Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Fox News" channel.

  1. Other functions of taxation: It can help to prevent a "New Aristocray" (see recent article of The Atlantic. They say the U.S. already has it, it is the 9,99 %, not the 1 % that got the main share of the pie - and that has societal consequences).Taxing the ultra rich also restricts some of the political and societal power connected to huge fortunes. It improves the situation of regular people making them less vulnerable, it gives them peace of mind. Let's say you lose your job. In social housing with modest rent (or able to finance your own real estate with long term low interest loans), public non-profit healthcare, good public education. You might need to live modestly if you lose your job or the hours are cut BUT the essentials are covered. Which changes the dynamic between workforce, employers, landlords and renters. The future prospects of the citizens. Their independence from outside forces. (Before or shortly after WW2 workers were encouraged to get their own homes. people that pay back loans do not go on strike, .... Meaning people who have their home and the basics covered enjoy a lot of economic freedom. That may include starting a biz, an education, cutting hours because you want to spend more time with your little children, bid farewell to your impossible boss or the groping co-workers, take a sabbatical, to the world tour, ....).
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  2. Give to Cesar what is Cesar's and to God what is God's. That grifter did NOT want to switch to SAFE ONLINE services to spread the gospel and offer support to the congregation (likely it would result in less money donated). Paulus would not have endangered the congregation. Or risked to potentially harm people that do not belong to the congregation. One major breakout was in a church in South Korea last year, if people SING indoors they will spread the virus more (in case they are spreaders) because they exhale more. There was a choire practice in Seattle. Unfortunately a LOT of the 60 members go infected and a few died. Singing, a smaller room, they stayed there for a while, and the choire members were older on average. The church goers in SK did not deserve that, and it spread of course to outsiders as well, that is how authorities found out about the irresponsible actions of church "leaders". And the rule of Paul and Peter was to not give the authorities or the non faithful reason to speak badly about the faithful if that could be avoided. To not be oppositional and stubborn. There are ways to offer services while conforming to the rules of government (which in this case are even reasonable, at least the intention is benign). Spring is coming, people can meet outside, vaccines are rolled out. it is getting better. Maybe he saw the last chance to make a spectacle of himself and fundraise, before the chance to get "martyr status" oppose the public health rules "just because" was gone. The first Christians were supposed to give a good example.  I am not using the words grifter lightly ! - I assume he will fundraise off his "martyr status" now.
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  3. He was endangering the congregation AND society at large. Good they got to him, that will discourage the others that think they are so special that the rules to do not apply. 2 weeks in a Canadian prison are not that bad. - btw: you will not have Catholic priests undermining public safety that way. (Not a fan either, but their priests do not make their living off donations so they would not even think of going against public safety measures).
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  4. I guess fundraising works much better if people attend in person, that is why he did NOT switch to online services. Plus: if he has elderly members that are not tech savvy pastor and wife would have needed to resort to labor intense methods (calling the faithful on the phone, writing letters, email, personal visits, but keeping a distance and meeting outside. Admitted in Canada it is still cold ....)
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  5. The people in that nice urban area likely all have ACCESS to the kind of ID required. Old people often do not use the internet - and it should not be a requirement. People in the South who were born at home and do not have a proper birth certificate have a problem (and in most cases that are People of color). - another thing is that they close down the offices or cut the hours where one can get the ID - especially in poor and rural areas - which make it hard for people that have no control over their work time, do not have a car, etc. no problem even if you work long hours - if you have a good job, you can make arrangements to suit your needs, hop into your car and get it done. Might be some hassle but it is possible. Good luck when you depend on a bus schedule, have little control over your work time or need a baby sitter and it turns out that several trips are necessary because of bureaucraZy. I read the comment of a woman warning other woman to take the name of her husband. - She is now divorced, single parent and described the hassle.
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  6. Separating children from their parents was a feature, not a bug. a) looking tough, message to voters, midterms are coming b) we do it differently than Obama (and Bush), that is a virtue in itself c) we hope it will scare potential other people (with children) coming - Jeff Session said that as defense on TV (he is now backpaddeling) d) blackmail the Dems into voting for the border wall (I read that, not sure if it is true) - it sounds true to character
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  7.  @roswellsatterwhite3906  Sanders was more to the left in the 1970s, and he knew they would find the footage. The Republicans will call any political opponent to the left of Attila the Hun a socialist (they do not understand the term) - so he did some political jiu jitsu in 2015. Sanders embraces the word and defines it on his terms. Democrats are supposed to hastily defend themselves and fold with a whimper when being labelled with the scary S word. in terms of political science: Sanders is a New Deal politician or a Social Democrat 60s and 70s style (in Europe before they sold out, they did good back in the day, they set up and consolidated the non-profit healthcare systems and a strong welfare system. Lots of public housing as well. It still benefits citizens despite the neoliberal assault). But neither Corporate media (millionaires doing propaganda for bilionaire owners) nor his political enemies (incl. many of the Democratic establishment) or the voters are into the details and correct use of terms according to political science. Sanders CAN beat Trump, I still hope he can eliminate Joe who is clearly in cognitive decline, never mind the baggage. The harder thing will be to beat the Democratic establishment. He needs a few good lines regarding scary socialism, it will come up in the next debate with Biden and certainly in the general. And some good lines for immigration. (Trump will claim that Sanders will invite the cartels to come to the U.S. to get free healthcare, something like that - so Sanders better have a catchy and assertive response to shut Trump up). Else he will mop the floor with Trump, if they prepare him well for the debates. He - unlike Biden or Trump - CAN still learn new things (concise ways to hit back at b.s arguments, and Trump will try to take it even farther than the lamestream media). Biden cannot attack Trump on trade (NAFTA 2.0 is window dressing it includes even TPP sequences). Or corruption or war (Iran, attempted regime change in Venezuela on behalf of the Koch Brothers). But Sanders can forcefully go against Trump, on MANY issues. Like his neglect to even bring drug prices down. Biden has no leg to stand on: the Obama admin did nothing, they did not even try. (Sanders cannot mention that in the primary debates, he needs the support of Obama and the voters who still love Obama - which is undeserved, but that's the way it is. As mayor from 1981 - 1988 he was pragmatic and worked with the Republican aldermen and the local businesses. he had ousted a long term mayor that was a big name in the Vermont party machine. The local Dems (especially the aldermen, most were buddies of the ousted mayor) did not like the Independent new mayor. To put it mildly. I think he can gloss over the Cuba and Soviet visit nonsense. The people complaining about it would not vote D anyway. A few dismissive words and back to The Issues. And the affluent D voter will have to make up their midn if they really want Trump gone.
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  8. + George - jo phoenix is right - i recommend Larry Wilkerson for some perspective (he confirms a lot of the points of jo phoenix)
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  9. I recoomend Lawrence Wilkerson for some perspective - or Michael Scheuer. ---- and: Remember when the Republicans WROTE A LETTER to the government of Iran directly undermining Obama the sitting president and his then active secretary of state Kerry (Kerry now at least works behind the scenes and does not put things in writing. PLUS HIS EFFORTS ARE REASONABLE while the Republicans were just throwing a tantrum)
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  10. + helve - while you are at it - you can go back where your ancestors came from as well
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  11. The U.S. (a rich nation that had its boom and major development after WW2 !) also increased emissions in the last years. I mean the relevant emission of CO2 !! - whatever pollution the Chinese emit in their country damages the Chinese population and not the global population.
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  12. The silence of the Dems is DEAFENING - they do voter roll purges TOO (they prefer them for primaries, the Repubican more for the General election). The Big Donors finance BOTH parties - the job of the Dems is not necessarily to win * - their role is to keep the progressives and the populists, and the people who do not take Big Donation away from power, else the profits of the Big donors could take a hit. The economic interests of the common people do not align with the interests of the multinationals, the banksters, the monopolists, and the war mongers. For cheating the progressives out of winning voter purges in the primaries can be very useful. Sometimes it is only about a few percent - and everything helps. The Dems might like to win, but keeping the money flow intact is more important, the donors will take care of them if they lost their seat - if they were obedient (and had a chance to connect well with the party machine).
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  13. See the 11th commandment: if it aint broke don't fix it. - Handling MOST (the non-criminal !) of the migrants via detention centers where they waited for the decisions (WITH children if they had them) worked reasonably well. ADVANTAGE: less stress (migrants, minors, and staff too), less costs because the parents watched the children, and if they were deported no hunt for the TRAUMATIZED children was necessary. But a policy that is reasonable, as humane and cost efficient as possible and does not produce red tape while casually traumatizing little children and stressing out their parents without any PRACTICAL necessity...... Such a policy does not support political grandstanding. It must not really function. It must look / sound impressive. Zero Tolerance ! may sound great to the Trump supporter unaware of the details, but it did not change the outcomes compared to the way it was done under Bush and Obama Like time of processing, people were either deported or not, it did not matter WHERE they were held until the decision - in detention centers or jail). But mandatory jail for the adults (new policy since April 2018) meant that the children had to be separated (after 20 days, Supreme Court decision, the Trump admin took them right away - of course else they would have needed to adapt the jail for children for a relatively short time, likely not enough to handle the case).
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  14. Free Speech: The public shaming of POLITICIANS also happened during townhalls in spring 2017 when the Republicans were hellbent on a) removing ACA = Obmamacare (not a bad idea in itself) and b) had no intention to replace it with anything, let alone something better But at least last year the Republicans (and also some Democrats) could brace themselves for impact, ask the think thanks for soundbites and weasel out early and through the backdoor with police escort.
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  15. the stupidtiy, selfishness and shortsightedness of the right wingers is terrifying. They will have to be ignored and the adults in the room will have to implement what is necessary - against the resistance of willfully ignorant, science and rationality defying, selfish, short-sighted, ideologically blind sided fools. - and those who acknowledge the reality of man made climate change but do nothing about it are even worse (see Nancy Pelosi and the other donation chasing lot).
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  16. On the flip side they cannot attack ther on the REAL policy positions and her REAL political school of thought (Money out of politcis, Eurpean stayle healthcare, ...)
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  17. There is a reason abortion is allowed in ALL developed nations (especially in the early stages 3 - 4 months). It considers the fact that abortions have always happened - even when they were harshly punished. - Wealthy women could have safe abortions and they did not risk to be criminally prosecuted. Wealthy men with power profited from the fact that their mistresses could have abortions. So the doctors performing them were safe, and so were the women who had the money to pay. Only low(er) incom women, or without the network or in rural areas were forced to carry to term those unwanted pregnancies and have the children (often additional children) that they could not afford. Making abortions legal means that now also low(er) income women can have SAFE abortions.
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  18. They saved the banks and big auto and let the homeowners and regular people go under. Obama and Biden both served big finance and big biz. Not to forget healthcare insurance companies and big pharma. - The government could have taken partial ownership of GM (no other car manufacturer would have bought in at that time). and then set up a worker participation (co-op style). Not like shares, but the workers have a say as long as they are employed. (once a year an assembly or if necessary). GM couldn't have outsourced last year. The capitalists could not weather 1 or 2 bad years and had to be saved - but only to return to where they were before (unable or unwilling to weather bad times). That will be repeated in the next downturn. Have you ever heard of subprime CAR loans ? They can only selll cars with loans, and to weak borrowers.
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  19. Fear not - people are just pissed off how conveniently "poor" Sarah lies for an admin and is totally cool with the unnecessary harm !! inflicted upon children and their parents. - No one goes after the Jews.
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  20. ICE was founded after 9/11. (with the Patriot Act another overnment overreach ) somehow the nation could exist for 200 years and take care of the borders. - the agency shows signs of being out of control, an entity on their own. And they work for statistics. Maximum number of deported. Which means they target the easy to find people (families, children tie a person down, they are not as mobile). Catching fathers that drive the children to school is easier than going after the thugs. In education there is a thing like "teaching to the test". ICE does "deporting for show". And they target law abiding families first, although these are the people that contribute, and leave the criminals - which are elusive, have money, some may be dangerous - alone.
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  21. W/o the pandemic Biden would not have held up under the stress of an ongoing rigorous primary campaign (not hiding among the crowd). That was unfortunate, because it wold have become obvious for the public how feeble he is. He did O.K. in the last debate with Sanders. But then he vanished in the basement for 1 week, likely he had to come down from whatecer they gave him. Usually it is not possible to give that kind of medication all the time, so that would have become apparent soon.
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  22. so ... Fox News beating the war drums .... you can enlist while you are at it. If the U.S. foolishly goes to war with Iran on behalf of Israel - this will be WORSE than the Iraq war.
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  23. No after the flavor of the month candidates and the billionaire it turns out the best chance to win is with Sanders. The claim "We must beat Trump" is just to frighten the voters into submission. They have no one to coalesce around, not even Bloomberg with his half billion USD could buy enough support. Now it turns out their White Knight has dementia - but they will push him anyway. The Democratic party elites are CRAVEN. and that includes Obama. Hasn't he cashed in enough from his presidency ? Or he is afraid that the old man will make him look bad when he pushes and gets achieved what he should have fought for in 2008 ? I'm still hoping for Bernie 2020.
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  24. Taxation is about the economy In case of the U.S.the SYSTEM has 325 million people. It is NOT about the chosen actions of ONE individual. The government creates norms, laws and trade deals and sets rules for procedures (for instance for customs). It is not like eveyone can do or gets to chose their individual thing. That's the prize for living in a high civilization. * * If you do not want that, go live in the remote forests at stone age standard - which would be needed if you are intellectually honest about your stance and if you want to avoid the "system"). And good luck for you and three of your neighbours having your own curreny and doing trade with China.
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  25. Remember when the Republicans WROTE A LETTER to the government of Iran directly undermining Obama the sitting president and his then active secretary of state Kerry (Kerry now at least works behind the scenes and does not put things in writing. PLUS HIS EFFORTS ARE REASONABLE while the Republicans were just throwing a tantrum)
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  26. 4:00 that's a giant strawman. No one excuses the stealing of luxury products. - I do not know if people were CAUGHT in taking "food" or water - the excuses are discussed in these cases.
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  27. I recommend Larry Wilkerson Chief of Staff to Colin Powell regarding the Iran deal - he appears onThe Real News - or search on youtube. He does a lot of speeches.
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  28. It sounds almost like the people dislike her w/o having any substantiated arguments. Did the think tanks give out the lines ? - or do they troll the comment sections. ? (Good: they are triggered - and rightly so) Or are the commenters genuinely so clueless about politics. the host and the interviewed are clueless or lying. Terms have meaning, a conservative is not the same as a libertarian or a social democrat or a communist. These words have a meaning. No need to agree with any school of thought or any POLICIES of hers - but why label her as something that she never said she is nor do her statemensts support that.
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  29. i have a beef with Kerry on Syria - but GOOD that he met with leaders of Iran - and with European leaders, too. - How about the treason to put the interests of Israel and Saudi Arabia (where Trump now has business interests) over U.S. interests ? and as always KSA buys weapons - lots of them - to buy the goodwill of politicians w/o integrity. Michael Scheuer warned years ago that Israel tries to drive the U.S. into a war in the Middle East (and I think at least beginning 2017 he was positive about Trump - well THAT may have changed). Scheuer: . "The interests of the U.S. have to come alway, always first". The U.S. wants to pull out of the Iran deal - fine. China, Russia, Japan, and Europe will be pleased to have the market for themselves. Will teach everybody (incl. the Europeans !) a lesson that the U.S. is NOT a reliable partner. if the U.S. tries to sanction European companies doing biz in the U.S. - watch U.S. comanpies being sanctioned in Europe as well. Two can play that game (same when the U.S. tried to place harsher sanctions on Russia in August 2017 - which they are of course entitled to do. But the U.S. also feels !! that Europe would have to keep those sanctions. Including many major energy companies that are planning a project together with Russia to bring Russian gas to Germany, France, Austria. the U.S. trying to interfere with that ? Well they can try to sanction those European energy companies - watch the retaliations. The Europeans reacted unusually sharp in August 2017.
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  30. + Alma - you know that Kerry was in the military - do you ?
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  31. Your religious and spiritual view on abortion differ from the law that allows abortions ? Fine - then don't have abortions. You can try to privately influence family and freinds of course. apart from that: the discussion is over, do not impose your PRIVATE views on others.
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  32. + James Ricker - interesting point
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  33. Good: in fall - the Dems can stall that until the midterms and then it is payback for denying Obama the HEARINGS for the appointment of a relatively conservative Justice. It should help with turnout for the midterms.
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  34. organized viciousness for political gain - by Trump. This is not about IMMIGRATION. This is how you treat people (with children) while they wait for a decision. The Trump admin CHOSE 100 % criminal prosecution - it was/is called "zero tolerance" - BEFORE (Obama, Bush): they usually held them in DETENTION (unless they were suspected to be criminals). In detention centers the kids and the parents CAN stay together until a decision is made (allowed to stay or deportation - but then at least all of them together). With criminal prosecution instead of detentions for most cases (looking though with "zero tolerance") they hold the adults in jail. By law they cannot hold innocent minors for longer than 20 days in jail.
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  35. This is how the Trump admin "governs". A functioning policy and process is altered to Zero Tolerance, so that they can look tough. It results in cruelty towards little children, costs much more and is an administrative and PR nightmare. - In detention centers the kids and the parents CAN stay together until a decision is made (allowed to stay or deportation). Zero tolerance = 100 % CRIMINAL PROSECUTION (not treating it as a misdemeanor) = Jail for all adults = separation. By law they cannot hold innocent minors for longer than 20 days in jail. jailing the adults does not make any difference how long they are held btw. As soon as the decision is made they are either free to leave, when they are allowed to stay OR they are deported. Putting them in the jail system does not mean they are sentenced to extra time. That would be cruel (most of them are just desperately trying to improve their fate, even if you turn them down - why punish them). And it would cost more.
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  36. Spare me the outrage over the woes of Sarah Sanders - she is getting her 30 pieces of silver.
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  37. Trump wants to ESCALATE. The polls are really bad, he has nothing to lose, provoquing citizens to have a reason for brutalizing them would make him look "tough" for his base. And maybe he finds even a pretext to implement martial law, that would help with voter suppression. The Republicans (Senate) cannot even get their act together to pass a bailout for The People (but the have showered big biz, Wallstreet. With TRILLIONS in the last bailouts). So that could mean mass protests soon, this time over evictions and economic despair. Do they really think they have enough wanna be brownshirts for that. do they think the army will side with Trump ? The veterans ? Federal overreach. Violating the constitution. IF they are even federal employees and not mercenaries They can ONLY protect federal property and only act in close proximity to that property. OR in normal times investigate individual matters, but thent they need to have plausible cause (think the FBI doing an investigation). The unidentified "agents" in Portland wandered off to other areas, so obviusly NOT to protect federal property - there wasn't any. They have no business outside federal property, this is city and local police authority. As per the constitution. The "agents" obviously and deliberately (= they had time to think, they were standing there, the protesters were standing there) attacked peaceful protesters. Several times several locastions. So this is not one mistake, it is a pattern. The Trump admin sends them in to CREATE trouble. In Portland there are more protesters now. Of course the locals are pissed.
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  38.  @slywolfd.9558  1 - 3 % of the infected persons (tested positive) die from it - and that is with the OLD variant. The new ones might be worse also for younger persons.
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  39.  @slywolfd.9558  FACTS matter, you can see that from the John Hopkins website, the testing in the U.S. might be underwhelming, but in European countries it is rolled out, Germany or Austria for instance are close to 2 % dead (0.02), that is 2 in hundred, you claim 0.21 in 100 or 21 in 10,000 - that is completely false, you do not have 100 undetected cases for 1 that is found (tested positive). The first world countries have the same range of deaths per "tested positive" between 1 and 3 %, whatever their testing might be. I know that in Germany the citizens have paid sick leave and can't be fired for calling in sick (not for any sick leave and certainly not now. So only if they have almost no symptoms or none a person could overlook their infection and NOT get tested. If in doubt they will get a test (meanwhile they can also be bought in a pharmacy for a low price, but that is for travellers, persons that think they could be infected get one for free. And a repetition a few days after if there is good reason to believe the first test failed it was too soon (I know of a case, first test negative, but relatives had gotten sick and tested positive and that patient also had fever for a day. It just needed some time 5 days after the first suspicion, the second test confirmed the infection.
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  40.  @slywolfd.9558  What do you mean with "isolated" - they are sequencing the DNA ov the many variants !
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  41. When Faux News starts making sense (especially the men) ...
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  42. Considering that voter impersonation is already a fellony - and hardly EVER occurs - they give the impression to fix a non-existing problem. Well it helps to make it harder to vote - for people that those politicians do not want to vote anyway. To hinder old, young, poor people from voting.
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  43. When religion cannot and should not dictate the LAW - then society must find a point of view expressed of course in laws. -That has happened. The laws in all modern societies DO allow abortions.
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  44. Yoho - like Republicans and FOX - also misrepresents what "defunding the police" means. Time for ESSENTIAL polic work, no b.s. and funneling budgets to social services. a) the do a lot of low key b.s. policing. Going after the easy targets. low income, petty crime, small durg offenders, or offenses that do not harm society but are often eescaalted (but not against affluent citizens). to meet the quotas, the prefer to not go after the dangerous criminals if they can help it.
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  45.  @virock18  what become of the government not picking winners and losers ?
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  46.  @virock18  lies about the Amazon deal - New York dodged a bullet - but that was not the achievement of AOC. If a deal could fall apart (negotiated with the govenor and the mayor) after one or a few tweets of AOC..... - there was an interesting article on Bloomberg on the issue of the failed deal.
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  47. He had many other licence projects that did not work out either. Trump always extracted high fees and did not bother with the details or vet the projects and the people carefully. Professional and ethical licence givers vet the projects for which their good name is used, they are engaged in them (that means time and would require EXPERTISE and digging into it). And it might take many years anyway until the project is successful. FOX New made losses over 10 years !! - so a professional investor would not ask for high licence fees in the beginning, because that can starve the project before they even had a chance to flourish. They would develop and bide their time. Or you do what Trump did: use a media persona to dupe people and to make a quick buck. - It shows in his record.
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  48. She is just perfectly O.K. with NEEDLESSLY scaring migrant children (which has NO advantage in the handling or the procedures whatever you may think about immigration). - Altering a functioning policy (keep most migrants WITH children if they have them - in detention centers where they wait for the decision, which is either allowed to stay or deportation). But do not add stress, trauma, costs, and an insane amount of red tape - just so you can APPEAR to be TOUGH.
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  49. The Trump admin CHOSE - since April !! - 100 % criminal prosecution - it was/is called "zero tolerance" - BEFORE (Obama, Bush): they usually held them in DETENTION (unless they were suspected to be criminals). In detention centers the kids and the parents CAN stay together until a decision is made (allowed to stay or deportation - but then at least all of them together).
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  50. By law they cannot hold innocent minors for longer than 20 days in jail. The new policies had no PRACTICAL or LEGAL advantages. It was all to make polticial points and for optics. It had all sorts of disadvantages, hazards, and costs - which were gladly and/or complacently accepted - for the political gains they hoped to make from it.
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