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  • human@slrpnk.net
    142·
    2 days ago

    “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

    Didn’t realize this was an inappropriate time to try to stop them from kidnapping and murdering people.

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

      This reeks of post school shooting rhetoric, ‘now is not the time to discuss gun law’ in the immediate aftermath of mass child slaughter.

      The appropriate time was years and years ago, or at the very latest January 20, 2017.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
      34·
      2 days ago

      “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

      Counterpoint: no you fucking won’t

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      2 days ago

      Jeffries has always struck me as someone lukewarm, uncharismatic, and even unintelligent. So many better options for that position, but he was chosen for the obvious virtue signal.