Polls: Society & Politics

DeSantis won’t win, right? He’s taking on Disney and now Hyatt over really nonessential issues. They are now Demcrat businesses. So thanks, I guess.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-state-senator-votes-against-free-school-lunch-says-hes-never-met-hungry-constituents_n_6411d544e4b0a3902d2e0c19
Minnesota GOP State Sen. Votes Against Free School Lunch, Says He's Never Met Hungry Kids

Minnesota kids will soon get free school lunches across the state, no thanks to a Republican state senator who voted against the bill because he said he’s never met a hungry kid in his state.

“I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry,” Republican state Sen. Steve Drazkowski said Tuesday on the Senate floor in St. Paul before voting against the legislation. “I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that says they don’t have access to enough food to eat.”

Approximately 1 in 6 children in Minnesota are food insecure, meaning they don’t know where or when their next meal will be available, according to a fact sheet from anti-hunger groups in support of the bill.
“Being hungry makes learning almost impossible,” state Sen. Heather Gustafson, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, said on the Senate floor. “Let’s feed the kids.”

During his arguments, Drazkowski called the proposed program “pure socialism.”
“Now, I should say that hunger is a relative term,” Drazkowski added. “I had a cereal bar for breakfast. I guess I’m hungry now.”
If Drazkowski wanted to find one of those hungry children he claims to have “yet to meet,” he could check the very county he represents. In Wabasha County, more than 8% of kids lived in poverty in 2021, up from about 7% the previous year, according to the Federal Reserve of Economic Data.

Reference article: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/san-francisco-air-black-reparations-plan-5m-person-97848395

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Sounds Nazi-like…fckin right wingers.

What I mean is Canada’s legalized it. Mexico’s legalized it, several states in the US have legalized it, but very few places elsewhere have legalized it outside North America.

Why is that? Why is it mainly just a North American thing?

Anyway I’ve heard that medically marijuana has really helped some people in great pain it’s just I really feel as though there needs to be far more oversight of the industry.

It’s far too easy to get a medical card. All you need is a state ID to apply for a card and you can just BS your way through and say you’ve tried all sorts of therapies and medications to treat depression and anxiety and they will take you at your word and you don’t have to prove a thing.

I mean my friend from Texas even outright told me he lied his way through and got the med card just so he could have cheaper and stronger quality marijuana available.

But I highly doubt he’s the only one who has done that.

Anyway, the medical stuff can be really strong to a point that’s just unsafe.

While there haven’t been any recorded deaths from marijuana, as I found out the hard way, that doesn’t mean you can’t overdose on it and experience high levels of pain for hours on end.

Hell I went to the ER and they even told me that medically there is no way for them to flush out marijuana from a person’s system if they take too much.

You just have to let time pass and experience the pain for however long that could be. Potentially over 24 hours as was my case.

But I find it ironic how when you go to buy tobacco products from the store there’s a million warning labels about all the health complications that might result from use but absolutely nothing of the sort exists with weed.

I mean as I described in my whole op-ed here, it’s possible to overdose on weed. Yet they don’t even have warning labels about it on their product.

And not just that but apparently the stuff they sell in stores nowadays is about 3x stronger than the stuff hippies were consuming in the 70s and 80s.

https://www.benzinga.com/general/entertainment/23/03/31326395/trump-jr-says-biden-did-it-biden-points-to-trump-sr-the-collapse-of-banks-under-the-last-fo
Trump Jr. Says Biden Did It, Biden Points To Trump Sr.: The Collapse Of Banks Under The Last 4 Administrations

The blame game over who’s responsible for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, part of SVB Financial Group

kicked off immediately following news that the 19th largest bank in the U. S. had failed.

The situation became worse when on Sunday, Signature Bank

The two collapses mark the second and third largest bank failures in history, next to the collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008.

The Accusation Flinging: Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter on Sunday to write, “I don’t remember banks collapsing under Trump... but don’t worry guys it’s only a matter of time till Biden/media blames him for that too.” Trump Jr. then went on to blame Biden’s “out of control spending,” which he said caused record inflation and forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/389212-trump-signs-dodd-frank-rollback/
Trump signs Dodd-Frank rollback

Trump had pledged to “dismantle” Dodd-Frank, a law long targeted by Republicans, and touted the bill he signed as the first step in that process. While the bill will release dozens of banks from stronger Federal Reserve oversight, it falls well short of the president’s vow to repeal and replace Dodd-Frank.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/15-banks-failed-trumps-presidency/
Is It True That 15 Banks Failed During Trump's Presidency?
Those 15 banks failed between the time Trump was inaugurated and when he left office. All of them were smaller than the banks that failed in March 2023. Attributing bank failures solely to whichever political party is in power omits nuances concerning why the banks failed in the first place, and what lessons can be learned to prevent other banks from failing in the future.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-quietly-halt-inquiry-115154157.html
House Republicans Quietly Halt Inquiry Into Trump's Finances

House Republicans have quietly halted a congressional investigation into whether Donald Trump profited improperly from the presidency, declining to enforce a court-supervised settlement agreement that demanded that Mazars USA, his former accounting firm, produce his financial records to Congress.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, made clear he had abandoned any investigation into the former president’s financial dealings — professing ignorance about the inquiry Democrats opened when they controlled the House — and was instead focusing on whether President Joe Biden and members of his family were involved in an influence-peddling scheme. “I honestly didn’t even know who or what Mazars was,” said Comer, who was the senior Republican on the oversight panel during the last Congress, while Democrats waged a lengthy legal fight over obtaining documents from the firm.

“What exactly are they looking for?” Comer added in a brief statement to The New York Times on Monday. “They’ve been ‘investigating’ Trump for six years. I know exactly what I’m investigating: money the Bidens received from China.”

It seems really unfair to allow biological men to compete against women, yet many "woke" people advocate for this. What do you think?

Seriously enjoy their company. Honestly. I don’t think enough opposing genders or cultures befriend each other. We’re so segregated.

I’m usually more, shall we say liberal, when it comes to jokes and all that BS. But Pence being latent Uber-religious and Pete being Uber gay…yeah he should.

Being a dick to gays has always been a thing on the right. Latent.

And liberals always have to turn the other cheek.

"He took two months 'maternity' leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways. Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression," Pence said.

His twins were born prematurely and put on ventilators.