And 'grudgingly'.  It's called journalism and reporting on the facts.  

LOL. that you think its not..

That has absolutely nothing to do with your previous false allegations. and I stand by that comment.

 I don't accept OPINIONS from those sources.  ALL of them are independently rate as Leftist publications. All those sources took a big dump on their own journalistic reputations, especially in the last 5 years.

IF those sources happen to quote and reference verifiable facts I will accept them.  I won't accept their OPINIONS on what they think or want to tell me the facts mean or how significant they say those facts are ie I don't accept their spin, their misleading use of language to imply significance where there is none, and to diminish significance when the significance is obvious and even to not report at all- when it doesn't fit the socio-political narrative they want to push 

I don't care for their OPINIONS dressed up as fact.

But CLEARLY I read them, because unlike you I actually read outside my political bubble.  You OTOH won't even accept that the sources you rely for an informed opinion are leftist publications.  How can you then accept that they are lying to you, when they clearly are?  It would mean your socio-political identity is based on lies. Lies, hypocrisy, double-standards, and bias. Which it is.

The truth is too confronting for you.  And predictably, like a typical regressive, when its all exposed to you, you run away and resort to ad homs and (ultimately cancel culture).  That's all you have.  

BDS - Biden Derangement Syndrome.  On the plus side Trump is making noises about 2024.

still deflecting..

From your article.

In addition to the diversion of $8 million, the council put $11.4 million in a reserve fund intended for hiring and overtime. The department will have to appeal to the council to gain access to those funds. The council had originally planned to reduce the number of officers to 750, from 888, starting in 2022, despite a surge in gun violence in Minneapolis this year. Mr. Frey had threatened to veto the budget if the council approved such a measure, which narrowly failed.

“My colleagues were right to leave the targeted staffing level unchanged from 888 and continue moving forward with our shared priorities,” Mr. Frey said in a statement on Thursday. “The additional funding for new public safety solutions will also allow the city to continue upscaling important mental health, non-police response, and social service components in our emergency response system.”


So no defunding.  A diversion of some of the budget for preventative services (probably not a bad idea) backed up by more money for hiring and overtime. 

And you wonder why i couldn't be arsed.

I could do this all day.  Do you think that by cherry picking quotes I won't read the whole article?  Obviously you do.

Try again.

Keep spinning champ.

The Police Department had $8 million of funds removed from their budget.  The article clearly says that.  Its in the fucking title.

It also says that $11 m was set aside and that the Police department would have to apply to get that money back.  Money that was removed from them....

Months later, after the City lost 25% of the police force and violent crime went ballistic, the City had to partially re-instate the money they removed.  Never mind the increase in murders, rapes, assaults, aggravtated burglaries, most in black-populated areas that happened in the mean time. All good now, they go the money back...

To finish you're that stupid you don't actually see what would be wrong with your claim that the police wasn't defunded even if it were true.

So I'll spell it out for you:

 It would confirm the entire BLM movement and Defund the Police had zero to do with black lives and police shootings and everything to do with getting rid of Trump. 

The blacks once again playing the part of useful idiots for the Democrats.

BLM started under Obama.

Watching the CPAC conference was a good laugh.

Insane that these people will still follow this shit lol.

-PB

So tiresome.

“My colleagues were right to leave the targeted staffing level unchanged from 888"

So it was Obama's fault that blacks got shot by police?  Why didn't they protest then?

The entire BLM narrative is based on a lie that blacks as a whole are more likely to get shot by police for simply being black.  Here are the facts:

The differences in involvement in criminal situations between black and white citizens fully explains the population-level disparity in fatal police shootings

https://theconversation.com/a-new-look-at-racial-disparities-in-police-use-of-deadly-force-98681

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550618775108?journalCode=sppa

BLM aand Defund the Police was a political stunt and nothing more.

Whatever he says their "targets" were, what they did was they cut $8 milllion in funds to the police department.  They lost 25% of their police officers.  Violent crime went through the roof. Talk about cognitive dissonance!

You realize that despite the $billions Democrats-aligned billionaires and vast organizations spent, plus the cancelling of Trump and Republicans by Big tech to get rid of Trump, Biden's win came down to just 44,000 votes.

"just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/940689086/narrow-wins-in-these-key-states-powered-biden-to-the-presidency

So you think in 4 years they'll run that campaign, as successfully again?  Its a tiny percentage that needs to be flipped.

Why do you think the Demicrats are so determined to make sure Trump doesn't run again. 

They are afraid.

As is every other reasonable American/advocate of liberal democracy around the world. 

Um, they did. They even gatecrashed a Bernie Sanders rally at one point. 

Anyway, you're shifting the goalpost yet again. You claimed BLM's reason for existence is to remove Trump, despite BLM being a thing years before Trump was elected. 

That was before the Capitol Riots on January 6. I don't think Trump can hold the amount of voters he had in the 2020 election if he were to run in 2024. I also think some Democrats want Trump to run in 2024, since it would be an easy campaign message to push out. 

Trump lost. He's never coming back & if he had half a brain he wouldn't want to either. 

Both sides need to move on from their shattered dreams of someone to hate & someone to love.  Life is like that.

Let's all enjoy Sleepy Joe & the Funky Bunch see what he does about Iran & China the next 4 years. Everything else is a shiny trinket distraction for the easily manipulated, only The Great Game matters.   

Did they? Months of riots all over the country. Just before election,yeah? Then claims they helped win the election. And stopped immediately. That happened.....

I said BLM and defund the police ie the riots before the election were a political stunt. But you don't do context, do you?

You mean continue what Trump started?  That's racist.

What riots?

They were "mostly peaceful protests".

Anyway he won't run. too old by then. Maybe even dead.

But the issues that caused his election win- that he partially addressed- will be brought back by Biden and Harris.  Trumpism is here to stay.  If not him, it will be a slightly more articulate version of him.  If Pence had run I think he would have won.

Fucking LOL.  This was the most manipulated and controlled election in US history.  Democracy my arse.

Once again you are shifting the goalposts after getting caught out.  Let me spell it out for you:

You said the "entire BLM" movement was solely for the removal of Trump and has nothing to do with black lives, despite the movement's existence long before Trump was president.  

Stop making shit up and then insulting people who hold your bullshit to account.

Only according to those who lost lol

-PB

What a world Enzo lives in.

A world where Pence would be president if he had run.  Haha.

What? :hehe:

LOl> Caught out for what?  What did you hold me to account for- when BLM was founded?  

Its you who is deflecting that the entire BLM and Defund the police riots were founded on the lie that blacks get shot by police more just because they are black..   that was and is a lie, and what the race riots were predicated on.

And not only did he Democrats not denounce it, they actively supported the lie to the point that Vice President Harris set up bail for rape and murderer suspects because   race-baiting and division suited their politics to get rid of Trump, no mater what the cost.

Why not?

He was clearly the smartest guy in the room during the debates where he nailed Harris, not to mention the Sixty Minutes host.

Pence: "You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts"

Harris: Nodding in agreement and with fake smile and under her breath "That's a good one"

Stahl: “And the same with the president. And I feel that you both have insulted ’60 Minutes’ by not answering our questions and by giving set campaign speeches that we’ve heard both of you give at rallies without answering our questions.”

Pence: "Well, Lesley I appreciate the speech that you just gave..

I agree that a lot of the reasons why Trump won have not been and will not be fixed under the current administration. There is a deep divide within the US and neither side of politics is doing anything to mend it. Instead, it's being exploited to maintain the status quo. This is why Trump got traction, he was an outsider.

Hahaha, i love seeing people from first world countries come up with absurd comparisons...