I am not against pot. I have a good friend who has serious injuries sustained over a lifetime of physical jobs. He suffers from constant intense pain. His choices are opioids or pot. He prefers pot. However, most pot users are not sufferers of constant pain. They are pleasure users.

I got the shock of my life when I was at a party which was mostly 20 somethings. Us older folk were enjoying our alcohol, but the younger crowd were all smoking. What amazed me was the variety of gadgets they were using. Very little joint use as I had expected. These kids had water devices and other cool thingies.

Anyway I just see hypocrisy. If today's kids want to smoke pot, so be it. Then tobacco users should have the same freedom. Since they want to over tax cigarette smokers, then let them screw the pot smokers too, because I predict that decades from now the healthcare costs for pot smokers will be right up there with the tobacco users.

I realize those facts, but the vast majority of users will smoke. The government is not coming after the suppliers of smoking pot the way they came after the tobacco companies. I find it amazing that I cannot find any good research on the harmful effects of smoking pot. The little research I can find is clouded because many pot smokers are also tobacco smokers.

Again I simply cannot fathom that pot smoke would not be as bad or worse for the lungs as cigarettes. My own theory on the why, is that the government now populated with ex hippies is full on balls to the wall in favor of pot smoking. Funding research that might show pot as harmful as tobacco would upset the current paradigm, which also includes a lot of tax money from pot sales funding Leftist wish lists.

Of course I can prove nothing, but no one can disprove it either.

I think that I have a legitimate question for you on this subject. The government, mostly Liberals, have been on an anti tobacco shtick for 50-60 years give or take a decade. Now these same anti tobacco Nazis are wholeheartedly pushing Pot use.

I have tried pot and tobacco in my life, but never actively used either. I don't know so I am asking. Wouldn't pot be as bad or worse for the heart and lungs ? Wouldn't smoking any drug be bad for the lungs ?

If what you are saying was true, which it is not, there would be no need for the courts to intervene on Abortion. Rowe Verse Wade went against public opinion. Without the court making unpopular decisions Abortion and Gay Marriage would have never been allowed.

Are you really that naive or are you simply once more gaslighting me ? The evidence is totally immaterial. The statute of limitations ran out on these charges a long time ago. So the law is definitely immaterial. The only thing that matters is that Bragg got his jury selected in Manhattan. Once he had that nailed down, he could have gotten Trump convicted with a blank piece of paper and his say so that Trump is guilty.

Your boy Joe is once again down in the polls. The news for him in the next 7 plus months likely will not be good enough for him to beat Donald J. Trump again. Joe now has to run on his pathetic record. Very likely not enough will go right in the news to help him. Ukraine could go either way, as could the Israeli/Hamas war. Iran is ready to strike, as is China against Taiwan.

Your boy Joe does not have many arrows left in his quiver to deal with the next foreign policy surprise. The US ammo stockpiles are dangerously low, because of supplying Ukraine, so China could make a move on Taiwan and maybe our forces run out of shells, missiles, and rockets. Joe half emptied the Strategic Oil Reserve to keep gasoline prices from going too high and his poll numbers too low, so if the Middle East blows up Joe has no oil cushion.

Then Joe might fall down and go boom or say something demented that the Propaganda Press can't bury. Then there is that pesky inflation Joe caused that despite Joe's experts prediction, stays stubbornly high. Finally we have Joe's Border catastrophe which never gets any better. These are simply what comes to mind. There are plenty of other potential landmines that might trip up President Biden.

I can definitely see why you and your crowd are desperate for DA Bragg or one of the other Flunkie DAs to take Trump out of the election. No way can you trust the voters this time around.

I wonder what would happen if Trump wins the election, but can't serve because a Democrat DA has him in jail ? Would Joe Biden by default remain President even though he lost the election ? Talk about an illegitimate President. If not Biden, then whom ?

Actually whomever Trump selects as his VP could become the sitting President. The what ifs are off the charts.

Okay, lets us explore what the term conviction means. To you getting that conviction represents a serious moral victory. So in Trump's case any stain on his record is a win for you. Conviction as impeach did means you win, and my side and Trump lose. Fine.

My rebuttal is this. Through out world and American history defendants have been wrongly convicted under various laws. Many of those laws later were found to be unjust, or the laws were found to have been misapplied, or the prosecutions were shown to have been unfair. The Salem Witch defendants were convicted of witchcraft and hung. By your standards it was all good because they were legally convicted.

You and your crowd do not care a bit about the quality of the Trump convictions. All you care about is booking that win in your ledger. I dare you to refute that statement.

Your boy Joe refuses to enforce US border law. Case closed.

The Democratic Party under Joe Biden has done such a piss poor job of governing that the Republicans have many openings to gain power. The main Trump card your party has is abortion. The desire to kill unborn babies is so strong that it over rules all other considerations in motivating Leftists to give money, riot in the streets, and cast at least one vote every election cycle.

" The facts speak for themselves. Mr. Alba actually killed a man after an argument. He was charged with murder, sent to jail, and later released on a reduced bail bond. "

That is such a ridiculous statement that I am flabbergasted. Mr. Alba was assaulted and forced to defend himself. Your way of thinking is perfectly consistent with the stereotypical sheeple of the American Left.

I bet that if you were to describe a bank robbery, you would call it a slight dispute between a rude bank teller and the disgruntled customer in his Covid mask.

As far as this case that Mr. Bragg has brought against former President Trump, even the thoroughly corrupt Biden Justice Department declined to pursue this prosecution. They could have charged Trump under federal campaign finance rules and chose to decline.

So then Bragg decides that even though the statute of limitations to charge someone with a state misdemeanor or a class E felony has long passed, he can still proceed because of the time Trump resided in DC, and then Florida. Apparently there is some bizarre 1999 rule extending the statute of limitations if the defendant lives outside of NY State. These are shaky legal grounds which make it extremely likely that Trump's certain conviction will be overturned on appeal. It is certain because Trump's jury trial should have been moved out of Manhattan.

Any other defendant would have been granted that right, but not Donald J. Trump. There is no way an unbiased jury was found in Manhattan. So Trump certainly will be found guilty. He can't not be. Then the various legal errors that both the prosecutor and the trial judge have made will get the conviction overturned, on appeal.

But you and the rest of the Left Wing Sheeple will be able to point to this conviction as if it meant something.

" So here's how I am reading this... your capacity to be misled is unlimited. "

I am not responsible for your misreading of my response to Bad Bob. I do appreciate you joining in my conversation. Increasingly more and more Leftists on OPP simply refuse to answer me. I try not to be scary. I have toned down my demeanor and watched my foul language, yet it gets worse all the time.

" Huh - I didn't know Biden was responsible for the country of Niger. lol "

You guys give Biden credit for all kinds of things that quite accidentally have gone right, during his Presidency. He is responsible for US foreign policy. Niger is a big deal because the US has military bases there from which it can battle terrorism in surrounding countries. Losing those bases is serious. Whether Trump would have done better, we will never know, but it is still a defeat for US foreign policy.

" So... WTF do actually expect Biden to do here? We don't just station our troops wherever we want. Our stations are installed in countries we have agreements with. If one such country rips up the agreement, there isn't much we can do about it. We can leave or refuse. If we refuse it would be an act of war. Do we want a war with Niger now? "

Nothing can be done now. Two or three years ago would have been the time to do something. Obviously the Biden foreign policy team is weak and failed to manage the situation.

" Instead of obsessing over how many of these claims you've collected, maybe you can take deeper look at any one of them to see if you're not actually just collecting evidence of your short-sightedness. "

You have no qualms about attacking Donald J. Trump when you dislike his actions. Why shouldn't I have the same leeway when going after Joe Biden ?

Illegal alien is accurate and has nothing to do with racism. You still have been unable to refute anything I have said. I can't say I am disappointed with your answers because based on our past interactions my expectations are low.

You are filled with hatred of Donald J. Trump, but even more than that, you are filled with terror of him reversing your boy Joe's destructive policies.

I believe I have exhausted my condemnation of Bragg. You couldn't care less about his misdeeds because he is going after Trump. This will not in the least deter me from pummeling you with facts. You in return savage me with nonsense about racism and MAGA terror.

Have a pleasant evening.

I heard it accidentally and decided it needed to be more publicized.

That you still see nothing wrong with DA Bragg in these matters boggles my mind. He is typical of left wing Democrat Trump hating DAs.

And what is wrong with calling illegal aliens what they are ?

I am here to point out your boy Joe's screw ups. Most of the time you people refuse to defend your boy Joe. I never run out of items that show your boy's failures. My list is unlimited. My latest example of a Joe failure is the nation of Niger in Africa.

I know how totally uninformed you Joe voters are. I am here to educated the uneducated. It is a public service that I am happy to perform.

https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-losing-access-to-its-bases-in-niger-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal-227632


" The United States was forced to stop its military operations in March 2024 in Niger – a landlocked, western African country in the Sahara desert. Niger may not immediately seem like a key ally for the U.S., but it served as a crucial staging ground for the U.S. military to carry out work and respond to terrorism in the region. "