• a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Fun fact: Biden has already pardoned thousands of people with marijuana convictions. Asking him to pardon EVERYONE when they may have had marijuana as a minor add-on to other criminal charges is a bit silly of an ask.

    Biden doesn’t run the DEA and can’t force them to reschedule the drug. This is almost as dumb as the conservatives saying Biden needs to do something about border security then not being upset the Republicans have voted against every effort to do something about border security before it makes it to Biden’s desk.

    *the number of people in this country who think the President is a dictator and can literally just make up laws on his own is terrifying.

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      7 months ago

      The number of people in this country who want the President to be a dictator and literally just make up laws on his own is also terrifying.

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        7 months ago

        Democrats said their hands were tied for decades. But Biden’s hands weren’t tied when he got to support Netanyahu’s genocide.

        I don’t know about anyone else, but I cannot trust that when a democrat says their hands are tied, it’s actually the case, instead of just what democrats say about shit they don’t want to do.

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      7 months ago

      Asking him to pardon EVERYONE when they may have had marijuana as a minor add-on to other criminal charges is a bit silly of an ask.

      This would be pardoning the mary jane offenses but leaving the others

      Biden doesn’t run the DEA and can’t force them to reschedule the drug.

      Still a campaign promise

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      7 months ago

      It was one of the campaign promises. Is it wrong to hold the president accountable for what they’ve said?

      And even if he doesn’t have the authority to force it on his own, he still had enough influence to make it happen. Obama gets a lot of credit for “Obamacare,” even though it wouldn’t have happened without majority support in both the house and senate.