Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:23 pm
And it’s not succeeding. I wonder how many of these officers live in the city instead of retreating to their cookie cutter housing in a suburb with green lawns every night.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Corrian wrote:So the Chicago Police Union is basically saying 800-1,000 of their officers will quit if their preferred candidate doesn't win
Threatening to basically kneecap the police department if they don't get their way? One, thanks for threatening me with a good time. Two, that doesn't seem very democratic.
Still, there is nothing quite like Chicago’s relationship with the Fraternal Order of Police, especially with its president, John Catanzara, who expressed sympathies for the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called Muslims “savages” who “all deserve a bullet” and retired from the police force in 2021 rather than face potential disciplinary actions. He punctuated his retirement papers with a handwritten note, “Finally!!! Let’s go Brandon,” a stand-in phrase for a more vulgar insult against President Biden.
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Mr. Catanzara’s Facebook post about Muslims has been a talking point in the multicultural quarters of this racially, ethnically and religiously diverse metropolis. And Johnson campaign workers are quick to link Mr. Vallas to the extended comments that Mr. Catanzara made to a Chicago public radio reporter about the Capitol rioters, which included, “There was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting, there was very little destruction of property. It was a bunch of pissed-off people that feel an election was stolen, somehow, some way.”
“When they talk about the F.O.P., they’re talking about me, which is hilarious,” Mr. Catanzara said in an interview, conceding, “If I got paid a dollar every time I was called a racist, I’d be an independently wealthy man.”
Mr. Catanzara is not lying low. He predicted that 800 to 1,000 Chicago police officers would leave the force if Mr. Johnson wins, adding to hundreds of vacancies already awaiting the next mayor.
“If this guy gets in we’re going to see an exodus like we’ve never seen before,” he said, predicting “blood in the streets.”
Mr. Catanzara was particularly hard on the teachers union and its “Manchurian candidate.”
“They’re definitely pushing all their chips into the pot here,” he said.
As for those who cast him as a bigoted bomb thrower, Mr. Catanzara just waved his hands. “I don’t waste my breath with them,” he said. “Like I tell everyone, read the book, not the cover.”
Cannot think of a name wrote:Corrian wrote:So the Chicago Police Union is basically saying 800-1,000 of their officers will quit if their preferred candidate doesn't win
Threatening to basically kneecap the police department if they don't get their way? One, thanks for threatening me with a good time. Two, that doesn't seem very democratic.
I remember in 2016 someone said if Hilary got elected there'd be taco trucks on every corner and that sounded so awesome it was hard to understand that was said by someone trying to get people to vote for Trump.
Oh, okay. It's not the union itself saying it, it's their blowhard of a representative whose resignation letter when he quite the police force included "Let's Go Brandon" and thinks Jan 6 was a gentle site seeing tour by citizens with legitimate concerns.Still, there is nothing quite like Chicago’s relationship with the Fraternal Order of Police, especially with its president, John Catanzara, who expressed sympathies for the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called Muslims “savages” who “all deserve a bullet” and retired from the police force in 2021 rather than face potential disciplinary actions. He punctuated his retirement papers with a handwritten note, “Finally!!! Let’s go Brandon,” a stand-in phrase for a more vulgar insult against President Biden.
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Mr. Catanzara’s Facebook post about Muslims has been a talking point in the multicultural quarters of this racially, ethnically and religiously diverse metropolis. And Johnson campaign workers are quick to link Mr. Vallas to the extended comments that Mr. Catanzara made to a Chicago public radio reporter about the Capitol rioters, which included, “There was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting, there was very little destruction of property. It was a bunch of pissed-off people that feel an election was stolen, somehow, some way.”
But then is shocked...SHOCKED people might say he's racist...“When they talk about the F.O.P., they’re talking about me, which is hilarious,” Mr. Catanzara said in an interview, conceding, “If I got paid a dollar every time I was called a racist, I’d be an independently wealthy man.”
That'd be quite the racket to collect a dollar for being called something and then speak and act like that at much as humanly possible.
Taking all that in and considering that he's an outspoken Trump supporter, the way he makes this 'prediction' sounds a little awkwardly familiar...Mr. Catanzara is not lying low. He predicted that 800 to 1,000 Chicago police officers would leave the force if Mr. Johnson wins, adding to hundreds of vacancies already awaiting the next mayor.
“If this guy gets in we’re going to see an exodus like we’ve never seen before,” he said, predicting “blood in the streets.”
Mr. Catanzara was particularly hard on the teachers union and its “Manchurian candidate.”
“They’re definitely pushing all their chips into the pot here,” he said.
Last bit:As for those who cast him as a bigoted bomb thrower, Mr. Catanzara just waved his hands. “I don’t waste my breath with them,” he said. “Like I tell everyone, read the book, not the cover.”
Holy shit, shoot all Muslims was just the cover?
North Jus Intius wrote:Hot take: Attacks on trans rights are just attacks on women's rights in general.
El Lazaro wrote:North Jus Intius wrote:Hot take: Attacks on trans rights are just attacks on women's rights in general.
I mean, I agree the anti-transgender scare is centered around trans women, but I don’t know whether or not conservatives genuinely perceive trans women as men.
And on the legal side, most of the legislation isn’t gender-based.
Dumb Ideologies wrote:Is it time for the USians to restrict access to automatic and semi-automatic genders?
North Jus Intius wrote:El Lazaro wrote:I mean, I agree the anti-transgender scare is centered around trans women, but I don’t know whether or not conservatives genuinely perceive trans women as men.
And on the legal side, most of the legislation isn’t gender-based.
Trans people in general are judged nearly entirely by how well they "pass", as far as conservatives go. So it's sort of a grey area on both sides as far as the big picture is concerned. The entire strategy is just by the book fascist salami slicing. They intend to revoke the rights of the smallest group, then the next smallest group, and so on. Our democracy is under direct attack. Study the rise of fascism in the 20s and 30s
North Jus Intius wrote:Hot take: Attacks on trans rights are just attacks on women's rights in general.
The Black Forrest wrote:Northern Seleucia wrote:The heck does that even mean?
USian?
Awhile back we have a Swedish member who decided to “crusade” over the Americans using American since it did not include the other countries in North, Central and South America.
Others jumped on it and said things like it was arrogance to call yourselves Americans; never mind the fact Canadians and Mexicans didn’t care.
It’s just a petty comment meant to bait…..
Northern Seleucia wrote:The Black Forrest wrote:
USian?
Awhile back we have a Swedish member who decided to “crusade” over the Americans using American since it did not include the other countries in North, Central and South America.
Others jumped on it and said things like it was arrogance to call yourselves Americans; never mind the fact Canadians and Mexicans didn’t care.
It’s just a petty comment meant to bait…..
Ah. Sounds cringe as hell.
Carry on, I need to sleep
The Black Forrest wrote:Northern Seleucia wrote:The heck does that even mean?
USian?
Awhile back we have a Swedish member who decided to “crusade” over the Americans using American since it did not include the other countries in North, Central and South America.
Others jumped on it and said things like it was arrogance to call yourselves Americans; never mind the fact Canadians and Mexicans didn’t care.
It’s just a petty comment meant to bait…..
Northern Seleucia wrote:The Black Forrest wrote:
USian?
Awhile back we have a Swedish member who decided to “crusade” over the Americans using American since it did not include the other countries in North, Central and South America.
Others jumped on it and said things like it was arrogance to call yourselves Americans; never mind the fact Canadians and Mexicans didn’t care.
It’s just a petty comment meant to bait…..
Ah. Sounds cringe as hell.
Carry on, I need to sleep
Umeria wrote:The Black Forrest wrote:USian?
Awhile back we have a Swedish member who decided to “crusade” over the Americans using American since it did not include the other countries in North, Central and South America.
Others jumped on it and said things like it was arrogance to call yourselves Americans; never mind the fact Canadians and Mexicans didn’t care.
It’s just a petty comment meant to bait…..
What's funny is that the full name of Mexico is the United States of Mexico.
Cannot think of a name wrote:I call Deutschland Germany I think China calls us something kingdom and we don't even have a king.
Hispida wrote:assuming you're talking about the US, the term for the US in chinese is "měiguó" which roughly translates to "beautiful kingdom" or "beautiful country" but probably isn't the actual origin of the name. i personally prefer japanese: "beikoku," or literally "rice country": like chinese, it's probably an abbreviation of the longer term. in chinese the original term might've been "Yà měi lǐ jià zhōu dà hézhòngguó", which when abbreviated gives us "měiguó". likewise, "beikoku" might come from the japanese "meriken", which shares the "米" or "bei" kanji (which is occasionally used as an abbreviation for "beikoku")