They say politics is the art of the possible, so given the results, I’d say they are pessimists. Some of these posts pre-date my work in drug policy reform and demonstrate an interesting political evolution for a blue guy from a red state.
Make the poors work for food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare assistance! Brilliant! It makes perfect sense, because they’re too poor to afford food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare, so they’ll be desperate to do whatever job we force them to.
Pot shops don’t form massive hedge funds to buy up residential properties to jack up rents for more shareholder profits. Cannabis fields don’t kick mental patients out of hospitals and onto the streets. Legal reefer doesn’t bankrupt people when they get sick or injured in the only first world country lacking universal health insurance.
Wise men, these Founders, to be able to see three centuries into the future and understand that the need for Minutemen to be instantly ready to grab their muskets, powder, and shot to repel a Redcoat invasion of their Colonial hamlet is justification enough for someone to secretly stockpile modern assault rifles capable of wiping out an entire British platoon in a minute at 300 yards in their city of a million people today.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing that the U.S. raise the voting age to 25, with exceptions for those 18 and older who serve in the military, work as emergency responders or take a naturalization test.
CNN was met with howls of condemnation from politicians and media commentators for platforming the racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic views of the twice-defeated German leader. CNN Chairman Chris Licht defended the program, saying that “Despite the unique circumstances that complicate the presentation of Mr. Hitler’s campaign, he is the acknowledged front-runner for the nomination of the Nazi Party, and therefore, newsworthy.”
That means if incestuously pregnant teenage daughter wants an abortion, she has to report her incestuous rape by daddy to the police. Which could be complicated by, oh, I don’t know, say an incestuous abusive daddy that tells daughter to keep a secret or else he’ll kill the whole family with the Idaho-beloved AR-15 he keeps lovingly displayed on the wall.
Unlike time to be imprisoned, we do not all share the same income to be fined. A $500 fine to me means bills don’t get paid. A $500 fine to Warren Buffet is a rounding error. So, you end up with the double-parking scenario in New York, where it’s easier for the rich to pay parking tickets than to try to find parking.
“Sadly, I have to say, that no one really has covered it well, the insurrection. Because they only say that they were wrong, they have to go to jail, we have to punish them and all that stuff. But no one really has gotten into why was it that way? What powers do people have that have really upset and angry at government?”
That’s why the police reaction was so slow. “A guy with an AR-15? You’ll need to give us more. He’s firing it in his yard? Yeah, go on. At night, sure. But he’s in his own yard? Well, ma’am, you need to explain how there’s a crime being committed. All you’re telling me is there’s a good guy with a gun blowing off steam. Oh, sure, we’ll have someone stop by…”
Maybe Mr. Garcia should’ve told them he found a massive pot grow. Texas police react really quickly when there’s a big asset forfeiture possible. They’d even bring out the shiny new MRAP and have their full array of battlefield rifles and body armor ready to go.
“My understanding is that the victims, they came over to the fence and said ’Hey could [you not do your] shooting out in the yard? We have a young baby that’s trying to go to sleep,” and he had been drinking and he says ’I’ll do what I want to in my front yard,’” Capers told KTRK. The shooter was known to shoot his AR-15 style rifle in his front yard.
To not teach our kids America’s Racial History would be to doom them to repeat the horrific mistakes of the past and to diminish the enormous progress we have made toward a more perfect union, with liberty and justice for all Americans.
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