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

It's time we take seditionists out of the Sheriff's Departments.

- Ah yes, so basically rage against the machine are all drinking 'I told you so' juices for the foreseeable future.
- Mission accomplished, I guess

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.
!nottheonion@lemmy.world
- The onion is coming from inside the house!

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.
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
- You can be president too.
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.
- Okay, but why is Ronald Klump even being considered for the job? I didn't think he was running....
  Wait did you mean the guy with 34 felonies?
Maybe you don't understand the important facts.

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.

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

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".
- We're both wrong. He's basically an openly dirty cop. https://lemmy.world/comment/10439983
- 31 terabytes? Amateur.

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

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.
- The obvious solution is to follow the model of Judge Dredd. That worked out well.
- Breonna Taylor thinks you are a cop apologist.
"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.

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."
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.
- Try and start easy with an openly atheist president and work from there
- 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
- First Robot President
  Is Nixon available ?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This is ridiculous! We will never have a teenage president because you have to be 35 to run. Proof the whole thing is rigged.
- The gnostics wouldn't accept any president. I'm expecting a response in relation as to why i chose a cult.
Yknow there's a strong argument to be made had Hillary won, she would have been circumventing the 2 term rule
- You have a curious definition of "strong argument".
- Under the same logic, wouldn’t Biden also be ineligible because he was also in the white house (as vp) for 8 years?
- Interesting take. I see the argument, I'm not sure if I agree with it.

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"

One more for the "Evidence 'law and order Republicans' are just racist" drawer.

Not going to lie. His felon status has very little to do with why I won't vote for him

Is it the rape? It's the rape I bet.
- Nah, the hair
- Honestly, if you don't want to vote for a rapist or someone who helped facilitate rape you are shit out of luck at this point. I just want someone who can run a country.

"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.

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.
- I don't believe for a second it would stop at 4 years. We're looking at a real Putin scenario.
- 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.

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.

So brave. To be so openly corrupt...

When consequences are for others it isn’t ‘brave’.
- ...to be corrupt. I was obviously being sarcastic.
You have to watch the video (or read the whole article), he's being sarcastic
- 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.

Trump isn't fit for a Waffle House, let alone the White House.

Nah, waffle house accommodates larger folk all the time, pretty sure he could fit in the seats.
- Yeah, but he can't keep his mouth shut, so he's a prime candidate for a parking lot fight.

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?!"
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.
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.

Has it ever been more painfully obvious that a police scumbag is bought and paid for by corrupt campaign funding?

I've heard you have to think like a criminal to catch one, but i have not heard let a criminal run your goverment to stop crime. but it really makes sense if you don't think about it, making nothing illegal would mean no more crime.

making nothing illegal would mean no more crime
Nah, they'd focus on the important crimes, like pot smoking and abortions.
- Or being the wrong color, loving the wrong person or reading the wrong books

Yes, Eugene Debs, please.

who was basically jailed on political pretexts but still..

I support this affirmative action and will be voting for Snoop Dogg in the upcoming election

~~Snoop is not a convicted felon but Martha Stewart is.~~ apparently they are both felons now!
- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-12-me-snoop12-story.html
  What
Snoop is a Trump supporter
- Oh weird

Glad he supports criminal rights reform, but I don't think he's picking the right criminals

"White collar criminals are the good ones."
- “White ~~collar~~ criminals are the good ones.”

this guy looks like he's the model for several cartoon characters

Convicted felon. Because lets be honest, they are all felons.

If this dude wasn't such a conservative nutjob, I would think he was doing a satire

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

It's a cult, Brian.
The article says dumb shit like "he said tongue in cheek" in reference to some really despicable shit. He's saying this in uniform.
This guy is gonna be trouble. Like, I feel like this goon will end up killing folks.
- He's already known to be crooked as hell.

Again. But convicted, this time.

it's time to put all the police in jail

edit: and judges

Time to learn what you're consigning us to over your mostly trivial shit. Don't buy it before you try it!

Over all I hope our electoral college of people who we don't even know can vote for a good president for us. You know a Republic, lol. I hate kings, but random assholes chosen by random assholes are A-OK.

This should immediately disqualify you from holding any law enforcement position.

Its time we put that sherriff in a sanitarium

The mental gymnastics involved here are beyond Olympics level. This guy just should just admit he wants to suck Trump's dick, it's the only way it makes sense.

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

Oh, the normalize it trick.

This is only the beginning of what is going to be little pockets of civil war through the USA this fall.

Start getting basic supplies now as we navigate what will be a very violent time coming sooner than later.

Keep your political opinions to your self when waiting in line, lest you get followed home by some GOP weirdo and get your car vandalized..

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.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Bianco

If congress certifies, Trump wins.

Congress always certifies. Lol they certify bidens win too if he gets to 270
Only if an electoral tie happens and that is t very likely in the upcoming election.
- This isn't for tie breaking. It always happens to know who the president is, it's the process.
Eh, that's not really true. However if RFK wins states and throws the election into Congress for the tie breaker then yeah.
- No, it is true. If Trump wins enough votes and Congress certifies the election, Trump wins. It's always been that way. I didn't spell out Trump in my original post for brevity.
  I don't think Congress does tie breakers.

And yet I still can't believe it's not satire

Dude. Even Willie Nelson wasn’t a felon. 😳

The Biden guy who isn't a felon or a confirmed rapist?
The guy that finally got Medicare to negotiate drug prices?
That Biden?
- Dude stop hogging all the hypocrisy. Other conservatives need some too. You're being selfish.

I believe Trump should be sentenced to 4 years of community service... hard labor as the President of the United States. That should teach him a lesson.

Yep, I agree with the sheriff

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.