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THEY’VE STOPPED COVERING AND STARTED COVERING-FOR: 

 

The Media Urge to Explain away ‘Defund the Police.’

 

The hot protest slogan and hashtag of the moment is “Defund the Police.” At times, it’s also framed as a call to abolish or disband the police. Ordinary speakers of the English language would naturally assume, listening to people chant “defund the police” in the streets, carry “defund the police” signs, and literally paint “defund the police” on the streets of D.C., that such people mean “defund the police.”

 

But not our media! There’s been an immediate rush to write pieces explaining that, of course, “defund the police” does not actually mean “defund the police.” . . .

 

Notably, articles of this nature seek to draw the eye towards legislative and think-tank proposals and away from the voices of the people actually chanting in the streets.

 

In part, of course, all this explaining is a reflection of what a radical and politically explosive idea “defund the police” is in an election year, and how it divides the Democrats along ideological and generational lines. Leading Democratic politicians are running headlong away from the slogan while trying to embrace the people chanting it. Joe Biden, who for years proudly touted his role in the 1994 “put 100,000 more cops on the street” crime bill, visibly wants no part of the slogan. But unlike the party’s leadership, many of whom were born in the early 1940s, influential younger lawmakers such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are pushing the idea. These are the folks who may run the party when the age-77-and-up crowd moves on.

 

Defunding police is also wildly impractical. The Minneapolis City Council grabbed headlines by voting to defund and disband the city’s police department, but they don’t actually have the legal authority to do that; defunding would require a revision to the city charter, which the voters would have to approve. Until then, the cops report to the city’s mayor, not the city council. Camden, New Jersey actually went forward with disbanding its police department — in theory. In practice, what Camden did is just old-fashioned union-busting: disband the department to get rid of the union, then hire the same cops back at lower salaries and benefits.

 

What makes the media’s Voxsplaining of “Defund the Police” all so astonishingly brazen is when you compare it with how they routinely treat popular slogans, protests, and broad-brush assertions by politicians on the right.

 

 

To be fair, that’s because they’re lying weasels who openly message for the Democrats.

 
 
 
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On 6/9/2020 at 11:19 AM, 3rdnlng said:

Just remember, people who change your name to the female gender are in affect disrespecting females since their intention is to insult you. Billslime the misogynist.


yawn - keep trying GF 

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.still in business for my 44th year, I was never really impressed with his business style.......HOWEVER........residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., his brash, bold, pugnacious, condescending, irascible, "ain't taking no S&%T, et al style is EXACTLY what the staid, stale and HIGHLY corrupt "good 'ol boys political fraternity" has needed FOR YEARS....breached, upside down, inside out and on their ugly heads.....for how many YEARS has the battle cry been, "we need a Washington outsider to clean up the mess"??.....and for how many YEARS have Washington INSIDERS fraudulently proclaimed their candidacy as a "Washington outsider"?.......so we FINALLY get a REAL Washington Outsider who has flushed up more graft, corruption, fraud etc than if EVERY damn septic system in the US overflowed (and more to come).....but, BUT, "this is not what we meant"......too 'effin bad....deal with it.....and did he launch MAGA to gain the exorbitant presidential salary, free digs at 1600 Pennsylvania, his own Library and book deal?....obviously a fraud to care about our country like the scurrilous progressives who want to beat the "world's bully" down to third rate status....Elect Joe......

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Pointed out in polite language that it was at least interesting that the ban on political speech in the forum putatively dedicated to sports seems to have been mysteriously lifted. Same folks who got very upset at the slightest hint of a political opinion are now going full bore SJW apotheosis. Fella who runs the site snidely informed that I've been here for 17 years without paying for the privilege. So, as per usual, liberal hypocrisy is their own version of sharia law.

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5 minutes ago, Dr. Who said:

Pointed out in polite language that it was at least interesting that the ban on political speech in the forum putatively dedicated to sports seems to have been mysteriously lifted. Same folks who got very upset at the slightest hint of a political opinion are now going full bore SJW apotheosis. Fella who runs the site snidely informed that I've been here for 17 years without paying for the privilege. So, as per usual, liberal hypocrisy is their own version of sharia law.

 

That's a stretch.  SDS has been running this site like clockwork for over 20 years free of charge and he's been very fair.  If you have a problem, there are plenty of other places you could go to.

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1 minute ago, meazza said:

 

That's a stretch.  SDS has been running this site like clockwork for over 20 years free of charge and he's been very fair.  If you have a problem, there are plenty of other places you could go to.

I'm not really looking for your approval to be here, but thanks for the advice.

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1 minute ago, Dr. Who said:

I'm not really looking for your approval to be here, but thanks for the advice.

 

I wasn't offering my approval, simply telling you that this site is a private forum owned and run by someone who is very fair.  

 

To point out that he decided to lift the rules for a specific reason is his choice and his alone and I wouldn't call it Liberal hypocrisy.

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29 minutes ago, Dr. Who said:

Pointed out in polite language that it was at least interesting that the ban on political speech in the forum putatively dedicated to sports seems to have been mysteriously lifted. Same folks who got very upset at the slightest hint of a political opinion are now going full bore SJW apotheosis. Fella who runs the site snidely informed that I've been here for 17 years without paying for the privilege. So, as per usual, liberal hypocrisy is their own version of sharia law.

 

Are you referring to this dark space or the main board?

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1 minute ago, GG said:

 

Are you referring to this dark space or the main board?

Sorry, I thought I was clear. Perhaps not. The main board is the place with the ban on political speech.

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Just now, Dr. Who said:

Sorry, I thought I was clear. Perhaps not. The main board is the place with the ban on political speech.

 

And generally it is but there's an exception based on the current climate. @Hapless Bills Fan has done a fantastic job IMO moderating it given those special circumstances.  

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1 minute ago, Chef Jim said:


Hey!!  Get your own gig!!  ?

I seem to be offending all sorts of folks today. Didn't know I had stumbled into your prerogative. Apologies.

6 minutes ago, meazza said:

 

And generally it is but there's an exception based on the current climate. @Hapless Bills Fan has done a fantastic job IMO moderating it given those special circumstances.  

Hapless is a very bright, fine fella. My view of what is happening topside appears to be eccentric. Everyone has to form their own judgment. I can't alter my own just to please other folks.

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