• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Democrats when they win an election: Wahhhh we dont have a congressional majority :c

    Republicans when they win an election: FUCK LEGAL PRECEDENT I AM MORE POWERFUL THEN THE COURTS AND GOD, I WILL MURDER ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY

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      Democrats when elected: okay but we only had all three branches of government for two years and Joe Lieberman was kinda mean :(

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      Democrats when they win an election: Wahhhh we dont have a congressional majority :c

      Republicans when they win an election: FUCK LEGAL PRECEDENT I AM MORE POWERFUL THEN THE COURTS AND GOD, I WILL MURDER ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY

      May I steal this for the body of an image to post on !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com?

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        Oh absolutely, if the conservatives want to play dirty I say we play just as dirty. Hell lets go lower, we the workers should do absolutely everything in our power to destroy tyranny.

        DEATH TO THE TYRANTS

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        We haven’t been a democracy with laws since Bush stole the 2000 election and lied to the world to murder a million Iraqis.

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      Democrats when they win an election: Wahhhh we dont have a congressional majority :c

      … because they didn’t.

      Republicans when they win an election: FUCK LEGAL PRECEDENT I AM MORE POWERFUL THEN THE COURTS AND GOD, I WILL MURDER ANYONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY

      … because they HAD the majority. And they stacked the Judicial.

      How is this hard to understand?

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        … because they didn’t.

        …and when they do, it becomes because they don’t have a large enough majority. If they had a filibuster -peoof majority, it would be because they don’t have a veto-proof majority even if they also held the executive.

        To put it another way, Biden had the power to fully legalize marijuana at any time because drug scheduled can be changed by process from either the legislative or executive branches. Instead he had it rescheduled. Because Dems only operate in half measures federally, because they are controlled opposition.

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          To put it another way, Biden had the power to fully legalize marijuana at any time because drug scheduled can be changed by process from either the legislative or executive branches. Instead he had it rescheduled. Because Dems only operate in half measures federally, because they are controlled opposition.

          He didn’t even do that. He asked the DEA to do it, but they never moved the needle on it. It’s still as illegal as it was in 2020, federally speaking.

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            You’re right, it’s currently still hung up in procedure. Even then, he could have ordered his DEA to deschedule it, and instead had them do what they’ve done. He also waited long enough that when it happens, Trump will get the credit despite having had nothing to do with the process.

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        They distinctly did under Obama and in the first two years of Biden. They just complained and fucked up