A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They’re there for the same conference.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.
A conference for a far-right sheriffs group this week drew a parade of felons, disgraced politicians, election deniers, conspiracy theorists and, in the end, a few sheriffs.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA, met in Las Vegas’ Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel conference center to publicly counter reports of extremism within the group and set a course for the coming election — one that involves sheriffs’ investigating what they claim, despite a lack of evidence, is rampant voter fraud.
The group sees sheriffs as the highest authority in the U.S., more powerful than the federal government, and it wants these county officers to form posses to patrol polling places, seize voting machines and investigate the Democrats and foreign nations behind what they claim is a criminal effort to rig the vote by flooding the country with immigrants who vote illegally.
Critics of the group — including voting rights advocates and extremism researchers — fear the CSPOA’s new focus will amount to interference and legitimize disinformation about U.S. elections.
This is what happens when you get high off your own supply.
Especially if your supply consists only of your own farts.
Sheriffs may have been the highest authority like 200 years ago. This isn't the Wild West anymore. I don't understand where they get that mentality that they feel they are above the Federal Government.
They're not the brightest of sparks but the secret ingredient is fascism.
It's like the Sovereign Citizen movement but for cops, fundamentally it's pure nonsense spawned from motivated reasoning by profoundly ignorant people out of a desire for power.
They just don’t want to accept any authority, period. When the Bundy militia took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, they claimed that sheriffs superseded the federal government. So when a local sheriff met with them and told them to leave, they of course agreed to disagree and just ignored him.
Thank god the article said that there weren't that many actual sheriffs there. ACAB, make no mistake, but at least it seems like most sheriffs don't want things to go this far.
I think this depends on where you live.
Well sure, if you live in one of the places where the sheriff believes in this sort of bullshit, you're fucked.
But at least it isn't a massive movement with a majority of sheriffs on board. If anything, from the sound of things in the article, it's pathetic.
Idk Texas is pretty big
And yet only around 100 people showed up for this event, most of them not sheriffs. Take the good news where you can get it.
Probably just too fat and lazy to go to the conference. lol
I read the article and it had heavy grifting vibes.
I could find them committing to one active sheriff being there, and he's a real peach.
Did he bring any friends, or was it just the one?
I'm not sure what's funnier; that only dozens of people showed up, or that they performed the Pledge of Allegiance to a scarf owned by the wife of a felon because nobody planning the event brought an American flag.
In a couple of clear violations of the US Flag Code of 1928 no less. If these chucklefucks want to worship a piece of cloth (something about not having idols too, though the context evades me at the moment) at least get it right.
These are the same fuckers that desecrate the flag with thin blue line slogans and shit.
Oh cool, I can get behind that! How are they gonna do it?
Oh.
I expected a punchline about Joe Arpaio.
I watched the most recent season of the Fargo tv series so I already know how this ends.