orange808 wrote:If you're talking to me
I wasn't; the reason I posted what I did was not to suggest that cops are paid too much (some, particularly the higher-ups, certainly do have gaming the system down to a science, retiring early and drawing from multiple pensions, but..."anti-union Republican rhetoric"? You...
have read at least a
few other posts I've made over the years? (...haven't you?), but that if the "back the blue" crowd is so worried that the
mildest of criticism directed towards
any segment of law enforcement risks alienating the
entire profession and leaving us unsafe, how in heaven's name do they have no problem openly threatening the lives of people who are paid practically
nothing for their work, are
far less capable of defending themselves from the fringe, and perform a societal function at
least as important as the police do?
We'd also be infinitely more safe if the cops weren't (sometimes legitimately) saying they are terrified of being shot. Guns are everywhere. Police and theives. Guns and ammunition.
That would be another question for the "thin blue line" fetishists; if the proliferation of firearms so obviously makes us safer, why do police departments across the country near-uniformly oppose nearly every such loosening of gun regulations that comes to pass?
BryanM wrote:One thing you might be overlooking is this man is a massive selfish asshole. He might not care about leaving a lasting legacy for his family, and he sure as shit doesn't feel like he owes his topmost underlings anything.
If you want to take that theory to its logical conclusion, I could see him retaining all that stock and leaving it to a random assortment of people and organizations solely to prevent the government, notwithstanding its
remarkable generosity in his direction, from seeing a cent of it.
Yeeeahhhh fuck yooouuu yeeeahhhh does overrule literally everything else, after all.
EDIT: Why is everybody acting so worried about all the classified documents Trump took? I mean, Mar-a-Lago's security is
nothing short of airtight.