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Agreed, Trump almost managed a coup, loaded the Supreme Court, and would fire random officials every other week… Then the democrats pretend the position of the president is powerless.

The establishment left are a joke.

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Yeah, I’m really angry that the president didn’t “violate the law” to push through marijuana changes faster.

What were you hoping to see them do that they didn’t?

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What, you mean experience and institutional knowledge are more important than undying loyalty and complacency with unilateral action?

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The heritage Foundation’s 2025 plan doesn’t just go away if Trump loses the election. The Republican party just sit on it, and sit on it, and sit on it, until they are elected again… And they will be elected again.

So the establishment left needs to show some level of radical action to even “return” to centrist popularity.

The President pulling rank on The DEA isn’t illegal, and would ensure a full term where the electoral process could be reviewed and further secured, and an a number of Supreme Court justices could be impeached under a stronger set of anti-corruption laws instituted by a democratic effort.

Because sometimes corrective radicalism is called for and warranted… Like when someone almost does a coup.

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The “pulling rank” the president is allowed to do, legally, is to order them to do a review of the scheduling. Which is what was done. Which finished, and now it’s being rescheduled.

The president doesn’t actually have the authority to order the DEA to change the scheduling.

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Why are you acting like “appointing a DEA administrator that is pro-legalization” and “make public statements encouraging them to deschedule cannabis” are somehow unthinkable and totalitarian?

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… Because that’s what they did? The question was what would you like them to do that they didn’t do.

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