What is not NATIONAL in scope is lawmakers saying we shouldn't punish catalytic converter thefts at all.
Yes, Ken, this is a serious problem, because lawmakers simply didn't used to talk like enforcing laws against theft is somehow a bad thing. Yet it is becoming commonplace in places like Chicago, L.A., Portland, and S.F. and it did not used to be.2. Zooming in on one particular vote over a theft mitigation measure in one particular county in California.
3. Focusing on the comments of one particular councilwoman who was on the LOSING side of that vote.
And then using that to start a thread about the "problem with liberal-progressive lawmakers" here on an international forum where I suspect not one single person even lives in LA County.
This is certainly worthy of discussion and it's not even a partisan issue. Everyone involved are of the same political party. The problem is that there actually are people right now who think that the fault lies with:
- Toyota for not somehow armouring their cars against someone who has an angle grinder
- Owners of cars with catalytic converters
- But not with the person actually DOING THE STEALING.
Feel free to start or continue existing threads complaining about right-wing conservative lawmakers. Nobody is stopping you.It is ridiculous frankly. One could peruse the news and find all manner of outrageous comments made by right-wing conservative politicians who are on the losing end of various votes and create endless threads here titled "the problem with right-wing conservative lawmakers." We could pick any number of right-wing conservative lawmakers like Margorie Taylor Green or Ted Cruz or Jim Jordan and generate hundreds of threads titled "the problem with right-wing conservative lawmakers" and quote dumb things they have said. What would be the point other than to try to score cheap political points? Which is all this thread is about.