‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says

I actually wasn't sure until I checked the URL.

That's probably why it's posted in a forum for real headlines that look like they're from The Onion.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

This sheriff would need to check the color of their hat before he agrees or not. And the color of their skin.

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_death

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

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?

That's a fair point: Once Trump has done his time then he can run for president.

There's precedent....pretty sure Wyatt Earp was a felon

Ah, the important distinction here is that he doesn't want just any convicted felon on the throne. I am pretty sure his list of convicted felons he'd like to see elected contains a single name that rhymes with Honald Frump.

Maybe you don't understand the important facts.

Mr. Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town. You don't draw shit, Lebowski.

Why wait?

https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2023/04/23/riverside-county-sheriffs-investigators-lose-60-pounds-of-meth-in-failed-drug-sting/

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043651361/oath-keepers-california-sheriff-chad-bianco-january-6-us-capitol

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/deputy-caught-with-100-pounds-of-fentanyl-was-working-for-el-chapos-cartel-report-says/amp/

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".

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.

Since when has that stopped any cops at all?

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

"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.

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.

Yknow there's a strong argument to be made had Hillary won, she would have been circumventing the 2 term rule

Is it the rape? It's the rape I bet.

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.

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!

When consequences are for others it isn’t ‘brave’.

You have to watch the video (or read the whole article), he's being sarcastic

Nah, waffle house accommodates larger folk all the time, pretty sure he could fit in the seats.

Makes his job harder? GOOD. Policing communities should never be an easy job. And you signed up for it, numb nuts.

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."

The article says his department's budget has increased by $270 million since newsom took office. Poor guy is underfunded!

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.

making nothing illegal would mean no more crime

Nah, they'd focus on the important crimes, like pot smoking and abortions.

"White collar criminals are the good ones."

Snoop is not a convicted felon but Martha Stewart is. apparently they are both felons now!

Snoop is a Trump supporter

Thank to conservatives and their culture war, I think the entire concept of satire is on an indefinite hiatus.

I went to a party hosted by a conservative guy. The poster they had of Trump was basically porn.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

Trump is the greatest argument for the 2nd amendment.

(Though seriously… gun control folks. It saves lives.)

Only if an electoral tie happens and that is t very likely in the upcoming election.

Congress always certifies. Lol they certify bidens win too if he gets to 270

Eh, that's not really true. However if RFK wins states and throws the election into Congress for the tie breaker then yeah.

Yep. There’s millions of felons in the states who were criminalized for bullshit reasons. I’d say most criminals would make better politicians than the current bunch. Unfortunately he means Trump only.

I don't agree with now being the time, given who that would be. But I do think it would be good to elect a convicted felon to the white house at some point.