simply because they claim they were (and often, when they haven't).

We keep seeing people demand that we not jump to the conclusion that police officers were wrong to kill people they encountered - that we're wrong to prejudge before we "know all the facts."

But almost invariably, those who insist that we shouldn't assume the killings were unjustified turn right around and tell us why the cops were justified to kill and that the person killed was a bad person who caused their own deaths (or more recently, that a baby whom the police was shot was killed because his father was "a monster". Usually, those assumptions are based on the initial reports that the police gave to the press. But often, they're just created out of whole cloth even before the police put out their narrative.

If you really believe that it's wrong to judge these matters before we have all the facts, that should include not jumping in to give the police the benefit of the doubt, assuming they were right to kill and that the person they killed was responsible for their own deaths (or in the case of that poor baby, his father bore sole responsibility and the people who shot him bore none) and expect everyone else to do the same.

Please...

Breathe.

the same people who insist that Democrats need to reach out to Trump voters?

If so, I'm confused.

If it's crazy for Congressional Democrats to reach out to Congressional Republicans because it's a waste of time, why do they think we'll be any more successful convincing the people who keep voting them in to office to change? They're all swimming in the same swamp, as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with leaving them there.

Now, if they want to crawl out of the swamp and come and dip their toes into our pool, cool. But It's up to them.

https://twitter.com/tlr_sndn/status/1268601056079929347

"Woke" is generally defined as being aware of and actively attentive to issues of racial and social justice.

So Carville is telling Black and Brown folk that Democrats should stop being aware of and actively attentive to our concerns because it might upset moderate (white) voters.

And people wonder why many of us are telling him to STFU.

I muted the tv, but every time I look at it hoping he's gone, there he is ...

among other things.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/28/andrew-brown-shooting-body-camera/