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36 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Not that the Republican party is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I think your misrepresenting a few things.

How are they against transgender equality,  other than saying it's wrong for one to use their male body to compete against females in sports?  What rights are Republicans wanting to take away from transgenders? 

Wages have risen.  More from coming out of a pandemic than anything.  You could argue that govt spending has helped that, but the other side to that is that it has made inflation worse.  Any other Biden policy you believe has made the economy better?

Plenty of ideas to fix things. You just happen to not agree with them. Such as energy independence.   Or, just as important things not to do to make things worse, like trillions in spending packages and rolling back immigration regulations.

 

 

 

Trump banned transgendered people from the military for one thing.  

But "taking away rights" isn't something they are accomplishing, but many clearly are anti-trans.  MTG posted an anti-trans sign outside of her office across from someone that has a trans child.  The "my pronouns are patriot" is clearly a dig at non-binary people.  Many states have tried to stop gender reassignment strategies for transgendered youth, something that is very rare.   Alabama has made it criminal to do this.  (Very controversial even in the medical field, I understand).  

Otherwise I really don't want to get into it, knowing what we've disagreed and our opinions.  But thanks.

I can understand the rest of what you said.

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37 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Not that the Republican party is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I think your misrepresenting a few things.

How are they against transgender equality,  other than saying it's wrong for one to use their male body to compete against females in sports?  What rights are Republicans wanting to take away from transgenders? 

Wages have risen.  More from coming out of a pandemic than anything.  You could argue that govt spending has helped that, but the other side to that is that it has made inflation worse.  Any other Biden policy you believe has made the economy better?

Plenty of ideas to fix things. You just happen to not agree with them. Such as energy independence.   Or, just as important things not to do to make things worse, like trillions in spending packages and rolling back immigration regulations.

 

 

 

What rights would conservative Americans and law makers like to diminish? Are you unaware of their attempt to limit the ability of children and their gay or trans parents or family members to talk about their families, or talk to school professionals about their own lives or life questions. Are you unaware of conservative discomfort with personal pronouns or the right to marry outside of the one man/one woman recipe? Heck, some  conservatives are much more comfortable with child brides or polygamy than they are with marriage between gay or trams folk

Yeah, Biden policy regarding our budget and deficit is much better than the previous fellow's policy. https://www.axios.com/bidens-2023-budget-focus-deficit-reduction-1e5532e5-6ad1-42f8-bda5-f8122c030a34.html

So, I'm curious about the notion that republicans have ideas about energy independence.  So far their ideas have centered on blaming Biden for energy costs that are clearly not his fault, pretending that import of Russian oil didn't increase to historic highs under Trump, and ignoring the reluctance of American oil producers to increase their production from existing wells, leases and approved permits while enjoying record profits.  I would appreciate if you could provide some detail for these "plenty of ideas".  Do republican lawmakers have any ideas for improving national security by reducing our dependence upon fossil fuels? Please share them so that we can be specific on our discussion of what is liked or disliked about their energy agenda. 

You don't want pandemic era regulations and laws rolled back? That is just not consistent with republican commentary about pandemic mitigation recommendations and requirements. Conservatives have whined about and wanted to end pandemic mitigation from the start but now they're upset that the border related pandemic rules are being lifted.  Is that a double standard?

When you talk about things not to do to adversely affect the economy do you also include things like not starting an unwise trade war with China with unnecessary tariffs, breaking established treaties and alliances impulsively, or lying about and massively mishandling a pandemic? All of those things had a negative impact on our American economy. 

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I don't necessarily believe the administration is to blame, but they don't seem very interested in fixing things if it's going to ruffle up the progressives.

"As they shelter behind their gates, guards and guns, the rest of the country fend for themselves in the face of skyrocketing violent crime rates. Every day, senseless violent assaults and homicides are committed by recidivist offenders who should be in prison, yet Biden panders to a progressive base who undermine law enforcement by defunding police, implementing "no cash bail" and refusing to prosecute lawbreakers. These policies have deprived police of the strategies and tools necessary to actually prevent crime. "

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-biden-kamala-harris-crime-wave-fix-it

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3 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I don't necessarily believe the administration is to blame, but they don't seem very interested in fixing things if it's going to ruffle up the progressives.

"As they shelter behind their gates, guards and guns, the rest of the country fend for themselves in the face of skyrocketing violent crime rates. Every day, senseless violent assaults and homicides are committed by recidivist offenders who should be in prison, yet Biden panders to a progressive base who undermine law enforcement by defunding police, implementing "no cash bail" and refusing to prosecute lawbreakers. These policies have deprived police of the strategies and tools necessary to actually prevent crime. "

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-biden-kamala-harris-crime-wave-fix-it

That's an expected bit of conservative opinion that doesn't fit really well with the reality of Biden's actual words or policy.  It keeps the voting base riled up though, about the gun violence that GOP lawmakers refuse to address. The president doesn't write the laws that govern prosecution or sentencing of criminals and law breakers.  It's currently conservatives objecting to and obstructing reasonable reform to gun laws which could serve to better monitor and hold accountable irresponsible gun owners and potentially twice that individual violence. 

Meanwhile, while whining about violence that they intend to do nothing to change, republican lawmakers ignore the most consequential and dangerous violence targeting our republic, want to call that violent coup attempt "legitimate political discourse" and refuse to participate in making the republic safe from the next attempt. It's also this right wing party that is tolerant and even encouraging of increasingly violent language from their membership.  It is conservatives who have renewed the historical calls for Civil war and secession of states resulting in destruction of our republic.  That seems contrary to this loud conservative concern about violence. Does it seem contradictory to you?

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3 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Meanwhile, while whining about violence that they intend to do nothing to change, 

I think this would fall under the idea that they don't want policies to make it worse.  And the article mentions the liberal policies that they feel are making crime worse.  Some of it's rhetoric and spinning.  Fox News very frequently talks about crime and mentions that it's in liberal democrat run cities, particularly in liberal strong holds like New York, LA or Seattle.  They did report on Spring break crime in Miami but republican lead Miami seems to be bucking the trend in recently, although 2020 and 2021 I think were violent.

Their click bait for this article was "Fed up residents in liberal state...."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/californians-fed-up-both-political-parties-crime-crisis

Interesting that when you take violent crimes per capital you might already know Alaska ranks first.   California ranks 16th behind conservative run Texas. Florida is 25th just ahead of New York.  

https://thecapitolist.com/violent-crime-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-florida-ranks-nationally/

I think the the rise in violent crime is more complicated than just defunding police budgets.  I think that violence has risen pretty much all across the country, small towns included.   Certainly however in trying to fight a rise in crime with a smaller budget is difficult I would imagine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/28/fact-check-police-funding-not-linked-homicide-spikes-experts-say/9054639002/

 

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Very heavy negative campaign ads airing in PA against him running for PA Senator to replace Sen. Toomey. Especially since he has lived in NJ for over 30 years.

Pennsylvania Senate Republican race between Oz and McCormick turns ugly early

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Sealed ----Oz has one less PA voter now post this pronouncement.

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6 hours ago, Tweety said:

I think this would fall under the idea that they don't want policies to make it worse.  And the article mentions the liberal policies that they feel are making crime worse.  Some of it's rhetoric and spinning.  Fox News very frequently talks about crime and mentions that it's in liberal democrat run cities, particularly in liberal strong holds like New York, LA or Seattle.  They did report on Spring break crime in Miami but republican lead Miami seems to be bucking the trend in recently, although 2020 and 2021 I think were violent.

Their click bait for this article was "Fed up residents in liberal state...."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/californians-fed-up-both-political-parties-crime-crisis

Interesting that when you take violent crimes per capital you might already know Alaska ranks first.   California ranks 16th behind conservative run Texas. Florida is 25th just ahead of New York.  

https://thecapitolist.com/violent-crime-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-florida-ranks-nationally/

I think the the rise in violent crime is more complicated than just defunding police budgets.  I think that violence has risen pretty much all across the country, small towns included.   Certainly however in trying to fight a rise in crime with a smaller budget is difficult I would imagine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/28/fact-check-police-funding-not-linked-homicide-spikes-experts-say/9054639002/

 

Most of it is rhetoric and spin.  Yeah, the very conservative state of Alaska is heavily armed and enjoys some of the worst statistics for interpersonal violence involving firearms, rape and domestic abuse. 

It's pretty common for conservatives to loudly worry that democratic proposals for crime or gun reform, or anything really, will make things worse without any specificity or ideas for things that they think might work.  Obstruction is their objective.  

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10 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Most of it is rhetoric and spin.  Yeah, the very conservative state of Alaska is heavily armed and enjoys some of the worst statistics for interpersonal violence involving firearms, rape and domestic abuse. 

It's pretty common for conservatives to loudly worry that democratic proposals for crime or gun reform, or anything really, will make things worse without any specificity or ideas for things that they think might work.  Obstruction is their objective.  

The word "defunding" is pretty meaningless since most cities actually reallocated some of the policing money to social services such as housing.  Unless you go city by city through those locations that decided to decrease funding to officers on the streets, it's difficult to aggregate this data into any coherent pattern.  But the total cuts were a very small proportion of the budgets (1/88th) of the NYC budget.  In no world would a reasonable person expect gun violence to decrease during a pandemic during which guns were sold in higher numbers than ever.  It's only logical that they would increasingly be used to commit crimes and that more accidental domestic shootings would rise, many of them among children.

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17 minutes ago, subee said:

The word "defunding" is pretty meaningless since most cities actually reallocated some of the policing money to social services such as housing. 

Taking money from one resources and allocating it to another, is defunding the first resource.

18 minutes ago, subee said:

But the total cuts were a very small proportion of the budgets (1/88th) of the NYC budget. 

It was way more than 1/88 of the police budget.  There were calls from some to take 1 billion from the NYPD 6 billion budget.  It ended up being 500 million.  Still, a big chunk.

https://www.Google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/nyregion/nypd-budget.amp.html

And, evidently the lightbulb went on, and it was decided that maybe that wasn't such a great plan.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-06/new-york-city-s-police-budget-is-increasing-again

 

 

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16 hours ago, Tweety said:

I think this would fall under the idea that they don't want policies to make it worse.  And the article mentions the liberal policies that they feel are making crime worse.  Some of it's rhetoric and spinning.  Fox News very frequently talks about crime and mentions that it's in liberal democrat run cities, particularly in liberal strong holds like New York, LA or Seattle.  They did report on Spring break crime in Miami but republican lead Miami seems to be bucking the trend in recently, although 2020 and 2021 I think were violent.

Their click bait for this article was "Fed up residents in liberal state...."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/californians-fed-up-both-political-parties-crime-crisis

Interesting that when you take violent crimes per capital you might already know Alaska ranks first.   California ranks 16th behind conservative run Texas. Florida is 25th just ahead of New York.  

https://thecapitolist.com/violent-crime-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-florida-ranks-nationally/

I think the the rise in violent crime is more complicated than just defunding police budgets.  I think that violence has risen pretty much all across the country, small towns included.   Certainly however in trying to fight a rise in crime with a smaller budget is difficult I would imagine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/28/fact-check-police-funding-not-linked-homicide-spikes-experts-say/9054639002/

 

To focus on what is not rhetoric or spin, what will be the result of less police funding, and other liberal ideas such as publishing and announcing a list of crimes that will not be prosecuted?

 

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18 minutes ago, Beerman said:

To focus on what is not rhetoric or spin, what will be the result of less police funding, and other liberal ideas such as publishing and announcing a list of crimes that will not be prosecuted?

 

Why don't you start that discussion by sharing what you know about the liberal ideas of changing the way public safety funds are used or about that list of crimes thing? A citation would be helpful because that last bit is not something that I'm familiar with at all. 

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