Dave, some of his comments were totally stupid. Your comment above is just about as stupid though.

That attitude right there, as a cop, stated in text where it can’t be misunderstood, ” I would love to pull this guy over and see if he can try his shit with me”

Is the thing that creates people like this guy. Your job as a cop is not to settle scores or prove anything.

I miss cops like Jack Harley who could have arrested me for piddly shit at least half a dozen times, who instead said, “Jack give me the six pack and go the fuck home tonight”. Keep in mind this is like when I was 17. A guy that walked up to me at 16 while I was holding a shotgun and said, “you got one pain in the ass neighbor up the hill there says he is concerned about you shooting skeet down here, I am gonna go explain how shotguns work to him, keep your head down on that gun and you won’t miss those fast breaking right side doubles kid”.

I wanted nothing and I mean nothing more than to be a cop at that age. It was the discussion I mention with the state cop family friend that ended that but I was a total “back the blue” type before that was a thing, it was not a thing because it was not needed.

I am sure you are a good guy man but in being honest with your attitude there you are hitting on why we have cops that look like soldiers, shooting dogs, killing unarmed people and beating the fuck out of old women on the side of the road MMA style. While the “good cops” who may never do it, sit quietly or defend those other officers.

You want to stop creating people like Donnie? So do I. I think we need an Officer Harley vs. Officer Friendly campaign.

You will have to do it elsewhere. My biggest issue, the man is full of shit. Back to no one who is actually a tough guy, needs to tell anyone they are, especially when not asked about it, much less over and over.

I agree much of what he said was factual (which is why I didn’t end the interview) but calling all cops piss boys and claiming he would by his own words, “disarm a cop and incapacitate him” is so fucking beyond stupid.

The big thing to me is the claim “I worked with special forces”, etc, let me tell you what this means when anyone says it. I am a big ass fucking wanna be that is also a can’t be. No one “works with special forces” in the way insinuated. This usually means if not totally false by the way, I was a clerk in an SF unit, I was a supply specialist in an SF unit, I was a cook for SF soldiers, etc. In other words it means the square root of fuck all.

For instance for a time I was detached to the 617th SOAD while in Panama, it means I fixed their trucks and hung out with cool people. It doesn’t make me an “operator” or a Night Stalker that flew covert night missions, just because the unit did. I was also detached to the 536th engineers, I learned a lot about building roads on that mission but I am not qualified to design one.

Bullshitters are one thing, bullshitters just good enough to be taken seriously by some who may then attempt to follow a perceived example (ie disarm a cop) are dangerous.

Not to mention the main subject, automating government, sounded interesting. After I gave this man 1 hour and 40 minutes of uninterrupted time, tell me exactly how his plan to do that would work, other than,

“I know how to do it, but I am not a programmer so if people fund me I can make it happen, I hope to get on Joe Rogan or something to further that”. Paraphrased but accurate.