Wouldn’t they just be shooting themselves in the foot here? Even with all the talk about decoupling and tariffs, the European and American economy are still heavily intertwined and a recession in the US will almost certainly spread to the EU.
Look at what happened in 2008, some wall street crooks made some stupid bets on mortgages and then the euro-zone got sent into a debt crisis.
It’s not his fault, be mad at the person who bred him, not him for existing.
were temporarily transported to heaven
Makes sense, the japanese monarchy is one of the few that still claims divinity and Shintoism still says they should be venerated.
Probably not, the way Russia is right now it’s more likely some nationalist military commander fills that power vacuum then a sane democratic regime.
Anyone about to go to college, this classification will determine how much financial aid you’ll be eligible for.
wildly inaccurate “natural history”
If you consider the fact it was written in 1850 it is surprisingly accurate, like it was talking about whales eating giant squids a century before the scientific community accepted that.
Also the whale descriptions are the point, the book is about the enlightenment drive to understand and therefore master nature with Moby dick standing in as a refutation of that idea, being unconquerable no matter how much knowledge you have. Without the descriptions you could write off Ishmael and the crew as a bunch of idiots who just didn’t have the know how to take down Moby dick.
Are diabetics (which you’d probably become if you ate cheesecake daily) addicted to insulin then? Cause they definitely can’t stop using there drug.
Addiction and dependence are two different things. Dependence means you have to take a drug otherwise you’ll suffer negative consequences, addiction means you keep taking a drug despite the negative consequences it’s causing. Dependence isn’t a problem in and of itself, it becomes a problem when it’s intertwined with addiction.
Ok, then prosecute him for racketeering or murder for hire.
If the point is to just take out the kingpin, for the sake of taking out the kingpin, I don’t think that’s an effective strategy for public safety. When the kingpin goes to jail violence goes up as their underlings usually fight for the throne. Availability of drugs and other illegal services may go down temporarily during the war and reconsolidation but long term they’ll return to antebellum levels. The only thing taking out the kingpin does is boost cops egos.
How am I framing it like he got caught with an ounce, my original comment mentioned the amount. Why should the amount matter, it’s legal now, a dispensary is probably moving tons of marijuana a year, should the owners of those dispensaries be prosecuted simply because of the volume of the operation?
I will make the argument that all marijuana charges should be pardoned expunged in legal states because we as a society decided it’s a relatively harmless substance and that we shouldn’t be locking people up for possessing or selling it.
Yeah he’s not the best poster boy, and Willie Horton isn’t the best poster boy for furlough programs, and the guy who killed laken Riley isn’t the best poster boy for immigration reform, hell kilmar garcia has charges equivalent to this guy. That’s the thing about criminal justice reform, you don’t choose your poster boy your opponent does. That’s why you have to defend it on principal not individual cases, because there will always be someone who uses that reform and goes on to commit some atrocious act which your opponents will use as “proof” that the reform is dangerous.
Trump blowing up boats is bad
Trump commuting non violent drug offenses is good
You can hold these two opinions if you’re mature enough to understand no one is a pure hero or villain and can do both good and bad things
Do you think this guy should still be locked up for smuggling weed in a state where its now legal? I don’t and I’m not going to compromise my morals just so I can disagree with trump on every issue. If you are taking the stance that anything trump does is automatically bad then your letting your politics be defined by him and becoming a sort of reactionary. Your politics should be defined by what you believe in, not what the other side says.
I also believe that trump pardoning his co-conspirators is wrong because it’s corrupt, not just because Trump is doing it. Criticize an action on its substance, not just who is doing it.
Are we really doing Willie Horton style “look at this monster our opponent let back on the streets” tactics. This is how we end up with every politician being afraid to pardon anyone or even let them off on parole because there opponent or the press will yell at them if they ever so much as run a red light.
This guy wasn’t even sentenced for rape or murder or anything violent:
Braun was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 for smuggling 220,000 pounds of marijuana.
Trump was right to pardon him, marijuana offenses are BS. Yeah the guy fucked up after he got out but that’s not Trump’s fault. There’s a million things we can criticize trump for, this isn’t one of them.
I’m not saying to always take the high road, play dirty when it actually helps people and will make you more popular. Pack the courts to reinstitute roe, deschedule Marijuana with an executive order, release the epstein list and start prosecuting trump for his connections to it, prosecute and fine the oil billionaires funding the GOP.
Taking billionaire pac money and redistricting just to win elections isn’t popular, at best people view it as a necessary evil, at worse people become apathetic and view both parties as corrupt and not worth there vote.
with further gerrymandering in Texas, they’ll probably not get a majority
The gerrymandering in Texas is expected to give the gop 5 seats and they currently have a 6 seat majority, so the dems would have to flip 11 seats, that should be dead easy in a midterm with an unpopular president to play off of. For reference the dems flipped 41 seats in the 2018 midterms.
The reason the democrats are worried is because they know they’re polling at 30 year lows in approval and that will counteract the inherent advantage of the opposition party in a midterm. Playing dirty with the Republicans will only make them more unpopular while obfuscating that unpopularity with a couple more house seats for bland centrist dems.
It’s just like the dems taking billionaire pac money and pointing to the Republicans doing the same and saying they wouldn’t be competitive without it. When really they could turn down the money and run on a campaign of getting money out of politics and gain way more voters than they’d get from running more TV ads.
No this isn’t them doing what I want. I want democrats to use there power to stop Trump from bombing and abducting whoever he wants. I don’t want them entrenching there power for the sake of power. I want them to explain how they’re gonna use there power to stop fascism to justify them taking away people’s democratic power over disrricting.
I’ll give them props for holding out on the shutdown for Healthcare subsidies people need, that’s standing up for your constituents, but this redistricting is just a power grab.
Idk, a basement is starting to seem like the best place to put RFK Jr now.
They have to have a degree on the relevant topic. I assume most of those influences have business degrees or whatever that wouldn’t qualify them to speak on the dangers of vaccines.
What they deserve
Like heading the department of health and human services?
Maybe they did, guess i meant dark web market links
Would be funny if Russia turned Venezuela into the US Ukraine. Flood the country with weapons and aid and make them slowly bleed in a quagmire that their pride won’t let them leave.
Doesn’t look like Russia has the spare production capacity though because of the quagmire.