Trump Sinks in Polls, Protesters Call to Defund the Police: A Closer Look
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- Seth takes a closer look at how the protests sweeping the country have rocked Donald Trump’s presidency and galvanized public opinion in favor of a fundamental rethinking of how policing works in the United States.
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I was an MP in the Marines and it shocks me how policing in the civilian sector, is more militaristic than it was for me as an actual military policeman. We were taught that we were policing our brother and sister Marines and their families. We had a "police your neighbor" approach whereas Civilian police are trained with an "us against them" mentality and have been given ordinance and taught tactics used by actual occupying forces.
There is a laundry list of things we need to do as Americans that perhaps starts with a hard look at the hearts and integrity of all our elected officials rather than their political lean. Accompanied by immediate changes to policing through De-funding, restructuring, and reallocation of resources and responsibilities. In large part because our police are asked to do things, they are neither trained or equipped for but primarily so they can focus on changing the culture of there order and the removal of those who cannot adjust.
That sounds familiar. My sister in law was a career Army MP officer. Her last post was as Provost Marshall at Fort Myers in DC. She is disgusted for the same reasons you are, and is especially angry to think that men she trained and led may have been among those in the streets of Washington.
stealthballer : I think the average person just wasn't paying attention to politics, either because they didn't think it was really affecting them, or because things were fine for them and they trusted whoever was in power at the time. But you're right, this is all the direct result of patient Republicans working over decades to swing things in their favor. I remember when I was still a kid (I graduated high school in 2001, for reference) hearing Republicans urging their fellow conservatives to make sure that there was a Republican in EVERY race, on EVERY level of government, in EVERY state, down to the most minor elected position on the local level, with the goal of changing things to their favor from the bottom up if need be. And here we are.
@@pdoylemi ugh... thats gotta sting. :-(
Thank you for your well spoken words.
Call your local congressman/senator. Publish this.
Hi from Canada! Fellow Americans, PLEASE VOTE YOUR LEADER OUT!!!
Well, just voting would be a start. That will give you something than what billions give you.
Give us your Trudeau, or give us your public health system 😂
Done!
I feel the need to apologize for the noise... for for years... I'm so sorry.
Want an example of what it could be like with fewer police?
I had my home broken into once. Called the police, an officer came over, looked around and said there wasn’t much he could do beyond filing a report.
At the time I lived in a not so safe area full of people who kept to themselves. I didn’t know my neighbors at the time and didn’t have a clue on who would have broken into my home. Was it a neighbor? Someone from outside the neighborhood? Suddenly everyone looked suspicious to me and I felt terrible and very sad that the police didn’t care.
A few years later I moved into a “not so safe” apartment complex. It was primarily black and I learned very quickly that the police were not welcome. They came in and terrorized my neighbors, yes, but they were not welcome. At first, I was nervous about what I perceived as gangs walking around all the time, though they always seemed overly respectful to me. There were a few people who sat outside their doors to smoke or talk on their phones and I could count on them to kind of always be there.
My next door neighbor was one of the people who always sat outside. She explained to me how the neighborhood worked. The “gangs” I saw were often just friends who had some time and they used their hangout time to patrol the streets. Most of them were teenagers and when they went home, they would let their mama’s know about what they saw going on in the neighborhood. The mamas got together and also shared information about the goings on in the neighborhood. This would then spread to anybody else who wanted the news. Most of the people I saw sitting outside were people who liked gossiping with neighbors and were the best sources of information about the goings on.
I learned who was old and may be in need of help. Who needed a baby sitter and who was going to college next semester. Who had mental issues to look out for and what kids were actual trouble makers. Who had a gun. Who had been in prison.
She also told me that prevention was the best thing to stop violence and theft. Lock your door. Keep your blinds and curtains closed unless you’re actively using that window.
However, the biggest piece of advice she gave me, advice that has worked for this neighborhood, is to get to know your neighbors. It is so important to know the people you live around. Help them where you can and accept their help when they can offer it. Build a network of people to look out for each other and crime will reduce.
Is it a completely crimeless neighborhood? No. But we make do without police and let’s be real, the police don’t do much for poor people anyway.
All that money we put into policing should be reallocated into the community itself. Better public transportation so people can go to and from work without a car (freeing up the money that goes into a car into other things). More money into our public schools to promote actual learning rather than the school to prison pipeline we currently have. Public healthcare so people don’t fall into poverty because they get sick or injured. Public internet so more can have school and work from home.
Basically public infrastructure would help everyone have a better life. Private infrastructure only helps the rich.
Well said and spot on!
@Golden Gainz you do realize that 80% of abused women fear calling the police because they worry that the abuser will only be in lock up for 24 hours and then be murder mad when they are let loose again right?
Own a Gun. Exercise your Second Amendment rights. Cops aren't that fast.
@Golden Gainz you missed the point completely
You sound pretty familiar with what women do when threatened, another tough guy no doubt
And an intellectual, hmm , such a catch, more reality for you
Donald Bettis that they are. I suspect it may have been due to the proximity to the police station. But yeah, they are worthless at best. Unless you’re rich.
One random thought that's really been bothering me over the past couple weeks. In a pandemic, it took months for our country to have the proper equipment to battle this illness. But of all the hundreds of videos we've seen over the past two weeks, it seems the police don't have that problem. Those dudes have ALL the goods. Just seems strange and horrible.
It's not that astonishing when law enforcement gets i. e. 57% of Los Angeles' city budget.
+Zach V We still don't have enough pp equipment. Have you tried to buy an FDA-approved n95 mask? They're simply not available to the public... and medical professionals are still forced to re-use those n95s if they can get them at all, even though the masks are supposed to be discarded and replaced between patient visits. There's also still a (sterile) disposable gown shortage.
Imagine if the hospitals had had the goods like the police does. Great post bro.
@andrew chambers Where I live most all the rioters are white.
the beatings will continue until attitudes improve
Defunding the police sounds so radical until you realize we have been defunding education, housing, public health and public transportation for years!
Exactly
yes i agree,time to fund all above and defund police big time!!
Also defund the army, if you really want money to improve society, there's most of it right there. US spends on defense more than next 10 countries combined. Maybe next 5 or 6 would be overkill enough?
Hey you with the logic and reasoning!......we dont need your kind here!
Scott Knows Out of the next 26 countries in Military spending, 25 are allies too. Like.... why does our military need that much money!?!
I said this on another video but it needs to said again here. Everyone in America remember: even if the polls say he’s losing, that’s no reason not to go out and vote to kick Trump out. On the contrary, it’s a sign that your vote can make a difference, but only if everyone works together to make that difference. So vote like your vote could be the tipping point, because it definitely was 4 years ago.
Remember all those people who decided not to vote or voted third party in protest? How about people who didn’t bother to vote because they were so sure Trump would lose? I beg of you, do not do that this year because all of that helps Trump.
If last election should teach you anything, it’s that your vote can and does matter, even and especially when you think it doesn’t.
GiftOfKnowledge 0001 Dead right you do not just need to beat Trump. You need to batter him at the polls. His defeat needs to be heavy and a complete embarrassment to both the GOP and the Orangeone. If it is not there will be those left in positions of influence in the GOP who will see it as just a setback, ready to put forward a candidate with the same ideals but not so obviously a bloody lunatic. Go America,sort it.
We love trump 🏴🇺🇸🇬🇧
@@jimmyb719 speak just for yourself...
If you don't vote then that is a vote for trump.
Or you could say "dont you want the satisfaction of being part of kicking him out? Because if you don't vote, even if he loses, its despite you, not because of.
Then you can take part in the public remake of the apprentice and show up at the white House and shout" you're fired! "at him as a judge, not an onlooker
6 years now my wife has been a paraprofessional, sometimes referred to as a teacher's aide or teacher's assistant. In those six years the two of us have had to work 6 jobs at the same time to afford our sub 1000 square foot home, our 2009 kia soul and all other regular cost-of-living bills. My wife works full time and two part-time jobs after school and on the weekends, I work two full-time jobs and a part-time job on the weekends. That's how poor we are.
My wife out of the goodness of her heart chooses to purchase school supplies for her 20+ EDBD (emotionally, developmentally, behaviorally, disabled) students instead of lettingthem fail. She regularly has to purchase dry erase markers, construction paper, notebooks, pencils... Etc.
And a few years ago, when it was a thing, the talk was my wife needed to go get firearm training and purchase a handgun to protect the school because cops weren't capable, again all of this was expected to come out of our pocket.
They've been defunding the schools, the healthcare, the firefighters, and social programs since before I was alive. Make the cops buy their own body armor, make them buy their own guns and ammo, make them pay for their own training. I had to pay for all of that a security guard.
God bless your wife, paraprofessionals are Earth angels, please hang in there, hopefully Trump will be gone by January 2021!
@@JKis_right Hope is not an option. Go out and vote against him if you're a US citizen!
the american education system is one of the worst in the world... you pay your teachers a wage so small yet rely on them to buy supplies that you won't fund...
we need teachers here in Canada too... way nicer place to live... ;)
God bless your family your wife is amazing and such a blessing to those children and their families doing so much all on her own our education system needs more support this is so sad and unfair
@@danoduncan1763
Strange, really, when you realise the US budget spends about 15k per year per student.
Almost like the Republicans, who enacted almost all of those increases, weren't actually directing it towards students, or simply didn't care where the money went as long as they could say "we increased education funding, suck it Democrats" without ending up with an awkwardly well educated electorate.
I wonder if Seth ever reads these comments...You sure crack me up! Thank you for hanging in doing new shows during the virus instead of playing reruns! You are a funny funny guy! 👍👍
How about we invest some of that money into education, which could reduce the poverty that leads to crime.
Exactly.
Yeah, so many subjects to teach... personal finance would be a good one for sure
It's easier to control the populace if they are weak and uneducated. Why do you think fast food is so cheap, while healthy food is so expensive.
How about raising your kids right
Preach
"A soulless business potato" is one of the better descriptions I've heard. Well done.
I was also fond of the "Diet Coke stained beanbag" part.
I think yam would have been better though - they're the right color.
Diet Coke stained bean bag was the line that did it for me.😂
My thoughts exactly lol
lol Seth is on fire lately
"Diet Coke stained beanbag chair"; "soulless business potato"--I've gotta start writing these down!
I lost it with soulless business potato
Patrick Drazen Sweetheart get a stack of notebooks because I've lost count on these clever analogies lol
Mt current favorite is "cheeto dusted testicle man"
If these people on the right were really libertarians, wouldn't they be FOR defunding the police? I mean, isn't that what your guns are for?
OH Ben, So simple, so silly, so absolutely right!
Don't trust the government, do trust the police
I know, right?
But the reason® magazine[ to whose newsletter I'm subscribed to] is like: "Well, actually.. Neither of climate-change denialism, nor climate-change doomism* - are good. #BothSidesBad"
And here's what I found from a movement which was originally minarchist, but eventually buckled after realising that the fever-dream of abolishing The State won't find many warriors.
Exhibit A: reason.com/2020/06/05/is-defunding-the-police-libertarian
Exhibit B:
reason.com/2020/06/11/rights-and-wrongs-of-defunding-the-police
*To save you from giving the clicks to that "South Park®"-esque intellectual-rigour, here's what they're saying:
_Abolishing the PDs are bad. But the reforms are good. Our studies suggest law-enforcement would bring the minorities are far greater-risk than ever before. Having a police significantly reduces crime. Yeah, the minorities say that ain't the case, but they don't know better that the crimes will increase. Our fellow libertarians who advocated for more private-security forces than policing sounds like a very good idea, but still very lame. Banning the police would require somebody to supervise, and that's in and of itself an act of policing! Checkmate, left-wingers! Protection of life, safety, and property is a legitimate function of government. #Punkd"
we had no ventilators to help our people during a pandemic, but plenty of riot gear and tanks to go against our own people.
PJ Broke in all fairness, no expected that we would ever need this much medical equipment. It didn’t make sense until now
paolo yall didnt restock emergency masks and medical equipment after the last pandemic.
Amen!
Trump Administration pre-planning... They obviously kept up with poll statistics. 🤔
@@paolo1334 it made sense back in 2018 when Trump signed out the U. N. Security Taskforce on COVID-19... it was Trump not making any sense!
It's cheaper to pay for public housing, drug rehab and education than for police, jails and emergency room services. That's just a fact. Some cities and states are already making a good faith effort to spend money helping people instead of locking them up, some are not.
This is all very idealistic, but who's going to deal with the gangs the kids in that public housing will form? Who is going to arrest the junkies so that when they are given the choice of prison or rehab, they choose rehab? Some people are just kleptomaniacs and will steal even with a roof over their head and a fridge full of food. Then, you also have to consider sex offenders. They don't rape and molest because they are "economically disadvantaged" and you're not going to simply "educate" them that rape and molesting are not nice. Of course there's "therapy" which consists of the same behavior modification techniques that were used UNSUCCESSFULLY to cure homosexuals in the 50's.
@@mediabiassucks1803 there are existing crime and violence prevention programs. Do you live on Mars?
@@mediabiassucks1803 No one is saying banning all jails, obviously, predators should be jailed. If a person commits a crime than they go to jail. But there are so many people jailed just for having and using a drug not just being on a drug while committing a crime. Also, gangs are usually formed for safety. If people actually begin trusting cops and having a better education system so people know that it actually is viable for them to go to college and/or learn a trade they won't need to sell drugs to make easy money. Also, a lot of it is also for a family. If we had therapy in disadvantaged communities we could stop generations of children using gangs and other substances to stave off negative thoughts. And therapy did not work on gay people because it is not a mental illness that can be cured. However, therapy has been proven to help people on ACTUAL mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, etc.
@DolphinsWIthIgloos That's because the government did a poor job of prevention programs and good public housing and employment. People lived in cockroach infested homes next to schools with students with so many behavioral problems that they could not teach. If schools were better and actually told kids of ALL backgrounds HOW they could be successful they would not think they needed easy drug money. Also most homeless people will not be employed simply because they do not have an address. So we do need public housing.
Media Bias Sucks! Imagining a world, in that you can save everyone and in which no one is ill and/or criminal - that is an idealistic idea of course... but referring to countries, who have less criminals than the USA is not idealistic... there are countries like Germany who invest more money into social things like welfare for people without job for their flat, food, electricity etc (Hartz 4 in germany), fee free university (just 230 Euro every 6 months and if you are poor, your food and flat will be paid by government while studying)... automatically medical healthcare for everyone etc... I know it is simplified , but a in a society, where people show automatically solidarity with you, if you are in trouble, you don‘t need to steal food and you don‘t need to steal pain killers or drugs... all statistics show that being poor rises the risk of being criminal... so if people are less poor and get solidarity of other humans, they are less criminal... and less criminals follows less money for police and prison 🤷♀️ that isn‘t idealistic... you can see that in countries like Germany...
Seth has been killing it lately. I love that he’s so in touch with the plight of our black brothers and sisters as well as our young people. This was just perfectly spot on. The baseball pitcher and catcher analogy was perfect for comparing how protestors demand the change, while politicians (mostly democrats) get spooked away because of the eye catching, non focused tested terminology that they don’t want to bother trying to understand.
47% of the people disagree with Trumps handling of the protests, that means 53% approves??? That would worry me a lot more, what a mess.
It was 47% strongly disagree, I think the total # who didn't agree was 65%. The rest are brainwashed by Fox News.
@@facespaz lmao you want dems to handle it by letting them lose? good luck
HAHAHAHA democrats are doomed. Independent/third party is growing 😂😂😂
@@facespaz You telling me liberal aren't brainwashed? They think regime change in Libya under Obama is a good thing lmao😂😂😂😂😂
Defunding the police sounds crazy, til you realize we've been doing it to education for decades.
Exactly!
Not to mention health care. What is more important to survival, property or health?
@@shobvious Are we talking about the rampant growth of capitalism? Because in that case property is infinitely more important. As long as everything CAN look good, everyone could die and the market would be fine.
@@JasonMcCarrell The market is absolute bullshit (I know you get it; I'm not jumping on you, just agreeing). Goods and services are one thing, and CEOs everywhere are making money - Trump is right about that - but everyone else is still just getting by. The people who do the work, who produce the goods, and who provide the services that make the CEOs their millions/billions/trillions aren't adequately or fairly compensated. When a company has a good quarter and makes a huge profit, does it trickle down to the employees? Or does it go in the CEOs' pockets? Another Lambo for the boss, another year at the same pay for the employees.
Yes
It means more community outreach programs and less money for tanks
Makes sense
Well said
Seattle Autonomous Zone is the model to adopt.
What about training?
It makes sense...
Until your neighbor holes up in his house and keeps firing shots at people approaching him.
Until your neighbor is holding his own family hostage in yet another murder-suicide.
I agree, put more money into services that help people with problems the police shouldn’t be involved in. The problem is when the fire department/EMS cannot go to a scene because of shots fired or a person with a knife or a group of bank robbers. I WANT these “Defund the Police” ideas to be implemented because I strongly think what the police do, mostly quietly, in the background to make everyone feel safe goes ignored and will gain a spotlight when there are not enough police to continue to provide that blanket of safety.
I don’t understand those who say “wHo iS goInG to coMe heLp yoU whEn thEre’S nO poLiCe”? Defunding the police DOES NOT MEAN abolishing it! EDIT: defunding means basically not giving them as much of the HUGE amounts of $ PD’s receive and instead allocating it towards much needed resources such as schools who DONT EVEN HAVE ENOUGH TEXTBOOKS AND TEACHERS. Thanks!
Except the people in the same camp also scream "ABOLISH THE POLICE!" So yeah.
People are calling for its abolition. And defunding it means that people will not be able to receive its services as it no longer has the funds. Have fun in your police free zones which are just glorified anarchy.
Defund and abolish are not the same thing!
"Defund" is purposely so ambiguous and non-specific that its meaning is defined by the person preaching it and the person hearing it. This may come as a surprise, but some of the people with "defund the police" signs mean precisely that. What about #ShutDownSTEM and #ShutDownAcedemia? These terms were created to not mean what they pronounce? The Cultural Revolution happened and there are lessons to be learned from it. The KGB and the FSB had and have decades long plans to break America from within. Institutions and politicians are being steered towards an endgame that benefits no one. Why as a leftest can I not openly say that there is police corruption and needs to be reformed, but police killing unarmed black people are not in the top 20 causes of death to black bodies? If BLM was focused on gun control and legalizing drugs, thousands of black lives every year and would give freedom and dignity to thousands more. What is the goal here? Political power or saving lives?
I'm ok with it as a wedge issue/hiding my power level :)
Let's ride this wave, and keep demanding more. The only way to save the planet is to reign in the multinationals and the war machine, and local democracy/control over policing is the stsrt.
@@Suavemcool lot to unpack there, most of it I like. I would just point out that for z lot of BLM people, drug decriminalization/prison reform is a major part of what is being pushed, even if the 'defund' meme is getting top press billing right now.
"Defund The Police" NO
"Defund Police Violence" YES
Which slogan is better?
@@Distimmer If you look at the BLM website under "see the demands" the only thing you see is #DefundThePolice. Many people join and donate to BLM, but it is clear what their focus is. What about voting? If young black men voted at the rates of old white men, politicians would be forced to take them seriously as a demographic that could sway elections. They would switch to any other slogan they wanted and still get traction, but #DefundThePolice is such a weird and pointless hill to die on.
We need to up the funding of mental health resources most of all.
Judging by the democrats I would agree you all need mental health evaluation
That would certainly help trump wouldnt it hahahaha !
If want evidence for reallocating funds look at Scotland. they had major issues with crime for years so they changed tactics and put funding into mental health, housing, training and education and the reductions in crime is amazing.
Defund police! Fund the community! 💙
Bahahahahahahaha
Quite frankly- responding to police violence by threatening to hit them where it hurts - their budgets - is probably a very efficient action.
There are school districts with cut budgets where the only classroom supplies were bought out of the teachers paycheck. We need to start at the roots of our society. Fund education IMO
Question your city councils, hold mayors and governors accountable, what are the counties doing to protect as the buffer level.
AND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, LET'S TRY SOLVING HOMELESSNESS *WITH HOUSING* FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER INSTEAD OF CRIMINALIZING PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD EXTORTIONATE RENT #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh
Right?!? I work my ass off and don't even have enough to pay bills!!
Everyone’s income needs to go up. And I would love to see laws to encourage first time homeowners to buy, vs greedy slumlords who buy up everything when banks foreclose on people they misled
The problem is if you raise the minimum wage to $15/hr - opportunist capitalist mofo's will just raise the damn rent yo. The system sucks - no moral accountability.
the real problem that the leadership in blue cities tend to restrict future housing construction which causes the rents to go up.
@@michaelangeloevans2722 ... nope. the real problem you're trying to identify is that space for housing _in a city_ is a fairly limited resource, and thus supply vs demand means it's priced higher.
--Dave, fortunately the current experiment with distance working, if we also get universal broadband available, can go a long way towards balancing that for jobs that don't require phyical presence, leaving more available for people in the service economy who need to be in there
Having that backdrop on Fox, stating "This is a move toward authoritarian social control"
.... Oh my God.... the irony!
"This is a move toward authoritarian social control"
"Oh my God.... the irony!"
Your God is authoritarian social control. That's the real irony.
Why don't the politicians just call it Community Resource Reallocation. It has less bite but says the same thing.
A name change would help tremendously for the I only want to read the title and react crowd.
Typically to get repubs on board with defunding things you have to call it "tax cuts"
@@jayv9779 I agree
Goofy Tiger well guess what when people hear chants with little sound bytes like that, they don’t take the time to examine them. And most phrases you don’t have to explain.
@@edvh88 There is alot of intentional misunderstanding and/or just hearing what they want out of the phrase. White privilege is another one. It is a a hard concept to explain as people immediately jump to a fiscal meaning or they interpret it as meaning they didn't have to struggle. It is hard to get some folks out of the defensive stance and into a dialogue that everyone learns from.
From what I’ve seeing and hearing it’s about 12 weeks training to become a police officer , it takes longer to learn how to cut hair
To be fair. They only do that to make you ladies feel special
Well, policing is an "on the job training" thing!!! but if you screw up somebody's hair... that's it!! You are fired!!!!
Not in Massachusetts... it takes years.it seems like police forces across the country have really different standards. Which is a huge problem.
@@edvh88
I looked. Here's the list of requirements for Massachusetts (which fall in line with most other states, if not a bit above)
attend police academy (29-week program) when you fulfill all other requirements below
(This list must be complete before you get accepted into Police Academy)
Be at least 21 years of age
Have a high school diploma or GED
Pass a physical fitness test, medical examination including a psychological component
Have no felony convictions (some misdemeanors are also grounds for disqualification)
Be official residents in the state and hold a valid drivers license (residency not required to sit for the civil service exam)
Be a non-smoker
Required Examinations
civil service exam for police officers
take a physical abilities test
medical examination that includes a psychological evaluation
some jurisdictions also require a polygraph exam
Too band we didn't all know that at the beginning of the pandemic! So true, properly train police and we'd all be better off....and get rid of trump
"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
I have to admit that when I first saw people saying "Defund The Police" I did have the wrong impression of what was meant. But then I read the explanations and it made sense.
THANK YOU. It's a really bad sound byte, and activists (and Seth) saying they don't have to be responsible for the message is just stupid and irresponsible. It's like alt-right goofballs spouting their racist agenda in their silly made-up lingo expecting to reach anyone but other alt-right goofballs that happen to be trolling.
Of course it make sense....we can use that money for something else...they had their chance n they didn't improve so, is over now...is like paying rent but, you don't get to use the place couse u dont have a key!....🤷♂️
@@gioperdomo8353 Who you gonna call for help, the Ghostbusters?
@@AbsentWithoutLeaving unfortunately, "Reallocate excess resources from the police to mental health, housing, and health services" doesn't fit on a billboard as nicely.
How about
FREE THE POLICE
? Like, from other, not policing related matters
I like, that Seth is getting sharper and sharper. Props to the writers as well
“Oooooo, someone got a thesaurus”. You are a funny guy, Seth. Insightful and very funny. Thank you.
Or, in other words, "Defund the Police" isn't saying Andy Griffith has to fire Don Knotts, hang up his badge, and go fishing. It's saying that he doesn't need to be given extra funding so he can maintain that Armored Personnel Carrier he's blocking the Mayberry streets with or that riot gear he's kicking Otis the town drunk's door down in. It's freaking Mayberry, pop. 150 at most, which doesn't need that kind of military presence, and they could use that same money to send Otis to AA meetings
Defunding the police is just backwards thinking, we all want police officers to have MORE training that requires money, once you start looking at defunding the police as an option it will inherently bring about lesser trained police officers.
'and that could use that same money to send Otis to AA meetings".
I love that finisher. I really do.
@@abdullahqaiser6050
Yes but, clearly, throwing more and more money at the problem has just given rise to phenomenal corruption.
Shocker.
The way to solve that isn't to simply pour more money into people's pockets and call it an attempt to fix the problem.
@@abdullahqaiser6050 "Defund The Police" ??? NO
"Defund Police Violence" ??? YES
Gregory Walpole that kind of reasoning comes from a fine mind...like fine wine comes from mature grapes...picked before their sell by date...🇨🇦🇨🇦
Seth, I love the way you sign off with, "stay safe, wash your hands, we love you." Thank you for that.
deliciousgroove yeah, he does. Could you add wear your mask?
My father was a correction officer (read "jail cop") as well as a security officer, and we've discussed this a bit. So I can confidently say "Defund the police" has a deceptively strong connotation. Far too many people on BOTH sides of the isle are hearing it and likely thinking "bankrupt" or "abolish," which would lead to total anarchy and then privatized security with no actual law being upheld.
To make the message clear we need to be united on what the message _is,_ and I think we should just stick with "Reform the police."
Like re-appropriating funds between different areas, increased employment for less stressed out cops (again, I've experienced this in my family), re-educating or simply booting out the hard-asses who won't accept reform, and making them all more accountable to the public.
Anarchy isn't chaos and lawlessness btw.
Well said, Seth. Thank you for a clear explanation of what "defund the police" means. Seems to me they're actually saying "Give less funding to the police, and shift that money into other services that will help people nonviolently." But that's too long to fit on a protest sign.
"Defund The Police" ??? NO
"Defund Police Violence" ??? YES
Is that a problem? I would expect you to have that problem. I already made that clear about you idiot. A common problem is what you are.
Somebody should say "defund" does not mean "eliminate". It means "reconsider", not blindly slashing.
Well clearly you lot have picked the wrong word then, because the oxford definition of defund is to prevent from receiving funding, which in definition is therefore abolition, as no organisation can work without funding. This is such a stupid argument...
@@tomwhite4596 hez a lib. Be easy on him
That's your interpretation, because you live in the real world and understand 'no police' would never happen. But, their original intention was exactly as they stated. And that's why Minneapolis city council needs their own security, now. And why Seattle's Chop/Chaz area had zero police at the station next to it. Take what they say 'seriously', they are speaking for a globally-funded Marxist socialist elite that are not playing games.
Vote, vote, vote! Don’t forget to vote! No matter what you have to do, vote!
Remember all the poor ideas and how he wanted to TURN OUR OWN MILITARY ON US, for a photo op!
Trump, the best
Yeah, pretty invalid when people justify riots by saying, "Well, they had no other way to have their voices heard"... meanwhile voter turnout for Black people and woke young people is low. And yes, voter suppression is a factor but it's funny how it was so much less of a factor when Obama was on the ballot. And voter suppression is no excuse for all the "woke" white voters who scream about racism and healthcare but don't show up.
Trillions missing from the pentagon. Its the year 2020, how do you know you vote is being counted?
If our votes didn't count, they wouldn't work so hard to suppress them.
Voting for the first time. Trump 2020.
that they are buying ads on tv channels he watches to make him feel good, shows how thin skinned and how sad and insecure a person he really is
They want to distract him from looking out the windows and seeing those big yellow letters!
Everything revolves around these things- his vanity, his net worth, Ivanka, white evangelicals, and anything he can do to get more power. He gives no shits for any of us.
Don't forgot, "malignant psychopath and narcissist."
Glad to see Disney pulling advertising from Tucker Carlson.
Yes. That guy is a "nothing". Where do they find these creeps?
Patrick Collins ...you really don’t want to go there..you would have to take a few showers...and even then you’d still feel dirty...yuk..🇨🇦🇨🇦
Honestly, screw Tucker Carlson AND screw Disney. Disney ruins everything.
That's because they are going after the communist Chinese market & you can't be Pro-American, Mr. Walt Disney would NEVER have approved such a sell-out.
Why was Disney sponsoring Tucker in the first place?
This all seems to come at a time when it is most feasible to make real change, with a pandemic happening, coming out of this is perfect to overhaul a system that has needed it for years. It makes complete sense. Everything at some point needs to grow and move forward, this time it is the system of policing. I am looking forward to seeing the amazing things that may come of this if done right and if the system does not fight the change tooth and nail. Which in the end i can 100% see people saying to the person next to them, "wow, all of this change really did alot to help the lives of the people we help and the systems put there to do so... why did we fight this change so desperately?" IMO this is truly remarkable, something happened, the world reacted, and real change came of it, it usually doesnt happen this way. It really does feel good to see the people truly affecting change in America. Now we will see how the next steps roll out.
NEEDED; seriously strong PSYCHE/MENTAL evaluations needed before giving law enforcement JOBS
And presidents.
Also, better vetting of presidential candidates
You mean, like in any other country?
Not all Bad cops start off that way, don’t forget that stress, trauma, high divorce, and many other factors can bring them down too. But mostly there is top down policies that grind down their better instincts.
Linda Hughes that would be a major way of weeding out cops who only want the power that comes with the job. Psych testing and retraining would be a huge start. 👍
In November you will have the opportunity to say...”You’re Fired!”
Only if you vote! Judges get to say it, not onlookers
Civil wars and ww3 is coming. China is laughing at how divided America are HAHAHAHAH 😂😂
Ryan lex too bad China censors everything. They can’t see stuff in America to laugh about. But the government might.
Voting blue
Not really because of the stupid electoral college. Take away the electoral college.
America 2020: Where people can hear “Black Lives Matter” or “Police brutality is bad” and argue.
Find me someone saying "police brutality is bad." Most people don't disagree with the statement that black lives matter, but the organization of literal Marxists funneling money to Sleepy Joe's Campaign
Found one
You meant the “bubble” which has been implanted, and solidified - since years, Ms "@Joëlle Desmoeullins"?
The fact that this guy isn't just smiling into the camera after every joke just to bathe in the laughter from the live crowd makes it so much more enjoyable to watch.
Yes!!!! 🤘🏼
How can 38% still has approval in him ?
Toxic chemicals in the water?
It's on par with Jimmy Carter and George HW at this point in their 4 years.....about 38% is as low as it can realistically can go
It's going to take time to deprogram the rest of trump's followers.
White supremacists, "OMG anyone but a Democrat I need another billion dollars" conservatives/libertarians, and Franklin Graham / Jerry Falwell Jr. evangelicals. Yes, there's overlap between these groups.
Shocking and an embarrassment :/
I like how Tucker Carlson has started painting himself orange to be more like his Cheeto Messiah.
lol. I'm glad someone else noticed it.
Maybe nobody else feels ready to memorialize, an occasion where they looked at F*cker Carlson.
It's not a nice experience!
Fox News has been closing commentary on almost all their segments
the ones available on my experience block you at the first sign of truth.
I had just noticed that myself! I didn't remember him being so colorful!
Orange Messiah 😂😂😂😂😂
he wants to be close to dtumpt
Flash bangs are more properly known as stun grenades or flash bombs. Flash Bangs makes them sound like something a kid says when he’s playing Batman!
To be fair, if you’ve played a modern shooter game, then you’ll know what it is.
As a Brit I must say you are the face of America I knew and loved,please continue the flight to get your Country back.
"Mass action in the streets gets results!"
Yep, Seth, you're right.
That's why we need more of it.
This country needs change.
your lil revolution wont last long
@@captrodgers4273 Dick.
He had low polls before the 2016 elections, too. Don't believe them. GO VOTE no matter what the poll says.
This. Getting cocky was what got him in. Don't breathe a sigh of relief until at least January (because if he loses, he will cause even more chaos, drama and cost you even more money than he does now).
Definitely voting for trump.
TRUMP 2020 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Definitely voting
Yeah, but there won't be an election into his opponent announced the week of the election this time. I honestly don't know how Comey is still a free man after that, it was such blatant interference in favour of his own party - him being a registered Republican.
@@morganbromley9404
May I ask why?
By any possible standard he's been the worst president in US history. I mean he doesn't have a single redeeming achievement to his name.
Like him or not, Seth is an excellent orator.
Agreed, but he needs a better script to read.
I liked the "sound effect", Seth 😂😂
And the thesaurus/ bunker joke 😂
And by the way, end funding the failure of the “WAR ON DRUGS”! Another reason why police have become militarized! And the drug problem is WORSE, not better. Healthcare SHOULD NOT BE TIED TO A JOB EITHER!
sell the military get rid of cops gang warfare millions at risk looting no food power plants silenced murder prisoners mass release murder mayhem ,the left win kill the usa ,,seth runs to canada,,china off shore the end,,,
@@stephenisom6089
- Fix your grammar. I can give you some tips with commenting.
- You should hold back on the replies. No one likes spam.
- You made a major straw-man there, misrepresentation of an argument leads to bad debates. I can always explain what the movement/"the left" actually means/intends to do. From the moderates to radicals the comment section can probably explain their own opinions on politics.
[Edit: I have one more point to make.]
- I am worried for America but your envisionment seems like the _least_ likely scenario of all.
"This ain't a war. Wars end." ~ The Wire.
Just because being “tough on crime” and the “war on drugs” SOUND GOOD, they don’t work. Did you not notice being “tough on crime” during “Prohibition” was also a waste of money and a total FAILURE? All It did was fuel organized crime, which is all it did now. That’s NOT being left or right, that’s learning from history, and knowing human behavior. So Isom, do you know ANYTHING of either? Reality is better dealt with head on, not blowhard tough talk that is a waste. The drug problem in this country ESCALATED AFTER THE “WAR”. What’s your answer for that? Grow up and wake up. Deal with reality.
Richard Healy Yep. All that wasted $ could’ve gone into social programs, affordable housing, healthcare and the build up of disadvantaged neighborhoods. Instead this country built over militarized police and more prisons than any other country in the world! That’s NOT democracy or freedom!
The Uber rich and powerful are so GLAD the masses are against each other....it keeps the masses from real change!
The first time I have heard folks taking about actually meeting the basic needs of people instead of criminality and prison
Outside America it has been a conversation for a long time. In Canada our main opposition to prison reform was the fact our right wing sold out to private prisons about a decade ago. Now our prison system sees more profit in making harsher criminals than it does reforming them.
@@azarinevil They did the same thing in the states as far as private prisons. I just wish they would realize that it doesn't work to make healthcare, law enforcement, and news profit driven. You just get bad outcomes and spend more money doing it.
@@jayv9779 Same goes for education, both our countries have been cutting education to pay for tax cuts. The most obvious place a person would want to invest. It's clear why when you have kids, but even people without them will have to deal with the consequences of it. I for one don't enjoy being a transplant patient in an anti-vax world.. my social anxiety was bad enough before LOL.
trump's like that old actress who's butler would write her fan letters so that she would think her fans still loves her
Yes. A BAD actress with fake boobs and very little intelligence!!!
Michael Brown The actress is Gloria Swanson and the movie is Sunset Boulevard
scoutershangout ...🇨🇦🇨🇦you just had to say..look at me...i know everything...and you know nothing...there’s one in every crowd...sheesh
What seems hard for me to understand is how the hell does he still have a approval rating of almost 40%?
*One question:* Do you believe humans are the most-supreme being?
As in, "the moral arc of universe.." and all that ?
I am sooo ready for the "YOU'RE FIRED" headlines on 11/11.
I wish I was an optimist like you. Don't ever underestimate the alt-right, after all, they invented the unite states
why 11/11, why not 11/4?
@@hotspearsports I think the thought is that Donald will deny and try and get a billion recounts and that's probably the longest it would take... I don't remember how long the Bush/Gore recount took though
Good gods, that entire thought just made me skip a heartbeat. I want a landslide win for Biden.
I'm looking more forward to "Trump Carried Out Of The White House Crying By Military"...
FAL G what lol
You never hear about firefighter brutality. People love those guys.
If flames could talk....lol.
Firefighters ARE the bravest people on the face of the earth! PERIOD! (Apologies to Sean Spicer)
Matt Damon might not agree. But Jimmy Kimmel might've had something to do with it.
Ok so that’s not true. Firefighters were racist af they used to spray ppl during the civil rights movement . The firefighters day job was spraying ppl with water hose and not putting out fires in black communities and black churches the night job was white hoods. Now today no the department hopefully has massively got rid of those ppl from back in the day. Las Vegas which I loved in for 8 years has some of not the best looking firefighters ever. Sorry not sure if u care lol
@ Just assumed "Las Vegas which I LOVED in for 8 years" was a typo until the sentence ended on how hot their firemen are. "Ms. Koles, burning your cinnamon toast is not a reason to call in the Fire Dept. And put a top on."
Tucker Carlson looks like the result of someone trying to recreate the "trust-fund frat boy bully" from every 80's and 90's college movie in a lab
Thissssssss. Thank you!
he looks like he's always constipated... :S
Nice. I love the way he tries to look like he’s thinking carefully about an issue. He always looks like my dog does when I turn on the vacuum cleaner.
@aljanat5 They are not able to look beyond their robot like hatred of Trump and anyone who supports him. They accuse people of being what they actually are, humorous in it's pathetic sadness, but they will not recognize they are what they despise.
@aljanat5 Agree with your statement! His viewership ratings, after Hannity, says it all.......way above any other fake news network presenter.....by far!
This was a great episode Seth - thanks!
This is the natural result of several decades of voting for "law and order" politicians who promised that putting more Americans in jail would fix everything.
Those were White politicians who were thinking about the Colored community's. Always keep them Poor, Weak and Suppressed !
And those people have the Right to be Seriously pissed off about that !
sadly, the Dems bought into this warped mindset in the 90s.
I'm not against social programs.I don't think anyone should be put in a position where they have to steal to eat, especially in a wealthy country like this one. At the same time, I'm not a fan of the "revolving door" prison system. People don't rape and molest and murder because they are "economically disadvantaged". Keeping pervs and psychos locked up is a good thing.
In addition to police department overhaul, we *strongly* need to wrest control of our prisons, jails, and work houses back from the corporate interests that they have been divested to. I'm still ashamed to say that I've been incarcerated myself at one point, and it floored me to see how the work house that I was assigned to had to literally wait to induct me because it didn't have a "bed" available. That's right: they were booking people like it was a damn cruise ship! And all because this privately run "institution of correction" was run by a corporation that charged the government $80 per filled bed, charged for services like a library, and sold the produce that the convicts farmed in the greenhouse and hobby farm. Additionally, they overcharged the convicts for toiletries, charged for phone privileges, and the vending machines in each area marked up the items for sale to unbelievable prices! Would you pay $1.50 for a package of ramen??
Seth et al. are correct: the problem is systemic and won't be changed by altering a single facet of the problem. However, I am heartened to see a new breed of politician like AOC bringing back the old school political precedent that politicians should represent and act on the desires of the constituents that they represent. It has become too commonplace and casual for people to think that it is acceptable to become a corporate shill in government. It *should* be a law that representation of any interest not public be punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both. Hell, they *should* make it so that you cannot run for public office if you do not have a Political Science PhD!
Think about it: you don't let someone operate on you without a Doctorate and a license, do you? You wouldn't let someone represent you in a court of law just because they have an interest in courtrooms? There's a reason that we require licensing and qualification of doctors and lawyers: they have the ability to do great harm to people's health and livelihoods if they are not adequately trained. So how much more harm could someone do--to not just one, but many people--as a politician??
The election of people to our government requiring no qualification, only the largest sums of money, is the single greatest failing of Capitalism that there is. Period. I will never understand how it has lasted this long.
Lastly: "were-badger" ROFL!!
Thanks, Late Night Team
Pulled it off the bone LMAO 😆💀😂🤣😆
Man, I can't wait for the season finale of America in November! Does anyone know if it was picked up for another season?
4:40 NYS 50A secrecy statute repealed; important for police accountability.
I actually watched a Fox News episode and it truly seems like they tuck Rump in with bedtime stories, saying " you're a good person, you have done nothing wrong."
Why would you suffer like that?!?
Miller:
Because that's all they do is kiss Fat Donnie's ass and stroke his fragile as hell ago---that's their full-time job.
Watch both and C-Span, Trump has done good things for this country. No president is all bad or all good.
What I don’t understand is how there’s still around 30% who support his response???
30 percent? Wait until the election and stop depending on polling. I will be voting for Trump and quite a few of my neighbors will be and we are all independent. In fact I voted for Obama twice and Hillary. However the party the moderates liked has been taken over by left wing ideologues.
R2BA The Democratic Party is only "left wing" in America because you've skewed so far right.
... I honestly don't know what to say to someone who looks at Trump's current behaviour and says "yeah, he's clearly doing a good job, I want to keep him." Did you even watch this video? 🤷🏻
@@flootzavut30daychallenge the real question is, do you ever watch right wing videos? I'd bet you don't. At least not regularly.
It’s actually around 40%, and that comes down to those who voted for trump and still think he is doing a good job because they only get their information from people like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.
"... Defacating my Dungarees..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reallocate The Police would be a much more accurate description of what the vast majority of protesters want....but its a hell of a lot less snappy a slogan.
But it would be less open to misinterpretation by Fox & Friends to scare people, so I would definitely prefer it.
“Reallocate them where? The left want to reallocate the police away from these rioters so there’s no one to stop them from terrorizing the city. So that there’s no one to protect citizens. They want the police to just go away. To get rid of them!”
It’s the job of these right wing extremist propaganda pushers to twist anything they see anyone more left them them say until it can be used to drive more people to their extremist end. It doesn’t matter how carefully you try to construct your sentence or even your platform. They will conveniently leave out that the high tax rate will only affect 30 people and only a portion of their income. They ignore the meaning, telling their base that defund the police means getting rid of the police and not reallocating funds to other services and taking things off the plate of the police so they can better do their jobs which means they won’t need as many resources anyways.
It isn’t the job of protesters in the street to chant, reallocate funding from the police force to other community services and roll back their duties to those community services so the department doesn’t need bad cops to keep up with all their jobs and they can keep the good cops who will then only have to deal with actual crimes creating a win win situation for everyone except corrupt police! If people want to know what it means they can ask leaders within the protest. If someone isn’t willing to ask what it means they’re the same people that share news articles on Facebook based on the headline alone
But it's not reallocating the police, it's reallocating the police budget. Less police, more services to prevent issues that police are called to.
Confusion is to be expected. The NY Times (center left) claims that the Minneapolis city council has voted to not just de-fund but DISBAND the police department. Who will handle the police workload? There doesn't seem to be any sort of plan.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/what-does-defund-police-mean.html
6:30: Aiming their weapons at reporters. It's no wonder we haven't heard from Reuters on this issue. Reporting in Lebanon is one thing but no way they are going into that US battlefield. You get shot at and then sued by the government for exposing the truth. Fascism plus capitalism=death to liberty.
Everybody likes to be warm and cozy, and wrapped in carpet - stuffed in the trunk with the "fact of truth" just to be gaslit, isn't warm and cozy... Though, it was just another day working for Trump, back before he was President!
Seth really pin points the truth of all that is happening in the real world. Real news you can trust and pretty funny in his delivery. This is my first donation toward the cause and I will continue to support the effort for change in our country. God bless all who are protesting and speaking out!
They’re just trying to keep him pacified as much as possible till they can get him outta there.
less military gear, more body cams
Tucker Carlson: Buy guns to protect your family.
Also Tucker Carlson: Without police, who will protect your family?
To quote John Oliver: A "Sentient Polo Mallet" XD
America really just needs something to protect itself from Tucker Carlson.
Missed the most important question: who will protect your family from the police?
🤣😂
The common denominator is "guns good. gin more guns." They're obsessed.
In Ireland, the average policeman doesn’t carry a gun. Only special reinforcements have guns. And the system works.
Unfortunately that would never work in our gun-crazed culture in the U.S.
@@dx1450 I know, and it's such a shame. Wish it were possible to wipe out all the guns in America.
Neither did the British Bobbies, what happened there? Ireland's ideology of Christianity hasn't been threatened, yet. Hopefully, it won't need to deal with a radical left like these other democracy countries.
“Antifa skate teens roaming the streets in their Hamilton t-shirts forgiving student loans and forcing people to use their free healthcare. ‘I’m sorry sir, but I have no choice to detain you, take you to the hospital and get that rash checked out, free of charge. Now, jump on the back of my board.’” Brilliant! Yes, please!
A translation for defunding the police:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Exactly. Police are the prevention, prisons are the cure.
@@nneuhaus84 a ounce of prevention: reform police aka expense cuts, is worth pound of cure: money towards education, creation of jobs, public health services, mental health services, community centers, you know things that deter crime. Instead of constant police oppression and harassment. I don't need the police to come if I am having mental health issues, I don't needed to be treated as a threat, I need to be seen as a civilian that requires medical attention period, not if and nor but.
Or, if we look at the current effect of funding the police at the expense of all those other things
"When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail".
Stop buying bigger hammers, broaden your toolkit.
@@nneuhaus84 "Prisons are the cure???" Think again.
@@nneuhaus84 We have the most prisoners per capita in the world. Countries that have WAY fewer prisoners have lower crime rates. BUT they have SOCIAL SERVICES. ie universal healthcare, public housing, free college, free childcare, etc. See the difference?
Died laughing at "My wife forgot to pay our Twitter bill."
That WAS funny! 😂😂😂 especially when he added "is that a thing?... "
Seth makes me laugh even when I'm having the worst day possible! ❤ you Seth!!! 😁
The look the catcher gives 50 after his hilarious pitch, is actually funnier than the pitch itself.
Does anyone else find Tucker Carlson’s tone to be the most patronising and grating that you’ve ever heard?!
Self-righteous is the word I apply to Tucker's tone.
I was thinking narcissistic, or even just plain rude
He looks like the confused kid in science class that your trying to explain how seasons happen.
Evaaaaaaaa!!!!
Yeah, and Sean Hannity looks and sounds like one of those douchebag wiseguy mafia characters in a Martin Scorsese flick.
This wave of protest should not end until there is some actual reform brought in this country.
"Soulless business potato" I'm dying
I was JUST reincarnated post “potato-brained Caligula”, and now this. Not everybody has nine lives, Seth!
🤣🤣
If your banana bread is too dry, you didn't put enough bananas in it
Good work. Thank you. Rock on
Remember this is the man who wants to police space.
Probably because there's no one there to appose him. Or he wants nukes upthere to bomb Mexico and other country's.
He wants to end all (multilateral) cooperation with earthly countries, because they only take advantage of the US...
But he just signed some very good, the best, trade deals with Pluto and Saturn.
He has very good relationship with the president of Mars. Like never before.
So annoying
I'm sure he saw Real Genius and instead of taking away the message that science creating assassination weapons=bad he got "hey, they can make a laser to kill targets from space, so cool..."
That could be a political solution. Keep the racist and otherwise corrupt police on the force (appease the Republicans by not actually firing or imprisoning them) but just send them all to another planet and never allow them back. Problem solved!
You are the KING of insults. Imagine telling someone,
"you go find a stick, we're gonna do vowels over here"
VOTE Blue in november!! End the gop swamp
@@johno7617 nobody gonna vote for blue yo😂😂😂😂
Civil wars and ww3 is coming. China is laughing at how divided America are HAHAHAHAH 😂😂
Imagine calling a comedian mean for telling jokes 😂
@@Saiputera Hey - just like 4 years ago, the MAJORITY will vote blue. 'Yo'!😊☺😜
Every time I've ever seen a police officer, on the street, in a restaurant, etc.,, I've always thanked them for their service to our community and their protection to our community! I also like to shake their hand!!
And THAT’S why I get so much of my news from deep dives on late night tv.
Just get ready now, in June to begin training for November as though you were preparing for a marathon! Galvanize, organize and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Like Wisconsin and Georgia, if we have our vote by mail suppressed, we may be standing in wind, rain, cold, long, long lines for HOURS! But, think of it this way: a few hours of discomfort fighting for our inalienable right to vote or four more YEARS of tyranny, lawlessness, corruption and the continued erosion of our Constitutional rights.
Vote, no matter how, no matter the obstacles they put in front of you, VOTE IN NOVEMBER!!!
Remember, it's your Dem leaders that are failing.
If you're stuck in line for hours, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate may not be the best idea. But perhaps your bladder is much younger than mine.
Scotch Morrison of course! Republicans control the presidency and the senate, how silly of me to think that they’re the problem.
@Ejuba
Considering Biden and Obama saved the US when the last economic crash landed 12 years ago (that's not debatable) maybe electing the only guy in town who's actually got experience turning an economic catastrophe into a success story might be a good idea when the US is headed into a recession far worse than the Depression post CoV might be a good idea.
I don't understand why people keep looking at *anyone* and thinking Trump is a better alternative.
The worst president in US history by any and every margin is a better alternative because Biden might do a couple of Progressive things to satiate his base? Really? "Biden might not be perfect, so let's vote for the guy who's a proven disaster again instead." Because... logic..?
@@Mystro84 Well said!
*The closer we get to his lose, the more erratic he will become. We need secret service to keep a close eye on trump so he doesn’t blow up the US when he thinks we betrayed him by voting him out. He is sick and delusional. He needs to go.*
November, December and January are going to be fun.
Trump has To Go Down 🙋♀️
Ah.....that's cute. Joe Biden is literally pathetic as well. (People are going to sit this one out as well.......oh wait! They sure didn't in 2016 and they aren't going to now!) But the problem is......well......he's NOT going to go. Russia and North Korea has invested in this "clown" too much already, AND, they will literally unleash tons upon tons of "negative adds" towards Joe Biden (and his son). I'm sorry folks, that's just the way that it is. Sure.....people are angry, people are furious, people don't want him (tell me something I didn't know in 2016). Remember, this "clown" grabbed a woman by the.........you know. And.....he literally "insulted" his way to the White House, and now, he's going to "insult" his way to reelection once again.
That's what scares me. What will he do when he loses? What will he do? A graceful exit is not in the cards.
I hope so, I’m not so sure anymore
Many years ago, I overheard a rape in progress in the apartment next door. I called 911. A few years ago, an opossum was observed on a fire escape in my building complex. Someone called 911. I observe that while both calls received immediate NYPD response, one deserved it a little more than the other.
Seths has over the course of the summer become my favourite comedy show.
"He is a soulless business potato." 🤣
That unfair to the potato
cats and claws! cats and glory! Shame that some people think name calling is comedy
This has been a closer look...a meticulous review...a vigilant examination...a rigorous consideration...a watchful study...a keen inspection...
"Cobra Hair dye" lmao
"There is no Grecian formula in this dojo!!!"
"Sweep the comb over!!!"
"Get him a dying kit, Johnny!!!"
And I'm spent....
To be honest, I've never liked Seth Meyers with Weekend Update. But these 'closer looks' have given me a new found respect for him.
$400K for ads in a district he will never win? Yup, sounds like Trump: spending spree on vanity.
He will NEVER win DC. 97% of the vote went to Hillary. Also we love our police force. They're part of the community and their first experiences with our youth are positive, as they do outreach to form ties. We don't fear them here because they treat us with respect. Our boys in blue are the best in the nation
It's not their money, and it's easier than listening to Big Baby whine.
M Murase
Cheaper than all the gold spray paint for his commodes.
On the bright side, that's $400,000 they WON'T be spending in states where he still has a chance of winning.
and from the Taxpayers.
Police have often been the go-to solution for local authorities for years now. Homelessness, drug use, mental health? Police will handle that. Dismantling city police and leaving policing to counties is not only cheaper for city budgets to pay but is also removes that as a go-to solution. They'd have to focus on solutions rather than just punishing the problems, and police could focus on actual emergencies instead of being burdened with all the problems cities don't want to fix.
Exactly. Great explanation.
@Ejuba Don't you think that smaller police forces could/would mean better pay and training?
Quit funding military weapons and tanks for police. Defund the military police.
@Ejuba Even if that is true... with policing being the biggest cut of the pie in almost every area (most funded by far)... that is not on the money that drives down wages. It's like suggesting that since Wal-mart was so profitable, they decided to actually start paying people living wages. (here is a hint, they are extremely profitable and the only people who make extra money from it are shareholders)
Exactly. Defunding the police means that there should be funding for US jobs, mental health, unemployment, schools, shelter for the homeless and so on. And defunding the police means that there should not be expensive military weapons here at home.
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Thanks Seth.