Holy shit, he actually said that.
This, right here, is a prime example of a political headline that looks like it comes from The Onion.
I actually wasn’t sure until I checked the URL.
It’s like a reflex now.
Thinking, “Holy shit! Is that even real?”
Checks URL.
Sigh, “Yeah, it’s real…”
That’s probably why it’s posted in a forum for real headlines that look like they’re from The Onion.
The onion is coming from inside the house!
It’s time we take seditionists out of the Sheriff’s Departments.
The buildings would be empty
Ah yes, so basically rage against the machine are all drinking ‘I told you so’ juices for the foreseeable future.
They and the Dead Kennedys are just constantly raising toasts to each other
Mission accomplished, I guess
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Cop literally wants a convicted felon to run the country, I can’t come up with a better satire for how little police care about rule of law… Or a better argument for the “Ban the Box” initiative
I’m definitely all for loosening restrictions on former felons… Look bro, if we can have a convicted felon running for office, no reason why they can’t vote or hold jobs if they’ve done their time right?
This sheriff would need to check the color of their hat before he agrees or not. And the color of their skin.
to be fair, he was attempting satire – he is ‘switching sides’ and now wants a felon to run the country.
They’re so bad at everything lol WOOSH on satire
I couldn’t own firearms or vote but this motherfucker could be president? Literally makes no sense and moreso if you read the reasoning as to why voting rights and firearm right can be restricted.
You can be president too.
Actually no I can’t.
There’s precedent…pretty sure Wyatt Earp was a felon
Does he care about people not caring about the rule of law?
Or is he just upset he cant run his little fiefdom like a tyrant like cops would have been able to 30 years ago before cameras and youtube?
Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don’t draw shit, Lebowski.
On the surface of only the quote. I agree.
If a felon was in the White House, I think we’d finally see some genuine prison reform, and if we’re lucky, for profit prisons being outlawed.
Can you imagine a Danny Trejo type in the White House? Someone who deeply cares that prison is reformative and not punishment?
But not Donny Felon. He’s just going to commit more crimes.
Crime, with a little it of treason.
God I would vote for Trejo. I’m not sure it would work well in the end. I’m not sure he could manage to do the proper negotiations to get anything useful done. But it would be one hell of a statement.
Considering roughly half of Congress currently is strongly AGAINST getting anything done, much useful. Their entire plan is to stop everything and blame the other side.
The worst part is it’s working :(
Get the guy that played Dwayne Elizando something Mt. Dew Comacho to be Trejo’s VP
Who wants to bet we find something nasty on this dude in the next six months?
Why wait?
No, too easy. I’d only accept bets on how much of what material is found - like “31 Terabytes of furry porn” or “452 illegal WW1 weapons”.
We’re both wrong. He’s basically an openly dirty cop. https://lemmy.world/comment/10439983
31 terabytes? Amateur.
I’m a professional yiffer. I can jump rope and keep my tail plug in at the same time. Get on my level.
So basically he’s saying he has no faith or confidence in the criminal justice system? Wouldn’t that kind of… I dunno… disqualify you from a job in the criminal justice system?
Since when has that stopped any cops at all?
Since when has that stopped any cops at all?
Good point
I’ve think a lot of cops express how unhappy they are with the justice systems. Imagine getting a call for a domestic abuse. Show up and see this piece of shit beat his wife and kid. You arrest them and put them in jail. 6 months later you get another call same fucking guy same fucking thing. The courts gave him a reduced sentence. Rinse and repeat for your career. You’re catching the same dirt bags over and over and the justice system keeps putting them back out there cause they either are too lenient or under funded to handle them. Cops can make the arrest but have no control over the justice system. I get a lot of us hate cops but I think we can all empathize how hard it would be to see the same people every couple months victimizing the same people
Or we could try a system that actually tried to rehabilitate people. Nah, that’s too much work. Best just keep people in jail.
Many don’t want to change. They know what they know and lifestyle is set in. Like asking if you can be rehabilitated to be a trump supporter. Some thing’s are just in you and will never change
Many may be victims of a legal system that incentivizes recidivism and bullshit laws.
For profit prisons need bodies to get federal cash, plus the cash from the underpaid labor the prisoners provide.
I’m sure it would cost the government less to implement social programs that help nurture and support everyone than to continue to subsidize and pay private prisons.
I have no proof of anything. But saying most don’t want to change seems hyperbolic and dog whistle-y.
A very small minority are probably wired wrong and are indeed unchanging in their ways, I’d say the vast majority were set up to fail for profit.
Ykniw there’s a very large anti cop contingent on the Trump side. Do you really think the Jan 6 types are really into law n order? You think most rednecks like cops? It’s suburban play acting rednecks that are into thin blue line horseshit.
Interestingly, the rate of domestic abuse among LEO is significantly higher than in the normal population. “Good cops” clean their own house so rarely that when they do, they can become a celebrity and have a book and movie written about them (Serpico).
Higher rates mean what regarding what I have said?
Not necessarily pertaining to your point, which I get, and have also heard directly from people I know IRL who are now or used to be police. I just get surprised every time how indignant they will get over other people committing crimes repeatedly, while they overlook the same things in their own in-group, or even help shelter.
The obvious solution is to follow the model of Judge Dredd. That worked out well.
Breonna Taylor thinks you are a cop apologist.
2 things can be true at the same time
One more for the “Evidence ‘law and order Republicans’ are just racist” drawer.
Not american but I’m honestly worried about the USA right now. This shit is crazy. Can you imagine if he wins again?!
The only way he doesn’t eventually is if he dies, and he’ll have shown them that they don’t have to wear masks anymore and can go as hard as they want.
When, not if.
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I’m not a trump supporter, kid. I’m simply stating the obvious. It’s going to happen.
It is unfortunately a very real possibility at this time.
And judging by the downvotes you’re getting, there are way too many people ignoring reality. Got their heads stuck in the sand, like that’s going to help.
I know he would do a crazy amount of damage to the USA and the rest of the world. But at this point I think it would be best to just be done with it. Let him havoc for 4 years and then he’s out of the game and maybe the US can start to heal the rift in their society. If he doesn’t make it, his disciples will rage on and radicalize even further.
I don’t believe for a second it would stop at 4 years. We’re looking at a real Putin scenario.
Also Ukraine gets fucked, Taiwan invaded of Day 1 of the 2nd Trump presidency with Trump simping for both Putin and Xi Jinping.
You really think 4 years would be the max time…
Dude it’s not like covid or something you can just “get it over with”.
If Trump were elected he works remain president until he died.
The damage he works do during that time is not “healable”.
Let him havoc for 4 years and then he’s out of the game and maybe the US can start to heal the rift in their society.
I’m sure basically a good person, so please take this in the spirit it was intended:
Fuck you.
It would definitely speed the decline of american influence in the world. I dare guess that if trump wins and continues his previous course of action, the US would lose its military bases in Europe by 2075, and be definitively beaten in a war (likely by China) by 2150.
I think you’re a little optimistic on the time line there.
I’d give it Ten years tops…
The us is already against the world whent it comes do Israel if trump decides to support russia I think the rift with europe will be ultimate
US
Existing in 2075
Pick one
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Translation: “I’m upset that my cult leader was found guilty so I’m going to stand here and throw a sarcastic little crybaby tantrum about it now”
Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this as a local-ish. He’s bum hurt about criminal justice reform in Cali (non violent offenders getting less or no jail time, that kinda thing). Makes this job “harder” he says.
It hasn’t been smooth sailing, mind you-- but it’s at least the government trying to do something about an overcrowded prison system.
Makes his job harder? GOOD. Policing communities should never be an easy job. And you signed up for it, numb nuts.
“Wait it’s not just shooting brown people?!”
Sorry no, you have to shoot dogs too.
makes the job harder
“I miss back in the days when you could just kill someone on the mere suspicion they’ve committed a crime. Shit was way easier.”
That is also how I read it lol, fuck this guy
It makes me wonder honestly if cops were always this corrupt, or if they’ve become more corrupt over time. I’d believe either being the case honestly, but maybe the former is a perception borne from all the pro police media there were in the 90s, 00s, and 10s. Hell, even today.
I’ve heard from people that were cops back in the 60s and 70s that after the 1982 decision in Harlow v Fitzgerald gave cops Qualified Immunity, illegally by the way, that was when the War on Cops propaganda started, and when they stopped living in the communities they were patrolling. I take it with a grain of salt since they were cops during the Civil Rights movement, and they didn’t quit, and because none of them realize that QI is illegal.
On the flip side, you don’t have people spending close to a decade in prison awaiting trial, where the prosecution is hoping they are so tired of it, they will offer a crappy plea deal for time served, even if they have no case.
The article says his department’s budget has increased by $270 million since newsom took office. Poor guy is underfunded!
Has it ever been more painfully obvious that a police scumbag is bought and paid for by corrupt campaign funding?
Something really strange about American police forces is their use of military rank insignia. Here we have an elected official overseeing a civilian law enforcement agency of ~4000 personnel wearing the rank insignia of a 4-Star general.
I under what you’re getting at, but how else would you propose defining delineations of authority within an organization like that? Corporate titles can be capricious and I’d almost fear a corporate based security force more!
In this sheriff’s office, like several other law enforcement agencies, ranks jump from junior officers (lieutenant, captain) straight to flag rank (1 star for chief deputy, 2 stars for assistant sheriff, 3 stars for under sheriff, 4 stars for sheriff). Just seems like someone really wanted to dress up in a general’s uniform.
“Bianco also challenged the idea of systemic racism or bias in law enforcement”
Yes, because no police department ever has had these kinda problems in the United States.
Look, I’m all for equal representation and equal opportunity for everyone. The US had a black president already, which is awesome, but I’m not thinking the next step here is to “recently convicted felon”. Maybe try for a woman as president first?
Just saying.
There’s a whole long LIST of things we can try long before settling on “first felon president.”
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First Woman President
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First Openly Gay President
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First Asian/Pacific Islander President
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First Albino President
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First Teenage President
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First Werewolf President
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First Teenage Werewolf President
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First Robot President
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First Robot Teenage Werewolf President
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First Normal President
We could go on and on too.
First Robot Teenage Werewolf President
I’m ready to serve.
First Normal President
Hey now, let’s be realistic here.
i’m pretty sure theres a lower age limit for president so unfortunately Teenager, Werewolf teenager, and Robot teenage werewolf are out
Drats, we were so close.
First Robot President
Is Nixon available ?
Arooooo
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Yknow there’s a strong argument to be made had Hillary won, she would have been circumventing the 2 term rule
Interesting take. I see the argument, I’m not sure if I agree with it.
Under the same logic, wouldn’t Biden also be ineligible because he was also in the white house (as vp) for 8 years?
Well no, because Obama wasn’t Bidens puppet.
You have a curious definition of “strong argument”.
Oh cmon. If Bill hadn’t married her, he’d be a retired lawyer in Little Rock today. Any other first ladies end up Secretary of State in another administration a decade later?
Is there more to the argument because it looks like you’re kinda jumping from “she became secretary of state” to “she would’ve been 3 term”. She was qualified to be president despite Bill.
Imagine misunderstanding the implication she was running the show the whole time this hard
Have people been telling you that’s insane when you say it clearly and directly?
No. Most people have a functioning brain and noticed themselves, and it was clear and direct to begin with.
