@Olivier5,
Q: Rabinovich, what is a fortune?
A: A fortune is to live in our Socialist motherland.
Q: And what's a misfortune?
A: A misfortune is to have such a fortune.
@bobsal u1553115,
Quote:There's a wonderful treasure of those jokes,
A Soviet union leader said there was a standing joke in his world, "We pretend to work and the soviet government pretends to pay us."
Flipping channels, I just saw Nancy pelosi and some black lawmakers, wearing what looked like matching African scarves, Nancy talking like she’s decided she will now move on police brutality and ‘not incremental change, but transformative change’ she said. Like we get dessert after dinner.
I despise the theater.
40 years, she’s piddled around allowing hundreds of people to be murdered.
I hope they’re thrown out. Everybody who had 40, 30 years to sit around and enrich themselves on the backs of poor people.
I’m thrilled that I believe a change is going to come—so happy to see that the people can get in the street and force change.
Defunding and restructuring how we approach all the things that have been farmed out to police will make a great difference. Bernie’s plan for police reform, although he’s not getting credit for it, is brilliant and those precepts are being mentioned by Pelosi and other people in the news.
I’m hoping we can continue to pressure politicians to continue the reform until our society is acceptable.
A progressive victory.
@Lash,
Lash wrote:Flipping channels, I just saw Nancy pelosi and some black lawmakers, wearing what looked like matching African scarves,
That were African Kente cloth scarves, used by others worldwide as well as a tribute - in your words "a theatre"- to George Floyd.
@Walter Hinteler,
I would have preferred these police reforms to have happened decades ago so George could be playing with his daughter today. Incrementalism murdered him.
Let’s see if the current measures stick or fall to the wayside like so many other promises have for so long.
@Lash,
Quote:Incrementalism murdered him.
That's a very stupid thing to suggest. Policing, by the constitution, is a states matter. So unless you want a lawless dictator in the WH...
Quote:Policing in the United States is conducted by "around to 18,000 federal, state, local and city departments, all with their own rules".[1] Every state has its own nomenclature for agencies, and their powers, responsibilities and funding vary from state to state.[1]
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There's no simple fix for this very complicated issue.
Paul Waldman has just put up a post on this
@coldjoint,
That is purely blatant racist bias speaking.
Pelosi and company with their scarves and empty performative gestures are getting humiliated by BlackTwitter, FYI.
I’m here for it.
So now the fourth rider of the apocalypse has to pipe up with her utter nonsense.
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:
So now the four rider of the apocalypse has to pipe up with her utter nonsense.
Learn the ad hom in Sunday School, fake Christian?
I ‘pipe up’ like you do. Who are you to decide who can speak here?
And on the progressive thread, Centrist.
@coldjoint,
First, second, and third, you're posting total bilge.
Dear fourth rider,
I see the anger management isn't panning out very well. I'll pray for you.
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rob delaney
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Corporate Dems profoundly unsuited to the times. Embarrassing theatrics. Grateful to the protesters leading the way or we’d be screwed.
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House and Senate Democrats kneel in silence in Emancipation Hall for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in remembrance of George Floyd
https://cnn.it/3dEX7zj
(Photo of hypocritical Pelosi, Schumer and other actors.)
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@DavidAgStone
Hypocrites all.
Laura McNamara
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PLEASE
Jennifer
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People should be insulted by this theater because that’s exactly what it is, insulting. How can one even defend the Dems when they help Trump fulfill his agenda ? Time to wake up