How to Fix the Police

How to improve the police:

1. Make them work 12 hour or longer shifts everyday so they are exhausted.
2. Yell at them for hours on end telling them the are racist, worthless, garbage people.
3. Provoke them.  A little shove. Throw things at them.  Burn down their offices if you can.
4. Make them watch looters and vandals but don't allow them to do anything about it.
5. Provide no support from their superiors.  Make everything their fault.
6. Kill a few here and there for good measure.
7. Cut their funding.  Make them work more hours for less pay.

Result: Well-adjusted police!


Incidents of Police BrutalityToday - Unacceptable, but some things to think about
1. Provocation - See above.  We're in a situation where we are going to see the worst.  Why do the protesters crowd the police and barriers when there is plenty of space elsewhere?  Why didn't the police gas and beat tea party and anti-lockdown protesters?  It has a lot more to do with their behavior than their politics.
2. Quantity - How many cases are we seeing each day?  I'm guessing there are hundred of thousands of police on crowd control duty and a dozen incidents a day.
3. Editing - We may not be seeing the whole story

Defundinng the police
1. Withe fewer police, will the new social workers and whatnot be called on to handle riots an mass protests?
2. Comparison of police-caused deaths and violence against what's already in community - which is worse?  It's a no-brainer on the death count.
3. Let's put it to a vote in inner-city communities - you want fewer police and more social workers?

Will the same Democratic politicians who are presiding over the current mess be more successful now?  Why?

Incorrect Thoughts

The Handmaid's Tale is about Islam

The 1619 Project is Part of a Russian Plot to Undermine America  (if it's not their idea, they certainly approve)

The Russian Collusion plot is the Obama Birther hoax for the left.

A Tale Of Two Pandemics: Media Downplayed Swine Flu Outbreak Under Obama

Although everyone seems to have forgotten the swine flu was even a thing, it infected nearly 61 million people in the U.S. from spring 2009 through early 2010. And it claimed as many as 18,000 lives, according to a Centers for Disease Control study published in 2011. In total, the disease is now believed to have caused more than 200,000 deaths worldwide.

When Obama declared a national emergency, CNN didn’t get around to mentioning the death toll of the disease until the 10th paragraph. By that point, millions had been infected and 1,000 people in the U.S. had died.

The day after Obama’s declaration, CNN carried only a single link to the swine flu story in its “Newspulse” section. It ranked below the headline: “Wayward flight’s co-pilot denies arguing.”

The Times’ story about Obama’s declaration didn’t mention the death toll in the U.S. until the fourth paragraph. Two days later, the swine flu was off the Times’ front page again.

We’re not saying that the coronavirus isn’t serious. It’s a new disease with an as-yet-unknown trajectory and a seemingly high fatality rate. So caution is warranted.

But it should be obvious to anyone that the scale and intensity of the coronavirus coverage is far beyond the actual risk posed by the disease. Even if coronavirus is twice as deadly as the swine flu pandemic, more people will die from falling down this year than from COVID-19.

https://issuesinsights.com/2020/03/13/a-tale-of-two-pandemics-media-downplayed-the-massive-swine-flu-outbreak-under-obama/

In 2016, 60% of GOP Iowa caucus-goers voted for a black or Hispanic candidate.

In 2020, about 100% of Democratic caucus-goers will vote for a white candidate.

Let that sink in.

The Not-So-Persuasive Sales Pitch for Impeachment

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-not-so-persuasive-sales-pitch-for-impeachment/

There’s a certain “heads I win, tails you lose” mentality to the way Democrats are attempting to sell impeachment to Trump-weary Republicans.

Democrat: President Trump tried to withhold congressionally approved military aid in order to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into investigating the Bidens!

Trump-skeptical conservative: Yeah, that’s pretty bad. The president just can’t secretly refuse to send out funding that Congress authorized and appropriated, and he can’t use foreign aid as leverage to push a foreign government to investigate a potential rival. But let’s not act like Burisma Holdings appointing Hunter Biden to the board wasn’t an attempt to ensure they had a powerful friend in Washington.

Democrat: That doesn’t really matter right now. The only moral course of action is for twenty Republican senators to join 47 Democratic senators to achieve the required 67 votes to remove Trump from office!

Trump-skeptical conservative: Yeah, but if that happens, most of those twenty will be ending their Senate careers. They’ll get beaten in their next primary, or they’ll lose their next general election as their home state Trump fans stay home to punish them for their impeachment vote.

Democrat: Well, you’ll just have to accept a Democratic Senate majority, maybe a sizable one, as the consequence of doing the right thing. Either way, Pence would become president, so this can’t really be called a coup.

Trump-skeptical conservative: That’s true enough as far as it goes, but we all know that President Pence would have a really rough road ahead after a successful impeachment — he would probably get a bunch of last-minute primary challengers, the GOP would be furiously divided, and a lot of MAGA Trump fans would probably stay home or go third party in 2020.

Democrat: Well, you’ll just have to accept a deeply divided party and higher odds of a Democratic victory in 2020 as the consequence of doing the right thing. Either way, if impeachment falls short, you’ll have to vote against Trump, it’s just the right thing to do.

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Trump-skeptical conservative: Well, he’s given me a lot of reasons to not vote for him — abandoning the Kurds, tariffs and trade wars everywhere, the Twitter rants and the incendiary rhetoric, doesn’t give a hoot about the deficit and national debt. He constantly overpromises and under-delivers on stuff like securing the border. But he’s also passed tax cuts, ended the Obamacare mandate, and appointed judges I like. If I’m willing to vote for the Democrats, what kind of policy concessions are they willing to make?

Democrat: Oh, absolutely none.

Trump-skeptical conservative: Really? If you guys get control of the House, Senate, and presidency, what do you want to do?

Democrat: Repeal the Trump tax cuts, end private insurance and make everyone get their health care through the government in Medicare for All, provide taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants, decriminalize crossing the border, abolish ICE, guarantee taxpayer funding of abortions, at least begin the discussion on reparations for slavery, ban “assault weapons’ and maybe institute a nationwide mandatory buyback for AR-15. Oh yeah, and maybe add more Supreme Court justices to the nine we already heave.

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Trump-skeptical conservative: So in your view, “doing the right thing” just happens to end up with your side getting everything you want, and I get nothing I want.

Democrat: Why yes, but that’s just coincidental. Hey, where are you going?

Hate Speech Laws

The problem is, the Weimar Republic had such laws. It used them freely against the Nazis. Far from stopping Hitler, they only made his day when he became Chancellor. They enabled Hitler to confront Social Democratic Party chairman Otto Wels, who stood up in the Reichstag to protest Nazi suspension of civil liberties, with a quotation from the poet Friedrich Schiller:

"'Late you come, but still you come,'" Hitler pointed at the hapless deputy. "You should have recognized the value of criticism during the years we were in opposition [when] our press was forbidden, our meetings were forbidden, and we were forbidden to speak for years on end."

The Nazis would have been just as repressive without this excuse, but being able to offer it made Hitler's task easier. Like Canadian supporters of hate-speech legislation, supporters of the Weimar Republic thought that their groups and causes would occupy all seats of authority and set all social and legal agendas forever. Shades of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association or the Canadian Jewish Congress! They couldn't envisage the guns of their own laws being turned around to point at them one day.

Trump Stands Up

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2019-7-1-finally-the-us-aka-trump-has-caught-on-to-what-the-g20-is-about