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Wow. This man needs a lesson on how to deescalate a situation properly. Will this heavy handed approach really make people less angry? I doubt it..

>>midasz+(OP)
He's not trying to deescalate. He's throwing gas on multiple fires.

>>kccode+i
Predictably. Anything for a diversion of what a screwed up government this is.

>>midasz+(OP)
Jack or Trump?

>>midasz+(OP)
The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it?

Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.

>>101404+s2
You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?

>>101404+s2
Wouldn't they cause violence?

>>midasz+F2
> You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

He didn't literally say that. The National Guard would be acting in a role very similar to the police when there is rioting.

>>roenxi+w3
> Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!

>>midasz+(OP)
I think it's interesting how he's threatening China about HK on one hand, but on the other hand being a lot more literal and aggressive towards his own people.

>>Aeolun+55
He has never considered them "his own people."

>>midasz+k4
And that's bad because...? We can't succumb to lawlessness if people don't respect the law and expect no penalties. If they did the same thing at Area51 and were shot, would you say it's the fault of the guard who swore to protect their post just as the National Guard does? Is the value of civility not greater than a single life?

>>midasz+(OP)
Not immediately sure if you're talking about Trump or Dorsey here...

>>Aeolun+55
I think he does not know how to handle the moves being made by China to advance its territorial claims in this chaotic moment. That would explain Donald's domestic diversions.

China is pushing outward toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, in simultaneous fashion. In the former, we have the national security law. In the latter, we have new and uncamouflaged threats that China will use military force in Taiwan if it cannot control the island peacefully.

If Trump keeps our attention away from the China problem, it won't affect the stock market and we won't focus on its impacts on the world economy.

>>blackf+d6
Should people be shot for looting?

Is looting a capital crime?

>>Aeolun+55
He seems to be fairly aggressive against other countries:

> Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

> To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE

He sounds more like a super villain from a comic than a president.

>>totalZ+I8
Trump is just a big bully who loses courage when he gets pushback. Look at how nice he is to the North Korea guy while constantly bashing and demonizing other leaders of democratic countries.

>>blackf+d6
And this is why trump does what he does. There are actually people that thinks looters should just be shot.

>>roenxi+w3
He quite literally said this, this is why Twitter is flagging this tweet...

>>dannyw+S8
Wouldn't even matter if looting was a capital crime. We're talking summary execution without a trial. Judge dread territory here.

>>101404+s2
The national guard shooting citizens isn't "stopping violence".

>>midasz+(OP)
And his supporters said that women cannot be presidents because they're too emotional..

>>Aeolun+55
IMHO, he's a closeted dictator and would really like to be in Xi's or Putin's shoes.

>>yibg+p41
The 2nd amendment was intended to keep people with a healthy fear of one another. The equation is clear - to take another's property means one must risk something even more valuable; one must risk their life. It's that inequality that preserves order and to try and rebalance the equation by cancelling out the ever-present constants and insist life is above both liberty and prosperity, then you are fundamentally altering the social construct in untenable ways.

>>blackf+ie2
So then why don't we just have the police shoot on sight for any suspected crime? Police get called to store theft, just shoot the suspect. Police get called to vandalism, shoot first.

>>yibg+ri2
The obvious reasons not to do that is because it is stupid, disproportionate punishment, prone to abuse and irreversible if there is a mistake.

>>trymas+HG1
On the other hand, if he was indeed in their shoes he would have never made it and be deposed near instantly. The only place a Trump can thrive is in a democracy.

>>roenxi+YC2
All that is a risk accepted by the perpetrator. The expectation of being safe from danger while committing a crime is absurd.