If Biden reschedules (or even better legalizes — I know this is a larger challenge legally) cannabis and takes a harder stance against Israel, I think he would win most of the key states he needs to win the election. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, and to a lesser degree Georgia will determine this election. The rest of the states are locked in. A 1% swing can mean the difference to prevent a dictatorship.
Don’t underestimate domestic pro-Israel agents’ ability to assassinate a US politician’s political career. Lemmy is not the American media, and the latter is still largely supporting Israel’s campaign.
Also, I genuinely don’t think most Americans care all that much to the degree it would affect their support of Biden.
I’m struggling to think of anyone I know who is so upset about Israel they would consider throwing the country to Trump, and I know a lot of people that have very strong opinions on Israel.
It just doesn’t track. If you’re against Israel’s actions, you’re probably also not keen on fascism, racism, and authoritarianism…so logically, you’re not keen on letting Trump win.
According to the census, 1.1% of Americans are Muslim and many Muslim leaders are encouraging their base not to vote for Biden. They aren’t voting for Trump either but since Muslims lean heavily democrat, a non vote is the same as voting for Trump in a swing state. It isn’t that they want Trump and authoritarianism, it’s that they are protesting against the US support for Israel.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/muslim-swing-state-biden-vote-fb3b93f465ed6fd34a901c269a084a90
Well that there is a failure of Muslim leadership.
Hatred is often a self destructive thing. Not voting for Biden increases the probability that Trump will win which will be a very bad thing for Muslims in the US. So they’re willing to cause themselves harm over their hatred of Israel.
Maybe it’s time people stop listening to leaders that want to sacrifice the people they lead to make themselves look like strong men?
Wow that’s some straight up antisemitism right there. Sorry, but there isn’t some secret Jewish Cabal controlling the world.
Go outside and touch some grass, ok?
Hi there. Jewish person here. The people you are accusing of being antisemitic are 100% right. AIPAC has controlled the American political stance on Israel for decades.
If you care about American Jews, stop associating them with Israel. That is what is getting us harassed and attacked, being automatically associated with Israel.
Yeah this is the internet and I can claim that I’m a Palestinian that thinks that Netanyahu is completely in the right. Which proves what exactly?
Also note that racism towards “Cosmopolitan Jews” was a way a certain group used as a gateway for people that weren’t willing to be antisemitic towards all Jews. But we know how that ended.
So today it’s considered to be good and correct to hate “zionist jews” by those who would normally think antismeitsm is wrong. Meanwhile in my city there’s an Israeli consullate, but the protesters don’t go there, they protest in the middle of a Jewish community, and have attempted to burn down Jewish businesses. While you’re distinguishing between “
cosmopolitanzionist jews” and other jews, there are many people in the Palestinian movement who are not.We need to stop looking the other way about what this is really about. An antisemitic movement that wants to restore the ethnic makeup of a geographic area to the way it was in a history book by the use of extreme violence. “Blood and soil”, “from the river to the sea” same shit different century.
I’m not a Jew but my grandfather fought in a war against people that did the same things the Palestinian movement is doing right now. Jews went along with the movement my grandfather fought against too, you know. So the same bullshit from a century ago and how it affected my grandfather means a bit more than your unverifiable claims about being a jew. This ain’t about you, this is about fascists trying to burn down Jewish businesses in the city I live in after my grandfather sacrificed a lot to fight against that kind of evil.
Now go on and make excuses for the violent actions of the fascists in your movement like a good useful idiot.
You are welcome to look at my comment history and see how many other times I have talked about being Jewish.
I really don’t care. There were Jews that joined the Nazi party. Historically being Jewish hasn’t exactly been a prophylactic against being a part of antisemitic movements. You may think you can win over the violent elements in a movement to only hate a subset of Jews so you’ll be fine. But when there’s a night of the long knives you find out only the opinions of those with the knives really count in these kinds of movements. And they aren’t going to care that you were “one of the good ones” when the knives come out.
They already don’t seem to care what kind of Jew goes to the synagogues they shoot at.
So first I’m not a Jew and now I’m a Jewish Nazi?
The only sane comment in this entire thead.
Sigh.
Saying there’s a strong pro-Israel lobby is not antisemitism.
Sigh.
Promoting conspiracy theories involving Jews being puppet masters that control your government is textbook Goebbels kind of shit.
They weren’t claiming that jews are puppet master overlords that control our governments
They were claiming that Israel has a strong political lobby that can do a lot of political damage to politicians that don’t align themselves with Israel.
They do this by doing exactly what you’re doing. Claiming or implying that anybody against Israel or the pro-Israel lobby is an antisemite.
I’ll remind you that “jewish people” and “Israel” are not the same thing.
I’ll remind you that “jewish people” and “Israel” are not the same thing.
You need to tell that to the people that are shootiing at synogogues, trying to burn down jewish businesses. There is a Pro-Palestinian movement in my city that are protesting a Jewish community instead of protesting the Israeli consulate that’s in this city. Maybe tell them they should be protesting the consulate not the jewish communtiy because they don’t seem as enlightened as you are to understand the distinction between Israel and Jews in other countries.
But you aren’t going to do that, are you? Could upset your friends in your movement if you criticize their actions.
The Palestinian movement has proven the need for a group to lobby for the well being of Jews in the US. If you won’t speak out against the antisemitic activity that’s occurring in the Palestinian movement because you’re too busy spreading conspiracy theories on the internet, then yeah there needs to be some group that’s able to talk about these issues to those in power that are able to protect communities that are in danger from your allies in your movement.
I never said antisemitism doesn’t exist. Neither did the person above. Nor did anybody else.
You’re bringing that up now as a distraction. Criticising the actions of the regime in Israel, a regime that has openly stated they want to see the eradication of all Palestinians, is not antisemitism.
“My” friends in “my movement”? What are you talking about? I’m not involved in a movement against Jewish people.
If you’re referring to me being against the genocide being carried out by Israel, then yes, I’m against that.
But it’s not really a “movement”, it’s the default. I guess with that line of thinking I’m a part of all kinds of “movements” - the “anti-paedophilia movement”, the “I don’t like kale movement”, the “people who think alligators are scary movement”, the “people who dislike chores movement”, etc.
If the DNC had a backbone it wouldn’t be Biden to begin with.
You mean if they were stupid enough to try nominating any of the candidates Biden beat 4 years ago? Stupid enough to gamble on a new candidate, ignoring the fact Biden already beat Trump once? Stupid enough to ignore the fact the fact that the incumbent president more often than not wins reelection?
You’re right, democracy is on the line, now’s the best time to fucking gamble it away.
“now’s” as good a time as any
“this time for sure”
“can’t believe how easily this will be to beat trump”
“better of 2 evils! don’t worry we’ll just go further left in 4 years :)”
“oopsie dead babies :(”
[repeats ad nauseam until the libs are dead or go further right]
don’t worry we’ll just go further left in 4 years :)”
But we did. The Inflation Reduction Act was not only the most climate friendly bill in US history, it bolstered domestic green energy companies so much that Canada and Europe had to pass similar legislation to stay competitive (and keep companies from relocating).
The unfortunate fact of the matter is that Israel is going to keep killing babies, and the US president is going to support Israel, no matter who it is, for the foreseeable future.
Your choice is if you’ll willingly accept the burden and do whatever you can nonetheless to help the most people domestically and globally – or if you’ll pretend you aren’t carrying the burden, and you’re willing to throw women, black Americans, brown Americans, gay Americans, trans Americans, etc under the bus to maintain that delusion.
No matter what you do, if you pay taxes in the US, you’re funding infanticidal Israeli weapons. Democracy is shitty like that. The majority of people are uncomfortable with all the civilian deaths, but a majority still wants to fund weapons for them. Don’t like it? Grit your teeth, try to make a difference, and minimize any unnecessary support to Israel.
There will be no leftist utopia except from the labor of blood soaked hands from those who understand there’s no other choice. I can only hope that one day my kids or their kids will be able to judge me without any hypocrisy, because we successfully made a world free of these awful realities.
I can only hope that one day my kids or their kids will be able to
Libs over here acting like they’re going to have GRANDkids let alone kids. SMFH
Burn down the MIC
There is no other way
In case you’re wondering, for future reference, the reason why you never seem to find progressives who’ll vote for Biden or support the mainstream Democrat candidate is because when we try to earnestly explain our viewpoint and how we think we can help the most people, we just run into non serious memelords.
But on the bright side, it wasn’t wasted time on my part. People still saw what I had to say, and you made it look all the wiser. Shame that you’ve only continued to drain supporters from your “burn it down” caucus though.
You still live in a delusion that playing by their rules will somehow fix any of this shit (not to mention the selfish act of having 2 generations into WWIII)
Going to tell you: History is not kind to leftists who kowtow to Fascists because they’ll “burn it down” (Look up Social Fascism)
They end up with bullets in their heads rather than glorious revolution.
All I see is you boot-licking for the USA’s genocide 🤷♂️
I wonder if marijuana news paper dot com has any bias slant towards marijuana
Lake Research Partners conducted the study, not the marijuana blog.
This made me lol. Thanks
“Breaking News: Polls show that if Biden were better, more people would like him.”
Deep cuts by @themeatbridge
Shocked Pikachu face
Oh they’re going to put this carrot in front of us again?
“Biden stands to gain approval if he does incredibly obvious thing that people approve of.”
So he’s not gonna do it then? Great.
Next he will promise to close gitmo and support unions!
People are funny.
Biden will probably get this done. He said he was going to, seems like the administrative steps to do so are happening.
But here’s what will happen: the Supreme Court is getting ready to shred another longstanding precedent known as the Chevron Doctrine. Without Chevron, any federal court will be able to enjoin any action of any federal agency just by saying that the agency’s interpretation of the statute, even though it’s reasonable, isn’t what Congress really intended. In other words, agencies will no longer be able to regulate much of anything because corporations will just file a lawsuit in some backwards ass federal court district and the judge’s interpretation of the statute will carry more weight than the agency that administers the statute.
That’s the Republican plan, here. They give half a shit about DEA administrative scheduling, they can’t wait to destroy the FCC, SEC, IRS, EPA, FTC, FEC, etc. If the DEA reschedules cannabis, and the Republicans cannot lock up enough black and brown people, they will judge shop until they find one to say doing so isn’t what Congress intended with cannabis prohibition statutes, and enjoin the rescheduling.
Latest ep. of Strict Scrutiny podcast (“AITA? SCOTUS Edition”) has a good deep dive on this.
Thank you!
You know, without Chevron, it won’t matter what the DEA thinks and there will no longer be a schedule… Just like our stoner founding fathers intended!!
Ok but really you’re saying like all this destruction is necessarily bad because all government is necessarily good. These agencies all have legislated remits that will largely be unaffected. DEA and ATF will hurt the most which I’m okay with. FTC will be hurt in a bad way, and I’m pretty sure in fixing one congress will grant more power to themselves and these agencies anyway, so with or without Chevron we’re fucked.
Nah you clearly have no idea how many things these agencies do that keep you safe every day. You will be way more fucked without them.
lol found someone who lives on Fox News or worse
Could legal weed save America from becoming a fascist dystopia under Trump? Headline of the century.
How would it become a fascist dystopia exactly?
Perhaps our definition of dystopia differ, but any country led by an authoritarian Trump with Project 2025 underway, where the executive branch is dissolved to favor a Trump dictatorship, I’d call that a fascist dystopia.
Source?
C’mon Dank Brandon!
Dank Brandon
His campaign promise 7 days before the election…
“As president, I’ll work to reform the criminal justice system, improve community policing, decriminalize marijuana, and automatically expunge all prior marijuana convictions.”
Yeah, people like weed way more than they like Biden.
I’d take weed over any politician any day of the week.
QP 2024!
Ok here me out. Obama wants to smoke a joint with you however you have to listen to Nancy Pelosi talk about her grandchildren for twenty minutes. What do?
Dude, it’s a gran talking about her grandkids. That’s happy talk, not politics. It’s just twenty minutes and I have better weed than 44. It’ll be over before you know it. Like, I spent five minutes talking pizza and stupid bicyclists (mostly my brother, we were talking about the same person but I’ll never tell her) with Hillary Clinton after a college commencement and she was delightful. If she had been able to show that side of herself, like, ever in politics, she’d have maybe won elections.
I wouldn’t want to talk politics with Pelosi. Can go on YouTube and find videos of her dressing people down. She knows her shit and she’s fast.
I agree re: Clinton. I’d say it’s like that with most politicians. That’s why their constituents keep electing them and everyone else hates their guts. They didn’t get elected without charisma.
I smoke a doobie with ol’ 'Bama and have a nice conversation with Pelosi.
To be fair Biden didn’t help me relax last Friday or inspire my p&j + BLT with hot sauce club sandwich idea. Parent pending
Parent pending
Better hide the weed before they show up
They legalised cannibis in NY and now my 79 year old mother is getting high at parties. Thanks Obama.
I’ll bet good money that if he tries it it’ll be closer to August
Because you fucking know it’s gonna get challenged and that the Supreme Court is gonna be all brow furrowey trying to invent a reason why it’s unconstitutional to not pursue a drug policy based in exactly zero medical science.
At least if it’s near the election the topic will still be fresh by the time SCOTUS chooses that laws are for binding Democrats and protecting Republicans.
It would be extremely hard to argue that, but given the three clowns trump appointed who knows.
SCOTUS is extremely unpopular. If they tell Biden to throw more people in jail and he replies with a very public, “get fucked you corrupt prison lobby shills” his poll number would go up even higher.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me; “dozens of young White House staffers” freshly hired were abruptly told to quit, were suspended from their jobs, or otherwise punished “due to past marijuana use.”
The phrase, which is from Texas, but also maybe Tennessee, is actually, “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
I love that W moment, because you can see on his face the realization of where that quote was going. Like it occured to him after he started speaking that he was saying “fool me” too much, and also that he was taking blame for the second part. So, he tried to abort mission and eject from the quote, but it was too late and he knew it.
“Fool me once, shame on… (wait, I just said I got fooled. That’s no good. At least I’m saying it’s not my fault.) shame on you. (How does the rest of it go?) Fool me… (Fuck, I just said I got fooled again. Shit shit shit, the end of this quote is “shame on me” but that’s the opposite of the image I want. How can I… let’s just go with…) you can’t get fooled again. (Heh, nailed it.)”
I really miss the days when he was the stupidest President in living memory.
The way he physically leans over the podium in the video to emphasize “you can’t get fooled again,” is probably my favorite W moment. That, or, “…now watch this drive!”
GWB is a genius and patriot, poster of honesty, compared to the orange dumpster fire.
I mean, no, GWB sucked on balance. Whether he was a patsy or not, he was the occupant of the oval office when we were attacked, when we responded by attacking the wrong countries, when our regulatory bodies were captured by the businesses they were supposed to govern, when our budget surplus was used to line the pockets of the wealthy, when the housing market and the banking industries were set up to collapse, when xenophobia and bigotry were permitted to rage like a wildfire, through all of it, he was a bad President. You can’t blame him personally for all of it, nor would I say he did everything wrong (his work in Africa to fight HIV comes to mind as a success). But he was not a genius, a patriot, or honest, even in comparison to Donald Trump. Trump only had four years, and surrounded himself with incompetent criminals. Dick Cheney made himself and his friends rich(er) through defense contracts during the 8 years he was in office, making far more than Trump managed to stuff into his pockets with his tiny fingers.
The presidential debate should be two candidates chilling and smoking a blunt
JFC, can you imagine how insufferable that would be? Biden falls asleep on the couch with a half-eaten pint of ice cream. DeSantis and Trump are debating their favorite isekai, but they’re only arguing about which one has hotter girls. Vivic just keeps saying “Fuckin A” whenever Trump says anything. Haley is pouting on her phone because nobody is paying enough attention to her.
Beautiful picture you just painted lmao
Moderated by Joe Rogan
Edit: it’s funny how this joke is so much worse than the one it’s replying to. I guess that means I win
Joe Rogan can’t moderate for shit, is very biassed and as dumb as a brick.
Even Seth Rogen would be a better option.
There’s nothing moderate about Joe Rogan
I somehow think Joe Rogan fellating Donald Trump wouldn’t be deemed suitable for live US television.
Stream it on Twitch then
Nothing should ever be moderated by Broprah. Ever. Like- he shouldn’t even be allowed to moderate his own conversations.
Moderated by Cheech and fuckin Chong. Joe Rogan, gtfo.
Where the hell are they? I got to see them on tour like 15 years ago. They do some cameos and voice work every now and then but that’s about it.
And for that matter, where are the good stoner comedy films??? Everything since Pineapple Express or Grandmas Boy was shit.
Nah, it’s gotta be Snoop Dogg.
Alternatively, Lil Pump.
“We’re gonna build that wall and make Mexico pay for it.”
"THAT’S CRAZY MAN, you ever tried DMT?
I mean, i bet he’d be surprised how successful he could be if he actually started doing good things. Ending your ridiculous american war on everything would be a good start. So would actual health care implemented without republican consultation (otherwise known as nerfing), and really any other point on a civil democrat’s agenda would be good. You know, all the things that have only been payed lip service since the 80s, like education. The debt forgiveness is a good move.
i bet he’d be surprised how successful he could be if he actually started doing good things.
Especially if they’re things he promised to do 5 years ago when he was campaigning
Here you go bud, take a peek and see how it’s going so far.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true
At this point I dont expect him to do anything that’s not the political equivalent of a home run served up on a tee ball tee.
That’s usually the case with first terms, they’re an extended interview for the second term when he actually sometimes does what he wants to do. My solution is a limit of one term for every federal office, make reelection irrelevant.
I doubt very much that Biden’s second term will be substantially different from his first. I will still vote for him, but only because the alternative is utter disaster.
Biden ended billions and billions of student loan debt. He announced funding for HSR projects. He began pardoning non-violent drug offences. He rolled back dangerous Trump era policies surrounding climate change. He blocked the Keystone XL pipeline. He ended the Muslim travel ban. He ended the state of emergency at the border which was created by Trump to divert federal funds to build the disastrous “wall”. Like, people are funny and think that Biden hasn’t done anything in 4 years.
Yea people are just falling for media propaganda or both sides again. He’s done roughly a third of what he promised and a bunch more that wasn’t one of his promises and still has a bunch in the works. Here’s a link for proof. Roughly a third is stalled and it isn’t even all his fault but the other side pushing back.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true
Every politician says they will legalize weed if it gets them votes. No politician will ever actually legalize it though because then they lose one of their biggest platforms to draw voters. The single-minded boomer vote also disappears if he does legalize it.
That’s what everyone thought about abortion until those maniacs did it. This would be different though since there isn’t as much backlash and then they can also say they have to protect it next election.
I dunno, I sort of feel like Roe is the real holy grail here. I don’t think that most conservatives actually care about cannabis, but they are happy to enforce it because it causes people to suffer.
You’d be surprised what kind of policy gets passed in an election year.
If Biden ended the war on drugs it would nearly completely clench at least his party’s re-election, probably swing the congress on over too.
Not to mention it’s absolutely the correct decision.
Honestly, people being able to get tested known doses of various drugs of choice would save a lot of lives and create a lot of opportunity to intervene and help people recover. Making drugs illegal just causes miser and funds crime.
Maybe for weed, but I don’t think that would be so clear cut for other substances. Even here San Francisco, the public is only willing to go so far with decriminalizing.
I would wager that weed, and maybe certain hallucinations would be bump in the polls, but for narcotics and opioids, ending the war on that stuff would hurt him. But maybe I’m wrong.
