The Democrat Primary Race Is Filling Up

[Phase2]

Snopes: Never happen. They'd have too much to worry about from their own voters:

Democrats Announce All 2020 Candidates Will Forego Armed Security To Protest Gun Violence

 

[actaeon277]

well, it's the Babylon Bee. So... satire.

 

[Phase2]

I know. Clarified above...

 

[Brad69]

So here is the latest from “Ol Joe”!

Its getting to the point of not being funny anymore!

What If President Obama had be killed? WTF is wrong with this guy?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-poses-hypothetical-assassination-obama-n1046006

Joe really said this “If your concerned about my age don’t vote for me” WOW!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bi...ote-for-him-if-theyre-concerned-about-his-age

So While In New Hampshire Biden says he is in Vermont again this dude is lost!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51016/watch-biden-new-hampshire-thinks-hes-vermont-ryan-saavedra

Biden is just getting worse by the day the Democrats better do something this “Creepy Joe” thing doesn’t appear to be working?

 

[PistolBob]

Queue the music...here's comes Michelle Obama to save the party

 

[jamil]

Queue the music...here's comes Michelle Obama to save the party

She’s as bat**** crazy as any of them, so why not add to the circus act.

 

[Mongo59]

That is what he meant by music:

De de diddy diddy dee dee diddy...

 

[MCgrease08]

Former Kirsten Gillibrand staffers want senator to quit presidential campaign

Apparently Gillibrand is struggling so badly to reach the 130,000 individual donor thresh hold to qualify for the next debate, that she is offering $30 campaign t-shirts for any new donor who gives $1.

I'm tempted to donate a buck just to help her campaign hemorrhage money and get a momento of her failure.

 

[Phase2]

The Democrats sure provided plenty of material for Republican campaign ads with that climate change town hall. Here is a 2-minute excerpt:

[video=youtube;1gHAnxALOCQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHAnxALOCQ[/video]

 

[srad]

The Democrats sure provided plenty of material for Republican campaign ads with that climate change town hall. Here is a 2-minute excerpt:]

WOW! This is basically a Year Zero philosophy as imposed by the Khmer Rouge; drastic de-industrialization policies to create a new society from the ground up. Limited electricity (no coal, no nuclear), no internal combustion engines, no commercial agriculture, etc.
Year Zero policy killed off about 25% of the Cambodian population... which is great for the health of Mother Earth I guess.

 

[JettaKnight]

Former Kirsten Gillibrand staffers want senator to quit presidential campaign

Apparently Gillibrand is struggling so badly to reach the 130,000 individual donor thresh hold to qualify for the next debate, that she is offering $30 campaign t-shirts for any new donor who gives $1.

I'm tempted to donate a buck just to help her campaign hemorrhage money and get a momento of her failure.

Will she wear it to bed first?

 

[KittySlayer]

Year Zero policy killed off about 25% of the Cambodian population... which is great for the health of Mother Earth I guess.

Well Mother Earth would benefit if you compost the bodies.

 

[T.Lex]

Kamala Harris apparently released a criminal justice "reform" package that includes an end to bail.

Wait.

That doesn't make sense, unless you want people to stay in jail awaiting trial longer. Or push more speedy trials. That would cause a serious amount of indigestion, or a hiring boom for judges, prosecutors and public defenders.

Or, it will result in literally a turnstile type of jail situation, in which people are arrested and immediately released on their own recognizance.

I couldn't even skim the rest of her ideas - that one is just SO bad.

 

[actaeon277]

Your last option.
That's what she's talking about.

 

[Leadeye]

Criminals can't vote for her if they are in jail.

 

[Libertarian01]

Kamala Harris apparently released a criminal justice "reform" package that includes an end to bail.

Wait.

That doesn't make sense, unless you want people to stay in jail awaiting trial longer. Or push more speedy trials. That would cause a serious amount of indigestion, or a hiring boom for judges, prosecutors and public defenders.

Or, it will result in literally a turnstile type of jail situation, in which people are arrested and immediately released on their own recognizance.

I couldn't even skim the rest of her ideas - that one is just SO bad.

Kamala Harris is an idiot on this issue.

The private bail industry serves two (2) critical needs of the criminal Justice system.

#1 - It provides a much higher appearance rate for defendants than the government does. The appearance rate of bail through a bail-bondsman is around 95%, according to some numbers I heard long ago. The government only has about a 70% appearance rate. This means that when private bail is utilized the workers in the criminal justice system can get more work done because the problem child is actually there to work with.

#2- It provides for the appearance of defendants FOR FREE, to the public I mean. No taxpayer dollars fund this industry. It gets alleged criminals off the streets and does so at no cost to taxpayers.

The system can already address the progressive issue of the poor being denied a service by allowing for own recognizance on first time, non-violent offenders. These pose minimal risk to society and allow for the smooth operation of the system.

Note that in my opinion the system is broken. If we really wanted it to work well we would hire 1,000 judges along with all supporting staff per state! That is 1,000 for criminal and 1,000 for civil! Any excess for the states could go to specific federal jurisdictions such as immigration judges, tax judges, and other areas of specialty of which I am ignorant.

When defendants have to wait years for a real trial, or civil litigants have to wait years to go to trial it's simple, "It's dead Jim."

Regards,

Doug

 

[HoughMade]

Kamala Harris apparently released a criminal justice "reform" package that includes an end to bail.

Wait.

That doesn't make sense, unless you want people to stay in jail awaiting trial longer. Or push more speedy trials. That would cause a serious amount of indigestion, or a hiring boom for judges, prosecutors and public defenders.

Or, it will result in literally a turnstile type of jail situation, in which people are arrested and immediately released on their own recognizance.

I couldn't even skim the rest of her ideas - that one is just SO bad.

I haven't researched this a great deal, but the impression I get is that they want to run a "Moneyball" version of pretrial detention where analytics tell you who will appear and who will not- you detain those who won't voluntarily and release those who, according to the metrics (time in area, family connection, employment, seriousness of charge, criminal history, etc.) will show.

Whether that could work or not, bail/lengthy pretrial detention being used to coerce plea deals...which it is....is wrong. Something needs to change.

 

[KG1]

Kamala Harris apparently released a criminal justice "reform" package that includes an end to bail.

Wait.

That doesn't make sense, unless you want people to stay in jail awaiting trial longer. Or push more speedy trials. That would cause a serious amount of indigestion, or a hiring boom for judges, prosecutors and public defenders.

Or, it will result in literally a turnstile type of jail situation, in which people are arrested and immediately released on their own recognizance.

I couldn't even skim the rest of her ideas - that one is just SO bad.

KInda like illegals crossing the border.

 

[Phase2]

President Trump has gotten involved in the debate tonight, offering a succinct commentary via a banner flying over Houston. (picture below appears to be edited, but the banner is accurate)

 

[Phase2]

Does anyone know the over/under for number of things they'll lobby to ban tonight?