2020 Election

[Dill]

(09-13-2020, 01:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote: As I recall it The Senate brought a reform bill to the floor and the Dems wouldn't even discuss it. 

Trump has made mistakes throughout this pandemic, but he doesn't hold a monopoly. The law Makers of the country are just pointing fingers while doing nothing except getting their hair did and calling people killers. 

As to the riots I'm not sure what else you want him to do. He's offered federal assistance to any city that wants it.l

He backed off in Portland so the riots would stop. How'd that work out?

But as you say. Folks will create their own reality

Yes, and you are demonstrating how they do it, via superficial "equivalence" of Dem and Trump behavior.

Trump doesn't hold a "monopoly" on mistakes?--Like all mistakes were equal, by people equally empowered and equally willing to rectify them.

Dems wouldn't discuss a reform bill? --the same Dems who support police reform and introduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act? But now they won't support a Repub bill that won't mandate body cams and ban chokeholds?

Trump offered assistance and "backed off" in Portland? --Trump sent unmarked Federal agents on an arrest spree, and backed off because of the lawsuits? This has what to do with reform?

All your are points abstracted from any context. None meets my objection that Trump would block police reform while in office, the part of my post you are supposedly responding to, while ignoring the horrendous record referred to in the rest. All ignore how he foments unrest, warning his white base that "They" will invade the suburbs, that he will back the police and use them and the US military to "dominate the streets."

This is the president whose DOJ "removed the handcuffs" from police and neutralized all existing Consent Decrees. As I say, little can be done while he is in office blocking reform.

But to judge his actions in relation to reform you have to know at least SOMETHING about the history of police reform before Trump along with his specific history of non support. No one with a modicum of that knowledge would be wondering what else Trump could be asked to do.