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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Exactly! TBH, I’m surprised. The GOP’s God King said, “make it so,” and they haven’t done his bidding. The one time their spineless adherence to anything Trump wants could’ve actually been popular, and we get nothing. An astonishing level of incompetence! For shits and giggles, a Democrat should push for the bill to be taken up, just to watch the GOP leadership shoot it down because they can’t take credit for it. An official “not like that.”


  • Apparently it causes issues in some states.

    … issues that would not be rendered moot by the supremacy clause of the Constitution!? If Congress passes a law saying that because the federal currency will no longer include a $0.01 denomination, all cash transactions must be (either rounded to the nearest $0.05, or must have change values in multiples of $0.05), states are obliged to follow this law. As it is, the mint will just stop making a kind of money, leaving states in the lurch, and potentially inviting lawsuits from state attorneys general.









  • IIRC the legalized weed began with 2 states (WA and CO? Possibly DC around the same time or the following year?) during the Obama admin. The DOJ chose not to fight it in court. By the time littlehand was in office, the cat was out of the bag and more states had legalized it.

    Point being, if my recollection is correct, weed legalization happened at the right time. If it had happened under W, it likely would have been shut down by his DOJ.

    All of that said, it’s an interesting argument, and I’m all for the populous blue states exerting little force on the feds.