4118

Because decriminalizing weed is ‘pandering to losers’ and not a legitimate criminal justice reform that needs to occur.

Right.

4119

Such enlightenment. I smoke weed. I’m not a loser. I bet many of your friends do too, and you don’t think they’re losers. It’s 2019, time to put the 1950s to bed.

4120

I get where she’s going; she’s trying to grab polling numbers and doing this ahead of the next debate means it’s going to get talked about and the other candidates will have to say whether they agree with her or not (or more likely, some wishy-washy “Well, I think the sky is blue” platitude). Regardless of who thinks it’s an important issue, it casts the light on her as a “leader.”

4121

It certainly feels, at least, like she has momentum on her side right now. Still not my first choice, though.

4122

(I think Lord Kerzain was exercising the writ of sarcasm.)

4123

TIL I am a loser.

4124

If so, that went over my head, and I’m the best at sarcasm.

4125

You can’t be! DJT is the best at (Fill in the blank)

4126

cyber

4127

No, that’s Baron.

4128

Was Kerzain also exercising that same writ when he declared that “Everything that Trump does has Nancy Pelosi’s blessing”?

It may be that sarcasm is indistinguishable from a sufficiently hot / misinformed take…

4129

You’d think. But, y’know, 2019 and all.

4130

There is a very real, effective, propaganda campaign being pushed by the Russians that is directed not at making Trump supporters excuse him, but instead directed at making Democrats think their own party is actually bad and responsible for Trump, and so they shouldn’t bother supporting them.

4131

Yeah I can’t figure it out either. Maybe it polls bad in the few swing states…? It’s already legal is most Democratic states!

4132

Yeah. It’s bullshit hedging. Legalize it already.

4133

https://thebaffler.com/latest/this-is-going-to-get-worse-burmila

“[T]he House majority for which so many people fought so hard in 2018 has already signaled that impeachment is off the table, so even the pretense of accountability or oversight is gone. Instead, the House intends to hold endless “hearings” and point desperately to the Mueller Report like the losing coaches point to the rule book in Air Bud , gesticulating wildly as the dog dunks on them over and over, and the crowd loves the dog with all its heart and looks at the losing team with the contempt reserved for such demonstrations of learned helplessness, while the very voters to whom Democrats most desperately want to appeal don’t know or care about rules but sure do notice that one team managed to lose a basketball game to a fucking dog.”

4134

New poll (more than just Biden info, fwiw)

4135

So what percentage of the popular vote will the losing Democratic candidate win from Trump in 2020? 49%? 48.5%? I can’t wait for the f’ed up electoral college to fuck us over yet again.

4136

Hey, I think we’ll wind up with more than 50% of the popular vote! Not that such a thing apparently matters.

4137

Well, this is at least encouraging.