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pbmus

(12,422 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 06:38 PM Jun 2020

Porky is a bully, who woulda guessed...

Police in Buffalo shove a 75-year-old man to the ground and blood pours from his ear. Police in Brooklyn knock down a young woman and call her a “bitch” because she asked why she had to leave the street. Federal authorities in Washington fire tear gas at peaceful demonstrators, then lie about it.

Get the feeling law enforcement in this country is being run by a middle-school bully?
If so, you are not wrong.

Childhood bullies have a predisposition to become adult bullies, research shows, and, sure enough, it seems Attorney General William Barr was a teenage bully more than 50 years ago.

Back in 1991, during Barr’s confirmation to be George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, lawyer Jimmy Lohman, who overlapped with Barr at New York’s Horace Mann School and later Columbia University, wrote a piece for the little-known Florida Flambeau newspaper about Barr being “my very own high-school tormentor” — a “classic bully” and “power abuser” in the 1960s who “put the crunch on me every chance [he] got.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/09/so-this-is-why-bill-barr-is-such-bully/?utm_campaign=wp_follow_dana_milbank&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_danamilbank

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Porky is a bully, who woulda guessed... (Original Post) pbmus Jun 2020 OP
And bullies see two avenues to release their anger when they "grow" up... Ferrets are Cool Jun 2020 #1
Bingo... pbmus Jun 2020 #2
So Billy was also a bully? Another jerk who never grew up. Marie Marie Jun 2020 #3
Good to see that dis-Barr is being Florida-Flambeau-ed all over again. He richly deserves it. MFGsunny Jun 2020 #4

Ferrets are Cool

(21,105 posts)
1. And bullies see two avenues to release their anger when they "grow" up...
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 06:52 PM
Jun 2020

the police force and the military.
And in too many cases, on women.

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
4. Good to see that dis-Barr is being Florida-Flambeau-ed all over again. He richly deserves it.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:08 PM
Jun 2020

EARLY
LATE and
OFTEN ...

... must be the consistent disclosures of Bully-Barr's constant dissembling and gas-lighting as to what the truth and the facts REALLY are!

And to Jimmy Lohman .... KUDOS to the millionth power.



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