Among the bill’s cosponsors is House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who recently told Politico, “I think it’s common sense that you can’t have the president sitting in the Oval Office worried about whether some lawyer or some local DA somewhere is going to go after him.”
How is this common sense? Politicians are in urgent need of more fear of the law and voters.
It’s just common sense that there are two classes of people in the world. Those the law protects but does not bind, and those the law binds but does not protect.
They’re so out of touch with the rest of the world, they think they should be immune from prosecution.
And yet they don’t seem to realize that most people think prison is the best place for all of them. Nobody gives a fuck about their well-being or their “worries.”
In other words, “Let’s strip out one of the checks and balances built in to the country in order to ensure we get the very dictator king the founders sought to prevent.”
How is this common sense? Politicians are in urgent need of more fear of the law and voters.
Can you imagine if this was normalized for the president, and then over time became acceptable for other people?
“You can’t have congress people worried about whether some lawyer will go after them.”
“You can’t have CEO’s worried about whether the DA will go after them.”
“You can’t expect your boss to worry about whether you will go after them.”
“You can’t expect your pastor to worry about whether the faithless will go after them.”
It’s just common sense that there are two classes of people in the world. Those the law protects but does not bind, and those the law binds but does not protect.
They’re so out of touch with the rest of the world, they think they should be immune from prosecution.
And yet they don’t seem to realize that most people think prison is the best place for all of them. Nobody gives a fuck about their well-being or their “worries.”
In other words, “Let’s strip out one of the checks and balances built in to the country in order to ensure we get the very dictator king the founders sought to prevent.”