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Montauk6

(8,079 posts)
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 01:02 PM Aug 2022

Oh NOW they want to Defund The Police... pathetic

The GOP Suddenly Wants to Defund Law Enforcement After Feds Raid Mar-a-Lago


After years defending the continued militarization of law enforcement agencies across the United States, Republican lawmakers appeared to have a change of heart Monday after learning the FBI executed a search at the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump. Faced with the possibility that the “good guys” aren’t necessarily on their side, prominent members of the party that made backing the blue a central tenet of its political platform began spouting rhetoric that belied their professed allegiance to the “rule of law.”

“The GOP majority must defund all forms of tyranny throughout Biden’s government,” prominent right-wing figurehead Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) wrote on Twitter, tagging the official FBI account. She later added: “Weaponizing the FBI to raid President Trump’s home makes Watergate look like nothing.” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), meanwhile, embraced the GOP’s favored doomsday approach. “We must destroy the FBI,” he tweeted. “We must save America.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mar-a-lago-raid-gop-response-defund-fbi-1394486/

I suppose that if they ever have a presidential candidate win a majority of popular votes but not the ones that count, they'll be armed with gasoline cans and torches on their way to burn down the Electoral College.

Morons....
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Oh NOW they want to Defund The Police... pathetic (Original Post) Montauk6 Aug 2022 OP
They hurt Dear Leader underpants Aug 2022 #1
They don't hear their own jaw dropping hypocrisy cause demons don't have human ears, Alexander Of Assyria Aug 2022 #2
It's a powerful talking point gratuitous Aug 2022 #3
 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
2. They don't hear their own jaw dropping hypocrisy cause demons don't have human ears,
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 01:13 PM
Aug 2022

and don’t understand how video tape works.

All I can come up with!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. It's a powerful talking point
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 01:18 PM
Aug 2022

And the Republicans have just given it away. I can't tell you how many times I've run up against this disingenuous lie, but I have to say it's pretty effective. As soon as you start to explain what's meant by defund the police (i.e. quit equipping police forces with arsenals more appropriate for war than for law enforcement), you've lost the discussion.

But now that Republican nitwits are coming out to defund the FBI, the hypocrisy is so glaringly obvious that even a Fox viewer might get it.

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