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Michael, I want to make one thing perfectly clear. If I ever call you an idiot, it’s not because I disagree with you. Sometimes I do agree, sometimes I don’t. It’s merely because we’re all idiots when it comes to most things in our lives. Welcome to the idiots’ club.
Enjoyed the show today. Good topics. Especially loved the newspaper corrections.
Dude, if you don’t call me an idiot at least three times a show, you’re just not paying attention.
I want as many people who DON’T agree to be listening. I want them to feel completely welcome, because they are. Conversation–it’s like talking…but fun!
Yep.
Michael, you are completely right that conservatives should be more focused on police unions. As you point out, police are people. One hopes that with proper training and screening, most of them will be good cops (and that is probably true). But inevitably there will be a few who are incompetent, cowardly, racist etc. Conservatives don’t need to defend those people and should support efforts to weed them out. But they belong to unions. And the one things that is true of all unions is that they will fight tooth and nail to prevent any union member from being fired; they don’t care how incompetent or malicious a member is, they will always go to the mat for that person. As a result, organizations rarely try to fire union members except in extreme circumstances. So the incompetent, cowardly or racist police officers stay in the force and get shuffled to places where you hope they don’t do any harm (school resource officer?). Everyone would be much better off if this system could be changed. But while the Left is happy to prosecute a police officer if they are alleged to do have done something bad (particularly if there is a racial component), you certainly have never heard of them challenge the police unions and demand that the bad apples be eliminated before something happens. And conservatives sometimes seem to support police officers no matter how badly they have behaved. So while logically there should be broad support for being more proactive and holding police officers more accountable, the exact opposite happens.