When Trump said he wanted to bring the troops back home, he should have been more specific.
When your fact-checking service gets terminal Galaxy Brain.
ALSO: he can’t fire local cops either
Four months after Clark took office, the police created a firestorm by fatally strangling private security guard Lloyd Stephenson. Two East Precinct officers sold T-shirts imprinted with, “Don’t choke ’em, smoke ’em,” suggesting that police should shoot suspects rather than attempt a less lethal means of control.
Clark found their actions deplorable, “so I fired them,” he said. “I thought I could fire people.”
The officers appealed, however, and were reinstated by an arbiter. To Clark, it was further evidence that the Portland police system did not work.
I loaded the gun, pointed it at your head, and pulled the trigger but it jammed. I guess everything worked out.
Sorry to keep harping on this but their response to the outrage here just doesn’t help things. This makes me sad because in general they do a really good job with fact checking, but they really screwed the pooch here.
From the link:
PROMISE KEPT — Promises earn this rating when the original promise is mostly or completely fulfilled.
PROMISE BROKEN – The promise has not been fulfilled. This could occur because of inaction by the executive or lack of support from the legislative branch or other group that was critical for the promise to be fulfilled. A Promise Broken rating does not necessarily mean that the executive failed to advocate for the policy.
Maybe they should just abandon this “promise” rating entirely. It’s way too squishy for my liking with its, “they tried to do something they said they would do but failed” = promise broken and “they did something they said they wouldn’t do but failed in the end” = promise kept. Sorry, but that’s just bullshit.
I would consider it far less of an affront to try and fail to do something you said you would do than try and fail to do something you said you wouldn’t do, ya know?
Yeah, the Trumpies love that logic. I argued with a friend of mine on Facebook about it once. His take was, “Trump hasn’t actually cut funding for X, can we focus on things he’s actually DONE?”
Point of fact, whatever the hell it was (possibly social security, medicaid, I forget), was absolutely proposed in the budget, which hadn’t been passed yet. He stood his ground that because the budget hadn’t been passed yet that we couldn’t take Trump to task for anything yet.
And that is the level of apologism we are dealing with.
On the grounds that Chicago is perfectly capable of disappearing its own citizens?
/s
This doesn’t surprise me unfortunately. The good thing about unions is it helps protect workers from being steam rolled by whoever is in charge. The bad thing is it also allows for the protections of people that don’t deserve it.
My spouse has seen teachers and education staff who should definitely not be employed any longer keep their jobs because the teachers union protects them despite the complete and total incompetence.
The Scots might be in first place, but ya don’t want to be insulted by a Chicagoan either. We can bring it!
Sadly, your statement is true.
And now my Chicago pride is tucking its tail between its legs.
According to Nostradumbass…HE asked for the acuity test. (beginning piece on A Closer Look)
Well, duh.
ETA: That video of the two asylum seekers…so heartbreaking.
