I appreciate that a police tower may be necessary in some cases, seeing the picture is a lot. I mean how do you insure that you are just intimidating criminals and not the public more broadly, especially in communities of color? That said the article says that the towers go to sports stadiums, so I have presumably seen them in the wild and not noticed them.
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Will Herman Cain be a Federal Reserve Board member?
Nein Nein Nein.
Bannon is Hitler reincarnated.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/steve-bannon-u-s-ultra-conservatives-take-aim-pope-francis-n991411
Carl, your link goes to a 404 message.
And it’s clear you did not read the piece, so fixing the link will give you the opportunity to read this:
Seattle Police Department spokesperson Sean Whitcomb said South Precinct Captain Kevin Grossman decided to station the mobile SkyWatch unit at the shopping plaza because it’s the main source of 9-1-1 calls in the entire precinct.
Thefts and robberies at Safeway and Ross Dress for Less, as well as car break-ins, have become rampant in recent months, he said: Police have received 123 calls for service from the plaza so far this year, compared to 74 calls at this point last year.
I suppose the SPD could have set the tower up at the Metropolitan Market in the Laurelhurst neighborhood a bit north of UW, to deter rampant robberies about which we have heard nothing. ’cause the Laurelhurst types prefer to suffer in silence.
The only thing worse than a moron is a moron who believes he deserves special treatment because of his homosexuality.
gman @ 2, if everyone is Hitler, then no one is Hitler. Every Republican general election candidate is portrayed by your ilk as Hitler, until the next election, when he is then re-portrayed as a sage elder statesman against whom the current Hitler Republican is compared.
Try to aspire to something besides making YLB appear wise by comparison to you, gman.
@4. gudwad, What are you babbling about? Stop projecting your issues onto us. Get mental help. Really.
I doubt there is a possible world where as the wheel turns, bannon will ever be considered a sage elder statesman revered by progressives.
But I can see why fragile conservatives are threatened by this pope.:
“Two years ago, the pope cautioned against growing populism in Europe, warning it could lead to the election of leaders like Hitler.
He has called for compassion toward migrants, saying that fearing them “makes us crazy,” as well as other marginalized groups including the poor and gay people. He has also defended diversity.”
…Or reelect leaders like trump.
@ 5
If you actually click on a link and read what the pope said, you learn
During the same interview, the pope said he was reserving judgement on President Donald Trump.
Now, the link is to a papal interview in January 2017, but it also was centered on what is happening in Europe, not the US.
That’s a temporal leap of a couple of years, and a leap across the pond, if you expect us to believe that the pope has compared Trump to Hitler.
You have become a clown, Red. At least you are among liberal friends here.
Breakdown between those who entered the country legally and those who did so illegally, please.
Goldy✔
@GoldyHA
Yes please! Studies show that immigrants are a net economic positive! This would be a win-win-win: immigrants would have a welcome place to stay, “sanctuary cities” would benefit from their presence, and Trump would win big with his base by posing as a vindictive asshole.
10m
Americans are a net economic positive, too. Doesn’t mean that we don’t need substantial protection from some of them.
“You have become a clown, Red. At least you are among liberal friends here.”
Actually, among Red’s liberal friends here, he’s not a clown, but you’re definitely a dumbfuck. And a Klown.
Yesterday Donald took to Twitter to express his shock and sadness that a young white American presumably racist was arrested for setting fire to black churches in Louisiana and call for unity and tolerance of people of faith.
Well that’s not entirely accurate. Donald took to Twitter to brag about his approval numbers while actually mistaking the disapproval number for approval.
#maga
Quick, name your U.S. House representative.
Guess how many times his/her name has been uttered on Fox News.
Was it 75+ times a day?
Especially for someone representing a very liberal district in NYC, there’s a theory that a bunch of free publicity might help keep getting her re-elected for decades.
Quite accurately describes Rick Wilson, Erick Erickson, and just about every other Bushbot/Mittens supporter who couldn’t quite bring himself to get on board the latest GOP Cray-cray train.
Does not describe Teh Dumbfuck.
He pushed his way to the front of the line to beer-bong this Toddler Torture kool-aid.
When you put on a white sheet, march in Tiki-torch parades, and burn crosses you don’t get to bitch about the smell of gasoline in the laundry.
#youbuiltthat
7,
Once again willfully ignores the CBP reports showing the largest number of unlawful aliens enter the US from Canada.
Where they have a much higher per cap firearm ownership rate than any other country in the western hemisphere besides the US of course.
That’s “hillbilly smart” is what that is.
10,
while it is certainly true that she lives rent free inside the heads of “softening”, liver-spotted, invisible white men like Teh Dumbfuck and the programming execs at FOX, there is no doubt that the obsessive coverage is data driven.
If FOX mentions AOC more than any other living lawmaker other than President Sundowner, it is because they have the A/B testing data to support it. When AOC is being mentioned, FOX viewers tune-in more, stay tuned-in more, and focus their attention more than any other Democrat. She has replaced Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi as the “uppity woman” stand-in for all the women in their lives who betrayed their patriarchal standards and disavowed their white male authority. She’s the “bitch” in HR who got them fired. She’s the ex-wife who took the house. She’s the barista who politely declined. She’s the thousands upon thousands of women who swipe left.
The GOP is the MRM/Gamergate/β-male party now. And AOC is their white whale.
@13
Which is funny because when say Liz Cheney tweets about her the “She’s a one termer.” Or “She fooled the voters but only once” tend to come from places like WY or KS or UT.
You know, people who’s opinions of AOC don’t matter at all.
@ 10
I documented six weeks of what Fox’s obsessive coverage of @AOC looks like. Fox mentioned her at least 3,181 times in six weeks, and not a day went by where she wasn’t brought up
Now do Mark Foley.
Hell, now do Nick Sandmann.
What picture? All I see is “page not found.”
Rightwing trolls have made social media so toxic you can’t even photograph a black hole without getting attacked for not being male.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-hole-katie-bouman-andrew-chael-sexist-trolls_n_5cb08f0de4b098b9a2d2bb5d
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I support the First Amendment, which says the government can’t order people to shut up, but that doesn’t mean private companies like Facebook, Twitter, etc., have to give them a megaphone. Unplug them!
@2 Sure, why not attack the Pope? When priests aren’t too busy raping altar boys to do their job, the Church’s preachings pose one of the biggest threats to the Trump/Bannon/neo-Nazi agenda.
@3 The Laurelhurst types prefer to rob from their desks in bank office towers.
@4 “The only thing worse than a moron is a moron who believes he deserves special treatment because of his homosexuality.”
I would argue that a moron who believes his bigotry entitles him to victimhood is worse.
http://handbill.us/2019/04/11/.....-a-victim/
@6 Well, it’s not necessary to reserve judgment on Trump anymore, is it? Or on those who still support him. It’s pretty obvious now what he is, what they are, and where they’re going with all of this. No, it’s not unfair to slap Nazi metaphors on them. At this point there’s not much daylight between their social philosophy and Hitler’s.
@7 You raise a couple of interesting points, doc. First, drive past a lettuce field sometime and count how many red-blooded, AR-15 brandishing, white-skinned, American males are out there working in the hot sun picking your next salad. Zero, right? And probably ninety percent of those brown people doing your stoop labor for you are “illegals” in the technical sense because under this administration “legal” immigration is basically zero.
Secondly, all those millions of guns being sold at gun shows to freaks wearing MAGA hats aren’t for protection against illegals or even urban liberals. These people are arming themselves to the teeth to protect themselves from their neighbors. That is, from each other. If you venture out of the cities into redhat territory, there are meth labs all over the place, and everyone is quarreling with everyone else. You’re far more likely to get caught in a crossfire on a hiking trail than on a San Francisco street corner.
#youidiotsbuiltthis
@10 Howard is envious. She’s better known than he is. His billions can’t buy publicity like that.
@11 “When you put on a white sheet, march in Tiki-torch parades, and burn crosses you don’t get to bitch about the smell of gasoline in the laundry.”
That doesn’t stop them. They’ll bitch anyway. About anything and everything. Today they’re bitching about a woman being involved in photographing a black hole. That’s the male scientists’ job, according to them.
It’s not surprising these people no longer have any credibility with anyone outside their own crowd.
@13 If all of the world’s women got together and stopped fucking these assholes, so they couldn’t reproduce, they’d eventually die out.
@15 “Now do Mark Foley. Hell, now do Nick Sandmann.”
Who are they?
Face it, doc, that 29-year-old bartender is as famous as Trump, and you guys made her so. And in politics, name recognition is 90% of the game.
Good job, keep it up.
@6. Gudwad, if you choose to being willfully ignorant I can’t stop you
Still the amount of effort you put into disproving, what i didn’t say, is staggering.
It’s illegal to accept foreign donations to U.S. political campaigns and inaugurations, but that doesn’t stop Republicans from doing it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/lobbyist-sentenced-probation-after-funneling-money-trump-inaugural-foreign-nationals-n993861
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Republicans don’t think there should be any restrictions on political money at all — where it comes from, how much, whether there are strings attached, etc. — and ignore campaign finance laws. They don’t even consider breaking those laws a crime, just Democratic harassment to be circumvented.
Gudwad, Does social ambiguity scare you?
@29 He’s only comfortable with horses. He avoids other Republicans. Being male, he can’t protect himself in that crowd by crossing his legs.
You know what would be very, very illegal?
Offering a pardon in advance if a lower level government employee broke the law at your request.
April 15 is almost upon us. Don’t forget to pay your taxes or file your extension. My quarterly tax payments have stayed the same or increased, so I got nothing from Trump’s tax “cuts.”
@31 This is exactly the kind of behavior the Framers had in mind when they put the impeachment power in the Constitution.
If Republicans in Congress refuse to exercise that power to rein in a renegade president, they’re violating their oath to uphold the Constitution, and they should be impeached too.
Pete Buttigieg: It’s great to say that it’s all win/wins, and to some extent it is. I actually think an economy that’s more equitable also tends to grow better. But if there’s a win/lose equation, we shouldn’t shy away from that. We shouldn’t pretend that all of this stuff can be done — that you can make everybody better off while making nobody worse off. The reality is there are some people who are not paying their share. There are some corporations that are not contributing the way that they should. Until we recalibrate that, until we invest in things like education and infrastructure and health, investments that do in fact pay for themselves overall, some people may have to pay more than others. Because some people frankly are getting a bit of a free ride on the productive energy of this country and this economy
Can’t predict how he’s going to do, but I like what he’s saying now. It makes sense.
Pete Buttigieg ‘I have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people’
Don’t you wish christians would act like the Christians they tell everyone they are?
Fox criticizes AOC because she is so damn ridiculous.
24,
It’s enough for me that they are losing credibility with college educated white women*.
That is enough to do them in forever.
*The very same women who swipe left.
25,
Not when they can still kidnap 13-year-olds and confine them in underground bunkers.
There’s a perfectly good reason Teh Dumbfuck relocated to Burns.
Of course there is.
28,
Not for nothing, but that’s Patten’s wife accompanying him to court in that photo.
See that bag?
$22,000.
That is not a bag Judge Jackson can afford. That is not an “I throw myself on the mercy of the court” bag.
@36. AOC is the Democratic party and Fox News says she literally wants to take your guns and emasculate you!
Vote for the GOP and save your dick.
This message is approved by the GOP who doesn’t want you unarmed and unmanned
Regardless of the underlying facts, cops who lie in incident reports should be fired, and cops who give false testimony in court should go to prison. There’s no excuse for that kind of police behavior. Not ever.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dnigma-howard-chicago-police-surveillance-footage_n_5cb0ddd3e4b082aab085777a
Undocumented Demorat Of The Week Award Special Report– Demorats Hilariously Show Themselves To Be Lying Phonies Breaking News– Demorats Yesterday, “We Welcome Our Dear Vibrant Undocumented Demorats Into Our Community!” Demorats Today, “Keep Those Filthy Criminals Out Of Our Community Trump, We Don’t Want Them!!”
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Democrats have accused Donald Trump’s administration of “cruelty” and using people as political pawns in the wake of reports that presidential aides considered a plan to release migrants in sanctuary cities.
“The cruelty of this administration never seems to end,” said Julián Castro, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president ahead of the 2020 election.
“Now they are talking about bussing families to particular cities to target political opponents,” Castro said. “These folks want us to choose cruelty as a weapon against people and against political opponents.”
Another Democratic presidential hopeful, Amy Klobuchar, said Trump was “literally using human beings as pawns in a political game”.
“Instead of passing comprehensive immigration reform he does this: White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes,” Klobuchar said on Twitter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/trump-migrants-sanctuary-cities-release
@34 It’s double-speak. He’s soft-peddling the fact that Republicans have stacked the deck in favor of the rich at the expense of the middle and working classes. And yes, it’s a zero-sum game when they say we “can’t afford” the Special Olympics anymore because billionaires got a trillion-dollar tax cut and companies like Amazon and Boeing aren’t paying taxes anymore. Buttigieg should stop beating around the bush and tell it like it is.
@36 No, Fox criticizes AOC because she’s effective at exposing sycophants like Wilbur Ross for the toadying stooges they are. She cross-examines better than most lawyers I know.
@39 He must have shitty legal counsel. When you’re being sentenced for white collar crime, the last thing you want to do is conspicuously flaunt the fruits of your crimes in the courtroom in front of a judge living on a public salary.
@40 Yes, she’ll disarm you and cut your balls off, so don’t fuck with a Bronx bartender.
@4
Fuck You. Special treatment – like for my religion?
Go fuck yourself. Give the horse a break.
The verdict is in from the great state of Goergahhh:
drumpf is too far to the left…
What else explains the numbers?
Looks like one of our trolls has gotten himself into a little bit of a jam.
“Man angry about virginity pleads guilty to threatening women”
“Police said Cleary wrote on Facebook he was planning to become a mass shooter because he was still a virgin and wanted to kill as many women as possible.”
https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-angry-about-virginity-pleads-guilty-to-13762701.php