March 25, 2021

New York Reaches a Deal to Legalize Recreational Marijuana

Source: NYT

New York State officials finalized a deal on Thursday to legalize recreational marijuana in the state, paving the way for a potential $4.2 billion industry that could create tens of thousands of jobs and become one of the largest markets in the country.

Following several failed attempts, lawmakers in Albany struck an agreement with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to legalize cannabis for adults 21 and older, a move that officials hope will help end years of racially disproportionate policing that saw Black and Hispanic people arrested on low-level marijuana charges far more frequently than white people.

The deal would allow delivery of the drug and permit club-like lounges or “consumption sites” where marijuana, but not alcohol, could be consumed, according to details obtained by The New York Times. It would also allow a person to cultivate up to six marijuana plants at home, indoors or outdoors, for personal use.

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Wow, this is big news. I think this makes NY the second state to legalize rec pot through their state legislature, rather than by ballot initiative.
(EDIT: Illinois was the first state to legalize through their state legislature, signed by Gov JB Pritzker)
That is what makes this such a big deal in the most positive way.

I hope national Dems follow suit.

March 12, 2021

Legal marijuana is PERMANENT economic stimulus.

Nationwide legal marijuana will create millions of jobs.

Federally tax it and it will create a tax base of its own. It will generate billions of dollars of revenue for the treasury. It could be used in part to pay down the debt and deficits. Part of it could be used to fund nationwide infrastructure projects.

Legal pot can be a revenue source that funds other revenue generating sources. The economic activity and growth generated by a massive national infrastructure re-building project would be a massive shot in the arm of our national economy but also a major revenue generator.

Legal pot can have that kind of positive domino effect. It can stimulate the economy in a positive ripple that creates opportunity all throughout our economy.

Legal pot can create economic growth in so many ways.

Legal pot is also very popular in polling nowadays.

It's time Democrats. Score major points with swing voters that we need in order to win elections by pushing to legalize pot. Rescue the economy in the process.
The people will love you for it.

March 10, 2021

The GOPs war on democracy is an attack on the United States itself.

When a peon has the power to remove an emperor, the authoritarians shit themselves.

Voting and democracy enable countless peons to remove emperors, like Agent Orange, err Trump.

And thus, the authoritarian GOP is shitting itself. We see it in the numerous GOP voter-suppression laws being passed in many statehouses across this great land.

Democrats, CALL THEM OUT in your TV ads and on social media platforms like youtube, FB, IG etc.

Challenge every potential voter by asking them,

Are you going to allow the GOP to prevent you from voting?

Your vote can remove the authoritarian class from power. Your vote can remove the voter-suppressing GOP from power.

Are you going to allow the GOP to suppress your voice and your vote?

Democrats, its time to wage a pro-democracy, pro-voting war of our own.

The GOP is trying to silence a majority of US citizens by suppressing their ability to vote.

The fascist fucks shit themselves by your power to remove them from power, simply by voting.

Challenge EVERY voter to overcome Rethug voter suppression by turning out and voting.

Ask voters,
Will YOU allow the GOP to stop you from casting a ballot?

Make it the theme for 2022 and 2024 election cycles.

February 17, 2021

"I'm On The Highway To Hell" by ACDC is weirdly stuck in my head today...

I once saw a bumper sticker that read..

"The highway to Hell is paved with Republicans."

February 17, 2021

Texas GOP deregulated itself into blackouts and power failure. Utility companies went cheap..

To increase profits, Texas power companies went cheap after their state GOP dominated legislative bodies no longer required regulations that planned for future stresses to the power grid.

A weak power grid is prone to any stress, like a cold spell.

GOP deregulation kills.

Texas GOP are murderers.

(Texas utility companies tend to be huge GOP donors)

Should Dems investigate the Texas GOP for these treasonous acts?

February 17, 2021

So the billowing clouds of second and third hand smoke were bad after all..

Rush was well-known for his cigar habit and would often gloat about how second and sometimes third hand smoke wasn't bad for a person as he sat in his radio studio during his hate-casts.

Ive seen some vids on the subject and yes the whole room was filled with smoke.

All the while he was spewing hatred that anti-smoking efforts were a liberal conspiracy to take away our freedoms and according to him, there's nothing wrong with breathing smoke.

Then he was diagnosed with lung cancer and the rest is history.

Rush was wrong about everything he spewed from his forked tongue mouth.

This wrong opinion cost him his life.

February 14, 2021

Yes, it's time to call on the DOJ to appoint an army of special prosecutors..

Pepperoni pizza tastes great.

Bears shit in the woods.

Water is wet.

Trump and his cabal need to be investigated, indicted and prosecuted. RIGHT. FUCKING. NOW.

Failing to do so is like taking a crap on the face of the notion of rule of law.

February 14, 2021

"Big Govt" is GOP codeword for big democracy. How your vote levels the playing field and RW hates it

When Reich-wingers talk about their hatred for big govt, what they really mean is their hatred for high turnout voting. They hate the fact that voting can and does level the playing field.

Our votes can undo their grip on power.

Look at the GOP's assault on our right and ability to cast our ballots in the past 40 years and you'll see their relentless attacks on making it more difficult to cast a ballot.

Look at Trump's recent assault on democracy. He loathed the mail-in ballot with orange-faced hatred.

To right-wing fascist conservatives, voting is the "big govt" that they fear.

They don't fear big police states.

They don't fear big prisons.

They don't fear blank check deficit spending on the military.

They don't fear capital punishment and executions.

They don't fear big govt invading a woman's right to choose or her choice to use BC.

They don't fear making gay people just disappear.

But they do fear your right to vote.

Your right to vote IS the "big govt" that they fear.

Your right to vote levels the playing field and the GOP, Qanon, MTG, and every Trumpist hates you for it.

On a level playing field where almost everyone votes, should govt of the people ever be feared?

Yet that scares the shit out of almost every GOPer.

Vote and level the playing field. And scare the shit out of the GOP as a bonus.

February 6, 2021

Hate the vote? Go broke!

I'm sure most of us have seen the right wing meme across social media platform Youtube, FB etc..

"Get woke, go broke"

That meme has very racist undertones. Every content creator that regurgitates that also seems to hate democracy.

I think our sides perfect answer..

Hate the vote? Go broke.

Ask Lou Dobbs.

January 31, 2021

It'd be great to see Pres Biden push for a tree planting initiative to combat carbon.

Not only would it help reduce carbon levels but it could also be part of a jobs programs that hires people to plant trees.

Trees alone won't fix the carbon problem but they will help reduce carbon levels and need to be part of a plan to combat carbon pollution. To tackle global warming we will need to employ every weapon in our arsenal or this planet will bake itself to death.

Another mammoth weapon in the fight to reduce carbon levels. Hemp and cannabis. Both are ferocious carbon consuming plants. They grow from seed to the size of a large Christmas tree in about 3 months.

In fact, hemp and weed are likely the fastest growing plants on Earth. They consume more carbon than almost any other plant species due to that incredible growth.

Trees, hemp, and cannabis need to be part of our strategy to combat C02.

President Biden is the perfect leader to make it happen!