Anyone who claims this is hunting or sporting is a worthless piece of trash. 

Part of 1 is 1a - eliminate police unions and other groups that blindly back bad cops and allow them to keep jobs after being bad cops.  

“ just so they could flex.”

THIS !!! That was what Chauvin was doing - he was “flexing”, showing his power and superiority, over Floyd, but I’d argue, even more so over the people watching. He showed he didn’t care what they said - and that there was NOTHING THEY COULD DO !!

It’s always about power. 

It’s not enough to be right, the messaging matters. It’s naive to think the GOP won’t spin this out of our hands. “Defund”, “Disband” is a messaging gift to the GOP. Meanwhile what most people is sweeping reform, recalibrating police functions, reallocating funds for militarization of police to social services etc.

Good news! The Republican presidential debates start in a little less than 4 years.

It won’t end well. ‘mericans are too spoiled and self-centered to actual take the amount of time to contain the virus to a truly effective state. 

My junior year of high school, 1997, the cops ran drug dogs through the school and parking lot. They didn’t find anything so they waited for school to let out, pulled over a few specific people and ripped their cars apart on the side of the road looking for drugs. They harassed one of my friends for like an hour over…

People are presenting this as a choice, when the 8 are called “cant’ wait” for a reason. They’re the bare minimum we should be doing, not ALL we should be doing. The 8 are the starting point, and designed to make a big impact upfront, because let’s face it: that’s probably all we’re going to get before it’s “Mission…

Monopolies are bad. Still, why anyone’s still reading physical copies eludes me.

I’m pretty sure that two of their most famous sandwiches, the Big Mac and Filet-o-Fish started in franchisee’s restaurants and not at Corporate. IIRC, the McD’s brass wanted a grilled pineapple with cheese to be the “Lenten Friday” option for people who would not eat meat but wanted a burger. No one wants that.

The last time my book group met for brunch pre-pandemic, my friend chose the Cheesecake Factory for our location (despite living in a neighborhood with a thriving restaurant scene and lots of interesting international fare on offer, but I digress...).

Jack in the Box’s standard menu has over 70 non-beverage items on it. How the hell is anyone supposed to make a decision with that when they’re sober, much less when they’re high or drunk?

That’s honestly the only reason I mentioned it. This is a paltry fucking amount of money for a company that has access to significantly more. I’m a long-time beer nerd but I’m not inherently “all big beer is bad!” (In/Bev’s lobbying process is it’s worst crime, even more so than the taste of Bud Light.) But when I…

The sad truth is we *all* need to get more involved, and I’m just as guilty as the next guy. We *all* need to be more supportive of the up and comers and the underdogs, at a grass roots level, so they can make it past the damn primaries and to the general elections. It’s the *only* way we can ever effect meaningful…

We most definitely need term limits, but the only way that will ever happen is if we get enough progressives voted in who are actually interested in serving this country, not being a career politician. It doesn’t matter what side of the isle they’re on, nothing will *ever* changes as long as the career politicians are…

since being elected to Congress in 1988.

Just like GWB and his dad.

He’s back in his bunker! lol so tough

It takes centrist democrats working with them, like De Blasio defending police abuse, or Walz echoing that disruptions are outside agitators. They have a hand in compromising on police abuse because at the end of the day their only policy is civility, at any costs.

American police are little-man syndromes manifested as state sanctioned gangs. Centrist respectability politics have no tools to address it.