They have their calling cards, don’t they?
Rufus F.
Rufus is a likeable curmudgeon. He has a PhD in History, sang for a decade in a punk band, and recently moved to NYC after nearly two decades in Canada. He wrote the book "The Paris Bureau" from Dio Press (2021).
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on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Seems plausible to me.
on The Mandate That Wasn’t"What part of his mandate to close the border" The border is not open. "end forever wars" The wars i…
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Gaetz dropped out of the running for AG on his own accord.
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024That's actually pretty plausible. Lots of our stuff may be broke but the one thing that really matte… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Heh all deals can be done in a day if one side is willing to completely roll over.
on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024I could see it as a statement: "In case you're wondering if our intermediate and long-range Nuclear… on Open Mic for the week of 11/18/2024Yeah that was sort of like using an armored presidential limo to deliver a pizza (but only if the li…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tThere isn't any indication that Trump negotiated with anybody. Unless you think floating a self-evid…
on The Mandate That Wasn’tThis is not 3D, let alone 11th dimensional chess. It's basic negotiating. Strategic concession, anch… on The Mandate That Wasn’tDoesn't seem plausible. Trump doesn't play 11th-dimensional chess and Gaetz apparently pulled out on…
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I cannot imagine how in the heck we got here.
How many lodestones did it take to get our moral compasses to point *HERE*?Report
Fucking with suburbanites’ dogs — this is how you lose public support for the WoD. It’s almost like they’re trying to appear thuggist, out of control and out of touch.Report
The operative word being “suburbanites”. The same threat made to someone living in a project makes him a good, tough cop.Report
This touches on the main problem I’ve kept running into over and over again. Even in the Missouri case, which featured a white dude in a suburban-looking house. Folks think that this sort of thing wouldn’t happen to them. It’s the sort of thing that happens to bad people, who we need the cops to protect us from. Surely, if the cops are busting down their door, they did something to bring it on, right?
Jose Guarena had that picture under his bed. That’s just not right.Report
Yep. If the WoD is to be reformed or ended, it’ll have to be preceded by many more “good” people being mistreated.Report
I’ll admit I was taken aback by it, but not because of where the guy lives. When they shoot the dogs, I sort of hoped that they do it because the person might have a rotweiller or pitbull and they have some fear of being put in danger. But telling someone cooperate with us or we’re going to go to your house and shoot your dog? Just sounds like intimidation.Report
Intimidation is a large part of what cops do; thus the objections to Miranda and other brakes on how much they can do it. But they’re only supposed to intimidate the sort of people who need to be kept in line, not people like us.Report
And new laws against videoing cops.Report
Read Balko for a few months, you’ll start feeling surprised they only threatened to kill the dog instead of just doing it.Report
This one though, probably won’t get larger traction outside those who already give a darn about this issue. He’s a Hispanic hippie musician, not a nice middle aged white lady (or even an Iraq war veteran whose nontheless Hispanic).Report
You’d think by now if someone like Michael Moore wanted to do a documentary about the War on Drugs, he’d have more than enough material.Report
“COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”Report