• kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    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.

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    7 months ago

    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?

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    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?

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    7 months ago

    Who wants to bet we find something nasty on this dude in the next six months?

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    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.

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      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.

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        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 :(

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    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?

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      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

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      "It’s cops fault, it might be my fault.”

      He’s on some level aware how fucked it is and his part in it. But it seems like he’s desperately asking someone to tell him “no it’s not, you’re helping!”

      His whole rant is about how the governor and legislature are against him, and he doesn’t quite grasp why we voted for that.

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    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.

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      There’s a whole long LIST of things we can try long before settling on “first felon president.”

      • First Woman President

      • First Openly Gay President

      • First Asian/Pacific Islander President

      • First Albino President

      • First Teenage President

      • First Werewolf President

      • First Teenage Werewolf President

      • First Robot President

      • First Robot Teenage Werewolf President

      • First Normal President

      We could go on and on too.

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        i’m pretty sure theres a lower age limit for president so unfortunately Teenager, Werewolf teenager, and Robot teenage werewolf are out

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        Women, Asian and Pacific islander people are all normal. I propose a woman like that who is normal, who multiracial and LGBT. Usually mommas know what is best for the kids. So why not the ultimate love momma? You mess with us and we’ll f-u up. You work with us and we’ll love you to pieces. So I propose momma bear. Even better if she’s well educated with a medical PhD and…but I mean, why not a hotel maid? My mom was a hotel maid and she’s got the best heart and mind you’ll ever meet. Don’t need a PhD to be president.

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          Usually mommas know what is best for the kids. So why not the ultimate love momma? You mess with us and we’ll f-u up. You work with us and we’ll love you to pieces. So I propose momma bear.

          Wasn’t that Palin’s shtick?

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          Women, Asian and Pacific islander people are all normal.

          thatspartofthejoke.jpg

          Don’t need a PhD to be president.

          Not holding our leaders to a higher standard is how we got here. I want my leader to be much smarter than me.

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        How about a young guy with truly progressive ideas? I find it hard to believe no one ever gains enough traction with social media the way it is, or maybe it’s because social media is the way it is. Or maybe people like that just don’t get into politics.

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        This is ridiculous! We will never have a teenage president because you have to be 35 to run. Proof the whole thing is rigged.

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        Off topic but I’m not ok with a robot president, because it would mean we made fully conscious robots, which is a recipe for disaster. We need to build flexible and smart tools without an ego, not an actually superior iron race.

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        The gnostics wouldn’t accept any president. I’m expecting a response in relation as to why i chose a cult.

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          I’m expecting a response in relation as to why i chose a cult.

          This reminds me of one of those furries who always has to interject in any role playing situation that they’re furries and their character is a furry despite nobody in the gaming session actually asking or encouraging that person.

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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

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          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?

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            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.

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        Under the same logic, wouldn’t Biden also be ineligible because he was also in the white house (as vp) for 8 years?

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        Interesting take. I see the argument, I’m not sure if I agree with it.

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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”

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    One more for the “Evidence ‘law and order Republicans’ are just racist” drawer.

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    “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.

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    Not american but I’m honestly worried about the USA right now. This shit is crazy. Can you imagine if he wins again?!

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      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.

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          I’m not a trump supporter, kid. I’m simply stating the obvious. It’s going to happen.

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            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.

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          Also Ukraine gets fucked, Taiwan invaded of Day 1 of the 2nd Trump presidency with Trump simping for both Putin and Xi Jinping.

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        You really think 4 years would be the max time…

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        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”.

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        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.

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        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.

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          I think you’re a little optimistic on the time line there.

          I’d give it Ten years tops…

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            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

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          Don’t be so butthurt! It’s not like I’m saying you should vote for him, in fact I would strongly advise against it. But I have no hope left for the USA with their jurisdiction and political system or their social cohesion. They shoveled their own grave. Their democratic system is flawed and corrupted to no end. I’m simply hopeless that he won’t become president again. Be it now or the next time. It’s always the worst time for him to be in power. The problem won’t be solved until he won’t be able to candidate again. And I don’t believe there will be another solution but that he was president a second time or he dies.

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    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.

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      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!

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        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.

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        I read it and watched the video.

        The video was of sarcastic tone, but he was totally serious about his support for Trump.

        He makes it seem like California is just this lawless place of criminals running around everywhere, because of what he claims of slashed police force budgets and closed prisons.

        When he had a deputy get caught with a bunch of fentanyl supplied by the cartel, and his police force had an increased budget of 270 million since 2019.

        He’s totally one of those “rules for thee, not for me” kind of people.

        Riverside sucks anyway.