Owen and Mehdi discuss the ongoing misrepresentation of college protests in the mainstream media, the debate over genocide in Gaza, and the London mayoral el...
Even ignoring the genocide (ridiculous statement that should never have to be said) what on earth is he “moderate” about? he’s a dyed in the wool right winger who has to use progressive sounding language for no other reason than that’s his brand and party affiliation.
Taking into consideration the Overton window in American politics currently:
He’s maybe a moderate across the board if you sort of average out the political leanings of like Congress. He’s still a radical even in that crowd. He’s with the worst of the worst Republicans on Israel. In his actions anyway. I don’t care about his rhetoric and “leaks”
If you compare him to the average American he’s already to the right of most people on most things, and specifically right now his absolute refusal to end this genocide which he admits is bad… then continues to fund.
He’s also right off average on basically every domestic issue like the border, Medicare for all/universal healthcare, free college/fully wipe debt, proper investment into infrastructure and green energies, expanding the number of states and justices in Supreme Court so that the super dipshit party can’t just de facto rule forever… he’s on the bad side of every issue i can think of. He’s against de scheduling weed, something he could do in an instant, same with student loans (do it and tell SCOTUS to eat shit).
The entire federal government and maybe most (haven’t looked that closely) states are all much further right of their constituents. Probably a result of entrenched boomer mindset amongst those who still hold power vs the more “progressive” (is wanting healthcare and to not bomb people really progressive…? Seems like the baseline human position) millennials and zoomers now. Shit will have to rapidly change, and it doesn’t seem like it is at the actual policy level, or conflict will continue to escalate. Based on the way boomers have thus far acted… they seem to be betting all their chips on just physically crushing dissent
his absolute refusal to end this genocide which he admits is bad… then continues to fund.
I remember an old Mort Sahl bit about the Vietnam War. To paraphrase in a new environment, The DNC says “The genocide is a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.” Meanwhile, the GOP says “The genocide is a dirty job, but we should get to do it.”
The task force he told to do investigate rescheduling reefer came back with a recommendation to make it schedule 3, alongside testosterone and ketamine. I think they plan on rolling out changes in the next few months.
So, he has, after 3.5 years, started to talk about doing the bare-ass minimum on this one issue.
I haven’t heard anything about it, but I hope that’s true. It still needs to get congressional approval outside of executive DEA stuff. It would be really great if a law was passed to specifically make it illegal for employers to inquire as to your drug use/non use outside of work hours. There’s a bunch of shit tied into that not happening though traced back to like the start of the “war on drugs” especially in transportation professions… which obviously I don’t think a dude should he hitting his vape pen and hopping in his big rig to drive interstate, but, that should preclude him from smoking after work or, say, 8 hours before driving. Treat it like drinking alcohol… just too much criminality tied up in smoking a plant. It’s always been for racist and/or sanctimonious reasons and that absolutely needs to end.
I also hate even having to discuss weed legalization when there’s an ongoing genocide. The scale of these things is incomparable and it seems like a lot of like 45+ y/o’s haven’t come to grips with those facts yet that you can talk about weed or healthcare including abortion or college tuition but in the end if people are paying attention and actually care on a human level about the Palestinian cause they are just going to become more enraged at democrats like “I wish I could focus on weed right now, but unfortunately your dumb ass is still incinerating children!”
Calling a genocide moderate lol
Even ignoring the genocide (ridiculous statement that should never have to be said) what on earth is he “moderate” about? he’s a dyed in the wool right winger who has to use progressive sounding language for no other reason than that’s his brand and party affiliation.
Taking into consideration the Overton window in American politics currently:
He’s maybe a moderate across the board if you sort of average out the political leanings of like Congress. He’s still a radical even in that crowd. He’s with the worst of the worst Republicans on Israel. In his actions anyway. I don’t care about his rhetoric and “leaks”
If you compare him to the average American he’s already to the right of most people on most things, and specifically right now his absolute refusal to end this genocide which he admits is bad… then continues to fund.
He’s also right off average on basically every domestic issue like the border, Medicare for all/universal healthcare, free college/fully wipe debt, proper investment into infrastructure and green energies, expanding the number of states and justices in Supreme Court so that the super dipshit party can’t just de facto rule forever… he’s on the bad side of every issue i can think of. He’s against de scheduling weed, something he could do in an instant, same with student loans (do it and tell SCOTUS to eat shit).
The entire federal government and maybe most (haven’t looked that closely) states are all much further right of their constituents. Probably a result of entrenched boomer mindset amongst those who still hold power vs the more “progressive” (is wanting healthcare and to not bomb people really progressive…? Seems like the baseline human position) millennials and zoomers now. Shit will have to rapidly change, and it doesn’t seem like it is at the actual policy level, or conflict will continue to escalate. Based on the way boomers have thus far acted… they seem to be betting all their chips on just physically crushing dissent
I remember an old Mort Sahl bit about the Vietnam War. To paraphrase in a new environment, The DNC says “The genocide is a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.” Meanwhile, the GOP says “The genocide is a dirty job, but we should get to do it.”
The task force he told to do investigate rescheduling reefer came back with a recommendation to make it schedule 3, alongside testosterone and ketamine. I think they plan on rolling out changes in the next few months.
So, he has, after 3.5 years, started to talk about doing the bare-ass minimum on this one issue.
I haven’t heard anything about it, but I hope that’s true. It still needs to get congressional approval outside of executive DEA stuff. It would be really great if a law was passed to specifically make it illegal for employers to inquire as to your drug use/non use outside of work hours. There’s a bunch of shit tied into that not happening though traced back to like the start of the “war on drugs” especially in transportation professions… which obviously I don’t think a dude should he hitting his vape pen and hopping in his big rig to drive interstate, but, that should preclude him from smoking after work or, say, 8 hours before driving. Treat it like drinking alcohol… just too much criminality tied up in smoking a plant. It’s always been for racist and/or sanctimonious reasons and that absolutely needs to end.
I also hate even having to discuss weed legalization when there’s an ongoing genocide. The scale of these things is incomparable and it seems like a lot of like 45+ y/o’s haven’t come to grips with those facts yet that you can talk about weed or healthcare including abortion or college tuition but in the end if people are paying attention and actually care on a human level about the Palestinian cause they are just going to become more enraged at democrats like “I wish I could focus on weed right now, but unfortunately your dumb ass is still incinerating children!”
New Overton Window, not doing a genocide is too radical and extreme.