I don’t honestly care about it that much. Biden is correct that these specific specific charges are rarely brought to court, and if Hunter were anyone else, they wouldn’t have been. There WAS political interference by the Republicans ONLY because it was Biden’s son, he was targeted for political reasons, not because of the laws he broke.

The pardon power SHOULD be used in situations of injustice. Individuals being targeted because of who they are related to, race, gender, identity, etc. instead of the merits of the charges themselves. Or where extenuating circumstances provide a lot more context. Law enforcement has a lot of leeway with determining when to arrest and prosecute, and jury nullification exists for context situations at the peer level already. Laws are written by man, and many laws on the books are unjust, some by design. There are situations where something illegal probably shouldn’t be, or the context surrounding it needs to be considered. Sometimes the end does justify the means. Government whistleblowers being targeted for instance.

Why do you think that Trump is going to give any shit about whether someone has been pardoned already? What in his history makes you think he will follow the law?

The President doesn’t make laws, Congress does. You need to be talking to your representative and Senators and holding them accountable.

About cannabis specifically, he already pardoned the federal non-violent, non-distribution offenders. And his DOJ has recommended the DEA reschedule it to a Class III drug, they’re the department that actually controls drug scheduling.

State drug laws are not something the President has control of. Again that you be your State reps.

You seem to either not understand how this works or are purposely ignoring that for whatever reason.

Young people now have issues with full computers. They’ve grown up on iOS and Android, and they expect touchscreens and that type of interface.

Windows, OSX, and Linux are too complicated in comparison. Double clicking and right clicking aren’t concepts on mobile interfaces. They’re used to tapping or just holding on an icon.

They can learn easier sure, but the knowledge they have doesnt directly translate as well as you’d think.

To be fair… it used to literally say START on it. Now there’s no indication whatsoever of that.

Hey, there are those of us that work in IT Support and know EXACTLY where the average user ends. It’s just about the capabilities and reading comprehension of a 5th grader.

Nah see they’ve got one of those fancy dual air dryers in the picture. One side is clearly for food and the other for beverages.

Honestly, not really. Most of them don’t pay any attention, they’re too busy living paycheck to paycheck and trying not to be homeless and don’t have the time to stay politically educated.

And yes, that is pretty paradoxically why so much of the country is in that position in the first place.

Reminder that only ~30% of the country voted for Trump.

The fact that these aren’t hard requirements in our modern society is inexcusable.

If there’s anything his Administrations have shown, it is that WAYYYYY too much of our government operates on gentleman’s agreements and norms, not actual rules and requirements.

Mexico can have Texas back. We should send them a Thank You card for doing so.

There’s no conspiracy per se, just the Republicans lying about their intentions so they get specific votes. As they usually do.

There was never a real attempt to repeal it. Even when an effort passed in the House, it was obvious the Senate wouldn’t do the same, and several times they explicitly voted DOWN the House version to write their own instead, which then never made it through the House. At no point was it really plausible both sides of Congress would actually pass a repeal.

The resident Republican Senator that is allowed to vote against the group to prevent shit they don’t actually want to happen while making it look like they do… always would strike it down. This is the seat that Senators like McCain held as a failsafe against their propaganda actually passing, prior to Trump throwing a monkey wrench into everything by refusing to follow the carefully set playbook. It’s not quite as neat since then, but there is a pattern with a couple Republican Senators that are allowed to occasionally vote against the party and prevent things from passing without much negativity from their propaganda outlets.

The party says what they want to rile up their base knowing it won’t actually pass since they have specific individuals whose job it is to prevent that when necessary to stop their own fake initiatives.

That was never for a single second an actual Republican plan. The ACA was the Republican healthcare plan. Nearly everything the Dems wanted was thrown out by the end, or removed by the Supreme Court after the fact. It was basically just a copy of Romneycare brought to the national scale.

It was just an easy target to get some of the dumb as fuck voters on their side consistently. The Republicans are great at gathering single issue voters by being an anti-party. The party has had no actual values for over 2 decades now, just being the opposite of whatever the Dems are going for.

When did the Republicans in Congress actively work against Trump while he was in office?

Don’t know, the couple of articles I saw going around didn’t actually have any actual info in them, just the report by a random person in Germany which is one of the Premium Lite (or whatever they want to call it) regions.

I don’t really care that much to be honest. I pay for YouTube Premium. My region doesn’t have a Lite option. I pay for several reasons, not just the lack of ads. I pay so the content creators I watch get paid more for my view. I pay for no ads. I pay for the bundled YouTube Music. All of those are part of my usage. The lack of ads is only one aspect. For others that may be different, and for them the price justification may be different as well if they’re only paying to remove ads.

Not to mention that partial ad experiences at a lower cost are an inevitable middle option to regular ad and no-ad options. YouTube isn’t anywhere near the first to do this, and they definitely won’t be the last. Complaining about it will do absolutely nothing, they don’t give a shit and the only people that could force a change are shareholders, who only care about profits at this point. Customer satisfaction for a company like Google means fucking nothing.

So why expend the energy? That can be focused elsewhere to much more effect.

He won’t be able to do any of the dumb shit he promised with Executive Order alone.

He won’t need to. He’s got Congress and the Supreme Court to do what he wants.

There’s premium content, no ads, the creator gets paid significantly more for your Premium view, and bundled YouTube Music.

IIRC that was specifically related to YouTube testing out a new Premium tier that allowed some ads, but also cost less, and only in specific markets.

Not everywhere, and not regular Premium subscriptions, unlike how most posts try to make it sound, including yours. But don’t let the facts get in the way.

And Ko-Fi takes between 0-5%.