I’m not sure that cops have really internalized how much worse their lives are going to get under Trump if they’re not corrupt, and maybe also if they are - ThreadSky

proptermalone.bsky.social • 87 days ago

I’m not sure that cops have really internalized how much worse their lives are going to get under Trump if they’re not corrupt, and maybe also if they are

Reposted from Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH

The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the country, just released a statement rescinding their endorsement of President Trump due to his pardoning of Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

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marvinbutters.bsky.social•87 days ago

One thing about cops is above all they're lazy. My guess is we will be spared some horror because however cruel they are, they would rather drive around getting free goodies from fast food places that actually do their job. For good or ill.

elongreen.bsky.social•87 days ago

fwiw, the linked story says nothing about the FOP rescinding the endorsement. It's just a statement about being "deeply discouraged" by the pardons and commutations.

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

noted

asmackofham.bsky.social•87 days ago

"We were for him, until he did the thing he said he would do and we all knew he would do"

arrogantmonkey.bsky.social•87 days ago

Face eating leopards discovering they’re cannibals

michaeldmullen.bsky.social•87 days ago

Hold on... so he did exactly what he said he would do?! Who could have predicted this?!

mock541.bsky.social•87 days ago

FOP has done nothing to support Jan 6 cops.The white right wing man has always killed the most cops and I suspect that's about to escalate.As most cops support Trump the disconnect is about to get even more deadly.

apearlma.bsky.social•87 days ago

Almost all cops, even the bad ones, would vastly prefer to be respected than feared by white people, because it makes their jobs easier.

meelar.bsky.social•87 days ago

If this were true, it would apply equally to being respected rather than feared by black people. And since that's clearly not their actual preference, I don't think this is true.

yeahjeetsyeah.bsky.social•87 days ago

The FOP is a pack of morons.

keltic2.bsky.social•87 days ago

The ones near me deserve whatever Trump dishes out for committing domestic terrorism and murder on women for bitter exes.

nightmarewaffle.bsky.social•87 days ago

It's amazing how many people were blindsided by him doing the thing he said he was going to do. One of my coworkers told me, "I like Trump, but I wish he told us he was going to do all this stuff before we voted for him!" and I almost shouted at him, "HE DID."

princeofdorne.bsky.social•87 days ago

Right-wing nuts who really hate cops have always been a much more significant threat. That dumbass Pizzagate shooter pulled a gun on an officer and was shot last week.

mock541.bsky.social•87 days ago

White right wing have always been the biggest killers of cops by far

czhorat.bsky.social•87 days ago

What good is rescinding an endorsement TWO AND A HALF MONTHS AFTER THE FUCKING ELECTION?

tyblake.bsky.social•87 days ago

Sure is a lot of “we can’t believe he did the thing he explicitly promised to do” buyer’s remorse going around

pensandlighters.bsky.social•87 days ago

If they’re not really excited about rounding up Hispanic people for the next 4 years, the job is probably going to be a bummer.

Possibly much less free time for naps and Pokémon Go.

jfc2024.bsky.social•87 days ago

Hasn’t the job always been rounding up POC?

pensandlighters.bsky.social•87 days ago

Sure, but maybe it’s easier to do to black teenagers than Hispanic families?

Lot of variables to consider but they might not all like the idea if being enlisted by ICE

sporkboot.bsky.social•87 days ago

as long as they get to use authority to push people around i imagine most of them will still be happy

hyperplanes.bsky.social•87 days ago

He promised to do this! He's been saying it for like 4 years. I get that normie voters don't follow the news at all but like the whole point of a union is to follow things you care about closely and communicate them to members and *to persuade them* to also care about it

hyperplanes.bsky.social•87 days ago

this thing where union endorsements are supposed to just reflect the pre-existing political persuasion of the membership is brand new, did not exist at all before 2024

grandmasterfei.bsky.social•87 days ago

I mean, he did incite the mob and everything too…

bwthemoose56.bsky.social•87 days ago

Day late and a dollar short….

supremerobo.bsky.social•87 days ago

One way to make sure cities defund their police forces is to crash the economy so that tax revenue is insufficient to pay their salaries

sorryforlaughing.bsky.social•87 days ago

I’m trying not to laugh because absolutely none of this is funny, but even I didn’t think the “wait, no, we didn’t mean it!” would start less than 72 hours after he was sworn in.

very-simple.com•87 days ago

I'm developing a philosophy that involves laughing at these guys in particular. https://bsky.app/profile/very-simple.com/post/3lgfwhfl5mu25

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

most of these guys didn’t sign up to be blackshirts and they definitely didn’t sign up to be subordinate to blackshirts

renderjudgment.bsky.social•87 days ago

Who's the first police officer to do something they knew to be illegal on the expectation that Trump will pardon them except that Trump won't pardon them (because of state charges or otherwise)?

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

I’m sure if what they want to do is blackmail immigrants for money or sex, for some cops, their lives will be better. and probably there will be less scrutiny of their use of force.

but they used to be in a pretty good club that was respected and glorified and well compensated

dhpljm266.bsky.social•87 days ago

Locally, we had our first “fake ICE” home invasion 10 hours before the inauguration

kygosi.bsky.social•87 days ago

All that good will from 9/11 just flushed down the toilet.

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

and they’re about to be the cadet branch of a very different club

abbie4science.bsky.social•87 days ago

Blue states will have to hold the line on this, increasing female % is vital. 30%

andref1989.bsky.social•87 days ago

Which one?? Gestapo or SS?

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

Black/brownshirts

andref1989.bsky.social•87 days ago

I'm not so convinced that they don't want to be part of that particular club (as a group)

david.noll.org•87 days ago

trump driving a wedge between these two factions really makes me question whether he's operating with all his faculties intact

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

he’s incredibly bad at coalition management which is one reason why he’s a personalist, the only thing that matters is his personal attitude towards you

proptermalone.bsky.social•87 days ago

stupidest possible reason to slouch towards fascism

david.noll.org•87 days ago

i hear you but it's also a form of malevolence checked by incompetence. he can and is throwing a lot of support to militias/vigilantes, but they're still much less powerful than the police.

mr-implausible.bsky.social•87 days ago

right, if this is his “strategy” (inasmuch as he is capable of having one), he’s relying on the militias breaking the back of police forces. i do think that he overestimates how loyal police officers are to him and that acab blm etc. have fed that delusion. (“the left hates them bc they like me”)

goodiehowell.bsky.social•87 days ago

Evidence for this?

alderfish.bsky.social•87 days ago

I may be in the minority here but I think cops would not want more violent people with guns on the street

bryanfichter.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yes, he's going to try enlist every PD in the country into his reactionary crusade to turn American back to 1910 or so

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•87 days ago

I wonder how police who deal with murder, rape, gang violence, grand theft, and other major crimes will think of being told their job is now to raid restaurants and haul the dishwashers off to concentration camps.

zodle77.bsky.social•87 days ago

lol most cops just harass poor people to make revenue for the state.

horseknuckler.bsky.social•87 days ago

it seems to depend on the answer to the question "will there be paid overtime"

myleslobdell.bsky.social•87 days ago

What did they think was going to happen when they endorsed a felon for the presidency?

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