Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/10/new-trump-budget-proposes-dele.html
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Which brings us back to . . .
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This is possibly the one way a Republican presidential candidate could lose the state of Oklahoma…
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Just your regular reminder that “States’ Rights” are not, and never have been, something that conservatives actually care about.
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That’s not true. But it only applies to issues they care about. It is, like all things political, inconsistent and hypocritical.
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Well that’s not gonna win any elections. One day the pack of God fearing neanderthals will understand Trump hates them too.
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I’m still struggling to think of a single major issue that conservatives believe states should be allowed to decide for themselves. When they do claim something should be “left to the states” it’s almost always because they already failed to get the Feds on their side.
Example: the mainstream position on gay marriage didn’t become “let the states decide” until after the failed bid to ban the practice nationwide at the Federal level.
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So they are going to start interfering with state medical cannabis regimes and have the FDA regulate cannabis and cannabis derivatives?
Is there some catch here I’m missing?
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Because Trump is literally doing the bidding of his handler Putin, anything that seeks to dissolve the central power of The United States of America is part of the plan. I have to assume the eventual goal is either the breakup of the country, and/or outright civil war.
God, the Russians are SO MUCH BETTER at information warfare than we are. What a shame that many people eat it up – and this includes moderates and progressives, who seem so hell-bent on moral and policy purity tests, they may well get Trump reelected in 2020.
“A democracy… if you can keep it.” I’m not so sure we can, as the era of bloated American decadence seems to have gobbled up everything, and made it particularly easy for a foreign power to sew discord among our population. It seems to be almost as prevalent among Trump’s critics, as his cultists.
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They’re actually really consistent - they want states to have the right to advance the things they want and block they things they don’t want.
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As with everything, Trump only sees cartoon versions of his bogeymen. “Drug Dealer” to him is not the white wealthy pharmaceutical executive. It’s not the alcohol marketers. It’s not even vaping companies now that Brad Parscale set Trump straight about the money and politics involved. In the end it’s not going to be the white cannabiz executives or the kids working in their businesses, either.
To Trump, the “Drug dealer” is ALWAYS the dark skinned guy on an inner-city street corner.
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Maybe they secretly own all the heroin trade and are afraid of the competition?
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Getting better-resourced, more-comprehensive medical oversight on cannabis and cannabis products would probably be a good thing long-term and help end the issues of phony products, pesticide and heavy metal contamination, and barriers to meaningful research on the health effects of cannabis consumption.
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Lev Larnas and Igor Fruman Will be disappointed to hear that their “investment” or planned investment perhaps I don’t recall (laundered money) in medical marijuana will be . Guess the Russians will just have to buy more NY real estate?
Wasn’t part of Moscow Mitch planning on Legalizing hemp and CBD?
Same procedure as every year.
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Let’s hope that day is November 3, 2020.
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The 10th Amendment only becomes sacrosanct when states are trying to take away freedoms or enable big business. Laws that are discriminatory, racist, anti-LGBT, anti-environment, or anti-abortion are totally cool because they remove freedoms and protections.
When states want to give extra freedoms or protections, then suddenly the government needs to step in and quash it.
The party of personal responsibility and small government, as long as you’re not doing anything the party doesn’t like.
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Slavery. They’re definitely still in favor of that.
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Yup. It certainly doesn’t apply to cannabis legalization nor LGBT rights, among many other things.
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