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Peacetrain

(24,279 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:42 PM Dec 17

Am I wrong about this???

If bartenders can go to jail for over-serving a drunk person who then harms someone,


then Presidents should go to jail when criminals they pardon commit new crimes!

Not my original thought, but it made me stop and think
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niyad

(129,607 posts)
1. In a sane world, the answer would be "Yes". But, in a sane world,
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 01:44 PM
Dec 17

such a thing would be unlikely.

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twodogsbarking

(17,589 posts)
4. I don't think he is President. He is something else. He just uses people to get what he wants.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 03:48 PM
Dec 17

The Presidency was just a vehicle. He is now the emporer.

Polybius

(21,517 posts)
7. As a former bartender, I used to hate that law
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 07:34 PM
Dec 17

I didn't over-serve, but always worried what if they were already drunk when they walked in, and I served them two drinks?

MIButterfly

(2,100 posts)
8. I hear you, Polybius.
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 10:58 PM
Dec 17

I worked in the restaurant and bar business for 24 years before I moved on to greener pastures and I was always afraid of that. I've seen people come in, sit down at the bar, looking and acting as sober as a judge, have one drink and fall out on the floor. As a matter of fact, I worked one place where a district judge was a regular at lunch and he passed out at the table and the owner said anyone who cuts him off is automatically fired. I refused to serve him so someone else did. Then he woke up and I assume, went back to court for the afternoon docket, sending drunk drivers to jail, no doubt.

I got hundreds of stories like that and I'm sure you do too, Polybius.

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