No, he's an expert who shifted the overton window to give the establishment exactly what they wanted.so is bernie an incrementalist now?
How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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No, he's an expert who shifted the overton window to give the establishment exactly what they wanted.
I'm starting to see why his followers are so faithful
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This justices need term limits.. 1 term 20 years … it will coincide with the presidential two term limit at 8 years so no matter what every President will get to pick a justices depending on who’s term is up
No, he's an expert who shifted the overton window to give the establishment exactly what they wanted.
PoorAndDangerous
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Biden still opposes marijuana legalization 
Even Roland is PISSED
washingtonpost.com
Texas Democrats won’t play by GOP rules. That’s how to fight oppression.
Jennifer Rubin
6-7 minutes
The ever-snide Peter Doocy, Fox News’s White House reporter, specializes in asking questions with built-in, right-wing talking points designed to create fodder for his propagandistic network. (Disclosure: I am an MSNBC contributor.) If there is a Fox narrative to be advanced, he is the one to press for a sound bite that could perpetuate it. Why is Vice President Harris’s book being distributed at border detention facilities? (It wasn’t.) How can you say Republicans want to defund the police when it’s the Squad that talks about it? (Umm, because Republicans voted against funding for police, and no one in Democratic leadership supports defunding the police.)
His most recent exchange on Wednesday with White House press secretary Jen Psaki on the Texas Democratic lawmakers who left their state in an attempt to block proposed voter restrictions was telling:
Doocy: Thank you, Jen. About voting rights and these Texas lawmakers who have come to Washington. Do you know any — of any examples from his 36 years in the Senate that Joe Biden just hopped on a train and left town to avoid a vote that he knew he was going to lose?
Psaki: (Laughs.) Welcome back. (Laughter.) Look, I think that the President’s view is that these Texas legislators were making a statement through action in opposition to efforts in their state to oppose restrictions on people’s fundamental rights and their rights to vote in their state. That is why they departed.
The Pre— the Vice President met with these legislators yesterday, and the Vice President — and the President, I should say, certainly applauds their actions and their outspoken opposition to states — to efforts to put in place restrictive measures in their state.
Doocy: And maybe it is funny to think about it that way, but the President is talking about this as the most serious assault on democracy’s since the Civil War.
Psaki: I don’t think anything about — I don’t think anything about this is funny. I think what is important to note, though, here is that there are 28 states, including Texas, where there are laws in place or in process to make it harder to vote. And it requires bold action, it requires bold voices to speak out against that and make sure people understand their rights. That’s exactly what’s happening here.
Doocy: So does the candidate — who’s now President ... does he think that the best way to prevent something bad from happening — that he thinks is bad — from happening in Texas is for these lawmakers to be hiding out in a different state or for them to go back and sit down at the table?
Psaki: The President fundamentally believes you should work together in areas where you can find agreement, as he is on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework that is going to help rebuild roads and rails and bridges around our country, and also that you should be outspoken where you have concerns about affronts to democracy. That’s what he did yesterday, and that’s what these legislators are doing now.
For starters, Psaki was not making a joke. Doocy’s colleagues were laughing at him for his obviously contrived question designed to provide fodder for the MAGA media silo. She deftly explained that President Biden is all for working together when possible but that bold action is needed to protect against an unprecedented assault on democracy.
She might have continued this way:
The reason Democrats need to take unprecedented action is because for the first time in our history, we have one political party no longer committed to democracy. Aided by the “big lie” that the election was stolen, which Fox and other outlets amplified, Republicans have done what would have been unthinkable when President Biden was in the Senate. They have devised ways to suppress voting and, worse, to lay the groundwork to overturn election results they do not like. They are prepared to destroy democracy and the rule of law to stay in the good graces of the disgraced former president.
When confronted with Jim Crow legislation and a Supreme Court practically writing a manual for Republicans to defend voter-suppression laws, Democrats, independents and pro-democracy Republicans must find creative, peaceful ways to defend democratic values. That means advancing every viable legal challenge, using the full force of the federal government to prevent attempts to interfere illegally with vote-counting (as happened in Georgia in 2020) and using every legislative procedure available to defend the fundamental right to vote.
Not coincidentally, Jim Crow voices during the civil rights movement also whined that protesters were being disruptive and that they refused to play by the rules that White supremacists had set. It was this sentiment to which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. responded in his letter from a Birmingham jail: "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.”
Fretting that Democrats aren’t abiding by political niceties and legislative norms while Republicans shred our democracy is the 21st-century equivalent of complaining that civil rights protesters were not sufficiently compliant, obedient and accommodating to those persecuting them.
One cannot have it both ways. You cannot throw out every democratic norm in pursuit of power while demanding your opponents dot every "i" and cross every “t.” I don’t for a moment suggest Democrats mimic Republicans (e.g., lie about election fraud, seek to suppress Republican voting, try to politicize the administration of justice). But every American should support lawmakers who refuse to capitulate in the face of anti-democratic attacks.
I suppose such a response wouldn’t further the president’s desire to lower the political temperature in Washington. But it sure would be satisfying.
nytimes.com
Schumer Will Propose Federal Decriminalization of Marijuana
Nicholas Fandos
6-8 minutes
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, will offer draft legislation to remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances and begin regulating and taxing it.
Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
July 14, 2021Updated 10:26 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Schumer of New York plans to propose legislation on Wednesday to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, putting his weight as majority leader behind a growing movement to unwind the decades-old war on drugs.
The draft bill, called the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and begin regulating and taxing it, placing federal rules on a burgeoning industry that has faced years of uncertainty. Though states would still be allowed to set their own marijuana laws, businesses and individuals in states that have legalized its use would be free for the first time to sell and consume it without the risk of federal punishment.
The proposal would also try to make recompense to communities of color and the poor for damage from years of restrictive federal drug policy. It calls for immediately expunging nonviolent marijuana-related arrests and convictions from federal records and would earmark new tax revenue for restorative justice programs intended to lift up communities affected by “the failed federal prohibition of cannabis.”
The bill aims to “finally turn the page on this dark chapter in American history and begin righting these wrongs,” said Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, who wrote the bill with Mr. Schumer and Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and the chairman of the Finance Committee.
The legislation faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republicans are opposed, and it is unlikely to become law in the near future. President Biden has not endorsed it, and some moderate Democrats are likely to balk at the implications of decriminalizing a drug that has been policed and stigmatized for so long.
But in the arc of the public’s rapid reconsideration of marijuana laws, the presentation on Wednesday was a remarkable milestone for legalization proponents. The suggestion that the Senate’s top leader and the chairman of the powerful Finance Committee would sponsor major decriminalization legislation would have been fantastical in the not-too-distant past.
In a speech on April 20, the unofficial holiday for marijuana smokers, Mr. Schumer said he was trying to prod Washington off the sidelines of a debate in which much of the country was already engaged. Public opinion polling suggests that nearly 70 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medical use, and 18 states plus D.C. allow recreational use by adults.
Mr. Schumer has also made no secret that he believes Democrats stand to benefit politically from embracing the legalization push, particularly with young voters.
“Hopefully, the next time this unofficial holiday of 4/20 rolls around, our country will have made progress in addressing the massive overcriminalization of marijuana in a meaningful and comprehensive way,” he said in April.
The senators were expected to detail their plans later Wednesday morning at a news conference at the Capitol.
They are expected to propose empowering the Food and Drug Administration and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau at the Treasury Department to begin regulating the production, distribution and sale of marijuana, removing the Drug Enforcement Administration from its current oversight role. Among other implications, the changes would allow marijuana companies already operating in states where it is legal to gain full access to the United States banking system.
The legislation would gradually institute a federal excise tax like the one on alcohol and tobacco sales, eventually as high as 25 percent for big businesses, allowing the federal government to benefit from sales that came close to $20 billion in 2020. The revenue would then be funneled back to communities most affected by federal drug policy and to fund expanded medical research into cannabis that is currently limited by its status as a controlled substance.
One provision, for instance, would establish a cannabis justice office at the Justice Department to help fund job training, legal aid and help with re-entry after incarceration. Another program would promote loans to small cannabis businesses owned by members of racially or economically marginalized groups to try to ensure that communities that suffered disproportionately under the war on drugs are not left out of the gold rush that has accompanied legalization.
But the bill would aim to make other, more direct attempts to compensate for the impacts of years of aggressive policing. In addition to expunging past arrests and convictions, it would entitle those who are currently serving sentences for nonviolent federal drug crime to a court hearing to reconsider their sentences. And if enacted, the federal government would no longer be able to discriminate against marijuana users seeking federal housing, food or health benefits.
The Democratic-led House passed similar legislation in December, with a handful of Republicans joining to vote in favor. The vote was the first and only time either chamber had endorsed the legalization of cannabis, but the bill died at the end of the last Congress. House leaders plan to pass an updated version in the coming months.
Passage through the Senate is likely to be more tricky. Mr. Schumer would need to assemble 60 votes, meaning he would need the support of at least 10 Republicans. Though libertarian-leaning Republicans have generally supported ending the prohibition of marijuana, party leaders are likely to oppose the Democrats’ plan, particularly with its emphasis on restorative justice and government intervention in the cannabis industry.
But opposition is not limited to Republicans. Mr. Schumer would have to persuade moderate Democrats who are uncomfortable with the implications of decriminalization to support it.
Mr. Biden supports decriminalizing marijuana and pulling back the war on drugs, but his views are generally more conservative than many Democrats’ and he has not endorsed Mr. Schumer’s proposal. His White House made headlines this spring for pushing out five staff members over their use of marijuana.
There's literally no reason, morally or electorally for Dems to be against this and they can easily make Republicans look bad for opposing something so generally popular.
But that probably won't happen because they just have to chase imaginary moderate voters
