Then there’s Harris visiting Blake, wanted for sexual assault and theft. Who was reported for trespassing back on the victim’s property and stealing her key. Shot after resisting, being tased, and still lunging into a vehicle containing a knife. Glad she felt proud of him. He is accused of returning to the property of a woman he is also accused of sexually assaulting! What in the absolute hell?
Maybe she’ll visit the officers who were just shot.
I’m not a Republican (although at this point I should get involved in the primaries), but it seems rather self-evident that Joe Biden cannot function at a normal adult level. Trump, for all of his faults, can. Normal adults, especially those running for President, shouldn’t have any qualms about something as simple as answering reporters’ questions on-the-spot.
Trump may have a vast array of disorders for all I know, but he is able and willing to speak for hours on end. This may give his opponents an endless stream of fodder, but when comparing the two candidates I’ll take the one who openly shares his bad ideas and vapid thoughts right alongside his good ideas and insightful thoughts.
Biden is a disturbingly non-functional presidential candidate. He seems to genuinely struggle with concepts like space, time, numbers and personal boundaries. Again, a simple display of normal human interactive ability could go a long way to dispelling this. The blatant avoidance of anything requiring on-the-spot thinking and coherent replies, like a normal conversation between adults, is much more troubling to me than anything Trump’s ever tweeted or said.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
They’re at minimum guilty of being unaware of international police badges and how to identify military weaponry from partial silhouettes. You’d think they cover that sort of thing in whatever training campaign staffers get. I guess not.
Here’s Joe Biden waving to an empty field, with some lady who sounds local to me cracking up in the audio.
If Joe Biden could explain a coherent policy, perhaps we’d have something else to critique. As it stands, we can only look at the Joe Biden website. Let’s take a look at how he plans to cripple our economy with his nonsense energy policy. We’ve already seen many of these ideas implemented successfully in places like California, resulting in no energy at all sometimes. Oh well, at least they meant well, right?
https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/
For a guy who has had a 50 year-long crack at solving all of these problems at the highest levels of government, you’d think he’d be overflowing with examples of great outcomes his policies have produced. I suppose Trump ruined all of those somehow, which is why we need Biden’s leadership more than at any time in the last 50 years.
You mean filed.
Judo Cop says it is field.
You might be the only honest Biden supporter here then. I’m confident that my vote to re-elect Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of The United States of America, is a vote for the selfish egomaniac we’ve gotten to know over the last few years. I have few doubts that Trump is personally behind his tweets and off-script ramblings.
Your vote for Joe Biden, Confronter of Corn Pop, is not a vote for that man at all. I suppose it’s a vote for Kamala Harris, because this is what I imagine will happen roughly two days into a Joe Biden presidency.
No, it isn’t self-evident - it’s evident to people who consume fragments of his speeches on partisan media. But nah, not if you actually pay attention.
Go back and watch the Democratic debates. And watch Biden discuss various topics of policy.
Ask Trump what he thinks about marginal tax rates and you’ll get sputtering about fear of sharks and a lie about how his speech at the RNC concention had higher ratings than Biden’s.
And speaking of health, we still don’t know why Trump had to unexpectedly visit Walter Reed last year. Maybe we’ll learn something new in the coming weeks.
It’s a very odd take. I mean how can anyone read Trump’s tweets and listen to his speeches and interviews and think he’s in good shape mentally? I mean he has an almost unlimited supply of “WTF is he doing moments.”
But Biden is old and has a history of putting his foot in his mouth. Maybe they figured hey we convinced everyone he should be the standard bearer for evangelicals we can talk people into anything.
I don’t think so, but even if true, still an improvement over the incumbent. Kamala 2020. Or really, any non-sociopath 2020.
Heh, no, we don’t need Biden’s leadership more than ever - we need someone else’s leadership more than ever.
Isn’t it hilarious that you, Kool Aid drinker, can’t make the case for Trump based on his record?
A classic. Pander away. Drum up and exaggerate the hell out of things. Take advantage. And did you hear the racially paranoid question? Sure, that’s really a danger in her life. Sure. She’s far more likely to die at the hands of an acquaintance, or even a stranger, that looks more like her. A fellow citizen of her own race. FAAAR more likely.
I have come to despise white people that act as if we all lived some kind of damn fairy tale. Maybe Biden’s daughter would get waved on upon being recognized by an officer. Not me, I’ve paid my share of tickets, waited on the side of the ride as police finished. Not family. Not friends. And that casual slander of police, as a rule, without hesitation.
Gag me.
I don’t necessarily blame staffers for not knowing weapon silhouettes. I’ll give that one to you. But, at least to my knowledge, all imagery of Ukraine riots that they would likely have access to is well… labeled with Ukraine. Getty images (where most news stock images are from) is usually really good about that, although I suppose one could have slipped through the cracks.
Still, to me it’s telling that they don’t double check their posts. I know many other politician staffs have made mistakes, but Trump’s seems to be especially prone to it over and over. As in, more than a standard deviation away. At least to my (admittedly casual) knowledge. Many of the mistakes are things that don’t take a lot to check on - or in other words should have been caught.
Those darn black people.
That’s a shame.
Of course, it is. How can he be a revolutionary while voting for an old, white guy? Do you think a single Democrat voter would switch his vote, if Democrats promised to euthanize Joe Biden immediately upon his election?
It’s more than a shame, it’s a tragedy. Black on black violence is awful, and needs to be addressed. What it is not is a reason to ignore what’s happening in policing matters.
It’s always hauled out as a rebuttal when someone raises policing problems with AAs - “black on black violence, though” as a way of saying the police problem really isn’t a problem.
That’s wrong. They are two different kinds of problem. Both bad, both unacceptable. But entirely different. One is intracommunity violence against one another. The other is discriminatory abuse of power by the government. The fact that one exists is not an excuse for the other one happening.
Look, I get it - the Right is a lost cause on equal protection and rule of law these days. Doesn’t mean the rest of us have given up on it.
Very, very, very few of these cases have anything to do with racism. The VAST majority have to do with people being too stupid to comply with police commands.
Here are some data from a decidedly non Right news operation.
Just acknowledging that 13% of our population makes up half of both victim and offender in homicides means there will be different rates of black men killed by police. My understanding is that more whites are killed by police in absolute numbers. But sure, the rate can’t be the same. Now, having already acknowledged what you have, there is no reasonable way to expect similar rates.
And then look at at the examples being used to riot over. How many can really be made into a racial event? Where race was really the factor?
The naked overdosing fella with the spithood. A spit hood placed because the drugged out Naked man was spitting at people while screaming about having Covid. Drugged up. He died as a complication of excited delirium while hooded. 911 call, not a random encouter. Combative and spitting. So they used a…spithood.
A man shot while literally running an Officer down with a kitchen knife. 911 call, not a random encounter. Combative, charging with a knife.
A man wanted on warrants, who was in the middle of trespassing against a woman who has already accused him of sexual assault. He successfully overpowers the officers, shrugs off the taser, makes way around a vehicle with a cop drawn down on him yelling orders. Lunges into a vehicle that apparently and admittedly contained a knife. Not a random encounter. Combative and retrieving a knife? Or potentially fleeing with children in a vehicle containing a knife?
A man who very possibly overdosed on fentanyl after having the police called on him. Police called, Not a random encounter. Resisting.
A no knock warrant where the boyfriend started a firefight. Not a random encounter. Shots fired.
Hands up don’t shoot. Which the Obama DoJ found to be unsupported. It appeared the officer was flat out attacked.
How come, if police hunting black men for blood sport is such a problem do the martyrs come off so questionable, if not flat out bad?
You’re (not you) afraid to leave the house for fear of cops, because of these cases? Did you plan to commit a crime while overdosing on drugs and resisting (if not fighting) officers? No, then you especially have nothing to worry about.
Which of these cases is there even evidence that it was race based? And not rare, yet unsurprising, outcomes from interaction after interaction with drug influenced, combative (sometimes armed), suspects that police are legally (warrants, 911 calls) interacting with?
Even where we can suspect the cop may be negligent and careless, why am I supposed to assume it was a racially motivated crime? Which one of these martyrs?
You’re right. Black on black crime is a shame. A threat to the wellbeing and very lives of young black men that monumentally dwarves danger of being killed by a cop.
Afraid to step out because of the police? As a law abiding citizen who isn’t going to resist even if randomly stopped by cops?
The media and the left has done a crap job confronting this narrative and dissolving that world view. Almost like they profit from it in some way.
Yes, riot, march, and shoot cops over a false narrative. While children and adults both die in the streets everyday at the hands of citizens that look more like the victim than some white cop.
If we can act like it’s an epidemic and become hysterical—marching for months, rioting, assaulting, shooting, organization wide acts of televised kneeling and contrition, more corporate white privilege retraining courses—-over such a comparatively teensy tiny threat to a black life…
How is black on black violence not up front and center, night after night, being treated with at least the same level of outrage and attention by media, sports figures, and certain politicians?
Why are we drumming up a war on cops over a massively exaggerated issue? When those cops are needed because of an actual epidemic that brings us a dozen or more new shootings over a single weekend in cities like Chicago?
And that last one was against Romney even…
I know, I know. We should forgive him. He was VP for the first bright, clean, and articulate mainstream African American, after all. His words, not mine.
You see, there’s a useful political narrative. It didn’t start with Trump. In fact, it may have a whole lot to do with getting Trump elected in the first place.