I agree with that except the timeline for Somalia was started under George Bush sr. That I know since I was there for fucking 13 months.
fucking great convo
Joe about to get canceled:
Trump administration challenged to reveal troop levels in war zones | US news | The Guardian
gee i wonder why they won't publish troop numbers anymore other than because they're going up
I agree with that except the timeline for Somalia was started under George Bush sr. That I know since I was there for fucking 13 months.
I got about halfway though, agreeing with pretty much everything, until they got to the ideas of nominating mccraven and yang for the white house.
The lazy way to try and blame or fix things isn't going to be done at the white house, it's going to need to be done at the local level. Let's take chicago, for one extreme example. The systemic corruption that we see, from all the way down to alderman in their districts, up to the mayor, and everyone in between is the real issue. The president can't fix local communities and the corruption. That is all determined by the people within those communities.
They even discuss providing massive economic aid to those communities, which on the face of it, sounds like a great idea, except those same communities are so corrupt, it will end up enriching those who least need it, and very little actual aid will get where it needs to go. Look at the BLM movement. How much of that money actually goes towards addressing the issue? zero. It all flows into the DNC coffers. And as they point out, both sides of the political isle care little about the people, only the corporate groups they are beholden to.
All I have to point to is the "homeless" issue in seattle. in 2019 seattle spent about $200 million dollars, and all that happened is the problem got worse. $200 million (which is probably closer to 1 billion, but they hide a lot of the costs) that mostly fund social workers, cops, trash cleanup, free needles, and nothing to address the underlying problems. It's all reactive, not proactive.
Everyone recognizes the issues, but unless we address the problems at the grass roots, it will never get better. All of these major cities with police brutality problems are run by democrats, with democratic law enforcement leadership, democrat justice system, etc. They are not fixing things. Will the GOP, probably not as well. But you have to elect people pledging and following though with fixing the problems, not just a letter next to their name. Vote for the person, not the party, you dumb fucks.