Maybe Biden's smart enough to know that most of the people who will be voting aren't smart enough to know what defunding the police means.
maybe biden's smart enough to know that most of the people who will be voting aren't smart enough to know what defunding the police means.
Maybe Biden's smart enough to know that most of the people who will be voting aren't smart enough to know what defunding the police means.
I think the best answer is for him to say -
I stand by our law enforcement officers. There are hundreds of thousands of dedicated, outstanding officers that protect and serve their communities as they are sworn to do. BUT, as we have seen, there are also a percentage of officers who should not be wearing the badge, and are breaking the oath they took.
I am proposing a detailed plan that increases federal grants to police agencies that meet or exceed the new guidelines on hiring, training, ongoing education and training, psychological testing, background checks and disciplinary action. For the agencies that don't meet the guidelines, I will not put forward federal money to an agency that may harm the public they are supposed to serve. .
Also, if it’s Kamala, the “Kamala is a cop” thing will pretty much destroy her value to the black community in the current climate. Hard pass. Would be a fucking stupid mistake.
it will only continue to destroy her already destroyed reputation amongst white Jacobin Millennials.
Dude how blind are you? Do you genuinely think Black Lives Matter, the single most prominent movement on the ground right now, is not filled with a myriad of not just your “white jacobin millennials”?
Do you genuinely think that the black community will respond positively to Kamala Harris, just because she’s black? Movements like BLM are literally comprised of the same people calling out “Kamala is a cop”. The supposed “white jacobin millennials” you’re describing are the ones making fucking change in the streets right now. And they’re not “white jacobin millennials.”
Like, I can’t believe you had the nerve to say literally any of that. Holy shit.
(lost this post hours ago, trying again)
These past several days encompass
the 52nd Anniversary of the assassination of Robert F "Bobby" Kennedy - June 1968
shot 6/5, died 6/6, laid ln State (NYS Senator) at St Patrick's Cathedral 6/7, funeral procession to Penn Station for Funeral Train to DC to Arlington Cemetery 6/8
For a long time he was know as being Tough for various political actions. After his brother's President John F Kennedy assassination in '63 he plunged into deep sorrow. At some point he re-emeged and became Senator of NYS along with that an incredible sense of compassion, and empathy. When he was US AG he was read the riot act in a meeting with important black people of that time (some still alive). So he started to awaken in that way.
He went to visit, acknowledge, and learn from many people - The poor black people in cities, and the Mississippi Delta, the poor whites of the Appalachian hollows, migrant farm workers and Caeser Chavez, the Native Nations, etc. Poverty, racism, food insecurity, discrimination became some of his core issues.
Most of the nation was devastated by his loss. We had also only lost Dr King about two months earlier.
One of the most amazing things to me and many others (imho) - it turns out (book - RFK: A Raging Spirit) was that he was actually a gentle, empathetic child, but his father hated that so he began to suppress that side of himself and become tough physically through college football and mentally, etc.
His loss (he was sort of the final one) after JFK, Malcolm X, Dr King was the final turn in the road for America setting it in other directions.
We who remember know this.
(especially in stark contrast to u-know-who)
(and if you can't say anything nice don't say anything!)
u can open another thread for a discussion, and I'll be there, thank you.
I know, right?! Unbelievable!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/politics/trump-race-nationwide-speech/index.html
Some tweets from the timeline where Trump loses on election night 2020:
GEORGE SOROS BOUGHT THE ELECTION. SAD!
ANTIFA AND THE BLACK PANTHERS COWED THE INNOCENTS OF AMERICA
WITHOUT MY LEADERSHIP, ENJOY 4 YEARS OF SODDOM AND GAMERA
YOU CAN'T SILENCE THE TRUTH WITHOUT A FIGHT
SAVE THE BABIES FROM OBAMAGATE #OBAMAGATE
I HAVE MANY FRIENDS IN THE MILITARY
CHINA!!!
I definitely have some worries about this.And I’m arguing he’s more willing to use extreme tactics for self preservation right now, as he has entirely lost it and if he admits defeat then his four years of refusing to ever acknowledge minor defeats will have been for naught.
You're probably right about McConnell, he's a bastard, but smarter than Drumph.Oh I'm sure he'll try but he won't be successful. The secret service will drag his ass out by his long ties if he refuses to leave. The courts won't back him, and McConnell will dump his carcass by the side of the road the second he's not politically useful anymore.
All of this is true.
But what's concerning is his army of MAGA voters who will absolutely hang on to every word he says and many of whom are (a) armed to the teeth and (b) willing to go "liberate" themselves from their tyrannical leftist mayors, governors, senators and fellow citizens.
Dude how blind are you? Do you genuinely think Black Lives Matter, the single most prominent movement on the ground right now, is not filled with a myriad of not just your “white jacobin millennials”?
Do you genuinely think that the black community will respond positively to Kamala Harris, just because she’s black? Movements like BLM are literally comprised of the same people calling out “Kamala is a cop”. The supposed “white jacobin millennials” you’re describing are the ones making fucking change in the streets right now. And they’re not “white jacobin millennials.”
Like, I can’t believe you had the nerve to say literally any of that. Holy shit.
Bobby was an amazing soul. One wonders what his future would have meant for America had he not been taken from us.
Many, many people, many of them in BLM, and supportive of BLM, and likely most of the protestors on the streets right now, including myself, would be absolutely fine if not totally enthusiastic with Harris as a VP. I can’t believe how narrow your scope is. Do you really think all of BLM is so myopic that they can’t understand Harris as anything but “a cop”? That they are incapable of looking at her record with nuance and context? That she doesn’t bring a remarkable skill set? That there’s only one issue they will ever vote on? That it’s all about purity tests like it is for the white Jacobin Millenials?
Holy shit.
Dude how blind are you? Do you genuinely think Black Lives Matter, the single most prominent movement on the ground right now, is not filled with a myriad of not just your “white jacobin millennials”?
Do you genuinely think that the black community will respond positively to Kamala Harris, just because she’s black? Movements like BLM are literally comprised of the same people calling out “Kamala is a cop”. The supposed “white jacobin millennials” you’re describing are the ones making fucking change in the streets right now. And they’re not “white jacobin millennials.”
Like, I can’t believe you had the nerve to say literally any of that. Holy shit.
In Irvine's world, black leftists cannot possibly exist.
Just gonna go ahead and remove my flagrant post - your repeated use of the term “white jacobin millennial” is offensive as fuck and you’re simply trying to paste your moderate view onto a movement that is by no means moderate. Black people didn’t show to vote for Harris in the primary because they did their research, and she’s one of the worst fit candidates to adapt to the current BLM movement. And also you didn’t read my article, you just found an article from someone who was black and tried to use that as your rebuttal and it’s of incredibly poor taste.
I'm torn on this because, frankly, protests are not the place for establishing consensus. Protesters are not beholden to what the average American wants and should, if anything, be looking to change minds rather than pick up existing support. Negotiation can take place further down the line.
This is a highly complex issue. It's why "reform the police" or "police reform now" is a much better calling cry than "defund the police" or the simply asinine "acab". (#newblue is stupid)I'm torn on this because, frankly, protests are not the place for establishing consensus. Protesters are not beholden to what the average American wants and should, if anything, be looking to change minds rather than pick up existing support. Negotiation can take place further down the line.
If the majority of Americans support body cams and instructing police officers to avoid using deadly force, great, but...duh? That is the absolute least that can be asked of an officer at this point. Warning systems manned by crooked leadership will bring out crooked results. These are all half measures when racist sheriffs are still being left to their own devices.
The best course of action, though not necessarily the most immediately realistic, is to start from scratch, establish a new normal with limitations on weapons and clear patrol boundaries. Set the tone for new recruits with instruction not on how to best subdue an individual, but what makes crime prevalent in the first place.
But...Joe Biden doesn't have to agree with any of this. It's very good information for him to have, who supports what solution and what he can do to bring in voters, but it's not his responsibility to be a community leader. We already have men and women in the streets on behalf of the cause. Biden is a politician and needs to understand what is best for him to say so he can get Trump out of office.
With that being said, I hope his administration is more ambitious than the average American if he wins the election, because these solutions are nowhere near sufficient. They give the status quo a fresh coat of paint.