Somebody Get This Man a Hobby
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is kinda pathetic. Well, maybe I should say more pathetic than usual.
He doesn’t have anything to do all day so he’s taking up issues deeply important to our country and our justice system: pot and Hillary.
Pot?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, creating new confusion about enforcement and use just three days after a new legalization law went into effect in California.
President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement official announced the change Thursday. Instead of the previous lenient-federal-enforcement policy, Sessions’ new stance will instead let federal prosecutors where marijuana is legal decide how aggressively to enforce longstanding federal law prohibiting it.
Now let me see if I have this straight. Republicans, especially Sessions, are big states rights people. They think that states ought to be making decisions about your life. Unless, of course, those states start making decisions that Republicans don’t like.
And if spoiling everybody’s fun isn’t enough, the Justice Department has decided that … oh dear God in Heaven Above … Hillary’s emails.
Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as secretary of State, The Daily Beast has learned.
An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar with the thinking at the Justice Department’s Washington headquarters described it as an effort to gather new details on how Clinton and her aides handled classified material.
Oh hell, there you sit worried about nuclear holocaust, climate change, and having a fruitcake for president when you should be worrying about Hillary’s emails.
Somebody please slap Jeff Sessions. That man child with the sweet voice has done got on my last nerve.
Jeff really needs to just kick back with some prime bud.
1Is the real problem he’s not figured out how to get a cut of the “take” [Not the tok.]
2Oh wow, man.
3This is about Obama. And Holder. It’s ALWAYS about Obama. Sessions’ one qualification for AG, as far as Drumpf is concerned, is his desire to blow up everything THOSE PEOPLE accomplished when they were in charge. This “No-Weed-For-You!” shtick is just another way to put a thumb in Obama’s eye, and keep sticking it to THOSE PEOPLE. This is the same agenda as behind Reagan’s “War On Drugs,” and older than Nixon’s “Law-and-Order,” this time with a dash of spite for flavoring.
Republicans have learned to be very discreet with their language so that they do not so obviously put their racism on display, but they can’t hide it in their deeds.
4Hey Jeff Sessions! What’s it like waking up every morning knowing you gave your Alabama Senate seat to a DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While you’re taking that fresh look at Hillary’s emails, see if you can find something like:
5Birmingham! Birmingham! Birmingham!
It’s part of the voter suppression program. Since Dick Nixon revved up the modern “War On Drugs” one of the main motives for doing so (as explicitly confirmed by tape transcripts released years later) was to target populations viewed as likely sources of support for Democrats, e.g. “hippies” & persons of color. That most of the states pursuing rational marijuana policy are blue is not a bug – it’s a feature.
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6The little guy just has to fix something that’s not broken. Typical Can ‘fiscal’ conservative, too. It’s like they have an allergy to tax revenue. And, fuhgeddaboud strangling the cartel traffic with safer and legal drugs. That too makes too much sense for the Cans to comprehend.
7This vile, spiteful, little old man needs to be retired. He’s stuck in a 1940s time warp.
8Somebody. get this man some brains and some history lessons. How well did prohibition work out, you stupid puny elf-man?
9This might blow up in their faces bigly since one would need to compare Ms. Clinton’s email practices with the Trump/Tillerson email practices in order to have a full and complete investigation.
10Jeff Sessions gets his cut of the take on this issue by raking in large donations from the prison-for-profit industry.
11Well some of the Republicans are not going with this!!!!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/politicians-react-jeff-sessions-reverse-marijuana-legal_us_5a4e58dde4b06d1621bddc48?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
12Republicans will NEVER rest until they find a way to try — and, in their fevered fantasies — convict Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, an FBI investigator or two — anyone, please God, anyone affiliated with Hillary — of some crime. They won’t ever get to impeach her thanks to the 62 million bozos who put Trump in the presidency, so locking someone up is the only alternative.
13The so-called “War On Drugs” is and has been an abject failure. An extremely expensive utter disaster that has had far worse effects on our society than that other major failure, the Volstead Act (Prohibition) itself did in it’s time.
This “War On Drugs” costs us not only a couple of hundred Billion dollar$ a year to pursue, from the DEA expense and everything else (much of even the US Coast Guard’s budget is wasted on this SCWOD, not spent on its’ many other, more important missions).
It has corrupted much of our governing apparatus and huge swathes of society, multiplying that cost many times over.
But… it has been very, very profitable to many people. Large numbers of them are the ‘wrong’ people, the most vicious around, but many more are quite well situated in every level of our governments. Others are just religio-nuts who crave imposing their ‘morality’ on all others (and some of them scheme to profit from the status quo too).
I lived in the Rio Grande Valley before the so-called “War On Drugs” began, and watched it develop and envelop many aspects of life there (and worked a lot of deep nights, traveling up and down the Valley, saw lots of ‘stuff’; also lived on a watery Canadian border and heard the rum-running stories and how corrupt it all was in the 1920’s w/Prohibition).
Some things never change, stupidity being one of them.
Payoffs, corruption on nearly every level, systemic abuses, whole families entering ‘the biz’, bodies piling up in the groves, resacas, and river, etc.
The “War On Drugs” is simply the most massive and expensive fock up our government has ever perpetrated.
I would argue that it has cost more money and lives than every war our nation has ever engaged in. And the prevalence of “illegal drugs” is far greater now than when this “war” began, more people afflicted with the dependence on the substances, more incarcerated, more employed in the trafficking.
Yet they, mostly Rethuglicans, want more of the same. The definition of insanity has been given as ‘doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result’, this is insane.
Rationality and sanity would be legalizing, regulating, and taxing all of it. The worst of all these manifold problems would disappear in a year.
14Corr:
15Some things never change, stupidity –and greed– being one of them.
All that y’all say is true, but don’t forget also the “Hey, look over there! Hillary’s emails!” factor whenever Trump is getting too much attention for being a glassbowl, especially a dangerous, nuclear-war-provoking glassbowl.
16The evil elf has a large stake in the private prison industry. It’s a money issue for him.
17The republicans screamed for 5 years about States rights over; same sex marriages, transgenders in the wrong bathrooms, flying the a confederate over their state capitol and even marijuana. They yelled about jobs, jobs jobs and business killing regulations.
Now, they want to regulate business, killing jobs in the process and forsaking the potential for new taxes. The republicans really have no idea what they want.
18Just wondering, when do the emails oofCondoleza Rice and Colin Powell get looked at. Both had their own servers wen at State. Powell recommended to Hillary that she get her own server ( installed by the FBI) because rethuglicans cuts to State’s budget left the Dept with an antiquated, infixable server that a high schooler could hack. Jeff Sessions is a tired, old fartlet. He needs to retire, yesterday. Say, maybe SENATOR Doug Jones could recommend a quiet veranda where ole Jeffie can sit sipping ice tea.
19The problem is that there are way too many people who do not and will never understand the difference between what pot stores sell and medical marijuana that pharmaceuticals sell. The latter has been neutered when it comes to the “high”. It retains only the pain relief. A lot of cancer patients get such prescriptions. There are several states with licensed marijuana farms and more are coming on line. Sessions does not impress me as someone who can understand the difference, but, since he is in recusal, what the hell else does he have to do but work on a non-problem. As for retiring, I kind of doubt that he is all that welcome in Bama any more. The world has seen too many sides of him since he became AG and none of them were attractive!
20And, apparently, there’s also an investigation into the Clinton Foundation:
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/politics/clinton-foundation-arkansas-probe/index.html
Apparently they think that all foundations are run like Trump’s.
21The state of Washington is not at all amused by all this reefer madness, either. Sessions is going to have a hard time keeping us from the medication we need.
22Not to mention the lack of tax revenue.
So, who’s paying more to Sessions? Your choices are (a) Big Pharma, and (b) private prison profiteers.
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