punch line the fbi is now denying a hack happened and smart money play is leaning towards someone embezzled it.
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You can take this a step further, most of those shootings were still justified. The idea that cops are going around killing unarmed black men for fun/sport because cops are racist is.........retarded. The odds of getting shot for no reason by a cop are around the same as dying from being struck by lightning.
blake, there won't be a collapse of the party.
Maybe a retooling.
If Biden wins, and if Democrats have all three houses, you can count on a lot of things happening which piss people off, resulting in a shellacking in the midterms.
That's pretty much exactly what happened in 1994.
While Clinton was a good enough politician to change course and save himself for 1996 (a bad Republican candidate in Dole helped, too), that 1994 win set the stage for Republicans to reshape the map and come back into prominence.
Once the noise of Trump is gone, and the Democrats have full control, there's no way they're going to pull off a lot of their extreme ideas without making a lot of centrists feel really uncomfortable.
You know when a tremendous backlash will come against Democrats? When they finally get socialized medicine into law (which will happen eventually), and people start to realize the reality of what is really is. Right now, many Americans have a rosy view of what to expect -- free healthcare for all! Never another medical bill! Everything treated and taken care of!
When they see the ugly reality of 6-month waits for specialists, denied tests, and 6-month waits for other tests, there will be panic. There will be even more panic when people come down with cancer symptoms and can't get into the doctor for 3 months. Republicans should win in a landslide in the following election. Sadly, we have to destroy our healthcare to get there, so I'm not looking forward to that, especially as my parents advance further in age, and even I start getting into further into the age where shit can go wrong.
Anyway, that's the future.
The present is that Trump will probably lose, Dems will get the Senate, and I will have to endure 2 years of watching a lot of really awful changes. But perhaps the party really does need kind of a reset in order to prevent losing states like Texas, so long term that may not be all that bad.
Republicans have no one to blame but themselves for electing someone so unhinge who actively made fun and taunted his own citizens on twitter. Seriously had any other republican won they would be cruising to reelection here. You put a lunatic in the whitehouse and then complain when he doesn’t get re-elected.
He’s the first guy on the Right to go on the offensive against the left and a lot of people don’t have the stomach for it. It’s maybe the biggest reason why he won the Presidency because there was an enormous appetite for someone on the Right to fight back.
The left has has had the GOP on its heels and playing defense for the past 30 years on social conservatism. People on the right had enough and that’s why Trump won.
The old GOP is dead in terms of being a political force. Free market and limited government arguments won’t win any more elections. The only way forward for the right to wield any kind of institutional power is MAGA. Trump is the only weapon the Right has in the culture war and he’s shown the way forward.
If MAGA dies the libs will grab power and never let go. The elites know this which is why they’re so desperate to defeat Trump.
i'm not sure about this.
trump's policy proposals are clearly popular with a lot of people.
if you had a "normal" candidate who pushed for a border wall and other social issues that a lot of mainstream republicans and democrats believe in, without the dumb statements, that candidate could win.
trump may have given republicans a blueprint for how to win elections.
push economic populism, bring back manufacturing jobs (or try, anyway), appeal to blue collar workers...
if that candidate just acted normal, he could win easily
i agree pretty much with the retooling thing. but i totally disagree at the idea that there will be "awful changes".
lol at thinking anything meaningful ever gets done in washington.
even as much as i hate trump, i'm not sure what big changes he actually made that had any effect on me whatsoever.
When you look at the trajectory of states and see early voting in Texas and Florida and Georgia, see the trends in the west, you come away unconvinced we will win those states this time, and I’m still nervous about the general, but I look and think the GOP better have a Hispanic candidate ready to roll going forward if they don’t want to lose by 200 every election come 2028 or so. It feels those places will be almost solidly blue by then.
If I was a republican, I don’t know if I care if I lose that much. 4 more years of Trump and you could see an AOC emerge policy wise. If Biden mucks around for 4 years, you may push back the inevitable by 10-15 years. That would be my solace as if I was a republican and I lose. We got 3 SC justices and this guy might have eventually turned Texas and Georgia and NC blue forever next election rather than in 10-15 years.
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I agree and I would be all for a more polished version of Trump but the tenacity and fight needs to remain. MAGA policies are the key as you’re right, they are broadly popular.
The thing that worries me is that many influential people on the right want to return to the Mitt Romney types who will always cuck to the left when push comes to shove.
I mean, if anyone thinks a Haley/Crenshaw 2024 ticket is a good idea they just don’t get it. That ticket doesn’t have what it takes to win a general election and energize a base and they will always let the left control the narrative.
If Trump wins it’a a validation of MAGA and stops the Dems from transforming the country but if he loses the conservative movement could be essentially finished and the Republican Party will be opposition in name only.
The problem is the parties aren't stagnate even though we like to think they are.
Heck, just 3.5 years ago Democrats were pro tariffs and Republicans believed in free trade. Then Trump comes along and Democrats all of sudden become free traders.
Point being that the issues and the parties will continue to move around and continue to figure out ways to divide people.
Oakland County, MI, 2016, Targetsmart:
D +4.2
Currently:
D +2.5 (and dropping)
If Biden is slipping in Oakland County, MI he is not going to win the state.
thats the mentality. they have become addicted to this issue. the christian fundamentalists have effectively performed a hostile takeover of the entire conservative movement, hollowed it out, and converted it into a vehicle for fundamentalism. and the virus they used to deliver that payload is the 'pro life' movement.
Unreal. Big Tech is out of control.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status...32652874330113
So your argument against White privilege is 'there are poor uneducated white people also, I saw them myself'
Drawing a conclusion about a society of 350 million people based on what you see is like arguing that you should fold KK because an Ace always flops. You have to do the math and forget about the hands you 'remember'.
When do you think white privilege stopped being a thing, or do you think it was never a thing?
Because there's always been poor, uneducated white people in America, including during the times of slavery.
Why are you doing this? Repeating the same lies over and over. It's like since you disagree with what the protesters are protesting, and the democrats support the protesters, you don't think there's anything wrong with straight up lying.
Here, I'll give you another chance to ignore the truth:
Biden:
May 29:
they have a right to be, in fact, angry and frustrated. And more violence, hurting more people, isn’t going to answer the question.
May 31:
Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.
The act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest. It should not drive people away from the just cause that protest is meant to advance.
June 2:
there is no place for violence, no place for looting or destroying property or burning churches, or destroying businesses,
James Clyburn, June 3:
We have to make sure we do not allow ourselves to play the other person’s game,” Clyburn said. “Peaceful protest is our game. Violence is their game. Purposeful protest is our game. This looting and rioting, that's their game. We cannot allow ourselves to play their game.
Breaking out a window will not contribute to that. Setting a fire, throwing stones at police officers, that’s destructive behavior, which will not contribute to anything that will make this a better country and make a better future for our children and our grandchildren
There's plenty more.
Over 95% of the 8,000+ summer protests were peaceful. People who disagree with what the protesters were protesting are spreading misinformation to make them all look like violent criminals. You're one of those people.Quote:
What kind of "peaceful protest" needs to be defended? The kind we saw in Philly yesterday, where people were wheeling out TVs on dollys?
Point proven.
The above is how far gone Druff is. Seems like only yesterday he was able to think critically with the best of them.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh...blm-are-hiding
I have already made the case that systemic racism in law enforcement is a myth. The claim that racist police are prowling the street searching for black men to murder is absurd on its face, and even absurder when you look at the facts. It is by now well publicized — at least in some corners — that, despite all of the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year. But an even closer look at the data, and a study of each “unarmed” killing, reveals that the real number of unjustified police shootings of actual unarmed people — black, white, or any other race — is much smaller still.
First, to put the statistics into perspective, it’s helpful to begin with the overall number of arrests. According to the DOJ, police make about 10 million arrests each year. As a rough average, 7 million of the arrested suspects are white and 3 million are black. Out of that number, last year, 25 unarmed white people were killed by police, compared to 14 unarmed black people, according to the Washington Post database of police shootings. That means about .0004 percent of all blacks arrested were killed while unarmed. The percentage for whites is comparable. In total, 1,000 people were shot and killed by police in 2019, the vast majority of whom were armed. Still, that’s a mere .01 percent of all arrests.
Now, the numbers aren’t exactly the same every year, of course. For example, the Post says 22 unarmed black people were killed in 2017, compared with 31 white people. But the percentage doesn’t change very much. Also, we should acknowledge that the numbers vary depending on what source you use. USA Today cites a crowdsourced database that has 25 unarmed black killings in 2019. However a look at the individual cases in that database shows that they count as “police shootings” any shooting involving a police officer, on or off duty. Violence stemming from domestic disputes or off-duty bar fights make it onto their list. This is not how you determine whether there is a systemic problem in law enforcement. We need to look specifically at the cases of uniformed police officers shooting unarmed black people in the line of duty. We know that number is already quite low. But a closer inspection of the actual cases shows that it’s even lower than we think. Indeed, it appears that the whole category of “unarmed” shootings is severely misleading
I looked up all 14 cases included in the Post’s 2019 database. A few are straightforwardly unjustified. Atatiana Jefferson was shot while sitting inside her mother’s home. The officers were responding to a call from a neighbor who was concerned that there’d been a break in at the residence. Officer Aaron Dean peered into a window in the dark, spotted Jefferson, screamed for her to show her hands, and then shot her without identifying himself as a police officer. Dean has been charged with murder. It’s a horrible case, and outrageous behavior by Dean, but it hardly amounts to systemic racism. There’s no reason to think that this is even a case of isolated racism. Dean, it seems, could hardly see who he was shooting, which is what makes it an egregiously unjustified act on his part, but also probably not racism.
Officer Carmen DeCruz in Texas fatally shot a man named Michael Dean. Body cam footage apparently shows that DeCruz accidentally discharged his firearm while trying to confiscate Dean’s car keys during a traffic stop. DeCruz has been charged with manslaughter. Both of these cases are clearly unjustified, and both officers have received criminal charges appropriate for the offense. Most of rest of the cases, however, are either far from clear cut, or clear cut in the other direction.
Christopher Whitfield was shot allegedly during a scuffle with police after trying to steal from a convenience store. The sheriff’s office claimed the shooting was accidental. A grand jury cleared the officer of any criminal wrongdoing.
Josef Richardson of Louisiana was shot by Officer Vance Matranga Jr during a no-knock drug raid at a Budget 7 Motel. Richardson was unarmed and shot in the back of the head. Deputies on the scene said Richardson turned and reached for his waistband. Matranga was not charged with any crime.
Officer Jovany Crespo was indicted for aggravated manslaughter for shooting Gregory C. Griffin during a car chase. Crespo says he thought Griffin pointed a gun at him. Body cam footage shows Crespo jump out of his police cruiser (another officer was driving) and fire multiple shots at the fleeing vehicle.
Officer Sung Kim shot and killed Jimmy Atchison while trying to arrest him for allegedly stealing a cell phone at gun point. Atchison was backed into a broom closet at the time of the shooting.
These six shootings range from outrageous to questionable. But these are still only six out of the approximately 3 million black suspects arrested in 2019. Half of the officers have been charged with crimes, so it’s not as though cops are given legal license to kill on a whim. Only one of these cases is murder. Two might be manslaughter. You could potentially make an argument for manslaughter in the other three cases, though the officers weren’t charged or were cleared. And, at any rate, in none of these cases is there any reason whatsoever to suspect white supremacy as a motivation. The last officer mentioned isn’t even white.
What about the other 8 “unarmed” shootings of 2019? This is where the “unarmed” designation really confuses matters.
Melvin Watkins was shot by a sheriff’s deputy after Watkins’ family called 911 to report that he’d become violent and they feared for their safety. When officers arrived on the scene, Watkins allegedly tried to run them over with his car. Multiple witnesses and video support this version of events.
Knoxville police officer Dylan Williams was cleared of any wrongdoing by the DA after fatally shooting Channara Pheap last summer. Five eye-witnesses, plus video evidence and dash cam footage, confirmed that Pheap assaulted Williams, choked him, grabbed his taser and used it on him.
Ryan Twyman was shot by police attempting to arrest him for possession of illegal firearms in June of 2019. Security camera footage shows Twyman driving away with an officer trapped by his car door. The other officer on the scene opened fire, fearing for his partner’s life.
Kevin Pudlik was killed by police during a car chase. The driver of the car Pudlik was in, Christopher Lee Calvin, nearly pinned an officer between his car and a concrete wall. Cops on the scene finally opened fire when they believed Calvin was intentionally trying to ram into an officer. Calvin was charged with Pudlik’s death.
Isaiah Lewis, a black teenager, was shot by police after pouncing on an officer and knocking him unconscious.
Marcus McVae, a “renowned criminal,” as the local media described him, has a bevy of violent crimes to his name, including assault of a public servant. He was killed by police after assaulting an officer during a foot chase.
Marzeus Scott can be seen on body cam footage attacking a female officer who was trying to arrest him for assaulting a store clerk moments before. The footage clearly shows that the officer was knocked to the ground by Scott, and that she tried to use her taser before resorting to her firearm.
Lastly, Kevin Mason of Baltimore was shot by police responding to a domestic violence call. Mason sent dogs after the officers. When that didn’t scare them off, he called 911 and threatened to “blast” them and “kill every last one of them.” Mason was ultimately shot when he emerged from his home after explicitly announcing his intention to murder the cops on the scene.
No reasonable person could describe any of the 8 cases just listed as cold-blooded murder, much less racist hate crimes. These were violent criminals shot while in the act of physically attacking and threatening officers. Most of them were not truly “unarmed,” either. Some were using cars. One used a dog. Another used a taser. Others used their hands and nearly succeeded in arming themselves with the officer’s weapon. These cases may count as “unarmed” in a strictly legal sense, but any news outlet interested in accurate reporting wouldn’t use the term without careful qualification.
This is what the media and BLM activists mean when they scream about the epidemic of “unarmed” black men killed by police. They mean that a very tiny fraction of black people arrested by police are killed in the process, and that an even tinier fraction are unarmed at the time, and that an even tinier fraction of that fraction of the fraction, actually had no weapon of any kind, and were making no attempt to hurt or kill a police officer. When phrased like that, it doesn’t seem like there’s much of an epidemic here at all.
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SCOTUS just served trump an L for PA voting
That's an op ed and it plays it's hand in the first two sentences. Who is claiming cops are prowling murderers? No one. The scientific study on available data relates to
“Deaths Due to Use of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement.”
The numbers show blacks die at 2.8 times the rate than whites.
“Most victims were reported to be armed (83%); however, black victims were more likely to be unarmed (14.8%) than white (9.4%) or Hispanic (5.8%) victims.“
To suggest than hundreds of years of discrimination and segregation, complete with incarceration and violence, has suddenly disappeared is ridiculous
Again, almost three times the rate of death across the board
absurder!
The flaw in your statistics is they include law abiding citizens of all races which don't have police encounters thus have a 0.000000000% of being killed by a cop. So why are these people factored into the overall probabilities? The reason is it tricks retards like you.
If you look at per police encounter blacks aren't killed more often than whites. I know the media has brainwashed you into thinking only blacks are killed by cops but it's not reality homegirl. Reality is cops get called when people are breaking the law, 10s of millions of calls a years and sometimes the criminal gets killed and sometimes the cop gets killed.
Blacks are killed disproportionately more than other races because they disproportionally commit more violet crime. If you can't understand the concept, if you commit a violent crime that makes you infinitely more likely to be killed by a cop compared to if you had continued being a law abiding citizen, then you are truly retarded.
Bad day for sidedish on PI. Let's keep him in our prayers
Idiot. The stats are for people shot and killed by cops. You can extrapolate that this group are not jay walkers.
Ok? Of that group of non jay walkers blacks die nearly three times as much as whites all things considered.
There is nothing to your opinion that blacks commit disproportionately more violent crime.
You dig a bigger hole every time you post
Your "3x as often" statistic factors in law abiding citizens. Those people no matter what the race don't have police encounters thus aren't killed by cops. Jesus you're a mong, this isn't a hard concept. If you exam "police encounters" which makes sense if we're trying to determine if cops kill blacks more often than other races they encounter, you will find no difference percentage wise.
BTW those aren't my statistics and they do not include law abiding citizens. The study covers those killed (non jay walkers) by law enforcement. You either can't read or understand, which is it?
Methods:
All fatalities (N=812) resulting from use of lethal force by on-duty LE from 2009 to 2012 in 17 U.S. states were examined using National Violent Death Reporting System data. Case narratives were coded for additional incident circumstances.
Results:
Victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites. Most victims were reported to be armed (83%); however, black victims were more likely to be unarmed (14.8%) than white (9.4%) or Hispanic (5.8%) victims. Fatality rates among military veterans/active duty service members were 1.4 times greater than among their civilian counterparts
all gamblers should be loading up on Trump in the rust belt fr, he will be leading in them all at one point
Except that it's widely known. The opposite will happen in Florida btw. Mail in ballots will get displayed first and will show a large lead for Biden, even if he ends up losing or winning by a small margin.
Of course low-info bettors may trade on it regardless. A similar thing happened in 2016 when Miami-dade results came in first and showed a large lead for clinton in FL. Traders took Clinton up to 88 cents in Florida. I'm not expecting them to be that dumb this time around.
Honestly, listening to thesidedish' takes is a refreshing breath of fresh air after listening to OSA's retarded theories
Also, Clinton tried to claim immunity from civil cases and lost, and he should have lost. And that was just a harassment case.
This is a criminal case, a RAPE case. Trump claiming immunity is LOL. It's even more LOL that he's claiming that denying the allegation is an official function of his office. Really? It's a duty of the presidency to deny rape allegations?
:lol2