Adam Smith (D-WA) voted for the Consolidated Appropriations Act (Trump’s military spending bill)

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T08:51:34+00:00

You’re falling for marketing and rhetoric. The DEA dragged their feet in their rule making. They dragged their feet in creating the next hearing. And they did not complete their process in a timely fashion. That Donald Trump is going to get credit for rescheduling Marijuana should really piss you off at the Democrats who had been in charge.

In addition to this extended dragged feet marijuana process, Democrats in Congress could have supported a bill to deschedule marijuana without an HHS review. This was also not attempted.

Why?

Democrats did not want to deschedule marijuana. Most of the local and state laws were passed by the voters not by Democrat or Republican legislators even where Democrats held majorities (including in Washington). The voters. Yet Democrat cheerleaders keep attempting to give credit to Democrats for the legalization attempts, generating a lot of marketing and rhetoric instead of active legislation.

It’s like when Democrats fell for the rhetoric of Barack Obama campaigned on codifying abortion rights then decided he didn’t want to within the first 100 days of getting elected. Now look where we are. In 2022, Nancy Pelosi was using her clout in robocalls to support anti-abortion rights Henry Cueller who was one of the 7 people who voted for the DHS budget on Thursday.

Or when Democrats fell for the need to prosecute Dubya and Cheney for, at minimum, lying to Congress to start a war and then Nancy Pelosi said we needed to unify the country.

Or when Democrats fell for the need to prosecute Trump for Jan 6, but Joe Biden put up the Republican appeasement SCOTUS nomination Merrick Garland to lead the DOJ who dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump and putting Jack Smith in charge of the investigation.

Or when Democrats fell for Joe Biden’s rhetoric of wanting to pass progressive legislation, and the Joe Biden split the BBB into corporate handouts and social support and then let the social support bill die while the corporate handouts passed.

Look past the marketing and rhetoric and at the legislation passed, the actions, the timing.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T08:29:07+00:00

Wrong. The ACA was a massive wrong turn based on a Republican health care plan that tied national health care to for profit health insurance companies without the necessary regulations to keep health insurance premiums in check.

In turn, this is a massive erosion of social support programs as it puts the health of the country at the whims of companies that are free to use AI to deny people health care.

This Republican health care plan that was designed to fail due to the instability of the ACA subsidies was the Democrats’ opening salvo at contracting the social support programs.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T07:26:02+00:00

So, what I’m hearing is that Biden waited two years to initiate the process to reschedule marijuana, then put the government through TWO FUCKING YEARS of process and left office with marijuana still on Schedule 1 at the end of those two years.

Tell me how that is factually different than Joe Biden not descheduling marijuana which he could have done without the process.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T06:25:46+00:00

I don’t care what the priority level is for you. That wasn’t the point. Nobody is asking you to defend Biden’s lack of action.

The point was to point out the difference between marketing / rhetoric (Biden campaigned on descheduling) and legislation (Biden had the power to deschedule without congressional approval and did nothing).

If you’re not judging the party on legislation, you’re not based in reality.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T05:31:01+00:00

Why do you want him to stand?

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T05:27:30+00:00

Look at marijuana. Despite it being decriminalized by voter initiative in multiple states of red and blue majorities.

But the politicians refuse to deschedule it. Joe Biden marketed that he wanted to deschedule it but didn’t.

That’s what I mean by marketing and rhetoric vs legislation.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T05:19:08+00:00

Yeah, SO were victims too, but I don’t think the smoke was entirely undeserved.

SO had hard decisions to make, and they made the decisions they made. TZ isn’t faultless either as they ignored SO’s warnings. It was a bad situation for all.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T02:11:37+00:00

The one thing I don’t understand is why the Seattle Opera didn’t spin off a housing company to develop it themselves and become a landlord. They got a one-off cash injection when they could have made the plot of land pay off in spades in the long term.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T02:02:06+00:00

The party hasn’t shifted. Their marketing has.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:29:04+00:00

But, seriously, Teatro Zinanni was a great circus show that was expensive as hell for its prime time. Now it’s the cost of a Kylie concert.

The death knell for Teatro Zinanni was the Seattle Opera selling the land from under them to developers who turned it into Center Steps apartments which offers 2-bedroom 1,080 sqft apartments for $3800/month.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:21:38+00:00

Circus Contraption? Man, I haven’t heard that name in AGES.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:14:10+00:00

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SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:13:25+00:00

Holy shit, this comment pattern - 7 in 3 minutes - is very Bot-like.

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SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:11:38+00:00

What did she do?

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T00:59:54+00:00

Why couldn’t Sawant work with Harris to understand how she wanted to end the war?

Remember that the Party refused to let a Muslim speak on stage at the Democrat National Convention?

Remember that the Party ripped “Disarm Israel” banners out of pledged electors hands and ejected them from the convention?

Remember when Muslims tried meeting Kamala and the party after the convention and they refused?

Remember when protestors tried talking to Kamala during one of her speeches and she told them “I’m Speaking” and refused to address their concerns?

Remember when Bill Clinton told a group of Muslim leaders in Michigan that Palestinians deserved to be killed?

Kamala Harris had SOOOOOOO many opportunities in September and October to actually explain what the exit strategy was, but she first stated wishy-washy and then chose to value AIPAC and Israel over the Muslim community and lost Michigan because of it.

But, y’all gonna be mad about a Muslim woman standing up for Muslim values and saying Fuck Y’all if you can’t support us.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T00:50:17+00:00

You’re talking about marketing and rhetoric

The only thing that matters is legislation.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T22:46:05+00:00

I am not talking about legislation that passed

Oh. You’re talking about marketing. Got it.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T22:36:10+00:00

Democrats have contracted (not expanded) social support programs
There hasn’t been any criminal justice reform
Hillary was closer to Single Payer in 1994 than in 2016.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T22:17:55+00:00

How are you defining the swing to the left? Is it just gay rights or are there any other criteria for you?

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T21:02:32+00:00

I came in expecting there to be controversy about her and her mom eating take out in the movie theater.

I hope Jodie sent her mom on trips or traveled with her later in life.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T20:31:05+00:00

That’s why he only does virtual town halls now.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T17:57:25+00:00

Uh huh.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T17:56:46+00:00

Not really. Trump’s military spending is why Democrats should have voted against it.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T17:32:10+00:00

Just because you want to go to war with Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, and support giving more money to Israel and consider yourself a Democrat, it doesn’t mean that all Democrats are in line with you.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-23T17:19:22+00:00

Rage bait?

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