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I am tired of blaming someone who gets 2% for when bad things happen. Blame the 30% who did nothing.

She deports all republicans to the nations of their ancestors.

😂 🤣

I haven’t heard that, do you have a source?

I went looking for one, and it seems not as cut and dried as I thought.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-record-marijuana-prosecutor-173249390.html

But it is fair to talk about Harris’ complex relationship with marijuana.

As a senator, Harris championed marijuana decriminalization and eventually legalization. She signed Senator Cory Booker’s marijuana legalization bill in 2017, and she also introduced her own bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.

But as an attorney general, her record is much more complicated. Harris oversaw roughly 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for “marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale,” according to Reuters. However, defense attorneys and prosecutors in Harris’ office told Mercury News that most of the people convicted during this period did not serve jail time. And convictions for marijuana did go down under Harris’ tenure as district attorney.

At the end of the day, calling Harris out on her previous role in convicting folks for marijuana crimes isn’t entirely unfair. But it’s also pretty misleading to pretend that she pulled a switcheroo on the issue just in time for the midterms.

This article spins it slightly differently, IMO, but still not solidly stating what I believed to be true. Bold added by me.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/five-takeaways-from-kamala-harris-s-all-the-smoke-podcast-interview/ar-AA1rumR4

As district attorney in San Francisco, however, she had enforced cannabis laws and opposed legalized use for adults. She defended its usage for medicinal purposes, but her prosecutors convicted over 1,900 people on cannabis-related charges. When she was running for reelection as attorney general, she opposed legalizing marijuana for recreational use, which was supported by her GOP opponent.

That aside, it remains true that at this point it's nothing but a campaign promise.

Ah, the article linked above seemed to say that he'd just begun the process this past May, but maybe I misread it. I will read it again.,

Meh, he's a piece of shit these days himself.

They'll never hear about it.

I guarantee the media they are listening to showed them this:

“The governor’s doing a very good job. He’s having a hard time getting the president on the phone,” Trump told reporters. “The federal government is not being responsive.”

But never showed them this:

“The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back and he just said, ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, ‘We got what we need. We’ll work through the federal process. He offered that if there’s other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that,” Kemp said.

So he promised to decriminalize, but did nothing to make good on that promise until most of his term in office had passed, and that's why we aren't done with the lengthy process to get there yet. Your answers throughout the discussion seem to keep glossing over the bolded part. (unless I have some misunderstanding, which is possible)

And that is the part that makes me doubtful Kamala will be any different.

I mean, I'm gonna vote for Kamala, but Dems ain't movin' left, let's be honest.

You two are great, it's nice to see people not get all chest thumpy online.

Aw now you love to see an exchange end like this.