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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,576
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/kentucky-man-shoots-6-officers-killing-2-police-say.html
    Gotta be careful who’s door you try to serve warrants too in those hills of Appalachia! 
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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,216
    josevolution said:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/kentucky-man-shoots-6-officers-killing-2-police-say.html
    Gotta be careful who’s door you try to serve warrants too in those hills of Appalachia! 
    yup! Even pulling someone over for a busted tail light can result in a shootout! Sounds fun to be a police officer. But like my main man says…. More guns! That’s clearly the answer 
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,105
    And less doors. More guns, less doors!
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,576
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    And less doors. More guns, less doors!
    Uhmm one way going in one way out in body bag! 
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  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,852
    hedonist said:
    OnWis97 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    funny. independents are the plurality,  sone 47%. R and D sonewhere between 20-25% each
    Claiming to be an independent is also a bit of a chest thump. A lot of these independents probably are essentially Dems or Republicans. That said, seeing this many independents could be a bit scary because they tend to care far more about gas prices than they do about whether the republic is maintained or not.
    I’m the last one the chest thump. I’m an independent because I don’t align with the two major parties…so what? I go by common sense and my own conscience, not one or two singular issues  (like “gas prices”). And how dare I be concerned that we’re well over $8/gallon here? It hinders so many people in many different ways. Not so difficult to understand, right?

    It actually is. Voting should be about which long term vision of the country is a better direction. Gas prices is a systemic issue, where the American economic system gives the president some power to change the current problem but not a lot. Pulling from emergency reserves and reducing taxes are the short term fixes, and Biden is trying both. Long term fixes are drilling, but that takes years. Or renewables, but that takes decades, and also loyal democrat party voting every year, or it ain’t gonna happen.

    so While the left leaners in the middle vote for both parties, the ultra conservative judicial branch has taken over almost full control of the country, and they ain’t gonna lift a finger for gas prices. Because trump is right, the system is rigged, but for his side, by giving more power to the conservative states. And since there is an audience of short term thinking vote flippers, that always gives the party not in power the incentive to fight any type of gas price fix. But those loyal,right wing voters show up every year, and now 40 years of dedicated voting has handed them virtually unstoppable power

    The ironic thing about independents are is that many of them are libertarians, and they never vote D. So flipping back and forth by many voters has created a vacuum where conservatives will do good enough in senate and presidential elections to fully control the court, for likely 20+ years. The recent rulings are just the beginning of this trend.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,370
    Lerxst1992 said:
    hedonist said:
    OnWis97 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    funny. independents are the plurality,  sone 47%. R and D sonewhere between 20-25% each
    Claiming to be an independent is also a bit of a chest thump. A lot of these independents probably are essentially Dems or Republicans. That said, seeing this many independents could be a bit scary because they tend to care far more about gas prices than they do about whether the republic is maintained or not.
    I’m the last one the chest thump. I’m an independent because I don’t align with the two major parties…so what? I go by common sense and my own conscience, not one or two singular issues  (like “gas prices”). And how dare I be concerned that we’re well over $8/gallon here? It hinders so many people in many different ways. Not so difficult to understand, right?

    It actually is. Voting should be about which long term vision of the country is a better direction. Gas prices is a systemic issue, where the American economic system gives the president some power to change the current problem but not a lot. Pulling from emergency reserves and reducing taxes are the short term fixes, and Biden is trying both. Long term fixes are drilling, but that takes years. Or renewables, but that takes decades, and also loyal democrat party voting every year, or it ain’t gonna happen.

    so While the left leaners in the middle vote for both parties, the ultra conservative judicial branch has taken over almost full control of the country, and they ain’t gonna lift a finger for gas prices. Because trump is right, the system is rigged, but for his side, by giving more power to the conservative states. And since there is an audience of short term thinking vote flippers, that always gives the party not in power the incentive to fight any type of gas price fix. But those loyal,right wing voters show up every year, and now 40 years of dedicated voting has handed them virtually unstoppable power

    The ironic thing about independents are is that many of them are libertarians, and they never vote D. So flipping back and forth by many voters has created a vacuum where conservatives will do good enough in senate and presidential elections to fully control the court, for likely 20+ years. The recent rulings are just the beginning of this trend.

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,370
    Uvalde...


     
    Uvalde schools' police chief resigns from City Council
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    UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

    Chief Pete Arredondo told the Uvalde Leader-News on Friday that he has decided to step down for the good of the city. He was elected to the council on May 7 and was sworn in on May 31, just a week after the massacre, in a closed-door ceremony.

    “After much consideration, I regret to inform those who voted for me that I have decided to step down as a member of the city council for District 3. The mayor, the city council, and the city staff must continue to move forward without distractions. I feel this is the best decision for Uvalde,” Arredondo said.

    Arredondo, who has been on administrative leave from his school district position since June 22, has declined repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press. His attorney, George Hyde, did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment Saturday.

    On June 21, the City Council voted unanimously to deny Arredondo a leave of absence from appearing at public meetings. Relatives of the shooting victims had pleaded with city leaders to fire him.

    The Uvalde City Council released a statement Saturday saying members couldn't comment because they had not received official notification from Arredondo of his intent to resign.

    “While it is the right thing to do, no one from the City has seen a letter or any other documentation of his resignation, or spoken with him,” the council members said. “When the City receives confirmation of Councilman Arredondo’s resignation, the City will address the Council place vacancy.”

    Representatives of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin have not responded to AP's requests for comment.

    Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told a state Senate hearing last month that Arredondo — the on-site commander — made “terrible decisions” as the massacre unfolded on May 24 , and that the police response was an “abject failure.”

    Three minutes after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school, sufficient armed law enforcement were on scene to stop the gunman, McCraw testified. Yet police officers armed with rifles stood and waited in a school hallway for more than an hour while the gunman carried out the massacre. The classroom door could not be locked from the inside, but there is no indication officers tried to open the door while the gunman was inside, McCraw said.

    McCraw has said parents begged police outside the school to move in and students inside the classroom repeatedly pleaded with 911 operators for help while more than a dozen officers waited in a hallway. Officers from other agencies urged Arredondo to let them move in because children were in danger.

    “The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering room 111 and 112 was the on-scene commander who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children,” McCraw said.

    Arredondo has tried to defend his actions, telling the Texas Tribune that he didn’t consider himself the commander in charge of operations and that he assumed someone else had taken control of the law enforcement response. He said he didn’t have his police and campus radios but that he used his cellphone to call for tactical gear, a sniper and the classroom keys.

    It’s still not clear why it took so long for police to enter the classroom, how they communicated with each other during the attack, and what their body cameras show.

    Officials have declined to release more details, citing the investigation.

    Arredondo, 50, grew up in Uvalde and has spent much of his nearly 30-year career in law enforcement in the city.


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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,769
    “It is not safe to be here”

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23194354/highland-park-fourth-july-parade-gunfire

  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,576
    Merkin Baller said:
    “It is not safe to be here”

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23194354/highland-park-fourth-july-parade-gunfire

    I’m in my back yard with my dog I might have to stay here for ever! Happy 4th to who ever is celebrating this year! I’m really having a hard time being patriotic these days..
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    josevolution said:
    Merkin Baller said:
    “It is not safe to be here”

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23194354/highland-park-fourth-july-parade-gunfire

    I’m in my back yard with my dog I might have to stay here for ever! Happy 4th to who ever is celebrating this year! I’m really having a hard time being patriotic these days..

    I've already been seeing this fourth as not a celebration, but a July 4, A Day of Mourning.  The reasons for that just keep mounting. 
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,409
    Merkin Baller said:
    “It is not safe to be here”

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23194354/highland-park-fourth-july-parade-gunfire

    Happy birthday 'merica
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,538
    I’m in the town next door. Everything is cancelled here. And TbH, I don’t really want to go out and celebrate this country anyway.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Tim Simmons said:
    I’m in the town next door. Everything is cancelled here. And TbH, I don’t really want to go out and celebrate this country anyway.

    We feel the same way, Tim. 
    Stay safe.
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  • cblock4life
    cblock4life Posts: 1,855
    edited July 2022
    Hey, wouldn’t be the anniversary of our country without a mass shooting, right?  This is who we are now…..no abortions please, we need those babies to grow up to be target practice.  


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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,050
    Tim Simmons said:
    I’m in the town next door. Everything is cancelled here. And TbH, I don’t really want to go out and celebrate this country anyway.
    stay safe, man.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,050
    i have decided i will no longer celebrate the fourth of july.

    instead i will celebrate july 3. as in july 3, 1863 where the union crushed the rebels at gettysburg and vicksburg.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,769
    Happy birthday America, indeed. 

  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,409
    He seems nice


  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,050
    Bentleyspop said:
    He seems nice


    don't forget his AKA, Awake the rapper.

    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,050
    i saw a twitter thread from the washington examiner and everyone is already calling him antifa. his own twitter page shows that he attended several trump rallies. i guess they needs to paint him as antifa so they can get out in front of it.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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