An Ohio sheriff is under fire for a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if Harris wins.

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!”

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      284·
      3 months ago

      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

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    3 months ago

    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?

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          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…

          • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
            2·
            3 months ago

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

            • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              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.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      54·
      3 months ago

      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.”

        • Billiam@lemmy.world
          16·
          3 months ago

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

        • dubious@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

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

      • crusa187@lemmy.ml
        14·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    57·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      15·
      3 months ago

      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

      • Doomsider@lemmy.world
        9·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          33·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • Doomsider@lemmy.world
            31·
            3 months ago

            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.

    • dubious@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    44·
    3 months ago

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

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 months ago

    Ohio revised Code Section 2909.23 - Making terroristic threat

    (A) No person shall threaten to commit or threaten to cause to be committed a specified offense when both of the following apply:

    (1) The person makes the threat with purpose to do any of the following:

    (a) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

    (b) Influence the policy of any government by intimidation or coercion;

    © Affect the conduct of any government by the threat or by the specified offense.

    (2) As a result of the threat, the person causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of the specified offense.

    (B) It is not a defense to a charge of a violation of this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability to commit the threatened specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who was a subject of the threatened specified offense.

    © Whoever violates this section is guilty of making a terroristic threat, a felony of the third degree. Section 2909.25 of the Revised Code applies regarding an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of this section.

    R.C. §2909.23

    . . . just sayin’.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    3 months ago

    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?

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    35·
    3 months ago

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

    it is especially true with secret police and ex police

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      223·
      3 months ago

      I’m not interested in doxxing anybody, because I don’t believe in terrorism.

      But I do think this sheriff would feel very differently about having his home address tracked and shared.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 months ago

        He could literally be any one of the “Bruce Zuchowski”'s listed on the Inerwebs as living in Portage county Ohio.

        There’s just no way to know!

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        10·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, an equivalent response would be for a government figure to tell the public to record these judges addresses for making the decision to call it a non threat. Which of course would be threatening.

      • dubious@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        no one is going to magically show up to save humanity because you took the high road. pacifism only makes them stronger.

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          I’m not opposed to violence, especially when defending against fascism. But terrorism is the last bastion of desperate people. You don’t respond to terrorism with terrorism, not to take the high road but because it is ineffective.