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Home Front: Politix

Dems pushing police farce that GOP's behind defunding

2021-07-03

[NYPOST] This week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki

...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
unsheathed one of the most transparently ridiculous political talking points in memory, arguing that Republicans were the ones defunding the police because they failed to support the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion boondoggle COVID "rescue" package earlier this year. For starters, voting against a supplementary federal spending package isn’t the same as proactively cutting law enforcement funding or redirecting existing money — which is what progressives who support "defund the police" movement advocate.

Indeed, not a single dollar of the American Rescue Plan was ever reserved for law enforcement spending. State and local officials could, if they chose, allocate some of the relief funding towards law enforcement, but they there was no mandate to do so.

If Congress had written a bill that solely focused on increasing law-enforcement manpower — let’s call it the "Fund the Police Act" — very few, if any, Democrats would have voted for it.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Fukk off, you mendacious disgusting assholes

"Defund the police" was YOUR lunatic formula.

You own it. Man up and admit your stupidity... for once

Posted by: Greng Wittlesbach7533 2021-07-03 21:22

#5 The Ministry of Truth has dropped the old narrative down the Memory Hole. It never happened. Forget all those videos and news articles that you read stating otherwise. Put them out of your mind. This is the narrative now and you will accept it if you know what's good for you.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-07-03 15:28

#4 When Barack Obama observed “defund the police” tends to hurt Democrats, Rep. Ilhan Omar pushed back, asserting that it was “not a slogan but a policy demand.”

A policy demand is even more negative than mere hypocritical sloganizing. But Representative Omar is one of those with more hair than brains.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-07-03 15:05

#3
Given the nano-second attention span of this new generation that is limited to what is on their smart phone/table/CRT screen as they decide.

The Socialist Democrats may end selling the idea.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-07-03 10:36

#2 Thereisn’t a poll in existence that shows even significant support for the Defund the Police movement among conservatives. A national poll by USA Today/Ipsos from earlier this year found that 34 percent of Democrats supported the effort — even though many believed it was a straight cut in funding. Sixty-seven percent of Democrats support redistributing portions of police budgets towards social programs, compared with only 16 percent of Republicans.

On the other hand, plenty of local and national progressives have openly called for defunding the cops. When Barack Obama observed “defund the police” tends to hurt Democrats, Rep. Ilhan Omar pushed back, asserting that it was “not a slogan but a policy demand.” Democrats like Cori Bush, Kamala Harris, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and, yes, Joe Biden — who, when asked, “Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?” answered, “Yes, absolutely” — all backed defund police efforts to some extent.

Posted by: Frank G 2021-07-03 06:48

#1 And majority of Americans believe them.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-03 04:42

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