CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) June 8, 2020
BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege." pic.twitter.com/WhubQ9yJIf
June 8, 2020
"What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into — who do I call?"
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Sounds like a Nazi discussing what Jews should do when the nice brown shirts start breaking their windows.
Ghostbusters?
Jonathan Turley wrote a new column calling this French Revolution II.
Ghostbusters?
This is going to be the end of the democrat party one way or the other.
It's "privilege" to expect government to perform its primary function- keeping it's citizens safe from harm. Defund Minneapolis then.
It's exactly how they want you.....defenseless. Buckle up buttercups! If you don't own a gun, what are you waiting for??
...that comes from a place of privilege.
The privilege of living in civilization. Good thing we don't have to worry about that anymore.
“...where calling the police may mean more harm is done.” Yes, she does have a point, police have made some awful mistakes charging into situations and have killed innocent people. I don’t agree with defunding the police, but some serious reforms have to happen and then building trust is going to be a huge undertaking.
I would like to know what if anything she said after this clip.
This is what you get when you value feelings over facts and emotions over reason.
We have reached a point where the Left says with a straight face, and in literally deadly earnest, that reading to your children and calling the police when your house is broken into, is racist.
The stupid is strong in this one!
So are they all ready for a spike in shootings and in homicides? If I can't call 911, I will have to also get my "personal police man" hat out too and let me tell you my Mr. "Personal Policeman" is a HARD ASS! He don't talk polite, he don't take no shit from someone that is in his house without my permission. His ONLY concern is protecting me and mine from "them" that should not be there. If there is NO 911, there are a whole lot of Mr. "Personal Policeman" folks around.
The roll of sheriff was invented to stop folks from killing criminals. If there ant no more sheriff, there will be a whole lot less criminals. Unfortunately there will also be a whole lot less folks that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Hey Democrats, YOU built this!
Why a loaded gun is in my bedside table. Also why Tucson lefties stay near the U.
I never dreamt that a significant portion of this country could go this batshit crazy.
Buckle up, buckeroos!
Antifa.
If you pledge allegiance to them, they will still smash your face in and gouge out your eyes. but it's for the common good.
What's the old anarchist saw, Private Property is Theft? The new slogan will be Private Property is Privilege.
That's not your beautiful house. That's not your beautiful wife.
It all belongs to the State. You are lucky to be alive.
That can be fixed, too.
Do you suppose that the people voting to remove the police actually live in the places where they are getting rid of the police?
I bet they don't.
CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"
Well, first off- you need to see who has broken in. If it's a POC, let them have whatever they want because, frankly, you're guilty for having it in the first place. Privilege, you know. If it's not a POC, then call a POC to come to your aid. Then give them whatever it is the intruder wanted, plus some other stuff too. Because (again), privilege.
Does this really need to be explained?
Equality: No one is safe.
Progressives always overreach. Always.
Today they're the cartoon coyote who's gone off the cliff but hasn't realized it yet.
Inga said...
“...where calling the police may mean more harm is done.” Yes, she does have a point, police have made some awful mistakes charging into situations and have killed innocent people. I don’t agree with defunding the police, but some serious reforms have to happen and then building trust is going to be a huge undertaking.
Democrats hired Chauvin.
Democrats trained Chauvin.
Democrats implemented the policies Chauvin followed.
Democrats swept Chauvin's misdeeds under the rug for years.
Democrats refused to charge Chauvin repeatedly.
People who voted for democrats killed George Floyd.
She is obviously a plant by S&W to sell more guns.
Is it just me, or have most twitter videos stopped playing in embedded links? This became a problem last Friday, and continues into today. If I want to see the video, I now have to go directly to the tweet itself.
"Who do I call?"
"Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors....and I know that that comes from a place of privilege."
I usually hate invocations of "privilege," not because there isn't such thing but because most discussions of it are so facile and trite, and because the person confessing to it is really trying to score points against those who would deny it.
Here, though, I think Bender has a point. A few weeks ago on a flight I was sitting one seat away from a lady (the middle seat was empty) and we got to talking. She looked younger, but had to be in her early 70s from some details she gave. Beautiful woman. Black, as it happens.
She said she lived alone, and she told the story of seeing her last party guests off, coming back into her house, and finding herself across her kitchen from a home invader. What did you do, I asked?
Not being privileged, she didn't wonder who to call. "I started backing away toward the bedroom," she said, "like I was scared, because I'd left my gun in there," she said serenely. "Then I came back out with it and said, I go down I'm takin' you with me."
This is why I despise the whole language of privilege. A privilege is something you shouldn't really have. In a fair society, you should be treated the same as everyone else--you should not have that privilege. But "privilege" is always applied to things that everyone should have (and, let's be honest, most people do have). The question is not, why can you call the police, but why can't this other person?
"Privilege" is ass backwards and is indicative of the whole ass backwards mindset of the left.
Blogger Inga said...“...where calling the police may mean more harm is done.” Yes, she does have a point, police have made some awful mistakes charging into situations and have killed innocent people."
Why stop with the police? Doctors have made fatal mistakes, too.
Defund Hospitals!
"that comes from a place of privilege"
Actually, leaving minority communities even more defenseless for the sake of promoting the white prog cause comes from a place of privilege.
Lie back and think of your privilege.
That was batshit crazy. It is hilarious watching the leftists trying to explain away the explicit words of their compatriots. I bet even Inga ends up buying a gun, if she doesn't already have one.
Aside from the ongoing abuse of word meanings, of which "privilege" is near the top of the list behind "progress" and "justice", I have to say she has a point. If many citizens are already afraid to call the police when they are the (potential) victim, we all have a problem.
Privilege so great that you can prate about privilege and believe, truly believe, that any change will ever impact your privileged existence.
"...and I know that that comes from a place of privilege."
No- it actually comes from a place of living in a civil society where private property is among the most important rights. Lose that and you have nothing. Of course, I would not expect her to understand that. Perhaps she'll understand that her neighbors are going to be stocking up on ammo to use with their multiple choice of weapons.
And now you know, those of you who have asked the oft asked question: why do Americans feel the need to have so many guns? Our second amendment was written knowing that governments fail, and being populated by humans, are prone to corruption, power grabs, and eventually, tyranny. A tyrannical government is not going to ask you nicely to walk into the cattle cars on the way to Dmitrovsky or Bergen-Belsen.
Americans are the only population in the world armed and ready for that reason. If you keep pushing us, Twitter will not be a good defense.
Which gun and ammo stocks should I buy? I thought they peaked under Obama but apparently I was wrong.
I am seriously glad that my kid didn’t get the job offer they were expecting in Minneapolis. The company there had funded some of their research for their PhD, and everyone expected a job offer as a result. But there was a reorganization of the company’s research group that spring, and the position disappeared. The result is that they are back somewhat safe, around family, in CO.
I do worry though. I have a number of friends from the area, most originating from my fraternity in college. We had a backcountry ski group from then (actually, it is still ongoing as we all enter our 70s - my partner just doesn’t want me doing that anymore). Bunch of MDs, including a flock of resident trauma guys from the county hospital ER. Most of the long term members of the group have retired, and might be able to move. But not the younger ones.
We had a lot of people from all over in college in CO. Many stayed after graduation, or moved back when they could. The Twin Cities was one of the few places that most from there returned to. I never understood it. Flat, colder than heck in the winter, huge mosquitos in the summer, etc. I spent three months there in the middle of the winter on a computer benchmark in the early 1980s, and was happy to never visit it again, except connecting through on Northwest Airlines.
Cmon. Karl Rove or Steve Bannon is behind ACAB Defund da Police, right? They’re not really doing this to themselves are they? DNC 2020 looks at DNC 1968 and says, “Hold my beer!”
Women in positions of authority. Maybe we should lean-in and reimagine that. The Thatchers are so few and far between.
Well at least we know Trump has has good ad people compiling all this bs, and unlike McCain he won't hold back and play Mr Nice.
Let 'er buck.
I'm curious why there's not a call to defund the city government including the city council? Clearly there was a set of people who had both the power and inclination to make changes prior to this, who have been given oversight roles in financial and organizational ways. They chose, yes chose, not to exercise this power. The police are advocates for themselves and that's precisely why civilian government is required to address concerns before they cause significant damage to the public.
Defund those whose very job is to police the police. If the police were not getting proper city supervision, then address the problems at the top before making sweeping changes.
It's a privilege indeed to be able to break and enter and loot without consequences.
Well, I rely on several guys....Mr Mossberg. Mr. Remington. And some gals. Mrs. Lady Smith and Lady Savage. No calling and waiting required
The problem that the libtards can't envision is that when you create a vacuum...as in no police force, there WILL be something else that will fill that vacuum. Something that you no longer have ANY control over.
One likely alternative to an organized police force might be an uncontrolled vigilante group.
Also...return to Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up
After listening to her explanation, I have full confidence in her ability to re-invent the wheel.
“ Why a loaded gun is in my bedside table. Also why Tucson lefties stay near the U.”
Funny thing is that I have a gun there in our house in PHX (and now an AR-15 behind the door), but not here in MT. And, of course, in all of our vehicles. But we do have here a nice wood (8) gun case in the living room that I am slowly filling up.
BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege."
Melvin Udall: Where do they teach you to talk like this? In some Panama City "Sailor wanna hump-hump" bar, or is it getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.
Inga doesnt dare go near the actual subject of this post which exposes the moronic lunacy of her Team Dem Babbling Maoist Misfits.
The good news?
We are just about 48 hours from Inga claiming this idiot lefty only said this because a hawaiian shirt wearing Breakin' 2-Electric Boogaloo made her say it.
Crack has it right:
REPARATIONS: What you can steal in Minneapolis before the city comes to its senses.
I, for one, eagerly await the results of this experiment. I think they will be instructive.
Give the people of Minneapolis what they want, good and hard.
Self defense is a privilege? I thought it was a natural right.
Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters.
They're not making much use of the comic possibilities of America in Crisis.
Cops look the other way when crimes are being committed in black neighborhoods. Can you blame them? I guess now they'll start looking the other way when crimes are committed in white neighborhoods. They will come late and be available to help file reports for insurance purposes. Another step towards racial healing....I think the larger question is why are not black people more outraged by crimes committed in black neighborhoods. There's a kind of resigned acceptance to drive by shootings like the way midwesterners accept tornadoes....It's possible to live a long life and never get mad enough to make an attempt to kill another person.
I am privileged not to live in Minneapolis.
Says Michelle Obama — "Graduates, 'Don’t ever, ever let anyone tell you that you’re too angry'" (WaPo).
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can these graduates call 911 from their place of privilege? or do they just get angry?
By now Democrats must know they are on the take-off ramp jumping the shark.
This is where Trump’s impulsive nature hurts him. His use of Twitter can be a great equalizer, offsetting at least some of the thinly-veiled bias against him and Republicans in general that almost all media display. This sadly became political the moment this turned to riots in the streets, looting, and inviting naked partisanship to memorials for Mr Floyd, Repeatedly asking Biden, through a Twitter, to accept or reject calls to defund and replace police departments until Biden gives a direct answer could be very effective. But not when he diminishes himself with attacks on Romney’s poll numbers.Democrats and the left are the ones who do not give detractors the benefit of assuming pure motives, Republicans shouldn’t stoop to that level.
If I could have the President’s ear, and have him do anything, I would advise him to say the following (knowing it will never happen): When I commented on Senator Romney’s participation in a peaceful, religious march in honor of George Floyd, I was unaware of his father’s commitment to the noble goals of Dr King, a vision of a colorblind society dedicated to the ideas that all are created equal. George Romney, like many Republicans, marched and fought for civil rights alongside Dr King and others, and did not do so just because many Democrats were standing in the way. He did it out of conviction. I should not have assumed impure motive on the part of Senator Romney, and for that I apologize. I welcome Senator Romney’s commitment to justice for George Floyd, something I first called for on May 27th.
Today, I renew my commitment to justice for George Floyd. But just as a small number of agitators and rioters do not represent the peaceful marchers standing up for victims of police actions, the actions of a small minority of police do not represent all law enforcement. The huge majority of police and law enforcement are good people, hero’s, who want nothing more that to protect and serve the communities they are sworn to protect. To paint them all with one brush based on the vile actions of a few, and call for their removal from cities, towns and communities would do a grave disservice to them, and to all people. So today I vow to support the good cops by opposing defunding police. I call on Joe Biden to do the same. To Joe Biden, will you support communities and good police across this land by opposing extreme positions like defunding police?
This is interesting. I believe George Floyd himself was convicted of a home invasion where he held a gun to a pregnant women's stomach while she was being robbed. I believe the victim was black. So in the future that's just a tough luck situation for her?
BTW its incredible how difficult it is to find this information online but Candace Owens brought it to my attention.
It's ideologically consistent, anyway. If progressives were being honest, they would be totalling up what they have and parcelling it back out according to whatever is the priority that day.
If you live in a Blue city, move.
They won’t abolish the police but they will do something, and it will mean not enforcing more and more laws. To paper over the problems they will pass new, stupider, laws. Laws aimed at and enforced against you. Break ins won’t be pursued, but complaining about it on Facebook will be prosecuted. This is already what is happening in Britain.
Virginia man who plowed his truck into Black Lives Matter crowd is the head of the state’s Ku Klux Klan
Another reason to not defund the police. This time it wasn't a boogaloo, it was a real live bonafide KKK.
CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"
BENDER: "As this very reasonable fear comes from a place of privilege, the thing to do would be to just lay back and enjoy it. After all, as a long time white person, you probably deserve it. What I have been suggesting is, there is a certain comfort people who may find themselves in that situation can take in the knowledge that many very good, very caring people are working all over the country, all over the world, to create a system in which your future can be imagined.
“I, for one, eagerly await the results of this experiment. I think they will be instructive.”
What's taking them so long? Action this day!
Different question for Mizz Bender . . .
"I wake up to the sound of glass breaking, and upon going downstairs, I stumble across a shadowy figure in my garage, stealing one of my welding machines. Startled, he turns around and pulls a knife, so I express mail 3 hollowpoints to his vitals. Who do I call to claim the body?"
Mogadishu, Mn. The new destination spot of the upper Mid-West.
ORIGIN
Middle English: via Old French from Latin privilegium ‘bill or law affecting an individual’, from privus ‘private’ + lex, leg- ‘law’.
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surprised neither professora nor commenters ventured into etymology
now suppose the call to 911 is after homeowner takes care of bidness - discuss
You can call your local beta-male trained in ANTIFA style self-defense tactics.
Bigger problem what about health emergencies. Cops are usually there before the ambulance and Fire Dept. If nobody on the scene is trained in first aid or CPR, it's the cop that starts.
'confront maniac in a firm tone of voice,' who thought demolition man was a documentary,
"If many citizens are already afraid to call the police when they are the (potential) victim, we all have a problem."
This is mostly an inner city problem, and mostly for one or both of 2 reasons. First, the citizen doesn't want to become a "Snitch" - this is hugely prevalent. Second, the citizen probably has pending cases or overdue tickets themselves, and doesn't want to put a spotlight on their own liabilities.
Re: the "snitch" scenario, there was a "former" gang leader who was out on parole in Chicago, and was walking down the street with his very young daughter when he was ambushed. The bullets missed him but killed his kid. He refused to cooperate with the cops because he didn't wanna be seen as "snitching", and also because he probably had plans to administer his own justice.
Taxes, Mr. Justice Holmes said, are what we pay for civilized society. If Minneapolis won't maintain a civilized society, then its citizens should just stop paying taxes.
Blogger Kevin said...
Equality: No one is safe.
Progressives always overreach. Always.
Same shit, different day.
LOL Oh my. So some people want to return to blood feuds and vigilante justice? Since we are only to care about feelings now: I feel that this has not been adequately felt through.
Bender is making the racist assumption that the homeowner is white and the intruder is not. Suppose it was the other way around? Whom does the black homeowner call, and does that come from privilege?
Actually, as I look around at the waste that used to be Minneapolis, I see that Joe Biden and Barack Obama's push for 'shovel ready' jobs has come true. They're going to lead a ship-full of shovels to clean through that city now.
Congrats to the Dems. Shovel-ready for 2020!
PHD in social justice.
I think we should eliminate the concept of private property. Everything would be better then.
The thing I fear is that, in conjunction with this move to get rid of the police, will be a push to arrest and criminalize anyone attempting to defend themselves... the leftwing DA has sole discretion to decide who to prosecute and who not to...
Paddy O said...
I'm curious why there's not a call to defund the city government including the city council?
Defund those whose very job is to police the police. If the police were not getting proper city supervision, then address the problems at the top before making sweeping changes.
6/8/20, 1:26 PM
We've got to protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen.
When the governor becomes aware of all the violence that has descended on Rock Ridge, he is appalled. But as we quickly find out, he's more worried about looking like a bad governor than he is about the safety of Rock Ridge.
I call my friend Kimber.
So what's the value of property in Minneapolis these days?
It's "privilege" to expect government to perform its primary function- keeping it's citizens safe from harm. Defund Minneapolis then.
I almost completely agree. There is still some value in having sanitation, but who am I kidding. If your personal items are stolen, house is set ablaze, then what are you going to do with indoor plumbing? Might as well disband the city charter.
It's like having to wear the Scarlet Letter, only instead of an A it's a P. What privileged, guilty sinners.
The left will not like how this turns out. And they'll have no one to blame but themselves.
Dust Bunny Queen said... One likely alternative to an organized police force might be an uncontrolled vigilante group.
In Blue cities, organized street gangs will greatly increase their power over minority neighborhoods. They already have significant political power in Chicago among minority aldermen.
This is a feature of Democrat urban politics. It is not an accident or an offshoot of a foolish policy.
The riots are theater that serves bigger political purposes.
When someone breaks in, call a social worker to oversee the redistribution of your ill gotten wealth.
"That comes from a place of privilege" = Home Invasion? Tough luck - you're on your own.
I've read somewhere that the London Police make no attempt to catch thieves, burglars, or any home invaders. You're on your own, and if you use to violence to protect your home or property you will be prosecuted. Unless the white thief was a racist, then its a super important "hate crime".
People who think "defunding the police" is a big vote loser don't understand how the USA has changed demographically or how far Left the Democrats are moving.
That sounds pretty darn racist to me. Isn't she assuming the person calling is white, and the perpetrator is black?
What if a black person calls about their home being broken into? Is that privilege, too?
She's blind to her own racist assumptions.
Chicago: coming to a neighborhood near you
Last Week’s Totals (5/31 – 6/6)
Shot & Killed: 29
Shot & Wounded: 138
Total Shot: 167
Total Homicides: 32
June has 17 of those 32 homicides last week.
And by the way, not a single shooting by the CPD.
In fact, not a single police shooting in April or May
Big Mike said...
Self defense is a privilege? I thought it was a natural right.
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calling 911 is not self-defense - it is not even be first line of defense.
The freedom to not be raped and robbed in your own home isn’t a right, but a privilege. Check your privilege, bitches.
Funny that "health care" is a right, but safety is a privilege.
Do these people even listen to themselves? Silly question, I know.
"Yes, she does have a point, police have made some awful mistakes charging into situations and have killed innocent people."
Inga. Faced with the scenario posed in the clip, I'll take my chances and dial 911 anyway. So would you.
So, the 911 operator will still answer the calls, but only to demand that you check your privilege? I expect that most Minnesota Nice whites will listen politely, while their place is being ransacked.
Justice for victims of Floyd et al. Did the police help her? I suppose warlock judgments, diversity, and riots would be excessive.
Years ago, I recall reading something to the effect that the crime rate usually declined when police went on strike. The reason given was that criminals generally knew that police would handle crime in a "restrained" fashion, whereas private citizens were not so inclined.
Maybe Minneapolis is doing the right thing!
The word and concept "privilege" has acquired a progressive taint. Another victim of semantic games.
Kyzer SoSay,,...."I wake up to the sound of glass breaking, and upon going downstairs, I stumble across a shadowy figure in my garage, stealing one of my welding machines. Startled, he turns around and pulls a knife, so I express mail 3 hollowpoints to his vitals. Who do I call to claim the body?"
Actually, I fore see a business opportunity in this "new normal" of no law enforcement.
Cleaning Services. A company comprised of cleaning specialist, who clean up the area, sanitize everything and leave no trace that there ever was a body. Professional "Cleaners".
When you close a door....an other opportunity :-D
Pious agnostic, the people of Minneapolis and other big blue cities have been enjoying what they want: decades of Democratic policies that they voted for, policies that support a strong police union that coddle bad cops, policies that institutionalize racism, policies that dumb down the black population making them dependent on the state, policies that tribalize America.
"Give the people of Minneapolis what they want, good and hard."
My bet is they'll welcome it. Or excuse it. Progressives have full blown Stockholm Syndrome. I recall a Swedish article from last year where a 'migrant' raped a woman's daughter and when asked why she didn't report it to the police, she said she was afraid that he would be deported back to injustice and suffering or some such shit.
My solution for Minneapolis is to drop a MOAB on the next protest or mayoral struggle session. Fuck these people.
Self defense is a privilege? I thought it was a natural right.
Human sacrifice (e.g. planned parenthood) is a natural rite... right. Self-defense is a White, Jew in another era, privilege.
The article is case you're wondering....
I am so flummoxed by this that I can only wait for more detail from the worthies in MPLS to attempt a cogent comment. I know there are problems with the MPLS police: training ; supervision: unions; and more that I would like to see enumerated before I try to judge whether an alternative will be better. I wonder if there are any adults to enter the room and get some control over what appears to be madness. Frey certainly can't and Walz has been conspicuously absent.
Fortunately I live a couple of hours drive from MPLS and will not be faced with a police-less society.
A few years back, I looked seriously into moving to Minneapolis. I bought newspapers, and looked at the weather, the real estate prices. Read Lileks' posts on his Bleat website. Listened to NPR and Garrison Keillor. Since I was a journalist, and they had two large newspapers, it looked very attractive.
It didn't work out for reasons I won't go into, and I stayed, got married, moved to Hershey, lost my newspaper job, and now I'm writing books.
Terry Pratchett had a metaphor for it: the Trousers of Time. Go down one leg, live your life, and wonder what happened if you go down the other leg. For a long time, I wondered what would have happened if I had moved north.
I'm so glad I don't have to wonder anymore.
She's definitely figured out how to get more Trump. And more Trump is just what she'll get.
calling 911 is not self-defense - it is not even be first line of defense.
@Narayanan, dialing 911 is a component of having a clash with a home invaders declared self defense instead of homicide. The laws where you are at may differ.
“People who think "defunding the police" is a big vote loser don't understand how the USA has changed demographically or how far Left the Democrats are moving.”
Oh please. 72% White and 6% Asian, and no small number of sane Blacks and Hispanics. All that would have to happen is for the cops of one major city to call in sick for one evening shift and the narrative will turn on a dime. I’ll happily bet that after all this posturing and signaling is done, not a single urban police department in America sees a cut in it’s budget. Likely the opposite. They’ll justify it as “training” or “sensitivity” or some such dogshit.
Another reason to not defund the police. This time it wasn't a boogaloo, it was a real live bonafide KKK.
If you thugs keep this up, the last thing you're going to be worried about is a single KKK nut driving a car.
Seriously. Just how long do you think we're just going to sit back and let this shit continue?
“Inga. Faced with the scenario posed in the clip, I'll take my chances and dial 911 anyway. So would you.”
Yes, I agree, but that is because we are white. How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?
My privilege isn't white, it's brass, most of it, some of it is green. My privilege as many aspects:
5.56x45
7.62x35
7.62x39
6.5x39
If you want to protest in my garage, you'll deal with my privilege sooner or later.
I love the look on Alyson Camerota's face. It's that look the moderate left gets when they bump really, really hard into the realization the modern hard left is barking batshit crazy.
Now, the moderate Right makes a whole industry out of pointing out that the hard left is barking batshit crazy, but the moderate left won't read or listen to any of it because, well, "consider the source". As if the source of a fact has any bearing on if it's a fact or not.
Considering police response times, even if they are not destroyed, the correct action is "two tot he chest and one to the head".
Bob said...Funny that "health care" is a right, but safety is a privilege.
Good point.
However, when it is convenient for the Left, the definitions change.
Cleaning Services. A company comprised of cleaning specialist, who clean up the area, sanitize everything and leave no trace that there ever was a body. Professional "Cleaners".
As seen in Pulp Fiction and John Wick.
Yancey Ward said...
Is it just me?
Same problem, but this one is the first that has worked for me in several days.
How many innocent white people are being killed by police?
Trick question. There are no innocent white people.
"but some serious reforms have to happen and then building trust is going to be a huge undertaking."
Welcome to the Libertarian party, Inga.
Inga: "Yes, I agree, but that is because we are white. How many innocent white people are being killed by police?"
I'll skip over the "innocent" part, since its only there to load up the narrative.
So we'll just move right to Justine Ruszczyk. Inga has never heard of Justine, nor does she care to.
In fact, like David Dorn and Dave Patrick Underwood, Justine doesn't have the right name so in Inga world its as if she never existed at all.
You just have to call your neighborhood's "warlord" or "ward healer" or "community organizer" (see tribal regions of Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Somalia/Ethiopia) who stepped into the vacuum left when the police disappeared. He will have his cadre of armed muscle to keep tight control of his territory. Of course, if you didn't pay your protection money this week, the warlord's muscle boys may be who are breaking in.
"Inga said...
“Inga. Faced with the scenario posed in the clip, I'll take my chances and dial 911 anyway. So would you.”
Yes, I agree, but that is because we are white. How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?"
More innocent whites are killed than innocent blacks. You're an idiot, get it?
Inga- Innocent white people do get killed by police.
Nobody cares.
Mogadishu on the Mississippi. I visited both my son and a niece in Minneapolis two years ago. I was appalled by cost of everything there as well as the lack of free parking spaces for our car. Hell, if my son was able to park within a block of his apartment, that was a good day for him. We had to pay an outrageous cost to park at our hotel’s parking ramp. If the police cease to exist, that will be a lot if revenue lost to the city with no one to enforce the parking at the digital parking meters that are everywhere (and they jack up the cost, digitally of course, on days with special events). But of course, with no police, free parking spots should be readily available. Then again, it will be because some people will deem the car as being owned by a person of privilege and decide that the car should be theirs and not the person of privilege...
PS - my son moved back home since then and my niece has moved to Seattle, trading one place being run by liberal idiots for another being run by liberal idiots.
Yes, I agree, but that is because we are white. How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?
More whites than blacks are killed by police. Blacks are killed by police at a higher *rate* than whites, but there's a reason for that, which is that blacks commit crimes at a much higher rate than whites.
Its all starting to fracture.
Your public officials are unable or unwilling to keep order, as the most important "activist" wing of their supporters are in a state of revolutionary hysteria, and are openly taking control of all the remaining "liberal" institutions.
This is a very interesting interview. A flunky of the old liberal system comes face to face with a genuine representative of the new order. Think about this in the context of whats happened at the NYT. They are all afraid now, or they should be.
Think of all the institutions that have pathetically kowtowed this last week.
They cannot un-kowtow, because if they tried they will be smashed by the other institutions that have submitted.
The activists have achieved something that is, on the face of it, improbable, given their small numbers, but that is historically correct. The moral is to the material as ten is to one, is an old way of putting it, or that the revolutionary vanguard is all that matters. That is the way of all revolutions, that they are made by minorities, sometimes tiny ones, against a hegemonic system that is too demoralized to resist.
In this case though they will run up against an opposite, ongoing revolt against those same institutions from a tribe entirely disassociated and alienated from those institutions. We will see the result presently. Its not the first time that two revolutions have run into each other.
Dansons la carmagnole
Vive le son, vive le son
Dansons la carmagnole,
Vive le son du canon !
Jim at: you people keep talking big about how tough you are macho macho storing stockpiles of ammo, semi automatic weapons tactical gear, etcetera etcetera. Revolution breaks out on the streets of every major US city, Trump calls out for you arm to the teeth deplorables to defend the White House and nothing happens, so he retreated to his #babybunker. You failed PDJT in his greatest hour of need.
The new song by Gil Scott-Heron is "The Revolution Will Not Include Trump Deplorable Cucks".
To the Moon, Alice.
"How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?"
Quite a few, but they get no press attention. I make it @25 unarmed white people killed by police in 2019-2020.
An interesting page, go search there and you can answer your own questions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/
An event matters if it is repeated on the media, mass or social, and it is pushed to public attention. It is the attention that matters, not the event. Otherwise its that tree in the forest, irrelevant.
"Suppose it was the other way around? Whom does the black homeowner call, and does that come from privilege?"
If I had a black neighbor that shot some methed-up white intruder, I'd buy him a beer. Not for shooting a white man, while being black. For defending himself and his family and household.
Inga
Whites killed by police in 2020: 172
Blacks. 88
How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?
More than black, you idiot. 19 white vs 9 black last year. That was "unarmed" although one of the blacks had a gun in his car.
@Narayanan, dialing 911 is a component of having a clash with a home invaders declared self defense instead of homicide. The laws where you are at may differ.
Depends on "Stand Your Grounds" laws. I would always do it while grabbing the gun.
So did she ever say who we could call?
Privilege is exactly the opposite of universal police response to crime. Privilege means private law, as in the rules under which nobility lived, versus the rules under which their serfs and peasants and kulaks and slaves lived. The idea that a police response to crimes in progress is a privilege is insane. It is the very purpose of the police to do so.
You may continue to play these word games with imbecilic authoritarians if you so desire.
I refuse to do so.
So. I used to love in a township in PA in which the fire department was underfunded, for some reason. They made up the gap by fundraising.
Or, as it was explained to us by neighbors, some of whom had kids who were volunteer firefighters, by a little extortion. "Donate in our annual fund drive! You do want us to show up when you have a fire, don't you?"
I've been burned before by things my neighbors have told me, but I can certainly see how this could play out.
Privilege is being able to talk about poor and minority people as a concept, and not as people who actually need the police to save their lives and property. All the interviewer had to say was: "OK then, who is a poor black person supposed to call?.
Is she suggesting that privilege means you need the cops and "no privilege" means you never do?
As I said, what has education done to their minds? They simply cannot think straight, even simple concepts. Something is blocking them. Are they all drunk?
I guess you had to be there. It seems like the people who voted for this idiot would be wondering how they could possibly have made such a mistake, and taking swift steps to correct it. I guess Minneapolis is weirder than I realized. Did they like what they just went through? Do any of them have children?
The left's goal is always to fund more of its activists at taxpayer expense. When crime goes up they'll raise taxes to fund more diversity and community relations positions in police stations.
Which reminds me of Michelle's job. Wasn't it 300k for community relations for a hospital group? We need to increase taxes so we can fund a few more useless but reliably left wing Ivy grads. Her track record in Chicago shows us she has the right ideas.
Yes, I agree, but that is because we are white. How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?
You do realize that more White people are killed by the police every year than Black people... right? I mean literally. When you adjust for both population percentage and violent crime committed percentage, it's White people who are killed disproportionately. But it's very easy not to know that if you're determined not to know that.
Yes, I agree, but that is because we are white. How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?
How about the fact that the exact same police department that sparked all of this outrage by killing Floyd is the same exact one that got into trouble by killing a White woman just three years ago? A woman who was not only innocent, she called the cops!
I'm starting to think you're a Moby deliberately tossing slowballs at the plate.
"How many innocent white people are being killed by police? That’s white privilege. Get it?"
More Whites are killed by cops, so that's some privilege. Roughly twice as many. So far in 2020 it's 172 Whites vs 88 Blacks.
Whites also have the privilege of being 10X as likely to be killed by a Black as the Black being killed by a White, so damned we are lucky. Then there is the privilege of being a cop who is more likely to be killed by a Black than for the cop to kill him. It's privilege all the way down. Lucky lucky privilege.
Now you may think to yourself, yea, Blacks would be scared to call the cops, and they likely are, and so am I. Now imagine being a cop going on one of those call to a neighborhood where cops are often shot, and when not, are often accused of brutality and racism, even when they do their job correctly. Man, privilege is wonderful.
White privilege is the bonus of being ignored if you get killed by the cops. Black cops even get that special privilege of being ignored when you are killed trying to save someone's life.
And in the fevered imagination of an elected SJW:
9-1-1 Operator: 9-1-1, how may I help you.
Potential victim: Someone is breaking into my house. Please send someone.
9-1-1 Operator: Ma'am,can you identify your ethnicity? I can not tell from your speech patterns.
Potential victim: What? Someone is breaking in! Send help!
9-1-1 Operator: We need to know your ethnicity before we decide when to send the police, how many police to dispatch and whether to send the police.
Inga, I've been coming here since 2008, and I think you have too.
In all those years, I don't think you have ever gotten anything right. Russian collusion.
The amazing thing is that you never stop trying. That's spunk!
You're living in the past, JAORE. It's 2020.
911 operator: What's your emergency?
You: Someone is breaking into my house.
911 operator: I see you're at 1821 Happy Valley Dr. Is that right?
You: Yes. Please hurry!
911 operator: Karen Smith?
You: Yes! How'd you know?
911 operator: White. Liberal. I see you voted for Hillary.
You: Well, uh, hey! How'd you...?
911 operator: Please hold.
In all those years, I don't think you have ever gotten anything right. Russian collusion.The amazing thing is that you never stop trying. That's spunk!
I hate spunk
“Whites killed by police in 2020: 172
Blacks. 88”
Percentage of white people in America: 76.5
Percentage of black people in America: 13.4
"...the correct action is "two tot he chest and one to the head".
Well, I used to think so. But Biden has convinced me that it is two shotgun blasts to the sky then one round to the leg of a guy holding a knife.
But the cops should be trained to shoot the knife or gun straight out of the bad guy's hand.
I've seen it done in LOTS of movies.
“In all those years, I don't think you have ever gotten anything right.”
I said Obama would win, I said Democrats would take the House 2018, I’ve gotten more right than you have brain cells, including everything I’ve said about Trump. Also, I don’t depend on anonymous internet commenters to tell me what I’m right or wrong on, I’m not always right, but I’m right far far far more times than Trumpists have been.
Lol, Inga. You do understand that blacks commit crimes at higher rates, don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
I almost scored a black-out on my buzzword bingo.
Who knew that buzzword bingo was a drinking game!!
Police Officers should bet there to serve and protect all the population equitably. They shouldn’t have a different reaction to black people than they have during an interaction with white people.
Here’s one example
Inga, you can spin the numbers, but you asked how many, and I told you. Twice as many Whites are killed by the cops. Do those extra lives not matter? Why do you think think Blacks get shot more on a percentage basis? They also get shot more in percentage by Black cops. Are the Black cops racist too?
"I said Obama would win, I said Democrats would take the House 2018,"
Wow! You really swam against the tide there. You agreed with every poll, and historic trend. Excellent work. Now, who do you think is buried in Grant's Tomb? No Googling.
Inga: "Also, I don’t depend on anonymous internet commenters to tell me what I’m right or wrong on, I’m not always right, but I’m right far far far more times than Trumpists have been."
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Its as if the last 4 years never happened at all.
Howard: "Trump calls out for you arm to the teeth deplorables to defend the White House and nothing happens, so he retreated to his #babybunker. You failed PDJT in his greatest hour of need."
Howards lies are becoming even more laughable, which I did not think possible.
But here we are.
"This is what you get when you value feelings over facts and emotions over reason."
The clinical name for this form of derangement is "Inga-Howard Syndrome."
Regarding the Minneapolis Police...
Video Shows Cops Slashing Tires Across Minneapolis During Protests
""Every car that's parked here has their tires slashed," notes content producer Andrew Kimmel in a video he posted on Twitter. "Every single car. Unbelievable. I can't get home now." Another vandalized car reportedly belonged to a local reporter covering the protests.
Bruce Gordon, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, conceded that police were responsible, according to The Star Tribune."
https://reason.com/2020/06/08/video-shows-cops-slashing-tires-across-minneapolis-during-george-floyd-protests/#comments
The basic question that should be asked of all leftist whites is, "If it would improve the lives of all Black Americans, would you tell Black Americans to act more like white people do"?
You could always “Lie back and think of all those beautiful lakes”
“Whites killed by police in 2020: 172 <= [Does not include Hispanics]
Blacks. 88”
Percentage of white people in America: 76.5 <= [Includes Hispanics]
Percentage of black people in America: 13.4
Inga said... <= [Not real bright]
"I’ve gotten more right than you have brain cells, including everything I’ve said about Trump."
Including how Trump is a Russian agent?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police escorted masked members of a white nationalist group on a march through Washington's National Mall on Saturday that Metropolitan Police said occurred without incident or arrests.
More than 100 members of the Patriot Front, dressed in khaki pants and caps, blue jackets and white face masks, shouted "Reclaim America!" and "Life, liberty, victory!" video of the march showed.
Well, well, well, white nationalist protestors get a police escort for safety, while black and white BLM protestors get shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, beat with batons, pepper sprayed and shoved to the ground and more. Having said that, it was probably a good idea to escort these white nationalist yahoos, despite that their decision to appear was to antagonize and incite.
Yes, it happened in February, I know.
https://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/gwqj95/replace_george_floyd_with_a_white_guy_and_nobody/
2016 Houston
And, Inga, they did not deface or burn a single building. What's wrong with those people?
As far as getting things right or or wrong Inga spent three years telling us " the walls were closing in on Trump"; that Mueller would be the end of Trump etc. and of course her really big screw up ws predicting that Hillary would win. But she's right on the big stuff, she says.
Uh, Inga, if police did not escort armed protesters, you'd be bitching about Trumpists with guns being able to roam free through the streets.
And they didn't deface property, because unlike your criminal buddies, they are civilized people.
You are such a hypocrite.
First. With the thugs rioting and looting, its a good time to remember that businesses did not build that. It's baked into the cake, so, shut up. Same for brothers of sames, rioting thugs wander in through your now glass less, patio doors. You. did. not. build. that.
Get over yourself.
No one has mentioned the comparison of Huston Texas vs Chicago Illinois. Similar population and racial make up, drastically different racial outcomes.
Well, well, well, white nationalist protestors get a police escort for safety, while black and white BLM protestors get shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, beat with batons, pepper sprayed and shoved to the ground and more.<
Inga is really, really upset that normal people were not pepper sprayed.
Did you detect any difference in behavior ?
so just to make sure, i've got this straight
according to the Minneapolis city council...
No Black, has EVER called 911 ?
really?
Rory said...
The basic question that should be asked of all leftist whites is, "If it would improve the lives of all Black Americans, would you tell Black Americans to act more like white people do"?
I stopped by to take a photo of my parents' home a few years ago. The black guy who owns it now came out to see who I was and then insisted on giving me a tour. He asked if I would send him photos of it when we lived there. I felt so sorry for him. He was trying to live a "white life" in a violent neighborhood that is so bad blacks are moving away. Inga, in her 99% white Wisconsin, has no idea.
Inga read this recent study on deaths during arrests by race. The statistics on deaths during arrests by black Officers is particularly enlightening. https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2019/the-truth-behind-racial-disparities-in-fatal-police-shootings/
Whites killed by police in 2020: 172
Blacks. 88”
Percentage of white people in America: 76.5
Percentage of black people in America: 13.4
Now account for the fact that Black males commit over 50% of all violent crime.
Or, as it was explained to us by neighbors, some of whom had kids who were volunteer firefighters, by a little extortion. "Donate in our annual fund drive! You do want us to show up when you have a fire, don't you?"
In the early days, there were no public fire departments. There were private fire departments paid by insurance companies. If a building next to one of theirs caught on fire, they'd show up to protect the house that was insured, but watch the uninsured house burn.
"He was trying to live a "white life" in a violent neighborhood"
Just pay the reparations and shut-up, you guys.
You all sound like racist idiots.
Why do liberal white folks have such loathing toward themselves? The ability to call the cops is, I guess, in the strictest sense, a "privilege." It's the "privilege" that belongs to anyone who wants safety when the bad guys come around.
What schmucks these liberals be.
Howard said...
The new song by Gil Scott-Heron is "The Revolution Will Not Include Trump Deplorable Cucks".
Dude, that is some serious hooch you've been swilling. At least Thunderbird level. Put the cap back on the bottle.
Leave it there.
Yancey Ward said...
Is it just me, or have most twitter videos stopped playing in embedded links? This became a problem last Friday, and continues into today. If I want to see the video, I now have to go directly to the tweet itself.
Chrome is making me give permission for Flash for every Twitter video not on Twitter itself. You have to click the tiny padlock icon to the left of the url, go to site settings and click 'allow' next to to Flash, then refresh the page you wanted to see the video on. Alternatively, you could just allow Flash for everything and forget about it, but it's probably not the most secure thing to do.
"Inga is really, really upset that normal people were not pepper sprayed."
Only white people are normal, Mike?
This is a step past your usual racism.
If large Dem controlled cities actually do defund the cops, then people with money will band together and hire private security to patrol their nice neighborhoods. Like the HOA for entire blocks.
Ooopsie! Who does that leave with no protection from the bad guys? and no way to afford protection?
Aaaaaand THATS how you lose an election.
Just pay the reparations and shut-up, you guys.
Why Crack? When the money runs out six months later you'll be back in the streets yelling that money cannot buy your pride, money cannot repair history etc etc.
The obvious reply from the reporter should have been, "Why are you assuming that the victim of the home invasion is white? Black people call 911 too--what do you tell that black citizen when they hear someone breaking into their house in the middle of the night? Are you telling HER to check her privilege?"
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