Good luck to the family of Manuel Ellis. Their lawsuit won’t bring him back. But it is the closest thing to justice they can get.
Justice would have been him still being alive. It would have meant he wasn’t detained for no reason. It would have meant no officers kneeling on his neck.
Perhaps it means that the next cop doesn’t do those things. That we never see the need for another lawsuit.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated if you haven’t yet.
How about that stock market! Gives Bob an excuse to trade in the skirt for a Darth Vader costume
Carl, what you and anyone who reads the report needs to understand is that the chances of this lawsuit going to trial are very, very low. Even the chances of gaining murder convictions against these three police are very low.
And because of that, the chances that the Tacoma Police Department will be compelled to enact meaningful changes to the way they train, command, and supervise police to murder unarmed citizens are also very, very low. Remember, these kinds of violent arrests and murders by police are nothing new. And people have been suing police officers and police departments to try and stop it for decades. It hasn’t gotten any better.
And since police often weaponize these kinds of reports and stories to promote the general idea that “the streets are a jungle” it usually only leads to putting more of the same kinds of police on those streets. So more people get attacked, beat up, and occasionally murdered.
We all need to stop thinking that the civil court system is any part of a solution to the problem of lawless, violent, unaccountable sport-killing police in our communities.
We have to elect new leaders, change the laws, change the funding, and dismantle traditional policing if we really want to never see the need for another lawsuit.
Ah, horses.
In the background you can see Kamala, on her own white steed, directing the carnage. What a wise man is Joe Biden, putting Kamala in charge of the border crisis.
OK, that last sentence was emailed to me by Jennifer Rubin.
When the headline doesn’t match the fact, dKos version.
Headline:
Border Patrol on horseback whipping Haitian refugees: “Go back to Mexico”
Text:
Swinging a whip is to whipping someone as drawing a firearm is to shooting someone. You swing a whip while it is still coiled, by the way. A more menacing, non-injurious method of using a whip would be to crack it.
To be fair, dKos disclaims as such:
(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
So, like handbill.us, then. Just shit, shoveled.
2, cont.
Actually Carl, I was previously familiar with the case. But now having read a few of media reports and the AG’s PC statement I think it offers all of us a very useful illustration into why lawsuits just can’t fix this.
Your state law requires independent, third party investigations of police involved killings. So the Pierce County Sheriff took over the investigation of the killing. And they did so under false pretenses, concealing from the public and the Attorney General the fact that one of their own Deputies took part in the arrest that resulted in Ellis’ killing. They violated the law and committed criminal obstruction of justice. And the Detective who participated in that fraud is now the Pierce County Sheriff.
These violent, unprovoked attacks and murders, and the obstruction of justice that normally and very casually follows are entirely systemic to modern policing. A money award to grieving family won’t change any of that.
The last time YLB tried to mess with a horse ridden by LEO.
Heh.. I rarely taunt the greedy racist incel about its horse fetish..
There it goes @ 6…
Thanks for the entertainment gri… And don’t forget..
to ask John James or Larry Elder to stand in for you..,
trade up your widbee horsey property. the pristine whiteness of ORCAS awaits.
Freshman US senator knows a weak president when she sees one.
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Sinema issues ultimatum to Biden
And that’s not all.
Over on Goldy’s Twitter sidebar, an increasingly shrill David Goldstein implores y’all not to consider Sinema a “centrist”.
Apparently she’s now a Nazi, too.
Everybody looking forward to Pramila Jayapal tanking the Senate-passed infrastructure bill next week?
Democrat Rule No. 13:
Wearing blackface and other overtly racist behavior is tolerable if the offender otherwise demonstrates the right politics.
Which explains Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s continued presence on HASeattle.
@1 Triggered by a debt default by a Chinese real estate company. Today’s 2% drop isn’t much, but dip buyers are already moving in, so I picked up 100 shares of Citigroup this morning. If the market keeps going down, I’ll buy more bank shares, among other things.
Ooh, look, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit announced @ 11 another of his famous purchases.
How’s that AT&T doing since you bought it around this time in 2019, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit? I estimate you’re down 4% or so. What’s it been, two years? Gonna do a Yabbut the divided shtick for us?
Then there’s last Fall’s 3M purchase. What are you, up 4-5% on that one?
Meanwhile, even with today’s drop the S&P 500 is up 30.67% over the past year.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you really need to learn to STFU about your financial imbecility. It’s no longer a trend. It’s well-documented fact.
@3 Oh lookee! BP cops get to play cowboys and Indians! You can tell they’re lovin’ it, too!
I spoke with the President of the homeowners association on Wednesday. And I too delivered a “tough message”.
I told him if that guy on the end of the block keeps parking his RV in his driveway I was gonna stop mowing my lawn.
I’m pretty sure I got his attention.
TODAY IS THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF ROBINHOOD DUMBFUCK RABBIT’S RECOMMENDATION TO NEWT ABOUT GE SHARES.
@4 “So, like handbill.us, then. Just shit, shoveled.”
Written by someone who professes to never read Handbill.US, and therefore as fraudulent as a reviewer who reviews books he hasn’t read, movies he hasn’t seen, and restaurants he hasn’t eaten in.
QoS McHillbilly, August 13:
I suppose he may be right about that. I wish I had thought about this at the time, because it’s an important counterargument:
While 100 million Americans might really not give a fuck about Kabul, another 230 million of us do.
Four years ago.
Start at the link and just scroll down.
(That “buying opportunity was at $23.81/share, on 10/20/17. Share price today, reverse split-adjusted, is $12.34. IOW had you listened to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit you’d be in the hole more than 10 bucks per share today.)
It gets better downthread, when he doubles down after being called on it.
Holy shit, does it get better.
@5 You could’ve add that sheriff is now under investigation for calling in an army of deputies on a black guy who looked “suspicious” because he was delivering newspapers early in the morning.
@8 The worst Democrat is still better than the best Republican. Which is how she got to be a senator.
Even Biden would take her over her erstwhile opponent without even having to think about it.
Proving one thing, does not prove every thing.
With relative ease you link to my quote, proving that I said what I said on whatever date. It’s true. I stand by it.
And that’s all there is.
I don’t see you showing us any evidence at all that 230 million Americans are more concerned about the lives of Afghans than they are about the deaths of Americans. If you could prove it, you would. But you can’t prove it. Because it isn’t true.
“Joe Biden is incompetent” is just another flavor of
“Joe Biden is sick”. And we all know where that came from.
You haven’t fooled anyone:
https://www.whois.com/whois/joebidenissick.com
You may not yet be a felon. But you are reliably reposting, repeating, and amplifying some of the lies of felons. And the notable thing about that is the purpose of those particular lies. To weaken democracy and election integrity. Because you can’t win elections anymore. America is turning against you.
Eventually Ali Alexander will be indicted and either go to prison or flee to a non-extradition country.
Careful you don’t join him.
@10 I never wore blackface. I never fucked a horse, either.
@12 Get a load of doc railing that I’m up on a stock. Anyone detect a hint of envy here?
A homosexual who knows what’s good for him won’t do anything to embarrass his boss. Mayor Pete will hold his tongue.
And Cuomosexual G-clown will give him a pass for it.
@12 Elijah would argue that “financial imbecility” is investing in a medical school education and then “retiring” in your early 50s. I could say something, but I’ll let him do it.
19,
Sure. But in any case how on earth can anyone have any confidence in any investigation carried out by his agency?
He willingly engaged in criminal obstruction of justice to protect a neighboring agency. He’s a top Pierce County cop who went on to become THE top Pierce County cop. He is not interested in public service or justice. He’s interested in serving other cops and protecting them from accountability. And he’ll break the law to do so and not give it a second thought.
Why would the elected Pierce County Prosecutor have any trust in anything referred to them by this agency?
These are all elected officials given enormous power and they clearly demonstrate their intent to use it corruptly. How does a lawsuit fix that?
Voters have got to wise up and kick these people out of office and replace them with people who have never been police or prosecutors. Because police and prosecutors really can’t be trusted.
@17 “While 100 million Americans might really not give a fuck about Kabul, another 230 million of us do.”
Really? And you call me an imbecile?
The other 230 million can’t even find their own state, much less Kabul, on a map.
@18 Now tell us why you didn’t short it, when it was so obvious you could have doubled your money by doing so.
A crisis of competence.
Chuck Todd: Biden Facing “Credibility Issues On The World Stage” Ahead Of UN Speech
He’s nowhere near up to the challenge. Calling lids at 1 p.m. doesn’t get the work done. It does get First Vegetable Joe Biden an ice cream cone, though. Everyone’s got their priorities.
@29 Now do Trump’s credibility on the world stage.
@ 28
Now tell us why you didn’t short it…
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you seem to think that the only way I could have “won” our little argument was to actively bet against the shares by selling GE short.
There are two problem with that perspective.
1. There are more ways to bet against GE than selling the shares short. One can merely get the hell out of the position, as I did months before our online argument, and reinvest in something that looks more appealing, which for me was Honeywell. Another is to sell naked calls against the shares and book the gain when the position expires, worthless. Yet a third is to buy puts, although that involves risking capital up front.
2. My point was never that GE was going to tank. My point was to criticize your incredibly foolish advice to Newt. You then gave me the opportunity to criticize your defense of GE because it paid a dividend, and then to criticize your objection to holding shares that do not. BTW check out the shares of Berkshire Hathaway nowadays, compared with the examples I gave on 10/20/17. BRKA and BRKB still do not pay dividends.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, you are a foolish investor and you have harmed your family because of your foolishness. It is incredibly simple for me to point that out, with substantial documented support, as I did in that 2017 thread.
You misunderstood, and therefore discounted, GE’s woes and you paid a price for it, both financially and reputationally. I’m just fine having pointed it out contemporaneously, and have very much enjoyed the opportunity to gloat about it afterward. It’s been especially fun because the hole you dug for yourself was so incredibly deep, and you had absolutely no idea what you were doing.
Options on GE since the shares hit bottom have been very lucrative. Selling naked puts with a strike price of 11 (pre-split) and selling naked calls with a strike price of 16 (pre-split) paid very, very well. I didn’t have to own the shares. I needed only to risk having to own the shares had my trades gone south.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, NOW is a time to be somewhat positive about the prospects of GE shares over the next 3-5 years. October 2017 was a very stupid time to be so positive.
You realize that, of course. Now you do.
I’m reminded of a 5-minute video posted by WSJ of its interview with Warren Buffett about his refusal to assist Lehman Brothers and AIG.
It’s riveting history.
In 2017 Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit pointed out the GE dividend of 4% to defend his recommendation of the shares.
Today Evergrande’s dividend is double that.
Don’t be a dumbfuck. Don’t be persuaded by Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Oh. One more thing. Evergrande is about 5X the size of Lehman Brothers, before the collapse of the latter.
Maybe First Vegetable Joe Biden could ask France for a favor, whaddya think?
After Afghanistan Pullout, US Seeks NATO Basing, Intel Pacts
It’s really not going to get any better now that Biden has shown that there is no good reason to trust anything his overlords tell him to say.
Where’s Kamala?
Tweet du jour:
Wait ’til he learns what five justices can do.
I agree.
Now, once again, Where’s Kamala?
I wonder if the abortionists will stop the bleeding by shoving the womens’ iPads and their iPods and their iMacs up their fuckin’ iCunts.
Miley’s panicked late night phone calls to President Xi praying to head off nuclear annihilation say it all.
Ted Cruz:
“Whether it passes or not will depend on 50 Democrats in the Senate. Do they get Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to go along? I can tell you Chuck Schumer is putting a world of hurt and pressure on the two of them. I hope they stand their ground, that they have demonstrated some real courage so far, standing up to the crazies in their party.”
@ 39
Miley’s panicked late night phone calls …
It’s always good when the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff panics. Particularly when the panic is wholly unnecessary.
38. The greedy racist incel has said he could care less about abortion. He just uses it to own the libs. So 38 was just an to be hateful toward women. But we don’t expect better from an incel
Sez the unemployed day-trader “on a fixed income” with no record of ever traveling overseas, much less defending the U.S. as he cowers in an island bunker surrounded by ever-growing piles of horse manure.
If apple and Tim Cook were really courageous, they would stop giving money to Texas Republicans
42,
I have my doubts. Cook is certainly not alone among corporate leaders looking for a way to respond. So it can’t be about Apple. And resorting to the violent penetrative imagery, mention of blood, and use of the “c” word indicate at least a subconscious fixation on the birth canal and a desire to obtain control over a non-equine one at least once.
He’s obsessed with abortion and like all womb-worshipers obsessed with controlling women’s reproduction. He denies this the way he denies supporting Trump. It’s weak deflection.
@15, @18,
You started too soon with your link. You needed to start at comment #9: So RR, what do you think of GE’s stock performance and earnings report today?
I asked for RR’s thoughts, not advice or recommendation, and certainly not to buy or sell any stock.
You seem to skip that fact every damn time.
Once again, the only suggestion was to you, to short the GE stock, which you didn’t do.
Go invest in some Ivermectin for you and your horse.
Go fuck yourself Burka Bob.
Well this is going to go up the asses of the homophobes.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/va-dont-ask-dont-tell-anniversary/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2021-09-20T20%3A34%3A04&utm_source=twCNNp
Breeding will not save them homophobes, how Ironic!
Sorry to disappint you Bob, but no, no free pass.
But I will suggest that Grinell is explointing an issue and playing politics, just like you are…..really, you don’t care….like you’ve said, you feel nothing, but you do play with yourself quite a bit.
If the Taliban don’t kill their gay citizens how the fuck are you ever going to then say that being gay here in this Country is so much better and without issue and persecution and that gay people should be happy with the persecution of the freedom fuckwads.
Bob, you are not a smart guy, face it. You are a hack. And a bad one at that.
Breeding will not save you.
Ohh the gay Secretary of Transportation, he should speak up about the gay veterans! How dare he not.
“The first January 6 rioter to be sentenced for a felony reported to prison on Monday to serve his eight-month sentence, while mounting a longshot legal bid to undo his guilty plea.
“Paul Hodgkins of Florida … was one of the few dozen rioters who breached the Senate floor shortly after it was evacuated. He pleaded guilty … and was sentenced to eight months in prison.
“But as his surrender date drew closer, Hodgkins fired his veteran attorney, hired a new one who only passed the bar last year and launched an effort to unwind his guilty plea ….
“Even though the federal guidelines called for roughly one to two years behind bars, District Judge Randolph Moss settled at eight months, in part because Hodgkins ‘accepted responsibility and pled guilty exceptionally early,’ he said. …
“Last month, with Hodgkins’ surrender date quickly approaching, he switched up his lawyers. He abruptly fired Leduc — who has nearly 30 years of experience in federal litigation and as a JAG officer — and retained Stewart, a novice who only passed the Florida bar exam last November. Stewart soon told the judge that she would challenge Hodgkins’ sentence by claiming Leduc was an ineffective lawyer.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/paul-hodgkins-january-6-jail/index.html
I think he should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and go to trial with his new representation.
@31 “NOW is a time to be somewhat positive about the prospects of GE shares over the next 3-5 years.”
I see. You’re recommending Newt buy GE shares.
@33 And recommending Evergrande, too.
@40 ” … they have demonstrated some real courage so far, standing up to the crazies in their party.”
A lot more than he demonstrated after Trump called his dad a terrorist.
@41 Really? Milley probably knows Trump better than you do. Let me guess, you’re taking Trump’s word for it that there was no cause for concern, because you’re a dumbfuck.
@42 “The greedy racist incel has said he could care less about abortion.”
He’ll never need one or pay for one. He’ll throw her under the bus.
@43 Maybe he should compute his proximity to the numerous nuclear targets in his vicinity.
@45 “a subconscious fixation on the birth canal”
I heard the gynecology instructor wouldn’t let him near the plaster model in the classroom.
@46 He’s lied about this so many times, you don’t expect him to stop lying now, do you?
@48 “You are a hack. And a bad one at that.”
This is unfair to bad hacks.
@58
Of course not, he is a Trumper and all they do is lie.
I’m not going to let him “tell a lie long enough and it becomes the truth.”
I’m younger than him, I’ll get the last word.
In Canada, CBC is projecting a Liberal Govt, don’t know if it will be another minority. Tgey are leading and elected in 151 ridings, including Trudeau’s.
If companies can’t hire, it’s not because lazy workers sit at home watching TV while collecting unemployment benefits. It’s because they don’t read applications or resumes, program their computers eliminate all of the applicants, and then conclude nobody applied for the job.
https://www.vox.com/recode/22673353/unemployment-job-search-linkedin-indeed-algorithm
Alabama’s population shrank last year, and it’s still losing nearly 16 residents a day to Covid-19.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-deaths-caused-alabama-s-population-shrink-first-time-n1279666
@61 Yep, Trudeau wins.
64)Although it may be no change in seat count, still have mail in votes in a few that could determine how close to 170. Ironically, a quirk of their system, O’Toole could have had most seats, but if Trudeau still had the Confidence of the Housr, he remained PM. Also, no timeline to have recalled the House after the election.
Waiting for Germany’s election this weekend. The Union Bloc is going scorched earth, as the Social Democrats have more paths to the Chancellory than the Union Bloc has to keep it. Will see how the raid on the Finance Ministry affects Olaf Schulz, the SPD Candidate for Chancellor.
O’Toole is saying some things in his speech that would probably get him kicked out of the GOP here. He is trying an approach bent on appealing to a broad section, besides backing Clean water, a few green policies, and appealing to as he said, whether one worships on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or not at all. Trump was trying to keep those who worship on Friday out of the country.
Also, the Greens might lose a seat in B.C, but have picked up for the first time, a seat in Ontario.
Usually Alberta is a sea of blue with the one Orange riding of Edmonton-Strathcona. Looks like the NDP are going to pick up another seat in Edmonton, the Liberals are ahead in another Edmonton seat, and have taken one in Calgary.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2021-live-alberta-results-1.5593440
In the CFL, even though Warren Moon played for Edmonton, but while a former EWU Eagle is QB in Calgary, I’m a Stampeder fan. The team’s celebrating it’s 75th anniversary, but really paying homage to the 1948 team, that won the Grey Cup. That team had a Chinese Canadian, and an African American on it.
One interesting thing about Alberta, bohth major cities have light rail, and one or both use power from the windswept prairie.
A DoD big ticket project not having production problems for a change?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42451/five-b-21-raider-stealth-bombers-are-now-in-final-assembly
In a recent CNN poll about two thirds of Republicans surveyed now believe that in order for anyone to consider themself “Republican” they must agree to adopt and promote election fraud lies.
They’re not wrong.
I mean, they certainly need to if they hope to have any chance of ever winning another election. Election fraud lies ballot burning is the new GOP “winning formula”.
When he isn’t busy making up fake friends in far away places, like every other Republican you know Burka Bob would tell still tell you the Trump/Russia investigation was fake and produced nothing.
But that’s not what the still ongoing indictments previously slow-walked by Barr & Co. would tell you. Two top Republican Super PAC operators from McConnell, Bush 41, Ron Paul, and Trump campaigns indicted last week for moving hundreds of thousands from Putin into Trump’s campaign and trying to hide it through straw donors in the senior ranks of the party.
It’s worthwhile to read the indictment, since it makes clear that the only reason this was caught and prosecuted was due to the brazen, and frankly lazy manner in which the Trump foreign campaign financial fraud was carried out. The Trump PAC director sold access to Putin’s Russian operative in exchange for Putin’s money transfers. Then as future opportunities arose, purchased access to Trump for the Russian operative on Putin’s behalf with money from the PAC. Only after the fact did they bother to paper over the original source of the funds.
It appears clear that this process was ongoing and common operating procedure for many of Trump’s aligned dark money PACs and was the standard way of bringing very large donor money directly into the Trump campaign. They were just sloppy on this one occasion and failed to properly conceal the origin of the funds coming into the Super PAC. Barr slow walked this one to make sure it was not filed before the 2020 election.
Putin was elbow deep in Trump from the very beginning.
@ 70
Putin was elbow deep in Trump from the very beginning.
Well, perhaps not Putin.
But Hillary herself was elbow deep in the Steele dossier and the Alta Bank lies from the very beginning.
Perhaps not shorter, but clearer and more concise 71,
“Despite the wire transfers, bank drafts, emails, voice mails, fake invoices, phony ledgers, and photographs, the Russian-GOP-Trump money did not happen.
Because I need that it did not happen.
Because that would repudiate everything I’ve ever claimed to be.”
Trump/GOP still haven’t given the money back. Never will.
By now Junior and Guilfoyle have ground it up and snorted it.
Within the Q Continuum selling your party to Russian spies is precisely equivalent to alerting the FBI that the other party is selling themselves to Russian spies.
Where’s Kamala?
I agree. Missing black women matter, too. Along those lines,
Where’s Kamala?
A six point plan for insurrection coming directly from the Oval Office via the GOP “Election Security” team:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21066248/eastman-memo.pdf
Amy Kremer and Ali Alexander did their part. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Roger Marshall, John Kennedy, and Cindy Hyde-Smith did their part. Putin did his part. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers did their part. Even Ashli did her part.
But Mike Pence refused to go along.
Trump, Meadows, and Giuliani circulated this plan among senior Senators in the GOP alerting them to their intentions and seeking their assistance. Obviously they got that assistance from a significant number. Cruz and Hawley all played their assigned roles. But Pence was a no-show.
You never once heard of this particular six point plan memo until today. Because every single one of those Senate Republicans has been lying about it ever since, claiming that the right wing terrorist attack on the Congress was “just some excited tourists” and that they were “just asking questions” about the electoral vote count.
Best thing about the GQP insurrection recipe is that if Democrats follow it in 2024 then Kamala Harris gets to choose the next President and nobody can stop her.
Incompetence and cowardice.
It might make Poor Bobby’s vagina hurt, but the simple fact is Republican crickets will always drown out Democratic crickets.
It’s a start.
CANADIAN NEWS Sep 20, 2021 8:38 PM EST
BREAKING: Liberal Minister who called Taliban her ‘brothers’ loses seat in Peterborough-Kawartha
80,
Move to Canada.
Troll paradise.
Sure, Jan.
Canadian customs may possibly seize your whips, however.
The Des Moines Register has a poll out, and it’s not good news for America’s First Vegetable.
Biden was fourth in the Iowa caucuses in 2020.
It’s a good thing the poll didn’t ask for approval of the “Biden-Harris Administration”, or the approval result would have been single-digits.
For emphasis, 62% of Iowans disapprove of First Vegetable Joe Biden.
Before y’all get around to calling Iowans racist Neanderthals, recall that Barack Obama won the state. Twice.
@ 81
Canadian customs may possibly seize your whips, however.
I loaned them to the Cuomosexual G-clown. He has a Mapplethorpe party to attend or some such.
Told him I didn’t want them back.
He absolutely could have. Nobody has more experience with writing only half the story while still claiming to be a journalist than Goldy.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2017/02/14/iowa-poll-trumps-approval-rating-underwater-iowans/97856274/
Look at it this way: in a state that Republicans depend upon politically and that has gone from eleven House seats to just four, the fact that Republicans are declining in popularity is a good thing?
@ 86
Look at it this way…
Why not look at it this way, QoS McHillbilly:
Biden Approval in Iowa Poll Drops Below Trump’s Historic Low
And it’s only been eight months.
On the bright side, at least journalists are looking at the southern border now.
@72 ” … Guilfoyle … snorted it.”
That would explain some hitherto unexplained things.
It’s enough to turn the Cuomosexual G-clown into a breeder.
https://action.greene2020.com/50-cal-gg/
@74 Who cares? It’s all relative. Even this would be better than Pence.
@75 Blah, blah, blah. Newsies have been sensationalizing crime stories to juice circulation since clay tablets. Nothing new or unique about it.
@76 “But Pence was a no-show.”
Which doesn’t make him a hero. It only keeps him off the wanted posters. He’s like the guy who hangs out with bank robbers but didn’t go with them on the bank job.
@80 Canada is better off than we are. They had one parliamentarian who sucks up to authoritarians. We have a Congress, statehouses, and legislatures full of them, and voters stupid enough to re-elect them.
@82 Now ask yourself how many voters would still vote for him if the election were re-run today, given the same choices of candidates. I suspect that number is quite a bit higher. And probably will be in 2024, too, if that election is a rematch.
This is no way to treat a knucklehead who blocks a traffic lane in a parking lot while a relative is inside shopping. Go find a parking space! But spitting, car-ramming, and using the “n” word are overreacting. The EBI (even bigger idiot) is going to lose his job, go to jail, and have a felony record.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-professor-charged-hate-crime-after-he-allegedly-spat-black-n1279734
I get his irritation, but it does seem like it would’ve been simpler and easier to just go around.
@88. Greedy racist incel, did the Biden administration fire every last border patrol agent when they took office and replace them with new liberal ones?
Seems that if they didn’t, we are seeing same people who treated black and brown people badly as directed by Steven Miller and the impotent, bankrupted, twice impeached, failed reality television actor who hires prostitutes to jerk him off with rubber gloves, continue to treat black and brown people badly under Biden. The differences are that the Biden administration is trying to change that and the media is only now reporting it, now that it’s happening under a Democratic administration.
93,
Fundamentally I think Pence is a guy who really doesn’t comprehend the business he’s in and the partners he’s gone into business with.
I reckon Pence figured he was doing “the right thing” politically. That Trump had lost. That upon leaving office Trump would fade. And that if he hoped for future promotion within the organization he needed to be on “the right side” of that inevitable outcome. As he saw it, Trump was going down and had become irrational and desperate. Trump, Giuliani, Meadows, etc. may have claimed all sorts of things about their plan and who was on board. But Pence had no way to confirm any of that and no reason to trust or believe any of it. So he turned on them, assuming that within a few months he’d be the presumptive leader in the race for the 2024 nomination.
Obviously he was and is completely wrong about that.
@98 Doc would say “incompetent,” not “wrong;” in any case, Pence will never, ever be president.
At least this guy became a real doctor, unlike Bob. The succeded in life and Bob had to settle for less.
https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/ron-desantis-surgeon-general/