Typically it means there is no criminal offense to prosecute. It turns it into the equivalant of a speeding ticket.

Ah I get what you’re saying, I think the smart money would have been to lie about whether she smoked weed. Could have avoided all of this lol.

I do see that Nashville had decriminalized it in 2016, but it’s kinda weird since the article I posted definitely acts like it was still criminalized in 2020. I can’t find where the chief of police says anything about it being decriminalized, in the article he just says

“I agree that General Funk, as District Attorney, has the authority to determine what cases to prosecute,” Chief Anderson said. “Marijuana possession remains a violation of Tennessee law, and we cannot be in a position of telling our officers to begin ignoring lawful statutes passed by the legislature. Nashville police officers continue to be encouraged to use their discretion in carrying out their duties, as guided by MNPD policy.”

Maybe a bad article or it had be recriminalized?

FYI it’s pretty normal for DA’s to juat say were not gonna prosecute a crime. This is just the first result when I searched for examples with weed:

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/nashville-da-will-no-longer-prosecute-minor-marijuana-possession-charges

Also if she has trouble countering lies, she’ll get smoked by Trump so prep is really important here.

I don’t think there’s anything special that Gabbard did in that debate to make Kamala selfdestruct. She just asked her about the laughing about smoking weed after locking people up for smoking weed. Kamala had no answer prepared and in general isn’t great at thinking on her feet. Kamala’s prep needs to be better this time, otherwise it could be a repeat of the dem debates which could be catastropic in a close race.

I don’t see a ton of value to a Fox and NBC debate. ABC and even CNN at this point are considerably less biased.

Yeah I remember this one. The “intelligence dossier” was just the same claims Israel was making publicly without additional evidence. Now maybe it’s all true, but clearly most media outlets implied there was stronger evidence than actually existed. UK’s Channel 4 was the exception.

Original Channel 4 video which shows the actual dossier which is just a list of the people Israel was accusing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG2yeF_4sg

Kind of an interesting conundrum. What comes out in the trial will likely look bad on the US, mainly the tourture, but the plea deal could be a liability for the current admin, since they’d be accused of being soft on terrorism.

ETA: Plus more could come out about the security failures of 9/11 which could be pretty embarrassing to the US.

Not sure about Canada specifically, maybe you could shed some light, but the US president has a lot more power than in a typical parlimentary system. This is typically why it’s seen as essential that they are voted in directly. Would the US be better under a parlimentary system? Very valid debate.

TBH don’t know which one would have been more embarressing for the Iranians. That the air defenses would have let an airstrike in Tehran or that they let the Israelis plant a bomb in a secured compound. Honestly I think this is worse for them.

Probably true lol.

Genuinely curiuos why this comment in particular got obliterated. Do people dispute the premise that the leaders are more rational then the followers?

Yeah, I’m not sure how reliable their final predicitons will be, but they’re definitely still useful for compiling polls, and their pollster ratings are useful since they only have to look at how close polls came to being correct after the actual vote. That’s primarily what I use them for.

The trouble with killing the people who say the propaganda is you eventually end with the people who believe the propganda in charge. This was a consistent takeaway from the war on terror. If Israel were looking to prolong the war, taking out the relative moderates would probably help.

Overall the polls have been encouraging for her, but that MI one look really wrong. 538 has her about down a point on average.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/michigan/

Probably need a lower profile than that to get away with pump and dumps.

The graph is really telling. More sanction than ever and the US has maybe never seen it’s enemies and nonaligned states more cooperative (atleast since the days of the USSR although that’s debatable). This is probably the biggest shortcoming of the Biden admin foreign policy, the rise of BRICS and stuff like that.

ETA: biggest shortcoming strategically not morally, that would be Gaza obviously.

That’s not what you originally said though. Deadline is September 1st in Ohio.

So in the scenario that he is the VP and they win, a democrat would be appointed to the senate, but instead of the seat being up in 2028 in a presidental general election year the seat would be up in an off election year with a democratic president (2026). I’m not sure this is wise in terms of keeping the senate.

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00222.htm

Yeah that post war economy is gonna be hell, and this has knock on effects for years since it limits the spending that can be used to modernize the military in the future. It’s hard to see how this invasion will be remembered as a move that helped Russia long term.