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If a "regular" person slapped a phone out of a politician's hand or--god forbid!--a cop's hand, they would be arrested and charged with assault.
Instead, the victim was served with a trespassing notice. Hm.
Yes, if a person of authority does something like this they should be removed from their position. Higher authority, higher responsibility, higher standards, they should all go together.
I know it's not currently the law, but I think if you're a politician, you should legally have to maintain a higher standard for things like this.
Slapping a phone out of a reporter's hand? Maybe if it was a private citizen being targeted, or I could even excuse a politician doing that if he was protecting his family.
But just the politician alone in a parking lot, and the reporter isn't even getting in his face? Unacceptable. Surely there's some law that he technically broke, like assault or something. Even if you wouldn't charge a normal citizen, a politician should have a higher standard.
I say no excuses for politicians doing things like that. He should at least be arrested and booked into jail.
Well, they mostly used to be. But now Trump has showed them that they can act like the spoiled greedy children that they are with impunity, and they are making the most out of that situation.
The military have a UCMJ. The politicians could have something, in theory, but who can enforce it? Would content/strictness need vary based on “rank,” so to speak?
No. All politiciaes serve the state, so all must be judged the same. Yes, the president and a local mayor should be held accountable on the same code.
Stevenson is one of the lawmakers on the state’s Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) who approved the 9-GW data center that’s slated to generate and use more than twice the power that the entire state consumes. However, there is swift backlash against his vote, as there have been calls on social media to boycott his business, J&J Nursery and Garden Center, and ABC4 reports that some of its employees have reportedly been harassed by disgruntled community members.
Friendly reminder that Jimmy Carter sold the peanut farm.
this is the same state Kevin O'leary was peddling/defending his datancenter.
I'm sure there's no chance that Senator has been paid off. None whatsoever.
Well....
Narcicists + AI => Most Republican Elected officials completely losing their shit