Remember when conservative sheriff's around the country literally ran on platforms of not enforcing state covid mandates? And conservatives ate that shit up!
But this is different I guess. 🤷
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Remember when conservatives didn't operate off pure cognitive dissonance?
Oh, I don't remember that either!
And gun control as well, lots of county sheriffs here vowed not to enforce gun laws.
I don't know why some people are surprised by this, they are perfectly consistent: if they agree with the law it's good and should be upheld, if they don't agree with the law it's evil and is destroying our country.
there's absolutely no point in listening to any of their rationale or arguments because that will just leave someone either confused or brainwashed. this is never about what's the best thing to do. instead, it's about power.
The party of "freedom" everyone
freedum.
Do Republicans really want to open the can of worms of forcing prosecutors to actually prosecute cases? Because I see that being far more beneficial to the left in the long run.
Yeah, prosecutorial and police discretion on what to arrest and prosecute is actually the very source of much discrimination. Making it so all crimes must be prosecuted is actually a good thing I think, because it would eliminate that discrimination where some people slide while others are harshly punished.
Having so many laws that you cannot follow them all, but it's not a problem because they're not enforced is a problem! It means that the government can come after anyone at any time. Forcing all breaches of law to be prosecuted to the full extent without being able to set priorities would thus require the removal of many laws, which would be good.
Prosecutors: We're not going to enforce this one either.
Now there's an interesting thought. They're going to have to come up with a whole new set of prosecutors.
Jury Nullification, but for prosecutors!
Checks and balances. How do they work?
And I don't wanna hear from no scientist; y'all mother fuckers lying and getting me pissed
You write the bribe check to the politician, then your balance goes down while theirs goes up.
Gonna backfire big time when the Republicans' mistresses get prosecuted
Nah, of course their abortions will be ok. Theirs is acceptable and definitely not an abortion while anyone else deserves to be in jail.
Absolutely unenforceable. Protectors don't write such policies even if they personally hold them.
Something strange is in the water down in Texas.