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Be careful!

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Van Jones is a moron but we knew that already.

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Hmmmm - Shades of George Will commenting on ABC how well Reagan did during a debate after having briefed Reagan himself (a fact he failed to note and in just universe would have gotten his ass fired)

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He was a charismatic guy who briefly seemed to be on the good side. Didn't stay there long enough to establish that it was anything but a way station.

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He's been at this Even-The-Libs act for a while but tries to maintain his progressive cred.

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Golly! That's so sweet! Paul's the real treasure. He took me to see Randy Rainbow in Albany, NY. His second stop on his first live tour. He was fantastic!

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Van Jones should be fired by CNN for not disclosing his part in creating that Executive Order.

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He sold out for access, like Maggie Haberman. He's BFFs with Jared and Ivanka.

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Jones has become just another useful fool for Trump. There's posturing to fool black people into voting for Trump. And then there is true police reform which is not what Trump intends to do.

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WTF is wrong with him? I don't get how anyone who voted for Barack could vote for fuckshit. How could anyone who worked for him in any way affiliate himself with that motherfucking racist traitor?

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BFF with a slum landlord?

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Remember to hold the pinky finger out on the lighter hand

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JONES: [T]hat was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics.Don't fucking tell me what I have seen in my life. Anyone who has half a brain and wasn't seduced by Third-Rate Slenderman Jared Kushner knew exactly what that was - a conman doing an absolute bare minimum job on pretending he isn't a gross monster for an evening. We weren't fooled, Van. And it seems you weren't either. They just found your price.

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That's where the skill of psychiatric professionals are necessary to more appropriately incarcerate criminals. The justice system has recommended sentencing guidelines that generally allow judges to make final determinations in regard to the length of a sentence. In regard to particularly heinous crimes such as the sexual abuse of children, serial rape, and serial murder, there is almost always a pathogenic compulsion to commit that crime involved. Such perpetrators are generally categorized as having anti-social personality disorder, aka sociopathy.

Sociopathy does NOT respond to psychiatric treatment. Sociopathic offenders CANNOT be rehabilitated.

Sociopaths should NEVER be released from prison.

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Prior to May 25, Mr. Jones's nauseating collaboration would have been hailed as good liberal incrementalism, working from within to fix the system, and every other line of bullshit any progressive has heard every time a chance for real progress gets torpedoed by the status quo.

Maybe Mr. Jones missed what happened a few blocks from my house in Minneapolis on May 25? On the off-chance Mr. Jones hadn't heard, what happened was that we got a live-streamed illustration of the results of incrementalism in police reform. If he has any questions, he's free to come here and I'll give him a tour of burned-out Lake Street, so he can see what happens when the police are allowed to police themselves for long enough.

We'll have to take my car, though. It's about a 4-mile swath of devastation. That's how incrementalism works in US policing.

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Whoda thought?

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