Donald Trump has demanded that the homeless “immediately” move out of Washington, D.C. to make the nation’s capital “more beautiful.”

Trump reiterated his Saturday announcement that he’s set to hold a press conference at the White House on Monday, adding on Truth Social on Sunday that “I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before.”

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” he continued. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong.”

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    Calling it now, this administration is going to spend the next four years militarizing the Capital and pockets of cities around the country so he can celebrate his third inauguration in his big beautiful ballroom.

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    The best thing to do to make DC more beautiful would be to permanently remove a certain bloated orange eyesore.

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    How did an allegedly civilized country allow one of the worst people imaginable to become their leader?

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      Same way it has happened hundreds of times before. An ant doesn’t know how an ant colony works and it doesn’t realize when its in a death spiral.

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        Weird, everyone else could tell and even huge amounts of their own population could, too. Empires of the past didn’t have the internet but these days you can very easily* see how the ant colony works.

        *it does require some level intelligence, but it’s pretty much all there.

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          No. You can’t. None, or perhaps nearly none of us understand how a city functions. Millions of humans come together and form a functional unit that has behaviour and agency, that protects us and organizes us, and we have no fucking idea how it works, because it emerges in non-obvious ways from very simple human behaviours.

          We are very much as ants, responding to signals that we don’t even directly perceive.

          Your aside seems to suggest you think people voted the way they did because of lack of intelligence. That is a defense mechanism on your part. It’s a belief you hold not because of its predictive power, but because of your emotional needs.

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      A bunch of racists have decided that they’re fine with the country crashing as long as they get to be racist and hateful to the weak morons who suffer from the disease of empathy…it’s quite unfortunate really.

      I mean also the media owned by billionaires that want to own city states basically fudal times, and with a crooked supreme Court that’s literally taking bribes from billionaires we’re cooked.

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    Classic conservative mindset.

    Ignore a problem or demand that it cease to exist instead of figuring out how to solve it.

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      Conservatives don’t like what they don’t understand. Much easier to get mad at the problem than to figure out how to solve it

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      What’s the last time a Conservative has solved any problem? Seriously, my entire lifetime I can’t think of a single thing where I’m like “Ah, good this conservative fixed this…”

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        I have one example, and it was the Conservative premier from Ontario who finally got rid of the single-family home only zoning restrictions. Unfortunately for conservatives that’s not exactly a right-wing policy and he likely only did it because he is corrupt as hell and developers wanted to increase density to make more money(whatever gets us there, I guess). I also haven’t looked into it and it could be very badly done, plus the amount of horrid shit he’s done really kinda does not makenit worth it.

        Basically, when they’re paid off by special interests and do things uncharacteristic of right-wing policy then things go ok. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

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    Imagine treating people you are supposed to be protecting as head of state this way. Or continuing to support the head of state who does so. This country is disgraceful.

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    He’s gonna have homeless people “disappeared”. Like their lives weren’t shit enough already. He’s gotta get disappeared himself. I’m still waiting to wake up from this nightmare.

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    ##pedo is sicking poors on homless to distract them from being a rapist pedophile.

    How detached you have to be to think this should just do it.