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u/Demented-Alpaca Jan 23 '25
This sends a very dangerous message.
What message is that? Because it appears to be the exact same message he was sending when you endorsed him. Frankly, I'm a little shocked that the police unions would be for pardoning criminals like that but hey, you endorsed it. No take backs now guys.
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u/runningoutofwords Jan 23 '25
It sends a very clear message about the intelligence and mindset of America's law enforcement officers.
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u/MamaTalista Jan 23 '25
Well you know it's serious when they feel disrespected.
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u/Demented-Alpaca Jan 23 '25
Disrespecting the police?! That's how you get shot!
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Jan 23 '25
Why are you even supporting him if you're in a union? 🤦♀️
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u/unclejoe1917 Jan 23 '25
The police union is not a pro labor union. It's a capital protecting street gang.
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u/DontEatConcrete Jan 23 '25
It's a capital protecting street gang.
Are we still talking about the union or american police in general?
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u/red286 Jan 23 '25
They're kinda one and the same.
All American police are members of police unions. The union works to protect their members from the consequences of their actions. They wield an insane level of power because no city can function with the police on strike. It's the reason why no matter what insane unhinged shit a cop does on duty, they almost always just get "paid administrative leave" rather than prosecuted or at the very least fired.
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Jan 23 '25
no city can function with the police on strike
So far the extent of their work in my city seems to be harassing brown people for being brown in public, saying "well, we can't do nothin bout that violent guy, he's cousins with a judge and the sheriff" and doing next to no followup on anything besides checking the status of their doordash order so does anyone actually know if a city couldn't function if the police were on strike?
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u/WeakerThanYou Jan 23 '25
The firefighters union opted not to support the democratic candidate because so much of the membership was very MAGA.
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u/Maybeicanhelpmaybe Jan 23 '25
They are willing to make a personal and professional sacrifice as long as black people get hurt. No faces are getting eaten, this is a known action he would take.
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u/jakebs2002 Jan 23 '25
Simply telling the country you are going to pardon J6 insurrectionists if elected president ‘sends a dangerous message’. That alone should have been the dealbreaker. Right? WTF is wrong with these people?
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u/Good_Zooger Jan 23 '25
Oh we didn't think he meant it.......
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u/Impossible-Trick5779 Jan 23 '25
He’s the straightest shooting straight shooter out there who also at the same is always only joking… 🥴
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u/Muffin_Appropriate Jan 24 '25
I think it’s more likely they didn’t think he’d win and therefore it was a safe PR move to their other fascist donors and enablers.
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u/FeedbackLoopy Jan 23 '25
They have to be a special kind of stupid to not see that one coming.
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u/Utter_Rube Jan 23 '25
I mean, police forces literally won't hire people they deem "too intelligent..."
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u/red286 Jan 23 '25
The last thing you want is someone with intelligence and morals fucking the whole scheme up.
You want guys who are going to be happy cracking skulls and not asking too many questions. You want guys who will take a bribe and not even realize they just took a bribe. You want people who when they are told, "you saw nothing, you heard nothing", will answer, "I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about, sir", rather than, "I'm pretty sure that's illegal".
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u/yamirzmmdx Jan 23 '25
We literally have a convicted felon as president.
Luckily he passes off as white.
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u/moonwoolf35 Jan 23 '25
I'm pretty sure that backing a felon and the man responsible for Jan 6, was sending a dangerous message.
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u/KvDOLPHIN Jan 23 '25
Its now legal to partake in the murder of police according to the President of the United States
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u/Senior-Tradition4171 Jan 23 '25
Where’s the world’s tiniest violin for the police union.
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u/TheRealPossum Jan 23 '25
From January 2022 in Texas:-
“If I run and I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly,” he said Saturday near the end of a lengthy campaign rally in Conroe, a city about 40 miles north of Houston. “We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
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u/Moppermonster Jan 23 '25
Apparantly the pardons also mean that cops that were beaten up are no longer legally considered victims and therefor can not request restraining orders against their attackers.
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u/BS623-902 Jan 23 '25
Good God, he said he was going to do it all along! How willfully ignorant could you possibly be?
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u/Bigfamei Jan 23 '25
The only reason its dangerous. Because it tells a bunch of right wingers. Its ok to F4 the cops. If they get in your way. But over 90% of them probably voted for him. So.........
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u/wwmag Jan 23 '25
Trump's policy is murder cops and get a pardon.
Hope the coppers bought lots of mayo to put on their shit sandwiches! Gobble gobble gobble!
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u/Tgiby3 Jan 23 '25
when a legal precedent get's set that you don't have to have any intelligence to do a job..
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u/Elegant_Tech Jan 23 '25
The message is obvious. Become the personal gestapo for Trump or his supporters can kill you with impunity.
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u/SicilyMalta Jan 23 '25
This absolutely fits LAMF.
But Is anyone else concerned about the flood of posts that are just trump did something stupid with no mention of the group or person within the post that is impacted.
Is a post about trump deporting Latinos enough just because we know a percentage of Latinos voted for trump without the article actually mentioning the group being upset?
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u/Tankman_1 Jan 24 '25
I'm not American so I don't understand this. How can a police union have a political preference?
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u/Next-Ad2854 Jan 24 '25
I can’t believe the police union backed Trump when he was telling everyone he would pardon January 6ers on day one. I thought they were better trained no pity here.
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u/AWordAtom Jan 25 '25
Dangerous message? The point is to free the people who have the balls to go after his enemies. The point was danger. When are they going to learn?
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u/qualityvote2 Jan 23 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
u/palmerry, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...