Shit bag. Vote him out. He can go look for a life.
This civil servant is laughing off their constituent’s first amendment rights.
The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices. It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1#amdt1e_hd17
Its more than mildly infuriating, it’s unconstitutional.
Bro, the actual text is shorter than the summary. Not like it’s written in Middle English or something.
Thou speaketh true.
However, I thought the summary was both more in spirt of the common modern interpretation of the law and was easier for people to grasp. It also had some nice context linked in the summary which some might fund useful.
This is the actual text of the first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Currently, I think the first amendment is being attacked because if that “Congress shall make no law…” part. Which goes against the spirit of the law and how it has been interpreted for most of US history. However, I’m not a lawyer.
You say that, but clearly some Senators don’t fucking get it just from reading the text and need the long-winded explanation.
Motherfucker that’s his fucking job. Listen and read about what your fucking public say you public servant
I mean, on the one hand, this is the nut of why the Senate as an establishment is fucked. You have one guy who is supposed to represent the views of upwards of 38 million people (or, even we’re being a bit cynical, 9M partisan voters). Obviously, he won’t do that. Arguably, this is an impossible task.
Then, on the other hand, it really depends on which Senator and which constituent we’re talking about. Because I’m old enough to remember “Town Hall” events in 2010 and 2016 that had very obvious partisan plants looking to effectively heckle a Congressman in order to “Go Viral” with a clipped and edited response. This was part and parcel with the “Project Veritas” strategy of disinformation and race-baiting.
But then you have a guy like Cochran who has been a piece of shit his entire career (arguably his whole life). A man who had been infesting the Mississippi Senate since 1978, as a Nixonian Southern Strategy candidate. A guy who ranked among sleazeballs like Strom Thurmond, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee, Rick Scott, and Joe Manchin as a bigot, parasite, and hack. For his replacement, Roger Wicker, to be even more openly reviled by his constituency really says something about the abysmal state of Mississippi politics.
Abolish the Senate, expand the House. By the People, for the People.
I don’t think a lot of these people understand what it means for them to be a public servant. This is not a job where you put your interests first. You are quite literally a servant to your constituents, and your entire purpose during your term is to serve their wishes, to carry out the will of the people. The amount of people that will get elected into a role like that, then be shocked when the people that elected them ask them to do things for them is baffling to me.
I mean they literally spend their entire term in office listening to lobbyists instead of constituents so it’s not too hard to think they don’t really care…
and they spend all thier time campaigning for funds from donors in the meantime, no time to actual legislate.
They’re trying to have a life but you and your buddies are trying to make it as difficult as humanly possible.
When do we start throwing shoes at these corrupt goons?
And to be clear I’m saying their end goal is to do an Iraq and Fallujah on US cities.
The appropriate response from constituents to the senator saying this is “get a real job you fucking asshole”
On one hand its infuriating to hear but also anyone who’s done any politics will know that the legitimately crazy people will send hundreds of bat shit crazy messages when they are off their meds. Even at a city council level there is some legit crazy stuff you have to deal with.
If God was real a comically large anvil would have just blessed this fuckers head.
…and the US taxpayers provide the income for these loser motherfuckers.
He represents the voice of his voters which citizens united spelled out. One dollar. One vote.
I mean I was mad and then watched the video… and I don’t think that’s worth the rage and the provoking headline tbh.
Aaaand they’ll still get re-elected lol
