President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Or, given Trump University, Trump Steaks and his presidency, to name just a few, the "Running Trump business failures thread."

 

Yeah, not the same.

 

I think there's some question over who really leads the party.

 

The leadership of the Democratic Party, including the guy who's now president, went out of its way 30 years ago to hire 100,000 extra cops and that contributed to us being in the mess we are now with some patrolguys thinking they're Rambo II.

Nope, Democrats never supported cops.

 

Tom Friedman said it in his interview as a reason why the democrats aren't currently running up the score on the Big Lie Republicans.

 

People know what I think - get guns out of the cops hands for most police functions - but the nation is safer than it was in 1992 in part because of those cops.

U.S.: violent crime rate graph 1990-2018 | Statista

Violent crime has ticked up a bit four times since 2010 - in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2020.

 

yeah, that's why all the other primary candidates dropped out to back Biden and stop Bernie

 

I swear I keep updating this thread but all the posts at the top seem to be from August, 2020. There’s no other possible way we’re still debating whether “defund the police” is a stupid slogan, right? Because we all fucking covered that more than a year ago, right? Right?

It’s a stupid slogan and has been since the moment some moron came up with it. It’s easily, aggressively misunderstood even by many people trying to consider the argument in good faith, and it’s easily and aggressively manipulated by morons trying not to consider the argument in good faith.

The idea was fewer armed police officers, more mental health workers and the like. Labeling it “defund the police” was a gift to the GOP and disingenuous clowns everywhere.

 

I went looking for a snarky “just asking questions” meme, but this article is actually so good that I wanted to share in earnest.

No, you're not 'just asking questions.' You're spreading disinformation. - Minnesota Reformer

 

Absolutely true. Choose your words carefully. "Defund the Police" is an incredible gift to the Trumpist klan. You just can't make that a mantra and not expect the other side to pounce on it.

 

Perhaps telling that three of those four are POTUS election years.

 

I don't think this is incorrect, but they're going to pounce on anything, factual or not, to paint dems as radical. cf. the last 30 years