A lot of the next four years are going to be an attempt to define criminals as a type of person who looks and sounds a certain way rather than defining them by the action of committing crimes - ThreadSky

brendelbored.bsky.social • 48 days ago

A lot of the next four years are going to be an attempt to define criminals as a type of person who looks and sounds a certain way rather than defining them by the action of committing crimes

Reposted from Jonathan Cohn

CBS's Margaret Brennan thinks that violent insurrection to attempt to overthrow election results and murder members of Congress is okay if you're a white collar worker or a small business owner.

Says a lot about CBS.

www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-p...

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peaceplay.bsky.social•47 days ago

JFC. I was just recommending her. Now I look like an idiot

rivertalesien.bsky.social•48 days ago

This is literally how it has always operated.

A lot of Black folks who are no longer here could tell you.

captainruck.bsky.social•47 days ago

this is what i said when right-wingers were complaining that Trump wasn't REALLY a felon. He was convicted of felonies; that's the definition of felon! But to them, he doesn't FEEL like a felon. They see the world in hierarchies; felons are certain "types" of people, not "people who commit felonies"

spikestonehand.com•47 days ago

Reminds me of a book I read on the Galveston mob in the '40s and '50s that tried to argue they weren't criminals, but small businessmen who happen to work in industries currently not allowed by law

danifroom.bsky.social•48 days ago

Skin color, gender, and disloyalty are the only crimes the Trump regime and their enablers will see fit to prosecute

danifroom.bsky.social•48 days ago

or, I should say, persecute

docparadox.bsky.social•48 days ago

Nonsense! There's also the poor!

rowyourbot.bsky.social•47 days ago

This makes me want to scream. But this has been the situation THE WHOLE TIME. Like, since the idea of crime, and imprisonment. It’s always been this.

edwoodk.bsky.social•47 days ago

The 3 traditional Major broadcast networks are toxic dangerous disseminators of disinfo, propaganda & fluff to normalize criminals & their behavior while in power. They are unreliable sources for accurate or factual info.

primordialstew.bsky.social•48 days ago

this does not distinguish it from the last 4 years unfortunately, more obvious than ever since Oct 7th, 2023.

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•48 days ago

I mean this is already something a huge percentage if not an outright majority of Americans believe, so it won't be hard

lawnchairmedia.bsky.social•48 days ago

How obnoxious is "Speaker Emerita"? Especially for a minority caucus. 😑

mizzpittman.bsky.social•48 days ago

Let the white washing begin.

nopassaran.bsky.social•48 days ago

Judge: as the defendant in this case do you have anything to say before sentencing

Defendant: not sure if you’ve noticed your honor, but I live in the exurbs as an insurance broker & my wife is a real estate agent … do I really (wink wink nudge nudge) look like one of, you know, THOOOOSE?

robinjohnson.bsky.social•47 days ago

but they had no criminal record before they started doing crimes

executivejeff.bsky.social•48 days ago

we have completely normalized white collar and rich people crimes to the point where they're only crimes to the few of us that get upset about them. they go unpunished and often rewarded. we are governed by organized crime syndicates.

hapchem.bsky.social•47 days ago

sounds like the Onion headline after Katrina: "White foragers complain about Black looters"

adinayoffie.bsky.social•48 days ago

Another ex. of @notalawyer.bsky.social’s “good boy, bad boy doctrine.”

thefool37.bsky.social•48 days ago

Do the media whores listen to themselves? Is Brennan really that stupid?

brendelbored.bsky.social•48 days ago

Thank you to everyone who has noted that America was also bad 70 years ago, I had never heard that before.

mattgill.me•48 days ago

interesting

bergyd.bsky.social•48 days ago

You’ll never believe this but there was this guy named Al Capone who became a crime boss 100 years ago.

craigforth.bsky.social•48 days ago

aw man, he was jailed for his crimes though, right?

bergyd.bsky.social•48 days ago

Well, jailed for a crime.

rabbitwitch.bsky.social•48 days ago

imagine getting arrested by kevin costner

seandacey.bsky.social•47 days ago

He didn’t even have the power to arrest anyone. He wasn’t even a real postman.

fortunasaga.com•47 days ago

richburroughs.dev•48 days ago

It goes all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

bsarginger.bsky.social•48 days ago

deadleafmoth.bsky.social•47 days ago

They did this w Reagan during the late 80s

janebivl.bsky.social•48 days ago

That’s been the GOP way for decades

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•48 days ago

The next four years? What about all the years before now?

This has been happening. A white collar criminals can steal whatever they want and get a resort stay. If you’re poor and shoplift, you get shot.

It’s a tale as old as time.

green496.bsky.social•48 days ago

💯💯💯

This is the natural end point of “cities are crime infested” conservative discourse.

daspence.bsky.social•48 days ago

Tbf i think this was also the start of that same discourse

lindaisee.bsky.social•48 days ago

Not only is Brennan's question line out of line - she essentially defends convicted criminals because they are WHITE collar workers - but Pelosi's response of saying it is okay if trump takes it case by case is wrong. None of these insurrectionists deserve a pardon. They are traitors.

devin-eleven.bsky.social•48 days ago

It's always the same with conservatives. People in their tribe can do no wrong but heaven help anyone who takes a wrong step.

nefariousnautilus.bsky.social•48 days ago

That is an absolutely wild thing for her to say. They’re small business owners so they’re allowed to try to assassinate Congress?? Those have nothing to do with each other.

antifagurl.bsky.social•47 days ago

I reject msm and refuse to watch their lies and hate.

thomasav.bsky.social•48 days ago

If we find out Luigi had an LLC, Brennan is going to start PLEADING for his release. Right?

eddyvegas.bsky.social•47 days ago

i read this author, e. phillips oppenheim, to fall asleep. and this is exactly the way he talks about criminals. back in the 1910's.

ichaukan.bsky.social•48 days ago

That's been the exact MO of corporate criminals across the board since St Raygun the Befuddled was king. That was the objective of those Moral Majority™/Satanic Panic dipshits that popped up in the 80-90s and went full rabid couch-crusader after 9/11 was allowed to happen.

macpaladin.bsky.social•48 days ago

These “news” chuds think that they need to try and “make sense of things” and “put them in a box” because (obviously) the public is… (checks notes) “stupid”.

exxzackly.bsky.social•48 days ago

I mean, the right has always thought that way, tbh :P

theroyalwe.bsky.social•48 days ago

Fuck.

duffsovietunion.bsky.social•48 days ago

Wait, are they admitting that all these dipshits are just petit bourgeois and not the downtrodden proletariat? I feel like a lot of our chattering class should be made aware of this?

cxj.tinpixel.com•48 days ago

Yes, precisely. Which only results in increased crime, as well as increased misery for everyone.

kkinsf.bsky.social•47 days ago

It has real Simpsons "no one who speaks German could be a bad man" energy.

catznjam.bsky.social•48 days ago

CBS made the abrupt turn a while back - jeez, NBC 🙄 the Apprentice? The beauty pageants? The fact that they sometimes 👁️👁️paid rump through his "Charity Foundation" that had to be dissolved because it was... ILLEGAL!! 🕵🏼‍♀️ Doesn't take a weatherman to see which way the wind blows to cover up crimes.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•48 days ago

We’re gonna see a billion stories of people being worked to death in the worst Tex-Mex restaurant you’ve ever seen in your life that charges $40 for five “street” tacos framed like the jet ski family annihilator meme because small business owners are the “backbone of America”

atodak.bsky.social•47 days ago

Its3 not going to be just the four years. Once that becomes acceptable discourse you're not getting rid of it ny getting a new government.

presidenthellsatan.bsky.social•48 days ago

This is how most people do it these days as far as I can tell.

yourkingmob.bsky.social•48 days ago

Just saying out loud what the real policy has been since before the magna carta. We need to stop pretending that western society was civilized.

togop.bsky.social•48 days ago

I heard we can catch the bad guys by the shape and bump patterns on their heads!

bennettelder.net•48 days ago

gonna tell the cop the next time I get pulled over that it's the first time and I'm a white collar worker and see how that goes. Brennan is full of shit here.

tadgarish.bsky.social•48 days ago

Absolutely correct

nickfleisher.bsky.social•48 days ago

Will dovetail nicely with the preexisting conservative effort to treat "committing crimes" as an enduring character trait

chriswideawake.bsky.social•47 days ago

4 years? Until we die

joelforwi.bsky.social•48 days ago

Since when does "I'm a small business owner" excuse violent behavior? Fuck them and throw away the key.

its-lex-actually.bsky.social•47 days ago

I keep telling people, this is neurotypical bullshit and the autistic community never falls for this.

Possibly related: the autistic community is constantly on the chopping block during times like these. Weird.

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