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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see violent crime
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pretty effective election scam? va gov youngkin?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 922 //vermin?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">HARRIS FAULKNER (FOX ANCHOR): So Will, there is no surprise that when you</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> take the money away to hire cops, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">you'll get fewer of them because you've taken the money away to hire cops, and crime will spike. So, what do you say to people like Ilhan Omar. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>WILL CAIN (FOX HOST): That, quite honestly, you're a parasite feeding off of a host until that host will ultimately die.</b> You know, I think about this and we have disagreements within our political spectrum, Harris, and you know, once you start going down the path of <b>attacking the person ad hominem </b>you are not really doing anything to help solve the problem, and you are probably indulging in your base instincts. </p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">
</p><p style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">But you also have to be real about this. The current policies that have been advocated for by, not just Ilhan Omar, but a good chunk of the left over the past couple years have been sort of the</span><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> moral preening of someone who looks in the mirror and likes what they see back regardless of the effects of their action.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> That is parasitic, that is killing the host. What the means specifically is, you are looking at </span><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">violent crime up 24 to 29%, you heard Mike say 29% in Minnesota over the past couple of years.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> So, all of these policies, and it is <b>not just defund,</b> you played it in her own words, <b>dismantle</b>, which she didn't get accomplished to its full extent.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> What that means is,<b> she is preening, she is gathering some votes</b>, although fewer and fewer it should be pointed out.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">
</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> And she is winning, unfortunately, and she is getting national fame and Twitter likes and she'll get high fives and probably some defense in support of this segment or against my criticism in this segment. <b>But what she is really doing is feeding off of her community -- Black and brown -- and, on average, poor socioeconomically. She is feeding like a parasite off of that community while they literally die in increasing numbers [from crime?]. </b>I am sorry, but that is not simply that we have a political disagreement, that is a real parasite on our political system.</span></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">c<a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/police-reform/" aria-label="Conservatives have poisoned people's minds about police reform — so it's time for a reset" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 25px;">onservatives have poisoned people's minds about police reform — so it's time for a reset</a></font></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="social-authorname rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/rodgraham1" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Rod Graham</a></font></font></font></font></div><div class="social-date" style="margin-top: 8px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span class="social-datetext" style="top: 3px; position: relative; line-height: 1; left: -3px;">November 04, 2021</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2655499287" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Minnesota voters have made their decision on the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Minneapolis,Minnesota,Question_2,Replace_Police_Department_with_Department_of_Public_Safety_Initiative(November_2021)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Replace Police Department with Department of Public Safety Initiative</a>. They voted "no." The vote asked if residents want to replace their police department with...</font></p></div></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 621</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">it seldom takes much to put a Republican in his or her place. Simple facts do it on most occasions, and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had plenty of them for GOP Rep. Jim Banks on "Fox News Sunday." Wallace responded to Banks' accusation that Democrats opposing police brutality are to blame for increasing crime rates with a clip of the top Democrat, President Joe Biden promoting his $350 billion anti-crime plan. "That means more police officers, more nurses, more counselors, more social workers, more community violence interrupters to help resolve issues before they escalate into crimes," Biden said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wallace pointed out that Banks opposed the spending, which was part of the American Rescue Plan, as well as every other Republican in Congress. "Congressman Banks, you voted against that package, against the $350 billion, just like every other Republican in the House and Senate, so can't you make the argument that it's you and the Republicans who are defunding the police?" Wallace asked.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans who've grossly mischaracterized the <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/7/2017966/-Tracking-Biden-s-promises-to-Black-America-Those-we-wish-he-never-made-and-ones-we-pray-he-ll-keep" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">defund the police</a> effort have repeatedly accused Biden of supporting their misinterpretation, which is to strip law enforcement agencies of all funding leaving rapists and murderers free to roam suburban streets. The actual call of the defund the police movement is to reallocate a portion of public safety funding to preventative social services, mental health resources, and education programming....</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div>