Have all of your thoughts, this is America! I am just trying to follow why I should give any fucks about anything anyone says on this issue that isn't going to impact this issue. Which Bernie is not, God bless him and all his legions.
More to the point, I am trying to figure out how anyone reads about people dying and refers back to a politician that lost in the primary a year ago almost.
The truly shitty part is that they both did what people are always lecturing people to do. "Well if he just hadn't run from the cops or stayed calm or followed directions or.... he wouldn't have been shot!" Yeah no, he'd still been shot, because you know, he was "too calm."
Yup, let him and all the rest of those duly elected senators off the hook. Explains why he hasn't done much of anything in the last twenty five years if no one has been holding his feet to the fire.
Maybe you should do a little research on the function of our government, and then you will understand why, even in the minority, Bernie Sanders (and the other forty-nine shitgibbon senators) DO in fact have "power" to do something. Granted he might have to build a coalition, but before Der Trumpenstein was elected, we had bipartisan movement for the first time in forever on criminal justice reform.
But talk is cheap, and if you don't see how pressuring some of our proggy elected representatives might actually get movement, then what can I say? LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 differ.
I admire your optimism and am jealous of your confidence in the system that has so far not stopped anyone from dying. May you be right and tomorrow we pass a law that makes killing people for being not white illegal in function as well as form. Until then, I will keep wondering how people look at these deaths and think it's a good time to play Who Does Better Base Politics.
No jokes, I agree. This absolutely is too hideous and grave. And yet, I can't help it, the first thing that crosses my mind when I see the photograph of that St. Louis cop is that Judge Dredd used to be an over-the-top and even satirical comic strip. Now it's real life.And that's no joke.
If you're a scared little pussy you shouldn't be a cop. It's a job they can quit at any fucking time. Also too, if you're a violent psychopath looking for an adrenaline rush you shouldn't be cop either. This little shit should have never been a cop. He is a cunt and he pees his pants when he interacts with black people. He should have done virtually anything else for a living instead of playing cop.
Well, the primaries have been over for some time, but I still see near-constant references to Bernie as the de facto leader of the one major political party that theoretically cares about things like police violence against minorities. (I tend to disagree that someone can be the leader of a party they refuse to join, but that's clearly up for debate.) In a context where Bernie is not just a failed presidential candidate in the past, but also a sitting senator and supposed leader of a major political party (a party whose strongest base is people of color, even) it would be nice if he'd either do something other than complain about rigged systems, or hand over the megaphone to someone who will. Especially since he and his wing of the party have been so dismissive of "identity politics" for so long, apparently not understanding that the "identity politics" of not wanting to get shot for driving while black is actually pretty fucking important.
If he were just the guy who lost the primary, I don't think he'd be relevant to the conversation. But if he's a leader of the one political party that gives any sort of fucks about civil rights, then yeah, his response is worth noticing.
That thug sheriff from Milwaukee, David Clarke, withdrew his nomination for an Assistant Secretary position at Homeland Security. He had 4 people die in his jail just last year and, among other sickening things he has said about people of Milwaukee, blames BLM for cop killings. At least there will be one less Trump sycophant going to DC who believes that only police lives matter. Now if only the good folks of Milwaukee could send him packing into obscurity...
Good example - love Atlanta! Well, at least the Atlanta I saw during a few business trips decades ago. Bet it's even better now.And what you said about Richmond - A few people here have told me I wouldn't have wanted to be here twenty years ago. Yowser I see some stuff I just hope stays on the past. Onward and upward except for creeps who want to MAGA. Ugh.
What you said, plus little/no emphasis on community policing, and a complete misinterpretation of the phrase "To serve and protect" - not just themselves and their fellow officers, but their community who trusts these officers with their lives.
Two words: community policing. Get cops out of their cruisers and MRAPS, and actually pound pavement, say 'hi' to people, support local businesses and charities, etc etc.
All I have to say is that Ms. Reynolds is a courageous woman. The cop is a cunt.
Have all of your thoughts, this is America! I am just trying to follow why I should give any fucks about anything anyone says on this issue that isn't going to impact this issue. Which Bernie is not, God bless him and all his legions.
More to the point, I am trying to figure out how anyone reads about people dying and refers back to a politician that lost in the primary a year ago almost.
The truly shitty part is that they both did what people are always lecturing people to do. "Well if he just hadn't run from the cops or stayed calm or followed directions or.... he wouldn't have been shot!" Yeah no, he'd still been shot, because you know, he was "too calm."
Yup, let him and all the rest of those duly elected senators off the hook. Explains why he hasn't done much of anything in the last twenty five years if no one has been holding his feet to the fire.
Maybe you should do a little research on the function of our government, and then you will understand why, even in the minority, Bernie Sanders (and the other forty-nine shitgibbon senators) DO in fact have "power" to do something. Granted he might have to build a coalition, but before Der Trumpenstein was elected, we had bipartisan movement for the first time in forever on criminal justice reform.
But talk is cheap, and if you don't see how pressuring some of our proggy elected representatives might actually get movement, then what can I say? LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 differ.
I admire your optimism and am jealous of your confidence in the system that has so far not stopped anyone from dying. May you be right and tomorrow we pass a law that makes killing people for being not white illegal in function as well as form. Until then, I will keep wondering how people look at these deaths and think it's a good time to play Who Does Better Base Politics.
No jokes, I agree. This absolutely is too hideous and grave. And yet, I can't help it, the first thing that crosses my mind when I see the photograph of that St. Louis cop is that Judge Dredd used to be an over-the-top and even satirical comic strip. Now it's real life.And that's no joke.
If you're a scared little pussy you shouldn't be a cop. It's a job they can quit at any fucking time. Also too, if you're a violent psychopath looking for an adrenaline rush you shouldn't be cop either. This little shit should have never been a cop. He is a cunt and he pees his pants when he interacts with black people. He should have done virtually anything else for a living instead of playing cop.
Well, the primaries have been over for some time, but I still see near-constant references to Bernie as the de facto leader of the one major political party that theoretically cares about things like police violence against minorities. (I tend to disagree that someone can be the leader of a party they refuse to join, but that's clearly up for debate.) In a context where Bernie is not just a failed presidential candidate in the past, but also a sitting senator and supposed leader of a major political party (a party whose strongest base is people of color, even) it would be nice if he'd either do something other than complain about rigged systems, or hand over the megaphone to someone who will. Especially since he and his wing of the party have been so dismissive of "identity politics" for so long, apparently not understanding that the "identity politics" of not wanting to get shot for driving while black is actually pretty fucking important.
If he were just the guy who lost the primary, I don't think he'd be relevant to the conversation. But if he's a leader of the one political party that gives any sort of fucks about civil rights, then yeah, his response is worth noticing.
I'll restrain my outrage to say only this:
I'm restraining my outrage a lot today.
That thug sheriff from Milwaukee, David Clarke, withdrew his nomination for an Assistant Secretary position at Homeland Security. He had 4 people die in his jail just last year and, among other sickening things he has said about people of Milwaukee, blames BLM for cop killings. At least there will be one less Trump sycophant going to DC who believes that only police lives matter. Now if only the good folks of Milwaukee could send him packing into obscurity...
Thanks km. Us white people need to own the responsibility and admit to the white privilege we have. Then things might get better.
Good example - love Atlanta! Well, at least the Atlanta I saw during a few business trips decades ago. Bet it's even better now.And what you said about Richmond - A few people here have told me I wouldn't have wanted to be here twenty years ago. Yowser I see some stuff I just hope stays on the past. Onward and upward except for creeps who want to MAGA. Ugh.
Director of Homeland Security John Kelly, who David Clarke would have been reporting too, hasn't exactly been a good boy himself.
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Not only can he not make up his damn mind, he thinks he can boss the rest of the world when his own TSA is proven worthless security theater!
All I can say is that I look at the US of A with an even more disappointed glance as of today.
What you said, plus little/no emphasis on community policing, and a complete misinterpretation of the phrase "To serve and protect" - not just themselves and their fellow officers, but their community who trusts these officers with their lives.
Two words: community policing. Get cops out of their cruisers and MRAPS, and actually pound pavement, say 'hi' to people, support local businesses and charities, etc etc.