cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9405812
“We are going to do something that I will say is slightly controversial but it shouldn’t be. We are going to indemnify policemen and precincts and states and cities from being sued. We want them to do their job. Our police and law enforcement has to come back and they want to come back and they want to do their job. And we are going to indemnify them so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension, and their job. We are going to indemnify policemen and law enforcement. We are going to tell them to get out, we love you, do your job.” – Trump, speaking last night at the New York Young Republicans Club gala.
Trump going after the tyrant vote.
“we’re gonna get all of the cops nice new uniforms and badges, cool badges with skulls on them, and we’ll teach them all to march around the streets and round up all the undesirables!”
He wants police to be able to act without fear of personal consequences when he asks them to break the law. Imagine if you were asked to roll up and grab protest leaders off the street. He wants to make that decision easier for officers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-federal-arrests/
Rather like the Watchmen television show.
The Watchmen tv show was set in Tulsa? TIL.
Opens on the Black Wall Street massacre too, the location is very poignant to the story and themes.
PLEASE TREAD ON ME
NoOo It’S tHe DeMoCrAtS tHaT aRe ThE fAsCiStS!
/wrist
Trump and his supporters are so gross.
Trump continued:
“And so we can distinguish our brave police who have taken up our indemnification, we’ve designed a new uniform for them. They will have brown shirts and ties. i like brown, you like brown, everybody loves brown. And we will want a really good name, the best name for our brave Brownshirts. I was thinking something like the Storm Division. What do you think, isn’t that the greatest? I think it’s the greatest.”
but some pepple dont like division because it divides people. i dont agree but some say this. maybe it can be a team or a squad, like squad cars or storm squad. they can have a cool storm logo with a lightening bolt and use S S for super sexy, because thats what they are.
Only if it uses the cool S
Red shirt and brown pants are the best combo. Hides the stains if they ever get into an actual conflict
That sounds too close to Schutzstaffel to me (SS)
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EDIT: I’m not 100% sure that it’s not a real Trump quote and am second guessing myself
Nein, es sind völlig getrennte Wörter. Bist du George Orwell /s
This would be setting fire to the first amendment.
Besides freedom of speech, of and from religion, the 1st recognizes our right to get redress from the government for grievance.
The government CAN NOT do whatever they want to us. That rule has been there the whole fucking time.
If Trump gets another term there won’t be a constitution any more.
There’s a lot to unpack in this statement, but the short of it is that he’s thinking like a terrorist- that the role of police is to instill fear and the thing keeping them from fulfilling it is that they fear being sued. He’s telling his supporters that he wants cops to do crimes with impunity
So pretty much keep the situation as-is? I mean it’s really not THAT far off right now.
Yes, dude. Things can indeed get very much worse.
Let’s hope he loses and you don’t end up eating those words.
He wants them to blatantly mass arrest protesters, commit genocide, etc.
This is the problem with ACAB. Losing sight of what worse looks like
Things are bad, but they could always be worse, so let’s accept the way things are…?
No I’m saying that by irresponsibly overusing superlatives like “all,” we remove the potency of the word. E.g., “today sucks and cops kill innocent people all the time, especially if you’re a person of color, disabled, mentally ill, or a dog. And the decent ones don’t upstand and report making them complicit for fear of self preservation, but not necessarily bastards. Good thing they’re not ALL murderers using their privilege to rampantly kill. Because that would be thousands times even worse”
It gets worse. This is not all. There is more.
I’m not an acab guy, believe me. U was just trying to say that US police in general is already pretty horrible compared to any other western civilized country
Sorry, didn’t mean that to be the point of my thoughts, if it came out that way. I’d actually have to think about whether I feel that way. I also don’t know what western civilized means these days.
Buuut… the data shows this is a very American problem. Police murdering people is only pandemic here. Brutality, killing pets, racism… def universal… but executions… mmmmerica way ahead #1. Another accolade alongside school shootings…
Are we the baddies?
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This nazi fuck needs to be thrown in prison.
Criminal wants more police brutality. Idiots set to vote for Criminal come november.
Stupid people really do think of the stupidest solutions to problems that don’t exist.
The hard thing is hearing it over and over and over again. How many times has this shit already been tried? What was the result? Oh, you don’t know? Does that not strike you as phenomenally negligent of a policy maker, to not be aware of the likely results of your fucking actions? Go die, you orange piece of shit. Or win, and take this fucking irreparable democracy with you.
Bold of you to assume he doesn’t know damn well how totalitarian this is.
Honestly, I’m 50/50. He is a controlling rich asshole and knows things like police don’t actually affect him, but he’s also a bumbling moron. It’s kind of hard to tell with him sometimes.
It’s one thing to claim police brutality isn’t that big of an issue. Still wrong, but not uncommon.
It’s another thing entirely to somehow be pro-police brutality.
What the fuck?
This is just the alt-right with masks off.
They haven’t had masks for decades, and it’s becoming more blatant. Reagan was the beginning of it all, honestly.
Nothing “alt” about it when it’s the likely GOP candidate for President next year.
Someone should explain qualified immunity to this chucklefuck. What’s next, he gonna tell us he would fight a war with no rules so he would win every time?
How brain dead do you have to be to even listen to his ravings let alone follow him and think he is a leader.
That’ll get him a few more votes from the fence sitting fascists.
Funny how the " law and order group ", doesn’t give a damn about the constitution.
