I do love the young progressive/Democrat establishment fights, especially because the younger crowd does not care and is more than willing to air alllllllllll the dirty laundry in front of the whole neighborhood.
In today’s drama, the Rep. Ilhan Omar’s of the party are mad at Obama for publicly criticizing the Defund the Police movement.
During an interview with Snapchat, Obama explained that pursuing defunding of police departments meant the loss of large audiences and therefore, leverage. He never disagreed with defunding the police, only that the slogan wasn’t the route to go.
Obama didn’t say he opposes “defund the police.”
He said he opposes the SLOGAN because it turns people off & makes it harder to achieve policy wise.
He’s literally giving advice on how to achieve.. defunding police.
So stop praising him for pushing back on the Squad. He’s not.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) December 2, 2020
From Fox News:
Obama made the comments during an interview with Peter Hamby on the Snapchat original political show “Good Luck America” that aired Wednesday morning.
“You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get the changes you want done,” Obama said. “The key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done, or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?”
Which prompted Rep. Ilhan Omar to chime in:
We lose people in the hands of police. It’s not a slogan but a policy demand. And centering the demand for equitable investments and budgets for communities across the country gets us progress and safety. https://t.co/Vu6inw4ms7
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) December 2, 2020
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The murders of generations of unarmed Black folks by police have been horrific. Lives are at stake daily so I’m out of patience with critiques of the language of activists.
Whatever a grieving family says is their truth.
And I’ll never stop fighting for their justice & healing.
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) December 2, 2020
And:
With all due respect, Mr. President—let’s talk about losing people. We lost Michael Brown Jr. We lost Breonna Taylor. We’re losing our loved ones to police violence.
It’s not a slogan. It’s a mandate for keeping our people alive. Defund the police. https://t.co/Wsxp1Y1bBi
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) December 2, 2020
This is a very similar discussion to one that took place among House Democrat Caucus following the election — wherein Democrats who should’ve easily won re-election barely eked out a win and blamed the anti-police and pro-socialism messaging for their large electoral losses. And then too, the younger crowd rebuffed the feedback and said they would proceed with the fringe messaging. So… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Please don’t use their self assigned moniker of Progressives. The people are as progressive as the Khmer Rouge or Taliban.
I use “leftilibral” to differentiate from classical liberals. And to reference Libra, the constellation of the Scales (of Justice).
Because they’re of the political left and obsessed with “justice”.
Why not “soviets”. It’s perfectly apt.
Totalitarians. And I will not compromise on it.
I have no belief that the term “Progressive” can be “unsullied”. It fits in there with “People For The American Way”, also forever soiled.
Maybe they could use the word “murder” instead of defund.” I think both sides would better understand their intention.
The narcissist won’t like that he is being brushed aside, after all he believes he is the smartest man who ever lived. How could he be wrong?
But the bigger point seems to be missing.
From all the appearances of Obama since the election, you might come to believe that Obama had won re-election.
Obama has probably made more appearances that illegitimate Joe Biden. Now, with his broken bones (because of his dog ?), expect Joe to make even fewer appearances.
In typical establishment fashion, Obummer’s criticism is only directed at the bad optics, not the looney ideas.
To Democrats, the way to fix the problem of the town dump stinking is to replace the sign with one that says, “Municipal Recycling Facility.”
Simply, Obama is worried about the PR, the narrative, the story.
After all, it’s way Hillary lost to Trump.
Congresscritter Ayanna Presley (MA-7):
TheBlacksphere:Shocking list of unarmed blacks killed by police
Police killings of unarmed blacks are trending down, from 78 in 2015 to 28 in 2018 and in 2019, and averaged 47 per year from 2014-2019. Black offenders killing black victims averaged 2,476 per year from 2004-2018.(Black offenders killed 2600 of the 2,925 black murder victims in 2018.)
Looks like Congresscritter Presley is more concerned about the 28 unarmed blacks that police killed in 2018 than the 2600 black murder victims that black offenders killed in 2018. That is a misplaced sense of priorities, especially considering that police killings of unarmed blacks are trending down and black murder victims are trending up.
2018 murder data:FBI homicide Tables- 2018
That cue ball of a woman is irrelevant.
America is going to split into two nations. You’ll see…
That said, this bozo won’t be accepted into the New Trump America.
I hope the USA does split nto t lest two nations. We are a huge country. Only Russia and China are as large. And we have few if any shared values, needs, or objectives. Splitting apart peacefully seems the rational solution to me.
I hope the USA does split into at least two nations. We are a huge country. Only Russia and China are as large. And we have few if any shared values, needs, or objectives. Splitting apart peacefully seems the rational solution to me.
Splitting apart means giving up half of America.
They will only be back again for your half.
Then what do you do, give them half again?
I object to the entire enterprise of dividing killings between “armed” and “unarmed”. It’s as irrelevant as dividing them according to the color of the person’s socks (if any). The only relevant distinction is between “justified” and “unjustified”. Whether a killing is justified does not depend on whether the person is armed, any more than it depends on his socks.
Absolutely.
98-pound chick shoots a 240-pound rapist.
85-year-old grandma shoots a 14-year-old carjacker.
Insurance salesman wearing MAGA hat shoots four thugs surrounding him menacingly.
Oh the humanity! They were all UNARMED!!
It also discriminates against congenital amelia syndrome
The sad part is, Obastard is actually correct here, it’s a stupid slogan.
He’s not saying it for the purposes of virtue. He’s trying to get the vile voices of the left to quiet, so they can be sneakier.
All that’s missing from this picture is George Soros as an organ grinder, and a leash held by Soros that’s around Barry’s neck.
You can’t run a totalitarian state if you defund the police.
You defund the police, set up your totalitarian state, and give your thuggies a new, cool name and spiffy uniforms.
You could call them “security agents” out of the “Committee for State Security” (the Russians called it the “KGB”).
“Our problem definitely isn’t that our programs and ideas are shit, our problem is that the slogans we use to promote them are shit. So we have to work hard to find new slogans.”
–Every Democrat leader since 1964.
Obama needs those cops. How are they going to enforce their dictats – with snowflakes?