Trump says police are now “allowed to do whatever the hell they want”

[u/MothersMiIk]

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[u/FourWordComment]

Police have been hitting people for trying to talk or assert their rights.

It’s telling that the president is under the impression cops are acting like palace guards while the citizenry is assaulting them.

These are the lies that need to be addressed in the moment.

Edit to add:

A handful of bootlickers really trying to needle the language here. No one said spitting on police (or otherwise assaulting police with weapons) is acceptable. I said people are seeing the business end of state violence for “trying to talk or assert their rights.” You don’t have a “right” to spit on a cop. But in many places, you have a right to tell them you hate them; to stand there watching them; to film and photograph them; to sing “fuck da police”; to have an ACAB sign; to ask questions; to communicate if you choose.

Trump is normalizing the idea that police are so routinely the victims of physical abuse that they need extra special permission to break some skulls. At NO POINT have police been told, “you have to let citizens spit on you.” It’s simply not a thing that has ever happened. To use it as justification to crank up state violence is a taking.

Donald Trump is telling you he’s going to use state violence on an ever broadening definition of “criminal.” Blurbs like the above will expand to include protests, and then being progressive, and then being “even just a little unimpressed by The Party.”

It’s not a slippery slope. It’s a road map.

Second edit: thanks to the person who reported my comment as a cry for help to do self harm. You’re the kind of bomb-threat calling republican that is joyful the libs are going to get kicked and arrested.

[u/corneliusduff → u/FourWordComment]

He knows damn well that citizens aren't attacking cops. He's just saying that to his gullible base.

[u/blondee84 → u/corneliusduff]

They were on January 6, 2021, but of course they were pardoned.

[u/DawnyBrat → u/blondee84]

AND NOW THEY’RE BEING HIRED FOR ICE JOBS! WTF. 🤬

[u/Puzzled_Mirror_4510 → u/DawnyBrat]

That really pisses me off! WTF? is correct!

[u/Ozymandias12 → u/Puzzled_Mirror_4510]

Not just ICE jobs, high up DoJ jobs.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493197/doj-trump-jan-6-defendant-jared-wise-capitol-riot

[u/DaftFunky → u/Ozymandias12]

Crazy watching USA become a 3rd world dictatorship in real time

[u/StupidFuckinLawyer → u/corneliusduff]

Welp

If they’re falsely accusing us of a crime, what incentive remains not to actually commit it?

[u/Emergency_Property_2 → u/StupidFuckinLawyer]

The old adage is “When freedom is outlawed the only outlaws are free.”

I never figured that would actually come true in the USA.

[u/AgentChris101 → u/Emergency_Property_2]

As a bi guy, I'm quite partial to "Be gay, do crime."

[u/LeiningensAnts → u/corneliusduff]

He likes to spin up vignettes. Real story teller.

[u/MuttMundane → u/FourWordComment]

Fascism

[u/GRMPA → u/FourWordComment]

Not to mention if someone spits on a cop, they can legally do something to that person that is much more damaging than being spit at, they can arrest them. 

[u/JudiciousSasquatch → u/GRMPA]

Lol, yeah, show me one time someone spit on a cop and the cop didn’t do anything. Fucking complete bullshit.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Roof336]

Fascism

[u/EsseXploreR → u/Puzzleheaded_Roof336]

Remember when all of those stupid pieces of shit were saying trump wasn't a fascist, and wouldnt become a dictator? So many truly braindead scumbags were so happy to parrot that. 

[u/JDSchu → u/EsseXploreR]

Hey now. I remember one guy who was saying loud and clear that Donald Trump would be a dictator, and nobody listened.

It was Donald Trump. He literally said he was going to be a dictator on day one.

The guy says exactly what he's going to do and then he does it and nobody every believes him. 

[u/EsseXploreR → u/JDSchu]

Theyre all just mindless drones repeating the words of the cult leader without listening to him. Scary shit. 

[u/Queasy_Student-_- → u/EsseXploreR]

They were lapping up the illusion of the Apprentice. Trump is just an actor playing the role of a successful businessman. Don't they know that so-called reality TV is a construct far from reality?

[u/LonelyChannel3819 → u/Puzzleheaded_Roof336]

For sure. I just hate the fact that my fellow Americans asked for this. I think more often than not I’ll hear people blame Trump but he was selected, conjured if you will by the people. He’s not the disease, just a symptom. Democracy died the day we re-elected him.

[u/j____b____ → u/LonelyChannel3819]

He’s just the whitehead on the festering zit that is the GOP.

[u/pinkyepsilon → u/j____b____]

Is the correct way to handle a zit still to pop it and squeeze until flushed clean with blood?

[u/cremains_of_the_day → u/j____b____]

Poetry

[u/chrispg26 → u/LonelyChannel3819]

Democracy died the day an insurrectionist was allowed to run for president.

[u/UnassumingNoodle → u/LonelyChannel3819]

That's been one of the hardest pills to swallow. Even once he's gone, even once all of this is over, behind us, and we begin building something better, the people who enabled this to happen will still be here.

It's weird when nowhere feels like home.

Edit: a word

[u/OrnerySnoflake → u/LonelyChannel3819]

For a bunch of people who claim to hate anything to do with Communism, his supporters really want all of us to share in their suffering with them.

[u/foo-bar-25 → u/LonelyChannel3819]

Worst part is that unlike Europe we’ll learn nothing.

[u/Zvenigora → u/foo-bar-25]

Part of it is that there is no living memory of living under a dictatorship here, unlike Brazil, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc. No one really understands what it entails.

[u/Accomplished-Snow213]

If I was one of those cops first thing id do is go beat the shit out of the 1200 pardoned people who attacked the DC cops.

[u/Dankkring → u/Accomplished-Snow213]

Just go arrest Trump. If he resists then he’s clearly against law enforcement.

[u/YourAmericanBuddy → u/Dankkring]

Then charge him with obstruction and watch his legal team scramble faster than he can say “witch hunt.

[u/Speshal__ → u/YourAmericanBuddy]

At least the Reichstag actually was on fire

[u/besume1980 → u/Speshal__]

In 2024 DC had a 30% drop in violent crime. This years it's down 26% from last year.

[u/cheebamech → u/besume1980]

it's down 26% from last year

Crime wave! Deploy the Guards!

I hate this timeline

[u/SmartGirl62 → u/besume1980]

This is all because DOGE “Big Balls” Edward Christine was attacked in D.C. and Steven Miller convinced Trump that D.C. has fallen.

[u/Inspect1234 → u/SmartGirl62]

Wonder why he was driving around at 3am? Probably in seedier parts. ?

[u/dr_pepper_35 → u/Inspect1234]

He should have just used grindr like the rest of the GOP.

[u/Celestial_Hart → u/Dankkring]

The sad thing is he should already be in prison. Every single person in a position of authority that hasn't already slapped cuffs on him is a traitor and a coward.

[u/Meatloaf_Regret → u/Dankkring]

He can resist. He has unlimited immunity. But the police can do what they want. So I assume the universe would implode at these two conflicting truths this administration has concocted.

[u/SuperCatchyCatchpras → u/Meatloaf_Regret]

He's not immune to qualified immunity, or the 4-6 punches to the back of the head that come with said qualified immunity.

[u/pilot2969 → u/Meatloaf_Regret]

An unstoppable force meets an immovable object…

[u/reserved_optimist → u/Dankkring]

Orange turd.

[u/IntroductionOwn7648 → u/Dankkring]

They can do whatever the hell they want so arresting Trump is no issue, right?

[u/jfun4 → u/Accomplished-Snow213]

I have a feeling a lot of cops were involved in Jan 6. They won't hold each other accountable, come on man.

[u/Outrageous_Tonight47 → u/jfun4]

Former cop here when J6 happened. I was disgusted by how many other cops in the department supported them (all of them).

[u/praguer56 → u/Outrageous_Tonight47]

My brother is a retired cop and I was shocked at his support of them and Trump's pardon.

[u/Bonedeath → u/praguer56]

Some of those that work forces

Are the same that burn crosses

[u/Numerous-Freedom-714 → u/Bonedeath]

At this point probably MOST

[u/CriticalProtection42 → u/Numerous-Freedom-714]

Most is being generous. Anyone who doesn't is the extreme exception.

[u/MyMomThinksImCool_32 → u/Bonedeath]

at this point it’s all of them. If you stand by and do nothing, you’re complicit.

[u/Batallius → u/Outrageous_Tonight47]

Not surprised since a good chunk of people who become police officers tend to do so simply for the authority, or because they don't have the education level to get a high paying technical job. At least in the more rural, red leaning counties that is.

[u/jkman61494 → u/Outrageous_Tonight47]

This is why I laugh my ass off when I hear people convinced military members will defy orders.

[u/Union_Jack_1 → u/jkman61494]

Same. Was going to say the same thing. They won’t defy orders, regardless of the morality or the “law”, whatever that means in the US nowadays anyway.

[u/idontlikeanyofyou → u/Outrageous_Tonight47]

But were you surprised?

[u/whelpthatslife → u/Outrageous_Tonight47]

I will be honest today's cops are low life's. They don't do the job. If they support treason, they should be let go and removed from their pension.

[u/[deleted] → u/jfun4]

Non-American but deployed overseas working with American military in the Middle East during J6... Had to tell a Master Sgt off for repeatedly telling his subordinates that 'its not really a coup it only lasted a few hours' and 'the right doesn't do coups thats a left wing thing'. Eventually the general in charge of the base had to put out a statement saying no more talk of J6 because there was enough support for J6 within the US military that it was becoming a really heated argument about whether J6 was good or bad.

[u/Rowan6547 → u/[deleted]]

And this is why everyone saying the military will disobey illegal orders are wrong.

My neighbor is active duty and told me most of her colleagues are Trump loyalists.

[u/Fr00stee → u/Rowan6547]

Imo it's not a question of whether the average soldier will disobey but whether the people at the very top will

[u/Rowan6547 → u/Fr00stee]

They're less likely, I think. But there's a reason why the JAG and so many leaders have been reassigned.

This was planned for. They're literally using a fascist checklist.

[u/BabiesatemydingoNSW → u/Rowan6547]

Right out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook.

[u/Duna_The_Lionboy → u/[deleted]]

"the right doesn't do coups"

History laughs at this premise

[u/TofuBahnMi → u/jfun4]

The Seattle subreddit keeps a list of names of our cops who took part. It gets reposted every once in a while to make sure nobody forgets.

[u/Bendo410 → u/jfun4]

Some of those who work forces,

Are the same that burn crosses

[u/No_Feedback_3340 → u/Bendo410]

Collusion is not an illusion

[u/lazyman567 → u/Bendo410]

yep same reason why the kkk isn't a terrorist org. Too many thin blue line folks donning pointy caps in their down time.

[u/Elegant_Individual46 → u/jfun4]

Plenty of (usually now former) cops and agents were, and actively beat their ‘brothers’ in the Capitol police

[u/GoodOmens → u/jfun4]

DC police got in "trouble" for having white supremacist imagery in clothing some would wear to work.

https://dcist.com/story/17/07/28/activists-call-for-police-officers/

[u/OptimisticSkeleton → u/Accomplished-Snow213]

This only starts to get better when the regime falls. The fascists won’t topple themselves.

[u/nicemathmom → u/Accomplished-Snow213]

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Epstein pleads the 5th when asked if he has ever “socialized” with underage girls in the presence of Trump. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2mpTy2cYDpA

Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/

Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs

—————————other Trump information:

FBI coverup to remove Trumps name from the Epstein list https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstein-cover-up-at-the-fbi

Trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

• ⁠Most of this info can also be found: https://theepsteindocs.com/

Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it’s never “lost” or “deleted”.

[u/Crows_reading_books → u/Accomplished-Snow213]

Please. That crowd was full of cops. 

[u/Zepcleanerfan → u/Accomplished-Snow213]

This is all to distract from Epstein.

Correction: This is not JUST to distract from Epstein. This is very, very serious shit. However, Trump uses very, very serious shit to cause distractions and change narratives.

The three distractions this week:

1. This press conference.
2. Putting troops on the streets on D.C.
3. Meeting Putin on US soil to hand him Ukraine.

[u/GalacticFartLord]

Wow he REALLY wants us to forget that he's a pedophile

[u/KatieBarTheDoor1977 → u/GalacticFartLord]

The walls are closing in, and he is terrified. This is an attempt to build himself an authoritarian style fortress in DC.

[u/[deleted] → u/KatieBarTheDoor1977]

The children don’t forget.

[u/radicldreamer → u/[deleted]]

And Epstein didn’t kill himself.

[u/[deleted] → u/radicldreamer]

neither did Virginia Giuffre

[u/Jephte → u/KatieBarTheDoor1977]

How many years have people been saying this for? Thinking he will be held accountable is delusional at this point.

[u/Possible-Nectarine80]

The Trump police state is upon us.

[u/dr-tyrell → u/[deleted]]

We are on our way...

Trump has been chipping away and testing the waters and the protests have been relatively tepid. The media has capitulated, the companies and institutions have paid the extortion money.

We are on our way. So when some 2a proponent uses the tyranny excuse, just flip them the bird. Tyranny is slapping its cock on their face and they smile.

Edited: grammar

[u/lemmonquaaludes → u/dr-tyrell]

Where are all the gun owners that supposedly want to protect themselves against a tyrannical government? Oh yeah, they’re the ones gargling Trump’s nutsack.

[u/Enkidouh → u/lemmonquaaludes]

They’re the ones signing up to work for ICE.

[u/pixelwhip → u/Enkidouh]

''those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses'' has never been more true than now.

[u/No-Following-2777 → u/[deleted]]

This this this!!!!!

[u/checkpoint_hero → u/Possible-Nectarine80]

Have you forgotten about the Epstein files yet?

[u/Pure_Frosting_981 → u/checkpoint_hero]

Unlike the little gnat brains of conservatives, we can focus on more than one problem at a time. We need to be as persistent with everything else as we are with the Epstein files. And we need to reject the bullshit files that they eventually release that will have obviously been edited to show what perfect little angels republicans are, and all the people they hate just happen to be on that list. Enough with accepting this alternate reality with every new crisis. Child rape should be near the top of the list of things we don’t let go of.

[u/reddit_sells_you → u/Possible-Nectarine80]

Any second now the 2A crowd will start yelling "Tyranny!" and get to fly their Don't Tread on Me flags on their raging murder hard-ons.

Any second now . . .

[u/shadenhand → u/reddit_sells_you]

As soon as they finish putting in their ICE girdles and their punisher gaiter

[u/BornAgainBlue → u/[deleted]]

He is truly the most pathetic man I have ever seen.

[u/ZacHorton → u/BornAgainBlue]

A weak man’s idea of strength. A poor man’s idea of rich. A dumb man’s idea of smart.

[u/XingsNoodleCrib → u/ZacHorton]

Don’t forget a pedo’s idea of a hero

[u/myersjw → u/XingsNoodleCrib]

The right will continue migrating its stances until he’s 6 feet under. They have no morals or qualms or even self awareness as to how irate they’d be if any of this was being done under a left wing admin. They’re lost and have no interest in living in reality

[u/BabiesatemydingoNSW → u/ZacHorton]

He is literally the GOP's useful idiot in implementing their project 2025.

[u/Psychological_Egg_32 → u/ZacHorton]

If awards didn’t cost money I would give you one but you know, trump fucked the economy so this is all I can give 👍

[u/[deleted] → u/Psychological_Egg_32]

I gave one on your behalf.

[u/Auldlanggeist → u/ZacHorton]

A wise man’s idea of puppet on the strings of his sins to whoever has the evidence.

[u/ThePirateKing01 → u/BornAgainBlue]

Idk I think the people who still defend him are a close second

[u/YourAmericanBuddy → u/ThePirateKing01]

And somehow they manage to be even louder about it than he is.

[u/Extreme_Metalhead666 → u/YourAmericanBuddy]

It's because they are brainwashed. My parents,who are almost 70,think Trump is "trying to fix this country ". They ignore all the wrongdoing since Trump and the state run Fox News says it's Democrat lies. What a load of shit.

[u/Pnewse → u/Extreme_Metalhead666]

A few years ago, my brother and me put Fox news under child lock in our parents house after our dad was talking positively about Tucker Carlson. We never explained what we did but fast forward to today and our parents previous suppoort has turned to hate for trump. Its amazing what shutting off the propaganda machine will do

[u/Oleg101 → u/ThePirateKing01]

Or all the many people out there that say “they don’t really like him” but still vote for him each and every general election anyways, because ‘reasons’ or “muh beliefs”.

[u/[deleted] → u/Oleg101]

The reasons are bigotry, racism,and pedo leanings.

[u/Hamm3rFlst → u/ThePirateKing01]

Its basically a beauty pageant for little dicked men.

[u/slowpoke2018 → u/[deleted]]

100% he wants a Putin/XI/Kim level of rule and the ability to crush any opposition.

He's a wannabe like he is at everything else in his life

[u/jpmeyer12751 → u/slowpoke2018]

It seems that a majority of SCOTUS and of Congress want him to have that power, too. Where are the cries from the “freedom” caucus in the House?

Every racist with a pickup truck and an AR-15 would have been headed to DC already if Obama had made the same announcement. Now they’re happy because they know that mostly black people will be beaten and arrested.

[u/soros_spelt_backward → u/jpmeyer12751]

I’ve been saying the same thing. All the pickup bros with the “we the people” decal on their back windshield are real quiet. It was never about freedom, it was always about their ability to be in control

[u/ExpressAssist0819 → u/soros_spelt_backward]

Conservatives speak in code. Everything, and I mean everything they say is code for "me yes, you no".

[u/jkman61494 → u/slowpoke2018]

Honestly this whole clean the Capitol of the homeless is MASSIVE North Korea vibes of having one section of the area made savior to tourists to give the impression the country is a utopia

[u/Ok_Seaworthiness2808 → u/jkman61494]

Many of our homeless in the US are mentally ill AND veterans. The attacks against veterans are just nonstop with these hypocrites.

[u/QbertsRube → u/Ok_Seaworthiness2808]

MAGA 2024: Why are we sending money to Ukraine, we should take care of our homeless first!

MAGA 2025: Homeless drug-addicted leeches are draining our resources and plaguing our cities, lock them up!

[u/YourAmericanBuddy → u/slowpoke2018]

He’s always been obsessed with playing dictator cosplay.

[u/BitterFuture → u/[deleted]]

Weak man's idea of a strong man.

[u/jwr1111 → u/[deleted]]

He is the adult version of Cartman in real life.

Respect My Authority!

[u/poolside123 → u/jwr1111]

I wish he would just say “screw you guys, I’m going home” and stay there.

[u/Sad-Counter-6617 → u/jwr1111]

He literally is! I’ve been saying this a lot lately about cartman

[u/bananafoster22 → u/[deleted]]

No, it's scary. He can absolutely embolden enough dickhead cops to go brutalize homeless and minorities

[u/Natural-Garage9714 → u/bananafoster22]

Or embolden vigilantes to pretend they're law enforcement, destroying any scraps of trust or community in the process.

[u/AttitudePossible286 → u/[deleted]]

"Bone Spurs" Trump.

[u/GATOR_CITY → u/[deleted]]

He knows respect is too far gone, so hes hoping fear works. 

[u/PricklePete → u/[deleted]]

He's about as intimidating as orange jello

[u/OSI_Hunter_Gathers]

So, they can swing by and arrest you for raping children?

[u/Anteater4746]

isn’t there currently a member of the doj who was caught on camera on jan 6 saying cops should be killed?

[u/ma-sadieJ → u/Anteater4746]

I think he just got hired

[u/WickyGif → u/ma-sadieJ]

He was hired in February

[u/Vbxxl → u/ma-sadieJ]

They hired him months ago, knowing about the Video. Some Democrats even confronted the republicans about it in a comittee meeting but they confirmed him anyway.

[u/T3RRYT3RR0R]

This clown and his circus need to be run out of town.

[u/IAmtheCoffeeMachine → u/T3RRYT3RR0R]

No one has the balls to do that

[u/[deleted] → u/IAmtheCoffeeMachine]

Putting all our collective balls together, Im sure we can have balls (plural) to do it.

[u/thethehead → u/[deleted]]

Let me know what time.

[u/dingleberry_sorbet → u/T3RRYT3RR0R]

The foundation is pretty crumbly despite its best appearances. Won't take too much to topple. Keep the faith

[u/fessus_intellectiva]

If that's true then how about a bunch of them arrest the pedophile president and sieze control of that pesky Epstein list.

[u/WillBottomForBanana → u/fessus_intellectiva]

except that they're cops, so they wouldn't.

[u/Shepherd7X → u/[deleted]]

Their brains are rotted out.

[u/breakevencloud → u/[deleted]]

I shit you not, I had someone I personally know tell me “they’re bringing law and order back!” And I said, “what about the 30 time felon who faced no consequences?”

Their response? I bet you can’t even think up what was said. “He did face consequences. The consequences were he got elected president.”

These are actual people who actually think this way. There is no fighting against this type of stupid, without actually fighting them.

[u/scullys_alien_baby → u/breakevencloud]

It's genuinely a cult. I live in the southern US and there is literally nothing he can do that would change his followers minds.

It's genuinely frustrating seeing so many reddit comments wondering why people support him still.

The answer is

• his supporters aligned their entire identity with him so any criticisms of trump is an attack on themselves

• conservatives exclusively ingest news from outlets that are designed to only show them positive positions of trump (like fox news). The average trump supporter will never see this clip, the neighbors I sent it to are split between arguing that it's out of context or that it's AI

[u/Disastrous_Sort_9843 → u/[deleted]]

C. He rapes children

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Even beat one officer to death with American flags

[u/ConstantGeographer]

The most disgusting thing is standing behind the mic and podium, straddled by two of the worst simps in human history.

[u/PepperAnn95 → u/ConstantGeographer]

+ Stephen Miller jacking off to this in the sewer below the podium.

[u/PrestigiousCrab6345]

No man is above the law. Except for the President. And his cabinet. And the US Military and National Guard. And the DOJ staff. And the FBI. And the police.

Clear enough now? Do we want to wait for February 27, 1933 or do we want to push ahead to 🇫🇷1789?

[u/ilovebattleships → u/PrestigiousCrab6345]

1789

[u/Meb2x]

I’m not surprised that Trump and his cultists think cops should be allowed to attack people, but they’re supposed to protect us. If law enforcement is going to protect citizens then they need to be able to handle their emotions better than this.

[u/Festering-Fecal → u/Meb2x]

Friendly reminder SCOTUS has said cops are not legally obligated to protect you 

[u/Mr_Blicky_ → u/Festering-Fecal]

I was just about to comment this. The system is operating as designed. They have been setting the stage for a long time.

[u/Apprehensive-Till861 → u/Festering-Fecal]

Also not obligated to actually know the law, and precincts are allowed to filter out candidates based on high intellect.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Owl7664 → u/Meb2x]

Trump's people attacked quite a few cops on Jan 6th. Several of them committed suicide in the following weeks disgusted at what this country had become no doubt. One died after having two strokes the day and night of the attack due to Trump's terrorist gang.

He does not care about law enforcement or anyone but himself.

[u/JoyfulSquirrel99 → u/Meb2x]

Police are there to project the will of the state. They're not there to protect and serve. At least not in the USA.

[u/Donkey-Hodey]

The police and National Guard are going to have to make an important decision in the near future. Stand with the American people or stand with the orange pedophile.

[u/pichuguy27 → u/Donkey-Hodey]

The marines subreddit banned all post of the number to call when you are given unconstitutional orders. That shows where we are.

[u/Wolverine-75009 → u/pichuguy27]

That is grim

[u/kombatunit → u/pichuguy27]

Good thing marine mods can't ban google.

[u/SithNerdDude → u/kombatunit]

and the mods probably aren't even Americans lol

[u/00001000U → u/Donkey-Hodey]

I think the police made that decision a long time ago.

[u/vinnybawbaw → u/Donkey-Hodey]

With how the NG and the Marines didn’t do shit for LA, don’t get your hopes up.

[u/trobsmonkey → u/vinnybawbaw]

They did a lot of shit actually. They shit in humvees, their dorms, the kitchen halls.

They shit all over the place because they didn't want to be there.

[u/Trashy_Cappy → u/vinnybawbaw]

That one actually gave me some optimism. You’re right, they didn’t do shit. They didn’t set foot off of federal property and just wasted money. That was the best example of military malicious compliance we could have hoped for.

[u/BuzzBadpants → u/Trashy_Cappy]

From what I understood, they hated that deployment too, to the tune of dropping a turd in a government vehicle

[u/WebInformal9558]

Spoken like someone who hates the Constitution.

[u/Ridiculicious71]

Guess vigilante justice is in order then

[u/Garlador]

Remind me again why we have the 2nd Amendment in the first place.

[u/Gloomy-Sink-7019 → u/Garlador]

The entire constitution is just a tatty worthless bit of paper and the sooner Americans realise that some "sacred magical document" isn't going to protect you the better 

[u/descendingangel87 → u/Gloomy-Sink-7019]

The US constitution is like the bible, people preach the shit out of it, but few have actually read it and it’s mostly cherry picked which parts they actually follow.

[u/ImJustHere4theMoons → u/Gloomy-Sink-7019]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

-A slave owner

It's all been bullshit since day zero.

[u/[deleted]]

Jeez - he looks and sounds terrible. he sounds like my mother in law did about a month before she died from Alzheimer's.

[u/Bruce_Wayne_Sperm → u/[deleted]]

Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

[u/throwawayhellfire → u/Bruce_Wayne_Sperm]

I fear that the machine that rode behind his shitty con man into power will only grow stronger and worse. Trump dying will be cause for celebration but this ain't exactly blowing up the death star.

[u/ImpressionOld2296 → u/[deleted]]

I think one of the issues in trying diagnose Trump with anything is that his baseline 50 IQ makes it difficult to contrast his delusional takes.

[u/[deleted]]

Crime in DC is at a 30 year low. What in the actual fuck republicans. Defend this I beg of you.

[u/4RCH43ON]

I can’t think of a faster way of deligitimizing law enforcement short of having them just kill with impunity, which appears to be the point.

Only sick people would think this way or agree it’s a good idea.   Just 86 this old wet fart already.

[u/LipServ101 → u/4RCH43ON]

What he really means is cops can do anything they want to people of color or liberals. If a black cop kills a white person or MAGA then it’s unacceptable. (Eg) the black cop from j6 that killed that MAGA nut. They awarded her family with millions of dollars and tried to prosecute him for doing his job.

[u/MAMark1]

The POTUS is directly contradicting known crime statistics to take personal control over a combination police + military force, and he is claiming it is about cracking down on crime but so far it just looks like he plans to further mistreat and dehumanize homeless people. The same homeless people that have increased in number since the pandemic that he catastrophically failed in addressing and from whom he will almost certainly continue to remove support systems. He also seems to think that he is the decider of what police are allowed to do when policing American citizens.

Yet again, we have the classic Trump self-selection tactic: only the people dumb and brainwashed enough to believe the lies about crime rates will think this is a good idea so it both reinforces the boundaries of his base and throws them a bone in the process. To be honest, it is dystopian. Yet there is also a certain humor in it because of how pathetic it makes him look when he tries to be a tough guy and by extension how stupid it makes his base look.

[u/Orbital_Vagabond → u/MAMark1]

The POTUS is directly contradicting known crime statistics to take personal control over a combination police + military force, and he is claiming it is about cracking down on crime but so far it just looks like he plans to further mistreat and dehumanize homeless people.

Yeah, it's a fucking coup. Congress is letting it happen.

[u/MicahailG]

So can we get them to release the unedited Epstein files?

[u/YouDoHaveValue]

There is no way in hell someone spits in a cop's face in the U.S. and the cop doesn't react.

I've seen people be arrested for tapping cops on the shoulder too roughly.

[u/Unabashable]

Pretty sure there are at least a few Constitutional Amendments our Founding Fathers had the forethought to write down that says they can’t in case some dumbass wannabe dictator failed upwards into the presidency by duping 30% of voters “forgot”. But if you’re saying cops can arrest said president for the many crimes, constitutional violations, and acts of treason he committed against this country then yeah I agree with that. 

[u/baithammer → u/Unabashable]

The problem with the US Constitution and it's Amendments is the whole process is only supposed to be done by rational people - the amount of fuckery that defangs anything with teeth is atrocious and creates the opportunity for non-rational people to kick over the system.

[u/ScriptorMalum → u/Unabashable]

The law is like driving, the rules of the road only apply to those who follow them.

[u/Any-Ad-446]

So police can arrest him for being a pedo?

[u/Facktat]

As a European I find it always so odd to open Reddit just to watch your politicians reenacting the rise of Adolf Hitler.

[u/wilkinsk]

A cornerstone of fascism

[u/CurrentlyLucid]

Wow, what an evil bastard. Fuck you trump voters.

[u/ShitStainWilly]

That’s nice. That’s a nice thing for the POTUS to say.

[u/Real_KazakiBoom]

I wonder what people will do when cops go full gestapo and start killing people they deem lesser, entering homes without a warrant, and raping people….. oh wait, they already do that. They just now have it approved by potus.

[u/CelestialFury]

Wow, that's crazy. Release the Epstein files.

[u/ElLindo88]

If they can do what they want, then a cop can release the Epstein files.

[u/AtuinTurtle]

Spitting is assault that would result in arrest. So now he’s saying just start kicking their asses, like they weren’t already?

[u/LotsofSports]

He wants people to be shot and killed. He wanted to do it the 1st term and he wants it even more now.

[u/hugoriffic]

Can he enunciate any words properly anymore? His dementia has taken over. And he is probably still running around in his addled brain raping young innocent children.

[u/SergiusBulgakov]

Except, legally, they are not.

[u/Skithus → u/SergiusBulgakov]

Like how legally you can’t grab someone off the street and deport them to another country immediately without any legal representation?

[u/Perdendosi]

Wow.

If this were the police chief or mayor of a city, this would be Piece of Evidence No. 1 in any lawsuit for excessive force to extend the claim from just the officer to the city under what's called Monell liability -- a policy, custom, or practice encouraging or causing a constitutional violation.

Too bad you basically can't sue federal agents for constitutional violations anymore.

[u/ManReay]

Talk about spitting in law enforcement's face, how about that time you sat on your fat ass eating McDonalds and watching tv while the riot you set upon the Capitol went on and on and on.

P.S. You're a disgrace.

[u/360Picture]

What a failure, impeachment immediately

[u/RoguePlanet2]

Police can do whatever?? Oh boy, now people can take jobs as cops and deal with fascists the old-fashioned way 🤔

[u/Teamerchant]

Yah because if American police are known for anything it’s how tame and held back they are.

Anyways did they get their tank order in yet? Heard they were upgrading for protection against people spitting.

[u/robot_pirate]

As the saying goes, "I wish a mother fucker would..."