Politics Thread

[Juice]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/us/ge...day/index.html

Minnesota is on its way to being the next Detroit.

It's begun

https://www.startribune.com/manufact...ity/571104922/

A Minneapolis manufacturing company has decided to leave the city, with the company’s owner saying he can’t trust public officials who allowed his plant to burn during the recent riots. The move will cost the city about 50 jobs.

“They don’t care about my business,” said Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., which has operated since 1987 at 2843 26th Av. in south Minneapolis. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”

[bleedXblue]

Let Minneapolis be the guinea pig.

I'm all for disbanding the police union. Set some realistic and strong reform but most importantly once you recognize you have a bad cop, remove them!!!!

[bleedXblue]

It's begun

https://www.startribune.com/manufact...ity/571104922/

And so it should. Their will be significant tax revenue loss as a result of business owners deciding to leave or simply not expanding or relocating into MN.

[SemajParlor]

Let Minneapolis be the guinea pig.

I'm all for disbanding the police union. Set some realistic and strong reform but most importantly once you recognize you have a bad cop, remove them!!!!

I haven't currently formed a belief on the best way for in my opinion needed police reform so this is neither an endorsement or a critique. I just read this earlier regarding the guinea pig.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/police...loyd-1.5601990

[boozehound]

I haven't currently formed a belief on the best way for in my opinion needed police reform so this is neither an endorsement or a critique. I just read this earlier regarding the guinea pig.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/police...loyd-1.5601990

Camden is just up the road from me (less than 10 miles), and I have actually volunteered in support of a few different initiatives there. It's still a pretty rough place, but they have done a good job driving some incremental change and the Police have been a big part of that as has overall community leadership. I've only lived here about 2 years so I really can't speak to how it was before they dissolved the Police and re-built the force.

[xu82]

Body cams are a GREAT invention. If yours is not on, I have to wonder why. As a cop I’d see that as part of my protection.

[bjf123]

Also - This is a great example of why I don't like Unions. Good luck efficiently dealing with problem Police officers with a strong Police Union...

The Left is going to have to tread lightly here. In order to be able to easily get rid of bad cops, the unions must be less powerful and ready to abandon its members to satisfy the political winds. Will the Left really campaign against the police unions?


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[Nigel Tufnel]

I’ve thought about the 9th inning bullpen call for the last several months. I’ve decided on this...at the Democratic Convention, over the loud speaker, you hear, “and the Democratic nominee for the 2020 Presidential election is...”. The lights go out...and then you hear over the loud speaker....”IF YA SMELLLLLLLLL, WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN’!!!”

I have a lot of very conservative friends. When I tell them this, instead of laughing or telling me that’s absurd...they say, “yeah...it’s possible. All bets were off after Obama and Trump were elected.”

At the first debate, Rock tells Trump he’s going to take his size 13 boot, shine it up real nice, turn that somabitch sideways...and stick it straight up Trump’s candy ass.

That would make for entertaining tv...hehe.

If our country is going to go full blown Idiocracy, let’s do it right.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LQgIgRzsfi4&feature=share

I need one of my XU brothers or sisters to post that “It’s Happening” meme. I would put money down that he will be the President during our lives.

[Juice]

Body cams are a GREAT invention. If yours is not on, I have to wonder why. As a cop I’d see that as part of my protection.

You can't have them on at all hours when on duty. That amount of data is costly. Also, they're turned off when personal conversations are being had between officers or if they're on the phone with a family, or other situations like that.

And most police are fine with the body cams because it often shows that they did or didn't do something contrary to what a suspect/defendant may allege.

[Masterofreality]

80% say the Country is out of control. So the Trump righties have that going for them into the election.

A link or it's a lie on that percentage.

Also. Out of control from what side? The rioters and arsonists, or the "law and order" side?

There is tons of "out of control" behavior from the Left for sure. And how about "out of control" press like the Washington Post tweeting out a prewritten story at 7:45am Friday saying that the unemployment rate hit 20% in advance of the BLS numbers. Oh, they had to pull that story 15 minutes later when the actual numbers came out adding 2.5 million jobs and dropping the unemployment to around 13%. Yeah, credible news source. What happened to waiting on the stats, then reporting the news from it? Oh. "narrative"....

And, yeah. Good old dependable Paul Krugman in the NYT stating directly in his article that someone from Trump "got to" the BLS to change the numbers. Ahahahahahahaha. The "BLS" consists of 2,400 non politically appointed employees who statistically put this stuff together with zero contact from the executive branch. NO ONE is playing with the numbers and Krugman still having a forum is ludicrous...but after all, it is the NYT.