What a reprehensible form of extortion. Every single thing about this administration and its supporters is fucking GROSS.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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So defund the police?
🤡🤡🤡🤡
The rape kits are needed, but getting rid of some cops might actually help the crime rate.
That's an oddly specific thing to withhold funds from
It's not really surprising. Rape as a weapon of war seems to be common amongst both existing theocratic states and those trying to establish one.
As 40% of police beat their spouses, it's been the only budget cut departments are consistently willing to champion.
Hey, hey, HEY! That statistic from 20 years ago says that 40% SELF-REPORTED ABUSING their spouse! I am going to die on the hill of the difference between domestic abuse and domestic violence!
This is sarcasm, if not obvious
Republicans hate women.
POTUS thinks rape is fake news.
That’s a mobster threat.
Good.
Fuck ICE and Fuck Cops (They were invented to hunt down escaped slaves.)
Yeah but what'll we do without the $5 cities will spend on actually testing rape kits?
We'll find a way to fund rape kits without them -- cops dont do a reliable job processing those anyway and the hospitals should do it. And reducing police funding is what we've wanted all along anyway. Lets do this.
No shit? Lose police funding? We'll finally get those safe cities Republicans always talk about providing when they're elected. It just comes from the exact opposite of what they do.
Police defunding alone isn't gonna make cities safe. Where state capacity fades, people take advantage. Be ready to replace them with a new, more resilient system so that the power vacuum is filled not by some people but by the people.
Literal absolute monsters.
This DOJ is utter bullshit and must be held to account after this administration ends.
Did I miss something but aren't city/county police funded by local taxes, and statues are state-funded?
The article references a federal grant made to help support prosecution of rapists.
I'm surprised rape kit funding didn't get DOGE'd
Completely agree, but not because "woke" but because most rape kits go unprocessed.
Tow any federal vehicles, fine them, and if the fine is not paid within a week release them to parts shops. Tow and fine for what? Not having a stamp showing they have paid the state a stamp tax allowing them to be present.
The everyday use of threats to withhold justice and life saving things from people is not acceptable and should not be acceptable to anyone with half a mind in this country, the GOP needs to lose every single election they are up for for putting us through this absolute hell
Republican Christians, the best devil worshippers ever.
They don't look at them anyway, go for it.
Waiting for the product of the manufacturing, "they chose to defund their police, it's a lawless city. We have to send in ICE for pubic safety and to uphold peace"
They don't use them, ACAB and a shitton of them are rapist.
What does "don't allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforcement " even mean?
Like going to the Automated Teller Machine machine
Where you enter you Personal Identification Number number
ACAB
A single sheriff with a deputy, like the old times, would be more effective than an army of trigger happy clowns.
Don't threaten me with a good time!
Forgive my ignorance… but how much does a box of sterile q-tips cost? This sounds like fear mongering at its finest 😌