US Elections (& Politics) :)

mat200 said:
IMHO one of the best summaries of the situation the USA is in now.
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I agree this is good. We complain about the dumb and/or crooked politicians, yet we keep electing them. This 2-team good vs. bad mentality is so ingrained in so many people that I don't think it will ever be fixed short of a big crisis, and then it's only temporary. Just look at 9/11, we had a new bad guy and all came together against him. Then as that faded away we turned against ourselves ourselves again. People seem to be hopelessly stuck on this 2-team model, and the puppetmasters at the top very easily use it to manipulate and control the masses. Now the government is saying that the officer in Minneapolis has internal bleeding. Naturally I have no personal knowledge. The problem is that I don't believe anything the government says, and this sure looks like damage control in reaction to the public not believing what they're told they should believe.
 
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jpc-s4 said:
I disagree with his assessment of "the cop shouldn't have been in front of the car." At the time he went in front of the car, she was not moving. She was in reverse prior to that, and abruptly moved forward. I'm not exactly sure how he is supposed to get from the passenger side to the driver side without either crossing in back (with reverse lights on) or in front. And while this may be a policy, and based on his statistics of cops getting run over more than they are shot, it doesn't take away his right to defend his life, and is utterly meaningless in the legal analysis of this case.

Ultimately he was 100% justified in shooting as he feared for his life.
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from various shooting self-defense channels, there is reaction time and a fast draw time would be 1.5-2 seconds

Thus, I can see the driver not planning to hit the leo, and I can see the leo reacting to stop the vehicle.

At this point, we as a society have to find a way to de-escalate this.

Probably the best way is to have a formal inquiry and demand that the anti-ICE protestors step away from ICE and that some review of ICE actions are done to ensure they are following laws ( example, documentation of everyone arrested or detained as well as allowing families to check in an know where their loved ones are .. )
 
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bigredfish said:
Reality is hard for some.
Did you see the post where Trump said we shouldn’t have an election?

His words Sparky
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Look, ctgoldwing is a fan of yours now!

Sparky? OK, be safe.
 
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