Like I don’t even think it’s a pharma lobby issue anymore. They’ll just acquire nascent marijuana companies. The people around Biden are just that ideological?
Edit: I think @Baoist has a point about this stealing media attention from Covid outbreak and Biden going with herd immunity
He doesn't need to do anything to get Afghanistan out of the news. It will be out of the news in 2 weeks no matter what he does.
By 2024, 40+% of Americans won't even remember we were in Afghanistan to begin with.
Although if ISIS or AQ manage to shoot down a C-17 in a couple of weeks then it might swing back into the news for another cycle :biden-troll:
It's all employers. Companies love drug testing because it's another barrier to keep people from switching jobs and makes it harder to get hired.
Actually many have dropped this requirement because they need people, and it was most an excuse to be racist
Nah, I've actually seen it come back. Remember that unless you make hundreds of thousands, no job actually "needs" you, and even then, a lot of jobs will just make less money than try to do the impossible task of changing a bureaucratic policy like waive drug testing. Workers "need" a job to eat. Companies "need" people because, all things equal, they can make more money. Once things aren't equal, i.e. the price or conditions of labor change, suddenly companies might not "need" you anymore.
I definitely think it varies more than that. No company needs you in particular, but some need lots of people and drug testing makes it harder to find employees (and means you might have to pay them more :porky-scared:)
Like the university I work for doesnt drug test, and the reason people always say is they’d have to fire half the faculty and most of the grad students lmao. I think only like 2 people in my lab would pass a drug test.
they dont normally drug test for white collar jobs tho do they?
I just got one and they didn't, most service industry jobs don't either. Or of they do (usually event serving/"high class" service) it's only once then they give up.
The ones that love testing are the dangerous factory/construction jobs where you can get hurt and they have to pay out. They love it because having weed in your system basically makes any accident you're involved in your fault.
Academia is a bubble, and trust me, they could get rid of you all in an instant. I've never had a job that didn't require drug testing, and I've found that that's the case in pretty much every job that actually makes society run - think utilities, healthcare, public works, manufacturing. The things that people need to live.
We have a massive trucker shortage right now, and no one is even suggesting that we drop THC testing from the DoT. That should tell you where we're at.
No one's suggesting that because the "trucker shortage" is a scam. They've been doing it like clockwork for decades now.
What they did do is manage to get age restrictions lifted and some overtime regulations relaxed, which is all the trucking companies wanted.
Or cancel all student debt, or create an easy home ownership program, or…
Excuse me. Snopes already fact checked this. Biden fell UP the stairs…
Canceling student debt would almost be a home ownership program itself
"When I was a boy all we needed to put a spring in our step was some extra foam in our sarsaparilla. Legalize the wacky tabacky? C'mon, man. C'mon, man. That's not right. It's changes your brain. Makes you lazy. The free enterprise system is the greatest system in the history of the world. But how can bees make honey if they're lazy? They can't. No money. No honey. Everybody likes honey. But the hive is quiet and industry suffers. No buzzing."
"The demon weed is a gateway drug to going to raves. Then you don't listen to your parents. You do meth. You become a junkie. And you question capitalism. In America! Question capitalism! The free enterprise system is the... you know the thing."
"You could even get kicked out of the navy and make your dad sad. And then he gets mad. Really, really mad. We can't have that. It's wrong. Just plain wrong..."
Prisons would lose revenue though, right? Also expunging marijuana crimes off people's records would help and we all know this country can't help, only hurt.
They did just place a ban on all ammunition imports from Russia (which is like 40% of the total ammo market, apparently), so that'll definitely get the chuds raging.
Yeah liberals love that "why do you even care so much" shit. That's when you double down babyyyyy
If they legalize weed how else can they give someone 20 years for drug possesion and profit from slave labor bro. It's BASIC ECONOMICS
The afghan headlines are running cover for the fact that they are secretly going for herd immunity with covid.
Y’all still voted for him in the end anyway
:gloria-rap: no
Who the fuck is upvoting this? Almost no one on this site voted for Biden lmao
I honestly wonder what the actual breakdown of how this site voted is. I’d bet like around half voted for Biden
Hawkins here. Should’ve done La Riva, but I thought with how awful Biden was the greens had a better chance than ever to actually hit an important mark. I was wrong, they did worse than 2016, but that was my thought process
every year is gonna be a "historic turnout" cuz the population is growing you twit
donald trump had the same kind of "historic turnout" getting more votes than he did in 2016, population growth doesnt indicate future sucess for the democratic party, and doesnt indicate that theyre drawing in new voters from progressive sources.
Only the establishment cares about Afghanistan: contractors and the media really want boots back on the ground, but the average American doesn't really care, or are happy that we left a neverending war. If he wanted to "distract" from Afghanistan, he would probably makes threats towards China or promise to crack down on "extremists"
This. john oliver last blasted biden for saying, correctly, back during obama that withdrawing from Vietnam had no political effect on the president. the coward obama should've listened to his elder.
I mean, getting out of Afghanistan is pretty cool.
You can't reasonably expect anything else, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. I could certainly see legalization happening if there's a big enough scandal to distract from (the Cuomo strategy). It's just not something he actually wants to do, and all the bad press about Afghanistan (1) lacks any sort of popular basis and (2) will blow over in six months, if not far sooner.
luv 2 here abt how 2024 is "the most important election of our lifetimes"
