US Politics Mega-thread - Page 1536

On December 21 2014 12:10 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I can't help but think on when/if the Police will retaliate flaming unrest even further.

On December 21 2014 09:10 Sub40APM wrote:

So which do these advisory positions fit into your rubric, regulator or administrator?

So she was not a regulator or an administrator?

You mean...shes acting like a politician...who also happens to be an expert on the issue of wealth inequality...and shes speaking to that....because individual senators strongest card is their committee positions...which is obviously bad in your book because she is doing that instead of...being a successful regulator or administrator
literally 2 minutes of google suggests the last time she taught a course was at least in 2010, so your ability to guess seems to be as questionable as your description of her as a 'failed administrator or regulator'.

If you are going to rage on Warren at least go with the xDaunt method: name the one thing she clearly did wrong and then use that as a broad brush to tar her with because you werent paying enough attention to her other stuff but since she'd lie about that thing in a dumb way obviously she lies about other things to.
By naming specific things you are mad at her for and then have people point out to you that half the things you are mad at her for are just artifacts of your imagination makes you look less credible.
And I say this as someone who had JJ White as his bankruptcy professor and heard enough reasoned anti-Warren positions interlaced with old man rage to differentiate between the two.

On December 21 2014 12:24 Saryph wrote:


Well there was this:

https://twitter.com/sbanypd/status/546472549589467136

And supposedly at the press conference he showed up to, the officers all turned their back on the mayor.

and this:

https://twitter.com/AOL/status/546464845294346241

I hope the second one is false, or someone posting in anger, and not an official statement.

On December 21 2014 12:31 IgnE wrote:


Police officers aren't very bright. Based on their responses to various activities (demanding apologies from sports players wearing i cant breathe shirts comes to mind) it would be more surprising if they handled the news with equanimity.

On December 21 2014 12:34 419 wrote:


"look at my smug superiority, it means I am smart!!"

I can understand the reaction - if I was being targeted for random execution based on sharing an occupation with people that may / may not have done something wrong, I might be a bit on edge too.

On December 21 2014 12:49 farvacola wrote:
You're a beacon of a particular kind of posting, that's for sure.

The NYCPBA has needed a restructuring for a long time, in very much the same way the Chicago Public Schools teacher's union does. To pin this on the rhetoric of de Blasio is laughably stupid.

"If you question the cops you want them all dead"

On December 21 2014 13:02 farvacola wrote:
Pat Lynch won't be the face of the organization for long if the leadership has any fucking clue what is going on.

So the Police Union is blaming protesters for the murder. Yeah they won't win any sympathy and in fact makes it look like they are trying to score political points of the death of two of their officers.

On December 21 2014 13:26 DeepElemBlues wrote:


I bet you Pat Lynch will be the face of the organization for quite some time. The leadership of the police unions is 100% behind this open hostility towards the mayor.



They already have all the sympathy they need. You wouldn't have a former Governor and a former police commissioner and prominent alumni of the NYPD sticking their necks out trashing the Mayor and others if they thought the Al Sharpton brigade were in a position to chop them off.

There's been a massive mistake in the estimation of the balance of power here (here being NYC, the media, even this very thread), a mistake which the NYPD is on the verge of demonstrating to the Mayor, the City Council, and the legions of people who apparently think that they hold the whip hand and can say and do nearly whatever they want against the police. The pendulum has swung very far one way, and it is about to swing back unless certain people (aka DeBlasio, Mark-Viverito, etc.) start wising up real fast.

On December 21 2014 09:10 Sub40APM wrote:

So which do these advisory positions fit into your rubric, regulator or administrator?

So she was not a regulator or an administrator?

You mean...shes acting like a politician...who also happens to be an expert on the issue of wealth inequality...and shes speaking to that....because individual senators strongest card is their committee positions...which is obviously bad in your book because she is doing that instead of...being a successful regulator or administrator
literally 2 minutes of google suggests the last time she taught a course was at least in 2010, so your ability to guess seems to be as questionable as your description of her as a 'failed administrator or regulator'.

If you are going to rage on Warren at least go with the xDaunt method: name the one thing she clearly did wrong and then use that as a broad brush to tar her with because you werent paying enough attention to her other stuff but since she'd lie about that thing in a dumb way obviously she lies about other things to.
By naming specific things you are mad at her for and then have people point out to you that half the things you are mad at her for are just artifacts of your imagination makes you look less credible.
And I say this as someone who had JJ White as his bankruptcy professor and heard enough reasoned anti-Warren positions interlaced with old man rage to differentiate between the two.