Oh it’s a complete joke. She’s not remotely qualified for the position, but Trump watches her on TV. Also her previous “judge” position was elected. She didn’t go through any kind of hearing or confirmation, just said political things that the voters liked.
It’s a real job. It’s a little weird because it’s actually for Washington, D.C., which is just a city, but a very important city that gets controlled by the federal government in a lot of ways.
Edit: To clarify, she wouldn’t be in court arguing cases, but will be making decisions and managing prosecutors.
Casey Means has no government experience and dropped out of her surgical residency program, saying she became disillusioned with traditional medicine.
She was probably told she wouldn’t pass residency, because paying the expense of medical school and then not getting licensed to practice medicine is insane.
He was suspended, not fired.
No I’m not, and that’s the whole point. Most right-wing gun owners are just hobbyists too, but some bleeding edge of them showed up when their side declared “tyranny” was afoot (aka vaccine requirements or woke schoolboards). If there’s some deep well of good guy gun owners that will (some day) make all the dead kids worth it, you’d expect some bleeding edge to be showing the colors, declaring the stakes, and putting the government on notice.
These terms are just shorthand. They’re defined in law.
It’s their whole excuse for why protecting their hobby is important. When it matters they’ll convert from fetishists to patriots. They finally have their chance to prove that all the dead children was worth it. If that’s not happening then their deadly hobby is just a hobby, to be regulated and restricted like drag racing or fireworks.
When I say “know guns”, I don’t mean just that they know how to shoot–which most cops and mil people can’t do for shit----I mean know how they work, and why they’re designed the way that they are.
None of this is rocket science. Your side hobby isn’t a PhD program that no lowly normie could comprehend without years of jerking off to gun specs.
We’re right at the point of gov’t tyranny right NOW
And I notice a conspicuous lack of “patriots” reacting at all. We’ve had years excusing dead kids in the name of deterrence against a tyrannical government and now people are getting kidnapped by masked men without identification or documentation and the people getting in the way and showing up at detention centers are unarmed women.
Lots of cops and ex-military in favor of gun control. Not all people who know guns love them being easily and widely available.
Hawaii’s Democratic Party spans from the left to the right. The only people who get elected as Republicans are the truly insane.
But generally, Hawaii supports strict gun laws, so this seems like a surprising result.
YUP. Seems like an important contradiction where a good journalist could then go to the bill text and determine which one of them is lying.
You can literally just resign.
This is the same argument as bringing on the Cheneys or throwing minorities under the bus. Just because someone is a Democratic voter doesn’t mean they’re in the bag and all policy should be crafted for what you think are the “gettable” votes in the middle. And I know anti-gun independents. Don’t confuse your personal preferences with being a silent majority. Gun control polls with majority support.
Not doing anything. I don’t want a status report, I just don’t believe that this huge group of tyranny-resistors is actually there and none of them are organizing shows of force to put the government on notice, but that you’re all just waiting for something more serious to actually decide it’s time for the well regulated militia to hit the streets. Maybe you’ll be out there when the shooting war actually starts, but I’m not even confident in that.
No, like you can just quit. Not disappear without leave. Resign
Where the fuck are all your dedicated gun nut independents? Because this issue that you don’t like and because of that assume that massive numbers of true independents don’t like seems to have added up to jack shit as far as exercising those cherished rights to actually do ANYTHING in response to unmistakeable tyranny.
And I’m not even talking about starting a hot rebellion. The MAGA shitstains armed up and showed the colors over school boards and vaccines, but actual assaults on democratic constitutional order and this supposedly critically large non-MAGA gun population can’t even be arsed to do anything. You’ve got a hobby and a fantasy that when things get Really Serious, you’ll be the hero, but that time is always somehow not actually happening, because it’s only supposed to be a fantasy.
Dictators often adopt the trappings of a democratic system and go through the motions to run sham elections.
And they can freely walk away at any time. Yes, there may be financial penalties, but they’re not going to prison like when the draft existed, which makes this a question of “how much money do you need to be paid to do this”, not a person forced to participate against their will.
We owe them psychological counseling and healthcare for injuries inflicted during their time, but they aren’t special people we have some inherent duty to respect and provide for.
“Need to”? No we don’t. Some military people will insist we thank them for their service, but everyone in now is a volunteer that saw what the military has done and is used for and decided to sign up. It’s a job, with benefits and pay, and we don’t need to support them any more than we need to support any other job, especially as this job involves a willingness to kill someone just because someone else says so.
A law degree and being elected DA for a random county in NY doesn’t make you qualified any more than managing a corner store qualifies you to be the CEO of Walmart. It’s not just the passage of time that makes her unqualified.
And yeah, they have a whole (racist lie) mantra about how hiring anyone who’s not white is denying society the benefit of a more qualified white man, but literally all their hires are not just temperamentally unsuited to the job, but unqualified and incompetent. You can’t select for absolute loyalty to a senile imbecile and also for merit. They can still be plenty evil, especially when no aspect of civil society seems to be willing to stop them, but if they were competent it would be so much worse.