The photos of the "crowds" at the tank parade remind me of when Bill Hicks would come on stage in an almost-empty club, scan the room slowly, and announce "I've had more people in bed than this" ...
When the president sends a cabinet member on TV to announce "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
This is from 2022 but it was absolutely right. The practiced buffoonery of Trump 1, all the "just kiddings" and "seriously but not literallys" absolutely succeeded in desensitizing people who are hardly paying any attention to the harder stuff they always intended to do next. ...
The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff horrifies some of the same people who cheered when Trump promised to do it. There are true sociopaths who love this, but "No, I meant only the BAD immigrants! Not my coworker/friend/neighbor!" is as likely a reaction as enthusiasm. You cannot do immigration policy that satisfies these people because what they want is nonsensical.
So by the time center-left parties fully commit to chasing the far right by "getting tough" on immigration, the backlash has already begun to build and they walk right into it. "I thought you people wanted this!" No, they want something impossible and convinced themselves they'd could have it - the "eat whatever you want AND lose weight!" of immigration policies.
It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try. ...
AP: Trump extends olive branch, invites Musk to White House cellar to taste some brand new amontillado ...
West of the Cascades says:
One of the many, horrific, tragic things about this disaster is that an enquiry in 1990 (the year after) by Lord Justice Taylor determined that "the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control" — but it then took another 27 years after that for those responsible to be charged with criminal offenses. Those proceedings are now ongoing. I hope David Duckenfield spends eternity in hell pressed up against a fence unable to breathe.
Nick says:
Co-produced with ESPN as part of the "30 for 30" series. As a Brit, I have vivid memories (I was 11 at the time) hearing about this tragedy as the news came through. Throughout it all, the Sun newspaper behaved abysmally, publishing outright lies and the foulest calumnies about the behaviour of Liverpool fans.
The Taylor Report was the best thing that ever happened to English football, though many believe it was the *worst* thing that ever happened: in their view, the proposal (accepted by all clubs) to convert all stadia to all-seater arenas precipitated the gentrification of the game, the sale of broadcast rights to subscription-only providers (Sky, and now BT), sky-rocketing ticket prices … so on and so on. Oddly, there is an increasing groundswell for the reintroduction of standing areas
swkellogg says:
Very good.
Both Sides Do It says:
I had to look up a(ll) c(ops) a(re) b(astards), and display the results of my three seconds of research here as a public service:
"An accompanying symbol is 1312, named for an alphabet cipher of the phrase (where a = 1, c = 3 , etc.)"
"Today, in most countries in Europe, publishing of these symbols is forbidden by law and punishable as a minor offense because it’s recognized as inappropriate behavior and abetment on riots."
Area Man says:
Let us not forget, either, that the Rupert Murdoch press muddied the waters by immediately branding the victims as the perpetrators of violence on the police, running fiction about spectators "urinating on our brave cops" and supposedly beating up police doing CPR.
Kelvin MacKenzie, the odious editor of The Sun (which makes the New York Post look like Proust), had to be dissuaded from running a front-page reading "YOU SCUM" directed at the Hillsborough victims.
(It's almost like those Fox News reports of the New Black Panther Party intimidating Republican voters and Muslims dancing the streets after 9/11, huh?)
Rupert Murdoch and his acolytes have been among the most poisonous influences on the English-speaking world for 40 years. When Mike Royko said "No self-respecting fish wants to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper" he hadn't seen or heard anything yet.
Dave Dell says:
I'll never be able to serve on a jury in my county. One of the questions is always something on the order of: "Do you trust the police."
No, and I don't believe they can be thorough, accurate, impartial, knowledgeable, etc.
Townsend Harris says:
In the USA, the exact language of the Miranda warning is "anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law".
"Cop culture" is remarkably similar to "Catholic priest culture": the bad apples in both organizations get protected as a matter of loyalty.
Mom Says I*m Handsome says:
Dave Dell, I'm jarred by your statement, because it rings true for me too. I relate to cops in the same way that many bigoted white people relate to black people: that they're fundamentally untrustworthy because of their deficient culture. Can't imagine that I'll be terribly popular the next time voir dire comes around, but I couldn't in good conscience say I could be an impartial juror in a criminal case.
(For the sake of demographics, I'm a 51-year-old white guy with a college degree and one black friend.)
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Huh. I thought you said you hated horror movies.
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