AmeriKKKa

[Cunt]

They were never credible, except that they are very good at convincing people to not look at information critical to CNN.

Look at the amount of lies told about Project Veritas, and look especially at how well they worked on the usual 'fact checkers'.

Veritas might end up having enough to sue them with, which could be hilarious if it ever got to discovery.

[L'Emmerdeur]

This guy was a senator. And now CNN pays him to say incredibly stupid bullshit on national television.

[snipped Santorum spewing]

They've had him as a contributor for years. It's not as if it's a simple matter to find a Republican politician who will have a sensible take on the topics of the day. That's not one of the modern Republican party's strengths--it's settled into being the MAGA/proto-fascist/Christian zealot party. So if a news organisation wishes to have a bona-fide Republican on to present the Republican point of view, they're stuck giving airtime to a Santorum or somebody just as repugnant.

The idea of US news outlets giving time to different viewpoints is running up against the reality that the right wing in the US has talked itself into an array of positions that are characterised by delusional nonsense, paranoia, performative piety, not-so-thinly-veiled bigotry, and so on.

[Svartalf]

santorum and sensible in the same sentence? you have me a little scare l'Emmy.

[Seabass]

This guy was a senator. And now CNN pays him to say incredibly stupid bullshit on national television.

[snipped Santorum spewing]

They've had him as a contributor for years. It's not as if it's a simple matter to find a Republican politician who will have a sensible take on the topics of the day. That's not one of the modern Republican party's strengths--it's settled into being the MAGA/proto-fascist/Christian zealot party. So if a news organisation wishes to have a bona-fide Republican on to present the Republican point of view, they're stuck giving airtime to a Santorum or somebody just as repugnant.

The idea of US news outlets giving time to different viewpoints is running up against the reality that the right wing in the US has talked itself into an array of positions that are characterised by delusional nonsense, paranoia, performative piety, not-so-thinly-veiled bigotry, and so on.

Yep. All the sane-ish ones who are still kinda sorta members of the reality-based community are now ex-Republicans, and they're all employed at the "left-wing" MSNBC.

[Seabass]

66 year old librarian. You'll never guess what skin color...

Body camera video from law enforcement officers in Rowan County show officers pulling a 66-year-old librarian from her car by her hair, and throwing her to the ground during a 2019 traffic stop.

[L'Emmerdeur]

They were in fear for their lives, man. Did you see the nasty look she gave them? It looked like she was reaching for a weapon. They were very brave. Instead of shooting her dead, they nobly risked their lives and the two of them eventually subdued her after a desperate struggle. Blue lives matter.

[Brian Peacock]

"Mam, you're under arrest."
"Why?"
"Because you are."

[L'Emmerdeur]

santorum and sensible in the same sentence? you have me a little scare l'Emmy.

Heh, I just re-read the post, and I see what you mean.

Crediting Santorum for much of anything but involuntarily donating his name to lewd slang would be an indication that I'd lost my marbles. Maybe he's nice to his dog.

[Seabass]

Not all cops are bad. All racists are bad.


Video shows racist tirade against LA County deputy during traffic stop

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Body camera footage shows a woman unleashing a racist tirade on a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in San Dimas.

In the video, the woman is heard telling the deputy, "You're always going to be a Mexican. You'll never be white, you know that, right?"

"You'll never be white, which is what you really want to be," she says after signing a citation. "You want to be white."

The bodycam video of the traffic stop is now the subject of a sheriff's department investigation.

The incident happened when a sheriff's deputy pulled over a white Mercedes-Benz after deputies say they spotted the driver on her cellphone.

As the deputy approaches the vehicle, the driver has her cellphone out and is recording.

The interaction quickly turns confrontational as the driver questions the deputy's motives for the stop and accuses him of trying to murder her.

Before the deputy explains why she was pulled over, the woman interrupts him.

"Yes, I started to record because you're a murderer," she says.

The deputy tells the woman she can't be using her cellphone while driving and the woman responds by saying she was recording because the deputy scared her.

"You're threatening to kill me and my son," she says at one point in the encounter.

She says her driver's license was at her apartment when the deputy asked for it.

The deputy eventually tells the woman that she too is being recorded since he was wearing a body camera.

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is in the midst of rolling out bodycams to all its deputies, but the deputy in the video hasn't received one and is using a personal bodycam.

Another deputy arrives on the scene to help diffuse the situation and the woman then hurls racist insults.

"Here you go Mexican racist," she says as she returns a pen to the deputy after signing a citation.

She goes on to tell him, "You're always going to be a Mexican. You'll never be white, you know that, right?"

Sheriff Alex Villanueva says he's seen the video and is defending the deputy's actions.

"This Deputy exemplifies the core values of our Department, his demeanor during this traffic stop is just an example of professionalism and patience our @LASDHQ Deputies have," he tweeted.

It is unknown if the woman turned over her cellphone video to the sheriff's department.

[Seabass]

"Why can't black folks just pick themselves up by the bootstraps like us white folks? I don't see any systemic racism in America."

How a California beachfront property now worth millions was taken from its Black owners

[Svartalf]

Not all cops are bad. All racists are bad.

I still tend to feel that... ACAB

[Seabass]

Two Asian women were attacked in New York City on Sunday by a stranger who demanded they remove their masks before striking one in the head with a hammer, police said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 947001001/

Authorities arrested a man who they say is suspected of stabbing two Asian women without warning in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday.

Officers were sent to 4th and Stockton streets shortly before 5 p.m. and found the wounded women, who were taken to a hospital, according to The Associated Press. There was no immediate word on their conditions.

Witnesses told KPIX-TV that a man clutching a knife was walking down Market Street when he approached a bus stop, stabbed the women, and then walked away.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 950836001/

[Svartalf]

What the eff is wrong with people?

[Hermit]

What the eff is wrong with people?

Racism. Some people just take it further than you.

[Svartalf]

Well, I keep mine mostly private, and certainly would not dream to take unto myself the cleansing of the country.