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This 3 yo may or may not live..... https://www.nbc12.com/2020/06/22/family-says-year-old-girl-critically-injured-henrico-shooting/

Lincoln Project Republican's new ad.... entitled "shrinking"!

The universe requires certain things to happen in order to remain balanced.

I uploaded a file. I did not and probably could not read the thing. It runs nearly 600 pages of Bolton's bile.

Apparently the fanatical side of the right wing has become inspired by Heather Heyer's killer. Running over protesters is now a thing. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880963592/vehicle-attacks-rise-as-extremists-target-protesters

You mean like this attached .pdf file? Who would do such a thing? The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton (z-lib.org).pdf

One dead at the range https://www.wtva.com/content/news/Accidental-fatal-shooting-at-Lee-County-gun-range-571333181.html Removed the magazine, but didn't check the chamber https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/06/19/detroit-sister-shot-brother-chance-williams/3221477001/ Children playing, 6 yo dead https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/06/19/detroit-sister-shot-brother-chance-williams/3221477001/ 4 yo kills 1 yo https://wsbt.com/news/local/prosecutor-childs-shooting-death-was-accidental-gun-discharged-by-4-year-old-sibling Show off "thought is was unloaded", kills friend https://www.wfla.com/news/local-news/what-are-you-going-to-shoot-me-palm-harbor-man-pulls-trigger-kills-friend-showing-off-gun/ Unclear "accidental shooting", juvenile dead https://www.kcrg.com/2020/06/19/one-dead-after-accidental-shooting-in-washington-county/ Carrying a loaded weapon in your waistband can kill you https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/man-dies-in-east-village-after-gun-accidentally-discharges-in-waistband/?fbclid=IwAR3d0GDYYhryMXOx00jdJlCVV6EUIkijccffoX_81NO-hT2FtRt9iX4i6kY Another 3 yo dead https://www.limaohio.com/news/415303/accidental-shooting-kills-3-year-old-in-lima These are just some randomly chosen accidental shooting from the past couple weeks. There are many more and a ton of mere wounding that will affect the victims in varying degrees. The hits just keep on coming.

It all depends on who is motivated enough to vote this time. The effects of Covid-19 and GOP voter suppression combined are a big unknown.

Most of the power is still held by white men as far as I can see. Others have made some inroads, but for now the patriarchy seems largely intact. But at the same time it is clearly beginning to be displaced and make way for change and power sharing through a meritocracy. It's all part of the strange ch ch ch changes that so many see coming and fear.

He (Simon Esler) is the best kind of con man. He's Canadian!!! https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1458666262/journey-to-truth/ep-54-simon-esler-worlds-within-awakening-journey-spiritual-warfare-qanon-tactics Not much info on him yet. He is still young but bound to make a splash. His acting career failed, but now he has a new gig fooling stupid Americans.

But who would give money to John Bolton? I can't imagine.....

In a society filled with as many killing machines as the USA unarmed police would be ineffective. It wouldn't even work in Canada. It only works where there is effective restrictions on weapons.

There absolutely will be a mass vaccination campaign happening in about 12 months from now. The only question is how effective and long lasting the available vaccines will be. Yes, it has not happened before. But we have never had the tools and resources available that we now have. There will also be huge public battles over who gets it first and who will be required to get it. This will make the conspiracy theories currently being fought over look quaint. It will be a Battle Royale.

Ummm.....yes, and several legacy carriers failed. Deregulation happened here at roughly the same time as in the US. There were no money losing airlines before deregulation. That's what regulation was, protected markets leading to a guaranteed profit. Which lead to inflated labour agreements, which in turn led to failed carriers when the protections were removed. But the real point I'm making is that private airlines and public services are completely different in nature. Society can handle turmoil in the airline industry as an inconvenience. Turmoil in the police is far more concerning.

The airline industry did not succeed in getting labour costs under control until deregulation happened. The police are still a public service monopoly. It is far easier for a politician to deal with the fallout of a bad contract than it is to deal with a police strike. Or rotating walkout, or whatever political pressure the union brings to bear.

I merely said they are more popular than the politicians they are supposed to answer to. That is not a high bar.

The source of the problem is far deeper than the police. Police racial attitudes are a reflection of societal attitudes. But that said the behavior of police should be controllable. We have allowed a certain amount of accountability as long as we feel safe and that most of us are not victims. Yes, we need disciplined police. But we also need deeper reforms.

Count me in. We clearly need police. But we need the police to be less of a military operation.

I'm not sure why you think that. There is a treatment announced this week that cuts the death rate of those on ventilators by 25%. That is helpful, but hardly game changing. Prevention will always be far better than treatment. And some of the less deadly effects of this illness are beginning to look pretty bad.

There are laws requiring good faith negotiations with unions. It is fine to "not renew" an agreement, but you must negotiate a new one if that is what you want. Generally if a new agreement is not agreed upon the old one remains in force. Laws at the state level will be needed to bust those unions and even then there will be constitutional issues. That is why public service unions have not been banned by red state governments. They have protections.

I don't know how it is where you are, but labour laws here do not make it so easy to bust a union or a collective agreement. And for good reason. Doing away with police union and agreements will require passing legislation. This will be a huge struggle.

I don't see any evidence that any police unions are willing to give up any power. And I expect most of them to fight tooth and nail against the idea. They will give lip service to the idea of other changes, but they have one function and that is to look after their members. They are the enemy of real change. They are not the source of the problem, but they will protect the status quo.

I believe they are waiting on and hoping for vaccine.

He seems to be having a bad week. And Saturday he is planning on attending that huge indoor rally in Tulsa. What else could go wrong for the man? Bolton, Gorsuch, Roberts, all turned on him. Oh well, he still seems to have Pence!

Police unions have become very powerful because they have been more popular with the public than the civic politicians who regularly cave into their demands. Local elections get low turnout, that needs to change. Police unions in Canada are also so powerful that it is nearly impossible to fire an officer. And for the same reasons.