. Russia, Brazil and France have grown much more slowly than the U.S.......
Means of control
State capitalism is a means of political, not just economic, control. Xi ruthlessly deploys economic levers to crush any challenge to party primacy. In 2020, Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, arguably the country’s most famous business leader, criticized Chinese regulators for stifling financial innovation. Retaliation was swift. Regulators canceled the initial public offering of Ma’s financial company, Ant Group, and eventually fined it $2.8 billion for anticompetitive behavior. Ma briefly disappeared from public view.
We are nearing the point of no return, if not there already. Trump and co. do not care about laws, because there have been zero repercussions for breaking them. At this point, they are just "suggestions".
I don't see a way out of this other than a military coup. Which isn't going to happen, because all of the heads have been replaced by loyalists.
I don't see a way out of this other than a military coup. Which isn't going to happen, because all of the heads have been replaced by loyalists.
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