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mdbl

(4,973 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:15 AM Jul 2020

Trump's new campaign commercial about defunding the police

Trump has a new campaign commercial that threatens anyone else elected president will defund the police. Joe Biden would never defund the police. What Trump fails to realize is you can run a country with law and order without being a total asshole and constitutional law breaker. That is what Biden's commercial should say.

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Trump's new campaign commercial about defunding the police (Original Post) mdbl Jul 2020 OP
Yep. "I do not support defunding police," Biden wrote jmg257 Jul 2020 #1
Nothing is going to change until the white power gangs known as police unions Celerity Jul 2020 #2
President cannot defund the police Coleman Jul 2020 #3
+ struggle4progress Jul 2020 #5
There is a funny part to this mercuryblues Jul 2020 #4
ok now you are assuming Trump can read mdbl Jul 2020 #6
According to his niece he does have a learning disability mercuryblues Jul 2020 #7
so when he mocked physically challenged people mdbl Jul 2020 #8
Partly projection. partly deflection mercuryblues Jul 2020 #11
I saw that one and I was laughing. procon Jul 2020 #9
While I agree with you,, mdbl Jul 2020 #10

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
1. Yep. "I do not support defunding police," Biden wrote
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:24 AM
Jul 2020

I do not support defunding police,” Biden wrote in an op-ed for USA Today. “The better answer is to give police departments the resources they need to implement meaningful reforms, and to condition other federal dollars on completing those reforms. … Every single police department should have the money they need to institute real reforms.”

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/defund-the-police-joe-biden-cops/

Celerity

(43,381 posts)
2. Nothing is going to change until the white power gangs known as police unions
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:31 AM
Jul 2020

are prosecuted and smashed to powder under RICO Act statutes.

Coleman

(853 posts)
3. President cannot defund the police
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:32 AM
Jul 2020

The President can hold back any federal aid to police. But it is the state and local governments that control the funding of the police.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
4. There is a funny part to this
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:45 AM
Jul 2020

I live in a reliably red area and the ads are playing here. Why would trump feel the need to play his ads where he is supposed to win? Could it be that his internal polls are worse than what public ones say?

I know last month some internal polls were leaked and they were so bad that trump threatened to fire Pascal. Are this months even worse?

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
7. According to his niece he does have a learning disability
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:02 AM
Jul 2020

Dyslexia comes to mind. It was really noticeable when he held up the bible. He looked at it several times and still held it up backwards.

I have a friend who is dyslexic, they also spell bad. At least they did until spell check came out. OTH trump thinks he is smarter than spell check.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
11. Partly projection. partly deflection
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:24 AM
Jul 2020

It is ingrained in him to mock those who he sees as smarter than him to make them seem lesser than him. 'If I mock people for their disabilities, they won't notice mine,' type of deal. AKA bully behavior.

procon

(15,805 posts)
9. I saw that one and I was laughing.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:08 AM
Jul 2020

It was so hamhanded and over the top that it could have been a work of satire. Seriously, that ad was aimed at the paranoid bunkerville crowd who are expecting their imaginary dystopian future.

Anyone who actually thinks Trump is telling a truthful tale with his doom and gloom, carnage in America (another horror story dragged up from Steven Miller's twisted mind) is laboring with as many mental health problems as he is.

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
10. While I agree with you,,
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:12 AM
Jul 2020

The rural counties that decide a lot in the electoral college have those gullible people to which you refer. Somehow, they have to be convinced because they eat that crap up like it was candy laced with cocaine.

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