Brickbat: That Doesn't Sound Like Us

The U.S. Secret Service has apologized after agents assigned to protect Vice President Kamala Harris taped over the security camera of a Massachusetts hair salon,
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The King's Men (AND The Queen's Men!) can get into your hair (AND into your hairdressers!) without your spermission if they want to! I saw that shit on "There's Something About Mary"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Something_About_Mary
I suppose that’s slightly more tolerable than the ones who bring their infant to work while on a protection detail, only to abandon their post so they can use a emergency fallback location for some breastfeeding.
DEI, folks. Gotta check those intersectional boxes. Merit/ability isn't one of them.
DEI. Didn’t earn it, doesn’t respect it.
Actually no. Breaking and entering is a criminal offense. Not showing up for work is merely not showing up for work.
The sentiment you just expressed is part of the problem: LEOs who think their work is so damn important that it outweighs the laws that apply to everyone.
It wasn't "not showing up for work."
It was showing up for work, with your kid, abandoning your post, and misusing a secure room for personal business.
Note to foreign readers: Anonymasked American bigots seek to disguise their slurs with alphabet soup acronyms. To understand how rednecks use DEI, it suffices to recall that its antonym is KKK.
DEI and KKK are both children of the Democrat party. Both racist as all get out, and defended only by racists.
Preceding the KKK's worst depredations by only a very few years, the Neanderthals VERY clearly belonged to "Team R"!
Committing a property crime by breaking and entering is more tolerable?
Never mind...just go on your rant about ACAB people than talk about clown noses and be done with it...
As long as they apologize, fascists are not so bad?
saying its agents would never do anything like that
I'm trying to think of an employee or contractor or whatever that I would say this about. From guys installing cameras to security guards or whatever, I think I could always imagine or imagine them imagining a scenario where they would put tape over the mounted cameras. Pranks... testing... I could see pretty much everyone doing *exactly* that.
Stephen Hawking probably wouldn't have done it. He probably would've had someone else do it for him. Maybe when he was younger.
Federal agents have total immunity, and they're not afraid to flaunt it.
Fortunately, the power to kill with impunity--unlike as-yet-unlegalized drugs--does not corrupt at all, not even a little bit.
The Secret Service initially denied the break-in, saying its agents would never do anything like that.
We finally get to put that 3rd Amendment to use.
No.
Secret Service agents are not soldiers.
A temporary occupation of a space lasting only a few hours is not quartering.
You're forgetting the penumbras, formed by emanations.
I heard some of the agents only masturbated in the salon, then they felt bad about it afterwards. So, they should get a less severe punishment, if any at all.
Someone apologized, isn't that enough?
Chauvin apologized. He's still in jail, in Texas yet! The Texas statehouse was built of heavy boulders by prison labor. Not a single one of those chain-gang convicts, shown in many photographs, was white. So... 3A?
Some people did something...
For all the shit given the female Secret Service agents guarding Trump, unless the kid in the photo is like 6' 5", he looks like someone your average frat bro would feed his own lunch to.
Maybe that's why he's got the job of guarding the fence.