Posted on 11/17/2020 7:03:08 AM PST by RightGeek
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said he doesn't know any candidate who supports defunding the police—even though numerous left-wingers have called for slashing police budgets or abolishing police departments altogether.
"Nobody I know who's running for office is talking about ‘defunding the police,'" Sanders said in a Sunday CNN interview, referring to candidates who ran in this month's election. "What we're talking about is making police officers accountable."
The far-left House Democrats known as "the Squad" and other newly elected progressives, however, have said otherwise.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) argued that slashing $1 billion from the NYPD's budget didn't go far enough.
"Defunding police means defunding police," she said in a statement. "If these reports are accurate, then these proposed ‘cuts' to the NYPD budget are a disingenuous illusion. This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues."
Fellow "Squad" member Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) backed the Minneapolis City Council's vow to abolish its city's police department.
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Bernie Sanders is lying or senile or both. But then we knew that.
Burger King should sue him for infringing their trademark on account of that Whopper.
Lying, but that is a core brief of Communism/socialism...The end justifies the means.
He doesn’t know any of his own constituents. Ok.
Just an observation, about this “defunding the police” rhetoric.
If these liberals have to get out there, and explain that “defunding” the police doesn’t really mean what it sounds like, they have already lost the debate in the court of public opinion. If they care about public opinion.
Just in general, if you come up with slogans and policy positions, then have to constantly backtrack and explain that the position isn’t really what people think it is, you are losing the debate over that policy.
Bernie, you’re a lying, dog face pony soldier.
Too late, Bernie and the Leftists....you can NOT walk this one back.
Another Socialist FAIL!
Hopefully someone will introduce him to Biden and Harris.
So Sanders doesn’t know AOC?
Communists lie. Always, always, always...
They don’t want to defund the police, they want to Be the Police.
No, he is not. He’s a dangerous statist.
Now that they believe that they are in power, yes the police will be FEDERALIZED and heavily funded.
Their primary mission will be to go after the Dems political opponents.
The police will do as they’re told. Any notion that they’re there to protect the people and that they will follow the constitution is a fairy tale for fools.
Well, they’ve already done it in NY, LA, Minneapolis, to name a few.
de Blasio, the lunatic mayor of NYC, disbanded an elite anti-crime unit.
Shootings soar 205 percent after NYPD disbands anti-crime unit
Despite exploding violent crime, he has absolutely no intention of restoring it.
“And stop calling me a Socialist!”
Bernie is about 2 years away from being a right-wing extremist Nazi by AOC and her truly radical leftist cohorts.
People on the left ALWAYS eat their own. Even Bill Maher has acknowledged that countless times.
Socialism is a lie and Socialists are all liars.
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