Elections 2022 Mid-term Elections PBP

[LangfordBarrow]

Obstruction is illegal, right? I mean, at some point Trump should be arrested for SOMETHING if it’s going to become such a major part of the democratic platform.

As far as charges you'll have to ask Barr. The obstruction was supposedly legal because maybe Trump felt he was being victimized. In reality though he was pushing for a Trump Tower in Moscow, Junior loved the idea of Russian government help during the election, Trump literally asked for Russian help while campaigning, not to mention the deference he paid Putin during his term. If you're still a Trump supporter after all that and Jan. 6th and the Big Lie I don't know what to say. If you let him Trump will squeeze you like a tube of tooth paste.

 

[Andy Capp]

This is a great example of how destructive misinformation can be… after years of investigation Trump was not charged with anything, yet here you are basically claiming he’s backed by Putin.

SMH.

Will be, not was, and it was an accusation, not a claim, and it was a fucking joke, son.

And for God sakes, work on your reading comprehension.

 

[Islam Imamate]

Obstruction is illegal, right? I mean, at some point Trump should be arrested for SOMETHING if it’s going to become such a major part of the democratic platform.

Its unprecedented to charge a former president and Trump has taken full advantage of that by being a habitual line stepper.

lol wut

I'm half joking. I don't take his ideas seriously but he can generate good content when he gets out of his bubble and interacts with people willing to push back on his takes.

 

[Andy Capp]

As far as utopias... Why are suburbs usually the far safer and more desirable places to live?

lol.... We can start with crime rates to start and then we'll comparing voting trends between the City Centers and the outlying Suburbs.

For example... Here in the Houston Metro (Harris Country)

There's Houston Metro inside the loop...

There's the major surrounding towns... League City, Missouri City, Pearland, Cypress, Spring, etc... Want to compare them?

That's right, you don't, because then you'll have to face reality.

You mean the reality that red lining keeps poorer people and people of colour out of these neighbourhoods with better schools--thanks to the way schools are funded in your shithole country--and a host of other advantages? Tested the water in different parts of those cities lately? Or the distribution of supermarkets with actual fresh food in them?

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Plus Donny had a Chinese lady who owned a bunch of rub and tug massage parlors running around Mar a Lago and learned from Mossad agent Epstein how to put people in compromising positions. Wait until Garland brings charges it’s going to be Glorious.

man i got all of these boxes full of stolen trump ballots straight out of maricopa county, and i'll be in alot of trouble if anyone finds out. do you think you can find that chinese lady and see if she can find a safe space in her massage parlor to tuck this contraband away?

or if she's a friend of donny's, perhaps we can get her to store this shit in the pool room closet, right next to some boxes of classified documents.....on second thought maybe we need to put them where nobody else will ever find. right next to donald trumps tax returns and health care plan.

 

[Ruprecht]

Those states you listed may be mostly Red, but the large cities in them with massive crimes issues are all heavy blue and run by Democrats for decades

Now... You want to have a discussion why heavy blue cities always seem to have massive crime issues?

All your cities and states have a massive crime issue. You just have low standards and exactly how bad they are ranges from barely comparable to other developed nations to as bad as the worst 4-5 cities in the world. The only reliable statistic for international crime comparison is homicide, and your best states, Idaho and Maine, are barely on a level with developed nations.
This is despite having more people in prison per capita than any other nation on the planet.
Bail reform or longer sentences for minor crimes isn't going to do it either. Barely clearing half your homicide cases isn't something you can resolve simply by locking up yet more people for even longer.
It's hardly a matter of not having the money or institutions to address the issue either, you have a GDP per capita higher than anywhere but petro states, tax havens and entrepot city states.
Your political leaders have just failed to do so adequately or competently for at least as long as I've been alive.
The keystone of your "tough on crime" policies, the international "War On Drugs", can't been seen as anything but a poorly conceived and poorly executed idea that has achieved absolutely nothing but blame shifting (despite the enormous cost), given your continued epidemics of drug use and poor performance in terms of the related crime and health issues.

 

[Andy Capp]

Um...because there's a lot less poverty in the suburbs?

And because of racism in algorithmic form, predictive policing, and disproportionately targeting non-whites for "street checks", traffic stops and the like. The list goes on, even.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Sounds like you want people locked up for protesting. Which is more a political action than "getting tough on crime" anyway, and largely part of the US obsession with identity politics. None of which changes the fact that the US has a decades long history of "tough on crime" legislation (primarily tied to the "War on Drugs") that is an abject failure.
When you have more people incarcerated per capita than any other nation and your crime rates are still comparable to undeveloped nations, it's clear the legislation isn't working and the money isn't being spent on the right solutions.

Hard to get exact, up-to-date numbers to make international comparisons, but generally looks like the U.S.'s crime rate is about normal for a developed country, but the murder rate is very high because of the prevalence of guns here, which is a tough problem to solve (I really don't see restricting sales as being effective, or not without an extremely long lag, because there are so many already in circulation, plus technological changes will make it impossible). But our approach to criminal justice does suck. We should catch a much higher percentage of people committing crimes and put them away for shorter times (and also treat them much more humanely than we currently do).

 

[Joe]

Video of the day. Holy shit that ending

 

[Andy Capp]

Proof or GTFO. I'm sick of it.

Bout time, Sintendo.

 

[Ruprecht]

Hard to get exact, up-to-date numbers to make international comparisons, but generally looks like the U.S.'s crime rate is about normal for a developed country, but the murder rate is very high because of the prevalence of guns here, which is a tough problem to solve (I really don't see restricting sales as being effective, or not without an extremely long lag, because there are so many already in circulation, plus technological changes will make it impossible). But our approach to criminal justice does suck. We should catch a much higher percentage of people committing crimes and put them away for shorter times (and also treat them much more humanely than we currently do).

Homicide is the only statistic that's a reliable indicator of international crime rates (due to the reliability of reporting and the consistency of definition), and the best regions (states) of the US are barely comparable to those of other developed nations. This isn't a recent development, but the latest figures don't change that despite long term improvements.
Nor is it merely a matter of the rate, you barely clear half your homicide cases, which is typically what you see in countries that lack either the resources or the institutions to tackle crime effectively at all.
Homicide cases usually being a priority.
The policies of incarcerating more people per capita than any other nation, and declaring an international war on drugs, clearly hasn't worked for you. It's not even a matter of your privatisation of incarceration (as bad as that might be), since that only accounts for @8% of your prison population.

Spoiler: US incarceration rate timeline

 

[Andy Capp]

Simple solution to your confusion would be to, you know, WATCH THE VIDEO as its literally all he posted.

A simple solution to me not telling you to fuck off would be an understanding that clicking on the video gives that douchebag views which translates into that coughed up hairball with a human face earning money from being a heinous set of pissflaps in front of a camera.

 

[Andy Capp]

Video of the day. Holy shit that ending

No surprise to me. It had wishful thinking written all over it.
https://forums.sherdog.com/posts/169652617/

 

[sickc0d3r]

Video of the day. Holy shit that ending

I like how Shapiro can’t even repeat a decent line from Rogan without adding to it and making it suck. Lol, dork.

 

[PEB]

Just a reminder.

 

[Andy Capp]

See my edit for additional hilarity.

@Limbo Pete
Or perhaps you'd prefer:
Trump 2024
Red, wilted, disabled.

 

[Super_Nintendo]

Bout time, Sintendo.

We'll see how the lawsuits turn out. It might even be standard procedure instead of a full blown fabrication like the German military base shootout and server retrieval <Lmaoo>

 

[Mondo Freaks]

Apparently in AZ, the people watching the counters also have watchers. So my question is: Who is watching the watchers who are watching the watchers watching the ballot counters?

 

[Jack V Savage]

Homicide is the only statistic that's a reliable indicator of international crime rates, and the best regions (states) of the US are barely comparable to those of other developed nations. This isn't a recent development, but the latest figures don't change that despite long term improvements.

Right, but I think that's the reason for the misconception. Homicides are all reported so we look at that, but in the particular case of the U.S., that approach is flawed because we have extremely high gun-ownership rates, meaning that our homicide rates are much higher relative to other crimes.

The policies of incarcerating more people per capita than any other nation, and declaring an international war on drugs, clearly hasn't worked for you. It's not even a matter of your privatisation of incarceration (as bad as that might be), since that only accounts for @8% of your prison population.

Longer prison sentences are the biggest contributor to the high prison population, and I agree that that is bad and should be fixed. Higher rates of success for the cops do more to reduce crime than harsher sentencing for people who do get caught.

 

[COTUR1@43]

Just "moving goal posts" in Arizona: