@realJennaEllis The problem is that criminalizing drugs does not stop people from using them and the external effects of “the war on drugs” are disastrous.
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Eric Broutman
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Eric Broutman
@broutman1
Lawyer and Dad
New Rochelle, NY Katılım Ekim 2009
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For those in the comments arguing “alcohol is worse”—that isn’t an argument for marijuana, it’s an argument against alcohol. Two bad policies don’t make a good one.
If alcohol causes harm (which it clearly does), the answer isn’t to add another widely accessible intoxicant. It’s to be more serious about public safety, not less.
Alcohol’s downsides are exactly why we should be cautious about expanding THC—not use it as a justification to normalize another psychoactive drug under the label of ‘medicine.’
“Alcohol is worse” is the weakest defense imaginable. If your best case for THC is “we already made one mistake,” you’ve already lost the argument.
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Trump downgrading medical marijuana is a massive mistake.
THC—the psychoactive component—is the issue. It’s what gets users high, and it’s what most people are actually seeking when they push for “expanded access.”
If the goal is legitimate medical treatment, there’s no reason to broaden access to high-THC content products. That’s not medicine, that’s policy drift toward recreation and a big safety risk for society.
And in Florida especially, this matters.
If Byron Donalds becomes governor, expect a full push toward recreational legalization. He’s a former weed dealer, didn’t oppose Amendment 3, and has a shady relationship with Trulieve.
Florida doesn’t need to go down that road. Keep it family-friendly, keep it free—and don’t pretend THC expansion is about medicine.
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@MattWalshBlog @ScottMGreer Unless you grew up in a city. Then it is hell!
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I agree that it would be bad for the country if every conservative lived like this, but that’s not going to happen. Judged on the merits, living on a large plot of land with multiple dwellings for other family members and children when they get older is obviously a very conservative and traditional approach. It’s also just more enjoyable and peaceful and safer and cleaner and preferable for about a dozen other reasons.
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Might need to add “I will not live in the compound” to the Greerhead Pledge.
The compound is the dream for far too many right-wingers
Ben Black | Dynasty Foundry@Dynastus
Reject the single family home. Embrace the family compound.
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@JonathanTurley Really speculative and presumptive. Please explain further. Seems like direct evidence to me.
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...The irony is that, while castigating the prosecutors for a lack of evidence, Judge Boasberg relies on dubious evidence to establish that political harassment is the dominant motivation. Quoting all-caps postings of the President does not offer evidence of a sole or dominant motive in an investigation. It is itself speculative and presumptive.
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Chief Judge James Boasberg delivered a blow to the criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell by tossing out grand jury subpoenas. In my view, he was premature and could face a difficult appeal... jonathanturley.org/2026/03/16/boa…
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@EWErickson If Obama had masked agents shooting Americans in broad daylight, I don’t think so. You are kind of burying the lead.
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If Obama were bombing Libya and the GOP had shut down Homeland Security, news networks would be profiling people who missed flights to a family funeral because of TSA lines. But because the Democrats are doing it, the press is mostly silent.
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@EWErickson Funny statement from someone in the media talking about oil prices being down. This term the media makes no sense to me. What constitutes the media? Is Fox the media? What about Newsmax?
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Oil is down another 11% so far today. Weird how the media isn't talking about that.
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@frankvcarone @EricLDaugh Perhaps, but tens of thousands of innocent people would be alive as well. I’ll take that trade.
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🚨 JUST IN: Sen. John Fetterman MIC DROPS the pro-Palestine left who RELENTESSLY demanded a "ceasefire" after Oct. 7th
"The Democrats since 10-7 have been WRONG! 'Ceasefire, ceasefire!' IMAGINE if Israel was pushed to a ceasefire in Summer '24. Hamas would still be intact, Hezbollah would be intact, and Iran could very much could have acquired a nuclear weapon by that point!"
"But Netanyahu was able to push through that, broke and destroyed Hamas, same with Hezbollah, and was able to go after Iran and break them down."
"And then I was the only Democrat that supported President Trump striking the nuclear facilities last summer."
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@broutman1 @frankvcarone But they have bombed us, repeatedly
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For the sake of decency, sacrifice, morality, and patriotism: please stop writing “my statement on war with Iran.” Todays action is anything but that. We are freeing a people yearning for freedom- full stop. We are removing the worlds most dangerous deceptive regime - full stop. We are protecting our children’s future - full stop. Support our troops, and our country.
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@JasonMiller @netflix This administration has such a Communist streak. They own businesses, they are trying to ban what food we can eat, and now intervening in movies and TV. Leave private business alone Communist!
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Conservative Women Expose @Netflix Kids Content – How The Trump Admin Could Step In dailywire.com/news/conservat…
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@jemelehill Question, if someone had a seizure disorder and in the course of having a seizure accidentally hit someone, should they apologize?
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He should not apologize for his disability. But having this disability does not mean permanent immunity from the harm caused by what you say to people. The tone of his apology is off-putting and reads like: I left, what else do you want me to do?
Apologizing to MJB and Delroy Lindo is just the right thing to do. He can do that and educate people as well.
@ijbailey@ijbailey
I respect Jemele immensely and understand the position she and others are taking. But I can't agree with them. This is a disability, a neurological condition. The n-word is the most powerful and painful in the English language. Impact will always matter. But intent must as well.
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@realJennaEllis It’s never good not to be a NYer. Best city in the world! You people just don’t understand.
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LOL, it’s good not to be a New Yorker right now. conservativebrief.com/mamdani-will-9…
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I love President Trump and I know he is a patriot who would never sell us out, but we cannot ignore the elephant in the room regarding the Islamic influence around the administration.
It sends a terrible message when the Emir of Qatar is flying on Air Force One while his country funnels BILLIONS of dollars into anti-American indoctrination at American universities like Georgetown.
We need the White House to stop dancing around the feelings of these foreign Sheikhs and Islamic kings and to start cracking down on Sharia Law in America.
The American people voted for Donald Trump, not the Emir of Qatar!
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
Speaking at the Board of Peace meeting today, President Trump praised Qatar. He said, “You need a public relations agency because you do so much good, and they see you as evil. You are not evil. You help us so much, and you are such a good ally. I just want people to know that.” Actually, Qatar is a state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. They fund and own Al Jazeera which attacks Trump everyday, Qatar harbored the mastermind of 9/11. I’d be here all day if I listed every example of how evil Qatar is. They funded Hamas and provided protection for Hamas leadership in Doha while Hamas was holding US citizens hostage in tunnels in Gaza. Qatar will create scandals for this administration and in the end, everyone will come to regret getting involved with those Jihadi manipulators and financiers of the Muslim Brotherhood who think they can get away with bribing every single elected official in DC. Qatar needs a PR agency because they are one of the most evil countries in the world. @POTUS I love President Trump, and I hate Qatar. I love America, I reject Islam.
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@realJennaEllis @ByronDonalds That’s hysterical considering your support for Trump. Thank you for the laugh. Hah!!!
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.@ByronDonalds should withdraw from the Florida race. He is unfit. This isn’t his only ethics scandal.
Jon Michael Raasch@JMRaasch
SCOOP: The ex-wife of the Rep. Byron Donalds, who leads the race to replace Ron DeSantis as Florida governor, revealed they were still married when he got his current wife pregnant. ‘I wish I had handled that chapter differently,' the congressman said. mol.im/a/15571523
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@LPDonovan @EWErickson Can you translate this from super aware online speak to actual English.
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If you believe (as I do) Ds are speedrunning their own uniquely syncopated version of the post-O GOP transformation, you might be wondering where their unconventional, apolitical outsider might come from. Lots of reasons this wouldn't play out the same way, but it clearly rhymes.
Robert Costa@costareports
Stephen A. Smith is moving closer to a 2028 campaign... spending a few days with him in recent months reminded me of spending a few days with Trump back in 2013-2014. Many laughed at the prospect of a bid. But in an age of celebrity and social media...
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@EWErickson It’s so hard to tell what this story is about. It’s just conclusory statements with no facts.
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This should be the biggest story in America today. The progressives are not educating. They are indoctrinating and fueling antisemitism through public schools. The kids can't read or do math, but they can learn to hate the Jews.
CAMERA@CAMERA4Truth
A radical curriculum shift in Philadelphia schools is raising serious concerns about antisemitism and historical accuracy. The School District of Philadelphia is the eighth-largest school district in the United States, serving nearly 200,000 students. It has also become a hotbed of antisemitism. CAMERA’s report, Shaping Minds, Spreading Hate: How Antisemitism Took Root in the School District of Philadelphia, documents how sweeping curriculum changes driven by ideology have shifted the district away from teaching history chronologically and toward narratives that attack Western values and institutions. Key changes: SDP reshaped the entire social studies curriculum from chronological to thematic and now focuses on “the three sins of Western civilization”: capitalism, racism, and settler colonialism. It excludes world-shaping events such as the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, both world wars, and the Cold War. It elevates and whitewashes Islamic history. Lessons include an excerpt from Sharia law highlighting its promotion of “equitable financial transactions,” with no further context. Another lesson presents “jihad” as a just war theory. A lesson encourages students to conclude that the U.S. and Israel are “perpetrators of terrorism.” The move toward an “anti-racist, decolonizing curriculum” has encouraged teachers to openly attack Israel, Zionism, and the United States in their classrooms and on social media when communicating with students. This is not education. This is indoctrination.
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@TeamOverhaulGA @EWErickson What a stupid comparison. One is a Constitutional right the other is not.
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Jon Ossoff is about to vote against the SAVE Act, but is requiring a government-issued ID to get into his rally in Atlanta tomorrow.
There should be more security in American elections than there is to listen to Jon Ossoff's lies.
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@SethDillon @EWErickson Who counts as “the media”? Are you the media? Is Fox? Is OAN? Who counts as “the media”?
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I'm sure the media is super interested in this one.
Gays Against Groomers@againstgrmrs
SHOCKING: Jeffrey Epstein spoke to a Harvard scientist about the s*xual benefits of turning children trans, and spoke of doing so as young as 3 years old.
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@EWErickson Luis Alvarez, an illegal immigrant, saved a girl from a shark attack in 2025 in Florida. She would be dead or mauled if Democrats secured the border. Undocumented immigrants do bad things and good things, just like everyone else. Only pointing out the bad stuff is disingenuous.
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An 11yo in Georgia two weeks ago was raped by an illegal alien. She would not have been raped had Democrats secured the border.
Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa
Raping children is far worse than illegal immigration.
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@EWErickson You can't really be that naive can you? You know ICE at polling places will harass and intimidate people regardless of citizenship. Arresting and questioning people with accents. Do you really not see this or is this all a part of the job?
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Only citizens can vote so why should we prohibit ICE at polling stations unless Inslee is attempting to get non-citizens to vote?
Jay Inslee@JayInslee
In the midst of ICE horror, the Senate needs to prohibit Trump from using ICE as a voter suppression tool. Senate Dems need to put into the approps bill a prohibition on ICE agents being near polling places. This is a must have. Last chance to do this.
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@RichardHanania @EWErickson You say these things like you are surprised. This is Trump and all of his people. Lying is a job requirement. This is what you voted for
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A hilarious example of how much the administration lies and just how lacking in virtue these people are.
DHS posted a meme with the phrase "We'll have our home again," a phrase from a white supremacist song.
When asked about it by the NYT, Tricia McLaughlin denied that the phrase was related to the song: "There are plenty of references to those words in books and poems."
A NYT reporter points out that when you open the post on Instagram, the white supremacist song itself starts playing.
McLaughlin denies this is true and accuses the reporter of spreading a left-wing conspiracy theory! She says he is the one "mainstreaming racism."
They then delete the post 40 minutes after the interview.
These people just have no honor. They're hateful racists, but not even courageous enough to be honest about it. They lie like most people breathe, and when caught, pivot to another lie. To live like this degrades the soul.
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