None of these abortion laws are written by people who become pregnant. They have no medical background. They have no family planning background.
They have have one goal: force women into submission.
Employers prefer to have everyone on a gig economy. They want workers to work any hours they provide gratefully so the workers have to have multiple jobs and no social lives. Scottie
Geee I don’t know, have we..?
“They [the press] are truly THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” -Donald J. Trump https://t.co/F612DfZOp3
At a time where even Trump is trying to get people vaccinated, they keep letting these idiots on television to cast doubt on the vaccines.
There’s literally no question about vaccine efficacy anymore. They do exactly what they’re supposed to do: keep you alive and out of the ER. https://t.co/0mUzLQeZir
How interesting that this comes to light after I receive a survey concerning workplace gender relations. As someone who has short hair and never wears makeup, I thankfully have never had this issue, but I hope she's able to sue the pants off them https://t.co/iLNMqiKF6L
Regarding that Florida teen who petitioned for an abortion:
The legal question is if the girl has sufficient maturity to make this decision. If anything, she seems significantly *more* mature and responsible than many her age. https://t.co/gYUeBJiLUQpic.twitter.com/TBy2RGonGy
It's also obvious that the no doubt pro-life judges who turned her down (and were later overturned) were reaching desperately, and dishonestly, for excuses to turn down her petition. pic.twitter.com/urDPPQb35Q
I love the reasoning that a teenager "lacks the maturity to have an abortion" but is apparently mature enough to raise a human child. https://t.co/SNV3v1fsbS
So far Biden is doing as well as possible on Ukraine. The problem is right wing media hosts like Tucker Carlson are openly pushing for the US to let Putin do what ever he wants. Just let Russia take Ukraine, who cares, why should we, just let it be they say. Really it stuns me the better dead than red party is now openly Russian supporters. I guess tRump was a great asset for Putin. Well here is why we need to defend Ukraine, it is a democracy, a real one, trying to hold off an authoritarian strongman near dictatorship government run by Putin for his own enrichment. Maybe that is why the Republicans love him. Scottie
Afghanistan was not Biden’s fault, the military did the best they could with what tRump negotiated. Inflation is world wide from a pandemic and the world being shut down. Immigration is fine, we need more not less so no problem. Covid is not Biden’s fault, tRump was president when it hit, Biden got vaccines out to the people, he got the economy going in record time. The US is the only nation to have bounced back so far with a positive growth GDP. The only ones you can lay at Biden’s feet is Voting rights and Build Back Better. Scottie
Are there actually any cities doing this, or is it just another Republican terror meme because there is space that needs to be filled?
What white right wingers miss, and I think it might be so ingrained that they simply CANNOT see it, is that in some places the cops are more dangerous to regular (black) people than any other gang, Thus making “defund the police” a perfectly apt catch-phrase… IN THOSE PLACES.
The other thing they miss, and I’m a little less sure it’s not on purpose, is that we are asking cops, who are trained at confrontation, to do all kinds of things that they’re not trained for, and in fact may be trained against. In cities where there are social/medical teams who are available to the community WHO ARE NOT COPS, the outcomes are BOTH less expensive AND better than they are in “copy primary” locations.
Police budgets have actually been going up nationwide, even as crime rates have also been going up, and there are numerous bi-partisan bills further increasing police budgets and tactics. So WTF is Lisa doing? Oh yeah. Injecting partisan politics into it, and blaming “progressives”, as usual.
Ukraine is a democracy and there was a time when the US proudly stood up to help and protect democracies. That was back when Republicans also felt it was better to be dead than Russian red. I do not want US military to die uselessly in battle that is not for the safety of the US, but also I do not want the US to ignore a Russian take over of other sovereign countries. If the US wants to be a world leader we need to act like we are one and do the hard work. However for those demanding that the US make the first moves that would be the US attacking a country that has not done an illegal action yet. Can not punish a country that has not done the action they need to be punished for. If Putin orders military action on Ukraine then it will be time for the US to respond.
This is what passes for an editorial cartoon from right wing media cartoonist Mike Shelton. Need I even comment?
A misleading right wing attempt to convince people that the Democrats want to let votes be counted long after the election if it would help them. Not true at all. Several states say if the ballot is marked posted by the Postal Service on or before the election day then that ballot will count if received at the elections office after election day. That is common practice, especially with military ballots from over seas. Scottie
Republicans don’t fear injections; they fear the loss of power to ANY majority, as they will never have more than minorities ever again. For the last few decades Republican Party has been basing its appeal and power on The Four Horsemen: Ignorance, Fear, Anger, and Hatred. Just look. The one thing you won’t find is a positive vision for America.
Lots of jobs, lots of growth, companies making record profits. All the stuff Qubs brag about when they’re in office.
GOP congressmen standing in front of their voters and taking credit for the infrastructure plan that’s now starting even if they voted against it. So typical. Let the Dems do the work and wait and see how the public reacts. If the reaction is positive then stand up and take credit. Suddenly it’s we instead of them.
For the lower incomes and those on a fixed income the inflation problem has gotten quite severe. The wealthy members of congress decline to pass bills that Biden proposed that would have helped lower the effects of inflation and helped out the lower incomes. But some people, those well off see poor people as useless and not deserving of anything. They really hate poor people because they are poor. Found out one state was jailing poor people just for being poor until recently. I will post that later.
Yeah, what looks DOWN RIGHT stUPid to me is the unending spew of complaints from right wing cartoonists that this is all somehow Biden’s fault. Hello? Pandemic here… We also need to remember that all the ranting about inflation has more to do with Republigoons attacking ANYTHING the Biden Administration does (or can’t do) in furtherance of the Republican project to regain power and stay there permanently. They have no plans to govern, just take power and fleece the country until it collapses. Inflation in short, is too much money chasing too few goods (and that doesn’t mean YOU have too much money, but that in aggregate there are still plenty of people who want and are able to buy things vs. the supply of things). Note that I’m not saying that inflation is not real or is good — only that it is worldwide and will take some time to slow its rate. Those who vote for Republicans thinking they’ll manage inflation are in for some bad, and probably permanent surprises. Scottie
Here’s a harrowing fact for you: If the world’s ten richest men lost 99.999% of their wealth, they would still be richer than 99% of the global population.
Why should Biden apologize? First it was his opinion, second he was not being profane, and Doocy is always trying to trip Biden up while making him look bad. This question was designed to be a sound bite on Fox, and very one knows that Fox is the media arm of the Republicans. Scottie
With what is happening world wide I think we are all doing what this cartoon shows Biden doing. How ever I think it is super talented of Biden to do the above and create away forward making the path for the rest to follow. Scottie
Btw, the filibuster is not going to save us from a fascist takeover of democracy. Abolishing it will.
A former Speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent January 6 attack on our Capitol and our Constitution.
You know that era in the first two decades of the 20th century when all those confederate statues went up? We are in an analogous era… https://t.co/h7J9YU0RVV
A school board in North Carolina was threatened with $8 million withheld from schools unless they agreed to an anti-"CRT" policy which orders teachers to treat the founding fathers as flawless saints – or be fired.
This is also the same logic the Supreme Court used to overturn the Voting Rights Act. Black progress is often used as an excuse by those with power to ensure no more progress occurs.
And will be until the anti-mask / anti-vaxxers start practicing medical sound precautions. Until the hospitals are not flooded with seriously sick Covid virus patients and the death toll comes down we are stuck trying to mitigate the problem, not solving it. Scottie
The true number of deaths from the Covid pandemic in the US are likely being undercounted, due to the long-lasting and little-understood effects of Covid infection and other deadly complications that surged during the past two years.
“We are seeing right now the highest death rates we have ever seen in the history of this business,” J Scott Davison, CEO of insurance company OneAmerica, told journalists on 30 December.
“Death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic,” he said, among working-age people between 18 and 64. Deaths among older Americans have also increased, with one in 100 Americans over the age of 65 dying.
Republicans try to hide the facts. Covid, climate, criticisms of racism.
Policies that kill kids are the true mark of a bad faith pro-lifer.
Policies that adversely target teachers and K-12 education are the true mark of a bad faith pro-lifer.
‘How can we make people’s lives worse?’ is the true mark of a bad faith pro-lifer.
Right as hospitalizations are peaking too
And yet you’re still here…
Of course…Republicans work and are owned by Putin. It’s no surprise they want to support the expansion of the Russia into NATO Ukrainian Sovereignty
The right wing loves to portray the vaccine mandates as some sort of blocking the economy or stopping people from working. It is not. It is the people refusing to get the vaccine due to their political leanings and deliberate misinformation denying science that are blocking the advancement of the economy and getting back to some kind of normal. Get the damn shots, and act like grownups. Scottie
I recently had to send some documents less than 20 miles away. I was advised and did sent it registered so it was required to be signed for and traceable. A week went by and the tracking said it was in transit. Then another week, and the same thing. So on the start of the third week as Ron was going to deal with the postal office on this we received the documents back that we had sent. Plus the signed for slip. But the tracking system on USPS web site still said it was in transit. What has Dejoy done to our constitutionally mandated service for the people? Scottie
I have explained before how austerity is the wrong approach to solving inflation. The solution is target payments to the lower incomes, something the wealthy detests with a passion. But it works, we seen that with the child tax credit that lifted 50 % of US children out of poverty until the Republicans with Manchin / Sinema killed it. As Joe Manchin said he thinks poor people are just lazy bums. So does Jeff Bezos who told his top people to use and abuse workers until they were too broken to work and then replace them with what he thought was an inexhaustible supply of new workers. He would be correct about the supply if the wealthy had their way of keeping people poor, desperate, hungry, and with out any government assistance or help. Scottie
Rivers is a shill for the far right and his stuff is posted in that media. However this is asinine even as it is well believed on the right. The right really thinks Fox, OAN, Newsmax are all telling the honest truth and all other news media is lying and in the take of the Democrats. That is complete reversal of course, but you can not shake them of that. Show then studies or even videos of the lies and they simply deny it as fake and made up. Their belief is worth more to them than reality. It really is just like a religion in that respects. Because the main stream media debunks the lies and misinformation of the right wing media arm of the Republicans they have to demonize them by projecting what they are doing themselves on to the left. As they always do. Scottie
How do you figure this is all on Biden. How is Biden responsible for Putin’s moves on Ukraine? Short of threatening war with Russia, What are Biden’s options? What is he supposed to do about Manchin and Sinema? Or the Supreme court, for that matter? Covid was here before Biden. He is following the best medical advice he can get, but the right wing is rooting for the virus to win.
The entire world is struggling with inflation. It’s an international problem with no easy solutions but to wait it out. Lester, like the rest of the rest of the conservative projectionists who continue feeding their non-critical thinking followers trite sound bites that their brains can latch on to, is ignoring what Biden has been able to accomplish in his first year in office—passing a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package; passing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill; getting Americans from less than 1% vaccinated to more than 63% vaccinated; getting the unemployment rate down to under 3.9% with jobless claims at their lowest levels since the 1960s (it was at 4.7% when his predecessor started his term and saw it go high as 14.8%); getting a record setting and diverse group of 40 federal judges confirmed (a number that even McConnell can be proud of); seeing the S&P 500 (the metric the last guy used to measure success) hit new record highs 70 times and finishing up 29%; and finally committing to ending the pointless war in Afghanistan that took the lives of many servicemen. Scottie
What is being removed from schools is not CRT but the real history of the US and any mention of how the US continues to be a very racist country. To deny the deeply racist history of the US and how that racism not only continues in many forms but also affects the situation of the descendants of slaves is racist. Because it denies reality to white wash history erasing the harsh reality with misinformation designed to ease the guilt of those that benefited from the past. No one is teaching that white kids are evil because they are white or that they are born oppressors due to skin tone. What is being taught is that these things happened and it is a truth we must face if we wish to keep such inequalities from continuing to happen today. Changing the word slaves in text books to immigrants as was done in Texas shows more current guilt and a wish for the present system of oppression to continue. CRT is a dog whistle that some white people are using to try to keep history from being taught to children so the current system can be allowed to continue. That is a disservice to the country, to our children, and to the future. Scottie
Even as COVID-19 cases drop and hospitalizations show signs of plateauing in hard-hit pockets of the United States, the still-rising death toll from the Omicron variant highlights the trail of loss that follows every virus surge.
Coronavirus deaths hit an 11-month high on Sunday, climbing 11% in the past week when compared to the prior week,according to a Reuters analysis.
COVID-19 fatalities are a lagging indicator, meaning their numbers usually rise a few weeks after new cases and hospitalizations.
The Omicron death toll has now surpassed the height of deaths caused by the more severe Delta variant when the seven-day average peaked at 2,078 on Sept. 23 last year. An average of 2,200 people a day, mostly unvaccinated, are now dying due to Omicron.
That is still below the peak of 3,300 lives lost a day during the surge in January 2021 as vaccines were just being rolled out.
“It will be a while until we see (a) decrease in death as very sick people with COVID remain hospitalized for a long time,” said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University in New York City.
As Omicron surged in December and earlier this month, hospital systems from New Jersey to New Mexico buckled under the sheer number of patients brought in by the apparently less severe but highly infectious variant, prompting the federal government to send military medical aid to six states.
“More infectious variants tend to run through a population very rapidly,” said El-Sadr in an email. “Even if such new variants cause less severe disease (particularly among those vaccinated and boosted), we will likely still see increase in hospitalizations and deaths due to vulnerability of unvaccinated and unboosted.”
COVID-19 hospitalizations are still setting records in some states including Arkansas and North Carolina. Nationally they are now under 147,000, compared with a peak of 152,746 on Jan. 20, the Reuters tally shows.
Cases nationally are down by 12% in the last seven days compared with the prior seven, the analysis found, prompting some health officials to strike a cautiously optimist tone on the trajectory of the pandemic.
“It’s certainly reached its peak in certain regions of the country,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, said in an interview with MSNBC on Monday. “I believe that in the next few weeks we will see – as a country – that it is all turning around.”
U.S. COVID-19 data often lag a few days behind the actual state of affairs and paints an imperfect picture.
Positive findings from the now ubiquitous at-home tests are not included in the official case count, while hospitalization counts often do not differentiate between patients who are receiving treatment for COVID-19 and others who test positive while in the hospital with other issues.
On Monday, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that it was dangerous to assume Omicron would herald the end of COVID-19’s most acute phase, and exhorted nations to stay focused to beat the pandemic.
The Omicron wave scrambled the hopes of Americans for a gradual transition into a post-pandemic reality and re-ignited tensions around masking and vaccines in schools and workplaces, exposing once again the deep political fault lines cracked open by the health crisis.
On Sunday, large crowds rallied in Washington, D.C., in opposition of COVID-19 mandates, some holding signs that read “people call the shot, not the government.”
Virginia’s new Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin is facing a lawsuit from seven school boards seeking to stop his order that would make masks optional in school as of Monday.
A spokesperson for Youngkin, vowing to fight the lawsuit, said on Monday, “We are disappointed that these school boards are ignoring parent’s rights.”
Stalking the stage while brandishing a tomahawk at the rally, McKay declared that “World War IV” is underway and warned doctors and nurses that if they “have the courage to kill our people, you better have the courage to stand in a direct crosshairs of Patriot Streetfighter because this is now going to happen.”
Following his remarks at the event, McKay sat down for an interview with David Scarlett of the program “His Glory” where McKay explicitly threatened violence.
“I’m going to name names—show pictures where I can—these are the nurses, doctors involved in murdering these people, and I’m going to start pushing these people into the public eye,” McKay said. “Let’s see how they like that battlefield.”
“We can’t allow the enemy or anybody to use our virtues against us,” he continued. “I don’t allow anybody to use the semantics of language or use my virtues against me. This is war. It’s gonna get bloody, and I’m going to get ugly too; no less ugly than any 1776 preacher that dropped his Bible on the lectern, grabbed his muzzle loader or musket, and went out and put balls and bullets inside people and watched blood flow on a battlefield. That’s what they had to do. That’s the name of Christ.”
“It’s an evil enemy,” McKay declared. “Any of the minions, including the doctors and nurses who were part of it—knowingly or unknowingly, that’s not for me to sort out—but they need to know what’s coming next. And that’s the only other battle that I can see in my future now coming up after what happened to Cirsten W.”
Wouldn’t it be a great world if people acted this way instead of acting only for themselves? Scottie
Remember when it was cool to help others, social welfare programs & orgs, & humanity? Everyone needs help in their lives. Now with unprecedented inequality, only the privileged get help.
He should know, his daughter helped raised the price of EpiPens
No one should be as rich as Elon Musk when millions of Americans still don’t have health care.
Tax the wealth created by capitalism. Fund the vulnerable exploited by capitalism.
Trying to bring back child labor for 2022 huh.
And then they pick a celebrity with zero political experience to be president?
I am the best. I have the best brain. Only I can do it. Only my son-in-law who can’t pass a security clearance can do this. No media allowed when I met with Putin.
Just say you enjoy the cult.
A former Speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent January 6 attack on our Capitol and our Constitution.
Increasingly strange to watch governors claim trans teenagers aren't old enough for gender-affirming care but a teenager is old enough to be forced into giving birth https://t.co/gHl8E3Hr7b
We have been arming the Ukraine lately, as have Britain and Germany. I suspect Ramirez wants the readers to think it would be okay to preemptively attack Russia. Folks, slow down and give it another millisecond of thought, does that sound like a GOOD idea? If so, please get immediate counseling. At the same time the right wing is hammering Biden on his Ukraine policy the Republicans in congress that are in the pay or under threat from Russia are demanding that Biden rule out sending any troops. So Biden did say he wouldn’t send any US military troops to fight Russia in Ukraine. What a set of foreign asset assholes. Scottie
Since life changes all the time, it must be terrible to be a conservative who practically wets their pants when anything changes. Such an absurd cartoon. Also, “woke” is an obsolescent term. How is a gay M&M any more or less stupid than a straight one? You know what is stupid? People who worry about this crap.
News headline: “M&M characters get new, more inclusive look”
No WONDER poor ol’ Payneful is having a snit. “My GOD, how is it POSSIBLE for important cultural icons such as the M&M characters to CHANGE when they were already PERFECT, just like God made them in the garden of Eden? What is this world COMING to?!! (etc)” Scottie
Tom Hanks narrates a new spot that marks year one of Joe Biden’s presidency, one that tries to reinforce a message that the country is on the right track. This scares the right because he is a prominent well liked person. So they have to attack him as much as they can. Rather than admit that Biden really has accomplished quite a bit in just one year and would have done a lot more if the right had not tried to block everything that would help the country jsut because they don’t want Biden to have a win. That is how radical the right has become, doesn’t matteer if the country really needs it they will block it to deny the Democrats a win. The Democrats don’t do that … yet. Scottie
What a misrepresentation. She was saying take care of your self over the weekend, do what you need to do that recharges yourself, and then come back at the issues / problems strong on Monday. What is controversial about that message? Unless the left fighting the right wing ongoing sabotage of the country is scary for the right? Scottie
Abbott publicly signed the bill at an event hosted by the Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, where he criticized schools shutting down during the pandemic and issuing mask mandates. He said the bill will help restore parents as the primary decision-makers of their child’s education and healthcare decisions.
“No government program can replace the role that parents play in the education of their children,” Abbott told the audience. “Our focal point is to ensure that parents are put at the forefront, both of education of their children as well as the decision-making for their child’s healthcare.”
Abbott continued to impart that the government often intrudes on parental decision-making and threatens the role guardians have in their child’s wellbeing. “Many parents are growing increasingly powerless about what to do to regain that control,” Abbott said. “That must end.”
Under the bill, Abbott said the state’s constitution will be amended to “make clear that parents are the primary decision makers in all matters involving their children.” The bill will expand parents access to school curriculum and ensure material is available online or in other easily accessible ways, he said.
“We will make sure parents concerns about school curriculum or policies will be heard quickly and respectfully,’ Abbott said, adding that under his plan the state will give parents the option if their child will repeat a course or grade level instead of leaving the decision solely to the school district.
To protect children’s privacy in schools, the state will also prohibit the selling or the sharing of students’ personal data outside of the Texas public education system, Abbott said.
Abbott, who is running for reelection, has made it a point to target inappropriate content in schools. In November, he directed the Texas Education Agency to develop statewide standards preventing “obscene content in Texas public schools.” Shortly after he told the agency to investigate criminal activity related to “the availability of pornography” in public schools, saying the agency should refer to such instances “for prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.”
Parents. Matter.
Under my Parental Bill of Rights, we will amend the Texas Constitution to reinforce that parents are the main decision makers in all matters involving their children. pic.twitter.com/z64eobbk7Y
Under the Parent Bill of Rights, Abbott said any educator convicted of providing minors with “obscene” content will lose their educational credentials and state licensing, forfeit their retirement benefits and will be placed on a “do not hire” list. The state will also require schools to post the bill online for parents to access.
“Also school districts will be required to provide parents with information and options for charter schools, magnet schools and other public schools as alternatives for their children,” Abbott said.
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, who served under President Ronald Reagan, congratulated Abbott on the bill and reiterated the importance of parents involvement in classroom issues. He said the bill will likely be imitated in other states. “Not every teacher is a parent but every parent is a teacher,” Bennett said. “We know that the parents influence on the child is the greatest influence of any adult…We need to restore the priority of the parent to the classroom and to the child’s education which is what you are doing.”
Bennett also advised parents to not be “intimidated by the cult of expertise.” “When it comes to education of children, if you don’t understand what they’re talking about, you’re probably right and they’re probably wrong,” he said. “It’s not complicated what to teach children and what parents want schools to do is teach children how to read, write, count and think and develop reliable standards of right and wrong.”
Abbott’s action follows the lead of other Republican leaders across the U.S. who have issued similar bills. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Parents Bill of Rights in June of 2021. The Intercultural Development Research Association, which has voiced opposition to Abbott’s “critical race theory” bill that went into effect in December, issued a statement Thursday denouncing the governor’s bill, calling it another coordinated attack on the rights of students, parents and teachers in public schools.
We expect to see a “parent’s bill of rights” released in Texas today. If it’s anything like similar proposals, it will be nothing more than a coordinated attack on the rights of students, parents, and teachers in public schools. #TeachtheTruth 🧵https://t.co/MYtNi6epKX
“All families must be part of building excellent and equitable schools regardless of their racial or ethnic background or socio-economic status,” the statement said. “Unfortunately, many schools have not prioritized or invested in developing authentic relationships with families, particularly those of color, those with limited incomes, and immigrant families.”
The IDRA also called out groups attempting to pit families and schools against each other with the goal of passing legislation that “whitewashes and simplifies” history.
“These groups, who purport to represent values such as ‘equality’ and ‘transparency’ are feeding some families inaccurate information about their schools and encouraging them to make harmful demands and violent interventions in school policymaking to advance policies that actually widen inequalities and exclusion,” the statement said. “They are pushing their economic, social, and political agendas under the name of ‘parent engagement.’ This is dangerous.”
Please notice it is the right wing ideas and parents that are being encouraged to interfere, given authority over the classroom, and are being touted as needing to tell schools what to teach. If you are progressive, believe in equality, understanding, and tolerance, then keep it to your self. This is simply an attempt to legalize brain washing kids into a right wing 1950’s agenda / propaganda. Remember get the kids young, drill into them to be good little republican worker bees and you got a bunch of future white supremacist running around. Not all kids will go that way, but look at the problems we have in the rural areas of red states where this basically has been done in their schools. The Christian white nationalist right wing Republican is a minority trying desperately to keep the power and advantage the had to continue to rule as they did. It is that simple. They are using the same tactics Putin used and farmed out to other authoritarian states to demonize and then erase LGBTQ+ people from their societies. They idea of no mask or never shutting schools is to keep the parents working. The wealthy lost a lot of profit of the workers, need to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Why is the only parents that matter over healthcare are the anti-maskers? Why do those kids get to make other kids / families sick? Also notice the constant slam that the educators and the educated are wrong. If you don’t understand what the teacher is saying then the teacher is wrong! Don’t trust science and facts, go with myth and make believe to again be a good dumb worker bee. Scottie
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What white right wingers miss, and I think it might be so ingrained that they simply CANNOT see it, is that in some places the cops are more dangerous to regular (black) people than any other gang, Thus making “defund the police” a perfectly apt catch-phrase… IN THOSE PLACES.
The other thing they miss, and I’m a little less sure it’s not on purpose, is that we are asking cops, who are trained at confrontation, to do all kinds of things that they’re not trained for, and in fact may be trained against. In cities where there are social/medical teams who are available to the community WHO ARE NOT COPS, the outcomes are BOTH less expensive AND better than they are in “copy primary” locations.
Police budgets have actually been going up nationwide, even as crime rates have also been going up, and there are numerous bi-partisan bills further increasing police budgets and tactics. So WTF is Lisa doing? Oh yeah. Injecting partisan politics into it, and blaming “progressives”, as usual.