Posted on 07/03/2021 5:20:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most of us recall as children getting into a dispute with another kid and then blaming him for starting a fight. When Mom approached you said, "he hit me first." The other kid denies it and accuses you of hitting him first.
As adults we become more sophisticated when lying. That's why White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week in a briefing that "Some might say that the other party was for defunding the police..." all because congressional Republicans won't sign off on two "infrastructure" bills.
Psaki is channeling the line of the day from Democrats who want to divert attention from Democratic mayors and city councils across the country who have voted to take money away from police departments, causing cops to quit, retire and making it difficult to attract new recruits.
The facts say otherwise, that's if facts matter anymore.
Oakland, California, a city run and ruined by Democrats for years, decided to cut the police budget by $18 million while crime is spiraling out of control. Shootings in Oakland have increased by 70 percent, homicides by 90 percent and carjackings by 88 percent. Burglaries, rapes, and other crimes have also significantly increased.
Anyone who doesn't see a connection between cutting police budgets and rising crime is smoking dope, which by the way is becoming legal in more states.
At least 13 other cities have cut police budgets, cities all run by Democrats.
Forbes magazine is keeping track. Perhaps the most ridiculous decision, among many, is one made by the city council in Austin, Texas. Forbes reports it "vot(ed) unanimously to cut $150 million (roughly one-third) from the police budget, reinvesting much of that sum in social programs, including food access, violence prevention and abortion access.
How does "abortion access" reduce violent and property crime, especially since abortion is violence against innocent unborn human life?
It's not that social programs are an untried strategy to reduce crime. Trillions have been spent on them. "Midnight basketball" was tried during the Clinton administration on the theory that shooting hoops would dissuade teens from shooting each other. Like so many other feel-good programs, this one failed to reach its stated goal. At least in that basketball bill was a provision to hire 100,000 additional police officers.
The reason we have the law and police officers sworn to enforce it (and politicians who take oaths to uphold the law) is that there are people who won't obey the law under any circumstances. The left has used incidents of police brutality and alleged racist behavior to advance an agenda that harms the very people who want and need police protection.
TV interviews of residents in cities and neighborhoods with large minority populations have shown they don't want fewer police, but more. They don't feel safe and now neither do increasing numbers of police officers who fear for their lives and careers if they attempt to apprehend suspects.
Democrats would not be getting away with their ridiculous claim that Republicans are responsible for defunding police without a compliant media and the apparent disappearance of Trump-era fact-checkers.
Thomas Jefferson was right when he said about liars: "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, 'til at length it becomes habitual..."
Ms. Psaki, are you and your fellow Democrats paying attention?
I doubt it.
Dimocrats have always been allergic to facts
Projection is a hallmark of D’rats and proggies.
They ALWAYS accuse the other side of what THEY do that’s wrong or bad or poor outcome.
They are adult children. Time to treat them as children.
The places that are defunding and the politicians that are doing it are all dems. It’s so stupid. They are lying to everyone and I wonder how many believe it.
Republicans are defunding police in Democrat controlled cities? Ok….
Of course not- these are the same people who blame white supremacists when a black man attacks an Asian.
Are there really people so dumb who are falling for this?
Don’t answer that, I know there are.
Still, I don’t think it is a majority nor ever be one.
Yes, some people are stupid, but not most.
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
―Abraham Lincoln
The Rats never seem to run out of lies.
Is this the first time Democrats have lied???
When people are addicted to cellphone screens, and used to getting information within 30 sound-bytes,
you can't necessarily expect them to be alert, intelligent, or digest any thought provoking content.
When all the media are daisy-chaining and singing the same song, the simple minded take that information as gospel.
It didn't used to be that way; at some point we, as a nation, have forgotten "Critical Thinking" as being too time consuming.
Media is complicit
Dont let the Democrats get away with calling this a funding issue. More police will accomplish nothing if we have prosecutors, courts, and laws that are soft on crime.
It’s called OFFENSE...we can learn from them, if we choose to (but we won’t). For starters - we can assign motivations to their policies. In this case, OUR SIDE should be saying things like:
“Democrats HATE black people so much that they want them DEAD, that’s why they continue to support defunding the police while murder rates skyrocket.”
Not so hard...either we play at THEIR LEVEL, or they continue to defeat us.
I still remember when that bitch put out the picture of Trump’s wife...and then Cruz claimed that he had nothing to do with that hit (LOL).
Trump didn’t bother to say something “Oh yes you did, she is your friend”. He just PUNCHED BACK with his own picture. The Cruz supporters here said that was unfair, as the bitch was not part of Cruz’s campaign, as if phones don’t exist-LOL. Regardless of whether the hit on Trump’s wife was coordinated with Cruz - that was the last time ANYONE connected in any way to Cruz tried a stunt like that.
This is beyond projection at this point. And I don’t blame them for doing it. They have the power and the programmed drones.
They can commit any crime they want, tell everyone that it is the Republicans who did it and know that CNN will parrot it back and their drone viewers will repeat it as if it’s fact.
How bad is it?
Let’s say that Joe Biden breaks into the house of a CNN drone viewer. Let’s say he shoots the place up. Said victim (a CNN viewer) would watch CNN report that the attack was carried out by white supremacists and would believe it and repeat it.
“Hey everyone, my house was shot up by white supremacists!!”
Democrats are always guilty of what they call and blame others of.
Oh yeah, the marxists have also declared that down is now up and vice versa!
Biden just unveiled his plan for a permanent Democrat gov: the Biden definition of “white supremacy” makes at least 26% of Americans into criminals—probably more. Whatever “they” don’t like is redefined as white supremacy and terrorism. They have that power now.....only a very specific flavor of racism and bigotry is on the Biden menu; it places all of our troubles on the shoulders of white Americans.......
...we, as a nation, have forgotten “Critical Thinking” as being too time consuming.”
Our TEACHERS, as a group, stopped teaching critical thinking, purposely — to create a sheeple society.
Our PARENTS, as a group, didn’t know or care enough to teach their/our children critical thinking.
Now, America has younger generations incapable of applying logic, data and questioning to subjects to reach a reasoned, common sense conclusion (critical thinking).
They are sheeple.
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