Likening people in the U.S. illegally to “human locusts,” Zuchowski wrote on a personal Facebook account and his campaign’s account: “When people ask me… What’s gonna happen if the Flip-Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say … write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!” That way, Zuchowski continued, when migrants need places to live, “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families … who supported their arrival!”

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    Abuse of office for political reasons. There should be a law to kick his sorry ass for this.

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    Laughing Hyena

    Setting aside the racism there, what exactly is the right’s obsession with Kamala’s laugh? I’ve heard “Cackling” as well.

    Should I be inspired to hear that lord and savior Donald Trump never ever laughs - assuming that’s even true?

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      Laughing Hyena

      That’s racism and misogyny, all bundled up into two words. The cackling thing is what they say when they think a woman isn’t meek enough. They particularly say it about women in positions of power, especially if they have the nerve to look happy.

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        The discomfort towards having women in positions of power goes back to the bronze-age morality of the bible. It’s the same reason the traditional churches don’t allow women to head the church or preach: they believe woman let the devil tempt and deceive them, and then they went and “caused man to sin”. Then Paul came along and made sure women were put in their place in the New Testament.

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      They believe anything that isn’t “tough” or “manly” is weakness. They’re just pathetic and unbelievably insecure

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    in my experience police do not like it when you dox them

    it is especially true with secret police and ex police

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    Fascist piece of shit. Also, I hate this fucking ridiculous argument they take up - that people that support immigration have to put them up in their houses, personally? WTAF?

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        No. Voting against abortion means they must now house, feed, and maintain legal responsibility for all children who would have been aborted, through adulthood.

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        This would require that the government be able to retrieve your individual voting record, and then stand in the way of your healthcare based on how you vote. Sounds like a neofascist pipedream.

        I, for one, don’t accept your authoritarian proposal.

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      Oh SMCF, darling, could you please come up with something more original, and while you’re at it could you make it grammatical, and maybe it could even scan and rhyme? This quotation only sticks in the mind because it’s like the most irritating commercial jingle. Might as well be Only Daisy cottage cheese will do, Satisfying and fresh, so creamy and delish…

      Edit: Some folks on the force are kissin’ Trump’s arse, while he’s smoochin’ Putin’s, with prayers for the shootin’s… Okay that’s terrible but I didn’t feel I should just tell you do do something and not even try myself

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    Anyone else feel like we’ve returned to some era where people in positions of power no longer get punished? What the hap is fuckening?

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        I’d say it’s more that we have a short memory as a society, and that they never really bothered to hide it, we’re just noticing it again.

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          Nah, at most people stepped down on disgrace. I mean what do we have to go on here, Nixon stepping down from threat of impeachment, Clinton taking a b****** in the oval office?

          You have to go all the way down to congressman to find anybody in prison. As you go down through congressman and governors a large number of them have been overturned.

          Look at the amount of s*** that Trump did outright illegal that would have gotten anybody in middle or lower class throw away for decades. And he still walking free. Maybe we’ll get lucky soon I don’t know…

          Maybe we’ll get lucky and change that shortly…

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            Wasn’t Nixon so far gone with Alzheimer’s that they wouldn’t have been able to get him certified as of sound mind?

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              I think you are thinking of Reagan. He went downhill quick. We were all joking around or semi joking that it was Nancy running the White House at that point.

              Nixon was a little paranoid and erratic around the watergate scandal but that’s to be expected in high political office and are about to be handed your ass. He lived on for another 20 years after office giving interviews and writing.

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    Is it illegal to just leave one in his yard that mysteriously replaced itself?

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    And this is why popular vote may not be a good way of choosing a sheriff. It produces some truly awful pick me candidates who are more interested in political power and grandstanding than serving their office.

    Without a strong code of ethics backed up by the law people can get away with a lot of bullshit.

    This guy should resign and if not then disbarred for his conduct. It boggles my mind that elected officials have no oversight. Instead he will probably face no repercussions for othering people and denigrating his office.

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      Honestly I would prefer it be an appointment but every election there should be a confidence vote where if at least 50% of people don’t approve of them they get barred from office

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        That is an interesting proposal. I think we should spend a lot more time kicking around alternatives and then trying them out.

        Surely the people who want these positions of power are rarely the ones that should have them.

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          I don’t buy that whole trope about how the people that deserve power are the people that don’t want it. That may be true for such a person at first, but if they’re the sort of good person who can recognize policy failures and offer popular solutions, at a certain point it becomes them to fight against those policy failures. And if that person recognizes that public office is the best way to do it, wanting to run for office would be a perfectly natural desire.

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            For sure, I mean I get what you are saying.

            You can’t deny that powerful positions attract bad actors though. How we deal with that is probably more important than sweeping generalizations like the one I made.

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      he won’t resign and they will keep electing idiots like him. THEY are the problem, not the idiots that THEY vote in. the solutions are simple.

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      I like it being an elected position, rather than the police or local government appointing someone. That way if someone is egregiously against the grain of their community the community can act.

      However, like so many elected positions, there should be real minimum qualifications to get on the ballot, like a 4 year degree or equivalent experience in a related field, a neutral third party psych eval, etc.

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      If only

      The Ohio secretary of state’s office said it did not plan to take any action. “Our office has determined the sheriff’s comments don’t violate election laws,” said Dan Lusheck, a spokesperson for Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose. “Elected officials are accountable to their constituents, and the sheriff can answer for himself about the substance of his remarks.”

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          Apparently threats and intimidation don’t no laws at all count as long as elections are involved.

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          it’s really time we stopped marveling at humanity’s slide into dystopia and do something about it, don’t you agree?

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        Great, so it’s up to people of good conscience to spend their time organizing to raise money and awareness in order to try and hold this sheriff accountable for voter intimidation. Instead of, you know, law enforcement. Wonderful system.