Imagine where we would be if Merrick Garland hadn’t taken 18 months to appoint the Special Counsel in the first place.

In many states postmark dates are used for verifying mail in voting deadlines.

A lot of the “cuts” were for programs that had already been funded… the money was already spent. Agreements and contracts were cancelled. Some of those surely had penalties involved. Some were for things they actually needed, and so they’ve had to renegotiate again with worse terms because the government just proved it can’t be trusted.

Probably the FBI team that usually interfaces with NYPD specifically due to the size, and complexity of the City, as opposed to just New York in general.

Billionaire donors are complicit, maybe directly, maybe indirectly.

Because the building name doesn’t affect their billionaire megadonors.

That’s the official definition now that the Israeli government has been pushing for almost a year, to try and shield zionists from legitimate criticism. They’re trying to muddy the waters, and what it’s doing is making every Jew worldwide a target, and when there are attacks of any kind, they claim anti-Semitism… Making it impossible to tell anymore what’s actually anti-Semetic in general and what’s intended to be anti-Israel.

So they’re not actively enforcing the weird grey area they made by defining only one THC cannabinoid, and allowing derivatives that don’t have to conform to the same level.

Is it that surprising that they fucked up trying to define something they don’t actually understand? Although it’s more likely the loophole was intentionally made by the lobbyists for the various cannabis companies that actually wrote that part of the bill, as is tradition now.

No it wasn’t. The 2018 farm bill removed Hemp from the list and specific it as different from marijuana, and derivatives as long as they have less than 0.3% Delta-9 THC. This is also why CBD products are available essentially across the board. CBD is excluded and listed as separate from THC, because it is not psychoactive.

There have been multiple subsequent court rulings that have had differing conclusions regarding various products that came on the market after that. More specifically around arguments about Delta-8 THC derived from <0.3% Delta-9 products and natural vs synthetic derivatives.

Marijuana in general was by no means “legalized” by the 2018 Farm Bill.

Not true, it has 1 medical use. To treat severe alcohol withdrawal, which can be fatal.

Assuming of course you ignore the fact it’s also the cause of that issue.

Post 9/11 knee jerk responses that began to erode and destroy a lot of what made the US. The Taliban already won then and there.

The US always has done heinous shit but it was always under the covers. Not blatantly out in the open.

Surveying Dems about the same question will probably get you near 100%. It’s the same 37-38% that are always blind followers for the Rs.

You don’t have to rake it away, just make it irrelevant. They only have so much power now because First Past the Post voting systems don’t need anywhere near a majority, just a little more than everyone else. So with as few as 3 candidates you could win with only 34% of the vote.

Switching to an actually representative election style like ranked choice voting means the outliers are represented more accurately instead of getting an oversized platform their size doesn’t warrant.

You know multi-tasking is a thing. There’s more than one person in the office that can work on stuff simultaneously. And they almost certainly have someone that posts these types of things to the social media accounts.

Quit acting like there is only one person and they can only do one thing at a time. You just look like an idiot.

They generally avoid doing this brazen shit in states and areas that are more armed.

Not sure that’s actually the case. Most of the people that I know with firearms are either Democrats or former Republicans that have left because of the current Republican party shit.

But I’m also in southern AZ, relatively near Adelita’s district. AZ has been a weird purple-ish amalgamation shifting back and forth for decades now.

Republicans have an inherent belief that everything is zero-sum. If someone is getting something discounted, then they must be losing something or paying extra in exchange.

Also a good reminder that this Justice Department failed to indict the guy that threw a sandwich at ICE twice, then reduced the charges to a misdemeanor to bypass the grand jury, and still failed to get a conviction.

Normally federal charges aren’t brought unless there’s a strong case. The Federal conviction rate is usually over 90% because they don’t bother going after things they probably won’t win. They seem to have thrown that out the window in their haste to target political enemies. Turning the entire department into a laughing stock for anyone paying attention.

The first step is ranked choice voting for everything from local to federal elections.

First past the post is literally the worst way to operate a voting system of your goal is to get an accurate representation of the populace.

The entire system was designed around landowners being the only voters. So that meant only rich white men. Who had the time, personal desire, and societal expectation to stay current on social changes and the economy. They also had every reason to vote whenever possible. The core electoral system is based around these expectations and has had very few changes since it was created.

As voting rights were extended to more groups, the built-in structure of the system wasn’t updated. The rich landowners have every reason to vote, and the free time to do so and travel if needed. The system relies on an educated voting populace, which was already an expectation of those that were allowed to vote.

Modern Republicans have used those built in structural expectations to their advantage. And since lower turnout tends to go their way, they try to force that however they can, and regularly have courts throw their egregious shit out. So for decades now they have focused on replacing judges with sycophants in every state and federal opening they can. If those judges won’t throw out the bullshit, then they can do what they want.