I (don't) approve of this ad...
For a few months now I've been hearing the phrase "defund the police" and the first time it was someone who feared it (literally) meant taking away money appropriated for police, as in dismantling the police force. Woooo ~~~ so scary!Yes, it sounds that way as it comes out it the light of current protests.
The TV was on and I was watching some talk show videos on YouTube explaining the purpose of defunding was to be proactive and develop community programs to help resolve issues BEFORE it escalates into a problem for the police to handle. That makes sense. In the case of domestic abuse. By the time police are called, it's too late for something that counseling may have helped avoid a confrontation.
My attention was steered to an ad on TV in the other room... a political ad. I missed the visual. By the time I entered the room the ad was ending and Donald Trump endorsed it.
15 minutes later the ad played again. It showed protest/riots and claimed you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America. The ad depicted a darkened unmanned police department and a single light flashing on the phone that was playing a recorded message. The recording instructed several options for the caller and if you leave a message, someone will get back to you within a week!
I'm thinking the season for dirty politics is in full swing.
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They play on the irrational fears of the ignorant and dumb.
FOX 'news' specializes in this.
He is not challenging the court about DACA as today he sign to help Daca: he wants votes.
He will make the second stimulus check much more than what the democrats wants: he wants votes.
He made Kanye West said he will run for president (to take away the black votes): he wants votes.
etc. etc. etc. etc....
We all need the police to respond to our little emergencies. What we don't need is to become victims of those calls. The police department needs to train, retrain, and educated their policemen/women.
Instead SOME of that money will instead fund social programs to better deal
with issues that the police are not good with.
You call 911 with an issue and based on the answers to their questions,
they send a specialist for that issue, rather than automatically sending police.
The focus of my blog is about deceptive campaign ads.
Trump has lost it and the GOP, at last, is finally seeing the daylight, with each day more and more Senates going against Trump's outlandish remarks and decisions.
"Republicans are really fed up': GOP increasingly splits with Trump as his polls drag"
and more social services were available to help people in need ?
The "riots" wouldn't be going on.
2) Biden is already on record for not in favor of defunding.
3) Since I mentioned it twice, let me know if you need a venue for blog comments about defunding the police and I'll post an appropriate blog and we can all meet there.
2) Biden is already on record for not in favor of defunding.
3) Since I mentioned it twice, let me know if you need a venue for blog comments about defunding the police and I'll post an appropriate blog and we can all meet there.
"make (someone) politically aware
, especially by persuading them of the truth of views considered radical."
Aka Woke.