Old fucks are the people who will vote in Oz. It’s old fucks who watch his show, who buy into his snake oil con-artist products and finally, it’s old fucks who ALWAYS vote. That’s what they do that all the younger people don’t do: They vote. And they don’t vote well, because they’re easy to manipulate. Ask any Nigerian prince.
He’s a pair of white Oakleys and bro dozer away from being done with the NFL because the super bowl chose Rihanna to play half time.
Fetterman seriously looks like nearly every one of my friends from high school. But then again I am from Pennsyltucky.
I’m in Upstate NY ( the section I call the “Deep South of the state” ) and 10 minutes from the PA border. @Trickysista speaks the truth.
I grew up in Fayette County, PA which is rural Appalachia Pittsburgh area. We started the whiskey rebellion and much of the violent union clashes occurred in the area. Historically, a very conservative, very pro union, pro 2nd ammendment area that used to vote almost always democrat thanks to the mines & mills. However, most of those union jobs are long gone and the area outside Allegany County/Pittsburgh proper now votes mostly republican. The hoodie personna, his time as the mayor of Braddock, and his campaign are why I say Fetterman "gets" PA...Google Oz, Fetterman, crudité, and veggie plate for another example. What I wrote above is why I'm not sure the rest of PA "gets" him. 20+ years ago, he's a lock for rural & union PA residents...today not so much. Outside the stroke is he's also been labeled as a socialist which in rural PA is worse than being a democrat. Oz is the posterchild why they need to ammend residency requirements for candidates.
I'll never understand this. "We need the government to bring back jobs that were exported by the free market, and to enforce the collective power of the proletariat, but NO SOCIALISM."
This right here is why I'm afraid Oz will win. Also the fact that most union jobs are long gone...no reason to vote blue anymore. I meant to link that crazy crudité video too...because that was one of the most bizarre commercials I've ever seen. I thought it was a spoof at first.
This is happening a lot in the Senate race in Ohio between Tim Ryan and JD Vance. The Republicans keep running ads against Ryan saying he voted to authorize the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents, which is SUPER BAD, but yet we need to elect JD Vance because he's the candidate that can bring back jobs... Because hiring IRS workers somehow isn't giving people jobs?
Biden just announced a blanket pardon on federal (simple) marijuana possession convictions, as well as a reexamination of the scheduling of marijuana. Methinks he's been saving that one in his back pocket for right before the midterms.
It's not theater because it's an actual policy shift. The timing is what I would classify as gamesmanship though.
Considering the student loan forgiveness is starting to shit the bed, I don't blame him. What exactly needs to occur for it to come off of Schedule A? Kind of odd to pardon people and then work on removing it.
I assume it has to go through the same rulemaking process as any regulatory change. We've seen how the EPA guidance on CO2 emissions have been tied up in the courts for years, so I have to imagine rescheduling is not something the White House can do overnight. Even without significant pushback, there's still the builtin proposal/public comment period/etc. Pardons can be achieved with the stroke of a pen though.
The reason is that Biden has pardon power for already convicted criminals; hence why he can just sign an EO to pardon those already convicted federally. Also, if someone has been convicted at a city/state level (which is the vast majority of possession convictions) this doesn't apply to them. The actual act of decriminalization needs to be done by an actual change to the existing law or the introduction of a new law, which the executive doesn't have the authority to do.
Guys, don't you remember a few years ago (pretty sure Obama was in office), and there was an effort to reschedule weed, and it didn't go through? The reasoning for it was because THC couldn't be replicated in a lab, ie: "The pharmaceutical companies can't patent it, thus they can't force you to buy it from them." I can't be the only one who remembers that.
In other news that no one's going to care about in 24 hours, Ben Sasse is leaving the Senate to take the Presidency of the University of Florida. Won't affect the balance in the Senate any, but he was one of the few Republicans who voted to convict in the second impeachment. Although interesting potential shenanigans is Governor Ricketts nominating himself as the interim Senator after failing to buy a seat in 2006.