I would like to give a BIG WELCOME to the ever growing list of new subscribers/posters to this site. We have just about every color, walk of life, and nationality, and skill set and we all like to give our opinion without any kind of fear. The people on this site never argue. We all learn continually from Ari who keeps us welll informed .on all kinds of subjects, and we never get bored because Ari keeps surprising us with something new and interesting and always educational. We all love ARI.
Aug 25, 2022·edited Aug 26, 2022Liked by Ari Melber
As an adoptive mother of a child of color, my eyes have recently become wide open to the racial inequality still alive and well in this country. I am ashamed of how blind I was to it before, but I have always been white. I didn’t grow up fearing for my life any time I saw a member of LE. I am doing my darndest to raise a good human, a human who respects authority, doesn’t flirt with breaking the law, and perceives LE as people who protect and serve. I am also raising her to be a smart, strong, empowered, and contributing member of the human race. But how will she be treated in the world? That question keeps me up lots of nights.
Which brings me to your latest news segments, and this post. Ari, these last few weeks, you are so on point! I thoroughly appreciate your ability to distill all the noise down to cold, hard facts, and you are very insightful. Given your heritage, I know you understand the topics of racial profiling and discrimination viscerally.
Keep speaking the truth! The world needs great thinkers and truth tellers. Thanks for being that kind of human! Wish I could buy you a coffee and meld minds.
Ari: Thank you for your critically honest summation. The horrifying part is this policing happens before our eyes while people like trump endanger all our lives yet remain I without reprimand or jail time. His hypocrites called supporters get away with murder. Literally. I do not believe in sitting back or tip toeing around the nightmare of trump & fox. We will be living in an autocracy. Biden & Garland need to fight back. Sherry Mangan
I love your writing and never miss your show (thank you DVR). As a senior Jewish woman I don’t get most of your music references but I love seeing you so tickled when you make them. Wish you’d given a closer look at your high school picture and pointed out which one was you.
Thanks Ari, your shows were awesome this week, (honestly they're always great) . It's so hard to know what to say about everything that has gone down with the former guy for the past 7 years. But we all know that "He Stole The Documents". My question is, who in MAGA world would know exactly what documents to take that would be of any value? Someone had to direct the steal!!!😒
"If innocent Breonna Taylor or no-threat Walter Scott had been policed by the standard used for guilty, convicted Steve Bannon, they would be alive today."
Thank you. I have been waiting for someone in the media to point out the disparity between the faux GOP outrage over the legally executed search warrant at Mar-a-Largo, and their reaction to the no-knock warrants being executed in Louisville. The warrant against the former president was legally obtained; the warrant that allowed the shooting of Breonna Taylor was fraudulently obtained. In the former case, evidence of a crime was found, in the second, no evidence was produced.
The selective enforcement of the law is, sadly, nothing new. This needs to be called out - GOP officials need to be put on the record with their hypocritical "law and order" posturing.
It's natural that criticism of the Mar-a-Lago search by the FBI would come. What is disheartening (and also not such a surprise) is that much of it ignores the evidence. The "It must be false because I haven't seen anything to contradict it (but I also haven't tried or gone out of my way)" statement, presented to the MAGA world is taken to mean "There is no evidence to contradict it so we're right." Sometimes, I think the MAGA movement is akin to mass hysteria, except I think of it as mass narcissism.
Yes, different policing is possible. It used to be the way things were, wasn't it? I think the change came when law enforcement agencies started arming themselves as if they were going to war. They needed a war to use those armored vehicles, automatic weapons and Kevlar, so they created a war. On citizens, in particular Black and Brown citizens. And they got away with it for a long time. That kind of war mentality then drew men (predominately) with aggressive tendencies (and yes, white supremacy ideations) and it's snowballed until we have unfathomable murders committed by those we hired to "protect and serve" us. I'm against the death penalty in all cases, but passing a fake $20 bill cannot be a capital offense.
Off topic, I didn't see where to post this opinion on your page or social media, but yes, there is life out there in the universe. It would be ridiculous to think otherwise. What kind of life? That's the question. We can't be the highest form of life in the universe (oh, God, please no!). But I don't believe aliens have visited Earth to figure out how our reproductive systems work. We already have enough ignorant Republicans who don't know that!!!!!!
Thanks for the continuous shedding light on the so called advice that Trump and his fellow far right wingers preach - just comply.
They are the first ones to say, “ Blue Lives Matter”.
All those hypocrites should practice what they preach…all American citizens must obey the law.
As for Trump, Navarro and Eastman complaining about the way law enforcement treated them: at least they are alive and have the guts to complain unlike those that you listed in this newsletter that are no longer here with us.
Do you think the criticism of the Trump search is fair?
What is to be criticized? Trump took the most sensitive and classified U.S. government documents and the U.S. government wants their documents back.
The documents are stored and should be stored in Washington D.C. not In a residential area in Florida
Revealing? Yes because Trump might have or potentially put all of us in danger…we all don’t know what he did with those documents and why he took them (I highly recommend investigating this because Trump is unhinged).
Ok, I am getting ready to tune into The Beat tonight at 6pm to watch and listen to what you have for us😃
Keep doing the excellent work that you do, Ari👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Hi Ari:) Thank you for this great piece:) Regarding the amount of time it took for Trump to hand over documents, and the nature of who he has shown himself to be, should there not be concern that he may have taken photos of these documents, or have had others do the same? Everyone has a cellphone with a camera. Seems like in this day and age, there would be more concern and urgency to make sure docs were not photographed, duplicated, or passed on already. Shouldn’t DOJ also have seized his phones and devices to error on the side of caution? Or is he getting special considerations because he is a former president?🤔
I think it’s more than staggering racially motivated hypocrisy. When right wing pundits say just comply do they honestly believe we will think they give a shit about what happens to brown or black Americans; I don’t believe they care at all and the evidence of just comply working and preventing death for black or brown Americans is dishonest at best. If it weren’t so completely tragic it would be comical.
No, the criticism of the Trump’s search is not fair, but it’s revealing, as you have outlined on “The Beat” and in this commentary. As you have shown, different policing is possible, by the contrasting cases you presented.
Ari, as I’ve shared with you on a previous occasion, my 17 y/o brother was walking home, stopped by the police, handcuffed, beaten and shot seven times in his back and head (June 12, 1965, although they wrote June 13th). It was ruled justifiable homicide. Still, I feel the police are a necessary entity, but in serious need of a hiring criteria and governing parameters. Every time another one of these police shootings occur, it takes me back to those distraught memories of that 18 y/o girl, sitting, waiting for her brother to come home, so we could attend the James Brown concert. My brother didn’t need ALL the privileges of a Trump, Bannon, or MAGA, he just needed to live.
With a business on the outskirts of Jackson MS near a rail line, I get to see a lot of interaction between the police and the people who have fallen through society's cracks. Personally, I would rather see us invest in a social worker who could be attached to every percent who could help these people reconnect with the system and perhaps learn to help themselves.
When I was a kid I thought of a policeman as a guy in a blue shirt and a black cap who may carry a billy club. Now I see them in full riot gear often blacked out identification and snatching citizens who dissent off the streets. We keep spending tax money on better riot gear and we keep getting bigger better riots.
As far as Trump whining about getting raided it's just another fine example of a con man at work. It's a classic grift to take a little truth and use it to drag you to a wrong conclusion or work your emotions of sympathy and empathy to get you to give him something. That guy is a one-note wonder just fleecing the unwashed.
Unfortunately, this behavior is neither new nor is it uncommon. The difference to me is the expectancy that they should not, would not or could not be stopped or denied the “right” to do whatever they damn well pleased … because of their race.
I watched your interviews with Navarro and his complete shock that HE, HE was handcuffed and shackled ... imagine if he was subjected to the normal "use of force" we have now been able to see due to handheld camera phones and body cameras.
Keep reminding these duplicitous individuals of what they have said, compared to their own actions and continue to do the good work on behalf of all people!
Trump and his cronies believe in " Do as I say, not as I do". They want everyone they want to control to comply. However, since they see themselves as the elite, they are free from compiling because law enforcement should never be bothering them with minor items like obeying the law. The double standard of law enforcement was very clear during the Trump reign. Now we hope that Attorney General Garland and the DOJ will bring equal justice for all to the for front and prosecute all who are guilty.
Ari, your commment, "and they are still raging at being subjected to the law" speaks volumes to these people. Good leaders don't promote "blue lives matter...until it effects me" I am a federal employee and I can tell you if it was me who took classified material home, I don't believe I would have been asked politely to give them back, even once. They would have seized them immediately and the only thing I would be "offered" is one phone call from jail. Bottom line, no one is above the law, its a great equalizer.
I would like to give a BIG WELCOME to the ever growing list of new subscribers/posters to this site. We have just about every color, walk of life, and nationality, and skill set and we all like to give our opinion without any kind of fear. The people on this site never argue. We all learn continually from Ari who keeps us welll informed .on all kinds of subjects, and we never get bored because Ari keeps surprising us with something new and interesting and always educational. We all love ARI.
Hi everyone, I'll respond to some of your qs and comments!...
As an adoptive mother of a child of color, my eyes have recently become wide open to the racial inequality still alive and well in this country. I am ashamed of how blind I was to it before, but I have always been white. I didn’t grow up fearing for my life any time I saw a member of LE. I am doing my darndest to raise a good human, a human who respects authority, doesn’t flirt with breaking the law, and perceives LE as people who protect and serve. I am also raising her to be a smart, strong, empowered, and contributing member of the human race. But how will she be treated in the world? That question keeps me up lots of nights.
Which brings me to your latest news segments, and this post. Ari, these last few weeks, you are so on point! I thoroughly appreciate your ability to distill all the noise down to cold, hard facts, and you are very insightful. Given your heritage, I know you understand the topics of racial profiling and discrimination viscerally.
Keep speaking the truth! The world needs great thinkers and truth tellers. Thanks for being that kind of human! Wish I could buy you a coffee and meld minds.
Ari: Thank you for your critically honest summation. The horrifying part is this policing happens before our eyes while people like trump endanger all our lives yet remain I without reprimand or jail time. His hypocrites called supporters get away with murder. Literally. I do not believe in sitting back or tip toeing around the nightmare of trump & fox. We will be living in an autocracy. Biden & Garland need to fight back. Sherry Mangan
I love your writing and never miss your show (thank you DVR). As a senior Jewish woman I don’t get most of your music references but I love seeing you so tickled when you make them. Wish you’d given a closer look at your high school picture and pointed out which one was you.
Cindy
Thanks Ari, your shows were awesome this week, (honestly they're always great) . It's so hard to know what to say about everything that has gone down with the former guy for the past 7 years. But we all know that "He Stole The Documents". My question is, who in MAGA world would know exactly what documents to take that would be of any value? Someone had to direct the steal!!!😒
"If innocent Breonna Taylor or no-threat Walter Scott had been policed by the standard used for guilty, convicted Steve Bannon, they would be alive today."
Thank you. I have been waiting for someone in the media to point out the disparity between the faux GOP outrage over the legally executed search warrant at Mar-a-Largo, and their reaction to the no-knock warrants being executed in Louisville. The warrant against the former president was legally obtained; the warrant that allowed the shooting of Breonna Taylor was fraudulently obtained. In the former case, evidence of a crime was found, in the second, no evidence was produced.
The selective enforcement of the law is, sadly, nothing new. This needs to be called out - GOP officials need to be put on the record with their hypocritical "law and order" posturing.
It's natural that criticism of the Mar-a-Lago search by the FBI would come. What is disheartening (and also not such a surprise) is that much of it ignores the evidence. The "It must be false because I haven't seen anything to contradict it (but I also haven't tried or gone out of my way)" statement, presented to the MAGA world is taken to mean "There is no evidence to contradict it so we're right." Sometimes, I think the MAGA movement is akin to mass hysteria, except I think of it as mass narcissism.
Yes, different policing is possible. It used to be the way things were, wasn't it? I think the change came when law enforcement agencies started arming themselves as if they were going to war. They needed a war to use those armored vehicles, automatic weapons and Kevlar, so they created a war. On citizens, in particular Black and Brown citizens. And they got away with it for a long time. That kind of war mentality then drew men (predominately) with aggressive tendencies (and yes, white supremacy ideations) and it's snowballed until we have unfathomable murders committed by those we hired to "protect and serve" us. I'm against the death penalty in all cases, but passing a fake $20 bill cannot be a capital offense.
Off topic, I didn't see where to post this opinion on your page or social media, but yes, there is life out there in the universe. It would be ridiculous to think otherwise. What kind of life? That's the question. We can't be the highest form of life in the universe (oh, God, please no!). But I don't believe aliens have visited Earth to figure out how our reproductive systems work. We already have enough ignorant Republicans who don't know that!!!!!!
Peace,
AJ
Hi Ari and Happy Almost Fri-YAY (Happy Thursday😃)
Thanks for the continuous shedding light on the so called advice that Trump and his fellow far right wingers preach - just comply.
They are the first ones to say, “ Blue Lives Matter”.
All those hypocrites should practice what they preach…all American citizens must obey the law.
As for Trump, Navarro and Eastman complaining about the way law enforcement treated them: at least they are alive and have the guts to complain unlike those that you listed in this newsletter that are no longer here with us.
Do you think the criticism of the Trump search is fair?
What is to be criticized? Trump took the most sensitive and classified U.S. government documents and the U.S. government wants their documents back.
The documents are stored and should be stored in Washington D.C. not In a residential area in Florida
Revealing? Yes because Trump might have or potentially put all of us in danger…we all don’t know what he did with those documents and why he took them (I highly recommend investigating this because Trump is unhinged).
Ok, I am getting ready to tune into The Beat tonight at 6pm to watch and listen to what you have for us😃
Keep doing the excellent work that you do, Ari👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Cheers🍾🥂
#FactsMatter
Hi Ari:) Thank you for this great piece:) Regarding the amount of time it took for Trump to hand over documents, and the nature of who he has shown himself to be, should there not be concern that he may have taken photos of these documents, or have had others do the same? Everyone has a cellphone with a camera. Seems like in this day and age, there would be more concern and urgency to make sure docs were not photographed, duplicated, or passed on already. Shouldn’t DOJ also have seized his phones and devices to error on the side of caution? Or is he getting special considerations because he is a former president?🤔
I think it’s more than staggering racially motivated hypocrisy. When right wing pundits say just comply do they honestly believe we will think they give a shit about what happens to brown or black Americans; I don’t believe they care at all and the evidence of just comply working and preventing death for black or brown Americans is dishonest at best. If it weren’t so completely tragic it would be comical.
No, the criticism of the Trump’s search is not fair, but it’s revealing, as you have outlined on “The Beat” and in this commentary. As you have shown, different policing is possible, by the contrasting cases you presented.
Ari, as I’ve shared with you on a previous occasion, my 17 y/o brother was walking home, stopped by the police, handcuffed, beaten and shot seven times in his back and head (June 12, 1965, although they wrote June 13th). It was ruled justifiable homicide. Still, I feel the police are a necessary entity, but in serious need of a hiring criteria and governing parameters. Every time another one of these police shootings occur, it takes me back to those distraught memories of that 18 y/o girl, sitting, waiting for her brother to come home, so we could attend the James Brown concert. My brother didn’t need ALL the privileges of a Trump, Bannon, or MAGA, he just needed to live.
With a business on the outskirts of Jackson MS near a rail line, I get to see a lot of interaction between the police and the people who have fallen through society's cracks. Personally, I would rather see us invest in a social worker who could be attached to every percent who could help these people reconnect with the system and perhaps learn to help themselves.
When I was a kid I thought of a policeman as a guy in a blue shirt and a black cap who may carry a billy club. Now I see them in full riot gear often blacked out identification and snatching citizens who dissent off the streets. We keep spending tax money on better riot gear and we keep getting bigger better riots.
As far as Trump whining about getting raided it's just another fine example of a con man at work. It's a classic grift to take a little truth and use it to drag you to a wrong conclusion or work your emotions of sympathy and empathy to get you to give him something. That guy is a one-note wonder just fleecing the unwashed.
Unfortunately, this behavior is neither new nor is it uncommon. The difference to me is the expectancy that they should not, would not or could not be stopped or denied the “right” to do whatever they damn well pleased … because of their race.
I watched your interviews with Navarro and his complete shock that HE, HE was handcuffed and shackled ... imagine if he was subjected to the normal "use of force" we have now been able to see due to handheld camera phones and body cameras.
Keep reminding these duplicitous individuals of what they have said, compared to their own actions and continue to do the good work on behalf of all people!
Trump and his cronies believe in " Do as I say, not as I do". They want everyone they want to control to comply. However, since they see themselves as the elite, they are free from compiling because law enforcement should never be bothering them with minor items like obeying the law. The double standard of law enforcement was very clear during the Trump reign. Now we hope that Attorney General Garland and the DOJ will bring equal justice for all to the for front and prosecute all who are guilty.
Ari, your commment, "and they are still raging at being subjected to the law" speaks volumes to these people. Good leaders don't promote "blue lives matter...until it effects me" I am a federal employee and I can tell you if it was me who took classified material home, I don't believe I would have been asked politely to give them back, even once. They would have seized them immediately and the only thing I would be "offered" is one phone call from jail. Bottom line, no one is above the law, its a great equalizer.