Is anyone else surprised people aren’t fuming about Trump’s takeover of DC? A “friend” told me we’ve cried wolf one too many times about Trump being a fascist so now everyone’s just tuning it out. Unreal.

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Nobody outside the district cares. Inside the district, it hasn’t changed much yet (but we’ll see where it goes). Currently it’s just a small number of national guardsmen, and Trump control of MPD, who might have to work for the first time in their lives which could be traumatizing I guess.

But if this turns into the various federal bodies exceeding their jurisdiction without punishment (eg, all the new ICE agents becoming brownshirts and patrolling around the city), that’s a very different matter. I worry that the slow start is designed to desensitize people to what will happen and make it no longer newsworthy when it escalates.

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What is there to worry about? Actually being able to walk around DC safely at night? Maybe mayors of certain cities can just do their jobs instead of having press conferences every other day yelling about Trump tweeting something.

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@A1: you told me the democrats were the interventionist party and republicans were not. Congrats on being fooled & hope you are enjoying the new war in the middle east! Oil is now up by ~30% since we started bombing.

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No im fumed that they are still reporting unemployment is 4% because we all know it’s well above that. I have bills to pay.

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I seriously doubt about the truthfulness of the unemployment rate

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I have so many “bills”

Let them. Now you know who they are. They're old news.

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