Politics Please say rock bottom is getting close

New York City council member Yusuf Salaam was stopped by police last weekend, allegedly over illegally tinted car windows. Encounter reportedly hostile but both walked away unharmed.
Normally not national news except Salaam is one of the Central Park Five. For those too young to remember, late 1980s, a young white woman who worked at a Wall Street bank was found in Central Park. She had been raped and so severely beaten she was in a coma with massive brain damage. There was a lot of pressure to solve the case.
At that time the urban scare was "wilding", a term referring to groups, generally assumed to be young men of color, who used their sheer numbers to commit crimes.
Five teen boys, all Black or Hispanic, were arrested for the rape and beating. It was alleged without evidence they had been wilding. The boys, all minors, were grilled for hours without parents or attorneys. They were finally each separately told the others had confessed and named them as ringleader so it would be best for them to confess. Finally all the boys confessed under duress.
All recanted their confessions. There was no evidence tying them to the crime. Although the victim recovered consciousness, due to brain damage she had no memory of the event and could not identify suspects; cops and prosecutor told her the boys were guilty.
They were convicted. Trump took out a full page ad in New York Times demanding death penalty for the boys.
After ten years in prison another man, convicted of five other rapes, acknowledged he was the one who raped the woman. The young men were released and conviction expunged.
Salaam used prison time to educate himself. On release he fought for social justice and eventually was elected to city council.
After the traffic stop, Charlie Kirk, acknowledged racist and Trump sycophant on Talking Points, a far right site, proclaimed that rapist Salaam had committed another crime, declared Salaam had gang raped the woman and having "gotten away with" gang rape, although he served ten years for a crime he did not commit, thought he was entitled to get away with traffic violation.
I hope Salaam sues his ass off for libel.

 

I suppose this genius is unaware of the fact that only U S citizens can vote.

 

It would appear that Alabama already bans non citizens from voting in State and Local Elections. It's also illegal for non citizens to vote in Federal elections.

In 1996, the U.S. Congress passed a law prohibiting noncitizens from voting in federal elections, including elections for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and presidential elections. This does not apply to elections at the state and local levels.[1]

No state constitutions explicitly allowed noncitizens to vote in state or local elections. As of June 2023, seven states specified that noncitizens may not vote in state and local elections: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Ohio.[2]

 

Not if you're voting against trump - just get in line behind all of the dead people that will be voting.

 

The cream of the congressional crop standing up for their master!

 

And hocus pocus!!! The actual facts conveniently disappear, just because they say so. Only in MAGA Dreamland does this make any kind of sense whatsoever. Good thing they did it "authoritatively" or it would just be empty words.......

 

“Disenfranchisement and Chaos”: The Supreme Court Hears Pivotal Case on Whether Trump Is Eligible to Run for President

 

I believe you should be a legal citizen of this country to be able to vote, drive, or receive any type of federal or state benefits. My great grandparents had to do that.

 

Congressman Chip Roy is upset that cars have too many safety features.

Good thing I proofread. First try I wrote cats rather than cars.

 

Continuing to vote for democrats should accomplish this. These common sense policies have been enacted in NYC and they are seeing alot of benefits from it.

 

A Utah high school girl needed police protection after a bigoted school board member, noting she is tall and strong, claimed without evidence on social media the girl is transgender. The girl received threats as did her school. There were demands she be kicked off the basketball team. Then a junior high girl was also singled out. Neither girl is trans, nor would death threats be suitable if they were.
The school board member issued a nonpology excusing her behavior by saying both girls were big and strong and with so many trans people running around she had to do something.

 

If this doesn't create real concern for our communities, dont know what else will?....This should be a high priority in keeping our communities, cities, State's safe.
'That level of violence is terrifying': Mexican cartel targets tranquil Puget Sound city

 

We Found a Totally Legal Bribery Scheme Driving Up Drug Prices



This is the kind of shit going on behind the scenes that most people don't see or even know about. It clearly leaves them completely ignorant as fuck when it comes to their party.

Every waste of shit that argues their party cares, needs to learn what is happening behind the scenes that they don't see... that our government allows. This is where the corruption lies that their party helps to perpetuate.

Wake your dumb ass up... you useless waste of space.