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There’s the trend of restaurants having “mocktails”, which is cool, but they often charge for them based on their price for alcoholic beverages. I don’t really want a special lemonade for $14.

Funny thing is if any politician were to sympathize with him over losing a child it would be Biden.

Yeah, I wouldn’t see the need to have this guy charged with anything or really punished at all.

I do like how that part of the political system works there and it's refreshing compared to the formality in the US. But keep in mind the distinction between random members of the public yelling things and elected representatives. People yell stuff at elected officials all the time here, and do things like protest when they're walking or driving by, but it's different than interrupting the largest speech of the year.

Some people have a really hard time understand what the First Amendment guarantees. It's that the government can't arrest you for criticizing them or running an opposition party, mainly. Which DOES happen in many other countries.

Of course the US has had fucked up instances of that like the FBI investigating MLK, plus so much more. But this incident isn't it.

The charge he's getting is so light that it would probably be worse to get a municipal misdemeanor for disorderly conduct.

Congress members have made interjections during State of the Union without being censured or removed. But also, that's the Questions segment. That's what they're SUPPOSED to do. I have seen that, thanks.

I'd be fine with that analysis. Both presidents fucked up. Republicans are, like classical narcissists, never willing to admit they did anything wrong and eager to blame all their mistakes 100% on other people.

It's directly above in the reply chain:

who started the withdrawal and left only 2500 troops in Afghanistan by the time Biden took office?

But kind of like Republicans blamed Obama for not ending the wars they started, the blame is now all on Biden.

The entire story and event are Republican media stunts. Yes, the guy lost his son and is upset. But blaming Biden for it (like OP did - "his fault") is about like what they did with Clinton and Benghazi. Strangely it comes up often on Lemmy, "I'm so leftist that I repeat and amplify exactly what Republicans say!"

It does not guarantee the right to disrupt official proceedings, sorry. Like I said, go try that in a court. Walk in and start protesting about a political issue and claim you're allowed to under the 1st amendment. This isn't exactly the first time someone has tried that btw.

Good job, but our rights don’t include standing up and screaming during official proceedings. It’s more that the government can’t arrest him for writing an op-ed or Twitter feed criticizing Biden.

Ha ha, yeah. This guy is getting a $50 fine.