Waukesha Killer

I’m with u on that. it’s horrible and horrific, but being a frum jew, my heart is with our people in pain.

Dear Bored,

Let me explain. There is violent crime in this country all the time. Some get completely ignored. Some are covered endlessly. The majority are news for as little as an hour, up to a few days. What makes one story stick around, is the narrative around the story. If it fits with the daily news narrative, it gets more attention. That depends on timing more than anything else. There have been cars panning into crowds in this country dozens of times. The only one that was a major national story, was a famous person whose life had fallen apart. I think it happened around when I was born.

A little tip. If you want to understand how bias figures into what makes the news cycle, look at advertising trends. Not political rhetoric. On that note, whatever the topic is you’ll understand it better if you ignore the partisan yammering.

“A person is a monster only to those who do oppose him politically.”

Maybe post that to the thread about accusing the innocent and see how it goes over.

jackk – I hear your point but I think you are just being defensive. She didn’t say she wants daily updates and changing her words to that misses her point. We never even got a motive. You may say so what. Okay, go ahead. But that never happens. Biden never called or visited. That is very unusual. when 6 kids are in the hospital for a WEEK after a car deliberately plows into a Xmas parade? Be honest. if it wasn’t a complaint against biden would you really be saying this is all status quo? c’mon man.

“Bail is not meant to keep non-convicted poor people behind bars.”
please, for the sake of my believing you aren’t one of those posters who spins everything into a pretzel, this wasn’t an issue of helping poor people. The man had driven over his girlfriend with his car. that would probably qualify him as dangerous by anyone’s standards. Treating him as a “poor person” is putting the public in harms way. I did not think that that was what bail reform was for.

I don’t think that was what the thread was about. Murder isn’t less of an evil than how the news presents it, the news, and apparently even the president, will ignore evil unless it fits their narrative. That to me is much more spooky.

Dear Syag,

I do not understand. The killer is being prosecuted. Who cares how the media presents it? Why does the President have to comment on any violent crime?

Bored,

It was a huge story when it happened.
There is nothing going on currently.
What is there to debate?
Whatever doesn’t show up on your news or social media , that means it is being hidden?
The only one who knows the motive in Waukesha is Darrell Brooks. How am I supposed to know it?

The capitol riots are current news because there is new information constantly being revealed.
The rioters that are caught and thrown into jail are in the news.

“US GUYS” ? Do you care about democracy?
Republicans want to bury their heads in the sand after an orchestrated attack on the capitol and a plan to steal the election from Joe Biden that almost destroyed our democracy.
There is no US GUYS and YOU GUYS. That is a false narrative.
Riots are bad whether they are from BLM or the Proud boys.

Don’t make deductions from what Biden does or doesn’t do on what he feels is important.
Those deductions are the craziness that right wing talk show hosts spew all day long.

Dear Bored,

Well actually, we went through the Jacob Blake story on these very pages. I’ll just tell you that I could have dealt with him better than those wimps. Whether the officer was unaware of the situation, or untrained, or a rotten apple, is irrelevant. Since then, the local police union made some ridiculous statements, and it is an all around bad look for the Department. Problem is that Kinosha is not a large enough city to bring in a new Chief of Police who will insist on enforcing the law. Now I wandered too much.

Let’s just say that your understanding of the incident was correct. That was not why it was such a big deal. It was because after some high profile police killings, Blake was still alive. [The media was hoping for some statement that could be spun into a narrative. All he said was that he is in a lot of pain and it was not worth it. 😂😂] Both Trump and Biden came to town. Neither one was there to calm down the city. Or to console the people. Or some other fluff. They came because they were on the campaign trail. And the fist rule is you go where the tv cameras are.

Dear Bored,

A President simply does not have the resources to visit after every calamity. There are simply to many of them. And the country is too big. When was the last time a President visited Alaska? Hawaii? Maine? Did you expect the President to visit after the shooting in Jersey City? You could compare this to the Boston Marathon Bombing. Or to Sandy Hook. But I’m not convinced that Biden should see it that way. Or that he would go visit in those instances, either.

Maybe his motive was to get on tv.