Apparently you can't keep up a fake emergency if you don't arrest anyone, and no ones surprised Trump can't keep it uphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/trump-dc-police-chief-deaWhite House officials and attorneys for Washington DC have agreed to scale back the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s police department.Under an agreement announced early Friday evening, the US capital city’s Metropolitan police department will remain under the control of its chief, Pamela Smith, instead of Terry Cole, the top administrator for the Drug and Enforcement Administration (DEA), according to reports.A revised directive Bondi issued late on Friday referred to Cole instead as her “designee” for purposes of directing the DC mayor “to provide such services of the Metropolitan Police Department as the attorney general deems necessary and appropriate”.Those services, according to Bondi’s two-page order, would include assisting federal immigration enforcement, contrary to DC “sanctuary city” policies constraining metropolitan police department action on immigration.Friday’s pact would also allow the Trump administration to use Metropolitan police department officers for federal purposes in emergencies.It comes after Washington DC sought an emergency restraining order on Friday against Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department, dubbing it a “hostile takeover” of law enforcement in the nation’s capital. US district judge Ana C Reyes had signaled that she would issue a temporary restraining order scaling back the Trump White House’s takeover of DC’s metropolitan police if the administration did not alter the arrangement by Friday evening.Reyes, during oral arguments on Friday, expressed skepticism that the Trump administration has legal authority to run the city’s police force or that Cole could effectively take charge of the department as its chief.
“I still do not understand on what basis the president, through the attorney general, through Mr. Cole, can say: ‘You, police department, can’t do anything unless I say you can,’” Reyes told a justice department lawyer.The District of Columbia attorney general, Brian Schwalb, filed a lawsuit on Friday morning, hours after the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, late on Thursday issued an order for the federal government to impose a new police chief on the city’s Metropolitan police department (MPD).https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/trump-dc-police-chief-deaSchwalb says the US president and his administration are going beyond legal federal power over the nation’s capital, and he wants a judge to rule that control of the police remains in district hands. The justice department and the White House haven’t commented.“By declaring a hostile takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its limited, temporary authority under the Home Rule Act,” the lawsuit says.The Trump administration named Cole as the “emergency police commissioner” over Washington DC – a move that further escalated federal control of the city – but were immediately challenged by local leaders, who then sued.Federalized national guard troops were ordered into the city four days ago as Donald Trump declared a crisis of crime and homelessness there, amid outrage from opponents.Bondi put Cole in charge of the capital’s police department, saying he would assume the “powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police”.How Trump is using ‘pure lies’ about high crime in US cities to justify federal takeoversRead moreShe said police department personnel “must receive approval from Commissioner Cole” before issuing any orders. It was not immediately clear where the move left Smith, who works for the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser.
Bowser promptly hit back, saying late on Thursday in a social media post: “In reference to the US Attorney General’s order, there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel authority to a federal official.”Bowser included a letter from Schwalb to Smith opining that Bondi’s order was “unlawful”and that Smith was “not legally obligated to follow it”.“Members of MPD must continue to follow your orders and not the orders of any official not appointed by the Mayor,” Schwalb wrote in the letter to Smith.
>>1426882Yeah shockingly you can't just come in and depose the local PD chief for literally no reason.
Luckily he already fixed most of the problemhttps://files.catbox.moe/59dly1.mp4
>>1426888>Bulldozes homeless camp>"We did it guys! No more homeless people!">Leaves
>>1426890Expect more of this kind of thing because conservatives have the attention span of a goldfish. They had their fun calling the nat guard to DC for no reason, and they will happily move on to the next distraction Trump dangles in front of them.
>>1426890Usually they will give them a bus ticket to a larger more liberal area, like Chicago
>>1426918>Use homeless population to justify taking over city>Move homeless population to other city>Use that city's homeless population to justify taking over that cityRinse and repeat.
>>1426920They're been doing it since the 1930s.
Taco: tRump Always CASHES Out
>>1426890They physically relocate them.
>>1426971But they're still homeless. And the plan of "put them in prison!" actually costs more than just giving them a basic home at like a halfway house or some shit.
>>1426972Giving them a home doesn't fix homelessness anon.>inb4 that's retardedThe majority of homeless have addiction problems or severe mental illness. They physically cannot take care of the upkeep of a house, nevermind acquire a job that grants them a consistent revenue stream.
>>1426973How are they supposed to treat those conditions without a house though? Hell for a lot of them the homelessness and lack of support or medication is exactly why their conditions got so bad.You need to give them some kind of base to build on or they're never going to get any better.
>>1426973So its revealed that, in fact, the only plan rightwing shills ever has was 'relocate the homeless (to blue states)'Do you ever tire of being worse than useless?
>>1426976You can't treat them. That's why they are a major problem.There is a percentage of the population that is totally fucked through no fault of their own. And nothing can fix their situation.Addiction can be prevented by beheading drug dealers, but once someone gets a hit of heroin for the first time, they're on a slow descent towards OD. Democrats have tried dealing with the issue by creating safe injection sites, because they know that literally nothing is going to make drug addicts stop injecting themselves. All they can do is make sure they're not dying from Hep C in a cold, abandoned building somewhere.
>>1426978So you're broken and think the only answer is killing people its why people keep making fun of you
>>1426978it's proven that drug addiction can be treated. though i doubt there is a cure for being completely bereft of empathy
>>1426982I think what they mean is that its not profitable to treat drug addiction. And you need smart and empathetic people to do it.So its just impossible for them
>>1426982>provenNo. Drug addiction is like having a food allergy that sends you into anaphylaxis. It doesn't go away simply because you stop using. This is why people relapse years after "quitting" the drug. The addiction is an intrinsic part of who you are.Addicts will always say>today is a new day, I'm not using anymore!and then they relapse. Maybe not in a week or a month, but always eventually. And then they eventually kill themselves because they go a little too far.Retards think you can "treat" heroin addiction with controlled doses of pharmaceutical-grade substitutes, but that's not a treatment. Something like methadone is still heroin without the high. All it does is curve their cravings. The addiction still exists, and they are still going to OD eventually.
>>1426984Wow this might be the most cynical and retarded take I've ever seen.>Guys no we can't treat drug addiction>No substitutes that eventually ween addicts off don't count>Just because they've been clean for years obviously just means they just haven't relapsed yet
>>1426985>weenIt's like saying you're "treating" the DT's by giving an alcoholic a bottle of everclear each week.You're treating shit, and they aren't clean. You're just forestalling the inevitable.
>>1426984observe, everyone, terminal contrarianism
>>1426985>Wow this might be the most cynical and retarded take I've ever seen.Its par for the course for right wing thinkers.Everything has an easy solution, and if it doesn't its unsolvable. Its why everything the shill's been saying is a one step process - >physically relocate the homeless>deport illegals>behead drug dealersTwo steps solutions are literally too complicated for their tiny brains.
>>1426986Yes anon, you can in-fact ween someone off a substance. This is medically proven by the fact there is a point where withdrawals will not kick in.
>>1426990>scientifically provenYou do realize that drug addicts don't get the same high every time they use, right? They have diminishing returns. That's literally why they OD.
>>1426991you do realize you've exposed yourself as a dumbass and nobody cares about any of your opinions, right? probably not, you're really that stupid
>>1426992Don't make me wake the others, anon.
oh lordy, the shill squad gonna pull up
>>1426990Hard disagree, pseud.Medical treatments for withdrawals, "weaning off" lessen the effects of withdrawal. There are no known techniques which remove withdrawal entirely, the term for "weaning off" you are looking for is "withdrawal management"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK310652/One could even argue given the propensity to relapse that even after physical withdrawal symptoms have been properly managed, the psychological withdrawal remains for very long periods of time and are the most difficult to address.
>>1427000So you're a doctor? Because no one cares about the opinions of a schizo who can google medical definitions
>>1426978>>1426983>>1426985>>1426986>>1426990>>1426992>>1427000Bossmanjack has entered the chat
>>1426978>>1426982I've been around addicts my entire life and worked at my church to help them. The problem with rehabilitation is that it takes at least one other person that has to almost sacrifice their life just to babysit the person. It also takes a lot of money because you have to completely take care of the person for the first year. They can't really work because they can't be around anyone or have any freedom or else they're very likely to relapse. Our church ran a rehabilitation center for about twenty years. Out of probably two hundred guys, about twenty five or so got clean and have stayed clean since. The only success was running it like a prison. No phones, no friends visiting, limited family visitation (depending on relationship), no cars, and they basically worked all day under supervision. The longest stretch was one guy went eight years before he relapsed. This was only possible because the pastor of the church was rich. I can understand how the government, which is already incompetent, would get even worse results while spending hundreds of millions more.
>>1427007>defunds the government and fires everyone competent>calls the government incompetentIt's by design.
>>1427007>The only success was running it like a prison. No phones, no friends visiting, limited family visitation (depending on relationship), no cars, and they basically worked all day under supervisionyeah congrats your church basically ran a slavery ring. I don't think "going clean" was the goal.>This was only possible because the pastor of the church was rich.Gee I wonder why?
>>1427009The government gave up on rehabilitation in the 80s because it was determined to be impossible. You can use California as a perfect example of how spending billions to fight homelessness and drug addiction doesn't do anything. The reason people have no empathy for addicts and the homeless is that they can't be saved, so we've somehow dehumanized them as a society
>>1427010You are the dumbest retard on the planet. Everyone there was free to go whenever they wanted. Your ESL ass has zero awareness or reading comprehension. The money came from an inheritance btw. Fucking retard
>>1427012>Everyone there was free to go whenever they wanted>No phones>no cars>they basically worked all day under supervisionYour church sounds like it exploited drug addicts for free labor.
>>1427012>you retard, he wasn't wealthy from slave labor, he was generationally wealthy AND abused slave laboryou wonder why poor white assholes from the south fought for the confederacy when they didn't benefit it, but maybe they're just the remnants of an embedded slave class that got free
>>1427014he's right anon, you are astoundingly retarded. and you're a faggot too, actually
>>1427013>>1427014You fucking retards. Only retarded Democrats want slaves. They didn't work for anyone that made any money. It was cleaning and studying for their GEDs. I know Democrat voters don't understand that word
>>1427013You sound like you eat corn the long way>>1427014Take your meds schizo
>>1427011Ronald Reagan gave up on it. "The government" didn't.
>>1427017How did you get this warped by partisan politics?
>>1427019He let hem into the streets because keeping them locked up is inhumane and never solves the problem.
>>1427022More like he didn't want to fund the resources necessary to deal with the problem, and like the neocon he was, he let social darwinism take its course.
>>1427022>keeping them locked up is inhumane>you gotta let them into the streets>then they can get addicted to heroin, and you can slaughter them because they'll never recover
>>1427025>Drug addiction recovery is impossibleToday on delusional takes; this retard, who clearly thinks this because he doesn't want to acknowledge he's high right now.
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>>1427031>I-I'm clean bro, I swear!Yeah where have I heard that one before retard.
>>1427034Yeah and I'm sure your defense for every person who has ever beaten a drug addiction is "Uh well, they just haven't relapsed yet! They will... trust me!"Or for the ones who died sober, "Uh well, they just died before they could! But they would've! Trust me!"
>>1427037I guess relapse exists for no reason.
>>1427039you are seriously too dumb to have a conversation with. is it really because you don't speak english
>>1427037>beaten a drug addictionYou have an Disney Special understanding of how drug addiction works. Nobody beats a drug addiction. It's literally a part of who they are; it's hardwired into them. Just because an alcoholic, heroin addict, coke addict etc stops imbibing for a certain period of time doesn't mean they beat anything.
>>1427043your parents should've beat you
>>1427043>Oh, you haven't had a drink in 20 years? Well, maybe you'll have a drink eventually! Take that!Yeah no one is gonna take this ideology of yours seriously.
>>1426978>population that is totally fucked through no fault of their own.Wrong. The majority of homeless are homeless because they are drug addicts and not the other way around.
>>1427045You're a retarded ESL shill with no real world experience. Addicts are mentally ill. They can't have just one drink or recreationally use a drug one time like a normal person. They have almost no impulse control. The majority of recovering alcoholics will even tell you that they won't go to certain events or parties because they don't want to be around alcohol in a pressured environment. One drink is all out takes to set them off most of the time. You'd know this if you had any real experience with these people. Fucking retard
>>1427043>an alcoholicMcCarthy was in the military and an alcoholic. And a failure who was destroyed by Eisenhower via not acknowledging his existence.Hegseth is an alcoholic. His credibility is already destroyed.
>>1427120nah, you just got programmed wrongthe sooner you can admit you're defective, the sooner you can unfuck yourself
>>1427120>>1427043Both of these posts are factually true in essence but it's nuanced.Most medical literature uses the "chronic disease model" whereby once somebody becomes and addict, they are always at risk of addiction, and periods of abstinence are referred to as "sustained remission" or recovery due to the fact that they no longer qualify as meeting the criteria for "substance abuse disorder" but there is no medically accepted concept of anyone being "cured" from addiction, only in remission for periods of time.This is how the psychological medicine field frames it with the DSM as well as how it's framed in physical medical fields.
>>1427141Part of the problem is that retards think treating an illness is the same thing as curing an illness.
>>1427144>everyone with an illness that can't be cured should be thrown into the shredderMAGA first. Prove your convictions.
>>1427144Oh yeah I agree
