Many top Democrats are convinced that if the election were today, Biden would lose a rematch with former President Trump. Biden’s address on March 7 is his biggest chance to shift public perceptions.

“Everyone around him is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden said. “The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [slamming Biden’s age] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”

One bold move that Biden has considered, we’re told, is an executive order that would dramatically stanch the record flow of migrants into the Southwest. This could even happen in the two weeks before the address, allowing Biden to say he took action while Republicans just talk.

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      Literally walk onto the floor and go “I’m smoking that Shadow Garden Dark Evil pack.” Just go full blown into the meme.

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        Nah man, he has to do it right and say he is smoking a strain like “purple panty dropper” or “cheetah piss” and yes both of those exist and iirc they both have positive benefits in the bedroom and wherever else you like. My wife is unsure about trying them because of the name. I have other cartridges of ones like deathstar, tigersblood, grand daddy berry, banana treez, etc but we have yet to give those a try.

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          I honestly detest those kinds of names. It is so… wild. And that’s me coming from magic the gathering and yugioh where we get exclaim random card games with joy and fun rage.

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            Same here. If this industry wants to be taken seriously it needs to rethink some things. There are some medical strains at certain dispenseries that are simply named ibs or sleep or whatever they are supposed to treat. I’m actually okay with that as long as there is some other info about its heritage and what other strains it’s related to.

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      He can’t do that. He and others have requested for it to be rescheduled and a handful of dems are pushing for it to be descheduled altogether. But that is up to the dea iirc and I am aware of the conflict of interest with them deciding what drugs are scheduled what.

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    I fucking hate this timeline. It is either Biden, or Trump. Those are our options. That’s it. Either a babling idiot or… an orange babling idiot. Has there ever been such bad options before? I am so sick of it. It feels like there is someone behind the scenes pulling the strings just to see how fucking ridiculous this can all get before we rise up. Maybe someone is testing the waters for something in the future. Just to see how much they can toy with us. Maybe it’s all just the elite rich shoving whatever politician they can in that gives them the most control. I mean, we all know that is happenning, but maybe it is just becoming more and more brazen as they realize how much we all just… complain and do nothing substantial to stop it.

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      It feels like there is someone behind the scenes pulling the strings just to see how fucking ridiculous this can all get before we rise up.

      It’s much scarier than that: This is actually what the American people want, and those of us who think it’s wrong are a tiny minority.

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    I think it’s concerning that his memory is seemingly so bad that he forgot he said he’d be a one term president during the 2020 primary.

    Keeping the same candidate isn’t going to be much of a reset, even if I’d still vote for that candidate like my life and the lives of marginalized loved ones depend on it.

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    One bold move that Biden has considered, we’re told, is an executive order that would dramatically stanch the record flow of migrants into the Southwest. This could even happen in the two weeks before the address, allowing Biden to say he took action while Republicans just talk.

    Clearly the way to quiet concerns that he’s old and out of touch is to become more conservative. Republicans being hypocrites doesn’t make him younger, nor is it going to improve his numbers with the groups he’s been losing who all have issues other than border crossings that motivate them. “People don’t like me, what if I did something completely irrelevant to their concerns? That’d solve it right?”

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    Can’t wait to see what his “fund the police” moment is gonna be this time. Wonder which previously valued constituency is going under the bus in order to fail to gain the approval of Republicans.