I asked for a source that her office locked anyone up for possession of marijuana. You couldn't find one. Case closed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
????In 2017, 6,085 marijuana related arrests occurred, of which 2,086 were felonies. In 2016, 13,810 marijuana related arrests occurred, of which 7,949 were felonies
uh, you asked for an answer and you got one.I appreciate the effort you put into your comment, but it was entirely tangential to my original point
and who has been smearing her for this...?(i.e. "locking up poor black kids with a dime bag" is a baseless smear).
that is not how you steered this conversation, nor how anybody has replied, and you know it. You're either exaggerating to the highest degree on purpose or trolling with this.Edit: let's just take a moment to recognize how fucking stupid it is to see "Kamala Harris wants to decriminalize weed, expunge records, and use the tax revenue to boost minority communities" and immediately jump to "lulz guys remember that clip in 2014 when she laughed about weed? Fuk that bitch amirite??"
Typical possession was not a state criminal offense, and it certainly wasn't a felony. In other words, that stat about "marijuana related arrests" doesn't address the question that I (very clearly) asked, nor does it contradict my original comment. Tbh, it obfuscates a bunch of potentially important and interesting details, but I digress.????
I said it isn't supposed to be, which is indeed true according to the American Bar Association. Plus, it was one tiny sidenote that had absolutely nothing to do with the overall point, so I don't know why you decided to pick it out in the first place. Nice job calling me out on something I never said, though! Really contributed to the discussion!If you seriously think prosecutor is not a political office then I really don't know what to say. Quite literally the most nonsense take in this forum, and that includes the Trump thread. It's elected by people on a ballot, and they have discretion on how to enforce the laws passed by politicians. The only people who think law enforcement is removed from politics are people whose privilege shields them from the consequences of not following laws and/or laws that uphold racism, classism, etc. Do you think judges should be apolitical too?
Immaculately good at smearing
The irony of writing this to preface a comment entirely dedicated to calling someone out. Ok, buddy.mikedawg i find it very interesting you of all people are calling others out for sarcastically “contributing to the discussion”
I'm sorry? Which of my comments was regurgitated from /r/Kamala? That one tweet, which has nothing to do with Reddit? What kind of weak ass call out is that? This is almost as fucking moronic as gato calling me a wall street shill for owning $200 worth of stocks.do you have anything to add of your own comments that isnt simply regurgitated from the top page of reddit.com/r/Kamala ? it seems whenever you do its just in a condescending navelgazing manner, which hardly befits discussion in a serious setting.
Please, ol' wise TCR, show me which of my comments came from Kamala's tiny subreddit. I'm dying to know. The vast majority of my comments in this thread haven't even been about Kamala Harris, so it really just feels like you're projecting.edit: to be clear if you only get your news sources and talking points from reddit then just be clear about it so people can understand you dont know how to critically think, rather than giving off an aura of political savvyness. we know whenever pressed you just go to your candidates subreddit and type in a guiding word as if its a journal database, so you can just pull the poll numbers or arguments straight from either the last few days post or from the comments. based on the look of it id say you just recently subscribed to r/Marianne2020 too
1st night: Bernie and Warren most likely won’t go after one another. They’re friends and support mostly similar policies. Bernie’s probably going to have to counterpunch against Delaney, Hickenlooper, and Ryan, so he’ll probably be preoccupied with that. Warren imo should go after Buttigieg and Beto, as her policy chops make her well equipped to attack them on lack of policy. I hope Bernie and Warren do well here, and I hope Marianne uses her small candidate status to go after people like Hickenlooper, Ryan, and Delaney.In other news: does anyone have any predictions for the debates? It seems like Tulsi has been gearing up to go after Kamala, but that's probably an awful idea, especially since Kamala doesn't even have a huge base to pull from right now. Plus, Joe Biden is standing right there.
Interesting that you decide to be rude after he no longer could respond. Took a lot of courage to do that buddy. -_-
I respectfully disagree. I think you’re coming from a good place, wanting Trump to lose, but I think you’re going about it wrong.I've been following this for some time, but haven't really responded.
Am I the only one who doesn't care who the Democrats nominate as long as they don't just hand the anthropomorphic orange a victory?
I mean, of course we would like to see a more progressive candidate nominated. But the reality is really 'radical'* progressives are just going to help lead to a horrible eventuality. Democrats and other progressives are just not going to vote for Trump, obviously. Centrists however, are perfectly capable of not voting at all if they don't like either candidate. Given that the uneducated moronic masses are going to be motivated for Trump, low turnout from moderates is basically going to hand him a second term.
I support a Biden nomination beacuse I just want anything but Trump in office, and he offers the easiest path to that end. He might not be the most progressive, but he meets the requirements to swing moderates. That being said, it would be great if he could use his coattails to bring in some other more left candidates into the VP so he can set them up for a future progressive bid, say Harris, Warren, etc. But honestly, anything but Trump.
If Democrats hand POTUS an easy victory just beacuse they wanted to show how left and hip they are, the fault is going to entirely on them. This is an easy victory and should push Repubs out.
*Radical as in not as widely accepted by the majority. Obviously these policies that have been labeled radical are just common sense and human decency, but they have to be labeled as such since they repel voters.
Agree on things covered here.I respectfully disagree. I think you’re coming from a good place, wanting Trump to lose, but I think you’re going about it wrong.
1. We already had a moderate candidate in 2016 and look how that turned out.
2. The “radical” policies aren’t called that because a majority of the public doesn’t like them. Medicare for All, Free College, a living wage, a Green New Deal, ending the wars, legalizing marijuana, etc. The list goes on and on of “radical” politicies that have >50% support among the American public.
3. To get more specific, the dems need to win the rust belt states they lost in order to win. The polls show that Bernie does the best in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Annecdotally, I live in Michigan and know a lot of Trump voters that wouldn’t vote for Biden, but would vote for Bernie. Take that with a grain of salt of course, but the polls back that up.
4. If we have another neoliberal president that just makes small changes, well that’s how we got Trump. President Biden would probably lead to someone even worse than Trump. People are sick and tired of the status quo and that’s why they voted for Trump. By now, Trump has proven himself to be part of the old status quo. If we send out an anti-establishment populist, people will know stuff is going to change. If we nominate an establishment candidate, people will know nothing will change either way and will probably vote for Trump and his fiery rhetoric at least over Mr “nothing would fundamentally change”.
5. Final point. Democrats/progressives are also likely to not turn out to vote if they don’t like either candidate. This is going to be an election based on turnout. The democrat mainly just needs to excite the base. What excites the base? You know the policies I listed above as liked by the American people? They’re even more popular among Democrats and left-leaning independents. I’d argue that even if those policies repel centrists (which they don’t) we don’t need them to win. Half the country doesn’t vote, right? We just need someone who can turn out the non-voting democrat base. And yes, those policies do that.
I support Sanders over Warren as well, despite not really agreeing with 100% of his policies (although I suppose I'd hesitantly put Warren as my second pick), but I don't think the Native American ordeal is going to affect Warren at all, really. For one, she's already apologized for it and offered what is, as far as I'm concerned, a perfectly valid explanation (by the one drop rule, she is Native American, and it's perfectly reasonable that she never questioned exactly how much.) I think most people who would hold that against her are the kinds of people who weren't going to vote for her in the first place. She has some baggage, but it's nowhere near as damning as the baggage Hillary carried.I hesitantly put my support towards Sanders, mostly from the area of thinking that the Native American ordeal would be milked during campaign by the right for Warren
maybe if u start a food truck or something u can get ur debt repaid
this applies to like 5 ppl