Yeah but din't Ballard bring in Frank Straub as public safety director? Can you imagine this nonsense with Straub leading the response?
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Yeah but din't Ballard bring in Frank Straub as public safety director? Can you imagine this nonsense with Straub leading the response?
And the statutory basis for that is... what, exactly? Do they have a warrant even to be on my property to enforce such a command?
And further, shooting projectiles at people who are lawfully present on my property? That's a damn good (or bad/unfortunate) way to find other, more lethal projectiles incoming in response - and justifiably so.
Order people off the street or out of public spaces? Fine. But that authority ends at the private property line.
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Those people who are actually peaceably assembling and protesting? They're protesting against exactly this sort of abuse of power by police.
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W in T actual F !
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That percentage is probably in the neighborhood of 95%. Not gonna happen. Where you're going astray, is you think black voters will vote for someone based strictly on tangible, practical benefits instead of symbolic themes. But that is simply not the observed behavior, based on Democratic internal polling. Criminal Justice Reform was a much-desired black voter priority. Mainstream Republicans and "Civil Rights Democrats" would have argued about criminal justice reform for another 20 years. Trump delivered it. But the target demographic will not vote for him, because...(and this is key)...they think he is liked, by people they don't like.
If Democrats run the table on minorities, they only need 39% of the white vote in order to win (that's the internal statistic the DP believes, from their own pollsters). I've heard all kinds of people say, "Trump should focus on minorities, if he turns even a small percentage of them he can't lose." But the actual truth here is almost the exact opposite. (Of course the two goals are not mutually exclusive; you should try at least on some level to appeal to all voters). In pure crass computational terms, if he were putting all his eggs in one basket, he'd be better to write-off the entire "black vote," and just focus on white people. More of them are actually persuadable. Trump prevented Dems from getting their 39% of the white vote in 2016, and he won.
The election comes down to White People. Black voters are totally irrelevant to both parties. And both parties know it. Once a particular demographic is a "known quantity," it will be ignored. Democrats are much, much more interested in figuring out how to win educated, progressive white people. If black voters want Democrats to deliver their priorities, their best strategy would be to somehow convince educated white liberals to want the exact same things they do. Because that's the demographic Democrats care about.
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If you saw the DC streams, that would match up 100% with why every single person was there. Selfies, likes, posts, streams, narcissism.
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I’ve had enough of this. I haven’t spent a dime at Papa John’s since the third or fourth sniveling, pandering email about how much better they have to do since John Schnatter was railroaded out of the company he founded. If there was any way that I could boycott these **********s and never spend another dime with them again, I’d do it. Why? Because this letter doesn’t include ONE SINGLE WORD about stopping the lawlessness that’s tearing our country apart, which has become a much bigger problem than the handful of incidents that perpetuate it. If the kind of police brutality which resulted in the death of George Floyd is that widespread of a problem, we’d be seeing many, many more examples of it. Camera phones are everywhere now. The fact that the public can record and distribute this kind of video so easily will lead to a solution on its own, along with the more widespread implementation of body cams.
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