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OT: American Politics

JackBurton said:
www.cnn.com

Trump declares victory as US unemployment drops to 13.3%

President Donald Trump took a victory lap on news of a 13.3% US unemployment rate Friday, beginning what he had billed as Rose Garden news conference -- though he didn't take questions -- with tangent-filled remarks on the economy and taking credit for lower unemployment numbers.
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Such a POS. He only comments now on this.
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If you were looking to sum up what he is as a person it's this portion of his tweet.

"Great going President Trump (kidding but true!)"
 
Habspatrol said:
They are definitely the home of the brave. The amount of bravery we've seen from the citizens is impressive.
Government and law enforcement have been less so.
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My interpretation of all this is that the cops are scared shitless right now.

They see this outpouring of protest and the looming potential end of the Trump presidency as an existential threat to their jobs, unchecked power, total lack of accountability & massively inflated police budgets.

That’s why they’re going so hard & angrily after peaceful protesters. Because those people are more of a threat to them than the assholes smashing windows or grabbing armfuls of sneakers from looted stores.
 
As Aristotle said, “the hallmark of great leadership is hogging all of the praise, and accepting none of the blame.”

tonight we drink to 13.3% unemployment*

*excluding 18-65 year olds who have stopped looking for work, which doesn’t matter to Donald any more
 
Cops and National Guard are between a rock and a hard place. They have to follow orders because it's their jobs and they too have families but know this is like the 60s app over again and change needs to happen. My heart goes out to the good ones among them.
 
Habsy said:
Cops and National Guard are between a rock and a hard place. They have to follow orders because it's their jobs and they too have families but know this is like the 60s app over again and change needs to happen. My heart goes out to the good ones among them.
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I've always been a big fan of cops. Always hated when people called them "pigs" and made disparaging comments. Obviously I've always been aware that there are bad cops but thought that it was a very small percentage. I have always been able to justify excessive force when "criminals" have resisted.

It appears I greatly underestimated the percentage of bad cops. The overwhelming number of videos we're seeing with cops using excessive force and flat out being violent and cruel to citizens.

I still think that the majority of cops are "good" but those good cops need to start holding the bad ones accountable.
 
Habspatrol said:
I've always been a big fan of cops. Always hated when people called them "pigs" and made disparaging comments. Obviously I've always been aware that there are bad cops but thought that it was a very small percentage. I have always been able to justify excessive force when "criminals" have resisted.

It appears I greatly underestimated the percentage of bad cops. The overwhelming number of videos we're seeing with cops using excessive force and flat out being violent and cruel to citizens.

I still think that the majority of cops are "good" but those good cops need to start holding the bad ones accountable.
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Doesn't help that you get officers who are assigned the job of training raw recruits (like Derek Chauvin with the past history he has). I'd guess most/all of these recruits started out with great intentions/motivations but were 'taught' how to do things by officers like Chauvin.
 
Habspatrol said:
I've always been a big fan of cops. Always hated when people called them "pigs" and made disparaging comments. Obviously I've always been aware that there are bad cops but thought that it was a very small percentage. I have always been able to justify excessive force when "criminals" have resisted.

It appears I greatly underestimated the percentage of bad cops. The overwhelming number of videos we're seeing with cops using excessive force and flat out being violent and cruel to citizens.

I still think that the majority of cops are "good" but those good cops need to start holding the bad ones accountable.
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Thing is, if you’re a “good cop” who stands idly by and doesn’t do anything about the “bad cops”, or even worse, you cover for their behaviour, you’re not actually a “good cop”.
 
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