If there are any other posts that I moved to this thread that should be in the racism thread, please report them so I can move them.
Half assed barely functioning government describes Minnesota's democratic government favorably. Doesn't look like Dems do good government either, their tone deafness got Trump elected and had to depend on a Pandemic, riots and social unrest causing him to meltdown to have a chance to beat one of the worst presidents in the history of our country. We are very likely to see. I am skeptical Dems will do anything substantial in the way of solutions either. They may blur the color lines some, but they are a part of the ruling class too. They will not be doing anything about the wealth disparity or the over sized share of profits that corporations siphon off to shareholders. They too will measure the economy by some vague metric called the Stock market or the Dow or anything other than the divide between haves and have nots.
And here I thought this was the Brazil NSR Politics thread. Recovery and retirement are definitely conducive to clear thinking.
As a Canadian, he's naturally too polite to say what he really thinks, and he realizes that answering "Yeh, I coulda banged his daughter that time, eh..." wouldn't go over well, and trying to distract everyone with a non-sequitur like "Holy smoke! Hand me a serviette, I dropped my poutine on the chesterfield" would just confuse people, so he had to collect his thoughts for a moment...
Ben Sasse finds his breaking point. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ben-sasse-word-god-political-prop-photo-op-protests "“But there is a fundamental – a Constitutional – right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo-op that treats the Word of God as a political prop.” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the lone black lawmaker in the Senate GOP caucus, was the only other Republican senator to denounce Trump’s actions. “It’s not something that I thought was helpful or what I would do,” Scott told Politico correspondent Ben White on Tuesday." source/link?
About the culture: Let’s not argue semantics here. This photo is offensive and doesn’t reflect the values of the institution we are supposed to trust with policing us. This is the culture I’m talking about 1267903359325011969 is not a valid tweet id
Oh.. And Seattle police are coincidentally covering up their badge numbers in order to honor their fallen comrades.. Totally a coincidence that they are wearing black strips over their badge numbers as they indiscriminately fire tear gas and rubber bullets at peaceful protestors. It also got one of their fellow officers smeared on Twitter. On either Saturday or Sunday a police office decided to spray a 10-year-old girl directly in the face with tear gas and because his badge number was covered and he refused to give his badge number, another Seattle PD office that looks like the guy was blamed and that police officer is now getting death threats.
Sasse and breaking point should not be used in the same sentence. Mukorski was not impressed either and Collins was concerned as usual. Murkowski: Treatment of White House protestors "not the America I know" https://t.co/zE0ZWxHIpK pic.twitter.com/1smvRETWLS— The Hill (@thehill) June 2, 2020
Obama started to change the culture. Jefferson Beauregard and Dotard reversed him. Because black person. The last few years of the Obama administration were one of the most productive periods of criminal justice reform in American history. The Obama administration changed sentencing guidelines to reduce the disparity in the treatment of drug crimes that had disproportionately harmed black defendants. As part of an effort to inculcate a “guardian, not a warrior” mindset, it restricted the transfer of surplus military equipment to police departments. Most importantly, it formed consent decrees with more than a dozen police departments to force them to change their practices. President Donald Trump shaking hands with Minneapolis Police Union head Bob Kroll. Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...d-obama-protest-police-violence-kneeling.html
And while we're on the subject of protest & police violence, it ain't new... 1267519173200171008 is not a valid tweet id
This is such a sad thread about people losing family and friends over all this.....stay strong everyone 1267228888712740864 is not a valid tweet id
So you think Minnesota is doing a good job? It is shitty that it is true. Your lack of acceptance doesn't change that it is true. That is not what I said at all.
Let me rephrase it, I was trying to be too polite, it is the dumbest shit I have seen posted here today and by a mile. It is simply crass ignorance and I have no patience for that.