Save the planet! Defund Dah Pohlease!
Normally, when something this utterly brilliant comes along, I go right to the source as I did with this particular idea. I read the WUWT article first, which I strongly recommend that you do, too. But the whole idea about defunding law enforcement is so overwhelming that I could hardly contain myself. Think of it: no more need for emergency call centers, no more parking or speeding tickets, no more unnecessary expenses like badges, LEO vehicles, uniforms, etc. Think of the cash that could be saved! It’s brilliant, I tell you!
So here’s the WUWT article, which I hope you enjoy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/06/defund-the-police-because-climate-change/#comment-3010355
The Gizmodo link to the original article is embedded in the WUWT article. And here it is in real time: https://earther.gizmodo.com/there-is-no-climate-justice-without-defunding-the-polic-1843833563
Now, if you can somehow manage to get through that without feeling the need for a strong and heady brew, please let us know. There is a cure for insanity, but so far, none for being a nitwit.
I’m impressed by the devotion of the Greenbeaners to The Cause of A Green Earth, but are they truly prepared to live in hovels with no plumbing or electricity in a lawless society? As much as they detest commercial crop production and animal farms, does anyone besides me think they will be terrified if they have to give up their soy lattes? The soybean plant requires a certain degree of vigilance and guardianship, especially at harvest time. A 250 acre plot of soybeans being harvested by hand is a sight worth waiting for, isn’t it? Perhaps a tea made of dried alfalfa leaves and rose petals could replace soy, but then, alfalfa also requires specific things to grow properly, and does that really present a viable solution to defunding the police? Think of the horrors of finding that cinnamon is no longer imported to the US of A, and any efforts to acquire it are the equivalent of dealing with someone in a dark alley on a foggy, wet Monday night.
I think these questions need to be asked.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Economy
Give it to them. Good and hard.
BTY, First?
Firstest of the Firsts, you are!
The only way the greenbeaners can start a campfire and sit in a circle singing Sarah Sponda Sarah Sponda is by using branches fallen from trees making a bow fire starter or the lens from someones eyeglasses. Lighters are out since they are a carbon fuel product including matches whether wood or paper since they come from trees which would go against the tree hugger’s principles. Sounds like a bunch of circle jerkers to me.
I tried starting a fire with my glasses and got nowhere with it. A week later, it still wasn’t burning, so I tried using a magnifying glass. That produced some smoke. Then I tried rubbing two sticks together, and that came even closer.
Then I watched the movie “Quest For Fire” and realized my entire technique was all wrong. You have to shred the paper in your house, get a 1×4 plank about 6 inches long, and find some sawdust somewhere (maybe in the vacuum), and get a dowel rod at the hardware store and twirl it while it’s buried in sawdust. That should set the house on fire, too.
Great movie, loved the dialogue.
Ditto! Saw it three times.
At this point, I’m leaning towards “let ‘em do it within the city limits.” The caveat is that the rest of the country should establish checkpoints at said city limits and restrict travel of city-dwellers beyond. Sure, it’s unconstitutional, but they were demanding we all submit to similar violations in the name of Chinese Bat Flu prevention (that’s not how you’re supposed to do a quarantine, by the way), so it should be our turn to do it to them.
Let’s start with LA. Anyone want to place bets on the volume of smoke that will be drifting out of the city on any given day? How soon do you think Garcetti will be hung from a billboard?
OH, that’s funny!
Your plan for keeping the pavement dwellers within the city is reminiscent of “Escape from New York.” I think this is the perfect model for Minneapolis after it disbands it’s popo.
Well, if you’re going to go with walled cities, then get all the important things like artwork in museums and books in libraries and statues of war heroes out of those places first. There’s no reason to leave the good stuff to the idiots, is there?
Defund the police? Isn’t that how we got OCP and Robocop?
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets shot in the dick
The answer to lawlessness and rioting is to get rid of law enforcement? Makes sense. Go ahead and do it.
It’ll be the best defense of the Second Amendment yet! Everyone will want a firearm to protect themselves.
Every time I think I’ve seen us get as stupid as we possibly can, someone sees it as a challenge.
We have simply got to quit asking how teh stoopid can they get. They are taking it as a challenge. smdh!
Just for info, had to be the FIRST to sample a bowl of the chicken n dumpln’s and a chunk of the buttermilk cornbread (sans sugar). Make a puppy pull a freight train. ninja, better come on, the baked ham and the dressing be ready in about an hour and 1/2.
I’m all for it.
The great antifa-fa-fa-fa won’t last but about ten minutes.
They were protesting in Austin this week, all 50 of them….
What if they gave a riot and nobody came ???
I gotta admit, when I saw their new name, i spit coffee.. Vanilla ISIS… Just too damn funny (and accurate)
Local PoPo is still investigating threats in the area, and residents reporting unfamiliar vehicles driving slowly in the area. Most I know are locked and loaded…
(Grin)
I was in high school when, quite surprisingly, the NY Mets won the World Series. (Stay with me – I am on topic!). The newspapers had a quote from the pitcher Tom Seavers: “If the Mets can win the World Series then the US can get out of Vietnam.”
Even my not yet adult brain jumped a sprocket, caught the cable in the sheave and popped two circuit breakers. Generated a major WTF brain event.
So, I propose that this statement about climate justice (whatever that is) and defunding the police be designated a “Seaver-ism” because the two clauses bear relate to each other just like the World Series and the Vietnam war. You just can’t believe stupid sometimes.
Tom Seaver, he crack his gum.
This will not end well for the dims.
They put cops in schools to protect kids lives and stop bullying. Bowing to this pressure the pukes at antifa-fa-fa-fa the schools will become hellholes filled with tons of fights and no doubt a few of the kids will be losing their lives because of these clowns…
Home schooling will be the rule now instead of the exception and everybody benefits from that.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/districts-jettison-school-police-officers-amid-protests/
Denver public schools is voting on pulling all school resources officers, and given the makeup of that “illustrious” body, I have no doubt that they will. Thanks God that we don’t live near that shit, and that our son is out of school
Isn’t that Antifa-la-la?
You all know what falafel is, right? And what is Antifalafel, then?
For anyone reading this who is not familiar with falafel, they are deep fried balls – or fritters – made from ground chickpeas and/or fava beans seasoned with onion, parsley, cumin and coriander. The falafel balls are stuffed in a pita or wrapped in a flatbread and topped with tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, pickled vegetables, hot sauce and tahini sauce. This meal is high in fat with almost half its calories (47 per cent) coming from fat.
I haven’t seen any skinny AFs, have you?
(N.B.: No offense meant to anyone who consumes and likes real falafel.)
As the implosion of stupid echo’s across the Nation i hear a faint calling from Nov. saying, “Here, hold my beer, you ain’t seen nothing yet”….buckle up for a strange ride and watch the snowflakes melt in the fire.
A tree of liberty and all that….
Just curious: do you think the troublemakers would be stupid enough to try to keep people from getting to the polls?
Just askin’ because my polling place is at the town hall, which building also harbors the local pohlease station.
I don’t think too much trouble with in person voting, it’s the call for all mail in ballots for every Tom, Dick and Harriett which will cast doubts on the election outcome.
The disenfranchised voter will be the next riot cry after BLM/Antifafa/FBI/CIA riots fade by the wayside along with the Wuhan two-step virus and Murder hornets.
Black Panthers / BLM did it in Philly during the Zero elections… Not that anything was done about it with Holder running things… Though Robert is right, mail in ballots will be a huge source of fraud, which should dems win, will NEVER be investigated.. OOh, there will be a “show” investigation, along the lines of soviet “show trials”, where the outcome is pre-determined, no investigation is actually done, and NO fraud will be found (unless it’s on the “R” side
There are some memes going around that antifa stands for anti First Amendment.
No surprise there, Joe. None at all.
And very accurate
JUST WHAN you thought the D-rats couldn’t get any stupider and more self-destructive. Anyone wanna bet that as soon as the cities go further to shit the first thing the D-rats will do is blame President Trump?
Apropos of very little: I’m on deck to teach a groups of Scouts their wilderness Survival Merit Badge over the next month.
Hopefully they’ll learn and never be in an “Oh, Shiite, now what do I do?” situation.
I remember with pride the time we had a cold-water immersion/rescue on a canoe trip, and when I tried to help our now-Airborne son told me “Daddy, get out of the way. This is what you trained us for!” – and proceeded to do everything perfectly.
Hopefully this next batch will also be able to handle things like defunding of police departments and the anarchy following.
I loved the events that transpired in Minneapolis this weekend.
Seems the petulant children asked Hizzonor da Mayor if he’d defund/abolish the PD. When he declined, they booed his ass right out of the demonstration.
So much for solidarity.