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Demonstrating once again its gift for addressing the issues that matter most to Americans, the Biden regime looked around Friday at skyrocketing inflation, our crime-ridden cities, our nonexistent Southern border, and took the firmest of stances, declaring: “No one should be in prison simply for smoking weed.” This was in service of a new initiative to pardon marijuana use nationwide.
Hey, that’s terrific! But what’s really going on here is transparent: the regime is trying to shore up its base, and thinks it can win over those who are wavering with a few reasonably-priced joints.
The agenda became clear in a statement from putative Vice President Kamala Harris. Old Joe, The Cackler announced, “has issued a broader pardon for an additional set of marijuana possession and use offenses,” following up on last year’s “blanket pardon for simple marijuana possession under federal and D.C. law.” Harris asserted that “these marijuana pardons will help thousands of people by making it easier for them to find a job, buy a home, and get an education.”
Maybe so, but what will they be like once they start those jobs? The New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo observed last April that now that marijuana is legal in New York City and everybody must get stoned, all too many Big Apple stores are staffed by stoners who can barely understand, much less fulfill, customer orders.
“A license to get high,” Cuozzo says, “has turned service employees into zombies.” He adds: “I’ve lived in the city nearly all my life. I never had to repeat my highly complex Starbucks order — a ‘tall’ coffee — three times to get a response from the bummed-out barista, the way I do now.” He says that he now regularly encounters service workers who are “stoned up the wazoo, hollow-eyed, disengaged from their tasks, their breath reeking of weed.” This makes what used to be routine transactions into unpredictable adventures.
Cuozzo recounts: “I gave a guy at Pret a Manger a $20 bill for an $8 cup of soup. I asked for a bag. He took the $20 and promptly forgot the soup, my change, the bag — and me. He wandered off, inexplicably waving my Andrew Jackson like a flag, until I appealed to his colleagues.” He quotes a bank executive recalling that at a gourmet food shop, the cashier was “so out of it, staring into space while people waited in line. She forgot to give me my change. She closed the register. I had to wait for someone to come with the dreaded key. After ten minutes for a 30-second transaction, she didn’t even apologize.”
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puzzled says
So FJB, should all folks who were arrested/convicted for using marijuana, be “ex post facto PARDONED”?
IF IT IS NOT A CRIME NOW………JUST SAYING.
SteveC says
So these junkies can now get a job. Sounds good to me put one of them in charge of every federal agency.
jaime says
Depends if you look at Canada most jobs require you to be clean when your working no dugs and no drugs.
jaime says
Meant to say no drinking and no drugs while working.
ElderlyZionist says
“…the cashier was ‘so out of it, staring into space while people waited in line. She forgot to give me my change. She closed the register.'”
Many cashiers today are so used to card payment that the concept of making change is foreign to them.
Davidka says
Maybe the cashier was just more interested in listening to whatever was playing on her headset and resented being bothered to ring up your order.
WPM says
Drug out zombies are easier to control then angry people who see the unstable way our country is being lead .Keep them drug up stupid and entertained with their phones ,endless games on line , they will not see the cliff they step over until they are falling to their early death. Cattle do not comprehend the end until the button on the bolt gun is pressed to their forehead is activity .
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Now they need to have enough volunteers not wasted who can drive those high voters to the polls, & hope that they can identify the (D) using the (D) sample ballot
End PC says
Biden & his puppet masters are just trying to buy more votes any vile way they can.
Ray Jarman says
I remember flying to a forward site in Vietnam to repair some communications equipment near Pleiku and late that evening a few rounds hit the compound. As I entered the protective bunker, I witnessed three guys sitting on the edge of the bunker and were laughing about the light show. These soldiers were higher than a kite, as the saying goes, and I have no idea of their eventual fate. I often questioned myself as to the number of men were killed while performing such stupid acts.
I realize that some will equate pot with alcohol but I believe that there is a difference in that the act of smoking pot or taking drugs is that from the beginning the intent is to become high while most people who have a drink at a party or at home with a meal or maybe while watching say a football game is to relax.
Theresa(Teri) Balsimo says
It’s a Federal law- just change it instead of this disparity nonsense- pick and choose as if it was all racist to begin with?♀️
The other part of the story scares me: 11 pardoned of “non- violent” drug charges because the sentences are different than they were originally and racist I assume…..Sentences up to life in prison- soon to be very free. Our state has a huge problem with drugs, alcohol, crime and suicides.- not to mention one of the highest foster care because kids are taken away from parents because of neglect- please explain the term “non- violent” as it applies here.